The Old RAN

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County-class heavy cruiser HMAS Australia in Port Melbourne, 22nd October 1948



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Sydney (III) as a troop transport, departing GI.



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HMAS Australia (D84) pre-war



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RAN Tribal-class destroyers in line ahead, c. 1946-1950.



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Captain John Collins, CB, RAN leads his men with 'three cheers' following Shropshire's commissioning in the RAN.



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HMAS Brisbane I, the original 'Steel Cat'



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RAN Wessex with RN T class submarine Trump



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HMAS Darwin (04) on May 3.1992. Preparing to board a merchant ship during operation Damask.



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HMAS Vampire approaches as Melbourne's band tunes up, 1960s.



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HMVS Cerebus, later to become HMAS Cerebus. Bought by the colony of Victoria prior to Australia becoming a Commonwealth



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Bicentennial Navy! DDG HMAS Hobart and FFGs Canberra and Darwin leaving Hobart, 1988



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HMAS Melbourne at speed



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County-class heavy cruiser HMAS Shropshire enters Sydney Harbor following her transfer from the RAN



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RAN carrier group consisting of R21 Melbourne and destroyers D08 Vendetta and D04 Voyager , 1959.



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Troops embark on the light cruiser HMAS Sydney en route for Crete, July 1940



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Eight Fairey Firefly FR.1 and seven Hawker Sea Fury FB.11 overfly Majestic-class HMAS Sydney, c. 1949.



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HMNZS Canterbury and HMAS Darwin operating together



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A war weary Napier entering Madagascar after the success of the invasion. From an album of an Able Seaman who took his camera to sea.

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Melbourne (R21) turns away from USS Enterprise (CVN-65) during exercise Kangaroo Two as a Kiwi watches on.



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HMAS Perth fires on North Vietnamese coastal defense sites from her station aft of USS Newport News (CA-148) during an Operation Sea Dragon gunfire support mission, 23 February 1968.



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Overhead view HMAS Australia in the Panama Canal, March, 1935



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A Fairey F.17 Campania seaplane alongside the battlecruiser HMAS Australia, during WWI



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Indefatigable-class battlecruiser HMAS Australia.



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Lovely wartime shot of HMAS Sydney II



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HMAS Australia underway in Hudson River off New York City heading upstream, c. 1932-1933.



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HMAS Quiberon, HMS Aurora and a Fiji class cruiser in Algiers, December 1942



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HMAS Melbourne sails into Sydney Harbour for the last time, flying her decommissioning pendant signifying its last voyage with the Royal Australian Navy on 27 September 2019.



She has since been repainted and given a new number for her new owners, the Chilean Navy.

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A tower of smoke and steam pours from the Italian cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni just before she sinks after action with the HMAS Sydney, July 19, 1940



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The three DDGs alongside



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HMAS Vendetta entering Jacquinot Bay, New Guinea, Nov 4, 1944. Old and tired after hard-service, Vendetta has had her main armament halved and additional close range AA added.



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