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Feb. 23, 1959: HMAS FREMANTLE arrives in in her home port after battling the Bight - WAN.7055: In her final year of service, some four months before paying off, ther Bathurst Class training corvette HMAS FREMANTLE [I] made a voyage from Port Lincoln, South Australia to her name port, but encountered monstrous seas in the Great Australian Bight. To the relief of her crew, she is shown her berthing in Fremantle two days light. There are signs of boat damage on the ship's upper deck.
As we have mentiioned many times, the Australian corvettes were notorious 'rollers,' which often made life aboard uncomfortable, but none of the little ships were lost to severe weather.
Built by Evans Deakin and Co Ltd in Brisbane, FREMANTLE [I] had entered service on April 12, 1943, and served in the New Guinea area during WWII. Her post war service
included being part of the escort of the Royal Yacht GOTHIC during the newly-crowned Queen Elizabeth II's Royal Visit in 1954, and being part of the monitoring fleet for the last British atomic tests in the Monte Bello Islands off Western Australia in May, 1956.
FREMANTLE finally paid off on June 22, 1959, and she was scrapped in Japan in 1962.
Photo: West Australian Newspapers, negative Navy 64d . This and other images from the 1991 WAN booklet 'A Small War' have been shown on Flickr by one of the Photostream's friends and Contributors, and are shared here with his permission. Images from the booklet have also been added to Flickr by the HMAS CASTLEMAINE Volunteers Group, here:
http://ift.tt/1qglsL6
Feb. 23, 1959: HMAS FREMANTLE arrives in in her home port after battling the Bight - WAN.7055: In her final year of service, some four months before paying off, ther Bathurst Class training corvette HMAS FREMANTLE [I] made a voyage from Port Lincoln, South Australia to her name port, but encountered monstrous seas in the Great Australian Bight. To the relief of her crew, she is shown her berthing in Fremantle two days light. There are signs of boat damage on the ship's upper deck.
As we have mentiioned many times, the Australian corvettes were notorious 'rollers,' which often made life aboard uncomfortable, but none of the little ships were lost to severe weather.
Built by Evans Deakin and Co Ltd in Brisbane, FREMANTLE [I] had entered service on April 12, 1943, and served in the New Guinea area during WWII. Her post war service
included being part of the escort of the Royal Yacht GOTHIC during the newly-crowned Queen Elizabeth II's Royal Visit in 1954, and being part of the monitoring fleet for the last British atomic tests in the Monte Bello Islands off Western Australia in May, 1956.
FREMANTLE finally paid off on June 22, 1959, and she was scrapped in Japan in 1962.
Photo: West Australian Newspapers, negative Navy 64d . This and other images from the 1991 WAN booklet 'A Small War' have been shown on Flickr by one of the Photostream's friends and Contributors, and are shared here with his permission. Images from the booklet have also been added to Flickr by the HMAS CASTLEMAINE Volunteers Group, here:
http://ift.tt/1qglsL6
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