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Roadrunner

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Name These Ships
« on: June 11, 2011, 01:33:49 am »

What you see is all i have... any suggestions on both carriers names and types and the unknown vessel to the top right?
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derekwarner

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Re: Name These Ships
« Reply #1 on: June 11, 2011, 02:14:00 am »

Roadrunner    O0 ...the old image appears to be Station Pier in Melbourne OZ.....it really hasn't changed all that much....  {-) {-) however the time frame is not correct for our British built carriers HMAS Sydney & HMAS Melbourne...were they not commissioned in 1948? & 55? :D ...

The vessel to the left clearly flying a White Ensign........but I am not sure of the signifince of the letter F below the jackstaff

Anyway both of the above vessels were death traps with steam arrester gear & kilometers of steam pipes just under the wooden decks & lagged with unwrapped ASBESTOS  <*< ...... HMAS Melbourne was decommissioned just prior to me joining HMA Garden Island.........

I have very fond memories of my superior @ GID....the senior forman in weapons.......Bob Graham  :-)) ....sadly he died  <:( of asbestos related lung cancer ........he worked on the arrester gear for years .....sorry to get a little off track......... Derek
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class37

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Re: Name These Ships
« Reply #2 on: June 11, 2011, 02:57:19 am »

could they be colussus class carriers, I believe two were equipped as maintainance carriers and deployed to the pacific ?

just a thought

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kiwi

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Re: Name These Ships
« Reply #3 on: June 11, 2011, 03:11:10 am »

Hi
Probably HMS Implacable, HMS Venerable & HMS Indefatigable 1st to 3rd march 1946, Melbourne.

Try this link to more photos

http://www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/4691840895/in/photostream/lightbox/

they look like corsairs on one of them, seafires on another.

cheers
kiwi
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Re: Name These Ships
« Reply #4 on: June 11, 2011, 03:24:25 am »

Hullo kiwi...... :-)) ...I think you have nominated the correct carriers & time frame.........they had much larger ordinance [guns] as displayed in the original posting by roadrunner  O0 ...... than the Majestic class....... Derek
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Roadrunner

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Re: Name These Ships
« Reply #5 on: June 11, 2011, 10:37:58 am »

Very interesting guys any more to add?
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Re: Name These Ships
« Reply #6 on: June 11, 2011, 11:19:55 am »

How about F for HMS Formidable, she was on repatriation duties to Sydney until early 1946, however, she was apparently back in UK waters by March of that year...
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farrow

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Re: Name These Ships
« Reply #7 on: June 12, 2011, 05:45:26 pm »

One of them is the Indefatigable, have a photo of her arriving, believe they were repatriating P.O.W's back home.
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