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Carolyn

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Thankyou so very much for the photo's....
I know I am not at all technical about these kinds of things, so I hope my posts don't get on anyones nerves.......families are always very proud though of what our defence people are doing....
I will be on the wharf when the ship gets into Sydney......it seems as though I had better hit the treadmill to get a bit fitter....
 
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Carolyn said:
Thankyou so very much for the photo's....
I know I am not at all technical about these kinds of things, so I hope my posts don't get on anyones nerves.......families are always very proud though of what our defence people are doing....
I will be on the wharf when the ship gets into Sydney......it seems as though I had better hit the treadmill to get a bit fitter....
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Your a proud Mum!, Nothing at all wrong with that :D
 
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Carolyn said:
Thankyou so very much for the photo's....
I know I am not at all technical about these kinds of things, so I hope my posts don't get on anyones nerves.......families are always very proud though of what our defence people are doing....
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you have nothing to apologise for, and a lot to be proud of. those who serve deserve greater recognition

Carolyn said:
I will be on the wharf when the ship gets into Sydney......it seems as though I had better hit the treadmill to get a bit fitter....
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I'd suggest going early as I think it will be a bigger crowd than normal, and the streets around kutta/potts and the docks are already a nightmare to find a free spot on.

There is a car park that loops around at the back of bourke st/nicholson st.

bells hotel fronts the dock side and there are flats fronting bourke st. access road at the rear. get in early and you'll be fine. it's a bit of a walk, but beats parking in potts and having to do the billy goat walk :)
 
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Carolyn

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I will be getting a taxi from my hotel...........last time I went down there the Security staff weren't very hospitable.....this was a few years ago now...we had to wait outside the gates for a long time and we were sure we were going to miss the arrival.
 
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Carolyn said:
I will be getting a taxi from my hotel...........last time I went down there the Security staff weren't very hospitable.....this was a few years ago now...we had to wait outside the gates for a long time and we were sure we were going to miss the arrival.
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not much has changed, going to work is amazing with the competency of securtiy some days, most of us see what random ID gets us through the gate, so far library cards work well...yep, security is tight if your mocking them:rolleyes:

before ships return from deployment etc, Fleet Base East do allow family parking in one of the blocks 3 hours before arrival, first in best dressed though.

There is a car park that loops around at the back of bourke st/nicholson st bells hotel fronts the dock side and there are flats fronting bourke st. access road at the rear. get in early and you'll be fine. it's a bit of a walk, but beats parking in potts and having to do the billy goat walk
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they all read "resident parking only" which living in this shite city has cost me a fair bit over the years...
 
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There was an RAN Auxiliary Mine Counter Measures capability based on civilian craft of opportunity. They were RAN rather than civilian crewed though. Could this be what you were thinking of?
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No, these were requisitioned civilian vessels, operated with civilians crews and perhaps a RAN gun crew.

I have come across the image of a flag which had belonged to an Australian Fleet Auxiliary vessel which a passenger seems to have taken as a memento and the image (and perhaps flag itself) is now in the AWM, there is a link here.

Again, nothing directly indicating the names of such auxiliaries, or if such vessels would have been listed as HMAS or something else entirely... Hence not able to tell the exact function of the organization, or whether there even was a formally designated Australian Fleet Auxiliary or not.

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RFA Largs Bay / HMAS Choules

Being a Newbie and thus not being able to provide a URL - I suggest you search on Google for the Royal Navy MOD web site and search on Largs Bay in the search box on the top right hand side of the front page ..... RFA Largs Bay has been recognised for her last Operational deployment before the MOD sold her to the RAN

Chris
 
StevoJH

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It sounds like they were non-commissioned warships. Used mostly for covert operations in support of the Coast Watchers on the pacific islands.

Presumably would have been used in support of units like these:
[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastwatchers"]Coastwatchers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]
[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M_Special_Unit"]M Special Unit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]
[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_Special_Unit"]Z Special Unit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

That *might* make a useful starting point if you want to look into it further unless i'm completely off the track.
 
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StevoJH said:
It sounds like they were non-commissioned warships. Used mostly for covert operations in support of the Coast Watchers on the pacific islands.

That *might* make a useful starting point if you want to look into it further unless i'm completely off the track.
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The only link I have come across to the Coastwatchers was from the link showing the image of the flag. I have come across other references to an Australian Fleet Auxiliary. HMAS Kurumba has been mentioned as a pre-WWII oiler in Royal Australian Fleet Auxiliary service...

Making things even more perplexing is the ship entry on the RAN site of HMAS Wyatt Earp which began Australian service as the Wongala while serving in the Royal Australian Fleet Auxiliary. Later being re-commissioned as HMAS Wongala, and then later still re-commissioned as HMAS Wyatt Earp, Wyatt Earp having been the name of the vessel prior to being purchased for Australian service in 1939...

Again, having seen official references to a Royal Australian Fleet Auxiliary, or in some cases just an "Australian Fleet Auxiliary" no real or official definition or explanation of what this/these Fleet Auxiliary units consisted of or their function.

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StevoJH

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Interesting. Could this organisation have possibly been related to some of the later government owned shipping companies?

[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_National_Line"]Australian National Line - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

Could the Auxillery have been the predecessor to the Australian Shipping Board?
 
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StevoJH said:
Interesting. Could this organisation have possibly been related to some of the later government owned shipping companies?

Australian National Line - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Could the Auxillery have been the predecessor to the Australian Shipping Board?
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In short No. ANL was just that, a shipping line and still subject to full commercial certification and regulation. Run as a bussiness with the remaining vessels (being scrapped) owned by finance.
 
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