'George' Unwin, RAN, was appointed in command of She was decommissioned on 3 June 1977 for modernisation and refit at Williamstown Naval Dockyard, and on completion recommissioned on 26 August 1981 under the command of Commander KH MacGowan, RAN.Highlights of her second commission included a rare visit to the Peoples Republic of China in 1986 and participation in the 1986 Royal Australian Navy 75th Anniversary Naval Review and the Bicentennial Naval Salute in 1988.Lady Dowling, wife of the First Naval Member and Chief of Naval StaffParramatta takes to the water for the first time on 31 January 1959.Parramatta berthed at Circular Quay with Anzac visible astern.
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During October and November she exercised with ships of the Royal Navy, the United States Navy and RAN in waters off the Philippines before visiting Japan for Rest and Recreation (R & R). 0000009731 00000 n
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Note the location of her LWO aerial affixed on top of the foremast.HMAS Parramatta as she appeared following her extensive half-life refit. 0000001984 00000 n
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During that time she routinely operated with ships of the Royal Navy.
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She was the first of six new River Class destroyer escorts built for the RAN. 0000093086 00000 n
She was the first submarine to serve in the RAN, and was lost at sea with all hands near what is now East New Britain, Papua New Guinea, on 14 September 1914, after less than seven months in service.Search missions attempting to locate the wreck began in 1976. 522 0 obj
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Note Parramatta's first pennant number F05 visible on her port side.Repairs being carried out on Parramatta's damaged propellors in Singapore, 1967 (Mike Breakspear Collection)Parramatta fires a Seacat missile during exercises in S.E. 0000093063 00000 n
She was the first of two E Class submarines built for the fledgling Royal Australian Navy and was manned by Royal Navy officers with a mixed crew of sailors drawn from the Royal Navy and the Royal Australian Navy. The … 0000034064 00000 n
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HMAS Parramatta was completed in August 1910, built in Scotland it was the first new ship built for the Australian Navy and was commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy on 1 March 1911.
HMAS Parramatta commissioned at Sydney on 4 July 1961 under the command of Commander Guy Griffiths, DSC, RAN. Kennedy, RAN, The RAN's destroyer escorts (DE) had by that time proven themselves very capable ships in both the escort and patrol duties roles. 0000035311 00000 n
Both ships are dressed overall in recognition of HM Queen Elizabeth II's Royal Visit. 1929 HMAS Parramatta (I) ended up in the Hawkesbury River as a proposed hulk for the New South Wales Prisons Department. 0000034086 00000 n
1910 HMAS Parramatta (I) was completed in 1910 and saw immediate service throughout the world during World War One. The ceremony marked the moment the 147-metre long Air Warfare Destroyer HMAS Sydney (V) became one of Her Majesty’s Australian Ships. The Parramatta's emblem and motto "Strike deep" appear lower right and seven seamen appear in the sky above the frigate. 0000007229 00000 n
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