Old Photos

Hmas Leeuwin circa 71

L to R Hunter Mullice Moore Hope Hosier Firth ??? Kirley Middleton Marsh Parkes Merrit

Geoff Dryden Midge Rob Packham Lyle Clinton

Some low life avoiding church..

John Menzies and Owen Murrell

John passed away from cancer in 2005

SCRAN hall and canteen

HMAS Acute docked near the GPV

Looking from Morrow block to the parade ground like you needed telling

Chook Fowler back of Morrow block

any ideas on his whereabouts guys?

originally from Elizabeth in SA i think

Jonesy on the dunny.. the pics are coming out now!!

John Bernie Moose Dave Terry Guy

Terry Jefferson in blues going from Morrow to Topman

Gavin Jewell Lee Kenyon Judy Wayne George Mary Anne and god help us Jonesy... what the heck guys were they having a 3 for sale at Lowes on vests or something....

Tommy Maunder and Jimmy MacCullough

The Terrible Twosome

Lyle Clinton in 82 and 87 Hmas Darwin

Moose Millington and Mick Mullice

L-R Whitey, Nobby Clarke, Gavin Jewell, Rick Stanford,John Cooper, Blue Stokes, Jim McCullagh, Mac McDonald,Mick Patrick

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Albany WA

34th Passing Out Parade

Whaling in Albany WA

34th Passing Out Parade

Swampy on the Duck again

Swampy on the Duck

Ross' Wedding

Fluffy Duck surfing beside Torrens

ABRO Harry Firth up top 74 on the Duck

Thought you might like a copy of this one. It happened in the Timor Sea in 1989.

The Wessex helo had just landed on the deck of Success (the replacement tanker for Supply). When the ship dipped on a large wave and a gust of wind hit her and flipped onto her side.

Needless to say shit was trumps for the helo party. One of which was a M&M 34ther, being Phantom Walker, who was a kellick air handler.

They say that shit happens in threes. At about 0830 (before the helo crash) I got a pipe to the Engine Room at the rush, one of the main engines had pumped out all her cooling water and near seized.

At about 0930 we launched one of the 25 foot rigid inflatables into a big sea and the thing rolled about two kilometers from the ship, flinging all the crew into the water, along with a months mail for USS Oldendorf.

And the helo crash happened about 1030 - 1100. The humour in the whole thing was that the XO (a birdie pilot) had the forenoon watch on the bridge (his first watch in two years and his first watch on Success), when all this shit happened.

He never kept any more watches on Success, the old man wouldn't let him. Was a big day at the office that day.

Cheers Jimmy Mac

Probably a memory Phantom would prefer to forget