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Gratitude for liberating their Red Sea regional areas from Italian forces was often so profound that local rulers presented the Captain & ship's company with rural gifts such as goats. Here sporting his ceremonial naval sword , Harry welcomes one such official. |
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Recent Olympic
Games scenes of Sydney Harbour Bridge can't beat this of wartime HMAS
Hobart.
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King George V |
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Details of this Yangtze River gunboat, HMS Mantis and her skipper are on the enlargement of the photo |
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Photos recently discovered at Howden's old NZ family home Furneaux at Endeavour Inlet - now a fine National Park resort. |
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Zeila, bombed by the Hobart's Walrus. Details on the photo. Click the thumbnail. |
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Here's Howden holding reunion court on stripped HMAS Hobart's final hours in Sydney Harbour before she's towed to Japan as ignominious scrap. |
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HMAS Hobart
sails out 1938.
Displacement: 6,830 tons Speed: 32.5kt Complement: 550 Armament: Eight 6 inch guns in pairs. Eight 4 inch anti-aircraft guns in pairs and twelve 0.5 inch machine guns in fours. Eight 21 inch torpedo tubes in pairs and 1 aircraft.
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The damage caused by the torpedo strike. |
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Hobart in dry dock, undergoing repairs after being torpedoed. |
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Hobart in Malta Harbour |
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H.M.A.S. Hobart 1944 by Brian Wood |
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"Slow
Ahead" by Randall Wilson
H.M.A.S Hobart glides past Mount Fuji for the surrender ceremony with USS Missouri in the Background. Tokyo Bay 1945.
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At
sea. Salvage operation underway following the crashing of the cruiser
HMAS Hobart's plane, a Seagull V (A2-1), into the side of the ship after
the aircraft had landed on the water. Note the aircraft's damaged left
wing. (Original print housed in the AWM Archive Store) (Donor N.
Trembath) |
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The Seagull in happier times, flying over "mother". |
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At sea. BORNEO Area. 22 June 1945. Lieutenant Commander F N COOK, RAN, Commander of HMAS HOBART. |
