Image Gallery: February 2007
Announcement of gifting of HMAS Adelaide
08 February 2007
Minister Brendan Nelson with Minister Jim Lloyd and Ken Ticehurst with Navy Officials Mick Haines and Drew McKinne. They are seen with a model of HMAS Canberra which will be sunk off the electorates of Jim Lloyd and Ken Ticehurst at Terrigal NSW as part of an artificial reef. Parliament House Canberra.
The Minister for Defence has announced that New South Wales is to be gifted the Royal Australian Navy Guided Missile Frigate HMAS Adelaide for sinking as a dive wreck.
The New South Wales Government has indicated that the preferred location for HMAS Adelaide is off the New South Wales Central Coast, near Terrigal.
HMAS Adelaide will decommission late in 2007 at her home port in Rockingham, Western Australia with handover to the New South Wales Government expected in early to mid 2008.
The model in the photos is of the type of frigate, but it is not a model of the HMAS Adelaide itself.
Read Media Release: Warship to be sunk off the New South Wales central coast
| 070043DI-08 Nelson Left to Right: Commodore Drew McKinnie, Acting Head, Maritime Systems Division, Defence Material Organisation (DMO); Minister for Local Government, Territories and Roads and Federal Member for Robertson, The Hon Jim Lloyd; Lieutenant Commander Michael Haines; The Minister for Defence, the Hon Dr Brendan Nelson MP; Federal Member for Dobell, Mr Ken Ticehurst. (Model shown is HMAS Melbourne, sister ship of HMAS Adelaide) (Date taken: 08 February 2007) Low Res | High Res |
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