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LEUTs
James and Johanne Harrap with their daughter Meridian. Meridian
is the first baby to be christened on newly commissioned HMAS Rankin
and James is Rankin’s Navigating Officer.
Although some of their mates are deployed to OP Falconer, there
is still plenty of work for the divers of AUSCDTONE based at HMAS
Waterhen in Sydney. Recently, divers in their Mark 18 equipment
went over the side of Diving Tender Seal at the Oil Wharf at Garden
Island. Their job was to go below HMAS Melbourne and do some work
on one of her auxiliary propulsion units.
Photo by NIU/East photographer ABPH Bill Louys.
With
high media interest in Gulf operations, the commanding officer of
HMAS Anzac is interviewed on his ship’s involvement in preventing
smuggling from Iraq.
An aircrewman
in a Sea King passes over HMAS Kanimbla in the Northern Arabian Gulf.
SBLT Nick
from Rockingham WA takes in the rich and vivid colours of an Arabian
Gulf sunrise after a busy night of boarding operations.
SMN Cherie
keeps watch for potential threats while on HMAS Darwin.
“Increase
pumping” is the signal given by ‘Brocky’ (nickname)
from HMAS Anzac during a replenishment at sea with a US Navy supply
ship.
As
the sun sets with a red haze in The Gulf, two members of the ship’s
company of HMAS Anzac begin unloading 24 pallets of fresh food from
USS Camden’s Seaknight helicopter.
Scaling
great heights for the RAN while searching for illegal cargo are these
members of a boarding party from HMAS Darwin.
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