Families reunited again

LCDR Paul Scott greets his daughter Ellen (2), after returning home from a month deployment at sea.

Photo: ABPH Nina Nikolin

emotional reunion after 4-months’ deployment.

Photo: ABPH Nina Nikolin

LCDR Kell Dilon with his family is greeted by CDRE Perry and CAPT McDowall.

Photo: ABPH Nina Nikolin

Two Minehunters HMAS Huon and HMAS Diamantina (LCDRs Kel Dillon and Paul Scott) arrived home in Sydney last month having traversed half the globe in their deployments.

Their tasks have included Operation Anode in the Solomon Islands and the Western Pacific Naval Symposium in Singapore.

The ships spent eight weeks on Anode duties, half of the time in the Solomons, and then steamed to Singapore via Darwin.

After the symposium, Diamantina and Huon spent six days in Ho Chi Minh City in south Vietnam, enjoying visits to the historic Caravelle and Saigon hotels before heading home.

A refreshment stop in Malaysia was the last foreign call before the ships called at HMAS Cairns on their transit to Sydney.

As our pictures suggest, friends and family were happy to have them back
alongside at HMAS Waterhen in Sydney.

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