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GRAND
OPENING: VADM Chris Ritchie opens the new Anzac Ship Support
Centre at HMAS Stirling.
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Photo:
ABPH Quentin Mushins
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The
$5.33 million Anzac Ship Support Centre (ASSC) was officially
opened by the Chief of Navy Vice Admiral Chris Ritchie at HMAS
Stirling on May 25. The centre is purposely designed and built
facility to support the Anzac class ships through their planned
30-year life.
The ASSC provides a high quality training environment for the
personnel who will operate and maintain the Anzac class of ships.
The centre also provides a test site for the Anzac combat and
platform system software. Relocation of approximately $60 million
of plant and equipment from leased facilities in Williamstown,
Victoria, commenced in October 2004 and is scheduled to be fully
operational by August 2005.
Thirty uniformed positions have been relocated from Victoria with
the establishment of the ASSC.
The location of the centre means that the ship’ companies of Anzac
ships will no longer have to travel east to undergo ship specific
training.
