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Goodwill deployment
By LCDR Sekulitch
Volume 50, No. 17, September 20, 2007 |
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ON ITS WAY: HMAS Parramatta heads to Singapore on its goodwill trip.
Photo: ABCSO Dominic Owen |
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HMAS Parramatta (CMDR Lee Goddard), recently departed Fleet Base East for a 10-week goodwill deployment through north-east Asia. Parramatta is scheduled to visit Singapore, and ports in China, Russia, Japan and the Philippines.
Parramatta will be joined by HMAS Perth (CMDR Michelle Miller) for part of the deployment.
Official calls and functions will be held throughout the deployment. Commander Australian Fleet RADM Nigel Coates AM RAN, will join both ships, local dignitaries and expatriates in China.
During the port visit to Vladivostok, CMDR Goddard will take part in a wreath-laying ceremony at Glory of Pacific Navy Memorial, accompanied by the Commander of the Pacific Fleet, the Mayor of Vladivostok and the Governor of Promorski, Krai Region.
Vladivostok will also be the site of the official launch of the RAN publication The Russian Fleet: From the Crimean to Perestroika, also marking the 100th anniversary of maritime contact between Australia and Russia.
The goodwill deployment represents a welcome reward for Parramatta and Perth which have both recently completed a challenging six months of operations. For many of the 370-strong Task Group this is their first experience of “going up top”.
As the Task Group ventures further north “King Neptune” will pay a visit to both ships as they cross the equator into the Northern Hemisphere and into the heart of south-east Asia.
Following the north-east Asian deployment, Parramatta will return to Fleet Base West in early November. |
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