Saturday 25 May 2013

Darling Harbour, HMAS Advance

The HMAS Advance is a navy patrol boat on permanent display at the Australian National Maritime Museum at Darling Harbour. It was commissioned in 1968 and served out of Darwin, Northern Territory until 1980. The larger ship behind it is the HMAS Vampire, a navy destroyer, The office buildings of the city rise up behind them.

13 comments:

  1. Nice boat indeed... It looks like a Navy one.

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    1. I think peace keeping is always better than war.

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  3. «Louis», having a life-long fascination with all things regarding the Navies of the world, would very much enjoy visiting these ships.

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  4. She's a beautiful ship, Jim.

    Happy Blue Monday!

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    1. Yes, you can explore it and a number of other ships on display.

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  6. Nice composition of the color grey, relieved by the the other colors in the bottomed left corner of he
    composition.

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  7. Nice ship. This reminds me of the upcoming tall ship event here in Ireland.

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