With London’s Tower Bridge in the background, we have a rare conjunction of warship styles from very different eras.
BRISBANE, the 3,370-4,500 ton American- designed and built RAN missile destroyer, looks comfortable beside the famous 11,553 ton Town Class cruiser HMS BELFAST of WWII and the Korean War era, now a preserved warship maintained by the Imperial War Museum in the Thames.
BRISBANE and the RNZN frigate HMNZS CANTERBURY had escorted the carrier HMAS MELBOURNE [II] to Britain for the Queen’s Silver Jubileee Naval Review, which took place at Spithead in the week beginning June 28 that year.
Photo: Christopher J. Howell Collection, Bluff, NZ, and sent on disc for the RAN Centenary Photostream
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