I see that the last Guardian class has been delivered to its new users. From much earlier comment do they regard vessels returned to Australia for repair still "delivered"?

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Brian Mackenzie
ex-Shipwright Instructor
Oct '88 to Dec '93 (NIRIMBA) before and beyond

Boy, there's a bunfight you don't want to step into!

We have at the last count three dead Guardians that are sitting high & dry, bent, battered, rusting away & broken and not going anywhere. Several that have sat alongside for months and months and months when they're only supposed to be here a couple of months. Add to that the reduction in funds available, removal of the local defence office that used to handle them, and a whole bunch of re-organisation of defence locally (sound familiar?).

Some of the Guardians have been slipped into a major repair docking on their delivery voyage, some just after delivery, and you can bet the Oz taxpayer paid for the lot. Also, Austal has just been gifted the contract for another of the evolved Cape class. Makes you wonder, doesn't it?

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Chris O'Keefe
R43136
Ex WO Chippy
19th MOBI Intake
July 65 to July 85
HMAS Nirimba X 4 -Penguin-Sydney-Queenborough - Creswell - Moreton - Stalwart - Platypus - Coonawarra Reconstruction Team 76 - Platypus - Hobart - Cerberus - FHQ - Coonawarra.

Anyone can be ordinary. Shipwrights choose to be extraordinary!

If I was much younger and not had the "grounding" in the vagaries of Defence specifications, designs, purchases and ongoing logistics, I would suggest that you must be so mistaken...

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Brian Mackenzie
ex-Shipwright Instructor
Oct '88 to Dec '93 (NIRIMBA) before and beyond

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Rick Pengilly
WEBMASTER
Ex-CPOMTH3
R42630
13th MOBI Intake
July'62 to July'74
HMAS Nirimba - HMAS Melbourne - HMAS Cerberus - HMAS Tarangau - HMAS Lonsdale - HMAS Tarangau - HMAS Nirimba - HMAS Brisbane

I had forgotten about this.
Had to laugh at the presentation of this guy into the report on the DEI appointment of an unqualified Captain with an unqualified crew that led to the loss of HMNZS Manawanui off Samoa, fortunately without loss of life.

A classic!!

https://youtu.be/_7XQ5qFK_w4?si=tNfGSlsU1yAjEkIu

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Mike (Pony) Moore
O42860
Ex-LT GLEN(ME)
16th MOBI intake
Jan 64 - Jul 88.
Anzac, Nirimba, Stalwart, Moresby, Creswell, Waterhen, Penguin, Vampire, GMGID (PJP), Coonawarra, Attack, Ardent, Cook, Kuttabull, Cerberus.

May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

I agree Pony, it all came back to bite them.
That clip is definitely worth watching.

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John Kelly (WEBMASTER)
R42620
Ex-WOMTH
13th MOBI Intake
July'62 to July'83
Nirimba x3 - Rushcutter - Sydney x2 (Carrier) - Melbourne (Carrier) - Penguin - Kuttabul - Creswell x3 - Stalwart x2 - Brisbane.

That really is gold, isn't it!

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Graeme 'Smiley' Rhodes
R94714
Ex-CPOMTP(D)5
Jan'65 Leeuwin Intake (10th) - Jan'66 Nirimba Intake (20th)
Jan'65 to Mar '88
Leeuwin, Nirimba, Stalwart, Samarai, Lae, Penguin, Curlew, Buccaneer, Navy Office, Barbette, Cairns, RANTTU (based in Port Moresby), Stirling, Bunbury.

That'll learn 'em..!!!

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Rick Pengilly
WEBMASTER
Ex-CPOMTH3
R42630
13th MOBI Intake
July'62 to July'74
HMAS Nirimba - HMAS Melbourne - HMAS Cerberus - HMAS Tarangau - HMAS Lonsdale - HMAS Tarangau - HMAS Nirimba - HMAS Brisbane

GENDER EQUALITY

Dont worry about Command quailifications or ability

Must have equal Male Female in charge

What a Bloody joke

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Charlie (Chuckles) Britt JP TPI
Welfare Pensions Officer
R95712
Ex-LME(D) LSMTP2
17th Intake JR's, 23rd MOBI Intake .
Oct 66 - Nov 74
Leeuwin, Nirimba, Cerberus, Stalwart, Cerberus, Waterhen, Penguin, Carpentaria, Dolphin, Penguin, Sydney, Albatross, Leeuwin, Acute, Leeuwin, Cerberus, Stalwart, Waterhen, Attack, Leeuwin, DEE.

Let us see:

18:27:34 Discussion about "do you want to take it out of auto now" but there is nothing suggesting that the answer was "yes please".....................

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Brian Mackenzie
ex-Shipwright Instructor
Oct '88 to Dec '93 (NIRIMBA) before and beyond