admiralofthefleetviscountjohnrushworthjellicoe

The disarmament provisions of the Washington Naval Treaty required the destruction of Australia as part of Britain's commitment, and she was scuttled off Sydney Heads in 1924.So the photo is before 1924, and after 1912.Because the first ship is the HMAS Australia.

vongratz Thank you for the information vongratz, our records have been updated.

vongratz Horatio J. Kookaburra Thanks vongratz (and apologies for the late reply), and Kookaburra2011! We will update our records. Hmmm, our date was way off!

ANMM Please correct this caption, which is based on a earlier brain-fade suggestion of mine, and is embarrassingly wrong on my part. The main ship here is not HMAS AUSTRALIA [I] carrying the Prince of Wales in 1920, as I had suggested. The photograph shows HMS NEW ZEALAND during her visit to Australia in July 1919 when NEW ZEALAND brought Admiral of the Fleet, Viscount Jellicoe to Australia in the course of his world tour preparing a report for the British Admiralty on the future of the Dominion Navies [that is, largely whether they should be developed as national navies or enfolded in an Empire defence arrangement as branches of the Royal Navy. Jellicoe recommended the former. You have a couple of companion images of HMS NEW ZEALAND in Sydney here on the ANMM Photostream taken during the same visit, one, dressed ship as here, and another of her in the Sutherland Dock at Cockatoo Island. In the background here is a J Class submarine beside a Town Class cruiser. I believe that would be submarine J5 alongside HMAS BRISBANE, which had towed this boat to Australia after its engines broke down in the Red Sea on her delivery voyage. BRISBANE and J5 somehow arrived earlier than the rest of the J Class Squadron and its escorts, at the end of June 1919. The ship to the far right here is the cruiser HMAS ENCOUNTER. The remaining five J Class submarines, escorted by cruiser HMAS SYDNEY [I] and depot ship HMAS PLATYPUS, arrived in Sydney on July 10, 1919 [according to John Bastock's authoritative limited edition book 'Australia's Ships of War' - dates vary up to July 15 in some other sources]. Apologies for the confusion. Your Photostream overall is such a wonderful portrayal of early 20th Century shipping and Australian life during the period I would hate to be responsible for a lasting error here. Thanks.

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called AQUELLOS MAGNÍFICOS NAVIOS, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

My granddad served on HMS New Zealand, and I has his photo album with some photos that he took during his visit to Sydney in 1919 and photos of Admiral Jerricoe with Lord and lady Liverpool

Appears to have all its wartime modifications, the larger bridge structure the most obvious. On its post war first visit to New Zealand I'd say.

Trainiac I think you are right, HMS NEW ZEALAND spent some time in Sydney in mid-1919 during a world tour, and that is probably the time that this image was taken.

This will be July 1919 when NEW ZEALAND brought Admiral Lord Jellicoe to Australia in the course of his world tour preparing a report for the British Admiralty on the future of the Dominion Navies [that is, largely whether they should be developed as national navies or enfolded in an Empire defence arrangement as branches of the Royal Navy. A very wise, far-seeing and decent man, Jellicoe recommended the former]. [Please note I am searching for a companion image here where I brain-fadedly identified the Indefatigable Class battlecruiser - with Union Jack on her flagstaff - as sistership HMAS AUSTRALIA I] during the Prince of Wales visit in May 1920. It's not. There were other clear indicators, the presence of newly-arrived submarine J5, to show it was July 1919]. .

Horatio J. Kookaburra Apologies for the late reply Kookaburra2011, we put your response into our database. :)