Accession Number | F00260 |
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Collection type | Film |
Measurement | 24 min 28 sec |
Object type | Home movie |
Physical description | 8mm super/colour (Kodachrome)/silent |
Maker |
Winterflood, Graham |
Place made | Australia: New South Wales, Nowra, South China Sea, United States of America |
Date made | 1967; 1969; 1973 |
Access | Open |
Conflict |
Vietnam, 1962-1975 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial![]() |
Source credit to | This item has been digitised with funding provided by Commonwealth Government. |
Navy footage including aftermath of the collision of HMAS Melbourne and USS Evans
Decommissioned battleship USS Alabama on display at Battleship Memorial Park Mobile, Alabama. USN North American T-28 Trojan trainers and pilots at US Naval Air Station Barin Field, Foley Alabama 19 October 1967. Identified are left to right Midshipman Jack Mayfield, unknown USN Ensign, unknown USN Ensign, Midshipman Graham Winterflood, Midshipman David Gibson. Midshipman Winterflood boarding a T-28. Midshipman David Gibson boards T-28. Midshipman Jack Mayfield steps off. HMAS Albatross Nowra, air to air scenes of RAN Wessex helicopter No 36 in flight taken during an air show, 12 October 1969. A-4 Skyhawks in flight display. A fly past of RAN Fleet Air Arm aircraft, - Vampire, A-4 Skyhawk, Dakota, Tracker and Venom. French Sud Aviation SA 341 helicopter on static display Sub Lieutenant D Weyland (in white) inspects helicopter. Royal Navy Wessex helicopter No 05 on static display. Crossing the Equator ceremony onboard the aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne. Sub Lieutenant Jack Mayfield the Melbourne Cup. Sub Lieutenant Trevor Rieck. In vicinity of Manus Island. Wessex lands on Melbourne. Royal Navy Westland Sea Wasp helicopter lands on HMAS Melbourne. Recovery of ditched RAN Wessex No 29. The ditched Wesson on deck of Melbourne showing damage to the helicopters nose. Pilot P Bainbridge and co-pilot D. Lawson all crew saved. Long shot of HMS Bulwark at anchor off Pall Tidman, 1969. Left to right Martin Ward, Murray Buckett, unknown, unknown, David Weyland. Signals to HMAS Supply. South China Sea early morning 3 June 1969 aftermath scene of the HMAS Melbourne and USS Frank E Evans collision. US Navy Sea King helicopters in flight. Recovery of life rafts from the Evans. Long shot of the Evans cut in two. On left is the stern of USS Evans on right is her sister ship USS Keyes. Debris from the collision at the bow of flight deck HMAS Melbourne. USN Sea King lands on Melbourne's flight deck. Body of USN sailor landed on Melbourne. Damage to the bow of HMAS Melbourne. Aerial shots from a helicopter of the Evans. HMAS Melbourne underway in heavy seas returning to Sydney. The guided missile destroyer HMAS Brisbane at sea on Exercise RIMPAC 1973. RAN Grumman S-2 Tracker anti-submarine aircraft starting engines and unfolding wings on Melbourne's flight deck. RAN Wessex takes off from Melbourne. Tracker and Skyhawk catapult take offs. Wessex No 30 hovering along side Melbourne. Wessex lands on Melbourne. Three Skyhawks in formation flight. Skyhawks arrested landings on Melbourne. Wessex No 30 takes off. Skyhawks on deck of Melbourne. Pilot Lieutenant Barrie Daly board Skyhawk off coast of Hawaii. Close ups of bombed up Skyhawks - note multiple bomb racks. Bomb laden Skyhawks take off. Bounce landing and take off by Tracker No 853. Skyhawk arrested landings Nos 888, 882, 889, 971, 872 and 874. Long shot of USN aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea off Waikiki, Hawaii September 1973. On the flight deck a group shot - left to right Lieutenant Murray Smythe, Peter Cox, Peter Clark and John MacAuley. On the quarterdeck HMAS Melbourne Lieutenant Terry Walford. The RAN frigate HMAS Stuart (pennant No 48). Air to air of Skyhawk 873 armed with multiple rocket pods in flight from bombing exercise Puckapunyal to Nowra.
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Video of Navy footage including aftermath of the collision of HMAS Melbourne and USS Evans (video)