Request for reference material for RAN cruisers

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#11 Post by **Rowdy36** » May 29th, 2014, 10:43 am

That would be great if you could thanks, I've managed to find quite a few pictures online but there are plenty of gaps in the time line so more would be greatly appreciated.

#12 Post by **Rodondo** » May 29th, 2014, 1:14 pm

When I go to the library tomorrow I'll take my Ipad and grab a few pics for you

#13 Post by **Colombamike** » May 29th, 2014, 4:06 pm

Rodondo wrote:I've got a few pictures of HMAS Encounter, and the two Pelorus class ships from wikipedia, HMAS Sydney (I) but does anyone have anything else a little more detailed? *looking at mike for his usual supply of brilliance*

Ten seconds searching
http://www.navy.gov.au/sites/default/fi ... r_0004.jpg
http://www.navy.gov.au/sites/default/fi ... r_0001.jpg
http://www.navy.gov.au/sites/default/fi ... r_0003.jpg

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4118/476 ... 6123_o.jpg
Lack of time sorry

#14 Post by **Wizard** » June 2nd, 2014, 6:07 am

Rodondo - The books you want to look at are;

British Cruisers of the Victorian Era - Norman Friedman Seaforth Publishing 2012 and

British Cruisers Two World Wars and After - Norman Friedman Seaforth Publishing

The books have lots of lovely pictures, the Australian ones are mainly from the A C Green Collection at the State Library of Victoria. (All available online) The really nice things are the Plan and Profile line drawings by A D Baker III and Paul Webb of a number of cruisers. These include PIONEER, ENCOUNTER and a number of the Royal Navy's colonial cruisers based in Australia. I can't lay my hands on my copy at the moment but IIRC the second book has a Chatham Class, ADELAIDE, various Counties and the modified Leanders.

That should keep you going.

#15 Post by **bezobrazov** » June 2nd, 2014, 1:58 pm

I have the first one, but, to my recollection there are no side elevations of the desired cruisers. However, since I have it with me at work today, if I get a request for which ships I should scan, I can do it later this evening and send them thru email.

#16 Post by **Rodondo** » June 2nd, 2014, 2:13 pm

I think the ships Rowdy's after is Australia (II), Canberra (I) (Both Kent SubClass) and Shropshire (London subclass). I'm after the Encunter (Challenger Class), Pioneer/Psyhce (Pelorus Class) and maybe any Chatham stuff would be appreciated

#17 Post by **bezobrazov** » June 2nd, 2014, 3:06 pm

Ok, since I don't have my WWII cruiser book available, I'll look for that latter ones!

#18 Post by **bezobrazov** » June 2nd, 2014, 11:35 pm

Ok, I think I got the scans you need. One problem though: they are large PDF:s converted to .png:s.

Encounter-class:

Pelorus/Pioneer-class:

#19 Post by **Rodondo** » June 3rd, 2014, 3:15 am

Thank you Bezobrazov!

#20 Post by **Wizard** » June 3rd, 2014, 5:24 am

Try the National Archives of Australia Record Search (www.naa.gov.au)

For some 'As fitted' drawings of HMAS SYDNEY I search for ITEMS in Series MP551/1 Control Symbol 73/*

If you look through MP551/1 you'll find a lot of other gems.

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