VADM Sir Alan McNicoll, KBE, CB, GM, RAN, hoisted his flag in HMAS PERTH, (guided missile destroyer), off the coast of Vietnam. It was the first occasion that a Chief of Staff had flown his flag in an Australian warship in operations of war.
Australian Naval History on 31 January 1968
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