HMAS Adelaide (I) and HMAS Darwin (IV) at the base HMAS Stirling, WA, prior to departure for the Gulf 22.08.90
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Depicts the ships HMAS Darwin and HMAS Adelaide at HMAS Stirling, Cockburn Sound, in Western Australia. The ships are two RAN guided missile frigates, alongside the wharf at shore station HMAS Stirling, on their way to the Middle East during the First Gulf War.
- About Lynne Norton
Lynne Norton was born in Fairlight, New South Wales. She is the daughter of Frank and Audrey Norton and when her father was appointed the director of the Western Australia Art Gallery in 1958 the family moved to Perth.
During the 1980s, she studied at the Claremont School of Art and Curtin University. She has won a number of art awards and prizes. Lynne has been a professional artist since 1988 and a part time tutor with Community Art Groups in painting and drawing from 1988 – 2014.
Lynne Norton’s interest in maritime subjects began in 1989. Her first paintings depict merchant and Navy ships at Fremantle. When the ships HMAS Sydney and Brisbane berthed at Stirling in Western Australia on their way to the Gulf in 1990, she obtained permission from the Royal Australian Navy to draw these ships.
Lynne was a member of The Wild Swans Art Group 2016 -20 from Western Australia. Lynne has exhibited throughout Australia as well as internationally in Europe and in east/south-east Asia.
Her work is found in many notable Art Collections: Australian War Memorial Canberra, Australian National Maritime Museum Sydney, University of Western Australia and Curtin University of Technology.
- About Ships and aircraft in company
In this section a wide variety of artworks with more than one ship, submarine or aircraft are featured. When two or more naval vessels are operating together they are said to be ‘in company’.
The diverse nature of activities, exercises and deployments undertaken by ships, submarines and aircraft of the Royal Australian Navy means that a ship may spend long periods conducting single ship operations or periodically join with large numbers of other ships for such events as a naval review or fleet entry to a port. These latter events are generally scheduled to commemorate a particular event. During such events a prominent or royal figure will review the fleet as part of the ceremony. Throughout its history ships of the RAN have participated in major fleet entries and reviews both in Australian waters and overseas.
Details of Ships in the First Fleet
Name Class Commission Dates HMAS Australia Indefatigable Class 21 Jun 1913 – 12 Dec 1921 HMAS Melbourne Town Class Light Cruiser 18 Jan 1913 – 23 Apr 1928 HMAS Sydney Town Class Light Cruiser 26 Jun 1913 – 8 May 1928 HMAS Encounter Challenger Class Light Cruiser 1 Jul 1912 – 1 Jan 1923 HMAS Warrego River Class 1 Jun 1912 – 22 Jul 1919 HMAS Parramatta River Class 10 Sep 1910 – 22 Jul 1919 HMAS Yarra River Class 10 Sep 1910 – 30 Sep 1929
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MV KRAIT and Japanese Destroyer in 1943
Troop Convoy and Escort and Hudson Bomber
N Class Destroyers off Libya
Sydney Harbour looking east to Garden Island from Dawes Point
Second Convoy that left Albany, Western Australia on the 31st December 1914
RAN tribute to Anzac dead Dardanelles 12th November 1918
Proud Entry
HMAS Arunta HMAS Westralia with US Navy Light Cruser
HMA Ships MORESBY and ATTACK post 1967
HMA ships LABUAN and FREMANTLE with OBERON submarine
HMAS VAMPIRE, MELBOURNE and PARRAMATTA
Howzat Good Catch Sea Fury RAN
HMAT Barambah 1919
First Australian Fleet-unit 1914
First Fleet Entry 1913
Bombing of Naval Convoy, Mediterranean, 1942
A Gallant Failure Attack on Scharnhorst 1940
