Talk:HMAS Melbourne (1945)

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[edit] Sea King Vs Wessex helicopters

An edit was made by 58.169.65.33 replacing Sea King in the list of aircraft with Wessex and the edit comment stated that the Wessex replaced the Sea King.

This is completly incorrect, if anything it was the reverse. The Wessex was the original ASW helo embarked on Melbourne and was replaced in this role by the introduction of the Sea Kings at which time the dunking sonar was removed from the Wessex and fitted to the Sea Kings. Wessex helos continued to embark in Melbourne as utility helos, typically with 2 helos from 723 squadron. During the time of my service on VS816 squadron in the late 70's and early 80's, Melbourne would typically embark 6 A-4 Skyhawks, 6 S-2 Trackers, 6 Sea Kings and 2 Wessex. At this time one of the main roles for the Wessex was to fly in the rescue helo position astern and to port of the ship when Melbourne was at flying stations during daylight hours.Nick Thorne 06:10, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Melbourne was not scrapped after all?

According to this http://www.hazegray.org/worldnav/china/surface.htm, the hulk of the Melbourne was still in China being studied as of 1994. Anybody know about this?--Commking 05:37, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Yeah...Bob Hawke and the Labour PartyDervish6 15:29, 22 October 2006 (UTC)