In June 1968 Australia was dismayed by the news that the guided-missile destroyer HMAS Hobart had been badly damaged by ‘friendly fire’ in Vietnam: Two crew … In his article ‘The sinking of PCF-19 as seen from PCF-12’, he states the PCF-12 met the ill-fated PCF-19 at sea that night to fix the PCF-19’s radar. The late Bill Cooper served as a patrol-boat captain in Vietnam from 1967 to 1969, and during a talk at the 1989 Los Angeles UFO conference he said:“After about five months I was sent up north to the DMZ, to a place called Qua Vieaf [perhaps Qua Viet] on the Tacan [sic] river ….
HMAS Hobart ist ein Schiffsname der Royal Australian Navy nach der Stadt Hobart: HMAS Hobart (D63), ein Kreuzer der Leander-Klasse (1934–1962) HMAS Hobart (D39), ein Lenkwaffenzerstörer der Perth-Klasse (1962–2000) HMAS Hobart (2013), ein geplanter Luftabwehrzerstörer, Typschiff der Hobart-Klasse Diese Seite wurde zuletzt am 4. He also observed the Point Dume firing tracers at blinking lights moving around her in the air. The missile penetrated the aluminum hull and exploded killing Ordinary Seaman R J Butterworth and wounding two others.While the crew was rushing to Action Stations, two more air-to-air missiles penetrated the starboard side and killed Chief Electrician Hunt and wounded several others – and narrowly missed a magazine. It was while there that I discovered that there was a tremendous amount of UFO and alien activity in Vietnam. Our replenishment base was usually in the Barrier Reef, either at Dunk Island, Palm Islands or Cid Harbour, where we returned for fuel and stores etc. Sie war einer von insgesamt drei modifizierten Kreuzern der Leander-Klasse, welche für die Royal Navy gebaut und Ende der 1930er Jahre an die australische Marine übergeben wurden. HMAS Hobart had just returned for ammunitioning, fuelling, etc., after the Solomons Islands battle in which she had taken part, when HMAS Canberra was sunk off Savo Island in August. Sydney Morning Herald 19 June, 1968, p. 1 and Australian 19 June, 1968, p.1 4. HMAS HOBART remained in RAN service until placed on the Disposal List. In later years he rose to chair the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington. This pattern was followed almost continuously during the time I was in the ship. Entity Description: They saw a ”three-eyed alien” about 10 feet tall, clad in silvery overalls […] Now any of you who know anything about the Vietnam war know that the North Vietnamese did not have any helicopters especially after our first couple of air raids into North Vietnam [during 1965].
On 17 June 1968, Hobart was hit by air-launched Sparrow 3 missiles, mistakenly fired by an F4 Phantom jet of the US Seventh Airforce. Navy in Vietnam: A record of the Royal Australian Navy in the Vietnam War 1965-1973 by Denis Fairfax (Australian Government Publishing Service 1980) pps.59-60 5. During the war, Hobart was involved in the evacuation of British Somaliland in 1940, fought at the Battle of the Coral Sea and supported the amphibious landings at Guadalcanal and Tulagiin 1942.
Interview with Ken Shands, Anzac Day 1996, Melbourne 6. 1. "HMAS Hobart is the most sophisticated and lethal warship ever operated by the Royal Australian Navy, and this missile firing is a demonstration of how she can fight and win at sea," Minister Reynolds said. As the boat swung around to put the aircraft ahead and astern of PCF-12, I could hear Mr. Snyder [the Officer In Charge] requesting air support and identification of these helos. Hobart fired five rounds from a deck gun, but the swept-winged attacker escaped.During the DMZ ‘lights’ operation, the guided-missile destroyer USS Edson, the guided-missile cruiser USS Boston, the US Coast Guard cutter Point Dume, and the USS PCF-19 also came under ‘friendly fire’ , but fortunately without causing more casualties.Eventually, the Phantom pilots involved in the operation that night and early morning, were recalled and grounded.After daybreak, US helicopters airlifted the wounded Australian sailors to Danang and the damaged Hobart went to Subic Bay, Philippines, for repairs and was off the scene for five weeks – and that night DMZ ‘lights’ returned.Whatever the ‘lights’ actually were remains a subject of conjecture, but it appears they were sighted for some weeks and went unchallenged. The ships were steaming at 23 knots and zigzagging with the two cruisers in column, with The torpedo struck the port side of the ship, immediately above the Wardroom, abreast Y turret and luckily missing the after magazine by about six feet. During this deployment, Hobart fired over 10,000 rounds at 1,050 targets during 160 days at sea, and was fired on ten times, with no casualties. The Hobart was sunk in November 2002 as an artificial … April 2017 um 12:06 Uhr bearbeitet. HMAS Hobart's ship's cutter recovering her downed aircraft. ‘The Sinking of PCF-19 as seen from PCF-12’ by Jim Steffes, ENC, USN Retired, found at www.gunplot.net/vietnam/hobartvietnamandpcf19.html 11.
why did they fly around for hours with their lights on, why weren’t they shot down, and why was no ‘helo’ wreckage ever retrieved?Many Ufologists believe alien visitors have long been studying human wars; and this may have been the case in 1968. On 14 September, Hobart arrived in Subic, handed over responsibility to HMAS Perth, and sailed for home. In 1973, he fronted a Chicago media conference held to discuss the North American UFO flap of that year, and while airing his views on UFOs at the conference he said: “I don’t know whether this story has ever been told or not [but UFOs plagued us in Vietnam]. The keel of Hobart was laid down on 6 September 2012 and the ship was launched on 23 May 2015.
This made it particularly difficult to undertake repairs and maintenance whilst we were actually steaming and the majority of the work had to be undertaken on return to harbour with the ship at two hours notice for steam. Very considerable damage was done, chiefly due to the torpedo being a shallow-run one, with consequent upblast, which was sufficient to lift the 60-ton Y turret off its seating. Geschichte Bau. The damaged RAAF Walrus (A2-23) was recovered with some difficulty in darkness.
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