Jul and Oct 1990 - Navy League of Australia

PENANG REVIEW — A WET ONE — continued
PENANG REVIEW — A WET ONE — continued
32 visits by RAN ships already this year', he
added.
'The Malaysian Review has allowed the
RAN personnel present to meet the cultures
and customs from such navies as the USSR
and the middle cast'
Prior 10 the arrival of the ships, the NSC
Band performed at a number of locations,
including school concerts near Butterworth.
"We received a tremendous reception at each
performance and later for the RAN reception
aboard CANBERRA and for the official
March through Georgetown on Saturday 19
May", said LEUT Phil Anderson, the band
master. This was despite the facl that len
other naval bands were present and the
Malaysian officials exhausted the number
and locations where each national band
could play'.
The arrival of the bO plus ships was
heralded by gun salutes from each vessel
entering Penang Harbour and was responded
Indonesia s HASANUDDIN ex HMS TARTAR
by Kon Comwallis, on (he foreshores of the
city.
To mark the era of 'glasnost' and
'peristroka' a number of crew from the DE
PARRAMATTA got together with the sailors
from the Russian destroyer ADMIRAL
TRIBUTS. which was anchored only a short
distance from the RAN DEs and FFG.
Penang, like Sydney in 1988, soon
became an international city, with over
10,000 officers and men from the various
world's navies. A large sports programme
was available with RAN teams competing in
soccer, badminton, tennis and hockey as
well as trishaw races and the Dragon Boat
Competition on the harbour.
One of the first events attended by
COMAUSNAVSUP and other personnel
was the opening of the Naval exhibition, a
pictorial presentation of the past and present
Malaysian Navy.
The streets of the city of Georgetown
were transformed into a carnival ground on
Saturday 19 May as 3,000 sailors undertook
a five kilometre march through the old
streets. Unfortunately for the organisers and
the participants the weather was unkind to
all as the heavens opened up with an almost
continuous downpour. The Australian Naval
contingent followed after the large
Malaysian platoon.
The actual Review Day, Sunday 20 May,
began well enough, but by 9.00am ominous
black clouds were seen threatening from the
direction of the mountains, behind the city.
His Majesty, the King of Malaysia was
embarked on the reviewing vessel KD
MUTIARA, and al 9.30am began inspecting
the first of three static lines of ships
followed by a moving line of small patrol
boats from various nations.
'All of our ships in the static and moving
lines were in immaculate condition and
represented the RAN well', said RADM
Honon, who was embarked in
CANBERRA.
With the conclusion of the Review many
Sri Lanka patrol vessel JAYASAGARA
of the ships weighed anchor and sailed for
their respective homeports. IPSWICH and
CESS NOCK sailed for Singapore,
Ex HMS JAGUAR, now the Bangladesh ALI HAIDER
conducting a scries of exercises with
Malaysian and Singapore patrol boats
enroutc. Both arrived on the 24th.
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KRIKAKAP wtth helicopter embarked
Itahan fngate LIBECCIO
July-September. 1990
July-September, 1990
Soviet ADMIRAL TRIBUTS
THE NAVY
Turkish Meko 200 frigate. TURGUTREIS
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