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| HMAS Success |
Yesterday, I had the opportunity to visit HMAS Success, a modified Durance class Auxiliary Oiler Replenishment (AOR) serving in the Royal Australian Navy that was docked at Piraeus port. The tanker visited Greece to participate in a variety of celebratory events honoring Anzac Day, on April 25th. Some days earlier HMAS Success had visited Lemnos to present to the local community a reproduction of the 1926 painting by Sir William Russell Flint, held
by the Art Gallery of New South Wales Collection, called "The Lemnians". "The
Lemnians" reproduction is being gifted from the Lemnian Community in
Sydney to the people of their ancestral homeland of Lemnos, a key
Australian and Commonwealth staging and evacuation location during the
Gallipoli Campaign (1915-16). The painting was carried by HMA Anzac and in a later stage was safely transported with the use of a helicopter from HMAS Anzac to HMAS Success
