When we were in Seattle and when HMAS Canberra was being built we used to have T-Shirts made up with the Adelaide on it with the slogan "WE'RE NUMBER ONE" across the bottom. Canberra's crew had a similar T-Shirt with "WE'RE SECOND TO NONE" with stickers and such. Every time we saw anything with that on it, we got our textas and blotted out "N" so it said "WE'RE SECOND TO ONE". But no we in our 2 years on Adelaide we didn't have a nickname for her, maybe through the years they might have done.

Alan Dead
Observer
Cairns WSO
Serving onboard a warship is like being in a prison with the added possibility of drowning.

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