Shipping Reporter sights lost , drifting matelot .
Sporting a skew-whiff seaman's cap and a ticket from the Australian Naval Aviation Museum, seasick bear snapped aboard a leaking gravy boat in North Queensland .
The museum , formerly the Australian Air Arm Museum , became Australia's Museum of Flight, located at the naval air station HMAS Albatross, near Nowra, NSW.
The Fleet Air Arm Museum traces its origins to 1974 when a group of volunteers associated with the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) obtained five obsolete RAN aircraft and began work to establish a museum for display of artifacts to present the story of Australian Naval aviation.
The museum houses aircraft used throughout the history of the Fleet Air Arm , along with other aircraft of relevance to Australia's aviation history, and memorabilia relating to Australian aircraft carriers. The museum includes 34 aircraft and helicopters in its collection.
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