Australian navy ship HMAS Canberra visits Phuket for maritime exercises

The Australian Navy ship and navy officers have arrived at Patong beach to join the annual maritime enforcement exercises for ‘Indo-Pacific Endeavour 2019’ today.

The Australian Navy’s HMAS Canberra, which is carrying helicopters, and HMAS Newcastle arrived in Patong on Saturday to join the ‘Indo-Pacific Endeavour 2019’ .

Air Commodore Rick Owen says, “We visited here to continue the good relationship between Australia and Thailand as well as to practice maritime security operations and search and rescue practice for ‘Indo – Pacific Endeavour’.

“We are also joining the activity to clean the beach at Koh Siray (on Phuket’s far east coast) and to help with the construction of the Corner Stone Study Centre ”

“After that we will be visiting India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Vietnam.”