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Department of Defence Defence Materiel Organisation www.ausawd.com S005563_ASC_A4.indd 1 16/02/11 5:12 PM THE AUSTRALIAN NAVAL ARCHITECT Journal of The Royal Institution of Naval Architects (Australian Division) Volume 15 Number 1 February 2011 Cover Photo: CONTENTS The Sydney Heritage Fleet’s barque James Craig 2 From the Division President underway on Sydney Harbour on Australia Day 3 Editorial 2011 (Photo John Jeremy) 4 News from the Sections 6 Coming Events The Australian Naval Architect is published four times per 9 Classification Society News year. All correspondence and advertising should be sent to: 11 From the Crow’s Nest The Editor The Australian Naval Architect 12 General News c/o RINA 29 Current Research on Linear Hydrodynamic PO Box No. 462 Theory for Ship Resistance — L. J. 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Adrian also acted as the This column in the February edition of The Australian chair of the program committee for the IMC and his team Naval Architect usually contains the President’s report to certainly produced an excellent program. I’m aware that the Annual General Meeting. I see no reason to change this there is not much down time for these members and they are tradition and will once again present my report. This year’s already in full swing with preparations for the 2012 event. AGM will be held in Sydney on 30 March 2011. This is also my last report as the President of the Australian Division and During the year I have continued to attend the RINA I would therefore like to reflect on the highlights of my term Council meetings as an ex-officio member. John Jeremy has before reporting on the outcomes of the last twelve months. also continued to serve as a member of this Council. John seemed to find even more time and provided a summary of In my first column in The ANA I stated that I wished the the Division’s history for inclusion in The Royal Institution RINA to be the institution of choice for people working of Naval Architects 1860–2010, the book to mark 150 years in the maritime domain. To achieve this objective every of the RINA. This was the only contribution highlighting a member in Australia should be able to identify themselves Division. Our sincere thanks go to John for this contribution. with a section. To this end it was very important to me that Other members of the Division have also continued their the Division formed a section which covered South Australia support via Headquarters. These include Martin Renilson and the Northern Territory. Many thanks to Peter Crosby as Editor of the International Journal of Small Craft and his team for helping to form this section and it has gone Technology and Rob Gehling and Tony Armstrong who from strength to strength during my term. have continued to support the Safety Committee and the The second highlight for me was the significant input which High-speed Vessels Committee respectively. A variety of several members gave to assist with the work to support the committees and advisory bodies within Australia are also Commission of Inquiry into the circumstances leading to the supported by members. These are all listed in the August loss of HMAS Sydney. The major outcome of the work was 2010 edition of The ANA. All of the members have provided that the technical aspects relating to the demise of the ship well-thought-out contributions and need to be acknowledged are well known now but, from the Institution’s perspective, for their support. this activity really did raise our profile in Australia. Our The Australia Naval Architect has continued to be a great Institution was named in many of the press articles and success and we must thank our major sponsors Wärtsilä was acknowledged by the Chief of the Defence Force with and the AWD Alliance for their continued support. It goes a Commendation for the members who assisted. A further without saying that, without their support, the production of Certificate of Commendation was presented by the RINA the journal would be a little challenging. Similarly it would Council to acknowledge our efforts in supporting this be just as much a challenge without the contributions from activity and raising and raising the profile and standing of all advertisers, section contributors and in particular those the Institution, in Australia and internationally. of the editorial team, John Jeremy and Phil Helmore. All Further certificates of appreciation were also presented to these efforts are commended and I certainly hope this will members of the Australian Division over my term of office. continue for years to come so that we can all continue to be Firstly, during the IMC cocktail party at the Pacific 2008 IMC informed by this excellent production. John Jeremy was presented with a certificate acknowledging The Division has encouraged the future members of our all his endeavours for our organisation over the years. institution through its generous support for awards and prizes In my report in the February 2009 edition of The ANA I for students at the Australian Maritime College (University also expressed the hope that his support would continue, of Tasmania) and the University of New South Wales. I and he certainly has not let us down. Other Certificates of congratulate all those students who have received awards Appreciation were awarded to members who have given and we are indebted to Austal for their continued support significant service and for various reasons needed to step for those awards made through headquarters in London. down to a lesser role. These included Keith Adams following his retirement as Secretary, and Allan Soars following his Much of the progress made by the Division over the year retirement as the Treasurer. Both these members gave me is due to the collective efforts of those members who have excellent support during their terms of office and presented elected to serve on Council and on the Section committees. me with real problems finding their replacements. However Examples of this are the discussion and feedback which when somebody steps down this creates an opportunity for various members gave to recent discussions on structural somebody to step up. It was pleasing for me that members standards specified in the NSCV and of the interest taken by volunteered to carry out these roles and the level of support a number of Council members in developments towards the appeared seamless. My thanks must go to Rob Gehling and single national maritime safety jurisdiction. I would like to Craig Boulton for accepting these demanding tasks. The fact take this opportunity to thank all members of Council, both that I have highlighted these two members certainly does not present and past, for their support. All of their names were mean that I did not appreciate the efforts of other Council listed in the August 2010 edition of The ANA and therefore members who came and went during my term. I will not repeat them here. Some members of Council have completed their terms of office this year and cannot be re- Now I shall move on to the report for 2010, the year in elected. These are Peter Crosby, John Jeremy and Graham which we celebrated 150 years of the RINA. The “even” Taylor. I’m indebted to them for their support over the years years always start with the Pacific IMC series. Once again and wish them all the best for the future. this was a tremendous success, and I need to acknowledge the support of John Jeremy, Keith Adams, Adrian Broadbent So what of the future? At the last Council meeting Prof. The Australian Naval Architect 2 Martin Renilson was elected as my successor as the President in Australia (the light destroyer, cancelled in 1973) and the of the Australian Division of RINA.