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October 2017 Volume 7 Edition 10 NVN News Navy Victoria Network October 2017 Volume 7 Edition 10 Calendar Events NVN current membership: 1075 (see calendar for details of all events) Editorial 22 Jul 2017 - 29 Jul 2018 – Nerves and The Birth of the Victorian Navy Steel - The Royal Australian Navy in Guest Editor: Rex Williams – President, Naval Historical Society of Australia the Pacific December 1941 – (Victorian Chapter) is the first of our guest editors. Hopefully over time we will have September 1945 (Exhibition at the Presidents of other associations provide us with editorials. Shrine) In 1852, gold valued at nineteen and a half million pounds was 09 Nov – 103rd Anniversay of HMAS shipped out of Melbourne, bound for London. Gold was Sydney I and SMS Emden battle discovered in 1851/2, and the subsequent gold rush changed the 11 Nov – Remembrance Day situation dramatically in Victoria and prompted Lieutenant 19 Nov – HMAS Sydney II Governor Charles La Trobe to plead the case to London for Commemoration Service at 1200 at Naval protection of the port in 1851 and again in 1852. Victoria the Shrine eventually took matters into her own hands, and to supplement 19 Nov – HMAS Goorangai any assistance from the RN, undertook the building of her first Commemoration Service at 1130 at warship, HMCSS Victoria. Victoria was a barque rigged, screw, the Ocean View Reserve, Queenscliff. steam driven sloop of war, with an armament of 7 guns. She 01 Dec – HMAS ARMIDALE Commemoration Service, at 1000, in arrived in Port Philip in May 1856. the Sanctuary at the Shrine In 1858, a Royal Commission into the Defences of the Colony was appointed and their first progress report was submitted in Latest News Headlines mid-1859. In it they recommended that the colony acquire NOTE: The full articles of the news 'either one of the recently constructed steam floating battery, items listed below can be found on protected with iron plates, and mounting at least 16 guns, or a our website: steam block ship carrying 60 guns' either of which would http://navyvic.net/news/news.html operate with shore batteries. LATEST VIDEOS….. Debate as to the best method of defending the port of Melbourne * HMAS Choules delivers Combined continued. In their report of June 1862, yet another select Force Committee on Naval and military Forces suggested the colony * ADF strengthens operability with acquire: a similar battery which the Government found Singapore Armed Forces * ADF and Philippine Marine Corp attractive, and promoted the concept through the good offices of training exercise Hugh Childers, a Colonial politician who had recently returned to London. * HMAS Adelaide hosts President The adequacy of the colony's defences was bought into sharp Duterte in the Philippines * Watch Virginia submarine focus by the surprise visit off Melbourne of a Russian Frigate in ‘Washington’ pull into Norfolk for January 1862 and in 1863, and also by the Confederate commissioning commerce raider Shenandoah's visit in January 1865. The * HMAS Adelaide Delivers Portable vessel sought permission to effect urgent repairs, permissible Hospital to Dili despite the imposition of an attitude of strict neutrality by the NEWS….. British Government. The authorities in Melbourne were powerless to do anything but agree to their request. They were HMAS Newcastle recently conducted in no position to take military action against the Confederates, a three-day port visit to Antsiranana, also known as Diego-Suarez, in even if they had wanted to. Clearly they needed to improve Madagascar, deployed as part of their afloat defences! Operation MANITOU. Newcastle is the first Australian Navy ship to visit The passage in London of the Colonial Naval Defence Act in April Madagascar since HMAS Stuart I in 1865, cleared the way for Victoria to build, man and maintain their the Second World War. own Navy, under the British flag. Russian president Vladimir Putin took Sir George Verdon, Victorian Treasurer and Minister in Charge part in a nuclear forces drill, personally launching four ballistic of Defence was sent to England the next year as a delegate to missiles, the Russian defense ministry HM Government together with Captain Naval Forces, Charles said October 27. The drill itself took B Payne. By November 1866, Verdon received a letter which place on Thursday and involved all contained the following information to the effect that subject to three legs of the Russian nuclear triad. Parliamentary approval and subject to conditions: The US Navy is funding new research The Controller of the Navy will arrange with you the details of an aimed at tackling the threat lethal armour-plated monitor or turret ship, to be constructed in a private levels of oxygen present for special yard, but under Admiralty superintendence, and be capable of operations divers like Navy SEALs carrying 22 ton guns. while they dive at depth and pressure. With the arrival of USS Nimitz (CVN The cost of the ship is not to exceed 125,000 pounds of which the 68) in the US 7th Fleet area of colony will furnish 25,000 pounds. The cost or armament is to be operations on October 25, the US borne by the colony. The maintenance, manning and command of the Navy now has three aircraft carriers ship is to be undertaken by the Colonial Government, receiving such operating in the Pacific. The lead ship occasional aid theretofore in the selection of such officers and men of the “supercarriers” is joining sister ships USS Ronald Reagan and USS from home as may be asked for. Theodore Roosevelt. It is clearly understood that this ship is maintained for the protection Recognizing sailors’ desire to use of the important British as well as Colonial interests that require smartphones at sea, French-based naval defence in the waters of the colony. She will therefore, in time of defense technology company Thales has developed a new shipboard war, be under the command of the Senior Naval Officer on the station, information distribution system who, in the event of any serious emergency, will not be precluded from dubbed COMTICS. COMTICS is a withdrawing her for a time from the immediate waters of the Colony, multimedia communication device in the case the general safety should, in his judgement, make such a resembling a smartphone that allows temporary withdrawal absolutely necessary. It is, of course naval personnel permanent shipboard understood that such an emergency should be a serious one, and that mobility and connectivity with all due regard should be had to the wishes of the colony. types of military radios, all without compromising security. Further, a wooden line of battleship, with steam power, will be selected and given to the colony, with such masts, yards and necessary stores The Government will provide an as have been specially appropriated to her; and such additional stores, additional $31 million to support work, and c. provided as may be needed, to be paid for by the Colony. veterans’ mental health as part of its response to the Senate Inquiry into (The letter continues by stating that the Colony will man, veterans’ suicide. As the Prime Minister has said, we best honour the maintain this ship etc., (the Nelson) and the graving dock at diggers of 1917 by ensuring our Williamstown will be completed and available to RN ships as veterans in 2017 receive the support required.) they need and deserve. Vernon accepted the proposals smartly, but apparently in Ministerial statement in response to principle only the design for the ship 'for the defence of Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee's Report on the Inquiry Melbourne harbour' by the navy's Chief Constructor, EJ Reed, into suicide by veterans and ex- was approved by Their Lordships in July 1867, and Major service personnel Charles Pasley RE on behalf of the Victorian government, soon US Navy destroyer USS John S. after. Tenders were called, a builder selected, and finally a start McCain has developed a crack in her was made on the ship in September 1867. hull while being transported to Japan aboard the heavy lift transport vessel HMVS CERBERUS MV Treasure.. A Ship is born: 'The Cerberus, which is intended for Melbourne The Australian Defence Force will Service, will be launched this afternoon, at half past four, when expand its assistance to the Armed doubtless a great number of people will be present to witness the Forces of the Philippines to strengthen its long-term ability to interesting ceremony'. Daily Chronicle, Newcastle UK December 1st combat terrorist threats and prevent 1868. the spread of Daesh to our region. 'This afternoon will be launched from the iron ship building yard of The world’s oldest commissioned Messrs C.M. Palmer and Co (Limited) Jarrow, the first armour-plated warship afloat got underway for the first time in three years as the USS vessel on the turret principle, built on the Tyne. It will be remembered Constitution got underway from the that about 15 months ago, it was announced in the columns of the ship’s berth in Charlestown, Chronicle that Messrs Palmer and Co had succeeded in obtaining a Massachusetts, on Oct 20, in contract from the Admiralty’. Navy News Melbourne No. 71/19. commemoration of the ship’s launching 220 years ago and the U.S. It was an era of experiment in Naval Construction, the day of Navy’s 242nd birthday. the traditional iron clad, strongly influenced by the success of HMAS Newcastle has conducted the the turret ship in the American Civil War, notably in the Battle Royal Australian Navy’s first of Hampton Roads. Following this pattern, E J Reed designed a simultaneous operations of manned medium size turret ship to carry four 18-ton muzzle loading and unmanned aircraft during its guns.
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