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2 Tki Navy January, 1952. and tensions to the people than exist now. "Just as we have learned by then to live in peace NEW BRITISH JET FIGHTER FASTEST on our own planet, we may find ourselves involved IN WORLD. not only in rivalries of conquest for other planets but also in conflict with living creatures in different With its removal from the secret list shortly worlds." before it was demonstrated at the Farnborough Thus, all too swiftly for the layman's comprehen- Show of the Society of British Aircraft Constructors, sion, we move into the era of space exploration and the twin jet engine Supcrmarine 508 was claimed inter-planet travel. Philosophers, biologists, and to be the fastest and most powerful naval fighter economists all come within the research sphere of aircraft in the world. Messrs. Vickers-Armstrongs, the ultimate effect of these amazing aeronautical the makers, announced that the aircraft made its advances. It would be interesting, and probably maiden flight at the Royal Air Force Station, of great value, to have their opinions on the matter. Boscombe Down, Wiltshire, on August 13th, 1951, As for the public, what instruction is it being with Lieutenant-Commander H J. Lithgow, the given in these matters? Practically nothing at all. Supcrmarine chief test pilot at the controls. As pointed out in our editorial of December, this This bears out our contention, as stated by us in is perhaps the most pressing educational problem "The Navy's" editorial for August, 1951, that of our time. The conclusion to be reached is fairly "there can be little wrong with aircraft engine obvious. Every man and woman, in civil life or in development" in Britain. And even greater pos- the Services, must be taught the facts and effects sibilities are potentially inherent in the work that of Science as they apply to the daily life of the is still on the British secret list. community as a whole. The new naval fighter aircraft is equipped with Only by a general recognition of this fact can the two Rolls-Royce Avon jet engines, and is designed permanent human values be adequately understood for carrior-borne operations. Its performance and and adjusted in terms appropriate to a scientific age. equipment cannot as yet be disclosed. In spite of its high performance, the landing speed has been SURVIVAL AT SEA TRIALS. kept down within the requirements for carrier- borne operations by the use of special life devices To continue a scries of trials concerned with on its thin wings. scopes, and radio receivers, for the study of cosmic ..nti-sea sickness drugs, arrangements were recently Vol. 16. January, 1952. No. I rays, ultra-violet sunlight, and extra-terrestrial radio made in Britain for 150 soldiers to take part in waves in outer space, above the disturbing and experiments in the Portobello Bathing Pixil, Edin- DRY DOCK HYGIENE. blanketing influences of the earth's atmosphere." burgh, where an artificial wave-making machine has THE COMING ERA OF SPACE-SHIPS The statement quoted above was made as recently been installed. Waves can be made to rise more Toilet facilities in industrial dockyards in Britain AND SATELLITES. as July of last year. That Dr. Martyn gave no than three feet in height. and abroad have long been the subject of criticism time-limit to the attainment of these advances was The soldiers, all volunteers, were given various —and justifiably so. The conditions of many of certainly not due to any lack of opinion on the ..nti-vomiting drugs and placed in rubber life floats, these crude places are vile and almost beyond belief, "We arc on the verge of an era in which man- matter. Just what that time-limit may be, plus a careful record being made of their reactions. and arc presumably based on hygienic values of an made structures will project themselves intu space." the effect of it all on the social conditions of the Soldiers were chosen as subjects in these trials earlier century. The man who wrote those words, Dr. D. F. because they are less likely to be accustomed to the human race, comes now, however, from America. In self defence, therefore, some shipmasters have Martyn, is Chief Scientist of the Radio Research motion of the sea than sailors. The experiments Major Alexander dc Seversky, the prominent been considering alternative arrangements. Board of the Commonwealth Scientific and Indus- U.S. aeronautical engineer and inventor, said in were continued for about a fortnight. One of these is a galvanised funnel connecting trial Research Organisation—so he knows what he New York on December 8th last lhat within fifty The trials were devised by the Survival at Sea with a galvanised pipe slung just under the W.C. is talking about years atomic space-ships will be flying from the Sub-Committee of the Royal Naval Personnel discharge on the ship's side. This pipe leads down "Some of these structures," he continued, "will earth to the moon. He gave the travelling time Research Committee. The Chairman of this Sub- to the docl. bottom, through the grating and into be controlled so that they settle into a circular or for the journey as three and half hours. Committee, Professor R. A. McCane, and Dr. E. the dock seepage sump or well, which is invariably elliptical orbit girdling the earth; when so settled, Major de Seversky is one of a panel of American M. Glaser, both of the Department of Experimental pumped out into the stream two or three times a each 'earth satellite" will travel permanently in its scientists at Buffalo University which is engaged on Medicine, Cambridge, were in charge of the trials. day. As the normal drainage pumped out of the orbit without further attention. Such satellites a prediction of the advances science and technology When these particular experiments ended at dock contains paint, waste, bits of wood and other will carry no passengers or human pilots. They will make in the next fifty years: so he, too, should Edinburgh on October 6th, a spokesman of the refuse, the additional removal of W.C. and wash- will be guided into their orbits by radio signals know what he is talking about. Research Committee said it was hoped to produce sent from the earth. Others will probably be made basin discharge should not present any undue He added that sea and land transport would be a drug which would be 95 per cent, successful in to travel to the moon and the nearer planets such difficulty. largely discarded when efficient atomic-powered preventing seasickness. The tests were carried as Mars and Venus, to be left in orbits circling propulsion was devised. through at Portobello open-air swimming pool, In any case, no one, surely, is going to object to these bodies." vhich is equipped with wave-making apparatus, and so necessary an alternative precaution. Meantime, But if Major de Seversky was optimistic with These satellites, when such flights are ultimately the subjects were the 150 soldiers who had volun- seafarers in general would like to see a steady im- regard to the advances of science, he was far from undertaken, he went on to explain, will probably teered to ride the waves in large rubber dinghies. provement in the permanent sanitary arrangements being so in his estimate of the effect such advances have an additional role as refuelling bases for such This thought for the comfort and welfare of in industrial dockyards. After all, the interests of would have on the social conditions of man. Space flights. Certainly, they will carry many scientific Naval personnel is greatly to be commended. health demand such improvements. instruments, such as cosmic ray detectors, spectro- ships, he said, would bring even bigger problems Tli Navy January, 1952. 5 4 H.M.S. "EAGLE" JOINS THE FLEET TATTERSALL'S BIRT & COMPANY IN THIS ARTICLE WE ARE GIVEN THE LATEST DETAILS OF 5/- CASH CONSULTATIONS THE LARGEST BRITISH AIRCRAFT CARRIER AFLOAT AND £10,000 FIRST PRIZE PLANS ATTENDANT UPON THE SHIP JOINING THE FLEET. Drawn every few days (PTY.) LIMITED and H.M.S. "Eagle," the largest photographers and movie camera- H.M.S. "Eagle", the twenty- British aircraft carrier afloat, is men were to be invited to go to first ship of her name to serve 10/- CASH CONSULTATIONS completing builder's trials and sea in her during that day's trials. in the Royal Navy, was I lunched £25,000 FIRST PRIZE 4 Bridge Street, will have hoisted the White En- All these arrangements, it is un- by Her Royal Highness the Prin- Drawn every few weeks. sign at sea by the time this article derstood, have since been con- cess Elizabeth on March 19, 1946. P.O. Box 544, G.P.O. goes to press. cluded according to programme. She took 4? seconds to settle in With the hoisting of the En- Naval trials continued during the water after the Princess Postage on tickets and results to be added. Telephone: BO 529 sign and the provisional accept- December and will extend into crashed a bottle against her bow. (15 lines) ance of the ship by the Com- the early part of 1952, and it Later at a luncheon given by the The Address . . . Sydney, N.S.W. manding Officer (Captain G. Wil- will not be before the (English) directors of Messrs. Harland Gr" ioughby, R.N.) from the build- Spring of 1952 (probably between Wolff, Her Royal Highness said GEO. ADAMS (TATTERSALL) HOBART Also at ers, Messrs. Harland if Wolff, March and May) that she will that the last ship to bear the name Belfast, the carrier will join the embark her Air Squadrons, "Eagle", originally built and lat- 64 EAGLE STREET. Navy but it will be many months which will include Attacker jet er converted to an aircraft carrier, before she is fully manned and fighters. Flying training, gunner)' did much to build the reputation When s hips of the Novy completely operational. and other practices will follow and of naval aviation. In August. it is at present envisaged that 1942, this great and gallant ship "heave to" this rope BRISBANE. The programme provides that holds fast! the ship will go to sea from Bel- the aircraft carrier will join the was sunk in the Mediterranean fast with a naval steaming party home Fleet for operational ser- but her spirit had risen again in nf 750 officers and men on board vice in June next. the new "Eagle." .ind in Bangor Bay, Northern Ire- Musgrave Cold Stores: land, the Captain and Officers will DETAILS OF THE SHIP'S CONSTRUCTION STANLEY STREET. give an "At Home" to those con- cerned with the building of the Details given of the ship's con- ranged deep down in the ship SOUTH BRISBANE ship since she was laid down on struction illustrate the formidabil- under protection. Heavy bombs • October 24. 1942, as part of the ity of the "Eagle's" striking pow- will be raised by special lifts to er and efficiency. From the flight ANCHOR BRAND Navy's wartime construction pro- the "bombing-up" positions. Air- gramme. She was then named deck of the ship the largest and craft torpedoes will be stowed in heaviest aircraft of the Royal r.'.cks in special workshops where SHIPPING "Audacious." but on January 21, 1946, she was re-named "Eagle." Navy will be able to operate, and their precision mechanisms can and her spacious hangars will accom- receive proper attention. After disembarking guests at- modate several Squadrons of air- In the construction of the hull GENERAL AGENTS. tending the "At Home" the craft and a large number of spec- elcctric welding has been used on "Eagle" will. sail for Devonport • ially fitted stores and workshops. an unprecedented scale and a con- ind was expected to reach this, These have been arranged so that siderable amount of special re- her home port, on November 5. every spare part for servicing and search has been carried out in That same day the ship was to maintaining aircraft will be close this connection. It can be said CARGO AND PASSENGER begin embarking stores, provi- at hand. High speed lifts of the that the ship embodies the great- sions, ammunition and fuel, and size of tennis courts will transport est application of electric welding SERVICES TO UNITED was then to carry out preliminary In this land of ours—in this Australia of kindliness, of friendship, aircraft from the hangars to the to shipbuilding so far developed. harbour tests and inspections un- of good humoured tolerance . . . perhaps no beverage is more at KINGDOM, CONTINENT. flight deck. X-Ray tests of welds carried out home than good Australian beer. For beer is a drink Australians til November 15 after which she Aviation fuel will be stored in at intervals as the ship was built AMERICA AND THE like. It is a part of pleasant living, of good fellowship, of sensible was to sail for the Clyde. several groups of tanks dispersed and led to a progressive improve- moderation. Aud our right to enjoy it . . . this too is a part of EAST. From there between November through the ship and elaborate ment in technique. The exten- our Australian heritage of personal freedom. • 16 and 26 she was to proceed to safety arrangements arc fitted so sive adoption of welding has led sea for machinery and manoeuvr- that a minimum of risk is taken to a lighter and stronger struc- Beer Ms Good For You ability trials and on November when handling the large quant ture but there are many parts FULL PARTICULARS 21, in the Clyde area, the Press ities of fuel required to fill and where the highest quality riveted Enjoy It! FURNISHED ON was to have their first official pre- refill the tanks of the aircraft dur work is still essential. APPLICATION. view of the ship. Representatives ing a busy flying period. 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January, 1952. 1 6 Tit damage was studied and wherever The electrical generating plant, The refrigerated storage is larg- existing practice was shown in which includes both turbo-driven er than that in any previous war- SMOKE ELIMINATION AT SEA this ultimate test to be capable of and diesel-driven units, is dispers- ship. The offices provided to ad- improvement the change was em- ed and arranged so that heavy minister the complicated activi- ADAPTED FROM AN ARTICLE BY A. GRAHAM THOMSON bodied in ships still being built. damage will not incapacitate all ties of the crew would together IN THE "MERCHANT NAVY JOURNAL" It is well known that much ex- the units. When in full opera- fill a small Town Hall and will perience in aircraft carrier war- tion a small town could be sup- carry out functions broadly sim- The problem of atmospheric lem was investigated from various and close's the valve, thereby fare was gained in the Mediter- plied by the ship's generators. ilar to those of a civic authority. pollution does not exist at sea, so angles. shutting off the additional air ranean and Pacific campaigns The "Eagle," is, in effect, a Radar and Wireless Telegraphy that during normal peacetime op- Arrangements were made for supply. and the Admiralty designers and small town of more than 2,000 in- are fitted on a scale capablc of eration the emission of excessive every ship making excessive Natural draught furnaces are builders combined to apply each habitants (her peacetime compli- keeping track of and communi- smoke from the funnels of ships smoke during the Atlantic cross- lesson to the "Eagle", even if tem- ment will be 2,000 officers and cating with all the ship's aircraft not standardised to the same ex- may possibly often be regarded ing to be reported by wireless, so porary slowing down became ne- men) and will contain the neces- when far out of sight, and her tent, but suitable designs incor- with apparent indifference. Never- that the Fuel Research Station in cessary. sities and amenities for this popu armament includes sixteen 4.5 porating the same principles were theless, tests carried out by the Britain could be informed immed- developed and are available to A four shaft arrangement of lation to live in arctic or tropical inch guns in twin turrets Ind Fuel Research Station of the De- iately. On arrival of the offend- geared turbine machinery of the climates. The forced ventilation numerous multiple 40 m m. Botors cover the full range of standard partment of Scientific and Indus- ing vessel at a British port, a latest type will give this fine h p system will be unique in its scope guns. sizes of furnaces. trial Research (of Great Britain) member of the staff of the Fuel a high speed and will ensure that and complication and many spaces So successful were the smoke The ship has an overall length have shown conclusively that, Research Station went on board degree of special mobility requir- will be capable of receiving coo!- eliminators that, after extensive of SO? feet 9 inches and a beam when heavy smoke is emitted, to collect samples of the coal ed by an aircraft carricr. Several cd or warmed air as the climate trials, the Admiralty had them of 112 feet 9 inches. boiler efficiency decreases by over used when the smoke was made, thousand tons of oil fuel will be requires. Large dining halls will fitted to all ocean-going ships ar- 10 per cent. This, in view of the and also to obtain details of the stored in the tanks distributed be supplied from galleys contain- riving at British or overseas high cost of coal, represents an method of firing and the equip- throughout the length and ing the most up-to-date machinery ports, irrespective of nationality. appreciable wastage of fuel and ment used. From the data thus breadth of the ship. A large and cooking equipment and the The average boiler efficiency with- a consequent increase in operat- obtained the British Ministry of evaporating and distilling plant mess decks will be furnished out the smoke eliminators was ing costs. From the economic War Transport were able to re- will supply the fresh water, ap- with settees, tubular steel tables 66.8 per cent. By fitting the standpoint, therefore, smoke is a duce the smoke hazard by alter- proaching 200 tons daily, requir- and chairs in place of the old smoke eliminators it was increas- form of extravagance which is ing the specifications for bunker ed for washing and cooking. broadside mess tables and stools. ed to 70.7 per cent., representing particularly undesirable at a time coals. Improvements were also a saving of about 5} per cent, of when the carrier trade is faced effected by variations in firing fuel for the same amount of with the prospect of increasing methods and by instructing stok- steam. With a ship using 30 tons competition from other countries, ers in the elementary principles of coal per day of the coal used and with the menace of war. of combustion. in the trials, this would represent By far the most effective ap- a saving of about IJ tons of coal Of practical interest to ship proach to the problem, however, per day. owners is a simple and inexpen- was the installation of smoke After the war the British Ad sive smoke eliminator developed eliminators designed to burn the miralty hoped that the installation by the Fuels Research Station, are the smoke-producing vapours in the of smoke eliminators would be which has been tested with scien- actual furnaces through the addi- continued on a voluntary basis for tific accuracy under conditions THAT MAKE SufNUt* £om|l4 SO 6001? tion of secondary air. economic reasons. These devices approximating as closely as pos- were not fitted during the war sible to those actually encounter- The smoke eliminators are de- to coastwise shipping, so that There's the tungsten filament, for instance—born in heat as ed at sea. Developed originally signed to supply the additional air high as 6.000 F.. under pressure up to 3.000 lbs. per square there are still many vessels which to overcome the danger to con- required at the start of the firing inch: argon clear gas to fill the bowl, with endurable plastic may be wasting valuable coal and voys of detection from smoke cycle. This is achieved by means cement that seals the glass rigidly and permanently to it» of two streamlined nozzles cast increasing their fuel bill through metal stem and cap. And, because of emission, this device has proved the emission of excessive smoke. these high-grade materals. coupled capable of saving a hundred- in the top air baffle through with expert Australian workmanship, weight or more of coal in every which the secondary air is intro- The very small capital outlay you get in Siemens Lamps units of ton of coal consumed. duced in such a manner that it is involved in equipping furnaces illumination that are unexcelled for intimately mixed with the volatile with smoke eliminators may be ex- service and long life. At the time of the Battle of matter. The flow of air through pected, however, to yield hand- the Atlantic the Fuel Research the nozzles is controlled by a flap some dividends by decreasing fuel Station was asked by the Admir- valve operated by the fireman. consumption, at the same timt A I S I I ILL I A II alty to explore the possibility of When he shuts the furnace door releasing a considerable tonnage reducing the amount of black after tiring or raking, the fireman of coal for the British export ELECTRIC LAMPS smoke emitted from the funnels pulls out a handle which opens trade. of some merchant ships. In close the flap-valve and admits the ad- Can owners of coal-fired merch- SIEMENS (AUSTRALIA) LIMITED co-operation with the British Ad- ditional air. After the evolution ant ships afford to overlook the miralty, the Ministry of War of volatiles has abated, as shown potential economies resulting Transport and many organisations by a smoke indicator fitted in the from the installation of these effi- and commercial firms, the prob- uptake, he pushes in the handle cient and inexpensive gadgets?

TIM Navy i January, 1942. » FIVE CENTURIES OF DEAD RECKONING BY PROFESSOR E. R. G. TAYLOR (With acknowledgments to the "Journal of the Institute of Navigation")

In course of reading this ar- ed, provided they could make a "some doo use this, which as I ticle, it must ever he remembered correct estimate of the distance take it is very good. They have that prior to about the fourteenth sailed along each leg of the trav- a piece of wood, and a line to century "most English seamen, erse. But this involved knowing veere out over-boordc, with a and all foreign pilots still deter- the speed of the ship, and right small line of a great lengthe which mined the ship's way by pond- down to the mid-eighteenth cen- they make fast at one ende, and ering withal what space she was tury it was still usual to rely on at the other end and middle they able to make with such a winde the master's or the pilot's judg- have a piece of lyne which they and such direction," as a young ment. He knew his ship, and make fast with a small thred to English Jesuit named Stevens put what she could do carrying such stand lyke unto a crow-foote, for it, when trying to explain to his and such sail, under a fresh or a this purpose that it should drive father how the Portuguese ship light breeze, with the wind on the asternc as fast as the shippe doth in which he was travelling to Goa poop or on the quarter, and so on. go away from it, always having in 1579 was navigated." He had a rule of thumb for esti- the line so ready that it goeth out With the Great Age of Dis- mating leeway, and would help as fast as the ship goeth. In the covery, initiated by the Portu- himself at most by noting the like manner they have either a guese, long ocean voyages were movement of foam alongside, or minute of an hour glass, or else begun which required observa- by throwing a chip overboard and a knowne parte of an houre by tions of latitude to check the D R. timing its passage between two some number of woordes, or such position, and latitudes began to bolt-heads on the ship's side. As other lyke, so that the lyne being be marked in the margin of the to the log line, Richard Norwood, vereed out and stopped just with portulan chart. Corresponding when discussing it in his Sea- that tyme that the glass is out, tables were eventually prepared man's Practice in 16J7, declared or the number of words spoken by the Jewish mathematicians re- that many sailors were either so which done they hale in the sponsible for working out new cocksure of their judgment that logge or piece of wood again, and navigational methods. among they disdained to use it, or were looke how many fathoms the ship them The Table of Leagues, shamed out of doing so because hath gone in that time." which set out the distances to be they feared to proclaim themselves So far there was no question sailed along each rhumb in order "young seamen", that is to say in- of knotting the line, and the speed to raise or depress the pole one experienced pilots. had to be worked out arithmeti- degree, together with the corre- Who invented the log line we cally, but it appears that the pub- sponding easting or westing (de- do not know, except that he was licity that Bourne gave the log parture). The degree of the mer- certainly an Englishman. The caused more sailors to try it; and idian was taken as 17} leagues device makes its first appearance not always satisfactorily, for in a of 4 miles, and as an example we very unobtrusively in William later edition of the Regiment of Bourne's Regiment of the Sea, the Sea he adds some practical AbU Saaman S. D. Coopar, of H.MAS. "lafaan". .m.rging from Hi. harbour attar boing under water (or 30 mi«u»w. H. can extract the following figures is taking part in a shallow water diving court* at H.M.A.S. "Ruihcuttor'. from the table as set out in the written about 1573. The author hints, in particular, that the mark Couri.iy "S.M.H. oldest surviving Portuguese nav- himself was a gunner and there- on the line at which counting be- igating manual: "Item per 6 fore not a directly interested gins should be two or three fath- quartas releva per grao 46 legoas party, but living at Gravesend oms from the billet (later it was ;iscd, including ground-up shells line had been knotted in such a speed became known as the knot e mea." That is to say that sail- and being interested in "inven- much more than this), so that the ind particles of metal, which were way as to eliminate arithmetical To Gunter and to Norwood ing along the 6th rhumb the dis- tions and devices" of a mechani- log floated well clear of the dead bought to run more smoothly; calculation and this improvement belongs the credit of introducing tance to raise a degree is 46} cal sort he noticed what was go- water or eddies at the stern. He ind Emery Molyncux, the com- probably took place by the turn the sea mile, a unit independent leagues, and the corresponding ing on. It is he who tells us that observes that the use of a form nass and globe maker, gained a of the century, for when Edmund of the statute mile and the older easting 42} leagues. The later Humfrey Cole, the famous con- of words is preferable to the reputation for making reliable Gunter. the mathematician, and Italian mile (of 5,000 ft.), and Spanish Manuals substituted 16$ temporary instrument maker, had minute glass, and should be re- -'lasses. Richard Norwood, a prominent dependent only upon an increas- leagues as the measure of a de- invented a gadget to record the peated two or three times if the In 1599, the 1587 edition of teacher of navigation, came to dis ingly refined measure of the de- gree, and the still later English ship's way. But this was not a ship is moving slowly. No doubt Bourne's hook was translated into cuss the matter twenty or thirty gree. Manuals 60 miles, the value used log, it was a sort of "way-wiser" the first minute (and later half- Hutch and so our neighbours years later the stereotyped prac- But the eighteenth century by cartographers. which actually clocked up the minute) glasses were not accur- icarncd to use the log, but Four- tice was to knot the line every 7 was to sec many changes in navi- •iier in his great work on hydro- Seamen of four or five cen- mileage when trailed in the water ately made, for such small divi- fathoms and run it out for JO gational methods: nautical train- graphy published in 164} still turies ago found no difficulty in behind the ship. sions of time had hitherto hardly seconds. In this way every knot ing improved, time became pre- -peaks of it as a specifically Eng- working out the daily course As for the true log, "to know been considered. Several mater- run represented approximately cise, D. R. assumed its modem lish instrument. By his day the made good and the position reach- the ship's way," says Bourne, ials besides fine sand began to be a mile an hour and the unit of shape.

January. 1*52. to T1» Navy the "Vanguard" and the Royal "Vanguard" Ta Be British Hama Artillery since Commodore (then Captain) G. V. Gladstone, R.N., Flaat Flagship who was in command of the ship on St. Barbara's Day, 1949, sug- After four months as Flagship The present Flagship of the gested a Fellowship between the of the Training Squadron, H.M.S. Home Fleet, H.M.S. "Indomit- ship and the Royal Artillery. "Vanguard" sailed from Portland able," will remain in commission Since then there have been many in September and has since been in the Fleet. In September she visits to H.M.S. "Vanguard" by taken in hand for a refit at Dev- was at Invergordon, with nearly officers and other ranks of the onport. 30 other ships of the Fleet, Royal Regiment, some of whom On completion of this refit it is carrying out her autumn training have lived on board and have intended that she shall become programme. In October the Fleet gone to sea in the ship. the Flagship of the British Home sailed for a "Defence of Convoys" At Gibraltar during the Aut- Fleet in the spring of 1952, by exercise in the Atlantic and North umn Cruise of 1950 and the when Admiral Sir George Creasy, Western Approaches, following Spring Cruise of 1951, there was K.C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., M.V.O., which it was intended the ships an exchange of hospitality be- at present serving in the Admir- would sail for Gibraltar for furth- tween the Royal Artillery and the alty as the Vice Chief of the er training. ship, and when the "Vanguard" Naval Staff, will have hoisted his Incidentally, Field Marshal The entered Plymouth Sound on flag as Commander-in-Chief, in Right Honourable the Viscount March 14, 1951, the School of succession to Admiral Sir Philip Alanbrooke, K.G., G.C.B., D.S.O., Coast Artillery mounted a Guard L. Vian, K.C.B.. K.B.E., D.S.O. the Master Gunner of the Royal of Honour on the ramparts of the The Flag Officer Training Artillery, presented a Royal Ar- Royal Citadel. Squadron, Rear-Admiral R. M. tillery Standard to H.M.S. "Van- There are in the Wardroom of Dick, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.C., has guard" while the battleship was H.M.S. "Vanguard" a plaque transferred his flag to H M.S. in Portland Harbour on Septemb- and other trophies presented by "Indefatigable". Later the "Inde- er 14. the Royal Artillery and there has fatigable" will be joined in the This ceremony was a further been a long standing arrangement Training Squadron by H.M.S. contribution of the friendly lia- that the Master Gunner should "Implacable." ison which has existed between present a Standard to the ship. Captain D. H. Hall-Thompson, TK. Lieutenant-Governor. the Hon. K. W. Str..(, taking the salute from tk. steps of th« Town H.ll during a march through th. city by members of th. craw of the visiting British aircraft carri.r, "Glory." prior to h.r departure from Sydney. R.N., the Comamnding Officer, accepted the standard on behalf POOLE & STEEL LTD. of the ship's Company, and called THE FAMOUS "CALLIOPE" ENDS HER DAYS for three cheers for Lord Alan- brooke, who was given a 19-gun Many a warship has been sur- by inch forward to the open sea. worthy of his great naval ances- salute as he left the ship by barge rendered to the scrapyards. But It took her an hour to advance tors." Incidentally, Admiral Hood after staying three hours. few have left behind the memory half a mile but she got to the was lost in that action in H.M.S. 43 STEPHEN ST., BALMAIN, of a feat of British seamanship to open sea and rode out the hurri- "Invincible" and was awarded R.A.N.'s STRENGTH. equal that of H.M.S. "Calliope", cane. The storm abated on the N.S.W. the K C.B. posthumously. At the end of September last 2,765 tons, built at Portsmouth afternoon of March 17, and, on there were 890 officers and 11,593 towards the end of last century. the following day, the "Calliope" Captain, afterwards Vice-Ad- ratings in the Royal Australian On March 16 and 17, 1889, returned to Apia. miral John C. T. Glossop, who Navy, and 1,220 officers and two American cruisers and a In this connection, it is inter- commanded H.M.A.S. "Sydney" 5,344 ratings in the R.A.N. Re- sloop, a German cruiser and two esting to recall that two midship- when that ship destroyed the Ger- General Engineers, Boilermakers, Shipbuilders, Dredge Builders serves, the Minister for the Navy gunboats, and the "Calliope" lay men on board the "Calliope" at man cruiser "Emden" off Cocos (the Hon. W. McMahon) said in at anchor in Apia Harbour, the time of the hurricane after- Island on November 9, 1914, was Plans, Specifications and Estimates prepared the House of Representatives on Samoa, when there was a hurri- wards became famous names in the other midshipman mentioned for Mining Dredges and Plant of all kinds. October 25. Mr. McMahon ex- cane warning. The warships pre- British Naval history. Referring in this connection, he having Electric Welding and Oxy-Acetylene Work. plained that the figures for the pared to ride out the storm in to one of them in his despatch been lent from H.M.S. "Or- R.A.N, excluded Reservists and harbour but in rapid succession on the Battle of Jutland, Sir lando", at that time flagship of National Service trainees. the German and American ships David Bcatty wrote this: "I or- the Australian squadron. piled up on the reefs, and the dered them (the Third Battli The "Calliope's" escape from "Calliope" was the only ship to Cruiser Squadron) to take action Telegrami: A Bombay dredger has recov Apia Harbour was a feat in sea- ercd another bar of gold from the escape. ahead, which was carried .out manship which captured public H.M. " Calliope" (Captain m a g n i ficcntly. Rear - Admiral imagination and a place in mari- "POOLSTEEL," BALMAIN, NAW. bottom of the harbour, making 22 out of the 28 lost in the 1944 Henry C. Kane), with steam up, Hood leading his squadron into time history that will never be explosion. got under way and fought inch action in a most inspiring manner. dimmed.

January, I9S2. 12 TIm Navy OVERLOADING. A heavy fine imposed by Brit- MARITIME NEWS OF THE ish magistrates upon the master of a tanker for arriving in the United Kingdom with a draft LOWNDES which showed the vessel had been overladen on passage, indicates the care which shipmasters must exercise in order to make certain WORLD that the cargo lifted is not more From our Correspondents in than that allowed by the statutory RUM load line regulations. LONDON and NEW YORK In tankers, particularly where By cargoes may be loaded at a rate of 1,000 tons an hour, mathemat- AIR MAIL RENOWNED THROUGHOUT THE WORLD ical precision is needed to avoid either over or under loading, yet the determining of a ship's draft LEAKY YACHT CAUSES 1. The bow of the vessel tore a feet high off Wilson's Promon- by visual means can hardly be de- NINE DEATHS. V-shaped wedge 25 feet deep into tory. The yacht lost quite a lot Agents: scribed as a work of similar pre- the wharf, and wrecked cargo A message from New York on of gear. It had come to contest cision, and having regard to the sheds. She was brought to the December 1 told of the picking the Hobart-Sydney yacht race, conditions under which tankers wharf by tugs. No one was in- up by a U.S. Navy minesweeper the only South Australian entrant. HARBOTTLE BROWN & CO. are loaded it must be a matter for jured, and although she was hol- off the South Carolina coast of a congratulation that cases of over- ed, the "Daylcsford" did not take- CARGO OF SODA NITRATE small boat containing a dead man PTY. LTD. loading are so rare. in any water. CATCHES FIRE. SYDNEY. In calculating the cargo that and his wife, their dying 12- While wharfies were rescuing an may be lifted, the governing fac- year-old son, and an exhausted SEA MONSTERS BATTLE. injured man from the hold of the Negro who is believed to be the tors are, of course, the zones Several hundred people at Dee steamer "Cape Verde" at Vic- through which the vessel has to sole survivor of a sea disaster toria Dock, Melbourne, on the that claimed nine lives. The sur- Why beach, Sydney, on Novem- pass, the cardinal rule being that ber 10 watchcd a half-hour battle night of November 30, the ship's a vessel must not be deeper than vivor was Gustav Emanuel Fraz- cargo of soda nitrate caught fire. ler, engineer of the foundered between a whale and a shark. her appropriate marks when she The whale, about thirty feet long, Eight men—two of them carry- enters a prescribed zone. yacht, "Amberthe". Frazicr told ing their injured workmate— THE FARMERS' & GRAZIERS' his rescuers that the "Amberthe", appeared a mile off-shore and The regulations regarding these scrambled up to safety from the with 10 persons aboard, sprang a watchers saw the fin of a huge zones may be a little puzzling at hold a mere few moments before leak and sank about a day and a shark cutting through the water CO OPERATIVE GRAIN INSURANCE first, and many before this have a dull explosion shook the ship. half after it sailed from a North around the whale. The whale often been concerned to know Flames 50 feet high leapt into the Carolina port. Only five were thrashed its tail and twisted and mi AGENCY COMPANY LTD. whether "Winter North Atlan air. More than 30 firemen from able to get into the lifeboat be- turned in its efforts to evade its tic" marks applied to vessels en- the Fire Brigades and several on- fore the yacht sank; the others, attacker. Several times the shark 23-25 MACQUARIE PLACE, SYDNEY gaged within the area but not lookers were overcome by fumes, apparently, were drowned. Fraz- leapt out of the water on to the specifically proceeding across the but the fire was brought under icr said that those who got in the whale's back. Some Dec Why North Atlantic Ocean, north of control. The "Cape Verde," boat with him were Captain Lut- Surf Club members went out in a latitude 36 degrees north. If, for 7,000 tons, came from Chile. trell, of Washington, D C., Mrs. surfboat to get a closer view, but instance, his ship loaded in the INSURANCE Luttrell, their son, and the when they got within 100 yards West Indies for New York, would GREAT NEW CANADIAN yacht's navigator. The Negro of the whale the shark disappear- IMPORTANT.—Don't neglect to insure all your assets to the "Winter" or "Winter North INLAND WATERWAY. •ngineer thought the navigator ed. The whale, which did not their full value against all possible contingencies. Failure to do Atlantic" marks apply? appear to he badly hurt, then Work has been planned, and is so may involve you in serious financial loss. All classes of lumped overboard, but he docs expected to start soon, on what business written (except Life) at lowest current rates. The official view is that the not remember when. The mes- swam out to sea. Insurance experts at your service. will be the world's longest water- "Winter North Atlantic" mark- sage said that Frazicr was suffer- way, along which ocean-going ings only apply to vessels engag- ing from shock and severe ex- YACHT BATTLES 80 CORRECT, PROMPT, AND SATISFACTORY CLAIM ships will be able to proceed ed on a voyage across the Atlan- haustion, but was expected to re- M.P.H. WIND. 2,650 miles into the very middle SETTLEMENTS tic. There can be no question cover. The 52-foot schooner "Pavana" of the American continent. In of these markings applying on a arrived in Sydney Harbour from announcing this the Canadian voyage from the West Indies to SHIP STRIKES WHARF. Adelaide on December 13 after Government said early in De- New York nor for any ship which ENQUIRIES OF ANY KIND ARE INVITED The British freighter "Dayles- battling against heavy seas and cember that it intended to go loads south of 36 degrees North l»rd" caused about £2,000 dam- gale force winds. A crew mem- ahead with the 50-year-old plan even though these vessels pass age while berthing at Darling ber said the yacht encountered to link the St. Lawrence with the through Zone 1. Harbour, Sydney, on December 80 m.p.h. wind and waves 40 Great Lakes, despite the contin-

-J.nu.ry, 1912. 14 Tfca Navy II ued refusal of the United States don," which lost it crew on reach- company to establish a large fish- Congress to share the cost of the ing Newcastle a fortnight before, ing and pearling base on Caitier project( estimated at I,'00 million had 6,000 tons of Queensland and Ashmore Islands, about 500 dollars. More than 7 million tons coal aboard for Melbourne. The miles north-west of Darwin. The of concrete and 150,000 tons of cargo began to heat a few days Administrator of the Northern steel will be required. A labour before and burst into (lames sud- Territory, Mr. F. Wise, said that force of upwards of 65,000 men denly. The firemen controlled the company's application was be- will be engaged. Engineers plan the flames after a fight of several ing given careful consideration to complete the work in seven hours duration. It was the first because the islands were of years. case for many years of bringing strategic importance. coal to Newcastle. WINDJAMMER AGAIN AT US. FREIGHTER AGROUND. SEA. JAP. WHALING FLEETS A message from Manila (Phil- GOES SOUTH. ippine Islands) on November 12, The 4i-years-old German built reported that the United States sailing ship "Pamir." formerly on More than 40 whaling ships freighter "Edward Hurley," with the grain run between Australia sailed south down the eastern grain for India, was aground on and England, made a trial run coasts of Australia during the a reef off Palawan Islands, and from Kiel (Germany) on De- month of November, bound for cember 16. The trial was for a the Antarctic whaling grounds. that tugs had had to be sent to 23,700-mile voyage around the These ships left Honshu Island help refloat her. about the end of October to take world, which will take the "Pam- SHIP'S DASH TO SAVE up positions for the whale hunt- ir" from Germany to Rio dc Jan- SEAMAN'S EYE. ing season which opened on Jan- eiro with a cargo of cement: from The British freighter "Harpaly there with timber to Australia: uary 2. A second fleet of more than 20 ships left Japan a month pus" steamed into Sydney Har then back to Europe with a cargo hour on November 23, 150 miles of corn. The "Pamir", which was after the departure of the first fleet. No specific track was map- off her course, to save a seaman's in Sydney some few years ago badly injured eye. The seaman. ped out for the two fleets. Il^ft ™m!mb.r " V r;'"1 1* .quipm.nt in Sydn.y H.rbour. ihippin, . thoriti„ and is well known in Australian Henry Stevens, had his right eye u Neither, it is reported, are they WilmKur.( i„ t.r.Dh„n. I T'LT th. comp.,, - ;„ ,h. H.rbour. L.ft: S.nior S.cond Officr M. R. harbours, is now West Germany's pierced by a flying steel frag- ,1,? " UI,phT W'VK« "><""• • '..ding on th. bridg. amp,,,. Right: Chi.f R.dio Offic.r first sail training ship. She is carrying American or Australian T^HJhannon corr.ct, d.r.ct.on-find.ng .qu.pm.nt in th. wir.l.,, room h. r.c.i,M comp.,, r.'.ding, from th. observers—as on other expedi- ment at sea the day before. The also at present, the world's only "Harpalypus," '.500 tons, was en large ocean-going sailing ship, but tions since the war—to make sure that the international whaling route to Honolulu and Vancouver may soon be joined by the from Melbourne. "Passat", also well-known in Aus- regulations are observed. One Minesweep that Aided Cable Repair can hardly visualise that they will tralia. SERVICE IN SMALL SHIPS Under the auspices of the In- picked up by the electronic be. C. GILES IN NEW GUINEA AREA ternational Mine Clearance Or- search gear in the "Rinaldo". THEY NEEDED WATER. COUNTS IN PRIZE MONEY ganisation. the 4th Minesweeping This method of location, it is CONTRABAND SEIZED. Flotilla led by H.M.S. "Bramble" & SONS A message from Suva, Fiji, re- DISTRIBUTION. thought, enabled the "Rinaldo" (Captain Colin D. Maud, D.S.O., ports that when a ship called at In two raids on ships berthed The Minister for the Navy to buoy the exact position of the O.B.E., R.N.), recently undertook Vanua Vatu in the Lau Group on in Sydney on December 19, Cus- (the Hon. William McMahon) break. a special sweep in which the ob- December 1, it was greeted by toms officials seized contraband announced on December 13 that women and children clamouring drugs, pearls, jewellery and cigar- it had been decided that the per ject was to render safe an area When the buoy was laid, the for water. No rain had fallen on ettes of the value of at least iod served in small ships, as well in which the repair of a broken main force of seven minesweepers • SACK the island for three months and £51,500. Customs men said it was as other ships, in the New Guinea cable was to be carried out. The would, it was expected, make a drinking water had failed 4' days the biggest smuggling attempt for area would count towards the tot cable is Danish owned and forms thorough sweep in a circle with AND before. People had been using months. Most of the goods were al of 180 days' sea-service which part of the communications sys- a radius of a mile from the buoy. • PRODUCE cocoanuts daily for drinking pur- seized aboard the Eastern liner naval personnel were required to tem between Denmark and Influence sweeping was then to poses, involving a heavy econ- "Changte". About 8,000 cigar- have completed to be eligible to France. The break was about 40 be used to make certain that any MERCHANTS, omic loss of copra. The drought ettes were seized on the freighter share in the distribution of prize miles north of the Dutch Naval magnetic mines lying in the vicin- has been prevalent over many "George Grastsos." They were money. Members of the R.A.N, Base at Den Helder. ity were detonated: and it is islands in the FIJI Group. concealed under ventilators and who had served in small ships in The first step in this deep thought that all these operations under lumber on deck. the New Guinei area and had not sweep, intended to clear any have s'nee been completed. When SHIP'S COAL CARGO AFIRE. already applied should make ap stray mines lying on the bottom the mine clearance of the area 541 MALVERN RD., of the sea, was the location of At Newcastle (N.S.W.) early PEARLING BASE UNDER plication to the Director of Navy was brought to a successful con- SOUTH YARRA, the break by equipment owned on the morning of December 14, CONSIDERATION. Accounts, Melbourne. The clos- clusion, it was expected that the MELBOURNE, by the Danish Company and in firemen were called urgently to a It was announced in Darwin ing date for applications was Danish cable ship, "Edouard VICTORIA. stalled in H.M.S. "Rinaldo" fire in the coal cargo of the on November 11, that the Federal March 31, 1952. Mr. McMahon Svenscn", would be able to grap- (Commander J. W. Rylands. freighter "Macedon" lying at the Government is considering a plan said that the amount payable to ple the cable and repair it. It is R.N.). Signal impulses were sent •PHONES: BJ 3253-6. Steelworks Wharf. The "Mace- by a Cairns (North Queensland) each eligible person was £8/6/0. presumed that this also has been out from Denmark and these were completed. January. 1952. It Th* Navy Shtriagt tf Officers for RAN. NEWS OF THE WORLB'S NAVIES The Royal Australian Navy The R.A.N, now has only one THOMAS was so short of officers that if cruiser, three frigates, and four corvettes in use for training. the Navy recruitment was raised ADMIRALTY LISTS mand of Vice-Admiral P. B. R. she is longer and has a smaller Commodore Buchanan, who is ROBINSON I 50 per cent, the men could not "LITTLE SHIPS" W. William-Powlett, C.B., C.B.E., beam than M.T.B.5701, which he properly trained, said Commo- also chairman of a cadet officer D.S.O., carried out joint man- The British Admiralty has be- was launched during August at dore H. J. Buchanan on No- selection committee, began on oeuvres in the Aegean with ships gun listing the privately-owned the yard of Messrs. J. S. White SON PTY. LTD. vember 25. November 26 examining 13-year- of the Royal Hellenic Navy. The little ships of Britain," likely to & Co., Ltd., of Cowes, and which Commodore Buchanan, who is old New South Wales applicants exercises, under Greek command, is 120 feet in length and 25 feet be of service to the Navy in event Commodore Superintendent of who have applied to attend Flind- was watched by King Paul of in beam. The builders of the hull of war. The names and descrip- Training at Flinders Naval Depot, ers Training College this Janu- Greece from the Greek flagship of M.T.B.5720 wil also be respon- tions of the ships will go on to a Crib Point, Victoria, said that the ary. "Panther". The two forces prac- sible for installing her main ma- I'crmanent Admiralty register, shortage of officers was caused He said that the New South ticed submarine and convoy evo- chinery. FLOUR MILL AND along with the names, addresses through a short-sighted policy in Wales applicants were the only lutions, defence against air at- ind telephone numbers of the WOOD-WORKING the depression yeais, when the remaining applicants from the tacks and harbour defence in Suda HELICOPTER FLIES FROM owners. This is the second time number of trainee officers was Commonwealth to be examined. Bay, Crete. The Royal Hellenic GOSPORT TO ISLAND OF the register of "little ships" has ENGINEERS, drastically reduced. Examination of applicants from Air Force co-operated. been prepared. The first was in GUERNSEY. At the moment a 50 per cent, other States had been completed. 1940, when British troops were Escorted by a Viking aircraft rise in recruitment would necessi- In all, 28 applicants were to be CIVIL LORD VISITS MALTA rescued from the beaches at Dun- from Farnborough, U.K., a Royal tate a reduction in the period of selected from about 554 nominees. AND GIBRALTAR. kirk. Navy Sikorsky helicopter flew training for rating recruits from The Minister for the Navy, the The then Civil Lord of the from Gosport to the island of six months to four months. Hon. W. McMahon, said on No- 160 SUSSEX ST., ADMIRALS VISIT KOREAN British Admiralty (Mr. W. J. Guernsey, a distance of 115 miles Between 20 and 50 Naval vember 25 that the big expansion SYDNEY, FRONT. Edwards) paid an official visit to on October 10. The machine was ships, which could be used for in the R.A.N, and the establish- the Naval bases at Malta and Gib- piloted by Flight Lieutenant D. N.S.W. training if there were enough of- ment of a Naval Air Arm could The Commander-in-Chief, Far raltar in September. He flew C. L. Kearns, R A F., with Lieu- ficers, were at present lying idle, not have been forseen 20 years EnSt Station, Vice-Admiral the from Northolt to Malta and later tenant D. T. J. Stanley, R.N., as said Commodore Buchanan. ago. H, n. Sir Guy Russell, K.C.B., C B E., D.S.O., while visiting the proceeded to Gibraltar by air. He navigator. It flew at 3,000 feet Bntish Commonwealth Fleet, flew home to the United Kingdom above a light haqf. Later the same c mmanded by his Flag Officei on September 18. The visit was day the helicopter returned to Sccond-in-Command, Rear-Ad concerned with expenditure on Gosport. rural A. K. Scott-Moncrieff. works and buildings and condi- if you are TIRED tions of service of industrial em- U.S. MARINE CORPS DS.O., off Korea, took the op VISIT U.K. r. rtunity of visiting the head ployees. • aarters of the Commonwealth A team of 17 officers of the revision commanded by Majoi VACANCIES FOR United States Marine Corps re- cneral A. J. H. Cassels, C.B., CHAPLAINS, R.N. cently visited the United King- dom, arriving at London Airport, C.B.E., D.S.O. The two Admir- Some vacancies exist in the . is flew in a light aircraft to the where they were met by Major Royal Navy for Chaplains prepar- General V. D. Thomas, C.B., DEPRESSED cadquarters in the field and were ed initially to volunteer for short • iken to the front line by Major C.B.E., Royal Marines, Chief of 1 service commissions of four years. Amphibious Warfare. The team -cneral Cassels, driving his own Age of entry should not exceed i. ep. While they were at a posi- was led by Brigadier General 32 years. Applications may be James A. Stuart, who has a dis- tion in the front line they came addressed to the Chaplain of the nder fire from enemy guns and tinguished fighting record in the Fleet, Queen Anne's Mansions, Pacific. General Stuart's team in- ad to take shelter under a con- London, S.W.I, England. enient Centurion tank. cluded his son. Captain James SECOND NEW M.T. BOAT. Stuart, junior, the only Army Of- MEDITERRANEAN FLEET The second R.N. Motor Tor- ficer in the party, and Major MANOEUVRES WITH pedo Boat to be powered by gas Robert Carney, U.S.M.C., who is TAKE A COURSE OF GREEK NAVY. turbines in combination with the son of General Eisenhower's diesel engines, M.T.B. 5720, was Southern Sector Commander, Ad- Late in September. 1951, a launched in September, 1951, at miral Carney. squadron of the Mediterranean the Portsmouth yard of Messrs. CLEMENTS TONIC Fleet composed of the cruiser Vosper Ltd. M.T.B.5720 will KING'S CRUISE TO H.M.S. "Gambia," four frigates, mount four 21" torpedo tubes and CARIBBEAN. two submarines and one submar- a small gun. She is 123 feet long Messages from London say that ine depot ship under the com- and has a beam of 20 feet, i.e.. a Caribbean cruise in the battle-

Ac Ntvy J.MMry, IWL ship H.M.S. "Vanguard," which name "Sussex" and the trophies DANISH FRIGATE NATO DEFENCE COLLEGE. took His Majesty on his South belonging to the previous ship of "GALATHEA" RESUMES The tactical training and strat- African tour, is being planned for the name were made available to RESEARCH. JAMES PATRICK & CO. PTY. LTD. the Division. Officers and men egical arrangements under N.A. next English Spring. Calls may The Danish research frigate, T.O. direction and control are SHIPOWNERS - AGENTS - CONTRACT be made at Jamaica and the Bah- of the Division carried the bell to "Galathea," left Sydney on De- its laying-up position in one of strongly and firmly falling into STEVEDORES amas, the messages say. cember 1 to continue her deep place, and the spirit of co-opera- the chapels of the Cathedral and sea studies, this time in Bass CHARTERS AND BUNKERS ARRANGED ROYAL MARINE the Commanding Officer of the tion among the forces of the mem- Strait and the Great Australian ber Nations is becoming more COMMANDANT VISITS Division (Commander A. D. Bight. The "Gal»thc*" had been REGULAR INTERSTATE * OVERSEAS CARGO ft U.S.A. Sharp, R.N.V.R.) handed it into and more manifest. The basic refitting at Mort> Dock after aim is to improve co-operation in PASSENGER SERVICES General Sir Leslie Hollis, the custody of the Dean. It was completing half of a two-years' shackled to a stainless steel tripod all spheres of action and to pro- K.C.B., K.B.E., Commandant- world voyage of underwater re- mote, as far as it is possible, a Agents for . . . General Royal Marines, has visit- constructed in Portsmouth Dock- search and discovery. The Dan- yard. uniformity in method and train- FLOTTA LAURO (Italian Lisa.)—Cargo sad |iaaiintii atrvscc, ed the United States at the invita- ish Charge d'Affaires and the ing. Australia to Haslilinaai.il potts, via Singapon. tion of General C. B. Cates, Com- Consul-General (Mr. Hening TASMAN STEAMSHIP CO. LTD.—Rcfrictnud canto, Australia mandant of the United States Ma- DAMAGE TO H.M.S. Hergel) hoarded the "Galathea" As a further and striking in- to New Tuliail rine Corps. He sailed in the "GLORY" stance of this, the standing group at 10 a.m. at No. 7 Wharf, Cir- ERIE RAILROAD (UiA)-Auatrabaian Acrats. "Maurctania" and arrived in New Damage, estimated at £5,000, of the North Atlantic Treaty or- cular Quay, and left the ship by Head Office: 19 BRIDGE STREET, SYDNEY York on September 24 last. While was done to the British aircraft ganisation has decided to set up launch at Sydney Heads. The Phone: BW 4181. in the United States General carrier H.M.S. "Glory" in Sydney a N.A.T.O. defence college, with frigate presented a fine spick and ALSO AT MELBOURNE AND BRISBANE Hollis carried out a tour of the recently when one of the ship's its seat in Paris. The first Com- span appearance as she sailed WITH AGENTS AT ALL MAIN PORTS IN AUSTRALIA. principal U.S. Marine Corps es- compartments was flooded. A into the Tasman. mandant will be Vice-Admiral tablishments on both the west cock was apparently left open as Lemonnier, Naval Adviser to and east coasts. He started his the carrier was leaving dry dock General Eisenhower, who last tour at Washington, where he at Garden Island. Water flood- NEW ORIENT LINER year was Commandant of the called on the U.S. Chief of Naval ed the "slop" compartment, where NAMED. French Defence College. The Operations, Admiral W. M. the ship's clothing is kept. Naval The Orient Line announced on nationality of the Commandant Over 20,000,000 Tons Fechteler: General Cates: and sources on December 14 said November 18 that the name of and the Service to which he be- Heads of the British Joint Ser- there was no suggestion of sab- its new 28,000-ton liner will be longs are to change periodically of the World's Shipping vices Mission. He returned to otage. "Orsova." It will be the second by rotation. The wisdom and ef- the United Kingdom in the "Par- Orient Line ship of that name. ficacy of this arrangement can thia" on October 12. MARCH OF THE "GLORY" The first, a 12,000-ton vessel, was easily be visualised. MEN. Annually Use built for the Australian trade in The new college will open in BELGIAN COMMANDOS In white summer dress, 530 of- 1908, served as a transport in the the European autumn. Instruc- VISIT BRITAIN. ficers and ratings of the aircraft- First World War, and made its tion will be in English and "INTERNATIONAL" MARINE PAINTS carrier H.M.S. "Glory" marched last voyage to Australia in 1936. Four officers and forty other French. The course, which will through the streets of Sydney on The old "Orsova" steamed two last six months, will be for 50 ranks of the Belgian Commandos December 18. Thousands of on- million miles in the course of her visited the Royal Marine Com- men at a time, drawn from all na- lookers waved and cheered the service. The new "Orsova" is tions who are members of the mandos School at Bickleigh, near sailors as they swung through the expected to make its maiden trip Plymouth. They party sailed from Treaty Organisation. It will take city. The Lieutenant-Governor of to Australia at the end of 1953. men from all three Services and msawmawa. Ostend in a Tank Landing Craft New South Wales, the Hon. K. on September 8 and returned on probably from higher grades of "INTERNATIONAL" W. Street, took the salute from the Civil Service as well. October 1. Cliff assault, boulder NEW DIRECTOR OF NAVAL the steps of the Town Hall. The AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE climbing and beach landings were Flag Officer in Charge, Sydney, The three chief instructors will The Greatest Name IN Marine Paints among the exercises carried out. told the "Glory" men: "I con- The Minister for the Navy (the be Commodore R. C. V. Ross, gratulate you on the steadiness, Hon. William McMahon) an- Royal Navy; Colonel Paul Cara- BELL OF H.M.S. "SUSSEX" smart hearing, and appearance of nounced on December 19 that way, United States Navy; and LAID UP. your ship's company during the Captain (E) J. Fitzgibbon, R.N , Brigadier Paul Stehlin, of the A silver bell of the cruiser, march." had been appointed Director of French Air Force. A civilian chief A Message to Youth ... H.M.S. "Sussex", weighing 198 Aircraft Maintenance and Repair instructor is also to be chosen. Engineering Apprenticeships are a lb., and bearing the crest of the R.A.N. TRAINEES. at Navy Office, Melbourne, anJ sound basis for a richly endowed county of Sussex, was laid up in The Minister for the Navy, the would arrive in the "Strathna-ver" future. Chichester Cathedral at a cere- Hon. W. McMahon, said in Can- on December 23. He would suc- mony conducted by the Dean of berra on November 21, that the ceed Captain (E) G. R. Cook, Vacancies exist with . . . Chichester (the Very Rev. Basil O.B.E.. D.S.C., R.N., who had next batch of National Service W. G. GOETZ & SONS LTD. Jones) on October 20. The hell trainees to be trained by the held the appointment for two came into the possession of the R.A.N, would be allowed to year sand would return to the 136-140 HALL STREET, SPOTSWOOD Sussex Division R.N.V.R., when chose the branch of the Navy in United Kingdom from Melbourne VICTORIA the Division acquired the ship which they desired to serve. in the "Orcades" on February 2. 'Phooe MW 7693

20 Tk« Navy January, I9S2. II G. Kinahan, K.B.E., C.B., the ap- PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS pointment to take effect in March, 1952. BOOK REVIEW ADMIRAL SIR JOHN C.B., D.S.O., was granted the A.-0. LINE COLLINS RE-APPOINTED. acting rank of Vice-Admiral. NEW C.-IN-C. AMERICA "THE £200 MILLIONAIRE"—by Weston Martyr.—Rupert Hart- AND WEST INDIES AFTER-WAR SERVICE The Federal Government has NEW FOURTH SEA LORD. Davis, London. decided to extend for two years Rear-Admiral S. M Raw, C.B., STATION. Now Refitting Prior to the appointment of Vice Admiral Vice-Admiral Sir William An- Reentering Australia-Far Eastern C.B.E., has been appointed a A book by this well-known gets himself deeper and deeper Sir John Collins. K.C.B.. R.A.N., Service Lord Commissioner of the British drews, K.B.E., C.B., D.S.O., has writer of sea stories and lore is into trouble. as First Naval Member and Admiralty, Fourth Sea Lord and succeeded Vice - Admiral Sir almost certain to be worthwhile. The story nevertheless provides Chief of the Australian Naval Richard Symonds-Taylor, K.B.E., SJ. "CHMfiTE" Chief of Supplies and Transport, This volume is one (No. 14) in a salutary reminder of some of the St.ilf. Announcing this 111 Can- C D., D.S.C., as Commander-in- in succession to Vice-Admiral the Mariner's Library Series, and problems which once confronted berra on November the Min Chief. America and West Indies $4. "TAIPIM" The Earl Mountbatten of Burma, contains a collection of most read- the British seafarer, and of the ister for Defence, the Hon. P K.G., the appointment to take ef- Station. able and often amusing short things he was compelled to do to A. McBriJc. said that Sir John fect in February, 1952. stories covering a wide range of retain hold of a job in a fiercely Australia haJ already served four years in CHIEF INSTRUCTOR CAPTAIN BEATTIE, V.C., subjects, from yachting in British competitive profession. It is also Philippine Islands that capacity on February 23 FOR R.A.N. (NAVAL) N.A.T.O. and Continental waters to gold- a useful reminder that a sea career next. Hong Kong Japan DEFENCE COLLEGE. It was announced from Can- mining in South Africa, and ser- still retains a quantum of inherent NEW DEPUTY MEDICAL Captain R. C. V. Ross, berra on November 26 that Cap- vicing with the sappers in France disabilities, despite its fascination SERVICE MAINTAINS) (Y DIRECTOR GENERAL and the progress that has been D.S.O.. R.N., has been appointed tain S. H. Beattie, V.C., of the in the First World War. M.V., "SHANSI" 1 "SOOCHOW" (NAVAL). for duty with the British Minis- Royal Navy, will arrive in Aus- made in ships and conditions over The story, "Letters from a Surgeon Captain I. Hamilton, try of Defence on the staff of tralia in February to take up an the last half-century. Master Mariner," although dated Australia! 4ris«tal C.B.E.. M B.. Ch B . has been ap- S.H.A.P.E. to serve as Chief In- exchange appointment with the All in all, the author maintains 1903, will be read with particular pointed for duty in the British structor (Naval) at the N.A.T.O. a high standard of uniformity in Lis* Ltd. Royal Australian Navy. (Cap- interest by the men of the sea, Admiralty as Deputy Medical Defence College. He will serve his stories and in his long-practised tain Beattie won the Victoria even though they may justifiably (Inc. in Hong Konff) in the rank of Commodore, Second craftsmanship—two virtues highly Director General and is granted Cross in 1942 when he command- be tempted into impatience by the G. S. YUILL ft Co. Pty. Ltd. the acting rank of Surgeon Rear- Class, while holding these ap- ed H. M. S. "Campbell town," to be regarded and praised in these apparently artless manner in 6 BRIDGE STREET Admiral while holding these ap- pointments. which destroyed the lock gates days of trash and commercialised which the shipmaster of the story sensation. pointments. ADMIRAL MANSERGH at St. Nazaire by crashing into SYDNEY. COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, BECOMES CHIEF OF them). The Director of Naval INDIAN NAVY. ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE. Intelligence at the Navy Office, As from September 18. the Vice-Admiral C. A. L. Man- Melbourne, Captain N. A. Mac- Jate of his loan appointment to sergh. C.B., D.S.C.. has been ap- kinnon, has, in turn, been ap- the Indian Government as Com- pointed President of the Royal pointed to the Royal Navy for mander-in-Chief. Indian Navy, Naval College. Greenwich, in suc- two years' exchange service. Rear-Admiral C. T M Pizey, cession to Admiral Sir Harold R. R.A.N. PILOT KILLED IN NORTH KOREA. The Minister for the Navy DAVIES KENT PTY. LTD. (the Hon. William McMahon) Formerly announced on December 10 that Sub-Lieutenant R R. Sinclair, D.S.K. PTY. LTD. R.A.N., a pilot of the aircraft car- rier H.M.A.S. "Sydney", had Manufacturing Engineers and Agents been killed in action over North Korea. His body had been re- for George Kent Ltd., London covered by helicopter after he • had baled out from his aircraft. He had been buried at sea. His next-of-kin was his wife, who INSTRUMENTS FOR MEASURING AND lived in the married quarters at CONTROLLING ALL FLUIDS AND GASES the R.A.N. Air Station, Nowra • (N.S.W ). Mr. McMahon, who expressed regret at Sub-Lieuten- ant Sinclair's death, said that he 46 GARDENERS ROAD, MASCOT and the Naval Board had sent a MU 1378 message of sympathy to his widow.

22 Tto Navy MERCHANT NAVY SEA-ODDITIES ENGINEERS AWARDS

Each year, awards of parch- Over a thousand miles from a shark to shame for sheer feroc- the colour-changing habit of the ments and cheques are made by the nearest land, well off the ity. Fights between these fish are octopus is contained in Darwin's the Navigators and Engineer Of- trade routes, and probably the still frequently staged in certain book "Voyage of a Naturalist." ficers' Union (of Great Britain) Darwin had been watching a most isolated spot on earth, the countries of Asia, the "box-on to the two engineer officers ob- host of these creatures as they 4* -square-mile volcanic Easter ring" being usually a suspended taining the highest marks in the moved about in the pools of water Is'.and is rarely visited. Yet it glass-bowl. These contests are so British Ministry of Transport's left by the retiring tide, in the presents some of the most intrig- fierce that even the winner is examinations, held in the previous Cape de Verd Islands, and had uing, and in some respects the rarely able to fight again. year, for First Class and Extra seen them discolouring the water most baffling, mysteries there are First Class certificates of compet- by exuding "a dark chestnut- ency respectively. These awards in the Pacific. brown ink" in order to escape de- have been made possible by a Gigantic statues of stone, cur- tection. He continues: legacy left to the N.E.O.U. for ious wooden images and carvings, It is generally agreed among "These animals also escape de- the benefit of Merchant Navy and tablets inscribed with an in- marine naturalists that the fast- tection by a very extraordinary, engineer officers. decipherable sign language these est fish in the seven seas is the chameleon-like power of chang- are the amazing remains of an an- swordfish. "This ocean gladiat- The award gained for the ing their colour. They appear to cient Stone Age culture on Easter or,' writes Frank W. Lane, in his highest marks in the Extra First vary their tints according to the Island, strange, primitive relics fascinating book Nature Parade", Class examinations in 1950 was nature of the ground over which first discovered by the Dutch ad- presented to Mr. George N. "has a body which is the epitome they pass: when in deep water, miral Roggeveen in 1722. Forbes by Lord Winster, P.C., of stream-lining. The pointed their general shade was brownish- Who carved, transported, and head surmounted by the yard- K.C.M.G., the President of the purple, but when placed on the Union, at a ceremony held in set up these great stone statues? long sword, the sharp backward land or in shallow water, this London on 3rd April. Mr. D. G. The present islanders do not rake of the dorsal fin, the long, dark tint changed into one of a Edgar, winner of the First Class quite seem the types to have been lithe, powerful body, sloping yellowish-green . . These changes award, was unfortunately at sea capable of such a tremendous gradually to the powerful tail fit were effected in such a manner, and unable to be present. task. Nor do they know anything it for the most rapid and forceful that clouds, varying in tint be- Making the presentation. Lord about them. Thirty feet high, movement through the water." tween a hyacinth-red and a chest Winster said he was glad that, al- fifty tons in weight, these statues, nut-brown, were continually pass- The maximum speed of which though there was a shortage of called "moais," arc set on basalt ing over the body. Any part, be- Na»al airman R. Millar, of Malbouma, and K. Pascoa, of Coffs Harbour, load rockati the swordfish is capable of attain- certificated seagoing engineers, on to a Saa Fury plana aboard tha Australian alrcraft-carrlar. H.M.A.S. "Sydnay." platforms circling the island in an ing subjected to a slight shock ot ing has never yet been definitely there was no tendency to reduce off tha coast of Korea. almost unbroken line at burial galvanism, became almost black ascertained. But its velocity the standard of the examinations. places. They are therefore almost . . . These clouds, or blushes as through the water is tremendous. To attempt to do so, he said, certainly memorials. But to they may be called, are said lo be The swordfish gets its food by at- would he a retrogressive step to whom? produced by the alternate expan- er at the British Ministry of Tran- ations for Ministry Certificates. tacking smaller fish with its which the N.E.O.U. would be op- sion and contraction of minute sport: Mr. D. Carmichael, Chair- The representatives of the N.E. Lost, too, is the meaning of the sword. To make its blows suc- posed. There had been a drift bisiclcs containing variously col- man, N.E.O.U., and Mr. A. C. O.U. and others present agreed wooden carvings and the sign cessful it hurls itself among them I rom the sea to shore employment, oured fluids. Hardy, B.Sc. to take away the suggestions for language. Various scientists have with great force and speed. but he hoped that the improved As to Engineer Officers' train- consideration, after which the attempted to decipher the mys- Speaking of these torpedo-like conditions of service, negotiated One octopus displayed its ing, representatives of the N.E. Ministry will he informed of their tery—or. rather the jumble of rushes. Professor Richard Owen through the National Maritime chameleon-like power both during O.U. and other organisations con- views in order that final decisions mysteries—of Easter Island, but once testified in an English court Hoard, would solve the problem. the act of swimming and whilst nected with engineer officers in may be made. The chief pro- so far little of a conclusive nature of law: "It (the swordfish) remaining stationary at the hot In thanking Lord Winster and the Merchant Navy met officials posals discusscd are designed to has been found. Yet there is a strikes with the accumulated force torn. This individual in order the N.E.O.U. for the award, Mr. of the British Ministry of Tran- give encouragement to trainees to key to it all, and one day some of fifteen double-headed ham- to escape detection particularly Forbes referred to the distinction sport on the 29th May, to consid- pursue technical studies and to scientist will discover it. mers. Its velocity is equal to amused him. "Remaining for a caincd by the Poplar Technical er some proposals put forward by take full advantage of the many that of a swivel shot, and is as time motionless, it would then College, at which both he and the Ministry for minor alterations opportunities available in the tech- dangerous in its effect as a heavy stealthily advance an inch or two, Mr. Edgar had studied for their of the present Regulations for the nical schools and colleges of the artillery projectile." certificates. Mr. T. A. Bennett, examination of engineers. These country. The courage of some animals is like a cat after a mouse: some times changing its colour: it thus l ead of the marine engineering modifications are designed to take a by-word When fighting they proceeded, till having gained a department of the Poplar Techni- account of recent developments never lie down till they are annih- deeper part, it darted away, leav- cal College, was present at the in the training of engineers and to ilated. The game-cock, for in- ing a dusky train of ink to hide ceremony, and it was announced make other alterations found de- The Nmvg The colour-changing habit of stance. the hole into which it had crawl- 'hat he was shortly about to re- sirable in the experience of the some animals, land or sea, has of- The "game-cock" of the seas ed." He thought the creature had tire after 26 years in that office. Ministry during the post-war IS YOUft GUIDE ten been the subject of comment. is the fighting fish of Siam. been fully aware he had been years. They do not in any way Among such animals is the octo- Other speakers included Mr. TO NAVAL AFFAIRS Though they seldom exceed three watching it from the very outset. s affect the standard of the examin- pus. An aumirable description of - Hogg. Chief Engineer Examin- in;hes in length, they would put January, l**2. H» Navy 24 The Western Australian Gov- SPEAKING Ol • SHIPS ernment is chartering at very ROYAL NAVAL RHINE FLOTILLA high rates a number of ships for Messrs. Watts, Watts 6r Co. Newland Hall, Hull, last year the import of urgently needed Following our article on Frogmen have announced that the three opened a new house for brothers they were able to spend together supplies, owing to commercial ships of the "Wanstead" class, and sisters on their large estate. and Canoe Training in the June in each place. sailings being reduced with the during 25 months' operations, Inquiries as to vacancies should issue of this journal, there is a Australian port delays. On August 13, the Flotilla was have averaged 14.32 knots on the be made to the Secretary, Mr. L. special interest in the account visited at its base by the Flag Of- North Atlantic service with an Hartley, A.C.I.S., D.P.A., The ficer, Central Europe, Vice-Ad- The Japanese Government is published hereunder of canoe average consumption of 16.45 Sailors" Children's Society, New- miral Jaujard, French Navy, who giving the regular lines a practical work on the River Rhine with tons of oil for all purposes. land Hall, Hull, England. witnessed exercises and dined monopoly of shipbuilding licences, the R.N. Rhine Flotilla, a small- with the officers in the evening. leaving the tramp ship owners to A centre was recently opened craft Force of specially trained The Royal Naval Rhine Flo- The British Customs seized wait or to buy second-hand ton- in Stepney, London, which may and equipped men. tilla under the command of Cap- five hales of mink skins, valued nage abroad. at over £13,000, on the allegation lead to a new understanding of tain C. W. McMullen, D.S.C., that the declaration that they the problem of stowaways. Its Recently, as part of a pro- R.N., is based near Krefeld in a The Canadian Government has were of American origin was aim is to rehabilitate and educate gramme of general training the small harbour on the West bank announced that the burning of of the Rhine just upstream of false and that they originated in stowaways and to shape them Commanding Officer (Lieutenant the Gulf of St. Lawrence steamer D. C. R. Waymouth, R.N.), the Duisburg and the Ruhrort. This Scandinavia. into citizenship. This may, or may not, present a solution. Ships "Quebec," with loss of life was Coxswain Leading Seaman J. F. port is one of the largest inland and stowaways bring their own undoubtedly due to incendiarism Sinclair and four of the crew of ports in the world and there are Five Spanish seamen caught problems and it is thought in as the electric alarm system was one of the M.L.'s in the Royal usually about three million tons smuggling brandy at Liverpool, some quarters that nothing but found to have been deliberately Naval Rhine Flotilla took three of shipping in the waters of the England, pleaded that their wages legislation -and ever more vigil- cut. two-man canoes down the river British Zone which extend 182 were so low that they were com- ance—can solve them. from Basle to Krefeld, their base miles from Oberwinter (just up- pelled to make money where they It was estimated that in 1951 near Duisberg. This journey took stream of Bonn) to the Dutch could. If such is true, it does there were then 16,000 stowa- seven and a half days and cover- Frontier. The river above Ober- not say much for the conditions The port of Cardiff, in the ways in the United Kingdom. In ed some 370 miles of riverway. winter up to Basle is the respon- of seamen under the Franco British Channel, is suffering from particular they arrived in timber The party went by train and sibility of the French Rhine Flo- regime. silting caused by changes in the ruems • co. ht. ltd., iidnii ships from Takoradi and in the took with them only bivouac tilla and the American Rhine course of the River Taff. River Patrol. banana carriers from Kingston, tents, a small store of emergency Sufficient stocks of dual-purpose The British Government has Jamaica. provisions, and a change of cloth- The Royal Naval Rhine Flo- weapons for arming the entire ing. Camping by night on the started a comprehensive survey of tilla is part of the Forces of occu- British Merchant Navy in an emer- In consequence of casualties to banks of the Rhine and sending pation and as such is greatly in- gency have been accumulated and oil pollution round the whole coast DALUEY TRANSPORT three ships of the "Sam" class, foraging parties into the nearest terested, not only in the shipping suitably distributed throughout the of the United Kingdom. whilst carrying solid ballast on bal- villages, they were able to aver- in its part of the Rhine, but also PTY. LTD. United Kingdom and Common- age over 50 miles a day for most The General Manager of the last voyages, a notice (No. M.347) in that in other waterways and wealth. together with large quan- of the way despite unfavourable Blue Star Line hinted recently has been issued by the British canals in Northern Europe. The tities of ancillary equipment. conditions. Flotilla also has a Combined Op- Agents for: that the Company would be ex- Ministry of Transport to ship- eration responsibility in support tending its South African service owners and shipmasters, in which The training and experience of the British Army, and is pre- MAYNE NICK LESS LTD. British Merchant Navy defence with the good turn round in its materials shipped as solid ballast in gained were invaluable; in the higher reaches the Rhine flows pared to operate on any part of courses were constituted with the ports. Great Britain are analysed and tables and plans are given for extremely fast, averaging seven the Army's Northern flank. object of familiarising Merchant SHIPPING & FORWARDING guidance in the /itting of shifting knots and often reaching eight Navy personnel with the meas- Measures against erosion on General Sir Leslie Hollis, boards in holds and 'tween dec^s. •ind nine knots in the races, while ures which would be taken by the the South Coast (of the United K. C. B., K. B. E., Commandant AGENTS l.iwer down, although much more Royal Navy for the protection of Kingdom) have been made more General of the Royal Marines, the Mercantile Marine in time of leisurely in its pace, it is crowded also visited the Royal Naval difficult by the piratical operation A shipmaster recently advised 2A BOND ST., SYDNEY war, and with the part which with shipping, thus giving the Rhine Flotilla at Krefeld. There of a dredger which has been the Mercantile Marine Service As- trews experience in many of the they would be expected to play secretly dredging shingle at night sociation (of Great Britain) that is a Royal Marine special boat rroblems of river work. section in this Flotilla. in an emergency. and marketing it on the North in connection with the particular The opportunity was taken dur- East Coast. kind of accounting system oper- Sir Leslie arrived on August ing this exercise to make closer ated by his Company he needed 22 and witnessed exercises by the The British Admiralty has been contact with the French Rhine to collect a total of 736 signatures Flotilla in which a company from storing materials for degaussing for There was a very large tourist Flotilla and the United States from his crew every two months. the Second Battalion Grenadier Phones: a long time and large orders were traffic of British visitors to the Navy Rhine River Patrol both of Guards and tanks participated. The question arises: Is this very placed last year as part of the Continent last year, with a fair which have their bases on this On August 23 he went to Benk- considerable volume of paper BUI 181, BW2084, BU6091, accelerated defence programme. number of Continental visitors to southern half of the river. In hausen to visit Flag Officer Ger-' work likely to interfere with a the Festival of Britain (now clos- each case the party was most many, and he returned to the master's principal duty of being The Sailors' Children's So- ed), but very few froir the United warmly received and have happy United Kingdom the following BU6092, BU6093. a master? ciety, whose headquarters are at States or Canada. memories of the few brief hours day. lh Navy 24 January. l*Si. 17 than a mile until contact was re- Awards for Services in Malaya and Kerea gained. EX-NAVAL MEN'S The award of the Bronze Star In two actions against bandits was re-organising his men, he Medal to Lieutenant Roberts, in in the Malayan jungle last year. asked if anybody was wounded. turn, was made for an "heroic Lieutenant Frederick Elliott John- When he received no reply, he achievement" while serving with Association a n of Australia son, Royal Marines, whose home said "I am for one" and disclos- a reinforced battalion of United is at Newcastle-on-Tyne, showed ed that he had been shot in the States Marines in Korea. In Mm h'CkM Hit Umb'ty Tkt Khf a "coolness under fire and a disre- chest, the bullet piercing his lung. command of a troop of Royal Ma- He refused to be evacuated and rine Commandos which had the gard for personal safety which in- Federal Council. spired battle weary men." He insisted fin following the enemy. task of closing a break in the tralia and abroad. The Federal share should seek these forms from has been awarded the Military Acting Corporal Speake was lines, he led a determined attack The present Federal Council, President and his Executive have, the Hon. State Secretary. Success- Cross for his courage and leader- in command of a patrol of six over rocky snow-covered ground which was elected at Canberra in all cases, sent Seasonal Wishes ful claimants will have their share and Greetings to the usual number ship. Marine (Acting Corporal) men employed in searching thick in the face of intense fire from a two years ago, is now ending its paid into a bank account nomi- of organisations and to friends and Terence Speake, of Whitstonc, jungle, which he led in a suc- superior Chinese Communist Tenth Session; this Council held nated by them. helpers to the Association. near Leicester, has received the cessful action against terrorists, in Force. The enemy were driven its 24th consecutive and unal It is with deep regret that we Military Medal for his services in the course of which one party of from their positions and the lines monthly meeting on Wednesday, The Council desires to thank its learn of the passing of Mr Neil Malaya with 42 Commando Royal bandits were trailed for more restored. 16th January, at 26 Bridge St., Auditors, Messrs. R. F. Bartlett Morrison, who was one of the Marines. Sydney. and J. Mc. D. Sutherland, and early members of the Association in Victoria. The "London Gazette" in It is expected that an entirely also its Hon. Legal Adviser, Mr. Robert Burge, for their extremely which these two awards were new team of Federal Executive —G.W.S. RAN. to Establish Second Air Station valuable help and guidance over published also contained an an- Officers will be elected at the age of aircraft, technical training, the past years. nouncement that unrestricted per- The Minister for the Navy and Biennial Federal Conference, which H.M.S. "LIVERPOOL" the operation of reserve air units mission has been given Lieutenant Air (the Hon. William Mc- is due to assemble at Brisbane, Joint sponsors of the recent VISITS YUGOSLAVIA. and accommodation for carrier Queensland, on Monday, 4th Feb- Gerald Frederick Dawson Rob- Mahon) announced on December "Call to the Nation" have been Marshal Tito was piped aboard ruary. erts, R.M., of Kensington, to wear 19 that it had been decided that air groups temporarily disembark- highly commended by Federal with full Naval honours, includ- the Bronze Star Medal bestowed the Royal Australian Navy, ed. Each State Section has now had Council for their courage and ing a guard of honour formed on him by the President of the which already operates an air sta- Such facilities could not be the honour and privilege of being plain speaking to the people of by Royal Marines, when he visit- United States of America for gal- tion known as H.M.A.S. "Alba- satisfactorily provided at H.M. hosts to at least one assembly of Australia. It is understood that ed the cruiser, H.M.S. "Liver- interstate Delegates in its Capital lant and distinguished service in tross", at Nowra (N.S.W.), A.S. "Albatross" because, with copies of "The Call" will be sent pool" (Captain J. D. Luce, City. Federal Council has found operations in Korea. should establish a second station the growth of naval aviation in to various bodies for promulgation D.S.O., O.B.E., R.N.) at Split, by taking over the R.A.A.F. Sta- the R.A.N., the establishment that material benefit has always to their members. Reverting to Lieutenant John- Yugoslavia, on September 11. He tion at Schofields, 20 miles north- would become too large for effi- accrued to each State Section, in son, it is stated that he was in Before 19S2 is much older the was welcomed by Admiral Sir west of Sydney. cient administration and the main- turn, by the holding of such Con- command of three patrols search- Association will need to marshal John Edelsten, K.C.B., C.B.E., The new station would be tenance of discipline and morale; ferences. The Association has cer- all its resources for complete unity. ing an area of jungle and over- tainly acquired a higher prestige Commander-in-Chief, Mediterran- known as H.M.A.S. "Nirimba." the organisation of one establish- Steps should be taken to round up ean, and made a tour of the ship. grown rubber plantations. On a ment to provide for flying train- amongst the community and gain- That was the aboriginal name for members and get them to attend Afterwards he said "I want to local reconnaissance with one ing, technical training and aircraft ed further merit through the Pelican. their Sub-Section meetings more sec more." man, he was attacked by two ban- maintenance would be too com' agency of the Interstate Press. Mr. McMahon said that the regularly, to take a keener interest The "Liverpool" was anchored dits. Firing as he went, he mov- plicated for efficiency and satis- Mr. J. K. Stafford (Hon. Fede- Royal Australian Air Force in the affairs of the Associatii n, to about a mile from Marshall Tito's ed round the enemy's flank and factory supervision: and the con' ral Assistant Secretary) was elect- stand for office if nominated and would gradually transfer the ac- villa. It was the Royal Navy's rejoined his headquarters party. centration of the total flying task ed by Council to be its representa- to help, wherever possible, the tivities it had been conducting at first official visit to Yugoslavia at one airfield would create a den- | live to attend the Third Australian various Committees to carry out He gave orders to attack and Schofields to the R.A.A.F. Sta- since before the Second World sity of air traffic that would he Citizenship Convention, being held their functions. If this co- led his small party, which con- tion at Richmond (N.S.W.). War. too great for safety and control. between 29th January and 1st operation can be readily achieved sisted of a signaller and three Richmond could be developed The cruiser fired a 21-gun sa- The development of H.M.A.S. February, at Canberra, A.C.T. the Association will be able to other men, straight at the enemy more satisfactorily and economi- lute as she sailed past the villa. "Nirimba" by the R.A.N, would The Association's Diploma of withstand the strain of the on- position killing one of the terror- cally for the operation of jet Her company, in tropical white, provide aircraft maintenance and Merit has been awarded by Fede- coming recession of trade and ists and wounding and capturing fighters and other high-speed air- manned ship. another. craft than Schofields could. Naval repair facilities close to the Aus- ral Council to Mr. W. Woollams, credit which appears to have of the Goldfields (Kalgoorlie) Sub- already started through buyer re- Launches and small boats came When reinforcements arrived, requirements in this respect were tralian Fleet's main base, the air Section, for his untiring efforts on sistance. out to welcome the cruiser and a he directed the operations to such not so exacting because of the stores depot, the component re- behalf of ex-Naval personnel in pilot boat brought out Yugoslav effect that in an hour six bandits different design-characteristics of pair establishments and civilian re- Press reports indicate that there his district and his own Sub- and British Legation officials. Of- were killed and two others cap- naval aircraft. pair organisations, all of which are quite a considerable number of were in Sydney. It would also Section. ficial calls were made during the tured. The following day when H.M.A.S. "Nirimba" would be ex-Naval officers and men who day and the "Liverpool's" com- permit full advantage to be taken During the past month the have not yet applied for their his patrol was ambushed by ban- commissioned as an R.A.N, sta- pany of more than 700 were of facilities already available in Council was the recipient of many share of R.A.N. Prize Money.' dits on a precipitous track. Lieu- tion when the R.A.A.F. had granted leave ashore and allowed Sydney for the loading and un- rceting cards from State Councils Readers of the "Navy" who are tenant Johnson led another flank- reached a certain stage of its to mix with the people of Split. ing move and pursued them into transfer. It would be used for loading of damaged and crated nd their Sub-Sections, also from eligible and have not yet made out aircraft. indred bodies, both here in Aus- the necessary application for their The cruiser remained at the port the very thick jungle. When he the maintenance, repair and stor- ! for three days. n* n«*r I1 '*«• T.S. "Beatty." ship" of the N.S.W. Division of there; more especially as his (the As usual, "Beatty" is on the SEA CADET CORPS the Australian Sea Cadet Corps Minister's) time is so limited; and move. They have grown in became spic and span worthy of a Mr. McMahon, addressing 100 strength and when they have ob- NEW SOUTH WALES DIVISION ship on "Admiral's" inspection Sea Cadets and Officers in reply tained their own premises will be day. to the welcome, said the great Their fine bearing and precision a fine Unit. The Trafalgar Day Sea Cadets of the N.S.W. in Martin Place, where speeches At 1400 the Commanding tradition of loyalty to our country was an example to the Cadets Ceremony is reported elsewhere, Division spent a very instructive were made by notable people. Officers from the N.S.W. Sea is not as strong as it was a few Wollongong Trafalgar Da v. but mention must be made of the week-end at the R.A.N. Air • After the speeches the Parade Cadet Units, T.S. "Sydney," T.S. years ago. On Sunday, 21st October. 41 activities associated with "Beatty." Station, Nowra. Fifty Cadets moved off to the Cenotaph, where "Australia," T.S. "Warrego," T.S. He said that if we are to re- Cadets from the Sydney Area pro- and five Officers made up the an impressive Ceremony of laying A Fair held on the 27th October "Sirius," T.S. "Perth," and T.S. cover this tradition it will have lo ceeded to Wollongong to assist party. The Cadets arrived on wreaths was carried out. SC. was a great success. Their Trafal- "Beatty," with 100 Cadets repre- be through the Armed Forces. T.S. "Beatty" with her Trafalgar board H.M.A.S. "Albatross" at Sub - Lieutenant Humphrey, 1st gar Day Parade was well-organised senting their Units, went to "Divi- Mr. McMahon said that he was Day celebrations. approximately 10 p.m. Lieutenant of T.S. "Sydney," laid and was just the way to "Show sions" in the Port Waist. The greatly impressed with the Sea the wreath of behalf of the At 1.30 the Parade under S.C. The Flag." Officers of the Watch, Quarter- Cadet Corps and that he had no A very efficient Leading Hand N.S.W. Division of the A.S.C.C. Lieutenant Nicholas, 1st Lieu master, Side Boys, Signalmen were took them over and under his idea the organisation was so The Last Post was sounded by tenant of T.S. "Beatty," mustered T.S. Perth." at their stations awaiting the ar- guidance they were soon settled in. efficient. He commended the Offi- "Glory's" Bugler. Cadets Moon near the Station and led by the T.S. "Perth" is certainly doing rival of Commodore H. Vaughan's cers and Instructors on the un- On Saturday instructions in and Alman, of T.S. "Sirius," at- Stalwarts Band marched to the well and working wonders. The Motor Cruiser with Mrs. Showers selfish part they were playing in Flying, Gunnery and Airmanship tended the Ensigns at the Ceno- Cenotaph, where Commander strength now is 43 and looks like and members of the Women's the training of the Sea Cadets. was carried out. P.M. Saturday taph. Stcnning, R.N., from H.M.A.S. increasing. "Perth" looks like get- Auxiliary Committee of the Navy was spent in Recreational Training He was impressed by the stan- On completion of the ceremony "Albatross," took the Salute. A ting a unit of G.N.T.C. to assist League, who were coming to S.C. —Football and Tennis. Saturday wreath was laid by S.C. Lieutenant dard of the Cadets and promised the Parade marched back to the them with their social side. The Headquarters for a presentation evening instructional films were Lindsay, C O. of T.S. "Beatty." ceremony. he would take a greater interest in place of assembly and dismissed. glorious deeds of H.M.A.S. shown. The Parade then marched to the the Corps now he had seen it in Special mention was made of the "Perth" are certainly kept alive by The Cruiser was escorted up the action; also, he said he would con- Sunday forenoon Sea Cadets Congregational Church, where a Junior Red Cross boys and girls, this Unit's efforts. harbour by a fleet of motor vey his impressions to the Prime formed a Guard for Colours. Sea very impressive Service was con- who marched like veterans and On the whole the N.S.W. cruisers. Minister. Cadets then went to Sunday Divi- stood up to the hot weather like ducted. The Parade was then Division is doing well and now The Signalman of the Watch Mr. L. J. Pearson, the Chair- sions with the Ship's Company of sailors. marched to the Town Hall, where that finality is within our reach it reported "Admiral's Barge in man of the N.S.W. Division of the "Albatross." Instruction d T.S. "Beatty" parades and the In the afternoon Sea Cadets sold should become a worthy Division sight." This was the signal for the Australian Sea Cadet Corps, films were shown after Divisions Official Guests entertained. Leave programmes, the funds of which was given and Cadets from Sydney of the Australian Sea Cadet "action." As the Barge approach- called on Mrs. Showers to make and P.M. Recreational training are to go towards the Unit's Funds. given permission to return by any Corps. ed, the Quartermaster piped the the presentation of the 16 M.M. was carried out, and at 1600 The Royal Guard and "Glory'«" train they desired. side. Rear-Admiral Showers, ac- Projector. Mr. Pearson thanked Cadets went to Tea and prepared companied by the Minister for the Band marched into the Dockyard. Appointments. Mrs. Showers and her band of co- for disembarkation. The co-opera- Navy, Mr. \V. McMahon, wis Probationary S.C. Sub-Lieut. S. workers for their gift and for the tion of the Ship's Staff enabled the met by the Divisional Senior Herti, T.S. "Australia," to T.S. wonderful work they had done in Cadets to receive the maximum in- UN IT NEWS Officer, N.S.W. Division, who con- raising money for the Sea Cadets. struction. A flight in the Dakota "Warrego," to date 18th Octohcr. ducted the Minister for the Navy On making the presentation, added to the success of the week- Probationary S.C. Sub-Lieutenant on an inspection of the Cadets. Commander Page, R.A.N.V.R., Mrs. Showers said that the Ladies' end. T.S. '"Sydney." E. Waldon to T.S. "Warrego." to the present Acting C.O., give the During the tour of inspection of Auxiliary of the Navy League The value of these week-end This Unit has big plans in hand date 15th October. Cadets an incentive to do their Snapper Island by the Minister for were very happy to have had the Camps cannot be over-stressed. for the co-operation and benefit of. the Navy, Rear-Admiral Showers, best for the Unit. "Australia" Promotions and Advancements. opportunity to do something for They provide the Naval atmos- other Units. and the Naval Liaison Officer for has a tower of strength in Dr. Cadet Able Seaman F. Bagnall, the "Sea Cadets," and she hoped phere and show the Cadets the Snapper Island is the "Flagship" Sea Cadets, Lieut. - Commander O'Flynn, a member of the Social T.S. "Perth," to Acting Cadet that the machine would enable the discipline required of them. of the N.S.W. Division and can G. M. Dixon R.A.N.V.R., the Committee. Leading Seaman, to date 15th Cadets to spend many enjoyable be likened to the Flagship of the Ladies' Committee and guests were Trafalgar Day. • T.S. "Warrego." tVtober, 1951. Cadet A.B. hours, also that they would im- Fleet. Cadets from T.S. "Sydney" shown over the ship. prove their efficiency by instruc- Trafalgar Day in Sydney was formed a Guard for the Rose Bay Desborough, T.S. "Beatty." to T.S. "Warrego" is also in the During the inspection of the tional films. marked by two important events: Cadet Acting Leading Seaman, to R.M.Y.C's opening. Several ex- throes of a face lift and is making ship the Cadets were marched on Sale of Programmes and the March date 15th October. Mr. Pearson accepted the gift perienced members of T.S. "Syd- great strides. The members arc to the Main Deck, where the of the Sea Cadets accompanied by ney" acted as Coxswains to Luxury small but they are a good team with pleasure and said how grate- guests were to be seated. ful the Officers and Cadets of the the Sea Scouts, Sea Rangers and Cruisers and were rated "Al." and "pull" together. Two new PRESENTATION When the Minister for the N.S.W. Division were for such a the Junior Red Cross. Officers have been added to the CEREMONY. T.S. "Australia." Navy and Official Party were in gift. At 10 a.m. the Parade formed strength and we are looking for- Anyone laying off T.S. "Syd- their places on the Main Deck the Rear • Admiral Showers in a up at the Mitchell Library under Great activity is afoot on board ward to a sudden rise in personnel. i.ey" (S.C. Headquarters, Snapper Senior Officer introduced Mr. Silk, short speech said he considered the command of S.C. Lieutenant T.S. "Australia." Painting, re- Island) on Saturday, 24th Novem- T.S. "Sirius." President of the N.S.W. Division that it was his duty as Flag Officer- D. J. Mort, who was Parade Com- pairs, etc., give the Cadets prac- ber, would have witnessed a real of the Navy League of Australia, 'in-Charge, New South Wales, to mander. H.M.S. "Glory's" R.M. tical experience in maintenance. T.S. "Sirius" will parade in the r 'Naval Occasion." Fo weeks who welcomed the Minister for take an interest in the Sea Cadets. Band added colour to the Parade This maintenance within "Aus- fine quarters of the St. George there had been "Clean Ship" in the Navy. He said it was indeed They were our future "Sailors" by leading the march. At 10.30 tralia" should produce a fine Unit. R.M.Y.C. They had a dance re- true Navy style and the "Flag- an honour to have the Minister and whether they enlisted in the the Parade moved off to the dais Visits to Liners arranged by Lieut.- cently which was quite a success. Tka N««T -Ufiuary, 1952. 30 il Navy or Merchant Marine they were doing a service to Australia Always ask for . . • hy training for the Services, or if CIVIC they did not enter the Navy or Merchant Service they were train- HIRE SERVICE ing to be good citizens. SHELLEY'S After the speeches and presenta- UNIFORMED DRIVERS. tion the Official Party and Guests EVERY MAN IN TRAINING proceeded to the Recreation Deck, FAMOUS DRINKS COURTEOUS where afternoon tea was served, and the Sea Cadet Officers acting . s hosts. Obtainable from leading LESSENS WAR RISK CAREFUL Special mention must be made shc.ps and saloons. of the magnificent organisation and ALL-NIGHT SERVICE. the work done by Miss Richardson and the G.N.T.C. girls who or- ALWAYS PUNCTUAL. SHELLEY t SONS You may think that war cannot nucleus of the larger forces required ganised and served the afternoon happen again. We thought that in in a major war emergency. 1/- PER MILE. tea on a buffet system. They not CORDIAL FACTORY 1938. We thought that, too, before not only worked hard in serving That is why service as a Sailor. the afternoon tea, but in preparing PTY. LTD. the fourth of August, 1914. Can Soldier or Airmail should be recog- Phone: FA 3124 it. we afford to relax to-day? Maybe nised by all Australians as the finest MURRAY STREET, (5 LINES) It was indeed a great feeling of there will be no war. We all hope calling any man can choose, and why MARRICKVILLE, there won't. But none of us can PRIVATE HIRE CARS. gratification to the Sea Cadet per- Australia to-day gives the Service sonnel for the unselfish co - opera- N.S.W. WEDDINGS A SPECIALTY. afford to take the risk! man the highest pay. the best food, tion Miss Richardson and the clothing, accommodation, training FUNERALS. SHOPPING. 'Phones: LA 2451, LA 2659 Recently the authoritative "New G.N.TC. give on all occasions of facilities, opportunities for advance- Etc. "entertaining." York Times" said that foreign ag- ment, amenities, medical ami dental At 1600 the Cadets "Manned gressors would be ready for offensive care, leave, pension and gratuity Ship" for the departure of Mrs. preparations by late in 1952. United privileges ever offered to a recruit. Showers and her Committee. As States Air Force officials are increas- the Motor Cruiser passed the ingly worried by the rapid develop- Bach of the three fighting Sei- "Ship" three cheers were given for ORDER FORM ment of aggressive air power. A vices lias openings for men from the Ladies' Committee. To "THE NAVY," grim picture! many different occupatiol s and with The operations of Manning Ship ROYAL EXCHANGE varying levels of skill. There arc and Cheer Ship were carried out BUILDING. It is even grimmer here in Aus- jobs for unskilled men. for th<- in such a manner as to call for BRIDGE ST., SYDNEY. praise from any Ship's Company. tralia ... a country proud of it* seini-skillcd, for recruits with apti- It was a great day in the life of freedom but not yet strong enough tude for specialist training, and for the Sea Cadet Corps, the ship was Please register iny subscrip- to defend it. On the basis of popu- the fully-qualified tradesman All spic and span, the organisation tion to "The Navy." The lation alone, Australia cannot afford receive good pay in cash, supple rate is 18/- per 12 issues well thought out and carried out to maintain huge forces permanent!) mented by practically every living post free in the British without a hitch. requirement, on a scale comparing Empire. I send Postal Note/ under arms. But she i-an and must most favourably with civilian stand- NOTE —It is up to the Sea Cheque/Money Order for afford to maintain at full-strength ards. Pay is adjusted to the cwst of Cadet personnel to show their ap- issues. a modern, well-equipped Navy. living, and married men draw preciation of the interest of the (Add exchange where Army and Air Force which would Minister for the Navy and Rear- applicable) be immediately available as the special extra allowances. Admiral Showers by putting all Commencing from: Tha futura of ttaam (or marina purpoiai they have into making the game of tl mat by tba UUtt Babcock davalop- the Sea Cadet Corps something to mants, which, in turn. ara backad by JOIN THE NAVY, THE ARMY or THE AIR FORCE be proud of. All Cadets should ovor SO yaart' taa aiparianca. At taa, Name al on land, tima hat provad tha tarvica be proud to say "I am a Sea Enquire at the following without obligation: of labcock Soilar Plant Cadet." He should remain loyal Address. The Recruiting Centre in your city; your District Recruiting Committee to his Unit, and aim to be the best or write to the Deputy-Director of Recruiting, O.P.O., Box XYZ. in BABCOCK & WILCOX Cadet of the year; by so doing he your capital city. OF AUSTRALIA PT¥. LIMITED will inspire others, thereby making Date. KNGINKina AND CONTttACTOKO the Sea Cadet Corps an organisa- Htld Offica t Nofki. Ititnti Fail. H.S.N. 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February, l*Ii. I The Navy League Patron: H.M. The King ffon CAM 6u4f t£ Head Office: Grand Buildings, Trafalgar Square, London, W.C.2. Branches: Great Britain, New Zealand, Ceylon, Rhodesia. Affiliated League*: The Navy League of Canada, The Navy League of South Africa, The Navy League of Australia. THE NAVY LEAGUE OF AUSTRALIA Pr.sid.nt: Commander(s) J. D. Bates, V.R.D., R.A.N.R. Deputy Pt.aid.nt: Captain L. A. W. Spooner. O.B.E. R.N.(Rtd.). Hon. S^rtUry: CONTINUOUS Lieutenant(s) F. G. Evans, R.A.N.V.R. Hon. Treasurer: Lieutenant(s) J. H. Paterson, M.B.E., R.A.N.R. VULCANISATION New South Wales Division Patron: C.V. His Excellency The Governor of New South Wales President: T. H. Sillt, Esq., M.I.C.E., M.I.N.A. Paying account* by cash means standing in queues, waiting Tough Rubber Sheathed Cable Secretary: for change, irritating delays, waste of time. Gordon Coleinan. Then why do it? Hon. Treasurer*: It is so much easier to write a Commonwealth Bank cheque D'A. M. 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Smoother finish, faster and more South Australian Division profitable electrical installation or replacement jobs . . . Patron: Hia Excellency The Governor of it stands as yet another example of how the combined South Australia. technical resources of the famous Cable Makers Associa- President: Commander S. R. Symonds, R.A.N. tion of Great Britain are being constantly applied to the . (Rtd.). development of new and better C.M.A. products. Hon. Secretary: I or the Best Soft Drinks C*ld. MTrod• Mark Not. A30J6-1I Lieut.(•) L. T. Ewens, R.A.N.V.R. Australian Sea Cadet Council (Representatives of The Naval Board) Always say . . . Director of Naval Reserves (Captain 3 tisfl/ML ^t A. S. Rosenthal, D.S.O.,* R.A.N., (Chairman), Commander F. R. James, R.A.N. MARCHANTS CABLE MAKERS AUSTRALIA PTY. LTD., Liverpool, N.S.W. (Representatives of the Navy Lesgue) Captain L. A. W. Spooner, O.B.E. R.N. (retired), L. G. Pearson, Esq., PLEASE ! BACKED BY OVER 100 YEARS OF RESEARCH L. Forsythe, Esq. (Honorary Secretary)* Office ft Factory: 34 YORK ST., RICHMOND, VICTORIA .L»eut (0 P. G. Evans, R.A.N.V.R. Appointed hy N.B. (on recommendation of 'Phone: JA Mil. •he N/L Council). Tka Navy February, 1952. 1 waterline; and the higher minimum standard of crew space. Side by side with this increase in size, her NAVAL PROGRAMMES: THEIR TRENDS striking power, represented by her strike aircraft, AND NEEDS. and her capacity for defence, represented by her fighter aircraft, her gun armament, and the detail* Only in an ever-ready and efficient Navy can of her design, have also increased. there be security for British national interests and Even the barest of details of some of her dimen- security on the seas. The 1951 issue of "Jane's sions and fittings suffice to provide an illuminating Fighting Ships" stresses many a markedly interest- picture of her capacity and efficiency. The flight ing point on the question of Naval building pro- deck covers an area of more than two acres and, grammes and the probable nature of future Naval besides such well-tried devices as arrester wires and warfare. safety wires, two of the most modern catapults As "Janes" rightly points out, the trends in for launching aircraft arc fitted. The "island' principal Naval Powers during 1951 have continued structure, built upon the starboard side of the flignt towards improvement of aircraft-carriers and the deck, is in itself as large as a frigate and houses offensive against underwater craft. the radio, radar, and plotting rooms. There are Larger aircraft-carriers - the "Eagle," for two hangars which can contain the largest naval instance — are being constructed, to be capable of carrier-borne aircraft, and two large lifts to bring operating bigger and more effective aircraft, and the machines to the flight deck. smaller aircraft-carriers for anti-submarine warfare. Conversion and construction plans are also being The main engines of the ship consist of four speeded up, and large destroyers arc hurriedly being identical sets of steam turbine machinery; each unit adapted as submarine-killers to serve as fleet escorts, has two Admiralty three-drum boilers. Great use while smaller destroyers are being converted into has been made of electric welding in the con- anti-submarine frigates. "Janes" describes the new struction of the hull, and this has saved an appre- British anti-submarine frigates "Relentless" and ciable amount of weight. The ship's guns are "Rocket" as a new conception of submarine "killer" mounted as dual-purpose defensive armament. ships. Britain's whole new Naval programme, it There are 16 4.Sin. guns in twin high-angle/low- says, is largely directed towards the underwater angle turrets arranged in four batteries, and each menace. It stresses the fact that by various means battery has a first-class, battle-tested radar control the underwater speeds of submarines are being with varying degrees of rudder, but bad weath.-r system, which is capable of engaging targets travel- FEBRUARY. 1952. increased. In building and conversion of submarine Vol. 16. prevented the collection of some data. Of con- ling at very high speeds. Many multiple and single "killer" ships, great use is being made of aluminium siderable importance, for instance, at least to the 40-mm. Bofors guns, also controlled by special radar to reduce top weight and make for extra speed. Admiralty designers, is the assessment of pressures directors, are fitted. H.M.S. "EAGLE" SHOWS HER MIGHT TO exerted on the ship's twin-balanced rudders when "Janes" says it is extremely difficult to obtain THE WORLD OF PUBLICITY. they are put over at speed, because they are a new- Nothing has been left undone, in full accord with information regarding Russian Naval matters, but feature of this aircraft-carrier. modern conceptions and requirements, to give com- stresses the marked numerical superiority of Russia's fort to the crew, and great advances have been "To-day's business was only a small part of the submarine fleet over those of Britain and the United made in this direction. A centralised messing sys- When Britain's newest anil biggest aircraft- full programme of acceptance trials which will have States. Russia at present, it says, has 370 sub- tem has been introduced in which the ship's com- carrier, H M.S. "Eagle," went to sea for trials, more to be completed before the ship can be taken over marines in active service, and 120 under construc- pany take their meals in two large dining halls. than 30 representatives of the British press, radio by her commanding officer (Captain G. Willoughbv, tion. A new building programme which has been This system has the effect of removing all meals and newsreel companies joined the great ship in R.N.) as a fully-working unit from the builders, launched makes provision for a further 1,000 sea- from the mess decks, so that these become in effect the Clyde and proceeded with her for the day. Messrs. Harland and Wolff Limited, of Belfast, for going underwater craft. The same new programme sleeping and recreational spaces. For the first time the "Eagle" was showing herself operational service with the Home Fleet." of construction is reported to include three battle- off to the world of publicity. ships, 20 cruisers and 120 destroyers. The "Eagle" is the first aircraft-carrier of any Thus the size of the ship tends towards both That the British Board of Admiralty is to he Navy to be built to operate the modern naval jet comfort and efficiency. H.M.S. "Eagle" — the A new Russian battleship, named the "Soviet congratulated on the development of this most aircraft now in service, and she has been fitted with twenty-first ship of the Royal Navy to bear the Union," is reported to have carried out trials late modern of aircraft-carriers was soon and amply all the many complex devices necessary for this to name — has an overall length of just over 800 last year. This class of ship will, it is said, have manifest to all on board. be done with speed and efficiency. Indeed, she is feet, with a beam of 112 feet 9 inches, figures displacement of between 42,000 and 45,000 tons— As the representative of "The Times" of London the logical outcome of the trend in aircraft-carrier which emphasise the size of her flight deck. Her equal in size to the Royal Navy's biggest battleship, wrote on his return: design which began with the "Ark Royal" in 1936 peace-time complement is about 2,000 officers and "Vanguard," and the United States biggest, "Many a great ship has gone down the Clyde to and produced such ships as H.M.S. "Illustrious" men. "Missouri." It is said to be equipped with catapult the sea; but never a greater aircraft-carrier than towers for firing radio-controlled aerial torpedoes, and H.M.S. "Formidable," which were so successful This mighty ship, in the words of her command the new 'Eagle,' which made her proud way to-day and rocket-firing apparatus and radio-controlled in the late war. ing officer, has so far "behaved beautifully." to an area off Ailsa Craig for machinery and guns. It is also believed to carry very elaborate manoeuvrability trials. On this occasion represen- H.M.S. "Eagle" is much larger than her fore- That H.M.S. "Eagle" will continue so to behave radar installations and anti-aircraft and anti- tatives of the Press joined her, in company with runners, and for a variety of reasons, among them can with pride be confidently expected. It must submarine protection; and all ships of this class will many civilian experts concerned with the ship's being the increase in the size of naval fighter and be apparent to all Naval men that the era of the no doubt be similarly equipped. No Russian performance. strike aircraft, with the consequent requirements aircraft-carrier as the major ship of Naval warfare aircraft-carriers are listed by "Janes," although "The trials were designed in particular to estab- for larger hangars and longer flight decks; the need is now definitely established. Russia is known to have a strong Naval air force. lish the "Eagle's" turning circles at different speeds for heavy radar gear to be mounted high above the February, 1952. I 4 Tin Navy OPERATIONS ON H.M.S. "AFFRAY" ABANDONED

TATTERS ALL'S ALLEN TAYLOR Seven months after the loss of enable me to say with certainty nical means of providing a 5/- CASH CONSULTATIONS H.M.S. "Affray." the new First why the "Affray' was lost. Many thoroughly reliable automatic de- Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. J. £10,000 FIRST PRIZE & CO. LTD. theories have been put forward, vice. P. L. Thomas) announced in the among them the possibility that "The question of salvage has Drawn every few days British House of Commons that no her snort mast snapped while she been considered. This would be a and further operations will he carried was snorting and that she filled very difficult task — perhaps the TIMBER 10/. CASH CONSULTATIONS out by the Royal Navy in con- rapidly through failure to close most difficult ever undertaken. nection with the sunken submarine. the valves provided against such £25,000 FIRST PRIZE The 'Affray' lies not only at a Replying to three questions in the an emergency. This would have great depth but in a very exposed Drawn every few weeks. MERCHANTS House on the subject, the First resulted in her sinking stern first, position where weather would be Lord said: but there is evidence that 'Affray's' the greatest enemy of the opera- stern was undamaged. Postage on tickets and results to be added. "The wreck of H M. Submarine tion. The tides are strong and Affray' was located by Asdic "It is possible that a major bat- useful work could only be done in good weather at very limited The Address . . . equipment on June 14th, after a tery explosion started a shock search lasting two months. She wave in her hull and that this periods of slack water. There is GEO. ADAMS (TATTERSALL) HOBART was lying in 286 feet of water and ruptured the pressure trunking in these conditions an ever-present COMMERCIAL ROAD was identified by means of under- which lies amidships under the risk to men's lives. The material water television. This equipment casing, but external to the hull. cost is difficult to estimate, but it was used to help in directing the Damage of this type could have would be inordinately high since When ships of the Navy divers during their painstaking resulted in the submarine sinking seven or more vessels would be "heave to" this rope ROZELLE, N.S.W. examination of her hull. on an even keel. Such an explo- needed. "The operation would he limit- "Since the last statement in this sion could have started a crack in holds fast! 'Phona: WB208I ed to the five fine weather months House on August 1st the diving the snort which might then have of 1952, and it might well extend vessel H.M.S. Reclaim' has work- snapped off as she grounded. into the summer of 1953, if not ed on all possible occasions and Whatever the cause of the disas- found to be totally impracticable has made every effort to obtain ter, it is clear from the survey cf earlier. The vessels needed for further evidence about the cause her hull that no attempt at escape the operation all have their allot- of the disaster. I am sorry to have was made and that the end came ted tasks. Their work is of im- to tell the House that all her work swiftly. portance and it has already suffer- of the last three months has been "The House was informed jn ed on account of the operations on ALEX H. MACKIE in vain and that one of my first ANCHOR BRAND August 1st that the metallurgical the 'Affray'. duties on taking office was to condition of some parts of the ENGINEER "I have considered these mat- agree that there was no reasonable 'Affray's' snort and those of two ters carefully and I have decided 9-11-3 THERRY ST., hope of obtaining any further of her sister ships was below that, with the high risk of total light on the problem through this standard and that some of the failure, there is no justification for MELBOURNE, VICTORIA means. welding was not good. Tests just this substantial diversion of our completed on these three snorts in- "The continued use of H.M.S. resources. There will, therefore, dicate that they are well capable Reclaim' on these special duties be no further operations in con- of standing up to all stresses other lor so long has already interfered nection with 'Affray'." to a serious extent with the train- than those associated with an ex- mkm ing of deep-sea divers. While plosive shock. A modified fotm of Mr. L. J. Callaghan (Labour) METAL STAMPINGS there was still a chance that useful snort has successfully passed its asked Mr. Thomas to accept an OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS tests and is being fitted to A' class assurance that the Opposition In this land of ours—in this Australia of kindliness, of friendship, evidence would he forthcoming for the this was accepted. Weather con- submarines. agreed with the conclusions he of good humoured tolerance . . . perhaps no beverage is more at (Mr. Thomas) had announced. MOTOR AND AIRPLANE ditions in any case would have home than good Australian beer. For beer is a drink Australians "I should like to say here that Would Mr. Thomas consider the like. It is a part of pleasant living, of good fellowship, of sensible INDUSTRIES. made further operations impossible in the winter. the adoption of an automatic valve suggestion that an automatic valve moderation. Aud our right to enjoy it . . . this too is a part of has been considered on several at the bottom of a snort tube our Australian heritage of personal freedom. "I have studied very carefully occasions Automatic arrange- should not be ruled out, he said. the final report of the Board of ments for meeting a possible emer- Mr. Thomas said he was glad to Beer is Good For You Inquiry and the results of tests gency which might never occur are have the support of Mr. Callaghan, that have now been made on the apt to induce a false sense of who was Parliamentary Secretary Enjoy It! For all enquiries plcaae snort mast of the 'Affray' and security, and it has generally been- to the Admiralty up to a short those of two other 'A' class sub- preferred to rely on a correct drill •Phone FJ 3629. time ago . The authorities would CARLTON BC UNITED BREWERIES LTD. marines. I have concluded that to meet such situations. We are, immediately consider the point BREWING IN AUSTRALIA FOR 98 YEARS. there is insufficient evidence to nevertheless, considering the tech- about tbi automatic valve.

Tka Na fabniary. I«2. 7 KING GEORGE VI A Life of Service to State and People Alike

The death on the morning of February 6 of His Majesty King George VI. shocked and stunned the world almost into silence with the utter suddenness and poignancy of its tragic reality. A great King had died; the people had lost a beloved ruler, a good and noble friend. Few men of sovereign state had measured up so finely to the people's ideal of kingship as he whom they had so deeply learned to love and who was now no more. The people's grief was profound and greatly manifest.

King George was >6. He ascended the ed to H.M.S. "Collingwood," then flagship Throne on December 11, 19.>6, with the abdi of the First Battle Squadron. It was in that cation of his elder brother, King Edward ship, in 1916, that he saw the Battle of Jut- VIII., now Duke of Windsor. The King had land: stationed as junior turret officcr in No. been in ill-health frequently during the last 2 foreturret A, carrying 12-inch guns, he four years—years in which his subjects grew displayed those qualities of character which to love him ever deeper for the courage he were to be so manifest during his years as had shown in his physical adversities and the King. For the rest of his life, the King re- manner in which, despite such adversities, garded the White Ensign which the "Col- he had faced up to the manifold duties and lingwood" flew at Jutland as one of his most responsibilities of his sovereign office. cherished possessions. The life of King George covered a vast He left active service in the Navy in 1921, and dramatic range of history which includ- but was formally gazetted Captain in 1925, ed two world wars and many changing scenes and later became Admiral. He also, in 1919, in State and international affairs. Through- took his pilot's certificate in the R.A.F., was out it all, his was a life that gave prestige promoted Wing-Commander in 1920, Group- not only to the British Throne, but also to Captain in 1921, and when he ascended the Britannia herself in her hardest years of Throne, was Air Chief Marshal. peace. But it was the Second World War and Naturally, in the Navy, we knew him best the acute economic stresses that followed it and admired him greatly as a member of the that made serious inroads upon the King's Senior Service to which it is for us all ever health. His great part in the war was not a privilege to belong. That King George also forgotten by the people when VE-Pay came. so regarded it, we and the British nation in The focal point of the national rejoicing was general have good reason to know. Buckingham Palace. It was a prf how the King George served the British Empire in people felt about their King and Queen who World War I. as a gunnery officcr at the had stuck it out with them in all of war's Battle of Jutland. His father, the "Sailor vicissitudes and sufferings. King," strongly wished that he should join In peace and in war they gave themselves the Navy, and he entered Osborne Training completely to the welfare of the State and College, Isle of Wight, as a cadet when he the people of the State. Now the devoted was 13. partnership in family as well as :n State is His first voyage was as a cadet midship- broken. Now the King's daughter takes up man in H.M.S. "Cumberland" when that the affairs of State, the burden and the task cruiser, engaged on a training cruise, visited of "carrying on". Not least in our grateful the West Indies and Canada. After that tribute and acknowledgment of our debt to trip, now 17, he was gazetted midshipman. the father will be found in our loyalty and The First World War began a year later, devotion to the daughter, the new young in 1914, and Prince Albert, as he then was, Queen of the British Commonwealth of commissioned as sub-lieutenant, was appoint- Nations.

Tk« Navy in developing Portsmouth as a lives to give notice to all ships that parishioners started quarrelling NAVY'S OWN CATHEDRAL powerful naval base. He built the appear off the Harbour, which he over the choice of churchwardens. fortifications, and as it was neces- does by striking a bell as many The difference went on for years, RICHARD C. STONE sary to have an efficient watch- times as there are ships." There and eventually the vicar chose one tower he ordered the re-building of In 1180 John dc Gisors, a has been much argument as to warden and the people two others. Thousands of the mrn of the Royal Navy, whose homes are not the church tower. To raise the wealthy merchant and shipowner where the old bell comes from. The archdeacon accepted the lat- only in Britain but in many parts of the Empire, have worshipped in £9,000 for the restoration of the —you can see him in one of the Some say Admiral Rooke brought ter, but the vicar forbade them to the Cathedral Church of St. Thomas, of Canterbury, at Portsmouth. church, Charles issued a "brief," it from Gibraltar when he cap- exercise any functions. The sus- windows—gave an acre of land •rdering a special collection to be In this they are following in a great and historic tradition, for it tured that fortress; others that it pended wardens thereafter charged upon which to build a church. It taken throughout the churches in would be difficult to mention any famous sailor, and few eminent hails from Tangier, the African the vicar with having the goods took nearly twenty years to build, England. soldiers, who have not prayed in Portsmouth Cathedral; and the and was used as a place of worship port which was part of the dowry and chattels of the church, and the Many relics of these stormy old names of How ard, of Effingham, Blake and Rooke, Howe and Rodney, by the garrison of Portsmouth, by Charles II's Spanish bride brought unlucky man was clapped in Win- Jays survive in Portsmouth Nelson and Colingwood, Jellicoe and Keyes, are immortally associated the sailors of the King's ships, and him. chester jail, but was released on Cathedral. Among them are a with it. by pilgrims arriving from France. The tower has a very notable bail after a fortnight. couple of round-shot found a year "Hiey took the Pilgrim's Way to weather-vane, called the Golden As cathedrals go, that at Portsmouth is not old, for it was not or two ago when foundations for On his return he was not allow- the shrines of St. Swinthun at Barque. It was put up in 1710, raised to that dignity until 1927. But it is not, like most of our new- the extension were being dug. ed to use the church plate. In Winchester and St. Thomas at replacing another, the taking down cathedrals, a wholly new building with its traditions yet to be made. These were two of those fired by spite of a decision of the Bishop's Canterbury. They rested at the of which cost one-and-six, "for It is one that has woven into its fabric a famous old parish church Cromwell's men. They were nasty Court to the contrary, the sus- Hospital of God's House hard by, drink," so apparently the work- which enshrines within its walls over eight hundred years of a history things to stop, even though not ex- pended churchwardens continued now the Garrison Church, and men did not want any cash. touching intimately at many points the story of the English race. plosive, since each weighed about to act. In fact, they mulcted the prayed in St. Thomas's before pro- The present model is just on a stone and a quarter and was five unfortunate vicar of half his fees ceeding upon their pilgrimage. seven feet long and six and a half ceptance of the Insignia of Ad- inches in diameter. for strangers' burials and certain Under the Test Act, in force tall. There was an old superstition mirals Lord Jellicoe and Sir Practically every Sovereign from sacraments. from 1673 to 1828, which i.ldered Another survival is a bell of that infants placed in it when Charles Madden for safe keeping Richard I to Eh;ahcth visited They collected cash for over a that all Government officers were Spanish workmanship, bearing the taken down for cleaning would as memorials of two illustrious Portsmouth. During the lattcr's year, and although a jury at Win- to receive sacraments according to .irms of Castile. It was originally never be drowned, and there is a naval officers who rendered con- reign the wars with Spain greatly chester later awarded the vicar the form of the Church of Eng- used as a signal-bell in the tower. curious story attached to it. land, naval officers taking up their spicuous service to their country added to Portsmouth's importance £20 damage he did not get the The old record says: "In the up- Seven years before the Golden commands at Portsmouth had to in the first World War as a naval base, and many eminent churchwardens' haul, which was per part is a room where a man Barque went up, the vicar and attend St. Thomas's for their Holy Old St. Thomas's has been well naval commanders came to worship spent on the Golden Barque. Communion. Each received a cer- described as "an epitome of Eng- there. When the Civil War began, tificate from the vicar of Ports- lish history," and it is hoped lo the Governor of Portsmouth, mouth attesting that he had com- maintain this tradition during the Colonel Goring, declared for the municated. building of the great new cathed- King. He succeeded in keeping ral, in which will be incorporated out the Parliamentarians when As it was the only church m they tried to take the town. Portsmouth town all the great stones from many parts of the IjtaHHaH^ naval heroes of those olden days earth, thus embracing the idea of The latter went on to Gosport came to worship there when in a world Commonwealth of British and bombarded Portsmouth from port. The cathedral, as it now is, peoples. Old stones from the vene- there. The tower of the church Marine Engines rated Isle of Iona, Sherborne had from time immemorial been is located in what was within For Naval, Commercial and Pleasure Craft living memory of old walled fort- Abbey, and Canterbury and Win- used as a naval watch-tower to ress of Portsmouth. High Street, chester Cathedrals have been laid, keep an eye on enemy ships sailing which runs past it, is an historic and in the nave it is planned to up Spithead. The garrison now In units 20, 25/40, 40/65, 60/90 and 95/145 H.P., these modern Diesels fully cover the include blocks from every port used it as a look-out to observe route. In it stands the George 20-145 H.P. range. Good delivery is offered, and the latest descriptive literature is avail- visited by ships of the Royal Navy. the movements of the enemy horse- Hotel, where Nelson, who often able on request worshipped in the church, spent Nothing could be more fitting men. The Parliamentary gunners his last night in England before than this, because from the very shot it through with cannon balls, which left the tower on the point THE STUART Marine Engines are also available covering the low pov.er ra -JJ; in Trafalgar, and No. 11 can still lie earliest times St. Thomas's has been units 1^-4 and 8 H.P. seen, where, over three hundred linked with the sea. It was new of collapse and tumbled the nave in ruins. years ago, the Duke of Bucking- when Richard Coeur de Lion and STUART DIESEL Generating Sets 500-1500 watts. ham, favourite of Charles I, was his Crusaders prayed there at the After Oliver Cromwell's battery assassinated when he was in Ports- time when the need of Christen- had done its worst the old church Write, call or phone for further particulars to— mouth to supervise the fitting-out dom united Norman knight and was in a sorry plight, and Charles of a fleet. Saxon bowman in the first British II, who was married at Ports- mouth, had to go to the Garrison On all official occasions the Expeditionary Force. This was Chapel for the service. The mar- THORNYCROFT (Aust) PTY. LTD. Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth, just about the period when the riage certificate is in the cathedral attends the Cathedral. When the king gave Portsmouth its first 6/10 WATTLE STREET, PYRMONT, N.S.W. Charles II was a true sailor king; Navy Aisle, given by the Royal Charter, but the 6tory of the he was never happier than when Phone: MW 2711-2. Navy, was dedicated in 1938, in- church goes back farther still, to at sea, and he was extremely active cluded in the service was the ac- the days of Henry II.

Ik* Navy f«bni«ry. 1952. II Captain J. Morrow, of H MA.S. "Australia." and th. Flag Off! car commanding th. Australian FW R.ar-Admir.1 J W M. Eaton, saluting th. Qu..n, Ha, a. it .a, hoi,.ad half m.„ ,„ (ul| m.„ ?or th. ^ H.MA.S. Autfrali.

At laft: Man of Har Majesty's ships all ov.r •II over th. world honour.d th. d.ath of th.ir KIM and Command.r-in-ChW Kinn George VI. This picture ihowl th. flag of ,n.r Majesty's Submarin. •Thorough" at half-mast rf 3Tllnd InT! background is th. cruiser H.MA.S. ••Australia." '

February, 1952. HONG KONG TO BE FIVE NATION ATTACK ON HUNGNAM RETAINED. MARITIME NEWS OF THE The British Colonial Secretary, Under the command of Rear- swooped down to carry out the Mr. Oliver Lyttelton, said on De- Admiral A K Scott-Moncricff, first of ten attacks with barracks, cember 14 that Britain is deter- D.S.O. and bar, his flag in H.M.S. industrial plants, stores and rail mined to hold its position at "Belfast," cruiser, a United communication" as their targets. Hong Kong. "The British Gov- Nations Task Group carried out Alternating with the air attacks ernment will discharge to the ut- a two-day combined gun and air were bombardment* from the most of its ability its responsibili- strike against Hungnam, an im- cruiser and destroyers, carried out ties towards the colony as regards portant industrial and communica- with aircraft spotting the fall of WORLD both defencc and the welfare of tijns centre 100 miles north of the shot and directing it on to selected From our Correspondent* in its population," he said. Mr. 38th parallel. targets. LONDON and NEW YORK Fires were started in the area, Lyttelton, who is touring the Far Australia was represented by a large number of targets were East, spoke while opening an ex- By the aircraft carrier "Sydney" hibition of industrial products at completely destroyed and many AIR MAIL (Captain b H. Harries, R.A.N.) others severely damaged. In the Kowloon. He said he had been and t h e destroyer "Tobruk" evening the rocket ships moved deeply impressed by the feeling (Commander R. I. Peek, O.B.E., slowly into positions close inshore, of security and confidence shared DISABLED GREEK STEAMER D.S.C., R.A.N.): Canada by the covered by the bombarding forces. by everyone he had met in Hong ports of call to pay their way. At dangerous to come in to berth. destroyer "Sioux" (Commander For 35 minutes these three ships Kong. TOWED TO PORT. Panama they were engaged to At Liverpool, three liners, includ- P. D. Taylor. R.C.N.); Great rained their rockets down on the The disabled Greek steamer bring a 200-ton schooner from ing the "Empress of Canada" Britain by the cruiser "Belfast" 'Thoula Chandris" was taken in Honduras for an American. This city area, causing much damage to U.S. DRIVE FOR WOMEN (20,000 tons), were unable to (Captain Sir Aubrey St. Clair- tow by the New Zealand Shipping earned them enough dollars to sec war industries. During the two SERVICE RECRUITS. leave dock to embark passengers Ford, D.S.O., R.N.) and destroyer days over 200 tons of explosive Co's liner "Pananui" off the New them through to the end of their at landing stages. In the English "Constance" (Commander A. V. fell on Hungnam targets, while the Nine Services of the United Zealand coast on December 26. journey. TTiey propose to sell the Channel more than a doien ves- Lyle, R.N.); the United States by "Sydney's" aircraft flew more than States Armed Forces began a drive The "Pananui" picked up the "Axelle" and buy a New ZealanJ sels ran for shelter into Tor Bay, the destroyer "Hyman" and three 100 sorties. in November last for 72,000 Thoula Chandris" when the farm. on the Devon coast. Smaller in- rocket-carrying landing ships, and women to join the 50,000 already Hungnam was mined-in by the smaller vessel was in difficulties lets on the coasts were crowded the Netherlands by the destroyer in uniform. The inducements of- about 130 miles off Cape Farewell CHAIRMAN, OVERSEA with British and Continental "Van Galen" (Commander A. enemy after the Allied withdrawal fered include: (1) Women with last winter. The present opera- and brought her into Nelson har- SHIPPING REP. ASSN. trawlers seeking shelter. Heavy M. Falkenburg, H.N.M.N ) commissions get the equivalent of bour late in the night of December tion was only made possible by Mr. S. V. Jones, of the Blue seas broke submarine cables link- £103 a month for a second lieu- 27. The "Pananui" then resumed long and patient minesweeping Star Line, was on December 21 ing Britain with Ireland and North Shortly after dawn the guns of tenant, £190 a month for a major: her interrupted voyage from Mel- carried out in difficult and dan- in Sydney elected chairman of the and South America. The galea the Fleet opened fire on known (2) Nurses pay is higher than bourne to the United .Kingdom gerous conditions by a U.S. mine- Overseas Shipping Representatives' played havoc with air and ship- A.A. positions to silence them be- for civilian nursing: (3) Over- The master of the "Thoula Chan- sweeping group. Association. The retiring chair- ping timetables. The liner "Queen fore Sea Fury and Firefly aircraft seas jobs are open to nurses and dris," Captain C. Tiniadis, said man, Mr. W. E. Lee, of Birt and Mary," homeward bound from Women's Army Corps (one- that his ship was drifting helpless- Co., Sydney, was elected vice- New York, spent hours steaming fifth of Wacs are now serving ly and that her engine-room was chairman. up and down the Channel because overseas): (4) All forces take flooded when picked up by the this was considered safer than girls from the age of 18. Age "Pananui." He suspccted leaky anchoring and arrived 72 hours limit for the Women's Air Force plates had caused the trouble. FIERCE GALES LASH late. On land, wind ripped 'jp is 52, Women's Army Corps 39, BRITAIN. trees and lifted roofs and caused Waves (naval) 26, Marines 25. electricity failures which plunged Bordsley's BY YAWL FROM LONDON Furious gales working up to whole towns in darkness. TO NEW ZEALAND. 100 m.p.h. swept Britain during SHIPS AGROUND. the last week of last year, bring- SHAVING Two tall, bronzed young In addition to the complete ing the worst weather in the brothers came ashore on Novem- CYCLONE HITS NEW wreck of the freighter "Agen," at English Channel since the war. A CREAM ber 15 at Russell, New Zealand, HEBRIDES. least two other ships went aground fisherman at Land's End was from a trim little yawl which they drowned while trying to haul a during the fierce gales which swept had sailed from London to Maori- News received from Vila says For a quicker Great Britain and the West Euro- small boat to shelter. At Jersey, that a fierce cyclone swept the land. They were Donald and an electrician working on the and pean coasts during mid-January. Ronald Frost, who had just ended islands of the New Hebrides dur- The Panamanian tanker "Sovac waterfront was blown into the sea ing Christmas. Houses and plan- an 18 months' voyage by way of and drowned. Four men were more comfortable Radiant" (17,597 tons) went the West Indies. Panama, the tations were damaged on the I EEHjBg aground only seven miles from the swept overboard from two boats— islands of Ambrym, Pentecote, ("•alapagos Islands, the Marquesas, a fishing vessel and a tug—which wrecked "Agen." The British Papeete, Boia Bora, and Suva. Malecula and Epi. Epi suffered freighter "Radmar" (3,667 tons) were caught in a gale in Carmar- the heaviest. Some people were an Their yawl was the "Axelle"; then Bay, Wales. At Southamp' SHAVE also grounded, near the Hook of built in 1910, it has a length of killed and four small ships sank. Holland during the early period ton, navigation authorities order- At Ambrym the cutter "Shewa" 34 feet and a beam of 10 feet. ed three ships to lay off port all of the gales. The brothers took jobs at various sank and one man was drowned. night because heavy seas made it Ships went out to search for the 14 Ika Navy fsbni.ry, 1*12. II motorship "Pangona," which is RESCUE CRAFT RACE TO brook," an old Union Company believed to have been lost. The DISABLED FREIGHTER. vessel, during World War I. He "FOREMOST 17" TOWED FROM LONDON TO EDEN cyclone later struck northern Cale- retired early in the last war. A Brisbane tug and a pilot ves- 80 DAY TRIP BY DUTCH TUG donia. sel raced to the 7,800-ton British WHALES SUPPLY freighter "Empire Wallace" when THE SAGA OF THE she was disabled off Caloundra on The Dutch tug "Poolzee" put HYPOPHYSINS. "FLYING ENTERPRISE" Fact's London News Bureau re- the Queensland coast on January into Sydney with the salvage ship ports that Norwegian whaling ex 2nd. The "Empire Wallace" was One of the greatest sagas of the "Foremost 17" for medical clear- peditions in the Antarctic last inward bound for Sydney heavily sea came to an end when the ance, stores and water on Decem- year brought back considerable laden with timber from the United storm-tossed waters of the English ber 19th. The tug had completed quantities of whale hypophysins, States. The ship's captain asked Channel closed over the crippled an 80-days' voyage towing the sal- which Oslo scientists have convert- for assistance in bringing the vessel American freighter "Flying Enter- vage ship from London. She left ed into £20,000 worth of the drug to Brisbane for repairs, engine prise" on the afternoon of Thurs- with her tow the same day for ACTH. Previously the drug had trouble having developed 100 miles day, 10th January, about 40 miles Eden, on the south coast of New been made chiefly in the United east of Cape Moreton. The crew off the Cornish coast. With its South Wales. "Poolzec's master States from pig hypophysins, had worked 40 hours in relays in sinking ended a 13-day fight co (Captain J. de Vos) and members which are extremely small. Suc- efforts to repair the engines. save the ship by Captain Dan of the crew would not answer cessful use of whale hypophysins Earlier, lighthouse-keepers and air- Parker of the tug "Turmoil," the questions. The "Foremost 17" is is expected to slash the price of line operators had reported the ship's skipper, Captain Kurt fitted with expensive salvage equip- the drug this year. vessel drifting helplessly in calm Carlsen, and t h e "Turmoil's" ment, with which she hopes on seas. The "Empire Wallace" was mate, Kenneth Dancy. Carlsen had behalf of a British firm to recover SHIP DEVELOPS LEAK. brought safely into port. remained on board the stricken £312,500 worth of zinc in the The Union Steamship Com- vessel during the whole of the 13- sunken freighter "Cumberland." pany's steamer "Ngakuta" (1,775 DEATH OF A M.N. days' fight, alone until Dancy had "Cumberland" struck a mine off tons), bound from Newcastle to COMMODORE. climbed aboard with a tow rope Gaho Island in 1917, and sank Launceston with a cargo of coal, The Orient Line in Sydney >n from the "Turmoil." The tow-line during a tow off Green Cape. A developed a leak off the New January Is: announced the death subsequently parted and the two party of salvage experts arrived in South Wales coast on December in London of Commodore Sir men hung on to the storm-battered Sydney by air from London and 21 and had to put into Sydney Arthur James Baxter, former com- "Flying Enterprise" for days until established a base at Eden for She berthed at 11 Darling Har- mander of the liner "Orion." He they jumped into raging seas a few salvage operations. bour. was 69. He entered the Orient minutes before the ship sank. The Line service in 1913 as fifth officer two brave men had waited until ELEVEN DIE IN DANISH in the first "Otranto." He serv:d the "Flying Enterprise" was 90 At left: Diver Frank Higgini ii lowered SHIP FIRE. in the "Orveito" in the convoy per cent, under water, in a 60- in a diving ball to direct the laying A message from New York on which took the 1st A.I.F. to the mile gale, before climbing the fun- of explosive chargei on the wrecked December 21 said that little hope Middle East in 1914 in the First nel and leaping overboard in life- "Cumberland." is now held that eight passengers A.I.F. to the Middle East in 1914 belts. They were saved within Below: "Foremost 17" anchored diractly above the wrack. and three of the crew missing World War, and in the "Otranto" four minutes of jumping. The from the Danish motorship "Erria" carrying the first contingent of the "Flying Enterprise" keeled over are alive. The "Erria'" (8.7RS 2nd A.I.F. to the Middle East in on her side immediately after the tons) caught fire at the mouth of 1940 in the Second World War. men jumped and began to go the Columbia River, Oregon, on down stern first. "Turmoil" and December 20. Twenty-three pas- AN OLD SEAFARER'S the U.S. escort destroyer "Willard sengers and 80 of the crew aban- DYING WISH FULFILLED. Keith" anchored in Falmouth Bay- doned ship and reached the shore An old seafarer's dying wish late on the Thursday night, a few- safely in lifeboats and U.S. Coast- that his ashes be scattered on the hours after the sinking, with guard cutters. It is believed that sea within sight of his homeland Carlsen and Dancy aboard, both the passengers missing were trap- was fulfilled recently when Cap- exhausted but otherwise fit. ped in the ship's lounge. Heat tain Frank Young, master of the and a heavy list on the burnt ship Tasman liner "Monowai," which prevented immediate search for arrived in Sydney on December the bodies. The "Erria" was on 4 th, per formed the ceremony its way from Portland, Oregon, about 30 miles off the New to Liverpool, England, with a Zealand coast. The ashes were cargo of lumber, wheat and those of the late Captain G. B. apples. As the fire progressed the (Ben) Corby, who died in Sydney vessel listed 12 to 15 degrees, early in 1951. Captain Corby was hampering fire-fighting operations born in New Zealand and was by a U.S. Navy firehoat and a tug. master of the sailing ship "Glad-

It Ik* Navy February. I9SJ. and fourth places and during the RAN. N.S.W. Command! Rifle Club later shoots have improved to third position. Mr. Turk has won HEWS OF THE WO»Li'S J*¥IES On completion of the Inter- dard of rifle shooting in the a silver spoon on two occasions Services Sports Rifle Competition R.A.N. for second place in individual in March. 1951, in which the A meeting was held at Naval "A" Grade matches and A'B BRITISH-FRENCH EXERCISE. Mersey. On leaving Canada, the in 1943 and have a normal main Navy came third, the host Headquarters, Potts Point, on the Sharkey won a tyro silver spoon British and French Naval Forces "Empress of Scotland" was escort- armament of nine 8-inch guns. (R.A.A.F.) provided liquid re- 6th April, 1951, and the R.A.N. in "B" Grade. met at St. Raphael and Golfc ed out of Conception Bay (New- The Canadian Press quoted a freshment in the form of beer. N.S.W. Command Rifle Shooting On 27th Octobcr the M.R.C.U. Juan towards the end of last year foundland) by the Ginadian cruis- Navy source as saying that long- Club was formed, with the follow- held its Jubilee Pistol Shoot, which for an important combined exer- er "Ontario." range guided missiles are expect- While making wassail, the plight ing officer-bearers:— was won by Shipt Coole with a cise in the Mediterranean, known ed to be ready by the time the of the Navy as regards Inter- Patron: Rear-Admiral A. A. score of 116 point out of a pos- as Symphonie Deux, which lasted SUBMARINE MEMORIAL necessary extensive changes have Service Shooting was discussed. Showers. sible 120. for two weeks. The allied fleet SERVICE. been made to the ships. Major The Army made known that the President: Lieut.-Commander On 10th November the consisted of 49 ships, including The annual memorial ccremony conversion of a warship usually pre-war United Rifle Club Union Hardiman. takes from one to two years; M.R.C.U. held its Jubilee Rifle 2 aircraft carriers (one of the for men of the submarine service had been reconstituted as the Secretary - Treasurer: Mr. Royal Canadian Navy), 3 cruis- conversion to handle guided mis- Shoot. this year in Britain also marked Military Rifle Club Union and all Turk. ers, 21 destroyers and frigates the fiftieth anniversary of the sub- siles may, of course, take longer. three Services, both active list and The Club entered a team in the Shipt Coolc won the Anzac (one of the Royal Canadian The fire control system of the con- reserves, were eligible to join. Trophy for application with a marine branch of the Royal Navy. "A" Grade in April, 1951, and Navy), 10 submarines, and 10 Because of the rain the service, verted cruisers would apparently Their programme was a com- has entered a team in each month- score of 48 points of a possible 50 minesweepers. In addition, about be radically new, because conven- points. which is usually held beneath the petitive shoot on the first Satur- ly shoot since . A team has also 100 aircraft of the Royal Navy, memorial plaque on the Thames tional sighting systems would be day of each month at Long Bay been entered in the "B" Grade tin Mr. Turk won the Beaufighter the French Naval Air Arm and Embankment, London, was held of no use when targets were hun- Rifle Range. It was accordingly two occasions. Trophy for snap shooting with a the French Air Force also took on the drill deck of H.M.S. dreds of miles away. The U.S. decided that steps should be taken Of an average of 11 teams in score of 47 points of a possible 50. part. Vice-Admiral Pothuau, "President", headquarters ship of Navy source is reported to have to form a Naval Rifle Club, with "A" Grade, the R.A.N.R.C. dur- Lieut. Face, R.A.N.R., shooting Commander of the French Naval the London Division of the Royal said that if the experiment proves the object of improving the stan- ing the first shoots obtained fifth with U.S.I. Club, won the aggre- Squadron, directed the exercise Naval Volunteer Reserve. Later satisfactory, the Navy might use gate with 135 out of 150. and British units of the Mediter- wreaths of Flanders poppies were some of its "mothballed" battle- ranean Fleet were under the ships for a similar purpose. The Mr. Turk and Shipt Coole and laid at the memorial plaque by command of Vice-Admiral P. B. U.S. Navy has six fast battleships Lieut -Commander (E) Spill each Rear-Admiral S. M. Raw, C.B., R. W. William-Powlett, C.B.. C.B.E., Flag Officer (Submar- in reserve. gained a silver spoon in the aggre- C B E., D.S.O. The manoeuvres gate. ines), and on behalf of the Old Aimrlcan Skyraider Aircraft br I.N. were designed to exercise anti- Comrades' Association. DANISH NAVY SURVEY The M.R.C.U. held its Annual submarine and anti-aircraft de- SHIP LANDS SICK MAN. Champion of Champions shoot on fence and to give an opportunity The Danish oceanographic sur- The first shipment of Skyraidcr S. Jameaon, K.B.E., C.B.). Saturday, 8th December, 1951, for tor weapon training. A confer- ANTI-SUBMARINE A party of R.N. Officers and vtry ship "Galathea" arrived in aircraft to be supplied to the Royal which the following were selected ence to analyse and discuss the COURSE. Chief Petty Officer pilots, ob- Wellington Harbour, New Zea- Navy by the United States under to represent the N.S.W. Command exercise was held at Golfe Juan The first course at the joint servers, and technicians were land, on December 22, seven the Military A i d Programme Rifle Club:— where the fleet reassembled on R.A.A.F.-R.A.N, anti-submarine sent to the United States during hours ahead of schedule, to land reached Glasgow in the S.S. Mr Turk, "Platypus"; Shipt concluding the manoeuvres. school at Nowra began on De- "American Clipper" in Novem- last English summer for training a sick crew member, Henning Coole, "Platypus"; Lt. Cdr. cember 11. The course, which Nielsen. Nielsen, an electrician, ber, 1951. The initial delivery at the U.S. Naval Air Bases at lasted until December 21, was a Norfolk, Virginia, and Quonset (E) Spill, S.M. 4 Staff. developed acute appendicitis on consisted of four aircraft, but a H.M. DESTROYER AS preliminary one and training and "very substantial number" is even- Point, Rhode Island, in the opera- Reserves: Electrician Batchelor, December 21. He was taken to "Australia"; C.E.R.A. ROYAL ESCORT. • instructional procedure were test- Wellington Hospital immediately tually to be made available. The tional use and maintenance of this ed. Skyraider is the American stan- type of aircraft. They were led Stevens, S.M. 4 Staff. The Royal Navy provided an the ship berthed. The "Gala- dard strike aircraft modified for by Lieutenant John Treacher, Three trophies and two silver escort of two destroyers to meet thea" was recently in Sydney. long range purposes. It is equip- R.N., who will command the spoons were competed for. the "Empress of Scotland" when US. NAVY PLANS ped with search radar and will Royal Navy's first Skyraider The results of the N.S.W. Com- the liner returned to the United GUIDED-MISSILE SHIPS. FLAG PRESENTED TO primarily be used by the Royil squadron being formed at the mand Rifle Club First Annual Kingdom with Their Royal High- According to a message from H.M.S. "TRIUMPH". Navy in anti-submarine operations. Royal Navy Air Station, Culdrose, Trophy Shoot: Grand Aggregate: nesses the Princcss Elizabeth and New York on January 3, the The aircraft-carrier H.M.S. Cornwall. Duke of Edinburgh. The destroy- United States Navy will soon be- The aircraft were handed over 1st, Mr. Turk, Nowra; 2nd, Lt. "Triumph" (Captain U. H. R. ers, H.M.S. "Creole" (Lieuten- gin to convert two heavy cruisers at a dockside ceremony by Rear- Lieutenant Treacher took part (L) Manders, Watson; 3rd, Lt.- James, C.B.E., R.N.) arrived at ant-Commander D. M. H. Stobie, into guided-missile launchers. The Admiral W. F. Boone. United in the first Naval air sortie on Cdr. (E) Spill, Submarines. Spithead from Port Said on No- D.S.C., R.N.) and H.M.S. "Zam- ships are the "Canberra" and the States Navy Deputy Commander- North "Corcan targets after the The Club members are to be vember 22. At Port Said she had bezi" (Lieutenant-Commander D. "Boston," each of 13,601 tons. in-Chief, Eastern Atlantic, to the outbreak of hostilities in the Far congratulated on the fine perform- disembarked the 1st Battalion, C. Salter, R.N.), met the "Em- They have been ;n reserve in Flag Officer Flying Training East. He also operated against ances they have put up in the past The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, press of Scotland" off In'shtra- West Coast of America ports and (Rear-Admiral W. T. Couchman, Conn unist terrorists in the year. To continue the good work who left Portsmouth on Novemb- hull (Northern Ireland) and re- were to sail, almost at once, to D.S.O., O.B.E.) in the presence of Malayan jungles on the only oc- it is hoped that many new mem- er 5. Before she left Spithead for mained in company until the liner East Coast yards for remodelling. the Rear-Admiral Reserve Aircraft casion thac Naval aircraft have bers will join the Club for the Portsmouth Dockyard Brigadier entered Queen's Channel, River Both cruisers were commissioned (Rear-Admiral (E) Sir William been used in that campaign. forthcoming season. E. E. J. Moore, Colonel of the Fakrawy, ltd. 13 Tto Navy It 1 Far Eastern waters whs .1 the Kor- air engineers under Lieutenant- Inniskillings, went on board and LITTLE SHIPS' 100-DAYS' ean war broke out. She served in Commander R. Tunstall, R.N., presented an Inniskilling regi- BOMBARDMENT IN the Korean theatre for ll months and the smooth working flight mental flag to the ship to com- HAN RIVER. JAMES PATRICK & CO. PTY. LTD. memorate the hospitality shown and returned to Australia last deck team under Lieutenant- on board to the 1st Inniskillings June for a refit. All but 12 of Commander R. How, R.N., "Syd- The little ships of the Common- SHIPOWNERS - AGENTS - CONTRACT on their voyage to the Middle her "first period" crew have been ney's" pilots have attacked enemy wealth Fleet (commanded by STEVEDORES Rear - Admiral A. K. Scott- East. Captain James accepted the replaced. troops, disrupted supply and com- CHARTERS AND BUNKERS ARRANGED flag on behalf of the officers and munication lines, given close air Moncrieff, D.S.O. and bar) re- cently completed 100 days con- men of the "Triumph." U.S. BATTLESHIP support to United Nations troops, REGULAR INTERSTATE ft OVERSEAS CARGO ft tinuous bombardment in the river "WISCONSIN" SHELLS carried out many daring runs on PASSENGER SERVICES Han in Korea. CANADA TO PRODUCE COMMUNISTS. defence positions and concentra- Frigates navigated this tor- NEW JET-FIGHTER. tions of enemy troops, and spot- Agents for . . . The U.S. battleship "Wiscon- ted for the gunnery of H.M.S. tuous shoal-studded river without Canada has decided to produce sin" joined forces with the U.N. "Belfast," U.S.S. "New Jersey", up-to-date charts to find new bom- FLOTTA LAURO (Italian Line)—Cargo and rmmgll aatvic*, Australia to Mediterranean porta, via Singapore. a new jet-fighter for her own ground troops on the extreme H.M.A.S. "Murchison" and other bardment positions from which to needs and for possible sale to east of the Korean hattleline on shell the enemy when he withdrew TASMAN STEAMSHIP CO. LTD.—Refrigerated cargo. Australia ships. to New Zealand. other countries, said the Canadian December 21 and claimed its big beyond the line of the Imjin River Press on January 3. They stated guns killed 22' Communist sold- H.M.S. "GRENVILLE" last July. They had to "tap" their ERIE RAILROAD (UAA.)—Aimnli I'I Aganta. that defence sourccs there plan to iers. The 45,000-ton battleship, IN COLLISION. way up the unknown and winding Head Office: 19 BRIDGE STREET, SYDNEY have the plane designed and pro- working by directions from front- H.M.S. "Grenville," air train- channels like a blind man with a Phone: BW 4181. duced • by the Avro Aircraft line artillery spotters, lobbed one- ing target ship (Lieutenant-Com- stick. It took 40 hours to navigate ALSO AT MELBOURNE AND BRISBANE Company. The jet would be dart- ton shells from its 16-inch guns mander J. M. Cowling, R.N.) 50 miles. WITH AGENTS AT ALL MAIN PORTS IN AUSTRALIA. wherever a Communist position shaped, with wings swept so far was shortly before midnight on Since that first venture the was suspectcd. On the West back that they would form part October 1 last in collision with an frigates have made 85,000 sound- Coast the British frigates "Alac- of the fuselage. It would cruise Italian merchant ship, the "Al- ings in charting a 26-mile channel rity" and "White Sands Bay," at more than 700 miles an hour ceo," 6997 tons, in a position and they have laid 33 navigational C. EBELING & SONS PTY. LTD. with the Canadian destroyer more than the speed of sound at about 12 miles south-cast of Star hui ys. During this period th;y "Cayuga," fought an artillery duel sea level. Point. Two officers and five rat- made 74 passages of the entrance with Communist shore batteries ings lost their lives. channel, grounding 14 times. The near Chinnampo. THREE AUSTRALIAN The "Grenville" was damaged fourteen ships associated with the PILOTS TO SERVE IN on the starboard quarter, flooding Han operation have spent 235 "GLORY". WALCHEREN COMMEMOR- occurring and the starboard en- days in the river and steamed Three Australian pilots will ATION SERVICE. gine being rendered unservice- approximately 2,115 miles. In all serve in the British aircraft-car- Representatives of the Royal able. Flooding was brought un- they have fired 15,370 rounds of rier "Glory" when she goes into Navy and Royal Marines were der control and the "Grenville" ammunition at the enemy. action again in Korean waters. present at a ceremony in com- proceeded to Plymouth under her The Australian frigate "Mur- SHIP REPAIRS, MARINE ENGINEERS, BOILERMAKERS One of them, Sub-Lieutenant memoration of the Walcheren own steam, making six knots, chison," hit several times in a AND WELDERS. Wyatt, joined the "Glory" at landing in World War II., at with H.M.S. "Triumph" in com- two days" duel with enemy bat- OWN FOUNDRY AND LABORATORY. Fremantle when she called there Wcstkappellc early in November, pany. The "Alceo" was damaged teries recently, is the veteran of Works: 70-80 STEPHEN ST., YARRAVILLE, VIC. on her way to Korea, and the 1951. Two Naval vessels—H.M. in the bows but was able to pro- the operation with 44 days in the other two will transfer from L.C.T.404 and H.M.M L.602— ceed to Plymouth under her own river to her credit. She was one *Phone: MW 2255. H.M.A.S. "Sydney," probably at from the Royal Naval Rhine Flotil- steam. of the three pioneers who made CABLES & TELEGRAMS: "EBELING," MELBOURNE. Reg. Office: 1 CASTLEMAINE ST., YARRAVILLE, W.13, Hong Kong. H.M.A.S. "Glory" la, which was paying a three-day The "Grenville" was attending the original navigation, the others sailed from Jervis Bay for Korea visit to Flushinc. and a party of H.M.S. "Triumph", who had being H.M.S. "Cardigan Bay" VICTORIA, AUSTRAUA. on January 11, accompanied by Royal Marine Officers and other been exercising in the English (29 days) and the Republic of the Australian destroyer H.M. ranks from the L'nited Kingdom Channel. Korea frigate "P.F.62." H.M.S. A S. "Warramunga." under the command of Major H. "Amethyst" has spent six days in At the inquest on the dead a F. C. Kimpton, R.M., attended. the Han, H.M.S. "St. Brides Bay" verdict that they died from mul- 19, the New Zealand frigates "BATAAN" LEAVES FOR tiple crushing injuries due to mis- "Rotoiti" 18, "Hawea" and SECOND PERIOD OF "SYDNEY'S" AIRMEN DO adventure was recorded by the "Taupo" 16; H.M. Ships "Mounts KOREAN DUTY. 1,000 SORTIES. Plymouth Coroner. Bay" 15, "Black Swan" 14, KINNEAR'S EMI! BRAND A quiet crowd of about 300 By the end of November H.M. The Coroner observed that "Morecambe Bay" one, and the people farewelled the Australian A.S. "Sydney" had flown over "All the men on the 'Grenville' destroyer H.M.S. "Comus" three destroyer H.M.A.S. "Bataan" 1,000 operational sorties in the appear to have behaved in such a days. The U.S. ships "Weiss" ROPE, CORDAGE. TWINE and LINEN THREADS when she sailed on January 8 for Korean war and during one oper- way that their efficiency and cool- and "Abnaki" also took part in her second period of duty in Kor- ational period of eight days she ness seem to have prevented any the Han bombardments and Re- ean waters. She will relieve the flew 401 sorties. Contributing kind of worse happening to the public of Korea armed motor Australian frigate, H. M. A. S. greatly to this achievement was 'Grenville', which otherwise might launches have done invaluable iS ii £ & fe il £ "Murchison". "Bataan" was in the efficient all night work of the have occurred." work. _ &

TIM Navy 20 February, I9S2. VI Staff to the Commander-in-Chief, Officer Commanding 3rd Aircraft PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS Home Fleet, and has been granted Carrier Squadron who will then the rank of Commodore 1st Class be known as Flag Officcr Heavy BOOK REVIEW Squadron, Home Fleet (short November 1st, 1951, was an- while holding the appointment. NEW FOURTH MEMBER, title F.O.H.S.). AUSTRALIAN NAVAL nounced on July 4th, was invalided MEDICAL OFFICER-IN- "WAVY NAVY," By "Some of the weather. It is, therefore, a BOARD. from H.M. Service in November. CHARGE, PLYMOUTH. Who Served," Harrap, London, useful reference book not only to STAFF OFFICERS, N.S.W. 12/6. the seafarer, but also to all those BRITISH VICE-ADMIRAL Surgeon Captain T. N. D'Arcy. A Royal Navy officcr, Captain Lieutenant-Commander A. N. This book, containing 263 pages whose livelihood and concerns are RETIRES. C.B.E.. L.R.C.P. and S., E. O. F. Price, has been appointed Dollard, R.A.N., commanding and illustrations, covers 24 prose affected physically or economically The retirement of Vice-Admiral D.O.M.S.. K.H.S., has been ap- fourth naval member of the Aus- officer of H.M.A.S. "Murchison," items and six poems, selected from by atmospheric variations. Sir Angus E. M. B. Cunninghame- pointed Medical Officer-in-Charge. tralian Naval Board and Com- which is in service in Korean a large number of contributions Graham, K.B.E., C.B., has been R.N. Hospital, Plymouth, and pro- modore (Air). In announcing waters, has been appointed Staff submitted by members of the announced by the British Ad- moted Surgeon Rear-Admiral. this on January 23rd, the Minister Officer to the Flag Officer-in- Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve "FROM THREE YACHTS", miralty, to date from 15th for the Navy (the Hon. W. Charge, N.S.W., and will take who served in the last war. Each By Conor O'Brien, Rupert Hart- October, 1951. Vice - Admiral NAVAL TRAINEE PILOTS McMahon) said that Captain charge of the vessel when it re- item is strikingly evocative of Davis, London. 8/6. Cunninghame - Graham has been AWARDED "WINGS". Price would have the rank of turns shortly to Australia, the some phase of service life, or some placed on the Retired List. Commodore (2nd Class) while Four Naval trainee pilots com- Minister for the Navy (the Hon. memorable personal experience. The sketches contained in this holding the appointment. pleted their preliminary training book of 240 pages originally ap- NEW MAJOR-GENERAL, W. McMahon) announced on As a memorial volume of the at the R.A.A.F. Flying Training peared some twenty years ago, Captain Price is 49, and is a R.M. January 24. Second World War it is, there- qualified naval pilot. He is now School at Point Cook on Decem- and, in this edition, have had no In consequence of the retire- fore, exceedingly worthwhile. The in command of the British cruiser ber 13 and were awarded their other revision than certain ex- ment of Major-General W. I. profits from the sale of "Wavy "Kenya." His last two appoint- "wings." They will leave for the BRITISH SURVEY SHIP cisions. They are primarily based Nonweiler, C.B.E., invalided from Navy" (already in its second ments were as commander of the United Kingdom in April for six MAKES FURTHER on experiences around thie Irish H.M. Service in November, edition as early as the beginning cruiser "Mauritius" an director of months' operational training. OCEANOGRAPHICAL coast in the yachts "Kelpie" and Colonel R. F. Cornwall, C.B., of last year) are devoted to the the Air Warfare Department of They were: Probationary Naval DISCOVERIES. "Saoirse," and on a delivery Royal Marines, Director of Pay King George's Fund for Sailors the British Admiralty. Since the Airman (P) J. A. O'Farrell, of The Royal Navy Survey Ship voyage to the Falkland Islands in and Records, Royal Marines, and the charitable activities of the war he has commanded the Royal Redfern, N.S.W.; Probationary "H.M.S. "Cook" (Captain K. St. ketch "lien." In his inimical Chatham, has been promoted R.N.V.R. Club. The book as well Naval Air Stations at Trincomalcc Naval Airman (P) J. T. Ferguson, B. Collins, O.B.E., D.S.C., R.N.) style, the author allows the reader Major - General, to date from as the Fund cannot be too highly and at Katakuranda, Ceylon. of Ilfracombe, Qld.; Probationary returned to her Devonport base commended and supported. to indulge in fireside yachting at November 23rd, 1951, and is to its best. Captain Price succeeds Commo- Naval Airman (P) B. F. Matthew, on November 26th after her first relieve Major - General Leech- of Salisbury, South Australia: voyage of 20,000 miles. She re- dore A. R. Pedder, R.N., who Porter. was lent to the R.A.N, by the Probationary Naval Airman (P) ported the discovery of two sub- British Admiralty for two years B. F. Matthew, of Salisbury, South merged mountains half-way be- "YOUR WEATHER SERVICE" "THE MARINE OBSERVER'S COLONEL C. R. HARDY, Australia; Probationary Naval and who will return to Britain in tween Spitzbergen and Scapa Prepared by H.M. Stationery Of- HANDBOOK," Part II. Prepar- R.M. AWARDED C.B.E. Airman (P) H. N. Becker, of Flow. TTie peaks were found to the middle of the year. fice, London. 1/-. ed by H.M. Stationery Office, The appointment of Colonel Warrnambool, Victoria. Includ- be 1,800 feet below water level Campbell Richard Hardy, D.S.O, ing their early disciplinary train- This booklet of 44 pages with London. 8/6. NEW SURGEON VICE- and the bases at 12,000 feet in a and two bars, O.B.E., Royal ing at Flinders Naval Depot, Vic- illustrations describes how the ADMIRAL, R.N. distance of two miles. Covering instrumental and non- Marines (Haslemere), to be an toria, the four pilots had been This discovery is expected to be British Meteorological Office sets instrumental observations, pheno- Surgeon Rear-Admiral K. A. additional Commander of the Mili- under training for 18 months. the subject of a scientific expedi- out to discharge its twin functions mena, and general meteorological I. Mackenzie, C.B., B.M., B.Ch., tary Division of the Order of the tion with the object of ascertain- of studying the physical aspect of work at sea, this official handbook, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., K.H.P., has British Empire, headed a list of atmospheric processes, from which FLAG OFFICER (FLOTILLAS) ing whether samples at the base of 122 pages, illustrated, has been been promoted Surgeon Vice- awards published in the London weather forecasts are prepared, completely rewritten for this 7th HOME FLEET. of the mountains link up with the Admiral and appointed Medical Gazette recently to officers and belief that in bygone times Spitz- and of keeping accurate records edition. Rear-Admiral W. G. A. Rob- Director General of the (Royal) men of the Royal Marines for bergen was tropical. distinguished services in Malaya. son, D.S.O., D.S.C., has been ap- Navy in succession to Surgeon H.M.S. "Cook," the most Colone' Hardy was serving as pointed Flag Officer (Flotillas) Vice - Admiral Sir C. Edward modern of the Admiralty survey Commander, 3 Commando Home Fleet, the appointment tak- Greeson, K.B.E., C.B., M.D., vessels, built at Devonport, carried Brigade, Royal Marines, and the ing effect in December, 1951. In CHAS. E. BLANKS PTY. LTD. Ch.B., K.H.P., the appointment to out a survey of the Western Isles success of operations carried out this connection, it is to be noted take effect in March, 1952. from north of Skye down to Islay. 15 CASTLE REAGH STREET, SYDNEY by this brigade in Malaya between that, with the appointment of The only charts of this area were May, 1950, and February, 1951, Flag Officer (Flotillas) Home Specialising in Theatre Advertising and Production of drawn in 1860. The "Cook" C. OF S. TO COMMANDANT was largely due to this officer's Fleet (short title F.O.F.H), re- could find little deviation from Advertising, Documentary and Featurette Films. GENERAL, R.M. INVALIDED. planning and leadership. appointment of Flag Officcr Com- manding 2nd Cruiser Squadron these eld charts. She took with Our Disc Recording Studio caters for reproduction of Major-General W. I. her the Oxford and Cambridge CHIEF OF STAFF TO will lapse. Cruisers of the Home Vocal, Instrumental and Personal messages. Nonweiler. C.B.E., Chief of Staff Exploration Society to Spitzbergen C.-IN-C., HOME FLEET. Fleet, other than the Flagship of to the Commandant General, on her northern run and picked up Special redaction to Students. Royal Marines, whose appoint- Captain G. B. H. Fawkes, the Flag Officer (Flotillas) Home the party after their investigations Ring for information—BW 8540, BW 8787. ment as Major - General, Royal C.B.E., has been appointed to Fleet (H.M.S. "Superb"), will be added to the command of the Flag had been completed. Mr.rines, Plymouth, to date from H.M.S. "Indomitable" as Chief of

February, 1952. 22 Tk« Navy 2) SEA-ODDITIES R.A.N. DEFENCE VESSELS SCHOOLS OF SHARKS. Schools of sharks cruising south sent bathers scrambling from the occur changes in the fauna. of them are water-proofed. In his "The Government has approved It is one of the most interesting coastal minesweepers and seaward water at two of Sydney's surfing Thus there is a geographical, or hook "Inland Birds," Mortimer the construction of 14 small of life studies how the salmon defence boats will be invited from beaches on New Year's Day. At perhaps it would be better to say. Batten, the eminent English natu- coastal /defence vessels for the trmit or sea trout, Kim in fresh the owners of privately-owned Dee Why-and Quccnscliff, where oceanographical, distribution of ralist, writes: "Wild duck swim R.A.N.," the Minister for the water like the salmon, takes ulti- yards, but the main engines and thousands of people were surfing, plants and animals on the sea bot- and dive without so much as be- Navy (the Hon. W. McMahon) mately to the sea, only to return major items of equipment will 1* the bathers had to be called from tom. And as on land there are coming moist below the surface announced on December 19th. once again to the fresh waters t-» ordered in the United Kingdom the water. At Terrigal, a little insects and birds which rest, feed feathers, but if a wild duck be shot spawn. What is the real explana- "The vessels are: three boom through the Admiralty. south of Newcastle, a shark, a tion of these instinctive habits? and shelter amongst the plants, and it fall into the water, its working vessels; four coastal mine- "The oil fuel lighter will he 12-foot Tiger, came up under a but also launch themselves into the plumage at once becomes satu- The fact which probably deter- sweepers; four seaward defence built in a private yard after a surf ski and hurled a lifesaver into air as a means of travel, and often rated. Thus it is evident that birds mined the curious life-habit of the boats; a self-propelled oil fuel tender has been accepted. the sea. The lifesaver righted the as a hunting ground, so in the sea are able to control the 'water- sea trout is the very interesting, lighter, and two deperming lighters ski and paddled for the shore "at there are fish, cuttlefish, prawns proofness' of their feathers, and "One of the deperming lighters although withal very simple one, which would be used with degaus- the speed," to use the lifesaver's and other animals which spend this is probably done by the work- will be built at Sydney, and ten- connected with the eggs. The eggs sing ranges to counteract the effect own words, "of an express train." part of their time on the sea bottom ing of the muscles which control ders will be called for the con- of the sea trout will not hatch out of magnetic mines. in any but the shallowest water. and part in the water above. But the roots." struction of the other at Fremantle. The least pressure is quite fatal to whereas insects, birds and bats "Wherever possible, Australian NEW OIL REFINERY FOR "But it is not only death which "The hull of one boom working them. It was no doubt around this may ordinarily be said to make no can render inoperative the water- materials, machinery and equip- AUSTRAUA. pretence at concealment while in vessel will be built at the Naval little tuft of circumstance that the proofing of a bird's feathers" ment will be used in the construc- The Anglo-Iranian Oil Com- the air, it is otherwise with many Dockyard, Williamstown (Vic- strange and eventful history of the writes Frank W. Lane. "A duck tion of the vessels. Machinery pany intends to build an oil re- of the marine forms when moving toria), but tenders will he called salmon familv slowly evolved it- was once placed in a tank con- and equipment will be ordered finery at Kwinana, near Fremantle, self. through their water world. for the construction of the other from the United Kingdom only if taining a wettting agent which two hulls in private yards. Ten- Western Australia, an authorita- counteracted the oily molecular it is not made in Australia, and tive source said in London on ders will also be invited for the the creation of the necessary poten- All fish breathe by means of layer on the duck's feathers. The manufacture of three sets of main December 21. The refinery will Most living forms are well duck was observed to sink slowly tial for its manufacture would not gills, the structure of which varies adapted for a life in the particular engines and boilers. cost about fA. 38,000,000 and will and it became soaked to the skin/" be justified because of the small be able to produce three million a good deal in the different kinds, environment in which they are "Tenders for the hulls of the quantity involved." but are essentially the same in found. These adaptations vary tons of crude oil a year. having like functions to discharge. considerably according to the dif- But while most fishes live exclu- ferent habits and natural settings Water - birds have several sively in water, there are a few of the life-forms. Thus the feet methods of progression in water. intermediate forms called "douhle- of the lotus bird are extremely The common European puffin lite- breathers," such as the mud-fish of long and slender and arc splendid- rally flies under water, its feet Brazil and north Australia. Both ly adapted to support the bird as merely trailing behind as they do of these fish can and do leave the it runs about over the lily-pads on when the bird is on the wing in water, their breathing being effect- still pools and amid swamp growth. the air. The tufted puffin of the STOREY & KEERS ed by modification of the gills, The art of walking on water even North Pacific, however, uses its thus allowing them to live both in is not unknown. Several of the feet as well as its wings during its and out of water. petrels, more generally known underwater excursions. The diving Ml SHELLEY STREET, SYDNEY among seafarers as "Mother petrel swims swiftly with its wings A great variety of life-forms Carey's Chickens," possess the un- and emerges from the water in make their home among the rocks usual distinction of being able to flight . The European dipper, or and sands and weeds of the sea, walk on water. The wings, of water ouzel, can swim on the sur- many using them for anchorage course, help to give them "lift" face of the water, despite the fact and protection, some feeding and support. It is this distinction that its feet are not webbed, and directly upon them. Crabs, star- which is supposed to have given beneath the water it uses its wings MARINE Be GENERAL BOILERMAKERS 8c ENGINEERS. fish, sea-urchins, sea-worms, sea- these birds the additional name -f as oars. The most expert swimmer St. Peter. They are not big birds; among birds is the penguin. Al- snails and anemones and a host of All Classes of Ship Repair*. less familiar animals are found :n Wilson's petrel is under 8 inches though a veritable landlubber this environment, and may in a in length and is the smallest web- when out of the water, the pen- footed bird known. general way be compared with the guin is the epitome of speed and Hud Office: Shipyefd: land fauna associated with land grace when swimming. The group SHELLEY STREET, WoodwoHi Section: plants and soils. With changes in of South American birds known LOUISA ROAD. LOUISA ROAD, SYDNEY. BALMAIN the nature of the sea bottom, Most sea - birds are superbly as torrent ducks use the sharp BX 1924 BALMAIN spurs at the bend of the wings to WB 2131 whether sand, gravel, rock or equipped for swimming about be- BX 1925 WB 1066 help them climb out of rapid WB 2166 coral, and with, of course, its neath the surface of the water. WB 2621 waters on to rocks. varying depths and other factors, For instance, the feathers of most

M it* M«m Fefcnwry, 1*11. It is estimated that New- THIRTY BOYS SELECTED FOR ENTRY TO RAN. COLLEGE SPEAKING OF SHIPS Zealand sheep-farmers have lost about four million pounds as a The Indian Minister of Trans- reconnaissance will cover a 73,000 The Minister for the Navy (the direct result of the dockers' strike King's School, Parramatta. port has announced that his square-mile section of the great Hon. William McMahon) an- Mcntz, Eric; Vermont, Vic.; which made it necessary to post- Owens, Desmond Thomas; government has dropped all ideas alluvial plain at the head of the nounced on December 21 that the pone the wool sales in the 1951 Bondi, N.S.W.; Randwick Hampton High School. of forming .shipping combines u-ith Bay of Bengal following 30 candidates had been season until prices had dropped. Boys' High School. Ross, Peter Alexander; East foreign interests and would not selected for entry into the Royal Bairnsdalc, Vic.; Melbourne Turner, Harvey Lawrence: seek. the aid of any other maritime Australian Naval College as Cadet Church of England Grammar The Rickmers Line of Hamburg CofFs Harbour J e 11 v, nation. Watersiders at Pyrmont, Syd- Midshipmen (13 year-old entry) School. has had its state credits cyt in con- N.S.W.; Coff's Harbour High ney. recently unloaded from the on Tuesday, 29th January, 1952: sequence of the Mai Rickmers at- School. Sharpc, Michael Vincent; Chinese freighter "Hei Sui" the T o o r a k, Vic.; Melbourne tempting to ship iron billets and Special Cadetships (granted Ward, Michael Bernard: Lis- The mentality of the pirates largest shipment of Japanese candidates who arc the sons of Church of England Grammar who for some time have been cement to reach Australia. Some angle iron to Communist China. more, N.S.W.; Lismorc High persons who have been on active School. School. doing considerable damage on the of the cement was for the Pyrmont service abroad in the Royal Aus- Taylor, Michael Banham; Burmese coast is shown by the fact powerhouse. Ou'ing to the increase of the tralian Navy or in an expedi- Hampton, Vic.; Mentonc tonnage of the British Tanker that, after a party had hoarded a tionary force raised under the Victoria. Grammar School. steamer, they listened to a woman Company, Mr. R. Gillespie, the provisions of the Commonwealth Topp, Andrew Geoffrey; South singing for two hours and then The world-famous clipper ship managing director, pointed out Defence Act). Anderson, John Victor; Yarra, Vic.; Melbourne got away with £2,300 of loot. "Cutty Sark" may be sailed out that the rate of replacement would Banks, Rowland Maynard; Wodonga, Vic.; Assumption Church of England Grammar from England to Australia to end also have to be greatly increased. Chcshunt, Vic.; King's Col- College, Kilmorc. School. her days, appropriately enough, in lege, Adelaide. Brysc, Richard Arthur; North The Egyptian Government has Sydney Harbour. Plans to car.-y After the Indian Court of Bartlctt, Ian George; Gawlcr, Brighton, Vic.; Gardcnvilc for some time been inviting ten- this out are being made by the Central School. South Australia. Inquiry had partly blamed the S.A.; Gawler High School. ders to salve the French ships sunk well-known Thames Barge Sailing Cornell, Peter John; Ballarat, stranding of the steamer "Jala- Hole, Christopher Maurice Pullar, Ian Stewart; Magill, in Aboukir Bay at the Battle of Club. Vic.; Ballarat Church of ketu" for deficiencies in the signal- Gosse; Walkerville, S.A.; St. S.A.; King's College, Ade- the Nile, but they are asking such England Grammar School. ling and pilotage at Karachi, the Peter's College, Adelaide. laide. a large share of what is recovered Edgar, Donald Haslam; Wan- Pakistan Government held an in- Smith, Donal Drummond; Pin- Wells, John Bernard; Brighton, that it is doubtful whether any Japanese trade circles say that garatta, Vic.; Wangaratta quiry and decided that it was en- gelly, W.A.; Albany High S.A.; Sacred Heart College, firm will take on the work. Australia is stepping up its ste:l tirely the fault of the ship's master. School. High School. Glenelg. imports from Japan. They say Irwin, Leslie John; Daylesford, that Australia, which needs the Vic.; Daylesford Technical Roughly half of the stowaways steel for motor-car bodies, is not The Chinese Government requi- Ordinary Cadetships. School. Western Australia. who arrived in British ports during able to get it from either the sitioned all the property of the Queensland. Longden, James Gervys; Hamil- 1950 were able to satisfy the United Kingdom or the United Shell Oil Company in China ex- ton, Vic.; Hamilton High Farrell, John; Bullsbrook East, Crawford, Robert Ian; Mackay, W.A.; Scotch College, Swan- authorities that they were British States. cept the Shanghai office building. School. bourne. subjects and therefore had to be Qld.; Mackay State Interme- allowed to remain. diate School. The Polish Government is en- Doyle, John Joseph, Rocklea, Stowaways from West Africa, couraging fuel economy by pub- Qld.; Sherwood State School. in order to avoid being repatriated, lishing the names of ships which Thomason, Charles Henry The South African Society of are now producing forged nation- show good results in it. Stewart; Gordonvale, Qld.; PAUL & GRAY PTY. LTD. Master Mariners had decided that ality books which can be bought Gordonvale State School. the Government ships should be without difficulty on the West The Institute of Navigation co- Wright, Michael Thomas; used in the coastal trade, but only African coast. 82 SUSSEX STREET, SYDNEY if they are properly managed and operated with the Royal Geogra- Oakey, Qld.; Drillham State economical. phical Society and the Hydro- School. graphic Department of the British Applicants for the London Admiralty in a Festival of Britain New South Wales. Pilotage District of Trinity House The tanker company recently exhibit on the development of Frizcll, Brian Parker; Crcmornc, can now register their names, for formed by the Anglo - Iranian, charts and navigational aids. N.S. W.; Sydney Grammar Mathieson and Common companies some time many have been School. penalised through not seeing the has been registered as the Lowland Jones, Terence William; Bowral, advertisement of vacancies while The Blue Funnel and other lines Tanker Company Limited. N.S.W.; Bowral High School. serving abroad. dropped the Adelaide call of their Lamperd, Glenn is Royden; fast refrigerated ships on account King's Cross, N.S.W.; Parra- The Governments of Pakistan of the cost of port delays. matta Junior High School. and India have granted permission A Jamaican stevedore, stealing Lattin, Jeremy Nicholas; Lane SHIP CHANDLERS, SAILMAKERS & IMPORTERS to the Standard-Vacuum Oil Com- a sleep in a refrigerated chamber During the year 1950 Australia's Cove, N.S.W.; Scots College, pany to make a geophysical survey of the Port liner "Port Philip,' was net gain by migration was 153.6S5 Sydney. YACHT REQUISITES- OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS of the Bengal basin area by air- shut in for sixteen days and sur- souls, of the immigrants Britain Maxwell, Peter Francis Philippe; RIGGING AND SPLICING A SPECIALITY borne magnetometer . The aerial vived. only accounted for 39.7 per cent. Kensington, N.S.W.; The |

U TW Nary F.kr..ty, I HI. 34 Harold Charles Eyers, Box Hill, Ewen John Alexander Scott- NAVY PROMOTIONS Lieutenant (Sp.) to Lieutenant- Victoria. Mackenzie, Upper Beacons- Commander (Sp.): ONE UNE LANDS TWO Kenneth Wilfrid Halliwell, field, Victoria. TWO SHARKS. The Minister for the Navy (the Commander Dovers is at pre- Toorak, Victoria. Kenneth Herbert Baum, Hove, Charles Kevin Griffiths, Fair- Hon. William McMahon) an- sent at Navy Office as Director of John Dudley Holman, Pennant South Australia. light, N.S.W. Plans. He was born at Dundas Two Tiger sharks were caught nounced the following promotions Hills, N.S.W. Frederick Sutton Holt, Nulla- Joel Henry Mace, Pymble, New- to date, 31st December, 1951. (N.S.W.) in 191S. Hugh David McDonald, D.S.C., on one set line at Sydney's BonJi wading, Victoria. South Wales. East Brighton, Victoria. Beach on December 27. The line Captam (£) Parser is at pre- Henry Marcus Bolton, Roscvillc Eric Warren - Smith. V.f D , Royal Australian Navy. sent serving in H.M.A.S. "Pen- Joseph James Dolan, Mackin- East, N.S.W. Hampton. Victoria. was set by Mr. J. Piatt, of Gould Commander to Captain: guin" in Sydney. He was awarded non, Victoria. George Arthur Vickcrs Stanley, Street, Bondi, about two miles off John Plunkett-Cole the O.B.E. for "leadership and Lieutenant (L) to Lieutenant- Engineer Lieutenant to Engineer D.S.C., Port Moresby, New the headland known as Ben Lieut.'Commander to Commander : enterprise" while serving in Commander (L): Lieutenant-Commander: Guinea. Buckler on the night before. He Leslie Maxwell Hinchcliffe, H.M.A.S. "Hobart" as Engineer Eric Scybert Hayward, Wil- Paul Edward Mason, D.S.C , was told he had hooked something Officer. He was Kirn in Sydney Ian Leslie Barton, Cowes, Vic. D.S.C. loughby, N.S.W. Bougainville. Solomon Islands. and went out with two mates in a in 1906. Philip Gregory Norman. Ade- William John Dovers, D.S.C Lieutenant (L) to Lieutenant- John Robert Kecnan, D.S.C., small launch to investigate. He Commander (E) Mussared is .it laide. S A (Acting Commander). Commander (L) : Bougainville. Silomon Islands. found that a 12-foot Tiger shark Commdndcrv (£) to Captain (E): present appointed to H M.A.S. Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander had taken the bait and a 5-foot Roger Grosvenor Parker, O.B.E. "Penguin" in Sydney. He was to Surgeon Commander: Denys Alex. Hill Champion. Lieut.-Commander (E) to born at Semaphore (South Aus Clifford Kelvin Churches, M B.. Cremorne, N.S.W. Tiger shark, which had tried to Commander (E) : tralia) in January. 1917. M.S., D.G.O. (Melbourne). Kenneth Edward Richardson. feed on the bigger one, had be- Mosman, N.S.W. Brynmor Wheatley Mussared Commander (£) Shimmin is at F R.C.S.. Hawthorn. Vic. come enmeshed in the line. It took present serving as Engineer Lieutenant (S) to Lieutenant- Mr. Piatt and his two friends [Acting Commander (E)]. Lieu tenant (S) to Lieutenant- Officer and engineer overseer .it Robert Law Shimmin. Commander (S) : Commander (S): about an hour and a half to bring Lieut.-Commander (L) to the Bendigo Ordnance Factory. Derwcnt Courthopc Phillips. them in. While about half-v Commander (L): He was born at Melbourne in Claremont, W.A. Thomas Edward Rolf. Wol- dozen men were hauling the big- Frank Fox Lord. June. 1919. Henry Campion Rostron. Sandy stonecraft. N.S.W. ger shark up to the boatshed, it Oscar Charles Pettingell, Bondi Instructor Lieutenant-Commander Commander (L) Lord is at pre- Bay, Tasmania. clamped its jaws on a wooden Beach, N.S.W. to Instructor Commander: sent serving in the United King- Roy Henry Pascoe, Ash Grove. beam and had to be levered free. dom. He served in the Second Queensland. Harold Arthur John Ford, Edmund Thomas Griffith. The smaller shark was sent to the World War as an officer on the John Huon Scott, Glen Iris, Toorak, Victoria. Lieutenant-Commander (S) to Taronga Park Zoo. Commander (S) : Naval Reserve and transferred to Victoria. William David Hamilton the Permanent Naval forces in William Charles Keirath, Mos- Graham [Acting Commander 1947. man Park, West Australia. (S)]. Instructor Commander Griffiths Leslie William Slade, Nedlands. For information: ... is at present Command Educa- West Australia. Captam Plun fctt • Cole is at tional Officer in New South William Edmund Bott, Moonee present in command H.M.A.S. Wales. Ponds, Victoria. "Anzac," and Commander (D) if Commander (S) Graham's pre- Kenneth William Hancock. the 10th Destroyer Flotilla. sent appointment is Fleet Supply Attadale, West Australia. ARMCO ^P "Anzac" recently completed a tour Officer of duty in Korea. In the Second Royal Australian Naval World War he commanded the Volunteer Reserve. (AUSTRALIA) PTY. LTD. R.A.N. Ships "Napier," "Nepal," Royal Australian Naval Reserve. Lieutenant to Lieut.-Commander: "Morman" and "Vendetta." He Lieut.-Commander to Commander: John Ernest Albert Toulouse. KEMBLA BUILDING was present at the Battle of Crete Derek Leopold Montefiore Mosman, N.S.W. in H.M.A.S. "Napier" and in this Castle. V.R.D., Potts Point, Arthur Tbomas Whish, Bris- destroyer evacuated 800 troops Lieut, to Lieut.-Commander-. bane, Queensland. 58 MARGARET STREET, SYDNEY from Crete to Alexandria after Peter Exley Begg, Bardon, Q. Ellison Octavius Hawker, Kings- the ship had been bombed and for Alexander McCulloch, Surrey ston Beach, Tasmania. MANUFACTURERS OF: a short time disabled. Commander Hills, Victoria. Arthur Henry Read, Tarneit, PRE-FABRICATED Plunkett-Cole was born in Mel- Brian Maynard Close, Hobart, Victoria. DRAINAGE PRODUCTS bourne in September, 1906. PRES-STEEL BUILDINGS Tasmania. John Douglas Adams, Ascot, Available in 20ft., 30ft., 40ft., and Multiple pipes and arches; corrugated Commander Hinchclijfe is at William Thomas Hotham, Gar- Queensland. 60ft. span, framework only. Haysheds nestable culverts; full circle corrugated present serving as Staff Officer denvale, Victoria. Robert Kerford Morton, Cam- available in 30ft. span. nestable pipe; perforated pipe. Operations to the Flag Officer ;n Kenneth Robert Hudspeth, bridge, United Kingdom. Charge, New South Wales. He D.S.C. and bar, Hobart, Tas- Walter Stewart Robinson, Gos- STEEL-SHEETS STAINLESS STEEL was awarded his D.S.C. for ser- mania. ford, N.S.W. Electrical-, deep drawing; black: bright Sheet; bar (hexagon, flats, squares, vices in the Battle of Crete. He Ronald Younger Filmer, Mel- Thomas James Peter O'Byrne, steel strip; aluminised. was born in Melbourne in 1916. bourne, Victoria. Launceston, Tasmania. rounds); wire; tubing.

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(Federal Council) (b) To provide entertainment Papua. — Mr. F. C. Hill, C/- Enquiries concerning eligibility for visiting Naval person- Department of Education, for membership of the Ex Naval nel. Port Moresby, Papua, N.G. Men's Association of Australia (c) To encourage the social and The principal State Councils have been received from time to intellectual and general ad- also have a number of Sub- time from ex-Otficers and Ratings vancement of its members. Sections under their jurisdiction who served during World War 2, (d) To endeavour to assist and the whole organisation in and also from serving personnel members in distress and to Australia is governed by the Fede- who are now on the eve of be- obtain suitable employment ral Conferences and the Federal coming time expired from the for them wherever possible. Council. The Association has R.A.N. The membership of the (e)) To purchase property and been granted official recognition Association is restricted to Officers hold buildings for the bene- by the Admiralty and is in no and Men who have served in the fit of its members, and for way under the control of the Royal or Dominion Navies, Royal this purpose authority is Royal Naval Association in the Marines, or Women's Naval Ser- given to raise money by United Kingdom. vices for a period of at least mortgage, debentures or This Association is now in its twelve months, or at the discretion otherwise. • thirty-second year of existence, it of a State Council, a lesser period (f) To provide club rooms for having been inaugurated in Mel- if served during hostilities and been the benefit of its members. bourne during the H.M.A.S. discharged through illness or in- (g) To print, publish and cir- "Challenger's ' Reunion in Novem- jury. culate Books, Magazines ber, 1920. There were 18,532 Application for membership and Papers, as may be con- registered members on the Asso- forms can be obtained from any ducive to the Association's ciation's books at 30th June, 1951. Honorary State or Sub-Section Aims and Objects. The Executive would like to Secretary, to whom the completed (h) To take on lease or rent show readers of the "Navy" just forms should be returned, along premises, etc., for the pur- how one of its Honorary Officers with the Entrance Fee of 7/6d., poses of the Association. became interested in this vast or- plus 14/- Annual Subscription A list of the names and ad- ganisation of ex-Naval personnel. from 1st January to 31st Decem- dresses of the various State Secre- Whilst serving aboard the light as Lieui.-Commander G. M. Di«on. M ber; all fees payable in advance. taries is given below for the guid- cruiser, H.M.A.S. "Melbourne" in two pr*d*cet«or». Applicants joining between 1st ance of intending members:— 1924, Mr. G. W. Scott came into July and 31st December are only Victoria.—Mr. W. H. Sullivan, contact with Chief P.O. Gregory MONSTER SHARK charged 7/- Subscription for the Box 1201k, Post Office, Eliza- (a then Honorary Member of the 36 R.A.N.—RATING STRENGTH. ceived from men who wanted to CAUGHT ON LINE. half-year. An Association Badge, beth St., Melbourne. Victorian Section). Chief Gregory The Minister for the Navy similar to the design above, is be Stoker Mechanics. To prevent A message from Adelaide on N.S.W. — Mr. R. Humphry, was quite talkative about the has announced that the rating issued with a registered number the Stoker Mechanic Branch from January 10 said that a shark, Box 3082, G.P.O., Sydney. various activities of the Associa- strength of the R A N. was in- weighing 2.071 lb., which may when the applicant has been ac- outstripping other branches, it be- Sth. Aust.—Mr. W. A. Palmer, tion and was keen for its advance- creased hy 1,742 during 1951. break world big-game fishing rc cepted into the Association as a came necessary to restrict entries Naval Memorial House, 23 ment and expansion; this zeal was 2,664 new recruits entered the cords, was caught by Mr. J member. This badge always re- the reason why Mr. Scott decided to it to 30 a month. Peel St.. Adelaide. Royal Australian Navy between Vcitch on a 24-thread line at Port mains the property of the Associa- to become a member and forth- This resulted in a much larger West Aust. — Mr. W. W. January 1 and December 31, 1951. Lincoln on January 9. The shark tion and must be returned should with made out his application • o number of applications for entry Wayman, Box 179, Post The number of re-entries was 146. was 15 feet 9 inches long and S the member resign or become un- join. His application was held in as Naval Airmen (non-flying). Office, Fremantle. Discharges over the same period feet 2 inches in girth. Mr. Vcitch financial. abeyance because he had a further totalled 1,068. Many more Seamen, Communi- Queensland — Mr. W. M. intends to claim the shark as The organisation is strictly non- Macdonald, 112 Brisbane St., eighteen months to go before com- This rate of enlistment is en- cation and Electrical ratings, world record for all classes of political and non-sectarian and Bulimba. pletion of his service in the couraging, Mr. McMahon added, Cooks and Stewards and Sick tackle. The present world record does not participate in any indus- Tasmania.—Mr. G. R. Howe, R.A.N.; a serving applicant in hut a similar increase will have to Berth Attendants are still urgently for all classes of tackle is said to1 trial dispute. Principal objects of Box 373, G.P.O., Hobart. • those days could only join the be maintained if the target of needed. be held by Mr. R. G. Cowell, of the Association are:— A C T — Mr. K. White. Box 18, Association within six months of about 14,000 ratings is to be The Minister also advised that Balhannah, South Australia, with (a) To unite ex-Naval person- Post Office, Manuka, Can- discharge. The Victorian Section reached by June 30, 1953. the R.A.N. Reserve showed a net a 1,919 lb. shark caught on a 54 nel for their mutual benefit. berra. admitted him as a member in A feature of the applications for gain of 926 ratings in 1951, with thread line. entry was the large number re- 1,098 entries and 172 discharges. F.bni.ry, 1952. TW Navf II. November, 1925, and after a year in this State he transferred his membership to N.S.W. Section, AARONS which had been formed in April If it's from . . of that year. He regularly attend- EXCHANGE ed the monthly meetings held in Sydney and took a lively interest MOHAN HOTEL in the Section's debates and busi- 194 5 644,000 trained ness. During 1931 he was elected AND I GRESHAM STREET to the Committee and almost im- mediately was elected to the office SYDNEY of the Section's Hon. Secretary, CATO'S Australians under arms • with a Sub-Section at Newcastle under his wing. This officc was occupied by Mr. Scott for four and a half years, and upon resign- IT MUST BE GOOD Only the Best Brands ing the position was elected as the 1952? Stocked. State's Federal Conference Dele- Dining Room gate and assumed the office of We all hope there will not be another war, but only a fool would close Unsurpassed. Hon. Federal Treasurer, which his eyes to facts and say "War is impossible". position he carried out for seven In 1914, and again in 1938-9, the free nations, firm in their desire for years, when he was elected to his world peace, were left badly at the barrier by the onslaught of ruthless • present officc of Hon. Federal Secretary upon the death of the aggressors. 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March, 1983. 2 Ik* 1 end. In the year 1950 it was installed on 800 The Sea Furies were told to leave the spot at ships: by June of last year more than 1,000 con- 1715 because of the limit of their fuel. At 1715 tracts for installation had been received. British the Meteors left. warships are installing the new equipment gener- The "Sydney's" helicopter (Aviation Pilot Australia's Marftfae Javnurt ally and more than 362 foreign-owned vessels had Babbitt, U.S.N., of San Diego, California, and by that time adopted it. Airman G. C. Gooding, U.S.N., of Los Angeles), was making a good 20 knots more than the ac- cepted maximum for this type of aircraft. At THE HELICOPTER AGAIN PROVES ITS 1725 the downed airmen saw the helicopter ap- EFFICACY AS A RESCUE CRAFT. proaching at 4,000 feet. They themselves were pinpointed by the flashes from their chattering Reference has often been made in this journal machine gun. Inside a protecting circle of shells to the increasing use and value of the helicopter from the guns of the Sea Furies the helicopter as an air-sea and "hehind-the-lines" rescue craft. dropped down beside the two airmen. Aircrew- But today such rescues, though ever dramatic man Gooding jumped out and shot two of the enough, have gone beyond the stage of novelty. enemy who had crept up to within 15 yards. He Indeed, one of the most dramatic rescues of the and the two "crashed" airmen then got into the Korean war was made recently by a helicopter. helicopter which withdrew out of range. Tri- Flying against the clock with darkness closing in umphantly escorted by the Sea Furies, whose pilots it saved the lives of a Firefly pilot and his observ- had risked their lives by staying for 15 minutes er from the Australian light fleet carrier "Sydney." beyond the estimated fuel limit of their aircraft, Forced to land 50 miles behind the enemy lines in the helicopter returned to the carrier. The last North Korea, things looked grim for these two half hour of the flight was made in darkness but crashed airmen. How magnificently they were all three aircraft landed safely. picked up and brought safely back, is succinctly Afterwards Pilot Babbitt modestly declared told in a recent Admiralty News Summary. No that he could not have made the rescue but for account could be more worthy of editorial space the co-operation of the R.A.A.F. and the U.S.A. and comment. A.F. and the loyal devotion to their comrades of The two men. Sub-lieutenant M. D. MacMillan, the Sea Fury pilots. R.A.N., of Melbourne, and Observer 1st Class ing on radio aids to marine navigation in 1947 and J. Hancox, R.A.N., of Nowra, N.S.W., were, it FIRST TELEVISION BROADCAST FROM Vol. li. March. 1952. No. 3. by 1948 a chain had been erected in South Eng- appears, literally snatched from within a circle R.N. AIR STATION. land and another was under licence in Denmark. of enemy troops closing in on them and their A GREAT SEA-AIR NAVIGATIONAL Used as an adjunct to—hut not a substitute for wrecked aircraft in the darkness after the enemy GUIDE. —radar, the Decca system emits continuous trans- had been held at bay for over an hour by bursts The first television broadcast from a Royal mission that intersect to form a stationary radio of machine gun fire from the two airmen, and Naval Air Station took place on November J from fire from Sea Fury aircraft which flew a protective H.M.S. "Gamecock", the Royal Naval Air Station The value of radio aids to marine and aerial pattern—similar to stationary rings formed in water by two objects dropped side by side. The patrol overhead. at Bramcote, Warwickshire, England. navigation, provided always it is used in the best The sixty-minute transmission featured the lines making up this pattern, the report states, Their Firefly had been hit after it had success- interests of navigation in general, is becoming Vickers Supermarine Attackers of No. 800 Squad- remain in known positions and are depicted on fully bombed a railway tunnel North of the Han more and more manifest and utilised. In this re- ron, commanded by Lieutenant-Commander G. C. marine charts as intersecting lattices, each being River. The pilot had to make a belly landing in spect a report recently published by the New York Baldwinson, D.S.C. and bar, R.N., and aircraft "Times" is of particular interest, emphasising as numbered distinctively. a ricc paddy. Aboard ships specially installed clock-like re- of two Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Squad- it docs one of the latest utilisations to which this There was doubt as to whether a helicopter ceivers can indicate continuously the number of rons piloted by the "week-end fliers" of the Royal great boon to mankind has been put. could reach the two men and get back before radio position-lines intersecting at the ship. Thus Navy—No. 18? 3 (Lieutenant-Commander (A) "Navigation for ships and planes approaching darkness. At 1620, however, H.M.A.S. "Sydney" the problem of locating a vessel's position is re- R. F. Hallam, R.N.V.R. based at Bramcote and the British Isles," it says, "will become simpler sent off her helicopter. A second shore-based heli- duced merely to reading off two numbers from a recruited from the Birmingham area, and No. and safer tomorrow with the opening in Scotland copter was also put into operation. As Air Group dial and finding the points on a chart where the 1831 (Lieutenant-Commander (A) R. I. Gilchrist, of a new chain of radio transmitting stations. Commander, Lieutenant - Commander Michael lines intersect. R.N.V.R.) which operates from the Naval Air "The chain, erected under the authority of the Fell, D.S.O., D.S.C., R.N., swooped down low to Station at Stretton, Lancashire. British Government, consists of a master station In an aircraft with new equipment a pilot can tell the men that helicopters were coming, his air- Televiewers saw Rear-Admiral C. R. L. Parry, in South Scotland with three 'slave' stations in see at a glance and with no manipulation both craft was hit and he had to "limp" to a friendly D.S.O., the Flag Officer Ground Training, arrive North Ireland, West England, and East Scotland. his position and the course to steer. The Decca airstrip. Meanwhile a flight of Royal Australian at Bramcote by helicopter to make an inspection The stations will send out continuous beams to flight log now in general use corresponds with Air Force Meteor Jets joined the Sea Furies over of both R.N. and R.N.V.R. personnel. The heli- allow pilots to fix their p isitions accurately in all the invisible radio grid set up by transmitting sta- the wrecked Firefly. copter afterwards gave a demonstration of its use weather up to J00 miles off-shore." tions and thus automatically plots a plane's course At 1700 there was a crisis. The shore-based by the Royal Navy in air-sea rescue operations. The system, it is of particular interest to know, while eliminating the need to transfer the position readings to a chart. helicopter was ordered to return to base because Other items included a display of fire-fighting and has been developed by the Decca Company of of the risk of approaching darkness. The rescue (in w'hich an aircraft was deliberately set Britain from war-time developments in radio nav- Use of the Decca system, as has already been pointed out in previous issues of this journal, has "Sydney's" helicopter passed the other on its way on fire) and flying demonstrations, including rock- igation aids. The system was approved for inter- back. et-assisted take-offs and dummy deck landings. national use at the New York international meet- been widely adopted in Britain since the war's

March, 1952. 4 Tft* Nitv I THOSE GRAND OLD WOODEN WALLS if you are TIRED A MIDDY'S LETTER FROM TRAFALGAR. Here is a copy of an original letter which was forwarded by Captain Lord, He has still spared me this W. E. Eglen, Harbour Master, Strahan, Tasmania, to Commander great goodness. and F. D. Shaw, Resident Naval Officer, Hob art, and by him passed on, Too much credit cannot be given in turn, to "The Navy," with a view to publication in its pages. That to Lord Northesk and Captain we are pleased to print so historic and genuine a document goes with- Bullen for their gallant Conduct during the Engagement; indeed, it out saying. The writer of the letter was a midshipman in H.M.S. depressed was the case with every Officer "Britannia" at the Battle of Trafalgar. and Man in the ship. Immediately the Enemy had H.M. Ship "Britannia". Off Cadi:, Octobcr 20th, 180?. struck I went on board one of the French prizes to take possession of (N.B.—Date given, 20th, is obviously in ertor.—Ed.) • • her, and when I got there I may Dear Parents, I am happy to say that the "Britan- well say I was shocked to see the nia" was certainly a very fortunate sight, as 1 believe there was not Before you receive this, I am Ship During the whole time, as less than 3 or 4 hundred Bodies afraid you will be uneasy at not we had not above 10 killed and lying about the Decks, cut and hearing of my safety during our TAKE A COURSE OF 41 wounded, although we were the mangled all to pieces, some Dying late glorious contest with the Com* 4th ship in Action and the last out and other dead. We took the re- bined Fleets of France and Spain of it, and I doubt not but it will mainder of the men that were alive which took place on Monday, the be found that She does honour to on board of our own Ships, at 21st of October, as follows: CLEMENTS TONIC all who belongs her, as our fire was which they seemed very glad. At Daylight we had the Satis- not directed to one particular Ship, And from the Information we can faction of seeing our Enemy about but as soon as one had struck to us get from them they really came 8 or 10 miles to leeward and Lord we immediately made to others, out of Cadiz with an intention of Nelson immediately made the sig- and at one time had 5 ships blazing fighting, not thinking us to be above nal to close the Enemy and prepare away upon us, but we soon tired 17 Sail of the line, and them un- fot Battle, and about 12 o'Clock them out. der the Command of Sir Robt. we were close up with them, 43 Calder (but he was not with at sail in number, of which were As I told you before, 1 wis all), and that Lord Nelson was in of the line, and we 27. stationed at the Signals of Colours England sick: so they thought they The "Royal Sovereign," Vice- in the time of Action and being on were an equal match for our 17, Admtr.il Collingwood, first opened the Quarter Deck 1 had an oppor- with them 37; and in fact made the fire of the Enemy which tunity of seeing the whole of the themselves so sure of taking us was most gallantly maintained hy Sport, which I must own rather into Cadiz that several private the whole Fleet for upwards of 6 daunted me before the first or Gentlemen came out of Cadiz as hours successively, when we found second broadside but after them I passengers on purpose to see the ourselves in possession of upwards think I never should have been Action and have the pleasure of of 20 Sail of the Line of their tired of Drubing the Jokers, par- towing us in, but they were once Ships, one of which was on fire, ticularly when my ship mates be- more deceived in our Wooden and shortly after blew up with a gan to fall around me, which in Walls. Amongst the prisoners in most terrible explosion, yet a grand the room of disheartening an Eng- our Ship there are 5 or 6 of these but awful sight as some hundreds lishman only encourages him, as Gentlemen of pleasure, and I think of Souls must have perished with the sight of his Country Man's they are in a fair way for seeing her. blood makes his heart burn for an English prison before they re- Night coming on, we found a revenge. turn to—Cadiz again. difficulty in securing our Prizes, I am very sorry to inform you I am sorry to inform you that but which we did as well as pos- that my worthy friend, our Signal before we could get our prize off THE ONLY LOGICAL sible, not knowing in what state Lieutenant, was knocked down by the Enemy's coast it came on so our own ships were in or whether a double-headed shot close by my CONTAINER FOR MILK heavy a gale of wind that it was our Noble Commander had out- side and immediately expired, with difficulty we could keep our lived the glorious Action, when it much lamented by his brother own disabled Ships off the lee was with heartfelt sorrow we Officers and every one in the Ship. Shore and I am greatly afraid that AUSTRALIAN GLASS MANUFACTURERS CO. PTY. LTD., shortly after heard he had expired I had several narrow escapes from has been the cause of us losing 428 SPENCER STREET, ME LBOURNE. 'Phone FJ 6101 of his wounds got in the contest. the Enemy's shot; thanks be to the several of our prizes, but as yet

Til Navy March, 1952. 4 7 ADMIRAL SAYS FAREWELL AT PLYMOUTH. Naval tradition was maintained U.S. RESERVE SHIPS READY at Devonport when Admiral Sir Rhoderick McG rigor, C.C.R. AT INSTANT CALL D.S.O. and bar, C.in-C , Ply mouth .said farewell before assum- ing duties as First Sea Lord. He Approximately 2,000 naval vrs censummg to remuvc. In event t welcomed his successor, Vice- scls. rat ging from small tugs and emergency, it is even rossible to Admiral M. J Mansergh, C.B. landing rait to huge aircraft car- operate motors, pump?, and en- C.B.E riers and warships, can be put into gines without first taking off the service by the United States Navy preservative coating. Only about Sir Rhoderick then went in a on virtually instant call without a 10 gallons of coating are required naval cutter, commanded hv Vice single bit of new construction. for a medium-sized ship, at the sur- Admiral P. K. Enright,' C.B. prisingly low cost f "5 cents a Assembled in seventeen reserve- C.B.E, Admiral Superintendent gallon.) of Devonport Dockyard, and man groups at various strategic points ned by captains of ships and estab- along both the Atlantic and Pacific All openings m the vessels lishments in the port He was U.S. coasts, these vessels give the such as doors, vents, valves, and rowed ashore to the Royal William United States the largest naval ports were then scaled, except victualling yard, where Admiralty potential of any country in the for connections to special outside police fastened drag-ropes to his world to-day. They consist of machinery that maintain circula- car and hauled it out of the gates. craft which, at the conclusion of tion of dried air and thus prevent In a signal to Plymouth Com- World War II, underwent a pro accumulation of moisture. So mand, Admiral McGrigor said: cess — known as "mothballing" - efficiently has this machinery been "It is with great regret that 1 haul designed to keep them in good found to operate that even brass down my flag as Commander-in- condition and available to the remains brightly polished within a Chief. I have a high regard and active Fleet without the expense "mothballed" ship. admiration for the West Country of maintaining crews aboard. Lastly, plastic film and hot plas- sailor, with whom I have served This process, which preserves tic paint were applied to all deck so much in peace and war. 1 thank hulls, superstructures, machinery, equipment too cumbersome to be you for your unfailing support and finishings from deterioration taken inside the craft for storage. and for your great achievements of any sort for almost unlimited These plastic materials take on a in the past." periods of time, has constituted rubbery texture when exposed to one of the greatest advances in the air, and form an effective mois- can say nothing respecting the con- naval maintenance in the 20th ture-proof covering for turrets, sequence of the Gale, though it is Century. guns, navigation equipment, and now evening on fine Weather As a first step toward the similar gear. again and I hope shall be able to "mothballing" of the ships, all The same paint, mixed with give a better account of the prizes perishable stores and combustibles poison and applied to the outside than we had reason to expect dur- were removed. Then the craft of the hulls, kills barnacles and ing the Gale. were gone over inch by inch, to other sea life that might form on We do not yet know what has insure that they were in complete the bottoms of idle vessels. become of the remainder of the repair. A thorough cleaning came Thus prepared, this stand-by Enemy Fleet, who tix>k to their next, and then a full supply of fleet has remained a; anchor and heels as soon as they saw we had stores (except perishables, such as at dockside for six years, immune got so many of their ships in our foods) was put on board. A final, to the normal ravages of time and possession, and I am sorry to say careful air-test check of all water- the elements. we could not follow them, our own tight compartments followed, Where would the crews come Fleet being so much disabled. whereupon a special compound to from if it were necessary to place I hope it will not be long before prevent rust was applied to every a large portion of this huge reserve our Ship returns to England that metal surface. fleet into operation all at once? I may have the pleasure of hear- (This special compound, de- They, too, arc in reserve — ing from you, which I have never veloped by research chemists at the thousands of officers and men done since we left the Channel. U.S. Navy's Preservation School, throughout the United States. I hope that this gallant Action somewhat resembles wax and has They are civilians now, but they will be the means of restoring none of the disadvantages of the are in constant part-time training peace to England and that.we shall older grease compounds used for in case the day should come when soon meet together. rust prevention, which collect dirt their country has to call on them (Signed) JOHN WELLS. and are consequently very time- once again.

TW Navy MASTERS AND MATES' EXAMINATIONS and some parts of their meteo- rology." PRINCIPAL EXAMINERS REVIEW A SUCCESSFUL YEAR. As regards the oral examination. Captain Quick said that through- out the three grades he got the In an address read on his behalf per cen'. mark—"men who have from the lower deck taking advan- same comment from the examiners at the annual conference of the just managed to squeeze through tage of the correspondence courses at the ports, on the general lack Association of Navigation Schools on the combined efforts of candi- which are now being run by our of observation on the part of the of Great Britain, Captain J. H. date and examiner." nautical schools," Captain Quick candidates, and more than one Quick, the Principal Examiner of In the second mate s examina- commented. "Some of these examiner deplored the ignorance Masters and Mates, stated that tion, no fewer than 550 marks courses have been especially framed of the present generation of sea- although the improved standard of were allotted to the two papers on to suit the particular needs of men of the most elementary sea 1949 had been maintained lack of practical navigation and chart young ordinary seamen or able terms. observation during service at sea work. These were practical sub- seamen, and with their help and was responsible for much of the jects, and there were a limited some personal effort there is no Knowledge of the collision regu- lations left much to be desired. poor quality of work by candi- number of types of problem which reason why considerably more That came from all ports in the dates. could be set. young seamen should not reach United Kingdom. There, again, Dealing with the second mates One would think that the pros- certificated officer status and even- was a subject in which candidates first, Captain Quick referred to pective candidate would be quite tually command." should be able to obtain a good the substantial increase in the satisfied before attempting the ex- Th» total number of first mates grounding while at sea. numbers which came forward for amination that he was proficient in examined in 1949 and 1950 re- Signalling, as a subject, seemed examination last year. In 1949, all its aspects with the reasonable mained about the same. 817 in to have become very much the 952 candidates were examined for certainty of scoring full marks in 1949 and 818 in 1950. The per- Cinderella of the examination. that grade, of whom 78 per cent, that part of the written work ex- centage pass, however, rose from Merchant ships did not carry sig- passed; in 1950, 1281 candidates cept for possible clerical errors, 75 per cent .to 78 per cent. were examined, of whom 75 per which were not penalised too nalmen, and whether they like it On the general proportion of or not, officers must learn to signal cent, passed. That was a substan- harshly. But no, there was unques- marks gained to pass, however, tionable evidence from the papers by flags and lamp. It was an ex- tial increase in numbers of some- only 33 per cent, scored over 80 thing over 34 per cent. that much of tbe practical naviga- tremely important patt of their per cent., which compared un- tion and ckartwork remained a duty as officers of the watch. It Of three who passed, whereas favourably with the second mates' closed book to some candidates. was important in peace-time; it 74.3 per cent, were successful 46.5 per cent., and a larger num- might be vital in an emergency. within two attempts in 1949, Going through the figures of ber of men were clustered around 74.6 per cent, succeeded in 1950. successful candidates for 1950 they the 70 per cent. mark. Only eight During the year 1950 the prac- tical use of W.T.D.F. was intro- Some of the second mates were found that a substantial number first mates scored over 90 per cent. duced into the signal portion of doing extremely well in the ex- of "other ranks" had succeeded in A somewhat similar position ob- the examination for the first mate, aminations. obtaining a second mate's certifi- tained with the masters as with the foreign-going, and master, home Through the year no fewer than cate, no fewer, in fact, than 129. first mates. The number examined trade, and Captain Quick was glad 55 candidates had scored between That figure compared very favour- was 532 in 1950, against 549 in to be able to say that the can- 90-100 per cent, on their written ably with the figure of 53 for 1949, and the percentage pass had work, and over 46 per cent, of the 1938. didates in general made a very risen from 73 to 79 per cent. The satisfactory showing. The number K-™ •• - successful candidates for second "I know you will agree that actual marks gained to pass were of failures had been small, and the mate scored over 80 per cent. such an increase is very encourag- lower than the first mates, and schools were to be congratulated There was still, however, too large ing indeed, but I would like to only three men scored over 90 per upon the way in which they had a number clustered around the 70 see more and more young men cent. Cheering Crewd Weleemes Sydney Men co-operated in bringing the men to Nearly 1,000 relatives and were damaged in course of oper- "Treating these two grades col- that stage of proficiency by the friends waved and cheered at ations. However, all but three lectively, we find, as we have provision of equipment and ade- Garden Island, Sydney, on March of the pilots were rescued. 5, when the aircraft carrier H.M. found for some years now, that quate instruction. "Sydney" airmen attacked A.S. "Sydney" returned from ROYLYN DRY CLEANERS much of the poor quality of their Communist supply lines, road and "I have been told also that service in Korean waters. They work is due. largely, to lack of rail bridges, gun emplacements DEPOTS THROUGHOUT SYDNEY AND observation during their service at officers at sea. whether an exami- had every reason to do so. METROPOLITAN AREAS and fuel and ammunition dumps, sea," Captain Quick continued. nation faces them or not, are de- The 1420 officers ar i men, and they arc credited with caus- commanded by Captain L. H. NAVAL AND MERCANTILE WORK "They often seem to have a better veloping a closer interest in this ing 3,200 enemy casualties. Harries, R A N., often operated ON SHORT NOTICE grasp of material which they need The first task given her crew navigational aid, finding out how in temperatures of 18 degiccs be- to study from books than that on their return was to march up and why it works, which is, of low freezing point. The ship which they should acquire quite and down the wharf rehearsing Head Office and Works: course, exactly what the navigat- set a record for a light Sect-car- naturally, as intelligent seamen, for the march through Sydney rier of 89 sorties in a day. 1J BEATTIE STREET, BALMAIN from experience and observation. ing officer should do with all navi- streets on March 6. The crews This is often apparent in some of gating aids if he is to keep abreast Ten of "Sydney's" aircraft Telephone: WB 2660. of the H.M.A.S.'s "Sydney." their answers in ship construction of his profession." were shot down by Communist Tobruk ". and "Murchison," all ground fire and 90 -nachines M recently returned from Korea. Tk. Navy M.rek, lt(2. 45 photographs in their studies of Modern Archaeologists "Dig" for History from the Air volcanic areas, soil erosion and AS THEY SEE US geology. Recently, under the aus- By RICHARD OTARRELL, of the "Uneteo Courier". pices of the United Nations, an "The British Throne is one of in public life? Do we discipline international centre was set up at the finest institutions on earth. ourselves? They can be uncom- Delft, Holland, to train specialists What is more important is not fortable questions, can't they? British farmers near Andovcr and other countries for town and plete idea of just what it looked in the aerial exploration of regions that the British people still love In their ' Remembrance Day were sceptical when they heard country planning and in the re- like over a couple of thousand whose reso'j-ccs were insufficiently their Kings and Queens, but that Call to the People of Australia, that there were clear and unmis- vision of maps. But archaeologists years ago. well known. Here, therefore, they hold fast to their respect for the 12 leading Churchmen and takable traces of an important cannot obtain all the information aerial photography is simultaneous The extreme drought of 1949 law, - their devotion to Parlia- members of the Judiciary remind- native (ancient) settlement buried they want from these high altitude ly helping geologists, map-make-s caused the plan of one corner of mentary Government, their de- ed Australians that the future of in their fields. They knew every photographs, which arc taken at and agriculturists. the 50-acre legionary fortress at cency and fairness in public life, this country depended mainly on inch of their land, and there were any time of the year. Their in- Inchtuthill, Perthshire, to appear The possibilities of aerial archae- their self-discipline that has the moral values of its people. definitely no signs that they could vestigations call for a more detail- in exceptional detail as parch- ology are immense, and already ts brought them through so many "We are in danger from moral see of it. Their district had long ed reconnaissance carried out at marks in rough grass. It revealed discoveries cover all periods be- perils. and intellectual apathy," they been of interest to archaeologists, between 1,000 and 3,000 feet un- that there would have been rows tween the New Stone Age and the "These arc the deeper British said. but these "experts" had never der the right conditions of light- of timber barracks arranged in present day. It is an instrument values of which the Constitution- It has taken the death of a found any "clues" in the ground ing, weather and vegetation. facing pairs. Not only the main of research of the utmost value in al Monarchy is the symbol." King to drive home this message. to such a settlement. Only for a short period each walls, but also the internal parti- the study of man's social develop- No Briton wrote these words His successor. Queen Elizabeth summer, a few weeks before har- tions of the barracks became clear, The way in which it was dis- ment. after the death of King George II., has asked for help in the vest time, does arable land become forming a remarkable record of covered seemed strange, too. It VI., but an American. It is an heavy task which has become Nature's historical sketch hook, the plan of a timber fortress such was not by excavations, but by an extract from an editorial in the hers. One way in which we can when the infinite patterns of crop- as cannot at present be seen any- photographs. And the pictures "ANZAC'S" CAPTAIN TO Washington Post. And for that all help is to try to live up to markings disclose to archaeologists where else throughout the terri- were taken, not before cultivation BE NEW DIRECTOR OF reason it is all the more import- the ideals of which she is the the presence, the character and tories that formed the Roman started, when it was easiest to sec NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. ant for us to examine ourselves symbol. the land, but just prior to harvest even the epoch of buried features. Empire. to discover our own attitude to Issued by Neville Smith on time, when the thick crop made But in these few weeks of each The Minister for the Navy (the Under the searching gaze of the the "deeper British values" that behalf of the Standing the soil virtually invisible. year, Britain's air-minded archae- Hon. William McMahon) an- the writer so warmly praises. Committee in Support of ologists have already made a large air camera, even Stonehenge — nounced on January 31st that But after they saw the photo- Do we respect the law? Do the Call, 162 Exhibition number of important discoveries. one of the best-known and most Captain J. Plunkett-Cole, R.A.N., graphs, there was no doubt about we practise decency and fairness Street, Melbourne. For instance, three Roman forts studied monuments in the world — at present commanding officer of it: there, among the growing crops, had to reveal some of the secrets the Battle-class destroyer H.M.A. was a remarkably clear outline of which they located in Watling it had kept from archaeologists for the Battle class destroyer what the settlement looked like in Street offer a big opportunity of obtaining new information about centuries. H.M.A.S. "Anzac" ai.d Captain plan. Even long-buried ditches (D) of the Tenth Destroyer the history of the Roman conquest. The existence of a big "henge" and pits were revealed. Squadron, had been appointed monument at Coupland, Northum- For the archaeologists, it was The usefulness of these photo- Director of Naval Intelligence it berland, was unknown until two another example of how air graphs also depends on the soil Navy Office, Melbourne. photography can yield results that and type of crop. In general, years ago when aerial photography He would succced Captain N. LOWNDES observers on the ground can never long-rooted cereals, viewed in the revealed a striking difference in the A. Mackinnon, R.A.N., who, as hope for. late spring or early summer, give colour of the vegetation. Yet this "clue" to a memorial that would previously announced, had been Variations in vegetation reflect the most sensitive renderings. have been about 280 feet in appointed for two years' exchange features buried below the surface Photographs taken at Carridcn, diameter could not be distinguish- -ervice with the Royal Navy. and long lost to sight. Photographs Limlithgowshire, in 1945, clearly ed by an observer on the ground. Mr. McMahon said that Cap- taken from the air can give extra- revealed three ditches of a fort under a crop of wheat; the follow- In the same way, details of an tain G. G. O. Gatacrc, D.S.C. and RUM ordinarily detailed clarification of bar, R.A.N., who had recently re- these features thus enabling archae- ing year, a grass crop showed oval-shaped building at Hutton amed from the United Kingdom, ologists to reconstruct the history, nothing. Mixir, Yorkshire, were revealed where he had been attending the form and growth of towns, vil- by the lines in a cereal harvest. Imperial Defencc College, Lon- lages, garrisons and buildings. Rotation Of Clues. It would have been surrounded by RENOWNED THROUGHOUT THE WORLD don, had been appointed to replace Often the most satisfactory re- a large embankment and two moats Captain Plunkctt-Colc. Nature's Sketch Book. sults are not to be obtained unless -one inside it and the other out- The Minister said that Captain Even when such markings can i observations are made over a num- side- -which were cut by the two • lunkett-Cole had been promoted be seen from the ground, they arc ber of years. Only a proportion entrances . These arc striking ex- Agents: rom Commander to Captain on often so distorted by perspective of agricultural land will give re- amples of the part aviation can sults at any one time; rotation of play in both archaeology and December 31st, 1951. He had that no recognisable pattern can ommanded H M A S. "Anzac" in HARBOTTLE BROWN & CO. be discerned. The aircraft, on the crops will reveal different "clues." physical geography. In the I920's, aircraft revealed lost towns and Korean waters. He had been com- other hand, provides an overall Year after year archaeologists civilisations in Syria and Meso- manding officer of "Anzac" since PTY. LTD. survey. returned to photograph the Roman SYDNEY. potamia. A number of univer- it was commissioned in March, Air photography has, of course, camps at Dunblane, Scotland, and sities, especially in France, use air 1951. been used extensively in Britain each year they got a more com- M,,cJi. 1992. II lis N«vy II strain men from publishing my MARITIME NEWS OF THE MERCHANT NAVY TRAINING own assessment of their order of merit! By CAPTAIN W. H. COOMBS, C.B.E., Unfortunately, I was unable to - complete the round by attending President, The Officers (M.N.) Federation. "Southampton" as I would have wished, owing to difficulties of On Friday, 27th July, I was of Officers for the Merchant Navy. 1 considered myself fortunate in- travel. I do know, however, from WORLD privileged to witness the presenta- deed to have seen these Nautical an earlier visit, that they have From our Correspondents in tion of prizes on the Worcester, some very original ideas at War- and on the following Monday and Colleges en fete, in such rapid suc- cession, and thus enabled to form sash, and are getting them into LONDON and NEW YORK Tuesday, to visit in succession. practical operation. Pangbourne and the "Conway" an opinion as to their relative By There is no doubt that within for the same purpose. To one in- merits. Diplomacy, and even con- the limits of available finance, pre- AIR MAIL terested, as I am, in the training sideration of personal safety, re- sea training in Britain is something of which we, as a leading maritime country, can be readily proud. DISAPPEARANCE OF MATSON LINE. world merchant fleets in the final But I often wonder if sufficient FREIGHTER Signs that the former Matson quarter of last year. The total funds are made available for this "PENNSYLVANIA" Line run between U.S. and Aus- did not include ships being built important purpose, particularly The United States Coastguard tralia may soon be restored are in Russia, China or Poland. when one considers what is being Headquarters at Seattle, U.S.A., growing. Mr. Harry A. Johnson Britain was building 40.2 per done in America, and in less announced on January 18 that it has been appointed manager in cent, of the world total and was wealthy countries, in this field of had abandoned its search for the Australia and New Zealand for at the head of the countries mak- taaming and education. Great 47 survivors of the American the company. Mr. Johnson, it is ing the largest additions to their credit is due to the Commanding freighter "Pennsylvania," which understood, left the position of existing fleets, with 1,504,000 Officers of all the establishments in disappeared in the North Pacific assistant manager of Matson Ter- tons. Next came Norway, the this country, and to the Executive early in January. minals in San Francisco early in United States, and France. The Officers and scholastic staffs, who BARQUE "PAMIR" VEERS March to come to Sydney. Register showed the American so obviously regard their work as OUT OF DANGER. turbine steamship "United States" their vocation and not merely as (51,500 tons) to be the largest The West German training WRECK OF THE LIBERIAN ship built since the Second their job. barque "Pamir," which earlier in SHIP "LIBERTY." World War. She is now in Each of our training establish- January was reported to be drift- In the gales which lashed Eng- course of being fitted out. ments (in Great Britain) had its ing helplessly off the Thames Es- land, Holland, and Norway dur- own traditions, and its own ideas tuary, later managed to set sail ing January, the last 13 men were on what constitutes the ideal train- and veer out of danger. taken off the Liberian ship "Lib- GLEN UNE MEMORIAL. ing system. Therein lies merit erty," which was wrecked on As a memorial to members of — always providing wholesome MEN LEAP FROM rocks off Land's End, Cornwall, the staff of the Glen Line and rivalry is never allowed to obscure CAPSIZING LIGHTER. on Thursday, 17th January. McGregor, Gow and Holland, the fact that each is training young Two coal heavers leapt from who lost their lives in the Sec- officers for the same great service, the deck of a lighter and clutch- FREIGHTER "FILADELFOS" ond World War, the hell of the and is, in fact, part of a combined ed a Jacob's Ladder slung over BREAKS IN TWO. "Breconshire" has been set up H. STOREY ENGINEERING CO. operation whose purpose is Jo pro the side of the freighter "Mil- The freighter " Filadelfos", at the companies' offices in St. vide a goodly proportion of the dura,"" when the lighter capsiz- from Panama, which went Helen's Place, London. The future officer personnel of the ed in Darling Harbour, Sydney, aground in the Maaloey Straits, "Breconshire" was sunk off Malta Merchant Navy. on January 14. The men were west of Norway, on January 17 in 1942, and raised in 1950 by MARINE AND GENERAL REPAIRS unloading coal from the "Mil- during the fierce gales which Improved conditions in the the Royal Navy. dura" to the lighter. When the swept the North-West Contin- Merchant Navy make it the more lighter, loaded with 100 tons of ental coasts during January, SEAMAN DIVES FROM SHIP imperative that the coming genera coal, began to list badly, work- broke in two and became a total TO SAVE WOMAN. BOH FRMAKI RS. ILL A< KSMII MS. tion of sea-going officers are mad> mates on the deck of the "Mil- wreck on January 18. A seaman of the inter-State lin- mindful of the fact that they arc dura" shouted to the two men on er "Westralia" swam more than OW \C II VII M \M> II I < I I'll \\ I ; DIM. the inheritors of a great traditioi the lighter. The two men rush- BRITAIN LEADS WESTERN 50 yards to his ship after helping IN \l 1 lilt \Nf Ml S of service and efficiency, and fur ed across the lighter's deck and WORLD'S SHIPBUILDING. to rescue a woman from the thermore, that the conditions of leapt for the ladder as the light- Lloyd's Register of Returns, is- Yarra, Melbourne, on the night service they now enjoy and tin- er began to capsize. Both had to sued in London on January 23,, of January 7. The woman, who prestige which the Merchant Navy s 1 S S I \ IAN clutch the ladder desperately as showed that 1,212 motor and would not give her name, fell now holds were not lightly gained suction from the lighter almost steam ships totalling nearly 5,500,- from a hand-trolley near the s > I) \ I • —and must not be in.perilled by dragged them under. 000 tons were being built for edge of North Wharf while wav- any form of slackness on their part. •Phone: BX35S4. March, 1952. I* TW N«vy ing to a friend on board the ive finish that resists sea water wind, but during the voyage he "Westralia" as it left for Fre- corrosion, has now been put into had to work hard with a bailing mantle. The seaman, standing on production, which not only holy- tin to keep the "craft" afloat. Af- the deck of the liner, dived into stones decks but can also be used ter reaching Piahia, David con- the water and supported the wo- for deck scrubbing, polishing templated the head-wind and de man until a rope was thrown and lounges, bars, public rooms, etc., cided that discretion was the she was hoisted back on the and shampooing carpets in situ. better part of valor. He and his wharf. He then turned and The machine is known as the "craft" returned to Russell on swam back to the ship, which "Matine Dixon", and one can do board a launch. was moving slowly in midstream. the work as fast and as thorough "TOPUA" BLOWN ON TO Shipmates dropped a line and ly as seven individuals using man- hoisted him aboard ship. SHOAL. ual methods of cleaning. In Suva Harbour during the OCEAN DEPTH SOUNDING FIVE-FOLD INCREASE IN hurricane of January 28, the "To- —SIX MILES. JAPANESE M.N. pua," the new Union Company vessel on its second trip to the A cable received some little Japan has five times as many island, attempted to ride out the time ago by Kelvin and Hughes merchant ships afloat now as she storm facing into the wind with (Marine) Ltd.. claimed that the had just before the Korean War. its engines at full speed ahead, Danish research ship "Galathea" said the Kyodo Newsagency on and with both anchors down. It using the M. S. 21 . K. Kelvin January 26. The Japanese Tran- dragged its anchors straight Hughes echo sounder had attain- sportation Ministry said at the across the harbour and went on ed an ocean depth sounding of beginning of the year that Japan to a shoal. 10,500 metres, i.e.. just over six put 227 vessels, totalling about miles. This sounding, which is 2,100,000 tons, on to the world's JAPAN WANTS TO PEARL said to constitute a record, was shipping lines, comprising 198 FISH IN ARAFURA SEA. made on a position over the Min- freighters and 29 tankers. The Japanese Fisheries Board danao Trench in the Philippine on January 27 asked its Parlia- deeps. SOUTHAMPTON RADAR ment to seek permission for Jap- COURSES. anese to fish for mother-of-pearl MORE UNUSUAL USE OF The School of Navigation. in the Arafura Sea between Aus- RADAR. Southampton, has inaugurated tralia and Western New Guinea. The Marconi International Ma- four radar courses per month, It made its request in a report on rine Communication Company which are designed to commence high-seas fishing after the conclu- have recently revealed that as a on the first four Mondays of each sion of the peace treaty. The re- "Crossing the Line" ceremony month. Two radar sets arc in port added that it was proposed was about to take place on board use ashore for instructional pur- that Japanese fishermen would the Shaw Savill liner "Arawa." a poses and a further two arc car- range from Alaska to the Mar- sudden tropical rain-storm threat ried in the instructional launch quesas Islands. To aydnty by Culgo*. ened to cause the ceremony to he "South Hill" which provides VAST POWER JOB IN abandoned. By use of the Mar- practical instruction afloat. Other THE SUVA HURRICANE. UGANDA. coni Marine "Radiolocator." how- centres providing radar observer At the height of the disastrous A message from Uganda on ever. the limits of the storm were courses in the United Kingdom hurricane which struck Suva on January 19 reported that engin- established as being 1\ miles dis- are established at Hull. Lcith, January 28, a HO m.p.h. wind eers and artisans from many tant, and it was possible to make Liverpool and South Shields. "snapped" cement electric light European countries and vast Bardsley's an announcement that the cere- poles like carrots, two feet above gangs of African labourers, are mony would be postponed for 45 A MODERN EMBRYO the ground. Eye-witnesses have working night and day on the minutes, after which it was esti- DRAKE. told how the hurricane, in twr C15 million hydro-electric scheme SHAVING mated th.it the squall would be A message from Auckland. hours, killed thirty people, put which is designed to industrialise cleared. This proved to be the N.Z.. on January 1, described 200 injured in Suva hospital and Uganda. The tropical nights are CREAM case, and the traditional proceed- how a boy, David Barnett. 12 wrecked the homes of more than banished by powerful floodlights ings were carricd out in bright, years of age, sailed a discarded old 1,000 residents. The entire root so that the work of harnessing For a quicker clear weather. tin bath at the Bav of Islands section of a large mission build the upper Nile as it leaves Like from Russell to Paihia, a distance ing was lifted into the air over Victoria Nyania at Owen Falls and MECHANICAL two hills and gullies and deposit can be completed by the end of of three miles, in one and three- more comfortable HOLYSTONING. quarter hours, on January 13. He ed more than a mile away. The 1953. Eventually 10 sets of gen- puttied up all the holes and fixed wind whipped up a huge tidal erators will provide 1 50,000 kilo- Anyone who has had practi- watts. or sufficient to supply the cal experience of the old-time outriggers fitted with a number wave. It smashed the sea wall of 7 lb. tins to give the bath and sped for two hundred yards wants of half a million people n method of holystoning decks will an industrial city like Birming- buoyancy and stability. He cast inshore before it began to lose SHAVE be interested to learn that a new- ham. machine, with a special protect- off from Russell with a favourable power

14 T1i« Navy March, 1952. 48 NEWS FROM THE R.N.V.R. The provision of more modern aircraft during November, 1951, TATTERSALL'S for two more squadrons manned NEWS OF THE WORLD'S NAVIES by pilots and observers of the 5/- CASH CONSULTATIONS Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve £10,000 FIRST PRIZE means that the R.N.V.R. air or- P.M. PAYS TRIBUTE TO able to announce the completion already been done in the Persian Drawn every few days ganisation—with the exception of ROYAL NAVY'S WORK of this review for some time," he Gulf within the past few years, and one squadron—has this year been IN MIDDLE EAST. added. and during the suivey season special attention will be paid to the re - equipped with "front - line" The importance of the Navy's 10/- CASH CONSULTATIONS COMMISSIONS IN R.N.V.R. Trucial Coast in the south of the machines. work was acknowledged by the £25,000 FIRST PRIZE FOR EX-RATING PILOTS. Gulf, where there is a large num- The two squadrons to take de- Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill) as Drawn every few weeks. ber of small islands, shoals and livery of new aircraft in Novem- H.M.S. "Gambia" (Captain L. F. Ex - rating pilots trained to reefs. ber were No. 1832, a fighter unit, Durnford-Slater, R.N.) was re- "wings standard" during the last at the R.N. Air Station at Cul- turning to Malta on completion of war arc now being given the op- Postage on tickets and results to be added. WESTERN APPROACHES ham (Berkshire), whose Seafirc a month's period of strenuous duty portunity in Britain of joining the REUNION. 17s' arc replaced by Sea Furies at Port Said. He asked the First R.N.V.R. Air Branch with com- The Address . . . Mark II; and No. 1830, one of Sea Lord (Admiral of the Fleet missioned rank. Subject to satis- At the fourth annual reunion the two anti-submarines, and the Lord Fraser of North Cape, factory interview by a selection dinner of the Western Approaches GEO. ADAMS (TATTERSALL) HOBART only Scots-manncd squadron, based G.C.B., K.B.E.) to compliment the board, men over the age of 25 will Command at the Dorchester Hotel, at the R.N.A.S. Donibristlc ship on her good work. "I do so be entered in one of the three London, Admiral Sir Percy Noble, (Fife). The latter gets Firefly 6s", with pleasure, knowing how well fighter and two anti - submarine presiding, proposed the toast of the When ships of the Navy the latest type of Naval A/S air- the Royal Navy as a whole is get- squadrons as Probationary Acting "Royal Canadian Navy." He said ting on with its special tasks in the Lieutenants (A) R.N.V.R., and that the expansion of the Canadian "heave to" this rep* craft, in place of Firefly Is". The squadron now to be re- Canal area," the First Sea Lord as Probationary Acting Sub- Navy during the war was almost holds fast! equipped is No. 1833, the signalled to Naval headquarters at Lieutenants (A) R.N.V.R. if unbelievable. In the Battle of the "youngest" of the fighter squad- Malta, and in passing the message younger than 25. Applicants ap- Atlantic it had 14 destroyers, 69 rons, at R.N.A.S., Bramcote to the "Gambia" the Commander- pear before a Board under the frigates, and 112 corvettes, apart (Warwickshire). Its Seafircs will in-Chief, Mediterranean (Admiral Presidency of the Commanding from 300 other craft. Replying, be replaced by Sea Furies this year. Sir John Edelsten, K.C.B., Officer of the R.N. Air Station at Rear - Admiral L. W. Murray C.B.E ), added the words "Well The largest of the R.N.V.R. which the Royal Naval Volunteer (Royal Canadian Navy) said that done." Air Units, No. 1832 Squadron Squadron is based. The Com- when the war started the Canadian operating from Culham, whose manding Officer of the R.N.V.R. Navy had 3,000 officers and men; "WINGS" FOR R.N. PILOTS. unit is a member of the Board. at the end they numbered about ANCHOR pilots have spent 11,400 hours in the air since its formation four Eight Lieutenants and Acting Probationary Acting Lieutenants 93,000. years ago, needs more "first-line" Sub-Lieutenants and four Midship- will have seniority from the date fliers from Oxfordshire, Berkshire, men pilots received their "wings" of entry and younger men will be THIRD SEA LORD Buckinghamshire, and the London from Britain's Second Sea Lord, granted this rank on attaining their VISITS YORKSHIRE. area to bring it up to full strength. Vice - Admiral Sir Alexander 25th birthday. Probationary The Third Sea Lord and Con- Naval officer and rating pilots Madden, K.C.B., C.B.E., at a periods terminate twelve months troller of the Royal Navy, Vice- of World War II—the latter now ceremony at the R.A.F. Station at from the date of entry subject Admiral Sir Michael M. Denny, being given an opportunity, as Sycrston, Nottinghamshire, Eng- t o satisfactory completion o f K.C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., who is pointed out elsewhere in the pages land. As qualified pilots, they will R.N.V.R. training. Acting ranks responsible for the construction, of this Journal, of joining with now continue their flying training will be confirmed after two years. equipment and repair of ships and commissioned rank—are required at the R.N. Air Station at Lossie- their armament, paid a two-day for "List 1" service involving 14 mouth, Morayshire, Scotland. The PERSIAN GULF SURVEY. visit to Yorkshire and Lancashire presentation marked the end of a In (his land of ours—in this Australia of kindliness, of friendship, days' continuous and 196 hours' His Majesty's Survey Vessel recently. He inspected the s.s. year's training. of good humoured tolerance . . . perhaps no beverage is more at non-continuous training each year "Owen" (Commander C. R. K. "Gothic," in course of being pre- home than good Australian beer. For beer is a drink Australians during which they carry out a Roe, D.S.C., R.N.) is again in the pared for the present Royal Com- like. It is a part of pleasant living, of good fellowship, of sensible minimum of 75 hours' flying. ENTRY TO DARTMOUTH Persian Gulf, where she has re- monwealth tour, at Messrs. Cam- moderation. Aud our right to enjoy it . . . this too is a part of The squadron, commanded by R.N. COLLEGE. sumed survey duties . She is to mell Laird's yard at Birkenhead, our Australian heritage of personal freedom. Lieutenant - Commander (A) G. The First Lord of the Admiralty join His Majesty's Survey Ship and afterwards travelled by road Mc.Rutherford, D.S.C., R.N.V.R., (Mr. J. P. L. Thomas) has stated "Dalrymple" (Capt. E. G. Irving, to Manchester, where he visited Beer Ms Good For You fell below its normal complement in the British House of Commons O.B.E., R.N.), who has been carry- the Metropolitan Vickers establish- last year, when it provided a that the Admiralty has begun a ing out a survey in the region of ment. He spent the intervening Enjoy It! nucleus of pilots for another squad- review of the system of entry of Zanzibar, East Africa. The objept night in H.M.S. "Ceres," the ron formed at the R.N.A.S., cadets into the Royal Naval Col- of the work to be carried out by Royal Navy's Supply and Secre- CARLTON UNITED BREWERIES LTD. Ford (Sussex), for anti-submarine lege, Dartmouth, which has been these two vessels is to improve the tariat School at Wetherby, York- BREWING IN AUSTRALIA FOR 98 YEARS. duties. operating for three years. "It is charts of the Persian Gulf. Con- shire, before returning to London not likely, however, that I shall be siderable work of this nature has by rail. TW Navy II March, 1913. IV R.N. AND S.A.N. COMBINED SERVICE BROTHERS MEET SEA FURIES FAST FLIGHT COMMITTEE TO EXERCISES IN S. ATLANTIC. IN CYPRUS. TO MALTA. INTERVIEW CANDIDATES JAMES PATRICK & CO. PTY. LTD. The extension of the trooping Four Sea Fury naval aircraft FOR INTERMEDIATE The most extensive and com- cruise of the aircraft carrier flew the 1,322 miles from the R.N. SHIPOWNERS - AGENTS - CONTRACT Air Station, Lee-on-Solent, to ENTRY TO R.A.N. COLLEGE. bined exercises carried out in H.M.S. "Triumph" brought to- STEVEDORES South African waters since the gether two brothers, one serving Malta in just over three hours re- CHARTERS AND BUNKERS ARRANGED war were concluded recently by- in the Royal Navy and the other cently. Two of the aircraft, flying in the Buffs. Petty Officer RonalJ in Compaq y, first completed the The Minister for the Navy (the ships of the South Atlantic Squad Hon. William McMahon) an- REGULAR INTERSTATE & OVERSEAS CARGO ft ron and the South African Navy. Fill, of Rochester, in the distance in 3 hours 16 minutes, nounced on January 25 that a PASSENGER SERVICES The latter were H.M.S.A.S "Jan Triumph." knew his brother, believed to be the fastest time then • achieved by a flight of naval air- selection committee would sit in Van Riebeeck." H.M.S.A.S. Private David Fill, of Gillingham, was bound for the Middle East, craft on this route. But within Melbourne, Fremantle, Brisbane Agents for . . . "Bloemfontcin," H M. S. A. S. and Sydney shortly to interview- but was disappointed when he dis- two hours the two other aircraft FLOTTA LAURO (Iubui Lk>)-C«r "rf pmmmgtr unties, "Transvaal," and H.M.S.A.S. covered he was making the passage had bettered this time, arriving in candidates aged between 15 and Aiumlia to Hi Jin 11 MIIMI potta, via Siinnwtt. 16J years for intermediate entry "Pietermanetiburg." Th; vessels, to Cyprus in H.M.S. "Illustrious." 3 hours 11 minutes. The aircraft TASMAN STEAMSHIP CO. LTD.—Uvnad onto, Amralia which were under the operational At Cyprus .however, Private Fill, flew at an average speed of 400 to the Royal Australian Naval to Niw 7r.l.nH command of the Commander-in- atter disembarking from the "Illus- m.p.h. and thr :e of them were College. ERIE RAILROAD (UAA.)-Anml.im Apou. Chief, South Atlantic (Vice- trious." walked up the gangway of piloted by officers of the Indian The Committee sat in Mel- Head Office: 19 BRIDGE STREET, SYDNEY Admiral Sir Herbert Packer. the "Triumph" and the brothers Navy—the first two were flown by bourne from January 28th until Phone: BW 4181. K.C.B.. C.B.E.), took part at sea spent 24 hours together during the Lieutenant J. R. S. Overburv, February 4th, in Fremantle on ALSO AT MELBOURNE AND BRISBANE in anti-submarine exercises, and passage to Port Said. On the R.N., and Lieutenant D. B Law, February 7th and February- 8th, WITH AGENTS AT ALL MAIN PORTS IN AUSTRALIA also carried out replenishments at way out, pipers and drummer., .if Indian Navy, and the second two in Brisbane on February 12th and sea, surface and anti - aircraft the Inniskillings played on the by Lieutenant P. N. Parashar and February 13th, and in Sydney from firings, torpedo firingf and mine "Triumph's" aircraft lift, and Lieutenant T. Chakr-varti, both of February- 15th until February 21st. greatly impressed the sailors as the Indian Navy. sweeping exercises. British Naval It consisted of the Deputy Chief "MAIN" COALS they emerged by floodlight on the vessels participating in the exer- of Naval Personnel (Captain O. FROM THE MAITLAND (N.S.W.) COALFIELD flight deck from the hangar below. cises were H.M.S. "Bermuda." LOAN OF H.M. SUBMARINES H. Becher, D.S.O, D.S.C. and PELAW MAIN—RICHMOND MAIN Rapid disembarkation enabled cruiser, and the frigates "Nereids ' TO FRENCH NAVY. Bar, A.D.C., R.A.N.), Comman- ABERMAIN—STANFORD MAIN H.M.S. "Triumph"' to sail for the and "Actaeon." H.M.S. "Statesman," the first of der W. B. M. Marks. R.A.N., (or Gas, Railways, Manufacturer* and Householders. Unite.1 Kingdom only 24 hours four H.M. submarines to be lent to Commander of the Royal Aus- after arrival in Port Said. Trucks the French Ministry of Marine for tralian Naval College, and the STOCKRINGTON COALS and ieeps used in the improvised four years, was recently handed Director of Studies at the College, unsurpassed for Bunkers. disembarkation were marked by the over and renamed at a quayside Mr. Q. de Q. Robin, B.A., Dip. high-spirited soldiers "Dodgems, FIRST GRADE STEAM COAL FROM THE ceremony in H.M.S. "Dolphin," Ed. "BOREHOLE" SEAM, NEWCASTLE (NAW.). 3d. a ride." the Royal Navy's base at Gosport. Apply to: She was received by the French The Committee interviewed a Naval Attache, Rear-Admiral R. total number of 145 boys, of whom FLAG OFFICER BRITAIN'S Blanchard. in the presence of the 34 will be selected. "The suc- J. & A. BROWN & ABERMAIN SEAMAM RESERVE FLEET GOES French Ambassador, M. Rene cessful candidates," said Mr. TO SEA. Massigli, G.C.V.O.. K.B.E. She McMahon, "would enter, the Col- lege on March 11th, and remain For the purpose of visiting ships was handed over by the Flag COUEBES UMIED Officer. Submarines, Rear-Admiral there for two years before leaving Head Office: Shi™™- under his command in various for the United Kingdom for train- S. M. Raw, C.B., C.B.E., and was 1 ports of the United Kingdom, the ing in ships of the Royal Navy NJJ.W. NF^ItlT MORRISON * Flag Officer Reserve Fleet (Vicc- renamed "Sultane." The other three submarines to be made avail- and courses at Royal Naval shore Admiral Sir Henry McCall, e-tablishments. They would return SINCLAIR K.B.E., C.B., D.S.O.) recently able are the "Satyr." "Spiteful," and "Sportsman." They are to be to Australia at the end of three flew his flag in the battle class de- and a half years as sub-lieutenants PTY. LTD. stroyer H.M.S. "Trafalgar," now renamed "Saphir." "Sirene," and MAKE A POINT OF "Sybille." respectively. On August a:id take up appointments in the in his command. The ship is nor- R A.N." CALLING IN TO THE mally based at Portsmouthher 1st last Mr. L. J. Callaghan, M P., the former Parliamentary Secretary primary duty is to give sea train- Mr. McMahon added that the of the British Admiralty, said in ing to men of the British Reserve intermediate entry was introduced the House of Commons that these FIRST & LAST HOTEL Fleet. Additional personnel re- i- the Royal Australian Naval Shipbuilders submarines were being refitted in (LATH CUTTY &ARK) quired to take her to sea are pro- College in 1950 to supplement the United Kingdom at the ex- LONG NOSE POINT vided by various units of the Re- the ordinary entry for 13-year-old pense of the French Government SYDNEY serve Fleet. Admiral McCall re- toys. Its purpose was to increase CIRCULAR QUAY and were to be transferred on com- cently visited Harwich, Sheerness, the number of officers which the pletion of refits and itisfactory 'Phona: WB 1951 (2 Unas) Chatham, and other ports in the rapid expansion of the Royal trials. CONVENIENT, CENTRALLY SITUATED "Trafalgar" Australian Navy makes necessary. _

Tka Navy u«cfc. in. » NEW APPOINTMENTS IN the rank of acting captain while H.M. Dockyard, Singapore, in TWO NAVAL OFFICERS ROYAL AUSTRALIAN he held the appointment. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS succession to Rear-Admiral H MISSING AIRCRAFT, NAVY. Commander Spurgeon, who W. Faulkner. C.B., C.B.E.. D.S PRESUMED KILLED. was Australian Naval Attache in The Minister for the Navy (the R.M. OFFICER AWARDED O.. who has heen invalided home The Minister for the Navy COMMODORE SECOND Washington from November, Hon. William McMahon) an- O.B.E. The appointment took effect ir (the Hon. William McMahon) CLASS R.A. APPOINTMENT. announced recently that Lieuten- 1944, until November, 1948, was nounced on February 21 that no In a list of awards published December. 19*1. Captain Sir Audrey St. Clair ant-Commander A. N. Dollard, Australian naval representative at trace had been found of the Fire- in the London Gazette or. Oc- AWARD FOR MERITORIOUS For J, Bt., D.S.O., has been ap- R.A.N., commanding officer of the atomic bomb test at Bikini, in fly anti-submarine aircraft con- tober 19 to officers and men of SERVICE. pointed to commend H.M.S. H.M.A.S. "Murchison", which the Pacific, in July, 1946. taining two naval officers which the Royal Marines for distin- Captain F. R. Spurr has been "Daedalus", and as Commodore' recently returned from serving in He was the first Australian had been missing in the Jervis Bay guished services in Malaya, Lieu- awarded Lloyd's Silver Medal for in-Command. R.N. Barracks, Lec- Korean waters, had been appoint- naval officer to be decorated in area (N.S.W.) since shortly be- tenant-Colonel Reginald William meritorious service in commemor on-Solent, and is granted the rank ed Staff Officer (Operations) to the Second World War, in which fore midnight of Tuesday, Feb- Madoc, Royal Marines (Flax ation of his services while com of Commodore Second Class the Flag Officer in Charge, New he was awarded the D.S.O. for ruary 19 th. while holding the appointment. Pourton, Somerset), was appoint- manding the m.v. "Palana," which South Wales. having sunk a U-boat in the At- The officers were: Lieutenant B. NEW COMMANDANT ed an additional officer of the Mil- towed the disabled cargo motor- Under Lieutenant-Commander lantic while he was in command H. F. Wall, R.A.N., of Sydney; GENERAL ROYAL MARINES itary Division of the Order of the ship "Fernmoor" a distance of Dollard's command "Murchi- of H.M.S. "Echo." He subse- Sub-Lieutenant D. H. Saunders, Major-General H. T. Tollc- British Empire. He commanded 2,500 miles to Auckland, New son," which was engaged in quently assumed command of R.A.N., of Brisbane. mache, C.B.E., Royal Marines has 42 Commando, Royal Marines, Zealand, in September, 1948. many courageous exploits on the H.M.A.S. "Stuart," which had The aircraft left the R.A.N. Air been promoted Lieutenant-Gener- with conspicuous success while KNIGHTHOOD FOR G.M. Han River, on the western coast previously seen service in the Station at Nowra (N.S.W.) the al and to be Commandant Gener- the unit was stationed in Malaya. SHIPPING FEDERATION. of Korea. On one of these ex- Mediterranean as one of the fa- night before on a night-flying exer- al Royal Marines in succession to The citation stated that his lead- The announcement last year ploits she bombarded enemy po- mous "Scrap Iron Flotilla." cise and had not returned. General Sir Leslie C. Hollis, ership was of a "very high order" that Mr. Richard Sneddon. sitions over open gun sights and K.C.B., K.B.E.. the appointment and he maintained a high level of C.B.E., the General Manager of Jcmolished them. ALBERT'S to take effect in May, 1952. effort over an extended period. the Shipping Federation (of FLAG OFFICER MALAYA. Mr. McMahon also announced SURGEON REAR-ADMIRAL Great Britain), had been honour that Lirutenant-Commander C. BOOMERANG SONGSTER No. 57 R.N. RETIRES. Captain A. F. Pugsley, C.B., ed with a knighthood by His T. Thompson, R.A.N., at pres- Surgeon Rear-Admiral W. J. D.S.O., has been granted the act- Majesty the King, gave much ent in command of H.M.A.S. Contain, the word, of the trritM Colhournc, C.B., F.R.C.S., L.R. ing rank of Rear-Admiral and pleasure to his many friends in collection of world-wide Song Hit, "Colac", had been appointed ever published. C.P.. K.H.S., has been placed on been appointed Flag Officer Ma- the shipping industry. Sit commanding officer of "Murch- the R.N. Retired List. laya and Admiral Superintendent, Richard has the reputation of ison." He would be succeeded Too YM never pulling his punches in con- From My Ey», Sound CM, Unka, B*n. i. Lov. by Lieutenant-Commander A. J. Top. My Tnly Tnly Fai, troversy, but his word is his bond, Ford. R.A.N., at present in com Id—. JW Cooaaal, Un D» and the kindly service he often mand of H.M.A.S. "Wagga." » ol Sfarim Itanium. Ska Go renders to his fellow men is pro- Lieutenant-Commander C. Cor SL C verbial. By his elevation to STRENGTH nelius, R.N., at present Staff Of knighthood, the shipping indus Da* i. da N«h. Cbtavha Cahmbm, It. ficer (Maintenance) at H.M.A.S — ' o( A) YMT, ate. AND try is honoured as well as Sir "Kuttabul," Sydney, had been PRICE 1/- Richard. or MOD 1/3 is .CNCM AND BMHM, Soneaa appointed commanding officer of No. 57 wkh th. Una Popula Son. Vn. Will ENERGY NEW FIRST LORD'S "Wagga" and Lieutenant-Com- mander R. C. Savage, R.A.N., at For Growing Children PERSONAL STAFF. J. ALBERT S, SON PTY. LTD. £km The new First Lord of the present First Lieutenant of H.M. 137-139 KING STREET. SYDNEY A.S. "Anzac", commanding Offi- MELBOURNE aid WELLINGTON. NX. For growing youngsters there is British Admiralty, Mr. J. P. L. nothing better than CornwelTs; Thomas, has made the followini! cer of H.M.A.S. "Condamine." it supplies essential body-build- appointments on his personal i ing proteins, provides the staff: Principal Private Secretary- R.A.N. OFFICER TO BE boundless energy of healthy Mr. W. Marshall; Assistant Pri AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE childhood and the vitamins to THOMAS PLAYFAIR strengthen the constitution vate Secretary, Mr. A. P. Hock REPRESENTATIVE IN k against infection and disease. aday; Naval Secretary, Rear NEW ZEALAND. Admiral W. W. Davies, D.S.O . The Minister for the Navy PTY. LTD. Parliamentary Private Secretarv. I the Hon. William McMahon) the Hon. Richard O. Stanley. announced on February 13 that MEAT EXPORTERS AND PROVIDERS M P. The Parliamentary and Fi- Commander S. H. K. Spurgcon, COMVWELL'S nancial Secretary, Commander A. D.S.O., A.D.C., R.A.N., at pres- SMALLGOODS MANUFACTURERS H. Noble. D.S.O., D.S.C.. R.N . ent commander of H.M.A.S. has appointed Mr. W. I. Tup- "Rushcutter," the naval establish- man to be his Private Secretarv. ment at Rushcutter Bay, Sydney, ARGYLE STREET, SYDNEY The Civil Lord, Mr. K. S. D. had heen appointed Australian All Enquire*: BU 5771. Wingfield Digby. has appointed Defence Representative in New NATURE'S TONIC FOOD FOI YOUNG AND OLD Miss D. M. Bush to be his Pri- Zealand. He would be granted vate Secretary. M.rcti, l**2. TW Nav* 2) "BEDENHAM" EXPLOSION SEA-ODDITIES AWARDS. AUSTRALIAN JOCKEY CLUB Awards in connection with the Most people think sponges are the food cells lining the canals zine" for January, 1950, another explosion in the British ammuni- AUTUMN MEETING, 1952 related to seaweeds. They are take in any particles of food-stuff instance is described, which took tion ship "Bcdenham" at Gibraltar TO BE HELD ON RANDWICK RACECOURSE on April 27th, 1951, were an- not, hut no one need he ashamed it may contain. place on 14th March, 1949, but 12th, 14th, 16th A 19th, APRIL for having thought so. In fact, was not reported till long after- nounced in the London Gazette on centuries passed he tore even the wards. It was off the coast of November 20th. PRINCIPAL EVENTS: The George Cro6s was awarded most learned scientists realised Many land animals such as North-East Singapore, under a First Day : SATURDAY, 12th APRIL. their true nature. Actually the elephants and camels are enorm- dark cloud, and the pilot entered posthumously to Sub - Officer sponge is an invertebrate organ- ously strong, but sea animals hold it at 600 feet. But, although that George Campbell Henderson, of THE DONCASTER HANDICAP—£5,000 added. ism, and it multiplies in two ways: the world's record for feats of part of the funnel had been seen :hc Gibraltar Dockyard Fire Ser- ONE MILE. by "budding" on the parent sheer strength. The fact is their "writhing convulsively," there was vice, who was in charge of the first THE A.J.C. SIRES' PRODUCE STAKES—£5,000 added. sponge or by a special sexual muscles are much more efficient no appreciable increase in turbu- -ire appliance sent to fight an am- SEVEN FURLONGS. process: in the latter case, spec- and powerful than those of land lence, unlike the case previously munition fire in a lighter alongside THE A.J.C. ST. LEGER £3,000 added. ial cells, some male, others fe- animals. Dr J. Gray, after a mentioned. :he "Bedenham." ONE MILE AND THREE-QUARTERS. In spite of the great heat and male, develop just beneath the series of experiments on the pro- For a short period the aircraft, ntensity of the fire, which, he Second Day : MONDAY, 14th APRIL. hair-bearing cells that line the pulsive powers of the dolphin, it appears, was completely en- must have realised, was virtually THE SYDNEY CUP—£12,500 added, and a Gold Cup sponge, and both types of sexual said that: "If the resistance of an veloped in cloud, and it emerged >ut of control and could cause a valued at £500. cells are produced by the same actively swimming dolphin is wet all over, although there had violent explosion of ammunition at TWO MILES. sponge. In order to multiply a equal to that of a rigid model been no apparent precipitation. A ny moment, Sub-Officer Hender- male ccll and a female cell unite towed at the same speed, the few seconds later the crew looked -on single-handed directed a jet of Third Day : WEDNESDAY, 16th APRIL. within an enclosed capsule, and muscles must be capable of gen- back and saw that the waterspout water from a hose into the lighter THE CHAMPAGNE STAKES—£2,500 added. there, in that form, still within erating energy at a rate at least had been unaffected by their pas- from a position on board the SIX FURLONGS. the parent sponge, the first stages seven times greater than that of sage through it. Yet tradition "Bedenham," immediately along- THE ALL-AGED-STAKES—£2,500 added. of growth take place. Later, ap- other types of mammalian used to say that a waterspout side and above the blazing lighter. ONE MILE. parently, the young sponges, muscle." could be destroyed by a well-placed The "Bedenham" by this time had whether "bud" produced or "cap- cannon-ball. Fourth Day : SATURDAY, 19th APRIL. sule born," emerge or fall away The whale is also prodigeously been abandoned, but Henderson THE ADRIAN KNOX STAKES—£3,000 added. and develop individually. strong. When captain H. G. remained at his place of duty, Mclsom was whale hunting oft alone, doing what he could to ONE MILE AND A QUARTER. Sponges are very inoffensive the Siberian coast he made fast Floating about the surface of the prevent the explosion, although he THE A.J.C. PLATE—£2,000 added. organisms, as a rule. They neith- to a blue whale. The great crea- warmer waters of the western must have known that the chance TWO MILES AND A QUARTER. er attack nor defend, bark nor ture ran out 3,000 feet of line, Atlantic are patches of sargassum of survival was slight. He was W. N. PARRY-OKEDEN, bite. Nor are they edible in any and the ship, with engines going weed, a marine prairie of over killed when the ammunition ship 6 Bliiih St.. SYDNEY. Secretary. form. Indeed, the sponge is one full speed astern, was towed for- three million square miles. Coaxed blew up. of the few life-forms that is not by wind and drift into long ward for seven hours at a speed Captain St. John Cronyn, preyed upon by other creatures. parallel lines which will stretch of never less than 8 knots. It D.S.O., R.N., the senior naval But it is, in the form of a "resi- away on cither side of a ship, these has been estimated that when a officer present in the dockyard at dence," sometimes adopted, of- yellow sponge-like clusters must be blue whale is coasting along at 10 :hc time, was made C.B.E. (Mili- ten being utilised in this way by familiar to every traveller in those knots the horse-power it gener- tary Division. The George countless small forms of sea life seas. But how many people realise ates is about fifty. If, then, it ac- Medal was awarded to Surgeon that burrow in it for shelter. Sea- that each separate fragment pro celerates to 27 knots, as it is cap- Lieutenant J. G. H. Sheppard, worms, star-fish, shell-fish of var- vides a home for numerous small able of doing, the horse-power it M B, B.S., R.N.; Mr. J. Keen, ious kinds—to mention but a few fish and crabs who trust to those develops practically borders on armament supply officer; Acting —arc often found in a sponge, frail tendrils, leaves and berries to the incredible. Leading Sick Berth Attendant which, as you may imagine, pro- complete the cycle of their lives? (local) M. Hughes; Mr. J. M. vides many a "happy hunting Cruz, chargeman of labourers, and ground" for the marine biologist Out of scarcely more than a Aeroplanes rarely fly through Police-constable M. Orfila, Gibral- and the shell-collector. bucketful of this weed have been waterspouts, but an instance in taken at least two dozen fish, and tar Police. The sponge has been called a which a Wellington bomber picked ten times that number of crabs, "city of cells," and likened to a one up by radar and charged shrimps and worms. Most of the little Venice, for the reason that straight at it before discovering fish were the long, narrow pipe it could not exist without its what it was, was recently reported fish, closely related to the better canals and waterways. Along in the magazine "The Aeroplane." known sea-horse, but without hi- them a little current flows, enter- It appears that the bomber got a arched back and curling tail. Somc ing the sponge through small "good shaking up, but came to no are small trigger fish, and other- pores and leaving it through a few- harm." slate - coloured midgets with a la: ;cr ones. As the current passes, In the "Meteorological Maga- bright silver patch on their bellies.

24 It* Navy March. I*SJ. London stores and ship repair es- NEW &0. FOR H.MJLS. SYDNEY SPEAKING OF SHIPS tablishment close to the Royal Docks is expected to be ready The Minister for the Navy (the with the Royal Navy when the The Australian Government for occupation by the end of the Hon. William McMahon) an- Second World War broke out and The French Parliament has in- nounced on February 14 that creased merchant seamen's pen- decided to restrict the export of year. was appointed commanding officer a number of commodities to Commodore H. J. Buchanan, of H.M.S. "Seagull" with the sions hy 30 per cent., financing The British Ministry of Supply D.S.O., A.D.C., R A N., at pre- it partly hy doubling the tax on Hong Kong and other Eastern First Minesweeping Flotilla. For is reported to have requested the sent Commodore Superintendent three months in 1940 he command- passengers. ports whence they might find British Ministry of Transport to their way to Communist China. of Training at Flinders Naval ed H.M.S. "Niger" and was Senior ban the sale to foreigners of any Depot, had been appointed com- Officer of the Fourth Minesweep- The 17-^not Olsen motorship old merchant ships in view of the manding officer of the aircraft car- ing Flotilla. He was Australian "Bruno" has heen time-chartered During the year 1950-1 Japanese shortage of scrap steel. shipping carried a greatly increased rier H.M.A.S. "Sydney," which Naval Attache at Washington by Saguenay Terminals Ltd.. for would shortly return to Australia from April, 1914, until October their new monthly passenger and proportion of the country's im- ports and exports. from Korea, where she had been 1942. cargo service to the West Indies. By the end of last year Holland relieving H.M.S. "Glory" during expected to have defensive arm- Liter he became executive officer the latter ship's refit. ("Sydney" of H.M.A.S. "Shropshire" and The Canadian National Re- ament available for 30 per cent, has since returned to Australia.) Mr. Justice Pilcer, of the Brit- of her merchant ships of over took part in a number of assault search Council has recently de- Commodore Buchanan, who had ish Admiralty Court, has been 3,000 tons, 24 per cent, of those operations against the Japanese in veloped a type of radar claimed been a Commodore 2nd class while transferred to the King's Bench between 1,200 and 3,000, 17 per the South West Pacific. to be superior to Type 268 for holding the appointment at the Division, and Mr. Cecil Havers, cent, of those between 300 and After he had been Deputy Chief short distances and docking. Depot, would revert to the rank K.C.. has been made a judge in 1,200, and 20 per cent, of those of the Naval Staff at Navy Office, i f Captain on assuming command the Admiralty Division. less than 300 tons. Melbourne, from August, 1944, The South African Parliament i't "Sydney." until October, 1945, he assumed has been informed that at the be- Captain D. H. Harries, R.A.N., The long salvage case as to command of H.M.A.S. "Australia" ginning of the year the merch- trie present commanding officer of whether the Blue Funnel Line Sweden has come to an agree- and later of H.M.A.S. "Hobart." ant fleet of that country consist- Sydney," would succeed Captain was justified in claiming salvage ment with the Soviet Union to ex- While he commanded "Hobart" he ed of 243 vessels of all kinds with Buchanan as Commodore Superin- for the "Troilus" being towed all change iron and steel, machinery. served two periods as Senior a gross tonnage of 181,995 and tendent of Training with the rank the way home by the "Glenogle" medical equipment and capita! Officer Force T of the Allied a total of 4,000 officers and men. of Commodore 2nd class, which has been decided by the House Naval Forces in Japanese waters. Only 21 were foreign-going. goods for minerals, coal, grain and he would hold during the term of NWFK CM W M.S.W. of Lords in the Line's favour. oilcake. his new appointment. BOOK REVIEW. The Cunard Line has given up Both Commodore Buchanan and The Soviet Shipping Depart- its traditional Piers 54 and 56 in C aptain Harries are graduates of Japanese shipowners have re- "COMPASS ADJUSTMENT," ment put some Russian ships on Hew Tor\ Harbour, taken in 1910 the Royal Australian Naval Col- cently been showing a tendency By Commander W. E. May, to the service of carrying grain for the "LusiUtnia" and "Maure- lege. to time-charter foreign ships, R.N., Hutchinson, London. 10/6. to India before the basis for the tania," and is concentrating on % even at high rates, rather than Just before Commodore barter arrangement was fixed. Piers 90 and 92. A useful, but purely practical, buy old ships second-hand. Buchanan assumed duty at Flinders Naval Depot in March, 1950, he guide to compass adjustment, which is not designed to cater for Messrs. Cammell. Laird and Co. had completed a senior officers' The Thomasson Shipping Co. the more extensive theoretical secured the contract to convert the course at the Imperial Defence Ltd. has announced that the new Attempts to work up a big knowledge required of candidates "Gothic" of the Shaw. Savill and College, London. Previously to motor tramp under construction trade between Israel and South preparing for the higher grades of NORCO Albion Line to carrv the Royal that he had been commanding will be considerably faster than Africa, with enthusiastic backing the British Ministry of Transport couple out to Australia and J^ew t.lficer of H.M.A.S. "Australia." existing ships. by both countries, are being certificates of competency. Zealand this year. checked for lack of tonnage. He was awarded the D.S.O. for The P. V O. Line expects to get his good services in operations off the Dutch, Belgian and French There is a movement in New delivery of its two new passenger ships in December, 1953, and coasts in the Second World War Zealand to urge the Government The litigation concerning the and, for his work at Dunkirk, at STRENGTH August, 1954, and the new cargo to operate at least two refrigerat- explosion and fire on board the which he was in charge of pier ship in August, 1952. ed steamers, but considering Shaw, Savill and Albion liner parties on the final night of the heavy losses through time wasted "Mahia" in August, 1947, is still Evacuation, he was mentioned in in New Zealand ports the Gov- in progress and is most compli- Shipowners running to New Idcspatdm. i ernment is not enthusiastic. cated. Zealand allowed wool merchants Captain Harries was appointed who bought before the 50 per commanding officer of H.M.A.S. cent surcharge on freights, and A Chinese Communist Gov- "Sydney" in April. 1950. He at- were prevented from shipping by The Gulf of Suez Steamship EMU ernment mission visited Poland tended a senior officer's course at BRAN D . iM ' ~v the dockers' strike, to pay the old investigating the possibilities of Co. Ltd., one of the subsidiaries Jthe Imperial Defence College from rates. obtaining supplies from that of the Elierman Lines, has changed Ij-inuary until December, 1948. country and from Czechoslovakia its name to Maritime Transporta- iHc was serving on exchange duty through Polish ports. The Royal Mail Lines' new tion Ltd. March, IH2. 17 24 SECOND GROUP OF NAVAL NATIONAL SERVICE MEN H.MAS, "Sydmy" 6MgratulaM ROGER KEYES BEGIN TRAINING. Five hundred and fourteen The Minister for the Navy credit on all concerned and The Biography of national service naval trainees who (the Hon. William McMahon) which will be very difficult to announced on January 31 that a Admiral of the Fleet were called up in all States began equal. their first year's training of 124 signal of congratulation on her "Again, well done: may every Lord Keyes of days on February 4th. excellent services in Korean Wat- good fortune and success at- ers had been sent to the R.A.N, Zeebrugge and Dover "Saints And Parachutes," By "Flags For Ship Modellers And Four hundred and fourteen of tend you on the honoured task John Miller. G.C., Constable, Marine Artists," By Alec A. them, including 14 from Western aircraft carrier "Sydney" by the ahead of you and in the fu- Commander-in-Chief Far East by London, 12/6. Purves, Percival Marshall, Australia who would undergo ture." London, 3/6. Station (Vice Admiral the Hon. No seafarer could fail to be training in technical branches, en- Mr. McMahon said that "Syd- Considerable research has gone Sir Guy Russell). C. Aspinall-Oglander gripped by the author's experiences tered Flinders Naval Depot, Crib ney," which wa- a light fleet car- into this compressed, but exhaus- Vice-Admiral Russell's signal as a Royal Naval Volunteer Re- Point, Victoria. The remaining rier of the Majestic class had been tive, miniature history of English read as follows: Keyes refused to call anything serve officer, a George Cross win- 100, all of whom were called up in operating in Korea with the Roy- flags from the 13th Century. A "Well done on turning over impossible. Spectacular epi- ner, working on the disposal of Western Australia, entered al Navy light fleet carriers "Tri- section of the book is also devoted your duties to "Glory." i wish magnetic mines dropped on British H.M.A.S. "Leeuwin," Fremantle. umph" and "Theseus" and with sodes in China, hero of World to flags of other principal mari to congratulate all cn hor.rd on towns by the Luftwaffe. Related The 414 who arc doing their the United States light fleet car- War I's raid on Zeebruggc, time countries, and practical ad the grand job which ycu have "in parallel," as it were, but training at Flinders Naval Depot r i e r s "Rendova," '"Bandoeng- Director of Combined Opera- vice is given for the making of carried out in the United Na- chronologically out of phase, is an would be trained as seamen, en- Strait," and others. tions in the last war, entry flags for models. It is to be regret tions cause. -account of his spiritual develop- gine-room, supply, communications She had done as well as, or into Parliament—all were part ted that the illustrations could no' ment, reactions to which must de- and electrical ratings, sick berth "I had the good fortune to even relatively better than any be printed in colour, as a "hatch of a legendary career. pend largely on each individual attendants, dental attendants and witness your great start in early British or American carrier and ed" colour key indicating eigh reader's personal taste. artisans respectively. The 14 tech- October and ever since then her casualties of all kinds had Illustrated. shades has had to be used, which nical branch ratings from Western you have maintained a stand- been lower than had been pro- throws some little strain on the Australia would undergo training ard which reflects the greatest vided for. 42/- (post l/5d) imagination of the reader. "EchoSounding At Sea," By H. at Flinders Naval Depot because Galway, Pitman, London, 15/-. the required facilities were not available at H.M.A.S. "Leeuwin." A well-produced and illustrated "Soochow The Marine," By Reg RAN. Stnit Wreath for King's Fuiraral book of 299 pages, covering all inald Owen and Paul Lees, Put- Some of the men who do their MAIN FLEET aspects of the theory and practice nam, London, 9/6. training at H.M.A.S. "Leeuwin" will be trained as seamen and the The Minister for the Navy received from the Private Secre- of echo sounding. Fault-finding Soochow was a dog of mixed TO SINGAPORE others as stoke, mechanics. (the Hon. William McMahon) tary to the Queen to a message and maintenance of the Marconi ancestry which became the mascot In announcing this on January announced on February 14 that of sympathy and loyalty sent to by and Huson echo sounders arc ably of a regiment of the United States 24, the Minister for the Navy, arrangements had been made for her by the Australian Common- described in detail. Marine Corps, and went with his a wreath to be sent from officers human comrades-in-arms, at the The Hon. W. McMahon, said that wealth Naval Board on the Cape. R. Grenfell, R.N. the new trainees would comprise and men of the Royal Australian King's death. The reply read: outbreak of war in the Pacific, Navy, the Royal Australian Nav- from the flesh-pots of Shanghai to the second group to be called up An outspoken account of "Electrical Knowledge For The al Reserves and auxiliary forces the grim contrast of life in Japa- since the institution of national "Would you please thank the naval actions of the last war. Merchant Navy Officer," By service training last year. Those in on the occasion of the funeral of Australian Commonw e a 11 h Captain G. C. Steele, V.C., nese prisoner-of-war camps. The His late Majesty King George VI. includine the sinlcine of the story is primarily one of the in- the first group began their initial Naval Board for their kind Prince of Wales and Repulse, R. N. R., Son & Ferguson, training on July 30th, 1951, and Mr. McMahon said that the message and assure all officers London, 1 J/-. credible limits to which the human aversion of catastrophe in the mind and body can go while ding- completed it on November 30th. R.A.N. Liaison Officer in London and men of the Royal Austra- had forwarded to Navy Office, Indian Ocean, and the Coral In recent years the deck officer's ing on to life, but it is also a story All trainees wolud do recruit lian Navy of Her Majesty's great Melbourne, a reply that he had Sea and Midway Island battles. dependence on electrically power- of the sacrifices which men will training for the first nine weeks, appreciation of their thoughts." ed aids to navigation, and ship's make to keep a symbol in being. after which technical trainees 12 illustrated pages. safety devices generally, has mark- would go to various schools for edly increased. Captain Steele, the technical instruction appro- 22/6 (post lid) with his considerable experience in "Singlehanded Passage," By Ed- priate to their various branches. WARD'S BAKERIES in the training of embryo deck ward Allcard, Putnam, Lon- Seamen trainees would spend ,i JO-38 VICTORIA STREET, PADDINGTON. officers, has produced the first com- don, 10/6. minimum period of six weeks at prehensive illustrated guide to the In 1949, the author of this book sea and all others a period of four electrical knowledge which an crossed the Atlantic singlehanded weeks. Proprietors of: MMS ft ROBERTSON officer might be considered to re- in his 34-foot yawl, "Temptress.'' After national servicemen had COOK'S BAKERY, KING'S BAKERY, « HAMBURGER BUN CO. 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Tfca NaT March, IM2. friends and "Sunny Queensland." EX-NAVAL MEN'S NEW HELICOPTER Readers of The "Navy" Mag- DEVELOPMENT. azine and friends of the Associa- tion, also applicants for member- The latest helicopter design Always ask for . . . Association A of Australia ship for the Queensland Section proposed for use by the U.S. may contact Mr. G. M. Arber armed forces by the Rotor-Craft (President) at Gordon St., Haw- Corporation is a "Heli-Jeep." thorne, 'phone: XL 3678, or by There are several versions of the SHELLEY'S new craft, designed to fit the par- (Federal Council.) the Commonwealth of Australia. King's death, been postponed un- communicating with Mr. W. M. ticular needs of combat. One During the sessions of Confer- til a date to be decided in April, Macdonald, 112 Brisbane Street, The Tenth Federal Conference model is intended, according to FAMOUS DRINKS ence the visitors to the Northern 1952, when it is expected that Bulimba, 'phone: XL 3714. All of the Ex-Naval Men's Associa- the "American Helicopter", to State were introduced to the As- one or more ships of the R.A.N, enquiries will be welcomed and tion of Australia was held at rush personnel armed with rifles sociation's first Federal President, will be present in the Brisbane promptly attended to by these Brisbane, Queensland, between and bazookas to strategic posi- Obtainable from leading Mr. Alec C. Nichols, who is now River and an opportunity be giv- two Honorary Officers of the As- Tuesday, 5th, and Thursday, 7th tions before they can be reached February, 1952. The official open- residing at Woody Point. en to invited the Rear-Admiral sociation. G.W.S. shops and saloons. Commanding, his officers and rat- by enemy ground forces. An- ing of this Conference was per- Members of the Queensland other is intended as a staff vehicle formed by the Right Honorable. ings to attend the Dedication Ser- Section and their relatives and vice and Unveiling. to provide greater flexibility of Alderman Sir John Beals Chand- friends entertained the States' movement to commanders. The ler, K B., Lord Mayor of Bris- Delegates at a Social Evening, Federal Conference decided to third model, anamhulance jeep, bane, at 10.50 a.m. on 5th Feb- held on the previous (Monday) hold the next (1954) and further will carry two stretcher casualties, CORDIAL FACTORY ruary, at the Carlton Hotel, night, at the R.A.N. Reserve assemblies of Federal Delegates the pilot, and a medical corps- PTY. LTD. Queen Street, in the presence of Training Establishment. Leaders in the City of Melbourne, instead man. The "Heli-Jeep" design a large gathering which included of Adelaide, South Australia, as of each State Section responded was developed to improve the MURRAY STREET, Commander H. S. Chesterman, to the toasts of welcome given by was previously provided for in utility of helicopters already R.A.N. (Resident Naval Officer): Mr. G. M. Arbcr (Queensland the Association's Rules, by rotat- battle-proved on the Korean MARRICKVILLE, Captain E. P. Thomas, R.N. State President) who, on the fol- ing the venues to all States. front. Jeep simplicity and rug- N.S.W. (Vice-Patron) and Commanders lowing day, was unanimously The following officers were gcdness arc outstanding features N. D. and N. S. Pixley (Queens- elected Chairman for the dura- of the design, intended to require 'Phones: LA 2431, LA 26)9 land Section, Ex-Naval Men's As- unanimously elected to the Fed- tion of the Conference. The lo- eral Executive for the next two a minimum of field maintenance. sociation): Messrs. J. C. Mc- cal Executive and the Commit- Watters (R.S.S. 6? A.I.L.A.), years:—Messrs. F. F. Anderson, tee also arranged several other (Federal President) of St. George Queensland Branch): A. Warnes forms of entertainment for the (Australian Legion): N. C. Giles, Sub-Section; H. S. Peebles, week, the highlights of their hos- (Federal Vice-President) of Syd- G. Bowman, and G. W. Scott pitality included a huge party ney Sub-Section; G. W. Scott, SHIPS - FACTORIES • COMMERCIAL DUILPINGS (Hon. Federal Secretary) repre- which was invited to the "Kiwi (Hon. Federal Secretary) of senting the Federal President Show" and car trips in and Queensland Section; C. R. Barrie, (Mr. F. F. Anderson) who was around the City of Brisbane, (Hon. Federal Treasurer) of unable to be present and apolo- winding up with a special Din- Manly and Districts Sub-Section; FOR ALL CLASSES OF ELECTRICAL gised for his own unavoidable ner and Social Evening, in most and J. A. K. Stafford, (Hon. Fed- INSTALLATIONS AND REPAIRS, absence. Interstate Delegates who glorious surroundings, at the eral Assistant Secretary) of Can- attended the Federal Conference Kiosk (One Tree Hill) at Mount terbury-Bankstown Sub-Section. MOTOR AND GENERATOR WINDING, were:—Messrs. C. H. Hall, W. Cootha, overlooking Brisbane The position of Hon. Federal Or- H. Sullivan and W. J. Pearce, of and its suburbs. During the ganising Secretary is expected to RADAR INSTALLATIONS, ETC. Victoria; F. Calvert, R. Hum- evening the President was in- be filled at an early date from phry and B. McKenna, of New formed of the passing of our be- nominations received from South Wales; P. R. Buring and loved King and Patron-in-Chief, N.S.W. Sub-Sections. A. Hallett, of South Australia: all members stood in silence as a N. A. Murphy, A Burwash and mark of respect to His late At the conclusion of the Feder- We offer our services H. E. Callaghan, of Western Majesty. Later, the President al Conference the Federal Execu- Australia: H. N. Campbell, of called on the members to drink tive tendered a Farewell Dinner Canberra: G. M. Arber, E. L. the toast "Her Majesty the to the departing Delegates and Clifford, W. M. Macdonald and Queen." to the officers of the Queensland H. Giles, of Queensland; G. R. Section. Speakers were very sin- ELECTRICAL INSTALLATIONS PTY. LTD. Howe, of Tasmania: M. H. The unveiling of the Queens- cere in their thanks and apprecia- Wright and A. F. O'Driscoll, of tion to the President and his Tel. BX 5311 land Section's War Memorial 181 CLARENCE ST., SYDNEY Tel. BX 5311 Papua-New Guinea Sections. This Tablet, which was intended to be members for the hospitality they was the first occasion on which had extended to the visitors and and at dedicated on the following Sat- Tel. B 3412 Delegates were in attendance urday, after the rising of Confer- all were loth to be returning to 302 HUNTER ST. WEST, NEWCASTLE Tel. 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M Tk. Navy M.rdi, 1982. 31 AMERICA AND WEST INDIES STATION. WRIGHT HEATON During her pcruxJ of service on the America and West Indies Station, H M.S. "Superb" (who & GO. LTD. recently returned to the United • EVERY MAN IN TRAINING Kingdom), steamed as flagship of Vice • Admiral Sir Richard Svmonds Taylor, K.B.E., C.B., D.S.C., more than 33,000 miles CUSTOMS AND LESSENS WAR RISK and entered more than 21 foreign FORWARDING AGENTS ports. There were many official recep- THROUGHOUT tions given on hoard and more N.S.W. and VICTORIA You may think that war cannot nucleus of the larger forces required than 6,100 guests were entertain- happen again. We thought tbit in in a major war emergency. ed. A Royal Marine Guard and e Band "beat retreat" on twenty 1938. We thought that, too, before That is why service as a Sailor, occasions and paraded (>6 times for the fourth of August, 1914. Can Soldier or Airman should be recog- Th« future of st«am for marin* purposes the reception of high ranking 97 PITT STREET, we afford to relax to-day? Maybe nised by all Australians as the finest it mat by th« latost Babcock develop- officers. Members of the ship's ments, which, in turn, ara backed by there will be no war. We all hope calling any man can choose, and why ovar 50 years' tea aiparianca. At tea, company look part in many cere- there won't. But none of us can Australia to-day gives the Service as on land, tima has proved the service monies and marches through cities, STDNET afford to take the risk! man the highest pay, the best food, of Babcock Boiler Plant and their smartness was highly praised wherever they went. A Phone BW 19J5 Recently the authoritative "New clothing, accommodation, training facilities, opportunities for advance- BABCOCK & WILCOX total of 912 guns were fired in FOR ALL ENQUIRIES. York Times" said that foreign ag- OF AUSTRALIA PTY. LIMITED salutes. ment, amenities, medical and dental ENGINEERS AND CONTRACTORS gressors would be ready for offensive The new Commander-in-Chief, care, leave, pension and gratuity Hud Office t Works. Regrets Park. N.S.N, preparations by late in 1952. United •ranch Office! «nr* Agancits in all States. America and West Indies Station privileges ever offered to a recruit. (Vice - Admiral Sir William States Air Force officials are increas- Andrewes, K.B.E., C.B., D.S.O.), ingly worried by the rapid develop- Each of the three fighting Ser has recently paid official visits to ORDER FORM ment of aggressive air power. A vices has openings for men from Washington and Ottawa. grim picture! many different occupations and with C. GILES He sailed from his base at To "THE NAVY," varying levels of skill. There are Bermuda with his flag in the ROYAL EXCHANGE It is even grimmer here in Aus- jobs for unskilled men, for the BUILDING, cruiser H.M.S "Sheffield" (Cap- tralia ... a country proud of its semi-skilled, for recruits with apti- & SONS BRIDGE ST., SYDNEY. tain M. Evcrard, R.N.), and with freedom but not yet strong enough tude for specialist training, and for the frigate H.M.S. 'Sparrow" to defend it. On the basis of popu- the fully-qualified tradesman. All (Captain R B Honny .vill, R.N.), Please register my subscrip- in company. lation alone, Australia cannot afford receive good pay in cash, supple tion to "The Navy." The The two ships called at Norfolk, to maintain huge forces permanently mented by practically every living • SACK rate is IS/- per 12 issues under arms. Hut she can and must requirement, on a scale comparing Virginia, U.S.A. post free in the British The "Sheffield" then proceeded afford to maintain at full-strength most favourably with civilian stand- AND Empire. I send Postal Note/ to Baltimore, U.S.A., and from t Cheque/Money Order for a modern, well-equipped Navy, ards. Pay is adjusted to the ccst of • PRODUCE there the Commander - in - Chief t :ssucs. Army and Air Force which would living, and married men draw motored to Washington. be immediately available as the special extra allowances. MERCHANTS, (Add exchange where The "Sparrow" proceeded to r applicable) Washington while the Comman- dcr-in-Chief was in the American V Commencing from: capital and in Ottawa, Canada, JOIN THE NAVY, THE ARMY or THE AIR FORCE and later returned to Bermuda Enquire at the following without obligation: J41 MALVERN RD„ with the "Sheffield." Name SOUTH YARRA, Vice - Admiral Sir William The Recruiting Centre in your city; your District Recruiting Committee MELBOURNE. Address. Andrewes, K B E, C.B., D S.O., or write to the Deputy-Director of Recruiting, O.P.O., Box XYZ, in VICTORIA. recently succeeded Vice-Admiral your capital city. Sir Richard Symonds - Taylor, Date •PHONES: BJ 3255-6. K.B.E., C.B., D.S.C. Formerly, he luueJ by lAi Dittcioi-Crn'imt of Keermiluig. DKCX1

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