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August/September/October. 1980 THE NAVY Page On* NAVY WEEK MESSAGE HE past twelve months have not T been notable for activities calculated to produce harmony between nations, indeed few periods in recent times have seen so many de-stabilising influences at work. Despite widespread political, economic and military disorder, there are signs that all is not lost and the most significant of these is a growing appreciation of the inter- dependence of nations in this day and age. International groupings for economic or military reasons, and sometimes both, arc not new especially in Europe; the EEC, NATO and Warsaw pact are fairly modern examples, as is ASEAN in our own region. In a Paper published in 1978, the Navy League of Australia suggested that for their own future well-being and security, countries sharing common interests should co-operate on a world-wide as well as a regional basis. This seed fell on barren Australian ground, but the idea was powerfully reinforced in 1979 by Britain's Admiral of the Fleet Lord Hill-Norton, who recommended a world-wide maritime alliance to counter growing Soviet seapower and a threat to the trade routes. At about t^e same time, influential figures in the United States expressed similar thoughts on the desirability of wider international co- operation than exists at the present time. While there are obvious political difficulties in achieving international economic and security co-operation on the scale proposed, at least in the short term, the concept is only commonsense. Over two-hundred years ago the American stateman and author, John Dickinson, wrote "by uniting we stand, by dividing we fall'. Dickinson was referring to America's struggle for independence, but the principle applies as much in 1980 as it did in 1768 and we would do well to remember the words. GEOFFREY EVANS BUYNI (Violent). Designed by Lairds and built in Russia at August, 1980 Nevskt to the bask British "27 knotter" pattern. 350 tons, 6,000 hp, one 11 pdr, five 3 pdr, three IS Inch torpedo tubes and 12-18 A CKNO WLEDGEMENTS mines. In the above view she can be seen in the Port of Algiers after sustaining bow damage when entering that harbour. The This Navy Week issue of "The Navy" was supported by BY EDO VI (Grievous) of this class was the sistership which Navy Public Relations, Sydney and Canberra; Historical carried the injured Russian Commander-in-Chief to his surrender Studies Section, Canberra; The Royal Canadian Navy; and subsequent captivity following the battle of Tsu-Shima. Royal New Zealand Navy; Peruvian Navy; Harry Further photographs of Tsarist warships appear on following Adlam; Lou Cunningham; David Diment; James Goss; pages. (Photo — Authors) Tony Grazebrook; Vic Jefferies; Michael Melliar- Phelps; John Mortimer and Ron Wright. The deadline Front Cover for the November/December/January issue will be 24th HMAS MELBOURNE - 25 years in commission. October. 1980. October, 1980. (Photo — Royal Australian Navy)

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II.00 am-5.00 pm Apprentice Training Establishment. HMAS of Australia. NIRIMBA, Quakers Hill, open to visitors. TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 30: I.00 pm-5.00 pm Ships HMAS VAMPIRE. HMAS SWAN, HMAS 12.30 pm-1.00 pm Band recital and Naval display — Martin Place. JERVIS BAY and Submarine HMAS ORION, and open to visitors. Garden Island. Also displays 1.30pm-2.00pm as 4/10/1980. 5.00 pm Close of NAVY WEEK 1980 - The Ceremony of WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1 Beat Retreat 12 Noon Barbecue for disadvantaged children. Hill area. Garden Island. SOUTH AUSTRALIA 12 Noon-1.00 pm Band recital, Physical Training and Naval Dis- plays. diver drops from navy helicopters into TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30: Sydney Cove in conjunction with Water Safety p.m. Naval Officers Club Dinner Week — Opera House area WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 1: THURSDAY. OCTOBER 2: p.m. Naval Association Reception at Naval House. 12.30 pm Changing of the Guard at the Cenotaph. Martin (By invitation). 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P»Q8 Four THE NAVY AUQUSI/September/October, 1M0 August/September/October, 1980 THE NAVY Page Five TH-E TSAR S OTHER SHIPS By: ROSS GILLETT & MICHAEL MELLIAR-PHELPS (All fi*otos — Authors' Collections) SAMSON. Typical of the small river patrol craft and gunboats used by the principal European 'Treaty' powers, SAMSON's name is displayed In Roman characters on the bridge dodger for easy identification by the other nations operating on the Manchurian waterways.

SOKOL (Falcon). Brand new and as yet unarmed prior to commencing trials In 1695, this sleek Utile 220 displacement ton destroyer sits In the basin of Alfred Yarrows yard In England (shortly after commissioning).

BOCA TYR, (A Knight). Third of Ihis name, and name-vessel of a 4 ship class of 6,645 Ion protected cruisers, Ihe German-built BOGATYR, squats Ignomlnlously on the rocks ot Cape Brlos, only three years after her launching In 1901. Note her forward twin 6 Inch turret minus Ihe guns In order to lighten Ihe ship.

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PO Box 50, Liverpool, NSW 2170 IZUMRUD (Emerald). The end of the protected cruiser. IZVMRL'D. after grounding north or Vladlvostock following Tsu-Shima. A pholograpn of Ihe ship's forward halt after her Telephone: (02) 602 8999 crew had blown her up on 2*lh May. 1*05. As built Ihe cruiser mounted three tunnels, three masts and displaced J. 103 tons. 7 he Telex: AA20546 destruction was particularly complete. Whilst In service she and OREL (City). The lit* vintage hospital ship OREL, first vend her sister JEMTCHVG (Pearl) were noted tor their enormous to he sighted by Ihe Japanese at TIM-Shim a. Her existence M the coal consumption out of all proportion lo their site and were Pacific Fleet caused many problems as she bore the same name as reported to bum over 25 tons per hour al full power. Ihe first division battleship which In that contest means *±gle. Page Ten THE NAVY August/September/October, I960 Auguat/September/October. 1000 THE IAVY Page Eleven ^SJJTOflj Instruments Naval Field Guns A Q.F. 12 pounder 4 cwi Held Gun. carriage No AN4 at the explosives factory . l>\ II \KK\ \l)l \\l Maribyrnong. Victoria. The RAS owned at least four of these guns. Force was issued with at least two field guns, and more specifically to the Naval Reserves of that state. There were possibly others, but photographs of the 1901 training camp for the Queensland Naval Reserves show two guns, one HAWKER SIDDELEV designated the Maryborough Gun and the other the Townsville Gun. The method of arming the state forces CROMPTON INSTRUMENTS (AUSTRALIA) PTY LTD is well seen in these two field guns, the WORKS: Townsville gun is a 6 pounder Armstrong breech loading gun and the Maryborough AIRDS ROAD, MINTO, NSW gun is a Hotchkiss 6 pounder QF gun. The Phone: (02) 60 32066 — Telex: 26074 main difference in this case is that the BL gun was loaded with a charge made up in •ranches: SYDNEY • MELBOURNE • BRISBANE • ADELAIDE • PERTH • HOBART a silk bag. as compared with the QF gun • NEWCASTLE • WOLLONGONG with its brass case. 6 pounder B. L. Armstrong field gun. manned by the Townsville Naval Brigade in in South Australian waters 1901. (Photo — Commander Norman Pixley) PROTECTOR was armed with five Page Thirteen Pig* Twelve THE NAVY August/September/October, 1900 August/September/October, 1980 THE NAVY Best wishes to Navy Personnel and Staff

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In the 1890's The NSW Naval Brigade on parade with an RML 9 pounder 8 cwt field gun and a Calling machine gun. (Photo Holidays Cillett Collection)

Gatling guns on field carriages. The This weapon had an interesting career to To my knowledge this was the only time Gatling was the first successful machine its credit. Originally the gun formed part in WW I that the RAN sent a field gun Ask about Fast flights, Fantastic service to India, Rome, gun, and a weapon which helped the of the armament of HMVS CERBERUS. ashore on warlike operations. British Navy establish itself as good land In this role it was mounted on a normal At this time the 12 pounder seems to Amsterdam and London. fighters. ship's pedestal carriage, but in 1906 it was have been issued in fair numbers. There The South Australian Ciatlings were put on a field carriage. This is unusual, were two at the RAN College. Jervis Bay chambered for the .45 inch Martini Henry and could possibly be the only gun of this and at least two at each Naval Reserve Call us we are only to happy to assist. Rifle cartridge, and consisted of 10 type modified by the Commonwealth Depot. There was a battery at the main barrels revolving round a common axis. Naval Force. depot at CERBERUS. The 12 pounder Because the barrel group was encased in a With the purchase of the "Fleet Unit", was a typical naval field gun. and one of cylindrical cover it gave the appearance of the sea-going forces gained the standard the main uses of a naval field gun was in being a gun rather than a machine gun. 12 pounder 8 cwt field gun. Each cruiser naval funerals. Old timers will remember and has been wrongly labelled in some old carried one of these guns, and it is on that long drag at the slow to Boot Hill. photographs. record that the 12 pounder from The funeral gun was kept in beautiful 1 have been unable to find any records SYDNEY was landed at Rabaul in 1914. condition as befitted its duties. I was told of the South Australian Navy ever having It was later turned over to the army in a couple of years ago that the gunnery owned a field gun, but this docs not mean Rabaul. and it would be interesting to officer at Flinders Naval Depot decided that they did not. Records are difficult to find out whether or not the "swaddies" that the funeral gun was obsolete and locate in these modern times, and it is ever returned it. therefore not required. He had the little possible that the South Australians did at some time have a field gun or two on their ledgers. At HMAS CERBERUS, the main training depot in Victoria, there are a pair of interesting field pieces. One is a 9 pounder Armstrong BL gun, ex Victorian Navy. This is, or was, in fair condition, and is a good example of the type of weapon sailors took ashore on field FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT. exercises. The trial is of wooden construction and is not fitted with recoil gear MELBOURNE ADELAIDE The other gun bears a brass plate saying 602 3933 51 6525 that it is a 6 pounder Hotchkiss ex HMAS GAYUNDAH. This could be the Maryborough weapon. The gun was SYDNEY PERTH BRISBANE taken from the depot during WW2 and mounted as a decoy battery, which 232 8477 322 2511 31 2194 formed a part of the defences of Westernport Bay. No ammunition was sent with the gun, so we can assume that it was only there for moral support. Outside the Gunnery School Office at FND were a pair of 7 pounder field guns. 1 could never find out the origin of these two guns, but from the size of the wheels 1 would imagine that they were military equipment. In store at Spectacle Island in Sydney is 9 pounder B. L. Armstrong ex HMVS NELSON at the New Entry School Parade a 6 pounder QF Nordenfelt field gun. Ground FND. Photo taken In 1945. (Photo - H. Adlam) Page Fourteen THE NAVY August/September/October, 1960 Auguat/September/October. 1980 THE NAVY Page Fifteen beauty returned to stores. It was found private venture by Elswick, and was out soon afterwards that it was needed, accepted by the British Government as a but, alas, it could not be found. service weapon, being listed in the The most disappointing feature of this appropriate "List Of Changes". It's use exercise was that in the 1960's four 12 however, seems to have been confined to pounder field guns were sold by the navy Australia. It is unique for a naval field Proud to be associated with Navy and Armed Forces, Best Wishes to all as "metal old". This seems to be in gun as it is fitted with a buffer and personnel and staff keeping with the lack of interest in relics recuperator. The gun is equipped with a that prevails in this modern age. light bullet proof shield. At Snapper island is another example After the Great War the Royal Navy of the field gun designed for naval use. adopted the military 3.7 inch QF This weapon is designated "Ordnance mountain gun as the standard ship borne QF. 12 pounder 4 cwt. MK I Training Ship TINGIRA Two of 10,000 ton cruisers. Some old timers can these guns were carried in TINGIRA. remember these guns being carried by There must have been at least four of CANBERRA and AUSTRALIA at these 12 pounder 4 cwt's. as the carriage different times. of the gun at Snapper Island is marked The 3.7 was a pack howitzer, designed Probably the best knonn naval field gun, AN I. At the Government Explosives to be broken down into eight mule loads. the Q.F. 12 pounder 8 cwt of 1894. Note In this case the barrel was made in two the »heel shoes to try to stop the recoil pieces, and the carriage was fitted with 36 being too violent. (Photo — Royal Naval inch wooden wheels. In the naval version Historical Society) the barrel was made in one piece (wha» was known in the Royal Artillery as the should a tank appear over the rise the gun CASH FOR SCRAP METAL "Ordnance. QF, 3.7 inch Howitzer. MK could lob shells under the soft belly, III") and the equipment moved on the which the experts claimed was the tank's standard naval 42 inch wheels. soft spot. In December 1941. Chief Petty Officer This may seem a bit far fetched today, Don Walker was in Flinders Naval Depot but as Don Walker says "It wasn't when AAIDMETALS PTY LTD you think that at that time the army's awaiting the completion of WARRAMUNGA. He had just returned main anti-tank weapon was that stupid from the United Kingdom, where he had Boys .55 anti-tank rifle". completed a two years exchange (A Member ot the O.T. Lempriere Group) The gun was placed on a full war appointment. For some of this time Don footing, shoots were carried out. and the was an instructor at the Mecca of indirect fire control was tested. The crew Gunners. Whale Island. lived under canvas and Christmas Dinner When the Japanese decided to become 1941 was eaten out in the open by the gun. STEEL & NON FERROUS METALS nasty and started shooting at people, the In January 1942 Don Walker was told navy decided that it was time that Flinders to bring the gun back to the depot, as it Telephone: (09) 381 3033 Naval Depot really ought to be defended. was required for use by the army. The site This was sound thinking because (he place was evacuated and the gun returned to the Railway Yard. Hay St. Subiaco, Perth, WA was the main training establishment for gunnery school. PO Box 117, Subiaco the RAN. as it had been for the past We are lucky that a reel of snapshots of twenty years. the gun were taken during the period. There were two 3.7 inch howitzers in This seems to be the only photographic store at the Gunnery School, and Don record of the incident. As far as can be SPEARWOOD Walker was told to get one of the guns ascertained the whole exercise appears to together, train up a crew, take the gun have been forgotten, and it certainly does Telephone: (09) 418 2000 Em NSW Natal Brigade KM I 9 pounder 8 cwt, on display at Snapper Island. This and crew out to Boot Hill and defend the not appear in the official history. Barrington St, Perth, WA gun is thought to have been taken by the Depot from seaborne attack. As a point of interest in this period of NSW contingent to the Boxer rebellion in Don remembers that there was only one time, the Royal New Zealand Artillery 1900. (Photo — R. Gillett) shield between the two guns, the other formed a battery, known as 144 had probably been mislaid years before. independent Battery in 1942. and this KALGOORUE Factory at Melbourne is another 12 The gun was assembled and a crew battery was armed with 3.7 inch pounder 4 cwt. and its carriage is marked trained. Most of the crew were "green Telephone: (090) 21 2036 howitzers. In the New Zealand Official AN 4. One wonders what happened to horns" just out of new entry school, not History of this Battery we find that "four Great Eastern Highway, Kalgoorlie, WA AN 2 and AN 3. surprising as there was an extreme of the guns had been used by the marines shortage of trained hands in December The 12 pounder 4 cwt is an extremely in two well known British cruisers". The 1941 short barreled gun. it is only 18 calibres bulk of this text is true, except that the long, and must surely be one of the Head Office: The gun's crew were knocked into field gun was manned by the seamen, and shortest wire wound guns ever made. shape, the gun marched up to boothill and not the marines. It was usual for a cruiser The barrel of this gun. No 3023. was an emplacement dug in. The emplacement to carry one howitzer, not two. 206 WHITEHALL STREET made by the Royal Gun Factory, but the was behind a rise in the ground, and an carriage was built by the Elswick The main point that comes to the fore FOOTSCRAY, MELBOURNE. VIC observation post was set up in front of the Ordnance Works. The year of rise. This meant that the gun could give in this incident is that the naval field Telephone: (03) 689 1333 construction was 1914. and the complete reasonably accurate indirect fire. howitzers seemed to have been well used unit was examined at Portsmouth, which by the army, both here and in New appears to be the main ordnance The reason for placing the gun behind a Zealand. acceptance depot. rise was twofold. The first, of course was When it comes to field guns being used The 12 pounder 4 cwt began life as a protection^. The second reason was that ashore, we find that in two world wars the Page Sixteen THE NAVY August /September /October. 1960 August/September/October. 1980 THE NAVY Page Seventeen RAN put a field gun ashore for operational use once in each war. The SYDNEY'S gun was landed in Rabaul during 1914, and then turned over to the army. In 1942 the gun that had been used as a coast defence gun at FND was also turned over to the army. In 1900 the Victorian Navy sent a t q f contingent to China, taking field guns EXCEL with them. Unfortunately there have been some wrong impressions gained about the origin of these weapons. f ... To put the record straight, the Victorian Government had purchased a mi number of 14 pounder guns on pedestal CABINET mountings from British arms manufacturers. The 14 pounder was not a 1924. Ike boys from HMAS TINC1RA Ml drill lo Lyme Part. Rose Bey. Sydney, with n service weapon. Newport did make field Q.F. 12 pounder 4 ewt. This tun Is presently on display nt Snapper Island. No I of Ihe carriages for two standard Victorian boys' gun crew in Ihis photo is John BasloeL. author of "Australia's Ships of War". Government barrels. The reason for tPhoto — John Bastock) exchanging the 14 pounders for 12 Victorians with guns that had a ready pounder RML field gun. but Ihis is not pounders is quite obvious. There just was supply of shells available. surprising in the least, as even in 1900 the WORKS no ammunition for the 14 pounders in There does not appeal lo be any record muzzle loading field gun was still a service China, and it was logical to arm the of the NSW Navy exchanging their 9 weapon.

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A Royal Navy Q.F. 3.7 loch Howitter during exercise on the island of Si Kills. The RAN purchased three of these weapons In Ike late 1920 s. (Photo - W Laing)

As regards the use of naval guns immediately following the war the famous When the 9 pounder was used to arm & ashore, a full book could be written on 18 pounder field gun was produced. This boat, the top carriage was placed on the AUTO this subject, but the Boer War of 1899 gun was a wonderful weapon, and it had deck of a steamboat, or on a specially 1902 should give a fair illustration of just recoil gear as well. The army were so strengthened thwart in an open launch or how "Jack" and his guns can be used pleased with the work done by the navy pinnace. when the xigencies of the service demand that in the 1911 Treatise on Military same. Carriages there is mention of "Carriage, It was a simple matter to un-hook the capsquares and place the barrel in the As usual in any colonial war. the Royal Travelling. 4.7 inch QF." field carriage. In this case we had a three RANGER Navy lived up to its reputation of being Field guns have not been carried by in one gun. We could mount it in the ship, into the field from the beginning. ships of the RAN for some years now. but we could mount it in a boat, or we could The cruisers landed their 12 pounder it is hoped that it will not be forgotten. At take ii ashore on a wheeled carriage and field guns, and the boys in marched off the time of writing the Garden Island keep the natives back until the army pulling their guns, and carrying their rifles Dockyard is re-furbishing a small naval arrived on the scene. and field kits slung over their shoulders. field gun that has been a relic on the INDUSTRY A re-print from an 1899 paper depicts the Island for some years now. This gun In the Royal Navy there was a field gun battery marching out of the appears to be a six pounder, and is fitted "Carriage. Gl" for the 12 pounder 8 cwt naval base at Simonstown. A comment with a later model Armstrong breech. The field gun. This was a gunnery instruction from an old soldier gunner is written on gun was built as a rifled muzzle loader by mounting, usually placed on the top of a the back. "Bad enough towing your Armstrong in 1881. In 1890 it was turret in the early "Dreadnought's", but hardware along, but hang humping your converted to a breech loader. The bore is it does not appear to have been used in the 5 CULLEN STREET bluey as well". plugged, but appears to have been about 2 RAN. It was soon seen that the 12 pounder inches in diameter. A brass plate attached BAYSWATER, WA wasn't the answer to the Boer artillery. to the carriage says that the projectile Each year the ABC show excerpts from Neither were the field guns of the Royal weighed 22 pounds. This surely must be the Royal Tournement at Olympia. In this Artillery for that matter. The navy was an error. If we use the standard gunner's we always see part of the Royal Navy's asked to do something to help. As usual formula D'/2 we come up with 41b. The Field Gun Competition. The guns used Phone:271 0992 the navy did just that. four pounder does not appear in any are the old 12 pounder 8 cwt's. guns that for the past fifty years have been pulled to Several cruisers landed parts of their gunnery text book for British service pieces that often that they now sometimes main armament, namely 12 pounder ordinance, but the bore closely resembles fall apart of their own accord. It is 12 cwt ship's guns, and some 4.7 inch QF the old six pounder. The gun is nostalgic to see this competition, and if guns. The old cruiser PHILOMEL which suspiciously like the Townsville gun at the somebody hadn't sold four of these guns ship was to become the cradle of the 1901 camp. as "metal, old" the RAN might have Royal New Zealand Navy in later years, Recently re-furbished at Garden Island become aware of the value of the landed two 4.7's. Field carriages were put are two 9 pounder 8 cwt RML guns on competition. We may even have seen a together at the South African Railways slide mountings. These guns are of the RAN crew winning the covetted prize. workshops. These carriages were designed same pattern as the naval 9 pounder field by Captain Pcrcy Scott, RN. one of the gun at Snapper Island. In the days wiien No more will we hear the time gunnery giants of the Royal Navy. guns of this type were carried in ships, it honoured pipe "Man and arm boats. was quite common to supply a field The heavy 12 pounder 12 cwt gun, even Away landing party". This era is gone for carriage as well as a ship's carriage for though it was the same calibre, 3 inch, as ever, but we still have some of the guns them. In fact the hand book describes the army's 12 pounder and IS pounder left. Let us keep them. We need them as For Pool Tables — Toy Boxes — Table Tennis them as ship and boat guns. field guns, was an extremely accurate part of our proud past. weapon, and had a greater range. It also and Dart Board Cabinets and Accessories was fitted with recoil gear, which the army guns were not. BGM Industries As the war progressed, the navy aided Specialist Transmission Engineers Compliments to All Members further by sending six inch ship's guns to the front. These were usually mounted on Contractors to the flat top rail trucks for transport, and they ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY were thankfully received by the army. Also General Engineering of all types If the Boer War did anything, it woke the British Army up to the fact that they Talaphona: (03) 3M I7S1 needed better field guns than they IB Corron ltd. Coburg. Vic possessed. In the period of development August/September/October, 1960 Page Twenty THE NAVY Auguat/Saptambar/Octobar, 11 THE NAVY Pag* TMnty-On* Get the full NAVY LEAGUE ^ DIVISIONAL ^ measure of the & CADET NEWS Tellurameter TASMANIA The camp cadets took over "G" block with others accommodated on GPU 958 \ w \ i i \<.i i During May, four members of the and at TS PERTH. The camp was also Ol \ I sIH \I I \' Tasmanian Division travelled to Western joined by four personnel from the range Australia to join in the annual continuous Tasmanian Division and by a retired Notice is hereby given that the Annual training of the WA Division at HMAS officer from the South Australian General Meeting of the Navy League of Leeuwin. During their journey they Division. Australia will be held at the Melbourne visited TS AUGUSTA la South Australia Unfortunately, prior to the camp, CPV State College, 538 Swanston Street, and TS's VANCOUVER. BUNBURY. 958's engine room was accidentally Carlton, Victoria In Conference Room ANZAC and PERTH. The four also flooded, making it unavailable except as a S820, Level 8. Science Education Building visited HMAS Stirling. static training ship. For boatwork at 8 00 pm on Friday. 14th November. 1980 Ten cadets with Lieut Fuller of TS however, the camp had available a fleet LEVEN and CPO Hawkes of TS utility boat, two seaboats. a light utility BUSINESS DERWENT voyaged in HMAS SUPPLY boat. AWB 123, two aluminium dinghies, (1) To receive the report of the Federal Council from Hobart to Sydney. An old shipmate six bosuns, two pulling boats and eight and to consider matters arising therefrom. onboard was Lieut Mike Buss whose last canoes. (2) To receive the financial statements for the appointment was as Staff Officer Cadets year ended 30th June. 1980. The cooks class showed their skill by (3)To elect office-bearers for 1980/81 as Tasmania. cooking all the courses for the Divisional follows: Winter time is mainly boat overhaul Staff/Unit CO's mess dinner. The cadets (a) Federal President time and DERWENT. TAMAR and in the Quartermaster Gunner course (b) Federal Vice-Presidents (2) MERSEY units are each working on their participated in full bore shoot with (c) Federal Council Members boats. LEVEN are progressing on the 7.62mm SLR's at the Swanbourne rifle (d) Auditor. conversion of the old wharf shed into range, as well as being adjudged the best Nominations for the above to be lodged Such are the hazards of being a pioneer that the MA 100. A well established cadastral infra-red their new HQ. A retired carpenter has turned out division at Captain's Divisions with the Honorary Secretary prior to the name Tellurometer should be taken by some instrument ideal for use in civil engineering been working almost full-time studding on Thursday. The culmination of the meeting. up the new partitions. expedition training was a overnight (4) General Business. people as the generic term for all Electronic and underground applications. A mean square ByO.der of the Council Distance Measuring equipment. But there is, of error of only 1.5mm is guaranteed, but many TAMAR have recently rebuilt the butts bivouac reached by a point to point hike of their indoor rifle range with all new through bushland south of Perth. These J. M. M. PATCH SON course, only one Tellurometer Company and users claim 1mm or better. sand and timbers. It has been announced cadets were attempting to qualify for ihe range of equipment, albeit a large one with an that the Tasmanian Division ACT will be Army Cadet Force adventure training increasing number of different models suitable Auto Long Range Position Fixing System held from 13th to 23rd January. 1981. TS badge. for practically every application. MERSEY has been adjudged the most • TS PERTH won the WA State Colours efficient unit in Tasmania for 1979/80. III \ \ \ \ I I \(.ll Survey instruments New! State-of-the-art MRD-1 in the NRC (WA Division) with an assessment of 88.5*?o. thus retaining the (>l \l S I K \l I \ CA1000. A lightweight microwave system for VICTORIA AMP Shield. geodetic survey. It has an accuracy of 5 parts per • Two other honours taken out by TS One point of Interest daring the recent (VICTORIAN DIVISION) mill"** and a range of30km(18V6 miles). Its PERTH were the Vickridge Trophy for Notice Is hereby given that the Annual visit to HMAS CERBERUS was the operation is so simple that the remote station Parade Ground Training and the D. W. General Meeting of the Victorian Division newly established museum, where articles, Brisbane Trophy for Practical of The Navy League of Australia will be can be manned by unskilled personnel. photographs, ete of historical maritime Seamanship. held at the Melbourne Stale College. 538 interest are being gathered. Swanston Street. Carlton, In Conference TS GASCOYNE, Carnarvon, won the CD6. A lightweight infra-red system with a Commander L. G. Wilson is still Room S820. Level 8. Science Education In-built microprocessor control trophy for Showing the Most Iniative and high accuracy a range of up to 2km (1 Vfe miles), seeking material for display and anyone Building at 7.30 pm on Monday. 15th Range: 100m to 100km TS MORROW. Geraldton. won the willing to assist in providing same is asked September, 1080. which makes it ideal for cadastral survey. (Subject to radio horizon) award for the Most Improved Unit to contact him on (059) 83 7011. It was a Signal reflection is from a suitable target/ Trophy. BUSINESS Range velocity: upto 100m/sec (194 knots) walk down memory lane for many. reflector, so a remote instrument is not needed. • WA Executive Council member Mrs (1) To receive the report of the Executive Accuracy: 1 Om ± 3 ppmD For further details call as immediately! Joan Dowson was honoured in the Committee of The Victorian Division for Multi-user facility WESTERN AUSTRALIA Queen's Birthday Honours List when she the year ended 30th June. 1980. On 10th May. 1980. approximately 203 was awarded the MBE in recognition of (2) To receive the accounts for the Division for the year ended 30th June. 1980. personnel of the WA Division of the her services to the Red Cross and the RSL Women's Auxilliary. (3) To elect the Executive Committee for Alter MM tonic*: Ncval Reserve Cadets commenced Annual 1980/81. h Continaoes Training at HMAS Leeuwin. • There is no question of the enthusiasm Our Service Department provides excellent (4) To appoint an Auditor. back-up Australia-wide Average lab Hitr the command of the Senior Officer of PO Instructor Robbie James of TS (5) General Business. (A Division of Tomasetti & Son Pty Ltd.) turnover — 24 hours. You're welcome for a Cadets (WA) LCDR G. Curran. PERTH, which is based in Fremantle. PO By Order of the Executive Committee James makes a round trip of 200 F34 Graham St.. Port Melbourne. 3207 personal visit, anytime The cadets came from TS's i. H. H. PATIMON VANCOUVER. BUNBURY. ANZAC. kilometres from the country town of (03) 645 2222 Telex: AA30669 PERTH. MORROW and GASCOYNE. Northam every Friday to attend parades! (02) 644 8333 Telex AA20858 August/September/October, 1980 THE NAVY Page Twenty-Three i European Report. . . Ramsay's moving A FTER weeks of speculation as to the final /"I fate of the aircraft carrier ARK ROYAL it now seems to begin a major refit. Her place will be certain that she will be towed from Plymouth before the taken by KENT DI2. GLAMORGAN end of August to be scrapped. DI9 is due to recommission this year after her major refit during which she has A trust was set up after she was de- Of the County's HAMPSHIRE D06 shipped two tiiple anti-submarine torpedo commissioned with the object of buying has been broken up at Briton Ferry during mounts. her and mooring the old carrier in the April. 1979. DEVONSHIRE D02 is laid The second type 22 HMS Thames to be used as a museum and up at Portsmouth. She was to have been BATTLEAXE F89 was accepted this conference centre. The Thames was sold to the Egyptian Navy but the deal fell year. Although classified as frigates they are considered ideal with the closing down of through. Her Seaslug missile launcher has big ships, bigger than the type 42s. Being most of London's up river docks. been removed and the latest rumour is brought up in the days when destroyers Consideration was given to the scheme that she is to be rebuilt as a minelayer. were bigger than frigates I was amazed by but a survey showed that ARK ROYAL After a short spell as a harbour training her size as I watched her sail into was in a very bad state, in fact beyond ship at Portsmouth FIFE D20 is soon due Portsmouth. Looking at Royal Navy repair. After it was reported that she had been sold for scrap the trust offered more than she had been sold for, but the Ministry of Defence remained adamant in hulls that that she should be broken up. mean business On the credit side HMS INVINCIBLE Ramsay Fibreglass Australasia is a new division of has been commissioned, the ship has Carrington Slipways Pty. Ltd. It was a Melbourne-based made two visits to her home port, company that built an enviable reputation for its sports Portsmouth and is at present working up. ski boats. Since its acquisition by Carrington Slipways a She is due at her home port for Navy Days new type of pleasure boat has been designed and built at the end of August. and was released at the 1980 Melbourne Boat Show. The latest type 42 HMS EXETER D89 Production will begin in September. But with the move is at Portland for builders trials and is due to a huge new facility at Tomago, near Newcastle, Ramsay to be handed over sometime in will extend its production and design skills into building September. Following her will be much larger boats including trawlers, vessels for defence SOUTHAMPTON D90 LIVERPOOL and surveillance, large workboats etc and large and heavy D92 and NOTTINGHAM D9I. This will industrial mouldings in reinforced plastic. Ramsay complete the first batch of lOships. Follow- Fibreglass offers extensive services in fibreglass moulding ing will be an improved version, 16m and construction. Have you got a challenge for them? longer and Im wider, these measurements increasing the tonnage by SSO tons. It has been stated that the alterations will make them better seaboats and give them increased missile stowage. The names of the improved type 42s that have been laid down are: MANCHESTER D95, GLOUCESTER D%. EDINBURGH D97 and YORK DI04. The first and name ship of the class HMS SHEFFIELD D80 is due to complete her first major refit this year. The Belgium frigate WESTDIED (Photo — R. Gillett) types it seems that it is now the capabil- ities of the ship that decide if they are to be a destroyer or a frigate. It seems that ships with a mainly anti-aircraft role are destroyers, while ships with an anti- submarine role are frigates. The anti- surface role now appears to be taking a into a brand second place in both destroyers and new factory at frigates. Tomago, Newcastle. HMS ANTELOPE FI70 has recently completed a refit during which she has been fitted with two triple torpedo mounts. There has been a lot of activity in the non-warship field, with an unusual number of support ships joining the fleet. Two bulk oilers APPLELEAF A79 and BRAMBLELEAF A8I have been accepted. They were taken over while Ramsay Fibreglass Australasia HMS HAMPSHIRE, flying her paying off pendant, 3Hi March, 1976. (Photo - building for commercial owners and were launched as HUDSON CAVALIER and A DIVISION OF CARRINGTON SLIPWAYS PTY. LTD. James Goss) Old Punt Rd . Tomago, Newcastle, 2322 1>SW Ph 10491 64 8071 Auguat/September/October. 1980 THE NAVY Page Twenty-Five HUDSON DEEP. Four torpedo recovery role, Bofors rocket launcher and two a/s craft and submarines with a limited air vessels. TORNADO A140, TORCH torpedo launchers. F.ach is powered by defence. A deep sea anti-submarine role AMI. TORMENTOR AI42 and Gas Turbines and Diesels and has a top would be limited, as they do not operate a TORREADOR A143, and two deguassing speed of 28 knots. The Gas turbine is helocopter, although they would be useful ships MAGNET A114 and LODESTONF brought in when high speed is required. as part of a task group of other ships with A115. have been accepted, while seven With diesels only they can maintain 20 helicopters. The class will certainly give Why Did The Navy Choose useful training to officers and men of the water tractors, ADEPT A224, BUSTLER knots. The vessels arc light on manpower, A , CAPABLE A . CAREFUL the crew being only 160. I see their role as Belgian navy who for the past 30 years A . FLORENCE A . FRANCIS mainly a coastal one against fast attack have operated only minesweepers. AI47 and GENEVIEVE A are due to STESSL? commission during the year. Photo offer. No AI Royal Navy Across the Channel four of the new Abdiel N2I 76 Agile A88 72 Alacrity F174 77 Dutch frigates arc servng in the fleet. The Accord A90 77 Agile A88 77 Alacrity F174 78 vessels include KORTENAER F807. Achilles FI2 71 Agile A88 79 Alacrity F174 79 CALLENBURGH F808. VAN KINS- Achilles FI2 78 Agile A88 80 Alaric S41 6V BERGEN F809 and BANCKERT F8I0. Achilles F12 79 Agincourt D86 71 Albion R07 70 Hollands neighbour, Belgium now has Active FI7I 77 Airdlle AI02 80 Albion R07 72 all of her four Westhinder class frigates in Active FI71 78 Aju Fl 14 68 AlcideSIS 6') service They are the WIELINGEN F9I0, Active FI71 80 Ajax Fl14 74 Alice A113 73 WESTDIEP F911, WANDELAAR F9I2 Advice A89 79 Ajax Fl 14 78 Alliance SI7 79 and WESTHINDER F9I3. Although Agile AH* 70 Ajax Fl14 79 AITriston Ml 103 79 quite small ships when compared with western frigate construction they are well Postcard size photos. 20p each, orders of 20 prints or over 18p each. Postage armed. 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Dear Sir, After reading Mai Stephens' interesting article on the Sydney-based Dutch submarines K IX and K XII ("The Navy" May/June/July issue) 1 felt some light should be thrown on the other pair which arrived in Fremantle after escaping from the Japanese invasion of the Dutch East Indies. The two in question K VIII (sister of K IX) and K XI (sister of K XII) arrived in Fremantle in August, 1942. The battle- SENSIBLY STYLED FISHING BOATS damaged K VIII was paid off on 27th August, 1942. She was moored in the Swan River at Keane's Point until being stripped and then towed to Jervoise Bay in Cockburn Sound during TESTED UNDER HARSH CONDITIONS August, 1945. The boat foundered approximately 100 yards off shore and lay there until it was blown up by explosives in 1958. ENGINEERED FOR MAXIMUM LIFE The slightly larger K XI was used as a defensive submarine based at Fremantle until she was paid off in August. 1945. The SUPERIOR INBUILT STRENGTH Dear Sir, 815 ton submarine was also stripped of fittings and had been With great interest I have read the article "K XII — The partly demolished at the North Wharf near the Fremantle railway True Story" by M. Stephens and published in "The Navy", bridge when it foundered. SUPERIOR BUILDING TECHNIQUES Volume 42. Number 2 (May/June/Julv. 1980) After several futile attempts K XI was raised and towed out This Netherlands submarine arrived in Fremantle on 20th to a point outside Rottncst Island known as the "ships' March, 1942, where she underwent repairs on Cockatoo wharf. graveyard" and scuttled in September, 1946. Low HORSE POWER WITH HIGH PERFORMANCE Between 7th September, 1942 and 19th May. 1943, four patrols were made, during which small parties were landed on the south, Vic Jefferv. south-east and east coast of Java. Western Australian Division. After the last patrol it was decided to strike her off the active Navy League of Australia list and transfer the crew to a new British boat of the T class. In May, 1944, she was decommissioned in Sydney and on 6th September, 1944, striken off the active list. According to a report A. S. HORNE from a Netherlands Naval Officer she stayed in Sydney and after 12th September, 1944, she was sold to Luna Park where she could CONSOLIDATED be visited for a shilling a person. After that we had no more news about this submarine, but thanks to the article, this gap has now PTY LTD been filled. The K XII sank two Japanese ships: Manufacturers of Gloves & NERANG RD . SOUTHPORT. OLD 4215. 1. Motorvessel TORO MARU (1939 brt). a freighter; on Safety Products to the PHONE — (073) 32 2268 12th December. 1941. P.O. BOX 44. Royal Australian Navy RUNAWAY BAY. OLD. 4216. 2. Steamship TAIZAN MARU (3525 brt). a tanker; on 13th December. 1941. 94A Prospect Rood Yours Sincerely. The Aluminium Boat the Experts are Changing To F. C. Van Oosten Prospect, SA Commander R. Netherlands Navy (Rtd), Telephone: (08) 44 1128 Director of Naval History Augu>t/S*pt*mD*rfOctot»r. IMC THE NAVY Pag« Tw»nty-S«*«n Page Twenty-Six THE NAVY August/ September/October, 11 NAVAL ROUNDUP EMI

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Page Twenty-Eight THE NAVY Auguat/Seplember/October. 1980 Auguat/September/October. 1060 THE NAVY Page Twenty-Nine Important in the study will be a structural analysis of the vessel to ensure its capability to withstand the deck loadings imposed by a mix of oversized military cargo. Also pertinent will be the design of a suitable cargo-handling system, modification of the propulsion and auxiliary machinery installations, establishment of crew requirements and the design of working and accommodation areas.

AUSTRALIAN SHIPBUILDER STUDIES FEASIBILITY OF BUILDING SUBMARINES IN AUSTRALIA

The Minister for Defence. Mr D. J. Killen. announced on 8th July, that an Australian shipbuilding company. Vickers Cockatoo Dockyard Ply Ltd, of Sydney, was examining the feasibility of building conventionally-powered submarines in Australia. Mr Killen said the present Oberon class submarines were being progressively modernised with new sensors, weapons and a After being prepared for her tow to Taiwan, Ihe former destroyer USS NAUTILUS. 1958. (Photo — United Slates Navy) computer-based fire control system. In addition, highly effective and training ship bids farewell to Sydney Harbour on 9lh July. long-range Mark 48 torpedoes were being purchased from the 1980. (Photo — R. Gillett) The Submarine which look lo the sea in January, 1955, was USA. The submarine would also be capable of launching decommissioned at Mare Island Naval Shipyard in Vallejo. ESSEX CONVERSION STUDY Harpoon anti-ship missiles. Vickers had been awarded the contract because of the California, near San Francisco. A $312,500 contract has been placed by the US Maritime Mr Killen said: "While the Oberon class submarines have company's experience in submarine refits in Australia, and its The Navy essentially had retired NAUTILUS last May. when Administration with M. Rosenblatt & Son. consulting naval many useful years of service ahead, if we are to seriously links with the United Kingdom parent company which had it was decided that it had become outmoded and could not be architects, to undertake analysis and design studies relating to the contemplate Australian industry having a major role in their extensive experience in submarine construction. modified to compete with modern boats. NAUTILUS has been proposed conversion of an Essex class aircraft carrier — one of a replacement it is not too early to investigate the feasibility of These studies would also cover the continuing requirement to- offered as a national historic ship and be placed on public display 24 ship series built during World War II — to a civilian-manned building conventionally-powered submarines in Australia". refit the Oberon class submarines at Vickers Cockatoo Dockyard at the Washington DC Navy Yard. Military Equipment Transport (MET). Mr Killen said that a team of experts from Vickers recently in the event of a later decision to build more modern submarines had visited a number of overseas submarine designers and there. The studies, which implied no committment to a replace- builders to assess the practicability of Australian involvement in ment submarine at this time, were expected to be completed early the local construction of non-nuclear powered submarines. next year.

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An artists impression or the duel between the ironclads VSS MONITOR versus CSS VIRGINIA, at Hampton Roads. Virginia. 9th March. 1162. tPhoto - President F D. Roosevelt 1936). The Visit Of The Great White Fleet To Australia HE visit of (he United States' 'Great White Fleet" to T Australia in August and September. 1908, may be seen as a calculated step lit I) W ll> DIMI N I on the part of the Australian Prime Minister, Alfred Deakin to "nudge" the British Government into a position of support for Australia's naval in Pitt Street, renamed American Avenue for the week of the visit. Plaster arches aspirations while, at the same time, furthering the cause of closer were also built along the street each US/Australian co-operation. topped by either a model of a battleship The "Great White Fleet" as it was When Prime Minister Deakin invited or a WELCOME sign. A replica of the popularly known, consisted of 16 pre- the Fleet to include Austrajia on their statue of liberty rose to a height of 5 dreadnought battleships — practically the itinerary, the British authorities were very stories in front of the Daily Telegraph whole US battle-fleet. The names of the concerned because, by strict protocol, the building. ships give an instant geography lesson of invitation should have been issued through The actual arrival of the fleet was well the United States: Connecticut, Kansas. the British Foreign Office. However, the reported in the press. They spoke of the Vermont. Minnesota. Georgia. New British authorities, faced with the fact "wave of enthusiasm which swept around Jersey, Rhode Island, Nebraska, that the invitation had already been the harbour as the fleet made its stately JOHN VALVES PTY LTD Louisiana, Ohio, Missouri, Virginia, issued, overcame their consternation at entry", which was witnessed by nearly Wisconsin, Illinois, Kentucky and Australia's show of independence and 500,000 people. An American reporter Kearsage. Travelling with the fleet were confirmed Deakin's invitation. who travelled with the fleet. Franklin several auxiliaries including a hospital The enthusiasm of the public welcome Matthews stated: ship. given to the Fleet in Sydney and "It is almost impossible to put into CRESWICK ROAD, BALLARAT, VIC The main purpose of the world cruise Melbourne fully justified the invitation. words anything that will tell the story of of the fleet was. primarily, to show the The welcome in Sydney was a dress the enthusiasm and the sentiment that flag, in addition, however, the fleet rehearsal for the arrival of Australia's inspired a demonstration which became an instrument of US foreign own navy in 1913. The Great White Fleet overwhelmed not only those who received Telephone: (053) 39 1991 policy designed to overawe the Japanese arrived in Sydney on 20 August, 1908. it but those who gave it also . . ." who were, following their defeat of Russia Sydney had been transformed with Matthews went on to say: in 1904, the chief naval rivals to America SS0.000 of bunting, wood and plaster. "On every point up the harbour there in the Pacific. Plaster eagles perched on every lamp post seemed to be a band playing "The Star Paga Thlrty-Taro THE NAVY Auguat/SaptambarfOctobar, 19«0 Auguat/Sept*mb«r/Octob«r. 1980 THE NAVY Page Thirty-Three AtopcrattyifhtaMted trawler that MwatescatchiM The Flagship of Ihe Great White Heel USS CONNECTICUT. (Photo — United States Navy). coal. This operation took 6 days and Spangled Banner" and from headland provide in an attempt lo be better than although the local authorities of Albany after headland, hill upon hill, slope after Sydney. Sperry's anxiety was fully apologised for not having the slope, there came a bursi of cheering justified! entertainment resources of Sydney and which lasted all the way in . . . and lasted The visit nearly started on a tragic note, Melbourne, that exactly was what the the whole week ..." although it had its humorous side. The Americans wanted — a rest from the Connecticut, the fleet flagship, was grand entrance by the 16 battleships went social whirl. moored off Kirribilli Point with the other wrong when 4 of the 16 battleships carried ships in parallel lines down the harbour. away the first mooring anchors dropped However the visit of the Great White The ships were brightly illuminated at and hurtled towards the crowded Fleet to Australia was not just a social night. The visit was jam-packed with wharves. Luckily, the ships just managed success. The visit gave notice to the marches, ceremonies and speeches by the to sheer away at the last moment. British authorities that Australia's desire 13,000 visiting sailors and their hosts. In The incident was a true omen of the for her own fleet was genuine. The visit one amazing spectacle at the Sydney overwhelming Melbourne welcome. also showed the Australian people the Cricket Ground, 7,000 Sydney school Matthews speaks of the visit as a greatest number of battleships they had children formed the words "Hail whirlwind and merry-go-round with too ever seen — a fact that somewhat Columbia" and crossed American and much hospitality. Sperry counted 17 embarrased the British. The visit of the Australian flags on the oval with their dinners, dances and parties in a single fleet was one step in the creation of the own bodies taking the place of paints! day. That the ordinary American sailor Royal Australian Navy and did much to In addition, the sailors marched and enjoyed himself may be readily gauged engender popular support for that cause. attended a State Banquet. There were from the number of desertions. Sydney Another success of the visit was the numerous side excursions to the Blue had 30 deserters but Melbourne had 300, contact it provided between the Mountains and other tourist spots and as perhaps because, according to press Australian and American people. well some upsetting incidents during the reports, the Melbourne girls "threw their Matthews stated: exhausting visit — reports of a sailor from arms around the bluejackets and . . the inherent kinship between the the Kentucky threatening some locals with permitted themselves to be kissed"(!). two peoples was made manifest as a With the All a razor and complaints from some local The sailors certainly had a wild time in genuine and hearty thing . . merchants that some sailors were using Melbourne. One unfortunate result of this Another phrase of Matthews sums up _ unittsed construction confederate money. However, these was the disastrous parade by the fleet on the visit of the fleet as a whole: ". . . the incidents were played down. Reflecting on 31 August, with lurching and reeling men of the Government, from the f. system we launch a the busy week, Matthews reported that: tailors marching to a "drunken" Governor-General to the lowest official, "the reddest blood that runs in Anglo- rendition of "Columbia, the Gem of the meant what they said. Australia . . . was Saxon veins runs here and all this energy Ocean". 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ELMEASCO Instruments Pty Ltd USSMOSITOR, 1*62. (Wilercokxu - DiO. Partes) PO Box 30. Concord. NSW 2137 13-15 McDonold S!r..l, Mortloke. NSW 2137 Phon.: (02) 734 2ttl. T.l.x: 2SM7 USS MONITOR PO Box 107. Ml Woverley. Vic 3149 21-23 Anthony Drive. Ml Woverley. Vic 3149 Phone (03) 233 4044. T.l.x: 36204 The Ship That Launched A Modern Navy Adelaide: (01) 271 1139 Brisbane: (07) 229 3141 Perth: (09) 39* 3342 By Lieutenant EDWARD M. MILLER, USN

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the MOVEMENT with Reviewed by HARRY ADLAM

SUNDSTRAND HEN given this book to review I was then a senior officer writes a book giving the impression that it delighted, as the subject of "MONITOR" has was all his own work. alwayW s been one of my pet interests. This particular As. for the book itself, we find that it comprises two main Movement on the ocean is towards book is the most complete work on the subject I sections. The first part deals with the designer of the ship, the Sundstrand Hydrostatic transmissions. have encountered to date. From beginning to end I Swede John Ericsson, a man who must be regarded as one of the Transmission of power using fluid means thoroughly enjoyed every word, as in Lieutenant greatest inventors of all time. We follow his career from the early your power source can be located Miller we have an author who is completely devoted days in Sweden, and here we find his great talent was appreciated anywhere in relation to the hydraulic at an early age. At sixteen years he was given control of six motors. Sundstrand provides smooth, to his subject. hundred men whilst also charged with providing the full working stepless forward and reverse acceleration and deceleration. The book really commenced in 1973 when a team of eight drawings for the famous Gota Canal in Sweden. midshipmen at the US Naval Academy carried out Operation Low maintenance and reliability and a 5 We follow Ericsson as he starts to invent engineering Chcesebox, an exercise devoted to what was really a design study HP to 455 HP range make Sundstrand your masterpieces such as his "Caloric" (or hot air) engine. He was first choice and historical research of USS MONITOR, a ship that had been designing all types of steam plants, but this hot air engine can be lost at sea III years before. Evidently the eight midshipmen regarded as the main reason why he eventually ended up in the carried out a thorough research, and came up with some very United States. Ericsson was doing his military service in 1820 interesting results. when he decided to put his invention on show in England. He was All the written evidence that could be obtained was brought given one year's leave of absence from the army, and off he went, together and even tank tests were carried out to ascertain the sea- never to return. going qualities of the ship, but at this stage the actual wreck of AUSTRALIAN HYDRAULICS the ship had not been located, although it had been reported at In England he designed and built a steam locomotive, "The different times, and in different locations. In 1974, the wreck was Novelty", and also designed a screw propeller. His work was to COMPANY positively identified and is now designated as a marine sanctuary. no avail, as he received very little consideration in England, local Lt Edward's book is the complete record of the whole inventors were preferred to "foreigners". In England Ericsson 2 SOUTH STREET, RYDALMERE, NSW 2116 operation, and the author is well qualified to put this work before met up with Captain Stockton, USN. who induced the Swedish the public. Not only was he engaged in the research done at the genious that he would be better off in America. Then follows his Branches in Melbourne. Brisbane and at selected dealers throughout Australia SUNOSWNO Naval academy, he was actively engaged in the search and career in the United States. FOR INFORMATION ON SUNDSTRAND TRANSMISSIONS location of the wreck, and must be now regarded as the "Monitor We see how Ericson gained the contract to build the Telephone: (02) 638 5000 M—Mr>VAm Expert". It is very refreshing to see that an officer of such tender armoured ship that gave its name to a whole class of ships, the. years has carried out this work. Too often have we seen the Monitor. We follow the construction of the ship, we see the new ground work carried out by the junior officers and ratings, and innovations built into it. From an engineer's point of view, it Page Thirty-Six THE NAVY August/September/October. August/September/October. 1980 THE NAVY Page Thirty-Seven of naval equipment. It may be fair to say that after "MONITOR'S" turret had proved its value all major sea powers embarked on turrets as the main means of mounting the main armament of heavy ships. A whole new line of ships were built all DREW AMEROID over the world, and in all the design stemmed from "MONITOR". Perhaps Lieutenant Miller should have used the AUSTRALIA sub title: "The Ship That Changed Naval Warfare". I feel that Edward Miller is one of those modest types who puts down on paper what actually hapened and leaves it at that. He doesn't try to push his own stocks up with flowery words. It is to • Marine chemical applications • Industrial water and be hoped that he will continue to write on naval subjects, as he waste • A company that has products in every has an easy mannet that hold the reader's interest and it is this corner of the world. manner that makes "USS MONITOR" such a delightful book to read.

The illustrations in "USS MONITOR" are first class, but consist of very neat drawings for the early part. There are, however, some reproductions of the original building drawings, and the author notes the finger marks appearing on some of AMEROYAL AMERET these. Owing to the rapid schedule that had to be followed to TOMORROWS ANSWER TO TODAY'S build the ship, Ericsson did most of the drawings himself and EVAPORATIVE PROBLEMS then sent them straight down to the workshops where they hecame (he production drawings. Surprisingly, quite a few of HEAD OFFICE NSW these original drawings are still in existence. 108 Lilyfield Road, Rozelle, NSW. 2039. Crew members on deck, cooking In the James River, Virginia, 9th July, 1862. (Photo — Library of Congress.) "USS MONITOR. The Ship That Launched A Modern PO Box 192, Rozelle Navy" is one of the best books put out for some time, and it is a Navy Enquiries for Sales and Service Contact: book that will be of great interest to many readers of wide would a pear that USS MONITOR was the first ship to be fitted Barry Davies on 82 1042, AH: 807 1893 preference. It is of interest to the general naval student, but is with the now familiar balanced draught system. To keep the equally attractive to the reader who appreciates the romance of upper works as low as possible, "MONITOR" was given two engineering or underwater exploration. It is a well presented work Contractors to The Royal Australian Navy very short funnels, draught being obtained by both forced and and one that will be well remembered by all who read it. It is a induced draught fans. One interesting point arises in the fact that must for all public libraries and it is to be hoped that it will be read N Ericsson was not to be fully paid for the ship until it had been by many of the younger generations as it combines the old world tested in action, and if it failed he had to return what had been with the modern world, and shows how modern equipment can paid to him. In actual fact, Ericsson was the owner of be used for other than warlike purposes. "MONITOR" when she fought the Confederate "VIRGINIA". I thoroughly recommend "USS MONITOR" as being one of The events as to the trials and commissioning of the best works of the decade. "MONITOR", as well as the voyage to Hampton Roads are fully described. The famous action between the two ships is naturally well and truly covered. "MONITOR'S" career is fully covered and her final voyage, which resulted in her loss is weil described High reliability electronic instruments... indeed. Much use has been made of letters and statements from persons involved and this ensures that the reader has a very good background to the actual loss of the ship and its rescue.

The second section deals with the attempts to locate Supplied to the Royal Australian Navy by Hewlett-Packard. "MONITOR", and here we realise that a great task was undertaken. Although there had been many reported findings of the wreck, it was virtually impossible to locate the old turret ship, and when it was finally located it was found to be at least twenty Hewlett-Packard electronic products include scientific instrumentation in miles from the supposed position. electronic test equipment, computers, calculators, distance measuring equip- «® ment, medical and analytical instrumentation. In this section, we find modern technology being used to locate an old time problem. Deep water photography was to be the final solution, and I was very impressed by the mosaic made up from all the underwater photographs taken. This shows the > full picture of "MONITOR" as she lies on the bottom of the sea HEWLETT today, and is a truly remarkable achievement. Considering that "MONITOR" is lying on the sea bed 210 feet below the surface, m PACKARD the location and identification has been a really worthwhile effort on the part of all concerned.

Adelaide 272 5911 — Brisbane 229 1544 — Canberra 80 4244 — Melbourne 89 6351 As for the presentation of the book itself, it is excellent. The Perth 386 5455 — Sydney 449 6566 only thing missing that one would expect to find is the usual full page of specifications. The text supplies just about all the information that one would require, so that slight omission can be passed over. Early photographs seem to be very hard to locate but there are some very good quality shots taken aboard after the famous fight. As all are taken near the turret the reader gets a Deck scene USS MONfTOR 9th July, 1862. (Photo — Library of very good idea of the massive construction of this important piece Congress). Page Thirty-Eight August/September/October. 1980 August/September/October, 1960 THE NAVY Page Thirty-Nine The Role Of UNITED STATES' MARITIME W. L. BASSETT & SONS POWER IN THE INDIAN OCEAN

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Indian Ocean and adjoining waters the United States of both the potential now that Russian air superiority JD's EARTHWORKS These changes have important and the need for strategic projection of fighters have access to Afghan airfields inplications for Australian Maritime maritime power in the Indian Ocean. and are within range of the North Power. The capabilities of the US Western Pacific. Western Indian Ocean. ships to be deployed in the Indian Whilst this last development is A study of President Carter's revised OF NOWRA Ocean could tell us a lot about their unquestionably a return to sound strategic and enhanced Five Year Naval intended role. Published US thinking, and very much to Australia's Shipbuilding Programme shows that statements and a study of what the US advantage, it is also a change most CONTRACTORS TO THE RAN welcome to the professional leaders of the US Navy. The preponderant NATO emphasis of President Nixon and his successors, and the coincident temporary Currently Constructing Roadworks ascendency of the "doves" in the US Executive and Legislature, had forced the At HMAS "CRESWELL", Jervis Bay US Navy to justify its existence in preparation for an emergency in the NATO North Atlantic and Western Phone: (044) 2 2198 European environment. It was being argued that: • There was neither scope nor need in the NATO environment for a major or write maritime power projection capability — NATO already has ports and PO Box 443, Nowra, NSW airfields in all the land areas to be defended. The distances across the sea areas surrounding Europe were so See Us for all Your Earthmoving Requirements short that aircraft carriers would not be required in the attack role. • Any European war would be so short, USS MIDWA Y, 1975. (Photo — United States Navy). even if strategic nuclear weapons were August/September/October. 1900 THE NAVY Page Forty-One Page Forty August/September/October, 190 improvement can only be achieved by depleting other areas such as the Mediterranean or Eastern Atlantic. Whilst the Indian Ocean Western ENGINEERING Pacific Area unquestionably offers the CO PTY LTD United States the optimum use of her higher capability maritime forces, the need to provide these by depleting other anchor89-95 CROWN STREET , RICHMOND areas (also of vital importance to the VIC, 3121 United States and, in terms of treaty commitments, enjoying a priority over the Phone: 42 0783 Indian Ocean and Western Pacific) docs re-emphasise again the point made FOR ALL MATERIAL HANDLING EQUIPMENT ibtr. 197*. (Photo — R. Gillett) repeatedly by our sister League (The United States Navy League) and by the not involved, that the need for approaching block obsolescence problem Including: Chain Blocks and Girder Trolleys. 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It is being has had to put together carrier battle the Indian Ocean Western Pacific Region. increasingly recognised in the United groups of ships some of which were not States that maritime power, deployed There is already some evidence of a designed for the purpose in 1980, the low with the full range of seaborne air, readiness to do this, with the deployment naval shipbuilding programmes of the surface, submarine and amphibious of the aircraft carrier USS NIMITZ, only past five years or so, with the resultant forces, is the optimum way to support the fivc-years-old. to Middle Eastern Waters. decline in the capacity of the United 'SILENTFLO' United States' national interests and allies However, it must be noted that this States to build new warships, mean that in the Indian Ocean and Western Pacific Regions. 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Page Forty-Four THE NAVY August/September/October, 1980 Auguat/September/October, 1980 THE NAVY Page Forty-Five depict the boats at most stages RACKS & CONSOLES of construction and at the various AIRCRAFT flight deck arrangement and an unusual times during their careers. view of the "island" fitted to the nuclear- The multitude of configurations to CARRIERS OF THE powered "Big E". There are many line which the Gato, Balao and Tench classes for electronic equipment drawings, all of first quality, to describe US NAVY were modified post-war arc also all fully the ships during the different periods of explained and illustrated. It is this by STEFAN TERZIBASCHITSCH their careers. Taken all round, this is one chapter, I feel, which proved one of the Published by Conway of the best illustrated books I have had most interesting. the pleasure to review. For all your Reviewed by "PALUMA" Over 250 boats of the three classes were Thar* is an increasing demand by Aircraft Carriers of The US Navy deals NAVAL and CIVILIAN military establishments tor eiectronic altered to twelve new roles, including that TEFAN Terzibaschitsch is a only with the fleet and light fleet carriers, equipment to be protected under the of Guppy, Radar Picket, Cargo, Oiler, CLOTHING, MERCERY, saver a st ol condition*, and to defence S well known German Naval and does not include the escort carriers. It standard* and specification* These Hunter Killer, Reserve Trainer. Guided is to be hoped that there will be a second FOOTWEAR specifications include vibration writer who specialises in the Missile and Amphibious configurations. endurance tests, bump teat*, corrosion volume of this work that will cover the CAMERAS, WATCHES ships and equipment of the Some boats were in fact modified to one resilience and tropical exposure tett*. CVE's. Two rather unusual carriers are The international aerie* IMLOK United States Navy. In Aircraft role and later redesignated another. JEWELLERY GIFTS structural systems ol corner connections Carriers of the US Navy he has covered. They are "WOLVERINE" and tnd interlocking aitrusrons lor making produced a very enlightening "SABLE", surely the only aircraft Further chapters arc devoted to US ELECTRICAL metal cases cabinets, console* and Fleet Submarines transferred to foreign reck* provide these stringent reference work. carriers ever commissioned using paddle A COMPLETE RANGE OF requirement* wheel propulsion. These two flat tops navies and boats which have been preserved as memorials. In respect to the SHIPS CRESTS IMLOK i* a simple syatem designed lor Each carrier is allotted a space to itself were used for pilot training on the making a variety ol cabinet* in all latter, fourteen of the boats preserved are giving very brief notes on its war American Great Lakes and had no hangar shapes and sues without tool coit* open for inspection. A fifteenth vessel, I KILO* givea you practical and attractIt* employment, details of radar installed stowage for aircraft, being purely and case rack* and console* at minimum not open, is USS PAMPANITO. which FILM DEVELOPING and the camouflage used. Each class is simply floating flight decks. Their costs and m a quantity from one unfortunately has right of access to it OPEN A NAVAL ALLOTMENT upward* Your prototype will have described as a whole and in the text one inclusion is very commendable as these finished appearance ol your IMLOK unusual ships receive very little coverage halted by Harry Bidges. one of the San ACCOUNT production model and it will be lust aa finds many of the details that are Francisco Port Commissioners, who strong. Your development engineers can normally tabulated, in the rear of the in the normal run of reference books. make your prototype In the laboratory claims the display of the submarine to be every IMLOK pan Is designed with an book is a full table detailing Going through the photos I was very glorification of war. Large Selection of Diamond Rings available eye not only to Its efficiency aa an displacements and measurements. impressed with the range selected, and as I engineering component, but alao lo Ita The text throughout "The Fleet on request appearance as a perl ol the completed Included in the rear technical section is a normally favour one shot in particular it Submarine in the US Navy" is very list of the various air groups and took some time to come up with a "pet". Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention readable and interesting. Finally a table at squadrons carried by all the fleet carriers I finally settled on two. One was the the book's end provides a complete fleet INTS/Cr191$/1/K. IU (shown with one second "YORKTOWN" going astern at side panel removed) and is an example and this is of course a very welcome list of all boats. I can recommend no ol a standard Cr type Imrak. tuitably 20 knots, the other was the massive flight addition. better book for the submariner. /TH. Jitied, which has met all the deck of "FORRESTAL". The photos, by conditions ol specification K. 114 Details of special equipment carried by category £ As totted this rack was each class are described and the changes the way, are all black and white, but RED ANCHOR lifted with two chassis mounted on don't let that deter you. standard lmslides (*IS/300/11) each ol in gunnery are well and truly covered, "FIGHTING SHIPS OF which was loaded to » T kg (SO It) - including the basic statistics of the I found Aircraft Carriers of the US these fittings alao compiled with the full AUSTRALIA, NEW demands ol the specMciatlon weapons under discussion. By way of a Navy a well presented, well researched TAILORING In addition, this company manufactures change the book is divided into two basic book, worthy of the Conway imprint. A ZEALAND AND a number of recks that have been accepted as standard NATO stock Items. sections, carriers up to I9S0 and carriers must for carrier buffs. OCEANIA" These conform to D€F 133 and are all after 1950. In the latter section we find • • • not only new construction but alterations By GRAEME ANDREWS CO lor details Because fully tooled Imrak "THE FLEET Published Bv: carried out on existing carriers. This of optional fittings sre extensively used in A. H i A. REED most ol the necessary modifications, course covers the very large "ESSEX" SUBMARINE IN THE these racks can be supplied at class built in the second world war. One is Reviewed By. exceptionally short delivery US NAVY" Aladdin left with the feeling that the "ESSEXs" JOHN MORTIMER were very good ships, and well worth the ByCmdrJ. D. Alden, 75 Macleay Street PRICE: U.95 money expended on their modernisation. USN(Reid) Potts Point, NSW The various modernisation '.themes are Published By: his is the third edition of ALADDIN INDUSTRIES PTY LTD detailed and it seems odd that in most Arms & Armour Press T a series produced by Graeme Phone: 358 1518 cases it took longer to update the ship Reviewed By: Andrew* on the Australian and than it did to build it in the first instance. New Zealand Navies. The present 43 Bridge Rd. Stanmore. NSW. Austrolio 2048 ROSS GILLETT Taking "INTREPID" as an example we edition hat boon considerably T«l«x: ^ A20057 find that her SCB-27C and her SCB 125 Price: S42.00 expanded and also Includes Telephone: (03) SI 3934 rebuilds took no less than 3 years and five he book under review is details of the Papua New Qulnea, months as against the 20 months taken to T a well written and profusely Fijian, Solomon Islsnds and And alto at HMAS CERBERUS Coble* ALADDIN Sydney build the ship. illustrated technical history of Tongan maritime forces. The selection of photographs is nothing the USN fleet submarine. Each Telex: A A31005 Introductory chapters are provided on short of excellent and apart from the, to class is described in full and In "Patrolling the Pacific Ocean — A be expected, full views of the ships, we most instances is accompanied Problem for Smaller Nations" and "The find many photos of various details such by line drawings. Photographs as superstructure, deck edge lifts, angled Argument for Sea Control". The former Page Forty-Seven Page Forty-8ix THE NAVY Auguet/8eptember/October, 1880 Au0u*t/8eptemb*r/October, 1980 THE NAVY chapter commences with a number of larger vessels, their radar and sonar it I i uI I I 111 - observations on the problems of policing systems. This chapter provides the main New books to be reviewed in "The the vast economic resource zones in our body of the book, but does suffer from a Navy" will include: region and then proceeds to introduce the few editorial mistakes — an almost "A Century of Ships In Sydney various regional navies. In summary the inevitable feature of such factual Harbour" by Ross Gillett & Michael author suggests that there may be a place presentations. Melliar-Phelps A pictorial record of CONTRACT ENGINEERING for small craft of the Hawker dc all types of vessels which have Haviliand. 'Carpentaria' or 'Arafura' The book is well presented with graced the waters ol Sydney Harbour classes in the inventories of regional photographs of almost all ships discussed. since 1859. S16.9* — 160 pages — 220 navies, including those of Australia and One minor criticism however is that the photographs. ASSOCIATES (WA) PTY LTD New Zealand. This is a rather tenuous publishers with a few of the photographs "British Cruisers of World War conclusion in view of the deficiencies have cut off part of either the bow or Two" by A. Raven & J. Roberts. A expressed by both these navies with their stern section of some ships. ! detailed account of the design, construction and technical history of larger existing patrol craft, (ie 'Attack' On balance the book is a welcome and 'Lake' classes) in relation to their the cruisers that served in the Royal addition to the limited amount of Navy during World War II. $85 00 - 448 seakeeping and endurance capabilities — A SERVICE TO INDUSTRY information available on regional navies pages — 375 photos — 40 plans. a point which is subsequently discussed by and at a modest price is well within the -Battleships of the World 1905- the author in his examination of these finances of all interested readers. It is 1970" by S Breyer Photographic vessels. recommended reading particularly to dossier on all Capital Ships from The chapter on "The Argument for Sea those with an interest in existing vessels of Dreadnought onwards. 480 pages — 570 illustrations — 45 line drawings Control" does not. as its title suggests, the RAN and RNZN. examine maritime strategy, but rather makes a critical appraisal of recent and With Compliments trom foreshadowed hardware developments in the RAN and RNZN. Overall, the author Purdon & Feotherstone Pty Lid Telephone: (09) 451 1277 assesses that both navies have suffered a decline in capability in recent years. Shipwrights. Ship Repairs. General Surveys, These introductory chapters are Slipways. Contractors to the Royal Australian followed by a presentation on the ship Navy 87 POOLE STREET, WELSHPOOL, WA characteristics of the various maritime forces covered, together with some details 30 Napoleon St, Battery Point of defence infrastructure and aircraft. 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August/September/October, 1M0 Paje nfty-Four THE NAVY August/September/October, 1M0 THE NAVY Page Fmy-Fhre Ml VI KI \ II \\ IIMMUII.HI Mtlli.il I'liilji- BEAUFORT "The Final Countdown " AIR-SEA ASTEN your harness and filmed scenes of actual operations that, in Kirk Douglas takes the role of the CO lower your visor because, spite of the apparent confusion on the ot the "Nimitz" and Martin Sheen (of F flight-deck, obviously result in machine- "Apocalypse Now" fame) is the Dcfencc EQUIPMENT folks, in this remarkable film you like precision aircraft launchings. Department Systems Analyst who boards are catapulted into the Mach 2, The in-flight sequences are nothing the carrier shortly before the incident. PTY LTD JP-4, and afterburner world of the short of breath-taking and are photo- Charles Durning plays the totally disbe- graphed to a standard not seen since the lieving pre-war United States Senator, up-front 1980s Carrier Air Group. film "Battle of Britain". It is worth with the delectable Katherine Ross as his Suppliers to Navies of the World of Life This is Tomcat Territory; the habi- noting that the famous American firm of Secretary(?). The remainder of the cast tat of Ihe twin-tailed hol-rod and Tallmantz Aviation with its converted B- take their roles with equal conviction but Saving Rafts and Equipment 25 camera-ship was employed on both the real stars of the film arc a great ship its 4ft-acre mobile home called films. and her beautiful birds with the actual the USS "Nimitz" (pictured). The twin-engined Grumman F-14 crew performing their everyday duties. The theme of this film is unusual to say "Tomcat" carrier-fighter with its vari- The skeptical patron might look the least, and in the hands of a less cap- able-sweep wings exhibits whip-snap askance at a plot which surmises that a Phone: (02) 727 7700 able director would have resulted in a very handling characteristics that have to be warship of today's black shoe navy might If they were expensive piece of pure farce Briefly, the seen to be believed, and in this film you be expected to re-fight a brown shoe war really see why this aircraft (and others like OR WRITE TO: story revolves around the supposition but, in this film, the concept is treated that, because of a sudden and extremely the land-based F-18 and F-I6) is such a very well. Don't miss this one; it will be any tougher violent electrical atmospheric disturbance worry to the Soviets. money well spent. 37 DAY STREET at sea, a modern, fully armed and equipped nuclear-powered aircraft- LANSVALE, SYDNEY, NSW carrier is projected backwards through a they'd rust. time-warp and re-appears the day before the cataclysmic December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbour. She is faced with the fact that, less than a half-hour's jet-powered flight away from her is steaming the main force of the Imperial Japanese Navy's carrier fleet. The Commanding Officer of the ROCHEM "Nimitz" is thereby presented with a problem not covered in the Annapolis IMEEC ELECTRICAL PTY LTD syllabis, to wit: do nothing or use the awe- some 1980s fire-power at his veritable WORLD WIDE CHEMICALS AND fingertips and thereby invalidate all the Electrical Contractors to the EQUIPMENT history books for at least the next forty Royal Australian Navy years? • Fuel Oil Treatments and Combustion The answer is suggested with great Catalysts • Tankcleaning Products — COW finesse in this eminently enjoyable ex- A Complete Electrical Service Available Systems • Water Treatments for Boilers — ample of 70 mm cinema. The incredibly Specialists in Security Lighting to Clients complex flight-d^k activity of a giant Evaporators — Condensers — Diesel front-line carrier as it launches and Specifications Engines — Cooling Towers • Safety and recovers its huge flock of diverse aircraft Electrical Solvents • Specialised and types is not recreated for the camera, be- cause the viewer is treated to beautifully General Cleaning Products — Degreasers — Oil Spill Dispersants — Carbon Remover Telephone: 487 2888 Descaling Liquids and Powders — Air CITY SAILING CENTRE R. V. H. MIDDLEMASS Cooler Cleaner Sediment Remover — PTY LTD Contracting ond Hiring Pty Ltd 75 Pacific Hwy, Waltara, NSW General Purpose Detergent Full range of Marine Equipment ana Chandlery. Fastenings. Paints. Resins. Glues. Varnish. Life Painters and Contractors to the AND AT ROCHEM AUSTRALIA Jackets. Boots. Shoes & Clothing, Compasses, Depth ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY Sounders. 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The first, NITEROI, commissioned on 20th November, Mk 10 Frigates 1976, and the last, LIBERAL, in late 1978. The class arc exceptionally economical in personnel, amounting to a 50 per cent reduction of manpower in respect to other ships of their size and complexity. In 1979 a seventh ship of the type was ordered from Rio de Janeiro, to be used as a training ship. LIBERAL. July. 1971. (Photo — Vosper Thornycroft) Mk 10 Specifications Dimensions: Length overall 424 feet Length bp 400 feel Breadth 44'/« feet Draught (max) 13'/J feet Displacement: Standard 3,200 tons Full Load 3,800 tons Machinery: 2 Rolls Royce Olympus Gas Turbines, 56,000 bhp 4 MTU Diesels. 18,000 shp Speed: 30 knots on gas turbine 22 knots on diesels 5.300 miles at 17 knots (2 diesels) 4,200 miles at 19 knots (4 diesels) 1,300 miles at 28 knots (gas turbines) Provisioning: Naval Stores 45 days Weapons 45 days Provisions 60 days Bunkers 480 tons Helicopter Fuel 26 tons CONSTITUICAO. a general purpose version. (Photo — Vosper Thornycroft) Fresh Water 50 tons Complement: 200(21 officers. 179 men) Armament: Vcf Vickers 4.5 inch mk 8 gun Twin Exocet 55mm Launcher WARDROBE & CARROLL (four missiles) BISLEY SHIRTS Ikara A/S missile Launcher (ten ENGINEERING misslies) I Bofors 40mm L70gun PTY LTD Bofors 375mm twin-tube A/S The Ultimate Australian Made Shirt, Rocker Launcher Triple Mk 32 A/S Torpedo as supplied to the Tubes Non-Ferrous Fabrications Depth Charge Rail Aluminium, Stainless Steel, Monel Triple Seacat SAM Launcher ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY 2nd of the class lo be launched DEFENSORA (F4I). (Photo — (sixty missiles) and Mild Steel Vosper Thornycroft) WG 13 Lynx Helicopter Suppliers to the RAN of Maritime Day Signals and Manufactured & Marketed by Wave Guide Tubes PEKON FIRE PROTECTION PTY LTD HUBBARD & CO INDUSTRIAL & MARINE FIRE PROTECTION ENGINEERS SPECIALISING IN DESIGN INSTALLATION, MAINTENANCE Telephone: (02) 521 5833 561 GEORGE ST, SYDNEY, NSW

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Pag. FItty-Elght THE NAVY August/Sapt*mb«r/Octob«r, A UQu«t/S.pt«fTiber/October. 1M0 THE NAVY P«0« Rtty-Nlrw Cruisers Of The Royal New Zealand Navy Professional (All photos courtesy RNZN) ^ Quality, CB Heavy Hardbar Duty Tape Recorders, Reel to Reel. LIFTING AND Transportable and Console TACKLE DIVISION Mounted • Wire Rope and Fittings Manufactured • PWB Chains and Fittings and Serviced C Slings made lo ord"r Testing facilities lo in Australia by 50 ton capacity) Anchor Chain Blocks and Trolleys. Winches. Plate Clamps, etc Load Binders & CONSOLIDATED ELECTRONIC Chains. Jacks — Trewhella. etc, Jacks — INDUSTRIES PTY LTD Hydraulic. Log Handling Gear. Circular AUhouth her sea-goln, career In New Zealand service .mourned to on I, a mailer of weeks 1n 1914. •PHILOMEL "was ,o serve to, 2S Saws. Firebars. Bench Gauges. Files. yean as Ihe depot ship at Auckland 15a Anderson St, Thornbury, Vic Millsaw, Sisal and Manila Ropes. Nylon Belt Slings Phone: (03) 44 0791 138 SALMON STREET Suite 9, 1 Chandos St, PORT MELBOURNE, VIC Crows Nest, NSW Phone: (03) 64 3031 Phone: (02) 439 1174

COOPER AIRMOTIVE HMS "DIOMEDE". Arrived In Sew Zealand In 192! and reverted lo Ihe Ron/ \,v, In 1936. "DIOMEDE" wts finally AUSTRALIA scrapped In May. 1946 HMS "CHATHAM". Arrived In Auckland in January 1921, lo star! Ihe line of light cruisers on Ihe New Zealand Station. She As Australia's major distributor of aircraft parts/materials COOPER was relieved In 1924 by "OilNEDIN" AIRMOTIVE AUSTRALIA takes pride in serving the needs of the Royal Australian Navy.

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HMS "DUNEDIN". served In New Zealand from 1924 until she paid oil In April 1937. A very popular ship, no doubt aided by HMS "LEANDER", served la the NX Division from April 1*37 her New Zealand name. This fine old ship was sunk In action In until paid oft In Boston In December 1943. after heavy battle November 1941 damage In Ihe Solomon Islands Page Sixty THE NAVY August/September/Oclobflr Augutt/S*ptemb*r/October. I960 THE r* P«o« SI*ty-On« COLLIS & TOLL AFIELD

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