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AUSTRALIA'S MARITIME JOURNAL JANUARY, 1948 CONTENTS NA¥¥ VOL II. JANUARY. 1948 No. I

EDITORIAL Letters to the EditdA'! f ^ . Lojft^KY 5 RECRUITS Editorial i 10 Svp\r¥ ARTICLES

To Australia's Antarctica By John Clark 12 WANTED Williamstown Naval Dockyard By Reuben Ranzo 16 Colombo—An Impression By One of the Wavies 22 The "M and W" Beacon By R. S. Porteous 25 T.S.S. "Canberra" Says Farewell By Norman Allen 27 for the PERSONALITIES The Minister for the Navy 20 Captain (S.) E. H. Leltch, R.A.N 28 COVER: Commander K. E. Own, O.B.E., R.A.N., who i« in command of H.M.A.S. Captain J. C. Morrow, D.S.O., D.S.C., A.D.C., R.A.N. 41 ROYAL "Wyatt Earp" bound for the Antarctic. Warrant Officer M. S. Harper, R.A.N.R.(S) 52 OVERSEAS NEWS. Maritime Ne«t of the World AUSTRALIAN NAVY SPECIAL FEATURES Incorporating the "Nevy League Jour- nal," Official Organ of the Nevy Leegue Sees, Ships and Sailors Norton 19 of Australia, and "The Merchent Navy," H.M.A.S. "Nestor" By John Bastock 35 Journal of the Merchent Service Guild of Australasia. FICTION Circulating through the Royal Austra- Where There's Smoke By A. E. Mollison 53 for a FIRST ENGAGEMENT for 12 years' service, with a good prospect lian and New Zeelend Nevies, the Mer- chant Service end to the generel public. of a PERMANENT CAREER of 22 years' service. HUMOUR Navy Mixture GOOD PAY and RETIREMENT BENEFITS; GOOD FOOD; Editor: FREE MEDICAL AND DENTAL ATTENTION: GOOD Com mender NAVAL OCCASIONS , 6. H. GILL, M.B.E., R.A.N.V.R. PROSPECTS of PROMOTION, and Opportunities for traiel Whet the Nevy is Doing—At Sea end Ashore Squedron Dispositions 36 and Improvement of Education. Generel 37 Associate Editor: Personal 39 "EX-NAVAL MEN aged 21 to 45 years arc also required as Captain Petty Officers' Club Notes from F.N.D. 41 W. G. LAWRENCE. M.B.E. Nevy Spotlight 30 NAVAL DOCKYARD POLICE (Interim Force) for employ-

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Mode in Aust'olio by Cable MokeU A.jtrolia Proo'ietory L mited. Liverpool, N.S.W., Ovrsecs Member of tfte C.M.A. The freighter shown here on the launching ways LETTERS TO THE EDITORS at the B.H.P. Whyalla Shipyard is one of several built there for the Australian Shipbuilding Board. THE "AGNES MUIR." and what they are doing. Again, Sir, what about giving some personal history of some of the Warrants URING the war The Broken Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd. wai When reading Basil Lubbock's associated in the earliest action taken to meet the and Commissioned Warrants who D book "The Colonial Clippers," I have risen from the ranks? M.V. ••DUNTROON"—10.500 too. shortage of ships. In 1940, a shipbuilding yard was noticed on page 355 that a wood- established at Whyalla, South Australia, and, since the first Yours, etc., en vessel named "Agnes Muir" A. J. Wilson, MELBOURNE vessel was launched in May, 1941, the yard has completed of the Patrick Henderson Albion St. Vincent Place, STEAMSHIP eleven ships, including four naval patrol vessels and seven Line operated in the New Zea- Albert Park, Vic. freighters, the largest being of 9,000 tons. land Emigrant Trade. There is CO. LTD. a hulk named "Agnes Muir" in At present, several vessels are in course of construction, the Yarra, but if I remember Thank you for your letter and HEAD OFFICE: including 12,500-ton freighters especially designed for the rightly she is iron ur steel. Can your good wishes. Your criticism 31 King St., Melbourne. Company's own service, which includes the transport of iron any reader state whether she is of "What the R.A.N. Is Doing" BRANCHES OR AGENCIES ore to the steel works at Newcastle and Port Kembla, the vessel referred to above? has some justification. At the AT ALL PORTS. N.S.W. The B.H.P. fleet at present engaged in this work Furthermore, the ship "City of same time, we are working under MANAGING AGENTS comprises eight vessels." Adelaide" is mentioned on page certain difficulties in compiling for 178 of the same book. There is that section. The greatest of HOBSONS BAY DOCK these is the fact that we have to an old hulk lying off Magnetic AND ENGINEERING THE BROKEN HILL PROPRIETARY COMPANY LTD. Island in Cleveland Bay, Towns- work approximately one month COY. PTY. LTD. Offices: Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane, London and Singapore. ville, which I understand was ahead of publication date. But named "City of Adelaide." Can we are endeavouring to make SHIP REPAIRERS, ETC. Steelworks: NEWCASTLE. N.S.W. Shipbuilding Yard: WHYALLA, S.A. the section as up-to-date as pos- anyone tell me if she is the same Works: vessel? An Allied aircraft crash- sible. There is another fact to ed into her mainmast during the bear in mind, and that is that we Williamstown, Victoria. 1939-45 war. are dealing with vessels in com- Yours, etc., mission or in more or less active Norman Allen, reserve. Your suggestion regard- 15 Southernhay Street, ing ships in reserve has induced Regent, Vic. us to think of the possibility of running a special article on these If any reader can supply infor- in the near future, so that, as mation that may answer Mr. you remark, ex-members of ships' ZINC Allen's questions, we should be companies will know what has Without this essential metal there would be very glad to hear from him. happened to their old ships. • Editor, "The Navy." Your suggestion in regard to Warrants and Commissioned NO GALVANIZED PRODUCTS and Warrants is a good one also, and 1 NO BRASS. CONGRATULATIONS AND we will see what we can do in CRITICISM. that direction. 8ABC0CK ZINC is also used extensively in lead-free PAINTS and in DIE CASTING and is a basic require- Sir, Editor, "The Navy." MARINE ment for many industries. I read your Journal with much interest. It is just what is want- SOI! Ef? r MERCHANT SHIP LOSSES ON High-grade ZINC is produced in Australia, using zinc concentrate from Broken Hill, N.S.W., and ed : in Australia, and I hope it AUSTRALIAN COAST. from Rosebery, Tasmania, and electric power generated by the Hydro-Bectric Commission of proves a success. I find your sec- Sir, tion "What the R.A.N. Is It was with great pleasure that Tasmania. Doing" very much behind the I discovered a copy of your pub- The futur. of iteem for merino purpotoa times, though, and lacking in de- it mat by the latett Bibcock develop- Sole Australian producers lication recently at Robertson's ment!, which, in hjrn, .r. becked by tails of movements of H.M.A. Book Shop, Forrest Place, Perth, over 50 y.an' I., axparianco. At Ma, Ships in Melbourne. And what at on land, time hat provad the tarvica W.A. I have ordered "The of Babcock Boilar Plant. ELECTROLYTIC ZINC COY. of AUSTRALASIA Ltd. about ships in reserve at Gee- Navy" and also requested back long? "Wagga," "Burdekin," etc., numbers from January, 1947. Head Office — 360 COLLINS STREET, MELBOURNE and G.P.V. 962? "Barwon," etc., Please do accept my good wishes IAIC0CI k WILCOX at Williamstown. Again, where for "The Navy's" success, it is UHTD Works — RISDON, TASMANIA is "Platypus," "Koala," "Kooka- with regret that I have not pre- burra," etc? Some of us like to viously seen a copy. know where all our old ships are Contimi.d on peg. 7.

\ The Navy January, 1*41. I awning deck, third deck in No. LETTERS 3 hold, 11,231 tons gross, built and engined by Harland and "DULUX" The durable finish TO THE EDITORS Wolff, Belfast, in 1911, owned by Shaw Savill and Albion Com- for all types of marine craft Continued from peg* 5. pany." X-RAY TEST Will you please if possible ad- This "Death Notice" appeared vise me if you have published or in the columns of the British FOR PLUGS know of a publication covering K.L.G. "Dulux" is the long wearing and durable shipping magazine "Fairplay." In- merchant vessels lost on the Aus- synthetic finish, particularly suitable for all cidentally, the "Themistocles," tralian coast from 1914 to date. wood and metal surfaces. The extra durability sold for breaking up sixteen years As an ex-seafaring officcr of both later than her younger sister and toughness of "Dulux" are largely due to World Wars I have thoroughly "Demosthenes," realised nearly the "Dulux" film. This gives extra wear and enjoyed reading "The Navy" and £20,000 more. The "Demos- will look forward with great resistance to damage, "Dulux" will not flake or thenes," sold in October, 1931, pleasure for your publication each chip and is highly resistant to moisture. when twenty years of age, for month. I am endeavouring to "Dulux" does not brittle like ordinary finishes, breaking up "in anticipation that interest others in the journal. flows on easily, dries quickly and is easy to tariffs will create a better market Yours, etc., keep clean. for British scrap metal," realised Ivan Bird, £9,520. It is regretted that "Dulux" is in short supply 40 Mount Street, Perth, W.A. Yours, etc., NO, IT'S NOT A PUBLICITY at present due to vital raw materials being » STUNT. It's one of 57 routine unobtainable. "Knew Them Both," factory teste, a test originated Thank you for your letter and by K.L.G. during the war. Wodonga, Why all this fnss about a for your good wishes and efforts THE SYNTHETIC FINISH A Product of British Australian Lead Manufac- "simple" little accessory? Supersedes Enamels & Varnishes turers Pty. Ltd., Sydney. Melbourne, Adelaide. on behalf of "The Navy." It is Vic. Because, no matter how much naturally gratifying to us to care is put into the 69 or know that you arc getting pleas- more exacting operations that ure from the magazine. We have go to make the not-so-simple not ourselves published, nor do K.L.G. plug, some faults defy we at present know of any pub- ordinary inspection . . . and lication covering Merchant Ves- under war conditions this sels lost on the Australian coast BRYANT might have meant the lives since 1914. We are, however, & of an air crew. Even in peace- making enquiries, and will advise time only the toughest teats you by letter as to any informa- are good enough for K.L.G. tion we are able to obtain which may be helpful to you. MAY'S Editor, "The Navy." SAFETY MATCHES.

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JeMMry, IMt. » These two new (hip* alone will have to earn, in Much of that is due to the country ittelf. to its addition to their running costs, something in the fruitfulness and its healthy sunshine, and to die I neighbourhood of £600,000 a year to cover interest freedom of the great spaces at our disposal. But "'NAVY and depreciation. This is a terrifying thought and much of it, also, has been due to the people them- every man whose livelihood depends on the twin selves, and to the good government we have in industries of shipowning and shipbuilding should general enjoyed, government which has had the Three realise the implication of this steep rise in cost." advantage of starting off in a new home, has been "THE MAVy is peblisM monthly. LUm Mm- largely untramelled, and has had the example, in nlMIKUUVfll• .1 nil ,. pWnQQfO|nLnliin M OHirrOi VW' 1 1LWw iliilllflR^PvWl (•k'yli its faults and its virtues, of the old world from ifcoeld be short) iImId be mill I. Command* 6. Mr. Geddes continued: "We have, with your H. 6iir. Editor of "THE HAW", do How.1 Historical skilled help, by fresh orientation of ideas in the which to benefit. Famous •Morch Section, Hon OHIc, Melbourne. ¥*. Ik. Editor design of this new ship and her sister, endeavoured dm not hold liimMlf rMponsibl. for monwscrlpts, thowoh —on effort will b. mode to retom those foefld unsuitable to ease this problem by building bigger and faster with which a stamped and tiddiessed envelope is ancles^. The result is, in the main, good. But our happy The opinions expressed in signed articles ore those of the ships with increased capacity for'passengers. Each position today makes our responsibilities the great- Names writers ond not necessarily those of the Havy vessel will make four round voyages a year instead er so far as the warning Mr. Geddes uttered is of three . . . While we reduce our risk by making concerned. We are, as our High Commissioner Vol. II. January, I94». No. fewer ships do more service, the financial hazard in Great Britain, Mr. Beasley, said when address- of building even these two ships is so great and so ing that same gathering on the occasion of Mr. obvious that I should lack frankness if I did not say Geddes' Speech, "An Island Continent—a long dis- quite clearly, to shipbuilders in general as well as tance from Britain—several oceans have to be FAITH AND A WARNING to our kind hosts today, that in the present condi- spanned before we reach one another both in per- tions of uncertain timing for delivery and fright- son and with your goods on the one hand and our 3S.S.S. eningly high costs. 'Here is a red light which you products on the other." We are dependent on sea ELECTRIC HOME HELPS would be unwise to ignore'. It is not a question of communications, both in peace and in war. And PEAKING at Messrs. Vickers-Armstrong's national or private ownership. It is an unpleasant sea communications are dependent on the ships S Yard at Barrow-in-Furness, on the occasion of truth that no one will continue to build ships which that cross the seas. the launching by Lady Morshead of the Orient show in results nothing but loss." liner "Orcades" in October last, the Chairman of Mr. Geddes, in his warning, spoke more partic- the Orient Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. Mr. I. C. ularly of the cost of shipbuilding. But that cost Geddes, said: "I returned a few weeks ago from is not alone in deciding the profit earning ability sr a visit to Australia. It is a great and virile country, of a ship. Running expenses play a major part destined to be even greater as its population grows in ship economics, and those of us who are con- LAMPS and its industries expand. Your group of Com- AUSTRALIA'S RESPONSIBILITY cerned with the handling of ships and their car- panies"—he was addressing Messrs. Vickers-Arm- goes—be it on the wharves, on the tugs that as- strong—"has a stake there also and it is not inap- sist the ships in our ports, on the railways that propriate to the text of this speech to mention my Mr. Geddes thus uttered a warning, and follow- haul freight to the seaboard, or in the shearing impressions of Australia. Today, she is producing, ed it up by an expression of faith in the future, sheds, the mines, the orchards, the fields and from her own iron, steel cheaper than can be a faith invested—since this is the country with farms whence our prdduction flows—each has produced in England. Today, Australia is pro- which the ships of the Orient Line trade—in a hand in determining those running expenses. GENALEX ducing, from her own wool, cloth which equals in Australia. As Australians we cannot but feel grat- With the constantly rising costs of ship-operation, Electric quality all but our highest grades, at prices which ified at the references made by Mr. Geddes. At earning ability becomes of greater moment, and stand comparison with our own. Today, Aus- the same time, we cannot disassociate ourselves delays a greater factor in deciding between profit Clothes Washers, Refriger- tralia is producing, from her own vineyards, white from his warning. We may feel the more grati- and loss on a voyage. We here enjoy conditions wines which compare not unfavourably with the fied in that we may, without conceit or self-satis- far above those of the greater part of the rest of ators and Radios. non-vintage wines of France and Germany. It is faction, recognise the truth of what Mr. Geddes the world. That alone should weigh with us in a true that in Australia as in England the legacy of said and implied. determination to express our realization and appre- unrest left by the turmoil of war protrudes itself ciation of that fact by doing our utmost as a pro- ' I L^ |CC f-l- n , | • IT • •••••••till m but, whatever the immediate importance of this We here have been, and are, a people singularly vider from our own abundance. On the other l^n HI BSii i nMTHH i^p^Mnvmw may be, it is the more distant future of Australia of TVe S«w»l EbcMc Co LM„ of E«|llri blessed. We started off with a country of exceed- hand, purely selfish reasons should prompt us to ftw Icf^est IrMsh controlled electrical offitiM* we should regard, and that is full of promise. She ing possibilities and potentialities. Under the pro- the same determination. We are an island con- will expand and our two companies will, I hope, tection of Great Britain, our forefathers, in the tinent, dependent on the sea and on the ships expand with her, and that expansion will come vital years of development and national emergence, for our present existence and our future prospects. through two agencies—large schemes for the con- were enabled to establish this predominantly Brit- We should foster our sea-borne trade by every servation of water and a flow of migrants in the ish nation in the Pacific. Our exploring of the Amu means within our power. This we can do by en- greatest ntimber Australia can absorb." possibilities and potentialities have been, in the suring that no unnecessary delays will be inflicted limited time since this country was first settled, cn ships in our ports by irritating and frivolous SYDNEY. NEWCASTLE. MELBOURNE. ADELAIDE. > Earlier in his speech, Mr. Geddes had pointed KKTH. HUMANE. HOtMT. LAUNCESTON out that the two ships built by Vickers-Armstrong not without credit to our people. It can be said hold-ups and avoidable and unnecessary strikes. for the Orient Company—the "Orcades" and a with truth that the average inhabitant of Aus- This we owe to ourselves and to Australia, no less sister ship—would cost more than £6 millions for tralia today ranks, in intelligence, in artistic talent, than to those who have faith in us and our coun- an aggregate of 60,000 gross tons, "ton for ton in physical development, and in hygiene, among try sufficient for them to put into our trade ship* an increase not far short of 2J times pre-war costs. the very foremost of the peoples of the world. which rank among the world's finest. unknown, the desire to explore, ago. The first Australian Antarc- the urge to find out what lies be- tic expedition was carried out be- TO AUSTRALIA'S ANTARCTICA yond the skyline, in the first place. tween 1911-1914, under the leader- And then, once heard, the cry of ship of Sir Douglas Mawson, with what Lord Mountevans calls "the FOLLOWING IN PART THE TRAILS MADE BY THE POLAR EXPLORERS OF THE PAST, V Captain J. K. Davis as second-in- little voices." He, when a young command and master of the expe- THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL ANTARCTIC RESEARCH EXPEDITION WILL CARRY officer in the Navy, took part in dition's ship "Aurora." This expe- the two relief expeditions of Scott's dition made important discoveries THEIR WORK FORWARD WITH RESULTS OF POSSIBLE FAR REACHING National Antarctic Expedition of 9ft and carried out valuable survey 1901, and was later second-in-com- IMPORTANCE. •y John Clark work around Adelie Land and mand of Scott's last expedition, South Victoria Land, discovering sailing—then a lieutenant, R.N.— DMIRAL Mathew Maury, the It lies, this windswept girdle of ice islands of a size incomparably the new coastline of Queen Mary as commanding officer of the Land and King George V Land. AAmerican sailor who did so marching water, between Australia greater than that of the northern "Terra Nova." much to stimulate the systematic and her southern Dependency of icebergs. Commander John Irving Subsequently, during 1929-31, Sir Antarctica. The South Polar re- of the Antarctic whaling research Douglas Mawson led the combined study of the ocean—"This beauti- He still, as he says in his book, British, Australian and New Zea- ful and elevating science," as he gions differ from those of the ship "William Scoresby," records "British Polar Explorers," hears the North in that, whereas in the Arc- a meeting with a southern iceberg land Antarctic Expedition, during described it—speaks of those paral- "little voices," voices which, "in which exploration was carried out lels of South Latitude lying be- tic we have a great ocean almost which was 150 miles long by 11 the case of Antarctic venturers, V in the vicinity of Enderby Land. tween forty and fifty degrees, the encompassed by a ring of land, the miles wide, with cliffs more than make theni yearn for that curious Antarctic continent, far colder 300 feet high in places. They be- Lord Mountevans says of these ex- Roaring Forties, where, year in and hiss which they know so well, when peditions in which Australian in- year out, the strong westerlies than the North Polar regions, is came detached, these giant bergs, the green heart sheathing rubs an island surrounded by vast ocean from the ice barrier that guards Lieut.-Commander G. M. Dixon. D.S.C., terest was active, that they are blow and the great seas, with no through the pack ice and tells them credited mostly justly with having land masses to break their ranks, wastes. The most elevated of the the continental coast. Sir James that they arc once more in the R.A.N.V.R., Commending Officer, "LS.T. continents, it is "a sombre, sinister Clark Ross discovered the Great 3501." added more geographical and scien- tramp regularly and majestically realm of the Great Unknown. I tific discoveries than any previous tableland, mostly over 8,000 feet Ice Barrier—"one of the world's sometimes feel this weird, yet not eastwards. "The billows there lift greatest wonders," as Admiral Antarctic expeditions. themselves up in long ridges with high, beset by peaks rising more unattractive, call when things are wealth, coal, perhaps gold, radio- than 15,000 feet." And it is cov- Lord Mountevans describes it— at their easiest, and life is too active minerals. And, as more and deep valleys between them," he ered by a great ice cap of an area during the "Erebus" and "Terror" says. "They run high and fast, full of pleasure. Franklin felt it; more the transit of all parts of the The area of Antarctica from of five million square mi. js and an expedition a little over one hun- Hudson felt it; Crazier knew it, earth becomes possible by medium King George V Land in the east- tossing their white caps aloft in estimated thickness of up to 1,800 dred years ago. Ross succeeded, the air, looking like the green hills too; Scott felt it, and Shackleton of the aircraft, the question of de- due south of Tasmania— to just feet. also, on that expedition, in locat- never could get right away from fence arises. beyond Enderby Land in the west of a rolling prairie capped with ing the South Magnetic Pole in 75 —almost due south of Africa—is snow and chasing each other in This ice cap is the moiher of it. They all knew these little As one of the populated coun- degrees 5 minutes South, Longi- voices when their last hours of life the Australian Antarctic Depend- sport." the great Antarctic bergs, floating tude 154 degrees 8 minutes East. tries nearest to the Antarctic, Aus- were ebbing way in the polar ice, tralia has a definite interest in the ency, and it is in this area that the and they felt so unmistakably the area. That interest was translated forthcoming Australian Antarctic A place to appal, this Antarc- bleak wind from a Greater Atmo- into official activity some years tic ice cap. Robart Falcon Scott sphere." Continued on next pege. described it as "this terrible, limit- less expanse of snow" . . . "so fear- Whatever factors prompt pre- somely monotonous," and wrote of liminary exploration, others arise the South Pole "What a terrible to cause later exploitation. There place." Ernest Shacldeton has re- are various potentialities in the corded his impression of the Inland Antarctic continent. There, for Plateau as "the bleakest and most example, lies the answer to many horrible part of the earth." Those of the "weather" problems of the who would go to it must cross the Southern Hemisphere. Observa- Roaring Forties, braving the moun- tions carried on in the Antarctic tainous seas and wild westerly have been found to have a definite winds, the sleet and snow-laden hearing on the condition of the squalls that skirl down those monsoons in India. With the de- stormy latitudes; must force their velopment of air travel, it may be way through the outlying pack ice possible to develop in the Antarc- up to the Barrier; must be prepar- tic landing grounds for inter-con- ed for a polar climate that includes tinent or trans-polar flights. There temperatures lower than seventy is the question of marine studies in degrees below zero, and gales and relation to food. The whale is no blizzards that exceed 100 miles an longer of interest solely for oil or hour in wind velocity. whalebone. Whale meat now finds a place—aftd a growing place—in Vetaran polar yetiel, "WyaH Earp," main ship of the present Auitrelien National What is it that draws men to the diet of humans. There are pos- Antarctic Reieerch Expedition. these icy wastes? The lure of the sibilities of considerable mineral The Expedition's Second Ship, "LS.T. 3501." IX The Navy January. 1948. I* previous experience in the An- tarctic, having served with the Passing Out Ceremony at R.A.N. College B.A.N.Z. Antarctic Expedition during 1930 and 1931 as surveyor, when he charted most of Mac- Robertson Land. His marine surveying experience is very wide, and includes the tropics in addition to polar regions. His O.B.E. iht: Cadet Midsh ipmen marching past the Saluting Base, where His Excellency was awarded "for outstanding survey work under arduous condi- the Governor-General (Mr. McKell) took the salute. tions in the Far East" during the recent war, in which his survey work also earned him decorations awarded by the United States Gov- ernment. Lieut -Commander W. F. Cook, R A N., is his first lieutenant. Aircreft will help. Here is "LS.T. 3501's" Amphibian. The second ship of the expedition, "L.S.T. 3501," is commanded by Lieut.-Commander George Expedition is to carry out its work. H.M.A.S. "Albatross" and assist- Manlcy Dixon, D.S.C., R.A.N. With the title of the Australian ed in an aerial survey of the Bar- V.R. Although he has not had National Antarctic Research Expe- rief Reef. He is a Bachelor of En- previous polar experience, he has dition, the expedition purposes to gineering, has sailed in the Mer- been well down south into the maintain Australian and British chant Service before the mast, and Sixties when serving in sailing interests in Antarctica, to find a commanded Catalina Squadrons in ships. Coming to Australia as an suitable site for a permanent base, the R.A.A.F. during the recent apprentice in sail in 1914, he left and to survey unexplored portions war. his ship and joined the A.I.F. of the Australian Antarctic coast- Commanding officer of the ex- Wounded at the Gallipoli landing, line, and to carry out scientific pedition's main ship, the "Wyatt he later served in France, and was work, including meteorological Earp," is Commander Karl Erich finally discharged from the Army study and observations of cosmic Oom, O.B.E., R.A.N. Comman- in 1917. He then went back into ray phenomena, radio physics work der Oom entered the Royal Aus- sail and remained there until 1923, and magnetic determination. tralian Naval College in January, when he joined the Common- 1918, and attained his present rank wealth Government Line, eventu- The expedition is part of a long- in June, 1943. He, also, has had Continued on page 58. range plan to develop the Austra- lian Antarctic territory. It will include three separate research parties to be established in or near Antarctica. One party will be established on Heard Island, another Above: Mr. McKell, followed by the Commo- on Macquarie Island, and a third dore Superintendent of Training (Commodore on the Antarctic continent. "A" class weather stations will be es- H. A. Showers, C.B.E.. R.A.N.), inspecting tablished at the two island bases, Cadets. which will also carry out magnetic determination, while radio physics work will be done on Macquarie Right: His Excellency the Governor-General, Island. who presented the prizes, chatting with Cadet Group Captain Stuart Alexan- Captain P. M. Cumming, of Perth, grand ag- der Caird Campbell, R.A.A.F., is gregate winner (right) and Chief Cadet Cap- over-all leader of the expedition. tain R. J. Tulip, of Rockhampton. He has had previous experience in the Antarctic, having accompanied Sir Douglas Mawson during the 1929-31 expedition, when he was pilot of the expedition's aircraft. He has had naval experience, having served as a flying officer in An infleteble canoe for eirmen forced down et tee. January, 1948. Tfc* Navy HI'. the smoke of others. Between us that lived to the scend of the sea ence a few years later. Its build- WILLIAMSTOWN NAVAL DOCKYARD and the city there seemed scarcely and gained impulse for movement ing commenced in November, to be room for the vessels anchor- from the winds of the ocean. 1864, and it took ten years to com- AS AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE NAVY, WILLIAMSTOWN NAVAL DOCKYARD ed there; from their masthead or There are old buildings along the plete. Built of Williamstown stern the English flag blowing out FILLS A SIGNIFICANT FUNCTION AND FOSTERS IN VICTORIA THE VITAL SHIP- waterfront, and in the sheltered stone it was, with its length of proud and free, and welcoming us bay within the arm of Point Gelli- 476 feet, its breadth of entrance BUILDING INDUSTRY IT CARRIED OUT SO WELL DURING THE WAR YEARS. to Australia as to a second home." brand small craft lie at moorings of 80 feet, and its depth at low by Reuben Ranzo But, long before Froude arrived and curtsey to their reflections in water on the sill of 24 feet 6 (Drawings by Esther Paterson) in Australia, Melbourne had grown the smooth water. The dockyard, inches, for some time the largest on that spot up the Yarra selected round at the end of the Strand graving dock in Australia. News- N the year 1838 an interesting old ferry passage across the head deen Line steamship "Austral- by Batman as the place for a "vil- under the shadow of the point, of Hobson's Bay is no more. The asian," dilates upon it in his book paper engravings of the time show I lage." Froude speaks of the "black has been in existence since some the scene of excitement which at- advertisement appeared in John journey can still, however, be "Oceana." "When I woke and volumes of smoke through which twenty years or so after the "Ner- Pascoe Fawkner's handwritten romantic. went on deck," he records, "we the city loomed as large as Liver- val" landed her sheep well over a tended the docking of the first ves- newspaper, "The Melbourne Ad- Williamstown is an old place as were alongside the wharf at pool!" And Port Melbourne, century ago. Mr. H. W. McDon- sel to enter the graving dock, vertiser." In it, Captain Hugh places go in Australia. Much of Williamstown, with Melbourne across the Bay, where Hugh ald, the present Secretary of the H.M.S. "Nelson." Since that date McLean advised readers that: its former glory has departed. straight before us, five miles off. McLean's passengers used to "raise Dockyard, to whose ready help many vessels have been docked "The undersigned begs to inform There was a time, for instance, and the harbour reaching all the a smoke," emerged as a successful and knowledge I am indebted for there, the largest being S.S. "City the Public that he keeps a Boat when it was considered that the way to it. In my life I have never rival to Williamstown. The mail most of the facts about the yard Continued on next pege. and two men in readiness for the site behind Point Gellibrand at been more astonished. Adelaide steamers shifted over there. And in this article, told me that he has Purpose of Crossing and recrossing the entrance to the River Yarra had seemed a great thing to me, the importance of the original port traced the activity of the yard Passengers between Williams Town would be that of the future metro- but Melbourne was a real wonder. waned, such as remained resting back to 1858 insofar as the slip- and the opposite Beach. Parties polis of Victoria. Williamstown, Williamstown is the port from largely on the wheat berths and ping of ships for repair and refit from Melbourne are requested to at that time, had ten houses, "its which vessels outward bound take the naval depot, and the dockyard is concerned. raise a Smoke and the Boats will clustering cottages being bosomed their departure. The splendid with its graving dock. be at their Service as soon as prac- prettily in the green of the encir- docks there were choked with It was in that year that the ticable. The least charge is 5/- and cling bush." For years after that ships loading and unloading. Huge Williamstown enshrines the ear- patent slipway at the yard came 2/- each when the number exceeds it continued, and grew, as the main steamers—five, six or seven thou- liest history of Victoria, and much into operation. The list of ships two." port of Victoria. For long the mail sand tons—from all parts of the of the history of Williamstown hauled up there makes most inter- Those were the days when the steamers berthed there. world were lying round us or be- would have to be written around esting reading. The penal hulk only connection between Williams- side us. In the distance we saw the dockyard, and would be found "Success" was one of the earlier town and Melbourne was by It was still the shipping centre in its records. ones; and the American Civil War water. Such a water service con- of Victoria in 1885. James An- It was a fine day recently when is represented in the Confederate tinued until comparatively recent thony Froude, the historian, arriv- we foi' J our way there, along the steamer "Shenandoah." The pre- years, when the passage was made ing there in that year in the Aber- short road from Port Melbourne sent graving dock came into exist; regularly between Williamstown that leads through the pleasant and and Port Melbourne by the ferry aptly named Garden City to the steamer "Rosny." But to-day the banks of the Yarra, where the old connection is by road or rail. The chain punt carries vehicles across the r.ver. The scale of charges on the punt evokes memories of Wil- liamstown's past. In October, 1835, the 300-ton barque "Norv^l" disembarked at Point Gellibrand 500 pure-bred sheep, some of the forerunners of Victoria's great flocks—and 50 Hereford cows. To-day the Williamstown Road punt's scale of charges includes: "For each pig, sheep, lamb, goat, Id. For each ox, horse, mare, ass, mule, or head of cattle, 3d." Charges rise sharply when it comes to the inanimate, for "any building structure, house, being bodily removed" the charge is 40/- on week-days and 50/- on Sundays. Much of the old-time shipping atmosphere remains in Williams- town. There is a floating dock there which was itself once a hull Tka Navy of Delhi," of 7,443 torn and 469 maine," "Echuau" "ttabam." J feet length, only seven feet shorter "Shepparton," Benalla" and eJosj — than the length of the dock.. "Stawell." All of them did valu- SEAS, SHIPS AND SAILORS ^ The dockyard and the dock have able service during the war. "Bal- seen periods of great activity, one larat" was one of the seven of her of which they now enjoy. A num- class which, in the opening phase her of good ships have been born of the war against Japan, did great on the building berths there. work in Malayan and East Indies N° 3" WADAI/XH There was a period of shipbuilding waters. "Shepparton" and "Ben- AVr In poute from Australia to V LONDON THE just after the 1914-18 War, when alla" did distinctive duty with the "TOKJS , LEFT OuBOAN FOBCflPeiDVVN the Commonwealth Shipping Surveying Service. "Ballarat" was ON JULY 26 l«309 KJEVT QAY Sue WtAS'SPOKEN" BY the "Co»N Mac/NTiB£ Board built six ships at the yard one of the R.A.N.'s representatives AMOWeM UTTERLY VANI&HEO for the Commonwealth Govern- at the main Japanese surrender in Terrific gales were lashing tv-*£ South African coast at tme ment Line. Two of the "D" Class Tokyo Bay, while "Benalla," TIN1E. ANO IT IS PRACTICALLY GER - cargo vessels—the "Dumosa" and "Echuca" and "Horsham" were -Tain tmat this pine new ship FOUNOEOEO, TAK.INC WITH HER <92 the "Dromana"—and four "E" concerned in the enemy's surren- n«6SEMGEi?s. amo a ceev of 119 Class Shelter Deck type—"Emita," der at Timor. General belief is twat WARATAH was Top-Heavy Months of intense "Erriba," "Euroa" and "Elouera" The keel of the first of the cor- SEARCHING OVW2 1S.OOO MILKS Of were built there. They were ships vettes to be built at Williamstown SEA FAILED TO DISCOVER ANY TRACE >/ well-built of good Australian steel, was laid in April, 1940, but the and many of them have done out- conclusion of the corvette pro- standing scrvice since. While we gramme did not mark the end of were waiting on the Yarra bank the Dockyard's shipbuilding activ- for the punt to come across the ity. On the contrary, the next step river to take us over to Williams- called for the building of ships of ^HECE WERE NlfVE ROPES ONLY INI A town, one of these early ships came considerably greater size, that of PULL RIGGED SAILING SNIP f! down stream on her way to sea. IT IS TRUE TMAT HAIYACDS. SHEETS merchant vessels of 9,000 tons, of BSACCS, CW^HAULS, Cl_E.WLIKJES.GUVS The "Dumosa," with the black which the Dockyard built two, the /VNJO MANY OTHEB- FOR/YIS O'COROAGE funnel and broad white band of BEOUGHr TV-4C TOTAL TO ABOUT "2AG • • • "River Loddon" and the "River ST!LL,OWLY Nine \\ZBCjE James Paterson 6? Co. Pty. Ltd., ped and with a small staff. But, Mitta." In order to build these, "THEY WECE - and looking iri good condition by working long hours and during BOLT HOPE , RACK AOR>E. B new berths had to be prepared and Bunaope, M+Neo/v. fbOKtfW after her quarter of a century or week-ends, the staff and employees additional plant and machinery in- HEAD. lOfco - cmms OUT. TUC a considerable building programme cargo lighters, one of which was WAS 75/fc LONG. OF48TONS.^/Ttf'23- from the recent war has had the first all-welded ship to be built HOBSE-toVEB was put in hand. I 1S»AIL BCIK»G FOUND UNSATlS - greater results so far as the Wil- in the Dockyard. While all this - FACTORY. "THe EN»GINJEER FiTTEO liamstown Dockyard is concerned. The first orders received were building was in progress, the Dock- HANO -PCWCX TO THE RADOLES, GIVING Work started off there with the A "ONE-KNOT-3P6ED BETWe.EN for the construction of A.M.S. yard was busily employed in other coalings . When she rbached n z outbreak of war in the fitting out vessels, later known under the directions. Throughout the whole HSR OWNERS HAO' UOOlCWCOVSHtR of defensively equipped merchant of the war period the graving dock WAS POSTED AS LOST, AMD INSURANCE popular name of "corvettes." In »nd.... Off Capc Lebl'vin.smp move ships, h was the start of a fine all, eight of these were built at the was working at pressure, and naval -to in nccce westerly gale . ano effort, for the long period of in- DRJFTeO 5TEON R/9ST TOVMARD5 N Z. IO» Williamstown Dockyard, they be- vessels and merchant ships of vari- MILES IN 04 HOURS — HER RECOCO f activity found the yard ill-equip- ing "Ballarat," "Geeloog," "Castle- ConKnuod on p«9* 61.

I* thm N«vy January, 1948. nHE MINISTER FOR THE NAVY

HEY grow large men in Union, the elder Riordan became, Queensland State Schools and the TQueensland, and the present in 1914, organiser of the A.W.U. E isbane Boys' Grammar School, Minister for the Navy (the Hon- at Gordon Vale, succeeding Mr he adopted the legal profession and ourable William James Frederick E. G. Theodore as President of the is a barrister-at-law. He was ele- Riordan, M.H.R.) is no exception Queensland A.W.U. two years vated to Cabinet rank in 1946 as to that rule. His size, both in his later. In 1925 he succeeded Mr. Minister for the Navy, and takes height and the largeness of his W. J. Dunstan as General Secre- his duties in that position seriously, frame, is one of the first impres- tary of the A.W.U. for Queens- being intent upon getting first- sions one gets on meeting him. land, and in 1933 was elevated to hand knowledge of the Navy and the Industrial Court Bench, Bris- of the requirements of the Service Another Queensland trait is im- bane, which position he still occu- he represents. In a recent voyage mediately apparent, the friendli- pies. he made in H.M.A.S. "Australia" ness and ease of his approach. he had little spare time on board, Black haired and brown eyed, with In his activity on the political spending his days on a detailed in- a tanned skin and an alert, breezy side, the Minister for the Navy spection of all departments of the manner, he is of the essence of the followed in the footsteps of his ship under the guidance of the re- open air and the wide, sunny uncle, David Riordan, and on the sponsible officers, and obtaining spaces of his native State, and es- death of his uncle in 1936 suc- the views of as many as possible sentially Australian. ceeded him as Member of the on board, so that he could inform House of Representatives for Ken- his own mind. Born on February 8th, 1908, at nedy, His uncle, "Darby," had Chillagoe, some hundred miles also been in the railways in His inclusion in a committee in- west of Cairns, William Riordan Queensland, where he was very vestigating wireless broadcasting in comes of Irish and English stock. well known as a guard. His wide- Australia a few years ago led to His paternal grandfather was a spread popularity in the district his marriage, for it was while the native of Breurie, a town lying be- caused some friends to propose to committee was sitting at Ballarat tween Limerick and Cork. His ma- him that he stand for parliament, that he met the lady who was to ternal grandfather, Frederick Page and when he agreed, a schoolmas- become his wife, then Miss Kath- —who died recently at the age of ter friend prepared his election leen Garvey, the daughter of Mr. ninety-two years — hailed from speech for him, and rehearsed him John Garvey, of Ballarat, Victoria. Coventry, in England. in its delivery, in secret and on the They were married in 1942. Many river bank, for some time previous people connected with the Navy The present Minister's associa- to his opening election meeting. spend much time away from home, tion with Australian Labour poli- and the Minister's wife finds that tics has been a -long one. In his The Minister for the Navy tells she is frequently a political naval family atmosphere he has breathed the story of that meeting, and how widow; but when he does have a the air of politics since his birth. • his uncle, word perfect and thor- snot of leave she and her husband His father, another W. J. Riordan, oug'ily rehearsed in his speech, was find themselves at home together played a very active part on the introduced to a record gathering of in Queensland, a State whose cli- industrial side of the Labour Move- some thousands of electors. At the mate has captivated the former ment in Queensland 'for many crucial moment his memory failed Victorian girl. years. Formerly a locomotive en- him. His carefully prepared and gineer, he was prominent in the rehearsed election speech went by formation of the Australian Work- the board. In its place he said: ers' Association in North Queens- "Well! All I can say is that, if land. That was in the days of the you people elect me, you'll be home Sugar Strike of 1911, when the. on the pig's back." They elected ilogan was: him, and he held the seat until his "Eight hours' WOT death with a comfortable majority, Eight hours' play, a majority that was increased by Eight hours' sleep his nephew when he succeeded And eight bob a day." him. With the amalgamation of the The present Minister had a Australian Workers' Association good schooling for politics as a and the Australian Workers' speaker. Educated at various

Tkt Navy I' trians, rickshaws crowding the side of the Burma operations it wardroom would come in through COLOMBO—An Impression roadway, through which our car was a bad thorn in the side of the the open windows and perch on pursued a hooting passage. Noise Japanese. Many ships and person- the backs of chairs. A WARTIME VISITOR DELVES INTO MEMORY AND PRODUCES SOME VIGNETTES and chatter, and wood smoke nel of the R.A.N, got to know it Darkness gave place with start- scenting the heavy humid air. well. The corvettes were regular ling suddenness to light at about OF THAT HALFWAY HOUSE ON THE EMPIRE'S SEA COMMUNICATIONS WELL- The significance of Colombo visitors in the course of their mon- seven in the morning, heralding from the naval aspect was quickly otonous but exacting convoy escort the approach of Wilfred Fernando KNOWN TO MANY R.A.N. PERSONNEL. By One Of The Wavle. apparent. Navy was very much work, and "Napier," "Nepal" and with morning tea. Colombo's Por- in evidence, and R.A.N, personnel, "Norman" were there at intervals tuguese ancestry survives strongly F you are expecting a learned Ceylon was separated from India dusk in the evening, and the grow- by reason of their khaki shirts and at this period. The Royal Navy in the Fernandos, Rodriguez and Iand instructive dissertation on and formed into a Crown colony." ing light of the following morning shorts in contrast to the whites of in all its branches — including Perieras, who apparently constitute ' Ceylon and Colombo, do not read There is learning and instruction, found us coming in low over the R.N. H.M.A. Ships "Napier" Wrens—predominated among ser- a large proportion of the popula- this. When one is a visiting fire- culled from "The Statesman's coconut palms to a landing on an and "Norman" were in port be- vice personnel, although there were tion. There is also a percentage of man, following up, by a brief visit Year Book." For the rest of this aerodrome out near Mount La- tween whiles of co-operation, with many other uniforms strange to Tamils from India. "Pop," the old on a not unpleasant tour of duty, article it is, although a poor thing, vinia We had arrived! Ten days other units of the Eastern Fleet, one newly arrived from Australia. •ightwatchman at the Lake Road a previous and even briefer so- mine own. , by ship; and but a little over that in the campaign in Burma. The The Services dominated Col- Mess, was one of these. His hours journ some years earlier as a The previous visit had been by time in hours from coast to coast harbour was filled with shipping, ombo, with Fleet mail officers, of duty were from dusk to dawn, ship's passenger, one cannot be ex- ship. Ten days from Fremantle, in by air. both merchant and naval. Some of N.A.A.F.I, shops, the large block during which period he paraded pected to be either learned or in- which it was pleasant to laze in a It was an uneventful journey the large Fleet carriers were there, of headquarters, and the various the compound in a Churchillian structive on the subject. This is deck chair under the awning and through the darkness, and each of with cruisers and destroyers, sloops messes. Memories of the Lake peaked cap, a well-cut but ancient merely a series of impressions, watch the gently swaying blue be- us passengers was presented with and other vessels, and among Road Mess came to mind. It was coat of gent.'s striped suiting— jotted down as they occur to me yond the rail, to bask in the grow- an "Elevated Order of the Longest them, settled fair and square on quite a pleasant place, with its obviously a reject of someone's some two-and-a-bif years after they ing warmth, to mark the entrance Hop" on landing. To digress for the bottom with her upperworks large, red-earth compound, and the wardrobe—and a shirt of whitish were formed. into flying fish latitudes, and to ex- a moment. A Royal Navy lieuten- above water, H.M.S. "Hector," the long buildings of waist-high pink- cotton which hung in simple sever- Should you desire more, here it perience the glow of mild excite- ant-commander whom I met in Blue Funnel A.M.C., relic of the ish brick topped with walls of ity down to his bare feet. With is in a nutshell. "Ceylon, the an- ment at the prospect of land in Colombo had made the journey by Tapanese air raid of the 9th April, woven palm leaves and with high- his stout stick and lighted hurri- cient Taprobane (Tamraparni, the the morning, with a cocktail com- air from Fremande some little time 1942. pitched roofs of palm thatch. The cane lamp, he looked like the Light island of 'dusky leaves') is an is- pounded of spice-laden scents previ&usly in a Catalina. For some cabins were lofty and airy and fill- of the World. land in the Indian Ocean, by the borne by an offshore wind to shar- reason they came down at Christ- There were som^ unusual rigs in ed with night rustlings of rats in pen die appetite. the harbour. One of the merdiant The hour from seven to eight in south of India. Its area is 25,332 mas Island. My R.N. friend and the thatch and the occasional chirp- the morning was the best of the square miles. In 1505 the Portu- his fellow passengers went ashore ships was fitted with anti-torpedo ings of gecko lizards. One was This time it was a horse of a netting, the apparently cumbrous day. Then the air was fairly fresh guese formed settlements on the different colour. Nineteen hours to the Administrator's, and while wakened before dawn by the caw- and cool, but it was the time of west and south, which were taken there heard some explosions, and gear catching die eye as something ing of the Colombo crows, those and fifty-eight minutes from Fre- out of the ordinary. The usual the "Little Monsoon," with rain from them about the middle of the mantle to Colombo in a Qantas went out to see a Japanese float seedy-looking birds whose dress re- ever threatening but not material- next century by the Dutch. In plane from Java trying to drop country schooners and dhows were sembles a rusty cheap black silk in Liberator. One landing en route, lying near to the Passenger Jetty, ising, and the climbing sun quickly 1796 the British Government an- at an airfield in Australia's north- bombs on the Catalina, which was which age has produced a greenish made the air hot and sticky. nexed the foreign settlements to anchored in the lagoon. He had but there was also a lovely little tinge. They are as cheeky as may west in the vicinity of Carnarvon. vessel there, a brig, perfectly kept, Colombo scarcely seems to be the the Presidency of Madras; in 1802 We took off from there just at no success, and eventually made be, and in quiet periods in the off. The Catalina took off for dean and smart, and well found place for four-in-hand coaches, but Colombo as soon as darkness fell, and run. I was told at the time but for the first stage of the re- that she was owned by the Sultan mainder of the journey those on of the Maldive Islands, Ceylon's board were slighdy exercised in dependency lying to the westward. mind in case the Japanese had got I have since read, in a letter in a message away which would call "The Trident," the English nauti- down reinforcements from Java to cal magazine, that she was the jump them. "Athiyyatnurrahman," of about 200 tons, built of teak. She is the And now back to Colombo. The Sultan's yacht, and makes about business of the day was getting in- three trips a year between Ceylon to its stride when we arrived. Our and the Maldives. drive into the town from the aerodrome along the Mount Lavinia The R.A.N, had an accountant Road was through a stage setting. officer and staff ashore to look A long road, fringed with trees after the personnel of the destroy- and native shops, and buildings of ers and corvettes with the Eastern crumbling, flakey, bleached stone. Fleet, whose headquarters were at The shops with unglazed windows Colombo at this stage of the war. of fruits, coconuts, chatties, folded The strategic importance of Col- vivid green leaves enclosing betel ombo in relation to sea power was nut. Bullock carts, motors, pedes- well demonstrated in this connection, and as the base for the naval Tke Navy Jeraery, I94«. apparently they woe there in their by many of the men, like an en- the devil ate those leads of yours, A CHALLENGE TO time. Print! of "Old Coaching larged, usaeMes» tarboosh of black The "M and W" Beacon pilot?" THE SERIOUS Days in Ceylon," hanging in the or dark brown. The young bloods The pilot pointed to a distant Colombo Club, depict four-in-hand •y R. S. PortNW MINDED. among the native males in smart, mountain' saying, 'Take a line coaches galloping along in great well-tailored European suits, the straight down from the shoulder style, cheek by jowl with bullock women in native dress. art of camouflage—the exact op- carts. The coaches have gone, but of that mountain and you'll see Is YOUR Faith in God The compound of the Lake Road posite to what is desired. a conspicuous bush. The leads the bullock carts remain, symbolic Mess at midnight, just before turn- Worthless? of the unchanging East, which is How often have we heard, or are in line just below the bush • ing in. The huts dark, and the said ourselves: "Why the devil but you can't see 'em." regardless of the innovations few coconut palms silhouetted introduced, outmoded, and replac- don't they do something about Notwithstanding your ready against the crowded sky, patterned those leads on So and So Point? "What the hell's the use of ed with new inventions by the and festooned with brilliance. them if you can't see 'em?" the acknowledgment of your faith in West. How small they are, these Don't they ever give them a coat God, k is tragically possfcle that Orion's Belt high overhead, and of paint?" Old Man snorted. every pawing day is bringing patient, mild-eyed working bul- the Milky Way stretching across you awrtr to Eternal Damna- locks of Colombo. And how the zenith, with Sirius burning like In the heat of the moment we "Oh, they're all right in the tion. adapted by Nature, with their a great lamp. And low in the nor- seldom pause to think that even mornings," the pilot defended, In Matthew's Gospel, Chapter ' humps, for the burden of the yoke. "but in the afternoons I use the 7, Verses 21 Mid 22, Jesus states thern sky, that constellation un- if the much maligned "they" bush and the shoulder of the that MANY shall say in that Has Colombo, one wonders, got known to us here in Australia, of painted them every day we would 'day, "Have we not done many still have the same difficulty in hill." . ' wonderful things in Thy Name," back into its peacetime ways yet? which Scott's Mountain Spirit sang to which Jesus will reply, "I There was still a blackout in opera- in the lines: seeing them at certain hours of The Old Man put his glasses NEVER KNEW YOU." What tion there in early 1945. Not, I "Arthur's slom warn his course the day. away. Both he and the pilot ac- * a shock to so many. cepted the fact that all leads must understand, on security grounds, doth roll One example, which I suppose DOES JESUS KNOW YOU? fade into their background under Unless your faith in God is sup- but by reason of the power short- is fairly typical, comes to my age consequent on the additional In utter darkness round the pole." mind. With the pilot aboard we certain conditions of light. by the knowledge that But here the stars were not Christ is your Lord and demands made on the production Of interest to all those who go were standing in towards a cer- But two men have not accept- "twinkling faint, and distant far," Saviour, there is no poanblity of plant by wartime exigencies. There down to the se? in ships must be tain port on this coast. The time ed the fact and the result is the having Eternal Life. but low hanging and glowing with were, also, various shortages. The was three o'clock on a clear af- "M fy W" Beacon. A glance at Consider these Scriptures intense lustre against their velvet the latest aid in navigation, the famous Colombo curry was a ternoon. The pilot was an affable the sketch will show that these quiedy : setting, putting to shame the feeble new "M y W" Beacon. In St. John's Gospel, Chapter rarity, even at the Galle Face and sort of a bloke and apparently beacons are simple in design—so U glimmer in old Pop's hurricane 14, Verse 6, Jeeus said: I am G.O.H. And, apart from the fond of a yarn. Our Old Man simple that one is apt to say, THE WAY, the truth, and the lamp as he wandered slowly along Evolved and patented by Com- N.A.A.F.I. shops, a number of or- was neither. Grunting at some "Oh, there's nothing in that." hfe: no man cocnetfa unto the the line of hut buildings. dinary goods were difficult to ob- mander D. McKenzie, of Sydney, of the pilot's attempts at conver- Writing as one who was privil- Ftfhar Birr BY ME." The night ride back in a rick- Acta 4::12 read* "Than ia tain. Soap, for example, so that and Captain G. D. Wall, Har- sation and ignoring others he eged to be behind the scenes dur- shaw from Bagatelle Rqad, the • ooaa other NAME under one experienced the phenomenon bour Master of Mackay, this kept moving about the bridge, ing the evolution of the new Heaven given among wen padding of the runner's feet, the of new cakes of soap mysteriously focussing his glasses on the beacon I can say that there is a whereby a* muat be aaved." dim gleam of his lamp, and the beacon shows a pure white lead- disappearing from one's soap con- shore. At last he said:—"Where lot in them. I have watched them fefco'e let Epietle, Chapter 5, shadowy forms in the blackness ing mark during the full hours Van* 12! "He that hath the tainer, to the intense surprise of Son (jaaue) hath Ufa (Eter- the current Fernando, Rodriguez against the faintly luminous build- of daylight. sal). Ha that hath not the Son or Periera who was acting as ings; the warm, heavy air. t of God HATH NOT LIFE." The early morning walks from Every seaman who has tried to By the futaeuiun it dmld be "boy." Indeed, it was said that the native population of Colombo Lake Road Mess to Naval Head- pick up a set of leads when the dear that there ia no anriaa to quarters in Chatham Street. The God or Heaven except through I had never had so much money and sun is behind those leads will ap- sea calm and of a deep blue, the our Lord Jeeoa Christ. never had so little on which to preciate the full significance of As YOUR Eternal Welfare is spend it. surf rising in a quivering, knife- dspenrirnt upon YOUR accept- edged, mile-long line that hung in that statement. or rejection of GOD'S Impressions? I have said that an exquisite balance before it fin- WAY OF SALVATION—BE they are of what this article con- ally toppled along its length in a Take any pair of leading marks WISE AND BE SAVED sists. They crowd back now. The ttmwigli oar Lord Jesus Christ. subdued roar of glittering white. erected on a westerly bearing, Galle Face Esplanade at high noon, Remember • • • The catamarans under sail work- particularly those set against a Jeaue hm already died on the and three Bhuddist priests, with ing up towards the harbour. Craaa (or YOUR ana and paid shaven skulls and sandalled feet terrestial background. While the the price that you might have And the harbour itself. The and each carrying a rolled um- bustle at the Passenger Jetty. The morning sun is shining on the Ecaraal Life. brella, standing by the sea wall, YOUR PART ia to repent swirl of water as the ships' boats faces they appear a

CAPTAIN (S) EDWARD HAMILTON LEITCH, RAN. Administrative Assistant to the Second Naval Member and Director of Supply and Secretariat Branch Personnel.

HE son of the late Edward Michael Leitch, (now Admiral Sir John) Crace, in H.M.A. Ships T formerly of Geelong, and of Florence Leitch, "Canberra" and "Perth," mainly employed escort- of Williamstown, Victoria, Captain (S) Edward ing the A.I.F. Convoys to the Middle EaA. Hamilton Leitch was born at Williamstown on A period ashore followed, as Secretary to Rear- 17th. May, 1901. He was educated at St. Patrick's Admiral G. C. Muirhead-Gould, Flag Officer-in- College. Melbourne, and entered the Royal Aus- Charge, Sydney, with a return to sea in 1944 as tralian Navy as a Paymaster Cadet in 1919, join- Secretary to CdVnmodore (now Rear-Admiral) J. ing the battle cruiser H.M.A.S. "Australia" on her A. Collins in H.M.A.S. "Australia" and "Shrop- return to this country from service with the Grand' shire," during which the ships participated in the Fleet during the 1914-18 War. assaults on Noemfoor, Sansapor, Morotai and Aitape. Captain Leitch has had wide secretarial cxperi ence with various Flag Officers, both at sea and On Trafalgar Day, 21st. October, 1944, Captain ashore, and has also been Australian Naval Liaison Leitch was wounded in H.M.A.S. "Australia" Officer in London, so that he brought with him when a Japanese aircraft crashed on the bridge of to Navy Office a wealth of knowledge and of that vessel during the assault on Leyte, in the Service background of considerable value in his Philippines. He was evacuated to a United States present appointment as Administrative Assistant Naval Hospital at Manus, and eventually to Aus- to the Second Naval Member and Director of tralia. He was, however, back at sea the follow- Supply and Secretariat Branch Personnel. ing year as Secretary to Commodore (now Rear- Admiral) H. B. Farncomb, and was present in As Assistant Secretary to Rear-Admiral (later "Shropshire" at the bombardments of Labuan Admiral Sir Francis) Hyde, Flag Officer Com- and Balikpapen. manding the Royal Australian Naval Squadron, He was present at the Japanese capitulation in and later as Secretary, temporarily. Captain Leitch Tokyo on 2nd. September, 1945, as Secretary to commissioned the cruiser H.M.A.S. "Australia" in Rear-Admiral Collins in H.M.A.S. "Shropshire." the United Kingdom in 1928. The following year Concurrently he was Secretary to the Australian he was Assistant Secretary to Admiral "Teddy" Services Mission (of which Rear-Admiral Collins Evans, "Evans of the 'Broke'," who hoisted his was leader) for the eventual occupation by the Flag in "Australia" as Rear Admiral Command- British Commonwealth Occupation Forces. He ing the Royal Australian Squadron on Captain remained in Japan until the entry of those Forces Leitch's birthday, 1929. at Kurc, in February, 1946. On his return to Aus There followed a period as Secretary to a suc- tralia he was appointed to his present position at cession of Second Naval Members at Navy Office, Navy Office as Administrative Assistant to the Melbourne, and then, from 1935 to 1937, the ap- Second Naval Member and Director of Supply pointment to Australia House, London, as Naval and Secretariat Branch Personnel. Liaison Officer. During this period Captain Leitch Captain Leitch married, in 1942, Dorothy Blyth, marched as an Australian Naval Representative daughter of the late Ernest Blyth, M.L.A. for in the" Funeral Procession of His Late Majesty -V, ilmot and for many years Minister for Lands in King George V, and was present during the Cor- Tasmania. There are two daughters of th'- onation of the present King. marriage. Returning to Australia in 1938, he became Sec- Of his war experiences. Captain Leitch con- retary to Rear-Admiral W. N. Custance, C.B., siders the most amusing that of witnessing the Commanding H.M.A. Squadron, and was at sea bombardment fcf Aitape while sitting on the in H.M.A.S. "Canberra" on the outbreak of war quarterdeck' of H.M.A.S. "Australia" wearing a in September, 1939. During the first two years bow tie, and watching Rita Hayworth on the of the war Captain Leitch was Secretary to Rear- screen. It was what might be called a double Admiral Custance's successor, Rear-Admiral feature programme. Captain (S.) E. H. Uitch. R.A.N.

21 TW Navy •TT, 1948. -- .• W r> - - Catering for 1000 (the number made up explained that mink coats in a country where'they with accompanying parents) the afternoon's en- grow, and where there is a shortage of wool, are tertainment commenced at 1.30 p.m. with a plentiful and cheap. "Jingle Bells" ballet of four little girls. Interspers- At a "drop between eleven and two for a ing items by a four-piece band, one of whom did drink" party on Sunday, December 21, John and dual duty as Santa Claus, were five juvenile solo his wife, Sybil, entertained round sixty friends at dancers. their Double Bay flat. Two magnificent Christmas trees were covered A good idea this, for flat dwellers. As one lot with presents, decorations and coloured lights. arrives, others depart, and at no time was there Among the array of gifts for the children, too great a crowd for the space. every one of whom from one month to 17 years John and Sybil spent Christmas Day in the of age received a suitable present, were carpenter- mountains with her people; Sybil is already making sets, books, dolls and dolls' beds, mincing ma- ing plans for her departure for Hobart in Febru- ECEMBER has been a gay month for the Attractive Alison Berry Smith, who did not chines, twin engined 'planes and Christmas stock- ary, where half the wives will be visiting during DR.A.N, with parties by the score over the wear evening dress, danced with her husband on ings. the fleet's Regatta trip. festive season and not enough days to fit them the palm and flag decorated quarter-deck, in a As the party ended at 4.30, streamers were • * * * all in. On several days there were two or more super smart black crepe frock, and a cerise feather floated down from the ceiling and each child Christine, infant daughter of Lieut.-Commander "do's" of the cocktail and buffet supper and danc- semi-curvette. received a bag of sweets and a balloon as they L. L. "Noisy" Williams 4nd his wife, is to be ing variety, and guests went on from one to an- The Governor of N.S.W., Lieut.-General John left. christened shortly. other. Northcott, was present at the United Service In- * • • * , * • * * On the following evening there were two naval Mrs. Charles Savage and her four months old In the security of this exclusively Navy section stitution's first post-war Christmas party, at Vic- parties, one was the buffet and dancing party at daughter hope to join Lieut-Savage at the Flind- it can be said that there is certainly a little extra toria Barracks, on the same night. H.M.A.S. Penguin and the other was Lieut-Com- ers Naval Base. On his return from Japan last something about a party within this Service—it's Guests were received in the flag-decked hall by mander and Mrs. Bob Hunt's Christmas party. month, he was appointed as Term Officer at the always a get together of the best sort when all the president of the Institution, Lt..-General F. H. Among guests at Balmoral, in the party of Cap- Base, and is having the usual bother trying to the people one wants to see are there. Berryman and Mrs. Berryman. • • * * tain and Mrs. E. C. Rhodes, were Rear-Admiral find a place for his family to live. On December 19 Rear-Admiral and Mrs. G. D. and Mrs. C. J. Pope. * * * • Moore gave a dinner party at Trcsco for the A party largely attended by the' Surveying branch of the R A N. was given by the Boltons • • • • Lieut.-Commander Charles Reid brought his First Naval Member, Admiral Sir Louis Hamilton, wife and new baby son David, daughter Amanda, R.N., who was on a brief visit to Sydney. that week, in their Edgecliff flat. Termed a Bright pre-Christmas party was given by Lieut - "passing out and coming back" party, a feature Peter Newby of H.M.A.S. Barcoo, at his mother's and son Anthony, who is at Geelong Grammar, Coinciding happily with the commencement of was the late supper of "surveyor's food" (canned flat in Point Piper on December 22. Lieut, and back to Sydney just before Christmas, by car. Christmas festivities was H.M.A.S. Hobart's pay beef and vegetables). Lieut.-Commander Bolton Mrs. Tony Cooper, Mrs. F. McN. Ackland and Kath. has been staying down at Frankston for ing-off party on December 10 on board the ship. Miss Roma Gedge who returned in the Stratheden some time, after the birth of the baby. will leave shortly for the Solomons. • • • • Among those who were present were the Of- * * * * last month, from a trip to Europe, were also guests. Captain and Mrs, E. C. Rhodes have recently ficer Commanding the R.A.N. Squadron, Rear- Lieut.-Commander Tommy Gale and his wife bought a home in Middle Head Road, Mosman, Admiral H. B. Farncomb and Mrs. Farncomb, spent a week at Canberra early in the month, as * * * * and with their three daughters are settling in. wife of the captain of the ship, Mrs. D. Harries, the guests of Captain and Mrs. F. Crowther. "Number One" of H.M.A.S. Australia, Lieut.- • • « « Lieut-Commander and Mrs. Bob Hunt and Cap- Captain Crowther, who has resigned from his Commander John Peel, told friends of the party Popular couplc Lieut.-Commander John Robert- tain Tozer. position at Yarralumla as Official Secretary to the given in the ship at Shanghai, on the day of the son and his wife, Bettine, who are living at - Wardroom officers of the Rushcutter base gave Governor General, motored down to Sydney with wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip. Somers these days, have named their infant their Christmas party on December 12, the same his wife and son Timmy, for a return visit to the 500 children in party frocks and mink coats daughter, who arrived about two months ago— night as the buffet supper party on board Gales, and a Christmas shopping bout. tripped over the side, eager for the fun. John Sarah Elisc. H.M.A.S. Platypus, when the captain and officers • « • • entertained about 150 people on board the ship C.S.O. at Naval Base Headquarters, Captain L. at Watson's Bay. E. Tozer, gave his Christmas cocktail party at At the Rushcutter party were Captain J. C. the Kismet wardroom on December 16—among Morrow and his wife. "Copper," who has just his guests were Rear-Admiral G. D. Moore and returned from the north saw his baby daughter, Mrs. Moore. just five weeks old that week, for the first time. • • * « The working committee for the Christmas Party for As no definite ruling had been given about Headed by Mrs. Moore, the Friendly Union of R.A.N, naval orphans and children of serving per- whether guests should dress for the Platypus Sailors' Wives held their annual children's party sonell. Left to right: Mesdames G. D. Tancred, party, it was rather a mixed bag sartorially, from at the Trocadero, on December 18. G. D. Moore, J. M. Ramsay, H. 8. Farncomb and the feminine angle. It was a tremendous success and a tribute to S. F. Bolton, at "Tresco." The party was held et the untiring efforts of the committee! assisting Mrs. S. Bolton, wife of Lieut.-Commander Bol- the Trgcadero on December 18th, and was a huge ton, who was one of those who wore evening Mrs. Moore. They were Mesdames H. B. Farn- dress, was attractive in a cattelaya pink blouse, comb, George Tancred, S. F. Bolton and N. Kemp- succoss. topping a black skirt. Gold embroidery at the son. neckline was a feature of the blouse. There were 600 children present, sons and The Boltons came on from Rushcutters Bay daughters of serving officers and men of the with Commander and Mrs. George Tancred. R.A.N., and of all deceased personnel.

Th« Navy January, 1948. 31 dc Havilland SEA VAMPIRE

First and Third Gass U.S. Naval Suggestion Money Shipbuilders Council «f America, The Canadian Pacific Company The United states Navy, says "The New York Times" says that has introduced an interesting inno- "The Christian Science Monitor," shipbuilding in the United States vation in reconditioning the liner paid employees 218,056 dollars in is decreasing so rapidly that its "on "Duchess of Richmond" as the prise money for suggestions which hand" volume at the end of' 1947 "Empress of Canada." Owing to saved 6,095,694 dollars during the was approximately only fifty per year ended June 30 last. Six thou- cent, of that at the beginning of The first carrier-borne jet aircraft, the de Havilla^id the shortage of passenger accommodation, many people nowadays sand and seventy-two suggestions that year. Only 32 seagoing mer- Sea Vampire represents a tremendous step forward in who would normally travel first were adopted, some simple time- chant vessels and four dredges naval aviation. Now ir production for the R.N. class are quite willing to travel savers, others complex mechanical were under construction in No- The land version of this famous aeroplane is in service tourist or even third class. This short cuts. An average of one em- vember, aggregating 200,000 gross means, however, that friends, and ployee in ten thinks up ideas, and tons, compared to 62 vessels of with the R.A.F. and foreign Air Forces, and is to be about one suggestion in four is 391,000 gross tons listed on Janu- produced in Australia for the R.A.A.F. in some cases families, are parted when travelling in the same ship, adopted. ary 1st, 1947. "If the present yet it is necessary to keep the Blue Star and "Cargpcaire" trend of declining activity con- classes apart while very different According to "The Nautical tinues," Mr. Smith said, "ship- standards for very different fares Mag?iine," the new Blue Star building in the United States will are provided. To overcome this liner "Argentina Star," built by reach its lowest ebb in fifty years difficulty, a "society hall" has been Cammell Lairds, is the first British by the middle of this year." provided in the "Empress of Can- ship to be equipped with the new U.S. Building Programme Sought ada," with access from both sides, type of "Cargocaire" plant. The Coincident with the statement in which passengers from each "Cargocaire" plant is a dehumidi- made by Mr. Gerrish Smith, "The class can meet their friends with fication unit which, it is claimed, New Yor!t Herald Tribune" pub- al! the amenities of a bar, comfort- gives real protection to cargo in lishes the gist of-President Tru- able furniture, and so on. At the transit, which is not afforded by man's advisory committee's report same time each class has its own ordinary ventilation systems. on the need for a building pro- complete set of public rooms. It Shipbuilding Decrease in U.S. gramme for the U.S. merchant will be interesting to see how the Reporting a statement by H. marine. This report recommends innovation works out. Gerrish Smith, President of the the immediate adoption of a pro-

32 > Tks Navy vUmwry, 1948. gramme to construct forty-six pas- which a IfiwcHm senger. vessels during the next four ' torch flame is uke« years, including two 50,000-ton the Linde Air Products NOTABLE NAMES Mtfs^ FOR ALL . . . express liners for the North Atlan- it is being applied ia the T< tic service. The committee's re- Shipyards in Brooklyn and in Gulf commendation that the Govern- Shipyards. BOAT i YACHT GEAR ment push the passenger-ship construction programme, estimated to Ship Design Proposal cost between 500 and 600 million mMmmmmm BROOMFIELDS LTD. dollars, was based on the nation's Mr. George C. Sharp, an Am- need for maintaining "an active erican ship designer and marine shipbuilding industry that can be engineer, proposes solutions to the All Quotations attended put to immediate use for defence" problem of making inboard pas- plus the estimated "mobilisation senger cabins more attractive to to immediately requirements of the national mili- travellers, says "The New York tary establishments for troop trans- Herald Tribune." Claiming that ports." Work on the 50,000-ton inboard cabins do not offer the Phone: M480I express liners, which would com- same attractions as outboard, pete with uie "Queen Mary" and chiefly because of the "matter of FE8.1941. "Queen Elizabeth," would get TTKSROT'WAS BUILT BY FAIRFIELD. GLASOOW, AND COMMISSIONED IN BROOMFIELDS LTD., light, air and vision," he proposes A DESTROYER OF THE &AVCUN'CLA86, SHE DISPLACED L«90 T0N6, CARRIED 6-4-7', under way in 1949 and 1951. two methods of overcoming this, ,_4.- AMD SEVERAL LIGHTED GUN6.AN0 6-21 "TCQPCDO-TUBES. DESIGNED SPEED WAS36 KNOTS. | "one, by arranging groups of state- 152 SUSSEX ST. 'BJCSRON'SERVED IN MANY OPERATIONAL SPHERES, INCLUDING THE rooms about semi-private veran- "S/SMAFFCFF "HUNT, ATLANTIC, MEDITERRANEAN, INDIAN OCEAN Clipper As R.N.V.R. Club dahs at the ship's side^ and the AND EAST-AFRICA. IN JULY 194.1, WHILE ESCORTING A MALTA- _ (near King St.), other by grouping staterooms along BOUND CONVOY, SHE RESCUED SOO MEN FROM THE SYDNEY STM> The 83-year-old clipper ship, a wide transverse court, approxi- WHICH HAD BEEN TORPEDOED OFF RANTELLARIA. "NCSROTT" STOOO 8/ "City of Adelaide," a contempor- mmv m THE DAMAGED VESSEL ANO SUCCESSFULLY ESCORTED HER TO mately the width of a reasonably- MALTA UNDER INCEMANT AIR. ATTACK.... ON DEC IF^'NCSTOIL' SYDNEY ary of the "Cutty Sark," has been T si ed promenade deck, running 1iF presented by th$ Admiralty to the Wit DESTROYED A LAJ16E GERMAN SUBMARINE OFF CAPE TRAFALGAR. R.N.V.R. Club (Scotland). The athwartships." Mr. Sharp asserted Clyde Trustees have given permis- that "all rooms facing the veran- sion for the vessel to be moored dahs or courts have one or two as floating headquarters for the windows looking directly on to club at the south bank of the Clyde, these naturally illuminated and between Glasgow Bridge and the ventilated areas, with a view of If it's from . . . Suspension Bridge. Bought by the the sea through the court or veran- Admiralty in 1924 as a drill ship dah windows at the ship's side." for the Clyde, the "City of Ade- MORAN laide" was commissioned as H.M.S. India To Expand Merchant Fleet SJUNE «42 FOUNO "NTSTOIC "Carrick," and was used for train- AOAIN ON ESCORT DUTY ing D.E.M.S. personnel. Her name The Indian Ministry of Com- WITH A MALTA CONVOY, BUT AND THIS FATEFUL VOYAGE WAS St was changed to "Carrick"—which merce has begun what it describes name she now bears—as the Navy TO BE HER IAS.T. as a "dynamic policy" to build up AFTVR TWC DAYS AMD WWTS already has another "Adelaide," OF CONTINUOUS INEMT AIR- CATO'S its merchant marine. The Govern- 0OWN BY THE BOWS ANO one well-know.'^ to personnel of ment has decided to take the in- ATT*W ,'WSM> "WAS STRAP- the Royal Australian Navy. LED BY THREE BOMBS OH STOPPED, BECAME I itiative itself because of foreign ex- IS-642..<&NE B0MB-A VSR* THE TARGET FOR CONCEN- change, the great amount of capi- HEAR MISS- BLEW A LARGE TRATED AIR - AT TAC KS, BUT , HER GUNS' CREWS. TOGETHER IT MUST BE GOOD Welding Improvements tal needed, and the need to obtain HOLE UNDER HER WATERUNE, 1 State patronage for the expansion KILLING FOUR MSN AND FLOOD-|J WITH THOSE OF OTHER DEST- ING BOTH BOILER-ROOMS. ROYERS STANDING BY, SAVED Welded ships now under con- of the national shipping trade. As HER FROM DESTRUCTION... struction in the United States are an initial step, the Government is H.M.S'JHVCUN" TOOK HER IN being guarded against the possi- actively helping Indian companies TOW AFTER DARK . BUT bility of splitting open by a new- to get new tonnage, either by pur NEXT MORNING IT WAS DEC- process, according to "The New chase or by new construction. It IDED TO ABANDON 4- SINK mr HER ... SO ENDEDVVKSTOI" York Herald Tribune." The cause is also taking steps to get cargoes BRIEF BUT GALLANT CAREER, of splitting which has occurred for Indian ships, and a start has AND IN RECOGNITION OF THE seem^ to be strains in the weld been made by the stipulation, in SHIPIS STIRRING EXPLOITS,H£R produced by quick cooling, like the recently arranged agreement to CAPTAIN, CCOMMAMKR MSEMTWL brittleness in glass, ouch rapid supply 170,000 tons of cotton to RECEIVED THE D.S.O AND BAR cooling is being offset by a reheat- Japan, that the goods will be sent ing stress-relieving process, in in Indian ships.

TW M«i| 1948. WHAT THE NAVY . ... at Sea and Ashore

ed on her operation in connection 1 it Private Flotilla Barrier Reef area, most of the ves- There have been a few changes completion of this operation she H.M.A.S. Warrego has been with the Australian-Antarctic Ex- sels of the 20th Minesweeping in disposition of ships, and also in returns to Australia, and subse- for some time in Sydney, non-op- pedition, regarding which there is H.M.A.S. Shoalhaven (Lieut. Flotilla are being paid off into re- personnel, since the last series of quently proceeds to Macquarie Is- erational. She will shortly be a special article in this issue of Commander Keith Tapp, R.A.N.) serve. these notes appeared in the De- is in Sydney, having arrived in land to land a scientific party, and brought up to special interim com- "The Navy." At the time of H.M.A.S. Swan (Captain R. V. cember, 1947, issue of "The Navy." Brisbane from Dreger via Strath- south to the Antarctic Continent plement from the ship's company writing these notes—in December Whfatley, R.A.N.) is in Sydney. The 20th M.S. Flotilla, having o.'d Island and Cairns on 28th No- in the vicinity of Cape Freshfield of H.M.A.S. Lachlan. Lieut.-Com- —the Wyatt Earp, main ship of Having been granted availability completed its work in the Barrier vember, and Sydney early last to carry out reconnaissance. mander R. B. A. Hunt, O.B.E., the Expedition, is fitting out in until the 5th of this month for re- Reef area, is experiencing major month. She made good defects L.S.T.'s 3008, 3022 and 3035 R.A.N., will be Commanding Offi- Adelaide, having been delayed pairs and to grant leave to ship's changes. H.M.A.S. Hofrart is go- and granted leave, and joins the are in Sydney, paid off into re- cer of Warrego, and the ship will through industrial troubles. Where company, she will shortly proceed ing into reserve. Changes in the Squadron for the exercises to be serve. be employed surveying in Bass possible, Christmas leave was given on sweeping operations for mag- held in February. As from the LoadfB9 Ship* lafaotra Strait until April, after which she 1st Frigate Flotilla include substi- to personnel, and the se .son was etic mines in the New Guinea tution of H.M.A.S. Culgoa as 15th of this month she ceases to Manoora paid off at Cockatoo will continue surveying operations made the opportunity for a Christ- area. Island Dockyard, Sydney, on 6th Senior Officer, vice Shoalhaven. mas Party for children at Jlinders be Senior Officer, 1st Frigate Flo- on the north-west coast of Aus- tilla, her place being taken by H.M.A. Ships Deloraine (A/ December for conversion and re- tralia. LS.T. 3501, after a period in Mel- Naval Depot, details of which are Lieut.-Commander J. A. Doyle, H.M.A.S. Culgoa. turn to owners. H.M.A.S. Jabiru is in Sydney, bourne and Fremantle, has depart- given further on in these notes. R.A.N.R. (S.) ), Echuca (A/ H.M.A.S. Culgoa arrived at H.M.A.S. Kanimbla (Comman- tender to Warrego. Lieut.-Commander N. S. Town- der S. H. Crawford, M.B.E., Williamstown in mid-December shend;'R.A.N.V.R.), Katoomba General from Japanese waters, having ar- R.A.N.R. (S.) ) is in Sydney, hav- (Lt. R. H. Grant, R.A.N.V.R.), ing arrived on 10th December and H.M.A.S. Air Rest (Lieut. W. SQUADRON DISPOSITIONS . rived at Manus on 4th December Lithgow (Lieut.-Commander H. J. I. A. Key, R.A.N.V.R.) is in from Sasebo, and proceeded south been granted 50 days' availability Sydney. Hull, R.A.N.R.), Mildura (Lieut.- for leave and refit. Immediately via Cairns. As from the 15th of Commander A. W. Savage, H.M.A. Tug Reserve (Lieut- The Craiser* leave to each watch of the ship's this month she will be Senior Offi- previous to her arrival in Sydney," company. She will join the Squad- R.A.N.) are in Sydney. Having Kanimbla hjid carried ex-internees Commander I. M. Adie R.A.N.R. H.M.A.S. Australia (Captain cer, 1st Frigate Flotilla under the been granted availability until the (S.) ) returned from Melbourne H. J. Buchanan, D.S.O., R.A.N.), ron in exercises at Jervis Bay and command of Commander J. Plun- from Melbourne to Fremantle, and in Tasmanian waters during Feb- 5th of this month for repairs and returned to Melbourne with dis- to Sydney in time to grant Christ- wearing the flag of Rear-Admiral kett-Cole, R.A.N., who succeeds mas leave. ruary. the granting of leave, they are to placed persons. H. B. Farncomb, C.B., D.S.O., Lieut.-Commander H. L. Gunn, be sailed for Fremantle, and paid > H.M.A.S. Kangaroo has been in- M.V.O., R.A.N., Flag Officer H.M.A.S. Arunta (Commander D.S.C., R.A.N., as Commanding Australia* F. N. Cook, D.S.C., R.A.N.) is off into reserve on arrival. Minesweepers specting corvettes' moorings at Commanding the Royal Australian Officer of Culgoa, and Comman- Corio Bay, Victoria. Naval Squadron, arrived in Syd- in Japanese waters with the Brit- der J. K. Walton, R.A.N., as H.D.M.L.'s 1328 and 1329 are These two vessels are based on H.M.A.S. Karongi is at Fre- ney from Japanese waters, via ish Commonwealth Occupation Senior Officer of the Flotilla. in Sydney. They will remain in Flinders Naval Depot for training mantle, boom defence vessel. Hong Kong and Man us, on the Forces, and will remain there until Lieut.-Commander Gunn has been commission and refit to accompany Depot personnel:— H.M.A.S. Woomera (Lieut. A. 11th December, 1947. She was March, when she will be relieved appointed to H.M.A.S. Lonsdale H.M.A.S. Swan in the magnetic H.M.A.S. Gladstone (Lieut.- R. Pearson, R.A.N.V.R.) is in by H.M.A.S. Quiberon. as First Lieutenant. After refit- mine sweeping operation in New Commander W. J. Dovers, D.S.C., granted 50 days' availability, to in- Sydney. clude time for making good defects H.M.A.S. Warramunga (Com- ting at Williamstown and granting Guinea waters. R.A.N.). and granting leave to each watch mander G. C. Oldham, D.S.C., leave to the ship's company, Cul- H.D.M.L.'s 1323 and 1326 are H.M.A.S. Latrolie (Lieut. D. H.M.A.S. G.P.V. 956 (Sub.- Lieut. R. S. B. Gye, R.A.N.R.) of the ship's company. Her pro- R.A.N.) is also with the British goa will join the Squadron for the in Sydney, to be paid off into re- H. D. Smyth, R.A.N.). is at Cairns undergoing recondi- gramme for the immediate future Commonwealth Occupation Forces exercises in February. serve. Survey Ships tioning. includes Squadron exercises at Jer- in Japan. She will be relieved in M.S.L. 706 is in Sydney, to be H.M.A.S. Condamine (Lieut.- H.M.A.S. Barcoo (Lieut.-Com- vis Bay and in Tasmanian waters, March by H.M.A.S. 9juic\match. paid off into reserve. H.M.A.S. G.P.V. 957 (Lieut. Commander J. H. Dowson, mander D'A. T. Gale, D.S.C., during which she will be Flagship. H.M.A.S. Quiberon (Comman- 10th L.S.T. Flotilla R.A.N.). Following a period for L. Mushins, R.A.N.) is in Cairns der J. L. Bath, R.A.N.) is in Syd- R.A.N.) is in New Guinea waters, area on R.M.S. operations. HM.A.S. Hobart (Acting-Com- L.S.T. 3017 (Lieut.-Commander refit and leave in Sydney, Barcoo ney. She made good defects and where she relieved H.M.A.S. mander A. J. Travis, R.A.N.) is H. K. Dwyer, R.A.N.R.) is in will this month commence survey granted leave during December, Shoalhaven. She will remain there in' Sydney, paying off into reserve. until April. Sydney for dumping ammunition. ing operations in the Spencer Gulf, GENERAL and this month will carry out ex- L.S.T. 3014 (Lieut.-Commander in which she will be occupied until 'H.M.A.S. Shropshire (Comman- H.M.A.S. Murchison (Lieut.- ercises with HM. Submarine As- W. A. Wilson, R.A.N.R.) is in April. She will then proceed to der G. L. Cant, R.A.N.) is in Commander J. McL. Adams, Shore Rig tute. and will take part in the Western Australia for dumping Williamstown Naval Dockyard for Sydney, paid off into reserve. O.B.E., R.A.N.) is in Sydney, Memories of a London "Punch" Squadron exercises next month. ammunition. refit, preparatory to her employ- having refitted and granted leave cartoon of some years ago are re- 10th Destroyer H.M.A.S. %uic\match (Lieu- L.S.T. 3501 (Lieut.-Comman- ment on the north-west coast of to ship's company during Decem- vived by a general signal recently tenant-Commander C. J. Stephen- der G. M. Dixon, D.S.C., R.A.N. Australia for the remainder of the H.M.A.S. Bataan (Captain (D) ber. promulgated by the Naval Board. o 10, Capt.'in J. C. Morrow, D.S.O., son, R.A.N.) is in Sydney, her dis- V.R.) is in the Southern Ocean on 1948 survey season. H.M.A.S. Hawl^esbvry is in Syd- The cartoon in question—one of D.S.C. R.A.N.) arrived at Syd- position and employment being the first operation in connection ney, paid off into reserve. H.M.A.S. Lachlan (Lieut.-Com- Charles Graves' inimitable draw- ney from Yokohama via Man us on similar to those of H.M.A.S. with the Australian Antarctic Ex- mander C. G. Little, D.S.C., ings-^depicted a scene at a Lon- 11th December. On arrival she Sluiberon. pedition, landing a party of scien- 20th Mineiweepiag Flotilla R.A.N.) is in Williamstown Dock- dc I railway terminus, the central was granted 50 days' availability HM.A.S. Quadrant is in Syd- Having completed their task of tists on Heard Island, and laying yard, undergoing refit. She subse- figure being a naval rating striding for refit and to grant 21 days' ney, paid off into reserve. weeping defensive mines in the down fuel supplies for the Wyatt quently proceeds to Sydney to pay along carrying a suit case and par- Earp on Kerguelen Island. On off into reserve. Continued on p«9* 3t. 1h* Movy n Navy Minister's Visit to LS.T. built at Cockatoo Island. Experi- eel, and wearing a uniform of .or- Previous to its departure from ence gained in the war years has orthodox square rig cut, but made Melbourne on the first stage of the made its mark in this new con- of a loud check material topped voyage to Heard Island and Ker- struction, and the 'Tobruk" will A. J* O. Quarter-Deck off with a jaunty panama hat in guelen in connection with the Aus- be a considerable advance in de- place of the usual cap. The cap- tralian Antarctic Expedition, the stroyer efficiency in comparison tion to the cartoon read: "Naval Minister for the Navy (Mr. Rior- with vessels of the Tribal class— ratings are asking to be allowed to dan) visited "L.S.T. 3501," lying "Arunta," "Warramunga" and JAMS 6? PRESERVED Whiteness wear civilian clothes when on at Station Pier, Port Melbourne. "Bataan" — built at Cockatoo Is- leave. We do not want our sailors Captain H. M. Burrell, R.A.N., land during the war. FRUITS when ashore to lese their charac- the Deputy Chief of the Naval Six destroyers are included in A.J.C. TOMATO teristic appearance altogether, so Staff, and Commander J. B. S. why not compromise?" the Royal Australian Navy's build- SAUCE. Barwood, R.A.N., Naval Officer- ing programme, to be completed The Naval Board signal referred in-Charge, Port Melbourne, accom- by the middle of 1953, and a sec- to above announced that approval panied the Minister, who inspected ond "Battle" class vessel is now had been given for men of the the ship's company at divisions. nearing hull completion at the Royal Australian Navy to wear The party was received by "L.S.T. Williamstown Naval Dockyard, IT WHITENS plain clothes whilst on leave within 3501's" Commanding Officer Victoria. the limits of the Australian Sta- Lieutenant-Commander G. M. Australasian Jam IT CLEANS tion. Plain clothts may be worn Dixon, D.S.C., R.A.N.V.R. Of 3,300 tons displacement, 379 by ratings on short leave, except- Christmas Party at Flinders feet length, and 41 feet beam, the Co. Pty. Ltd. IT WONT RUB OFF ing those under training, and by new "Battle" class destroyers ye Flinders Naval Depot was the At all stores all ratings when on leave exceed- singularly well suited for the 1 GARDEN STREET, scene of a Christmas Party on ing twenty-four hours. Plain Royal Australian Navy and con- 13th December, when the ship's SOUTH YARRA, clothes are not to be worn by rat- ditions in the wide areas of the company played host to 500 chil- MELBOURNE, ings when going on board or leav- Pacific. Large fuel capacity gives dren from 11.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. ing H.M.A. Ships, or when pro- them considerable endurance, and VICTORIA. Invitations were issued to children ceeding in Service boats. This privi- they have been specially modified of serving members of the R.A.N. Bardsley's lege may be extended abroad at in design to enable amenities for attached to the Depot and to Navy British norts when approved by personnel to be provided, includ- Office, and to children of deceased the Commander-in-Chief of the ing improved ventilation, cafeteria SHAVING personnel. Free transport to and Station, but the wearing of plain system, refrigerator units and cold- from Melbourne by train and bus clothes will not be allowed when yvater drinking sets, laundry and CREAM was provided for parents and chil- » in foreign countries. better bathing facilities, all of JOHNS & WAYGOOD dren. Among the amusements pro- which make the vessels more suit- vided were a continuous picture For quicker Navy's Royal Wedding Gift able for work in tropical areas. LTD. show, foot races, slides, a flying CITY ROAD, ind The wedding gift from the offi- fox, a merry-go-round and a The main armament of 4.5 inch cers and men of the Royal Navy, SOUTH MELBOURNE mors comfortable Punch and Judy show. Refresh- guns are housed in power-operated the Royal Marines, the Royal Aus- ments for children and adults, and turrets. A highly efficient system 'Phone: MX 1241. tralian Navy, the Royal Indian a babies' creche were available. of fire control, and ample provi- AFTER HOURS LIFT Navy, the Royal Pakistan Navy, The whole party was financed by sion of close range guns and tor- the Royal Naval Volunteer Re- MAINTENANCE: the ship's canteen fund. pedo tubes, makes these vessels MX 1241, UL 2717, SHAVE serve and from the Women's powerful fighting units. Their Nursing Service and the Volun- New "Batde" Class Destroyer WM 2945, WM 1299, 50,000 horsepower engines, which WX 3338. tary Aid Detachment (Royal Launched. will drive them at a speed of over Navy) was formally presented to The first "Battle" class destroyer 32 knots, are the most powerful H.R.H. the Princess Elisabeth by to be built in Australia was marine engines hitherto built in JOHNS & WAYGOOD the Board of Admiralty previous launched at Cockatoo Island Dock- the Commonwealth. Each-of the to the wedding. Part of the gift yard, Sydney, on 20th December. "Battle" class vessels will carry a is a fine eighteenth century ma- Mrs. Riordan, the wife of the LTD. For the best Soft Drinks peacetime complement of 300 offi- hogany sideboard, but the remain- Minister for the Navy, christened cers and men. MELBOURNE, VICTORIA ing part of the gift was not se- the new vessel H.M.A.S. "Tobruk." Always say . . . lected in time for presentation The keel of the new destroyer, along with it. Her Royal High- the largest of that class of ship yet PERSONAL ness, in accepting the sideboard, built in Australia, was laid in MARCHANTS expressed her delight with the pre- August, 1946. So far as practic- Lieut.-Commander (E.) Stuart sent, and asked that all those who able, all structural material and St. Vincent Welch, R.A.N., left PLEASE! subscribed may be thanked for equipment is of Australian produc- Melbourne in R.M.S. "Orion" for their generosity and for the affection and manufacture, and the England during November last. tion and goodwill which she knows boilers and main turbfnes were He will be away from Australia it represents.

Tka Navy for about two years, during which the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal period he will first take part in a Navy in 1937. He has had wide Officers' Club, Fliidtrs CAPTAIN J. C. MORROW, D.S.O., D.S.C., A.D.C., RA.N, Naval Aeronautical Engineering experience in aircraft carriers, hav- James Cairns Morrow entered the Royal Australian Naval Course at the Royal Naval Engin- ing served in H.M. Ships "Glori- Naval Depot College as a Cadet Midshipman on the 1st. January, 1919, and eering College, Plymouth. When ous," "Ark Royal," "Furious" and By Petty Officer M. R. Collier, R.A.N. became a Midshipman in 1923, Sub-Lieutenant in 1926, he concludes this course he will "Tracer." It was while serving in Lieutenant two years later, reached Half-Stripe rank in 1936, have beyi the first R.A.N. officer the "Ark Royal" during the war TTie Petty Officers' "Breaking and was promoted Commander in June, 1940. During the in- to have participated. He will then in the Mediterranean that he was Up" Dance has always been a tervening period he served in various of H.M. and H.M.A. gain further experience on Royal awarded the D.S.C. "for outstand- popular affair, and that held at Ships, being appointed to H.M.A.S. "Voyager" in command Naval Air Stations. During the ing zeal, patience and cheerfulness Flinders Naval Depot on th? 8th on the 26th. April, 1938. war years, Lieut.-Commander and for having 6et an example of December was no exception to the He served for over three years in this ship—until 17th. Welch served in H.M.A. Ships wholehearted devotion to duty." general rule. There was a large "Sydney," "Australia," "Hobart" He was later appointed to the staff November, 1941—and it was while in her that he earned his attendance, and a good time was Distinguished Service Order and a Mention in Despatches for and "Norman." For the four which organised the naval activi- enjoyed by all. months previous to his departure ties in the invasion of Normandy, service in the Mediterranean in the recent war during the "Scrap Iron Flotilla" period. H.M.A.S. "Voyager" was one from Australia he was on the staff and was later a member of the There has been a good response of Naval Aviation at Navy Office, staff of the Vice-Admiral (Q.) of the five Australian destroyers that went overseas shortly among Petty Officers to the invi- after the outbreak of hostilities in 1939, arriving with her Melbourne. British Pacific Fleet. Immediately tation to volunteer for the new previous to leaving Australian re- companions in the Mediterranean before Christmas of that Naval Aviation Branch, and a year. As members of the 10th. Destroyer Flotilla, these ships Lieut. - Commander William cently he was Director of Naval number have put their names for- Beresford Moffit Marks, R.A.N., Air Organisation and Training at performed meritoriously throughout the early stages of the ward. Among those are Petty Offi- Mediterranean campaign, with the Battlefleet, on the Tobruk until recently Squadron Gunnery Navy Office, Melbourne. cers W. Clark and K. Rogers, who Officer of His Majesty's Royal Ferry run, in the campaign in Greece, and also on convoy Lieut.-Cc mmender T. M. Synnot. went on leave in November previ- escort work. Australian Naval Squadron, has Two new members of the Vic- ous to their departure for the assumed duty as Gunnery Officer torian Bar—they were admitted United Kingdom to take a course. When Italy entered the war, most of them were in the on the staff of the Director of on the 1st of last month—were Eastern Mediterranean, and were immediately employed on Training and Staff Requirements ing and Staff Requirements at Lieutenants, R.A.N.V.R., during The cricket season at the Depot submarine hunting in the approaches to Alexandria, and at Navy Office. A gradaute of the Navy Office, has been appointed the war. They are Mr. H. R. opened with a mixed bag. The "Voyager" took part in numerous incidents and engagements Royal Australian Naval College, Gunnery Officer of H.M.A.S. Newton, who is a son of the well- Petty Officers' team started off well during this phase, including the Battle of Calabria, in which, which he entered as a cadet mid- "Australia," and joined the cruiser known Melbourne surgeon, Sir by defeating the New Entry with the "Vampire," she was engaged in screening H.M.S. shipman on 1st January, 1926, on her return from Japan last Alan Newton, and who was ad- School, but in the second match of "Eagle"; the Fleet Air Arm bombing attack on Maltesana, Lieut.-Commander Marks saw ser- month. He has a distinguished mitted on the motion of Mr. A. the season the Signal School team Stampalia; the establishment of the advanced base at Suda war record, and was awarded the vice in ships of both the Royal Dean, K.C., and Mr. A. D. G. were the victors over the Petty Bay, Crete; the capture of the Italian auxiliary ketch "Zin- D.S.C. "for distinguished service Australian Navy and the Royal Adam, with whom he will read Officers. garella" off the Libyan coast; the evacuation of Greece during and gallantry during the invasion at the Bar; and Mr. J. A. Collins. which, at Nauplia, she embarked from a caique, to the surprise Navy during the recent war. These of the south of France in March, December the 19th saw the com- included H.M.A. Ships "Ade- of all on board, 150 or so Australian Army Nurses; and the 1945." Earlier, in March, 1941, mencement of Christmas leave at Tobruk Ferry. laide," "Canberra," "Napier" and he had been mentioned in de- the Depot, and was "D" Day "Shropshire," and H.M.S. "Wool- spatches "for good service in the after a period of intensive antici- Captain Morrow's D.S.O., awarded on 11th. September, wich." withdrawal from British Somali- pation by all hands. We join in 1940, "For courage, enterprise and devotion to duty in re- Lieutant-Commander i Timothy land." A graduate of the Royal wishing all our comrades of the cent engagements," recognised his work during portion of this Monckton Synnot, D.S.C., R.A.N., Australian Naval College, his war R.A.N., and the readers of "The period; while he received further recognition on the 29th. until recently Gunnery Officer on' service was in H.M.A. Ships "Ho- Navy," the Compliments of the July, 1941, with the gazettal of a Mention in Despatches "For courage, skill and devotion to duty in operations off the Libyan the staff of the Director of Train- bart" and "Arunta," and H.M. Season and all the best for the Ships "Dido" and "Excellent." New Year. Coast." Returning to Australia at the end of 1941, he was, after p\ . Lieut.-Commander Victor Alfred various shore duties, appointed in command of H.M.A.S. "Arunta" on commissioning, thus being the first Commanding (.* •. 1 T. Smith, D.S.C., R.A.N., left •P§£'If v ' MjfjMatlMM Melbourne in the "Stratheden" Officer of an Australian built Tribal destroyer. He was in ': • --I i during November to assume duty, Are You a command of "Arunta" for eighteen months, during which he as Staff Officer (Air) at Australia earned the D.S.C. "For leadership, skill and devotion to duty . ' • House, London, for two years, Subscriber to in H.M.A.S. 'Arunta' in a successful attack on an enemy ^Hlv f j where he will be attached to the submarine," which award was made on 15th. August, 1944. staff of Captain (S.) J. B. Foley, Following his service in "Arunta," he was at different C.B.E., R.A.N., Naval Liaison times Commander (D) Milne Bay, in "Swan" and "Platypus" Officer. A graduate of the Royal The Navy? as Commander (D), and in H M.A.S, "Shropshire." Promot- Australian Naval College, from ed Acting Captain, "Bataan" in command and as Captain (D) which he passed out in December, Order Your 10th. Destroyer Flotilla, he was confirmed in rank on 30th. 1930, Lieut.-Commander Smith, June, 1947, and reappointed as Captain (D) "Bataan" in — after serving in various H.M.A. Copy Now command. Captain Morrow was appointed A.D.C. to the and H.M. Ships, qualified as an Governor-General on 27th. September, 1947. Air Observer with what was then Lieut.-Commander W. B. M. Marks. Lieut.-Commander V. A. T. Smith.

•iMMtry, 1MB. 41 40 Tli* Navy mum through the Straits of.Dover was .attacked by sixty aircraft in to British war plant! urgently and along the . south coast, and the morning, and fine hundred in needed Swedish products. coasters bound fiom London to the afternoon. Seven ships were "On the eve of the first voyage Always ask for .. . BOOK REVIEWS the Mersey or Bristol Channel sunk and seven damaged, but the from Hull, the following message would make the long haul north- convoy went through. And the was received from Lord Leathers, •y *.H.«. about by way of the Pendand convoys continued to run. "E- then Minister of War Transport: SHELLEY'S "BRITISH COASTER 1939-1945." The Official Story. Pre- Firth. Some cargoes, notably coal, boat Alley," off the bulge of Nor- 'To the officers and men of M.V.S. pared by the British Central Office of Information. His Majesty's had, of course, to go to the south folk, through which, in spite of the "Nonsuch," "Hopewell," "Gay coast. These were carried in se- concentrated E-boat attacks, the FAMOUS DRINKS Stationery Office, London. Viking," "GayCorsair" and "Mas- lected coasters of the Channel con- little coasters passed 12,750,000 ter Standfast": You are about to' From Dunkirk to "D" Day and The following afternoon, after voys which had to run, among tons of coal and 2,000,000 tons of embark on an enterprise which beyond, this little book tells the storing and watering, she sailed other hazards, the gauntlet of the general cargo annually throughout will bring lasting honour to the story of the British coasters during again for Dunkirk, arriving the German guns on Cape Grisnez. the war. Red Ensign under which you sail. SHELLEY & SONS the war years between 1939 and next morning. There "the pros- Liverpool, for war purposes, Altogether, the annual liftings The Prime Minister has told the CORDIAL FACTORY 1945, and a thrilling story it is. pect was far from pleasing, as the took the place of London as the of coasters around Britain during country that we never call on the officers and men of the Merchant PTY. LTD. Of Dunkirk, the case of "Dorrien last ten miles to the port were lit- first port of England. Little ports the war amounted to 21,000,000 Rose" is perhaps typical. "Dor- tered with sunken and blazing which had long been asleep in com- tons of coal, 6,000,000 tons of Navy in vain. I am proud, as the rien Rose," an elderly coasting ships. . . . Bombers were paying mercial backwaters were restored other tramp cargoes, and 3,000,- country will be, of your answer MURRAY STREET, tramp of 1,400 t jns deadweight, us frequent visits. . . . There was to activity. In addition, sheltered 000 tons of liner cargoes annually. to the call we have made on you MARRICKVILLE, was bound for Dunkirk in the or- no one to look to for instructions, anchorages where deep-sea ships Then there was the Swedish and of the enthusiasm with which ball-bearing trade. That was an you have carried through your ar- N.S.W. dinary course of her job of trans- so we poked into the harbour. could lie and discharge their car- porting stores to the Army in Someone ashore gestured us goes direct into coasters were epic achievement—in which speci- duous training. Your task is great, France. She had general stores in alongside a battered wall." brought into use. Overside dis- ally built craft with high-powered but success will add mightily to 'Phones: her holds, and cased petrol as deck "Dorrien Rose" remained along- charge at anchorages played an im- diesel engines and shallow draft, the preparations for our great on- LA 24J1 8C LA 2659 cargo. Approaching Dunkirk by side that battered wall for two portant part in the delivery of each designed to carry some forty slaught for victory You have well- night, her master, Captain W. hours, and embarked 600 troops. goods from overseas "The little tons of cargo, maintained a regular found craft, a fine and experienced leader, and a well-prepared plan. if SHELLEY'S FAMOUS Thompson, was in the chartroom Two bombs just missed her as die ships, often battered but always traffic from Hull through the laying off courses, when the mate left the harbour. The Captain workmanlike, clustered round the North Sea and the German-domin- I pray God to watch over you in DRINKS whistled down to say that a passing found that the return journey was big ship, as many as four or five ated Skaggerak to Sweden to bring your adventure, and confidently ship had signalled, "Unsafe to ap- trying. "The Channel was now a at a time. Amid a clatter of proach. Dunkirk in flames." So navigator's nightmare, with buoys winches, the. swinging derricks "Dorrien Rose," since Dunkirk transferred the cargo—meat, grain, The British Labour Minister in introducing the "1946 Assurance Companies missing, wrecks and wreckage all Act," stated that "The 1946 Act":— "looked and sounded appalling," over the place." Said Mr. P. sugar, tanks, ammunition — from "Acknowledges the inherently international and comprehensive character anchored off Nieuport until day- McFadden, the Boatswain: "That's the deep holds of the ocean liners of Insurance." light. the first time that I've ever left to the coasters. There might be The Labour President of the Board of Trade in the House of Commons aI»o Dunkirk without having to round many such clusters of big ships and rtated that it would be proper in this connection to inform the House of the At 0330, first light, she headed attitude of the Labour Government toward the future of British Insurance busi- for Dunkirk. Daylight showed up the crew out of the cafes." satellites, all busy at one time. ness. The Government, he stated, had no intention of interfering with the many ships heading for Dunkirk, During the perioc' of the Ger- Then, in the matter of hours, at transaction of Insurance business by private enterprise. It is, he stated, the and brought, also, enemy air at- man air attacks on the British Isles, most a day or two, the sheltered de'.irc of the Government that Insurance should be in the future, as in the past, tacks, during which the twin Lev.-is the little ships of the coasting trade water was empty for a spell. The ciealt with on an international basis and as business of an international character. of the "Dorrien Rose" was man- were indispensable. Controlled by loaded coasters had gone off round The interests of the people of Australia would be best served by its Govern- the coasts to distribute their ment following the sound principles so clearly enunciated by the Labour Gov- ned by the gunner "who swore the Coasting and Short Sea Divi- ernment of Great Britain. every time he fired." Then a near- sion of the Ministry of War freights; the big ships were on the by troopship was bombed. She was Transport, they were a vital link high seas again. The anchorage For 69 Years ,he "Queen of the Channel," in between imports and their users, awaited the next convoy." Here is the piping days of peace a pleasure as well as between producers and an illustration of the effect of the the MERCANTILE MUTUAL steamer, but now, with her back consumers within coastal limits. German occupation of Europe on broken, and filled with troops, she So far as imports from overseas British shipping. "One day two Insurance Coy. Ltd. little ships, the 'Newminster' and AN AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTION HAS BEEN PROVIDINC SECURITY was sinking. "Dorrien Rose" went were concerned, the valuable deep- FOR THE HOMES OF THE PEOPLE. ITS MOTTO BEING alongside and the transfer of sea ships and their precious cargoes the Thornaby," were unloading "SERVICE TO THE PUBLIC" troops commenced. "The opera- could not be risked on the south Sherman tanks, which they had J. W. McGREGOR loaded overside from a deep-sea tion," said Captain Thompson coast, and could make only limited Insurance Means Security. later, "was carried out in thirtyr use of east coast ports. SoUiere ship in a west coast port. They ft CO. were in an ocean dock of the Port five minutes, despite three attempts was much redistribution of ship- FIRE, MARINE, ACCIDENT, MOTOR CAR AND HOUSEHOLDERS', HOUSE-OWNERS WOOLBROKERS, by Jprry to intervene." Then, ping. The overseas ships used to of London, and in that great dock (COMBINED) INSURANCE, CROPS. STACKS, FENCING, ^LUVTUS. ALL CLASSES OF AGRICULTURAL INSURANCE. with over 1,000 on board — her the fullest possible extent west they were only ships." normal complement being 13— coast ports and anchorages, and it 5 BOND STREET, "Dorrien Rose" made for Dover, was left to the coasters to carry Aircraft attacks on convoys off Head Office: 117 PITT STREET, SYDNEY. arriving at 1420, after being at- seaborne cargoes in the more dan- the south coast. On 8th August, fteandiae 'in all Statee end Agencies te all Suburb™ and Country Centre* SYDNEY, N.S.W. 1940, when "the real thing began," throughout the CuoxMinalm when all tliau oi Imuran.* can be tacked eight times by enemy air- gerous waters. Even their activi- at I fait by any of the Company's 4000 Agents trained to give craft. ties were reduced to a bare mini' a convoy in the Straits of Dover "Scrvice to the Public."

January, 1941. 41 n* Navy rely on your skill, your courage and to go anywhere, at any time, Pilot: "Ah! I know where they and your resolution, under His at a moment's notice, and, if ne- ain't." providence, to bring it to a re- cessary, to load and unload cargo. sounding success.'" And they Overtime rates were waived, each did. Incidentally, in Sweden, the man accepting in lieu a flat pay- SPARE THE ROD little ships loaded at a berth direct- ment of £1 a week. Fond Mother of objectionable ly under the windows of the Ger- children: "Yes! We have a very man consulate—and the Germans As the Epilogue to this little modern home. Everything in it is HOTEL could do nothing about it. book says of the coasters: "The in- controlled by switches." vasion of Europe demanded much Bored Host: "Ever try them on For the "D" Day operations, from them. Without the little your offspring?" preparation for the part to be merchant ships its success could PLAZA played by the coasters began some not have been achieved. But above two years before that great adven- so many other notable achieve- MULTIPLICATION ture. Without their help, success ments the coasters' work on their A DISTINCTION. TOO MANY It is reported that an Aberdeen in the Normandy landings could normal and accustomed highway Sally: "They say that sailors Purser: "Yes, Miss Rurcible, we schoolboy swallowed a penny re- WYNYARD STATION not have been achieved. They stands out as their peculiar contri- make very good husbands." have fourteen cooks in this ship." cently and was rushed off to the could do jobs off and on the bution to victory. Despite Ineses Sadie: "I don't know about that, Miss Runcible: "Indeed! I sup- nearest doctor. The doctor not beaches which the larger deep-sea from enemy action, despite tile de- but I believe they can make very pose that was why the broth was only got the penny out of him, but ships could not undertake. Many mands upon the coaster fleet of naughty wives." so poor at lunch.' half a ijuinea in addition. George St. of them were actually beached and the fighting services, despite the im- CAUSE AND EFFECT refloated, standing up high and mense difficulties of organisation, EVEN BETTER HOUSEHOLD HINTS dry when the tide was out and dis- this work of carrying cargoes Dusty: "Hear about Ocker embarking their troops and dis- around Great Britain by sea did White?" Choleric Captain: "Are you the To keep the chimney from Sydney charging their cargoes directly on not falter. Somehow, without fail, Nobby: "No!" pilot?" smoking, don't light the fire. to the beach. the little ships performed the duty Dusty: "He got run down in a Pilot: "Well, they tell me I am." To make unsightly pimples van- city street last night, and wound Choleric Captain: "Then do you ish, turn out the light. The coaster invasion fleet finally set them. Yearly they discharged in the ports, big, small and tiny, up in hospital." know where the sandbanks are?" To lead some good stirring numbered 420 ships, small, medium Pilot: "No, sir!" stories, gLt a cookery book. and large, of 655,000 tons dead- around these islands, more than PHYSICIAN, CURE THYSELF thirty million tons of vital mer- First Year Med. • "I wonder Choleric Captain: "Then how To get rid of cockroaches, burn weight, plus 78,000 tons employed the what the who the, etc., ctt." the house down. as naval colliers and armament chandise. That they maintained why old Doc. McGregor always carriers. Their crews, all volun- this flow, through the most war- goes to another doctor when he's teers, signed special articles under dangerous waters in the world, is sick. Why doesn't he treat him- which they agreed to transfer from the proud record of British coasters self?" ' ship to ship or from sjtip to "pool," in the war." Second Year Med.: "Haven't DRINKS AVAILABLE you heard? His charges are too high." WITH MEALS "BEST STORIES OF THE NAVY," edited by 1 homas Wood- SURE! rooffe. Faber and Faber, London. (First published in 1941. Re- "What," asl,ed the uxoriot'i printed in 1947.) Second Mate, "beats a good wife?" "Only a bad husband," replied A reprint of this admirable vol- "The Settlement with Shanghai the cynical Wireless Operator. ume is welcome, for there must be Smith." The one tells of how a FAIR EXCHANGE many who were unable to secure a British admiral was shanghaied in Lady Passenger: "And what copy of the first edition, and it San Francisco, and the other of the made you come to sea, my good would be difficult to find a book poetic justice meted out to his man?" containing as many really good shanghaier. Do not miss "Klaxon's" Saloon Deckman: "Poverty, short stories of ^he Navy within "A Ruddy Casabianca," nor W. Ma'am. I was a shoemaker ashore, one cover as this does. All of them P. Drury's delightful "John Ecua- but I lost my awl." HOTEL rate high. Many are delightful. dor" — which has that author's Lady Passenger: "You poor fel- touch of captivating humour that The book opens with a good low. But are you happy now?" makes his "Private Paget'' stories Saloon Deckman: "Yes, Ma'am. PLAZA sample, "Sea-Wrack's" "Seascape: stand on their own—nor Thomas 'Morning off Lerwick'," and one is For here at sea I have found my Woodrooffe's own conf: ibution, sole." not disappointed after so excellent "The Captain of the Turtles." an opening as the further con- CENSORED tents unfold. There is humour in There are 26 stories in all. and Guns: "The Old Man thi.iks plenty, the ball being opened with every one is worth reading—and there's a lot to be said against tie No. 2 on the list, "The Promotion re-reading; so that this book is present taxation." of the Admiral," by Morley Rob- worth buying—and keeping. Do Pilot: "I know. But he's trying erts, and followed by its sequel, his best." "Sea, Prenderqast, you'va got to show 'am two-up doesn't pay."

The Navy January, 1948. EX-NAVAL MEN'S

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DELIGHTFUL FOR SAVOURIES Federal Couecll tions during 1948. Decentralising it is still functioning, meeting the activities, and administration of every month. They claim to be In response to an appeal made ENRICHES ALL GRAVIES ' the Association's affairs has proved the oldest Active Service overseas recently by the R.N. and R.M. a boon to the members and given Association in the Southern Fellowship (Portchester Branch) them a greater opportunity to take Hemisphere. on behalf of the Royal Portsmouth an active part in helping their less The Victoria State Count .1 of Hospital, the Ex-Naval Men's As- fortunate shipmates. the Ex-Naval Men's Association sociations of Australia has been is proud to number amongst some cou/tie pleased to donate the sum of The Services Canteens Trust of their most ardent workers £25 (A) as a small token of esteem Fund now has two of our Associa- members of that gallant band of and gratitude for many treatments tion members as representatives in men who went to China in 1900. MAKES A DELICIOUS BEEF BREW rendered to quite a number of each State on the Regional Wel- Footscray Sub/Section. Australians. fare and Educational Committees; IN A MOMENT OR TWO/ Tne Lord Mayor of Portsmouth these appointments have been made Members of the Committee (Alderman R. J. Winnacott), in a from panels submitted by the vari- consider that the gratifying at- letter to the Hon. Federal Secre- ous State Councils to the Trustees tendance at the General Meet- tary, replied: "Throughout my through the Federal Council at ings of the Sub/Section and the GLOB EX BEEF EXTRACT year of office I seem to have been Sydney. admission of many new members writing to our good friends in Aus- G. W. SCOTT. has fully justified the promotion tralia thanking them for one kind- of a Sub/Section in this district. ness or another, and I should be Victoria Section The future of the Sub/Section extremely grateful to you if you It may be of interest to Naval seems assured but there is still would inform your members how Personnel to know that the a great deal to be accomplished. much we do appreciate their kind Boxer Rebellion, 1900, was the The enthusiasm of the members THE UNITED SHIP SERVICES thoughts. introduction of Naval warfare coupled with their willingness "The Royal Portsmouth Hospi- fbr Australia for Active Service to apply themselves to the task PTY. LTD. tal was badly bombed during the overseas. An Australian Naval of publicising the organisation, war and is carrying on under ex- Contingent left Melbourne- on and the intake of new members, tremely difficult conditions until the troopship "Salamis" with 200 rates highest among the major such time as the Government takes Naval men picked from the Vic- factors which control the degree over the health services of the torian Navy and proceeded to of success attained by any body country generally, and the sum of Sydney to be joined by the New of this nature. £20,000 for which I am appealing South Wales division of that Your committee, urges you, is to ensure that the hospital, with gate's Navy, (200). As Federa- therefore, to' put forth your ut- over one hundred years of life as tion was not then in existence, most to increase our membership a voluntary hospital, shall continue there were thus two distinct and so help to build the Sub/ to function voluntarily until it is quotas sent by the State Govern- Section into a really sizeable limb absorbed into the Government's ments; which proceeded to China on the Oak which has grown plan. for active service. Also the South from an Acorn planted some 27 Australian government sent their years ago in Melbourne. "As Lord Mayor of the first Former shipmates of World naval port of the Commonwealth Naval Gunboat "Protector." The assemblage of Warships at Hong War No. 1 will learn with regret I send you, on behalf of us all, our of the passing of 3 of our esteem- ALL CLASSES OF SHIP REPAIRS AND FITTINGS best wishes and grateful thanks." Kong was the largest international naval gathering known, as ed members recently, in the per- The Federal Council has been sons of:— UNDERTAKEN officially advised of the inaugura- every nation with a Navy had a flotilla of ships present. Mr. William George Patterson, tion of the Sandringham Sub-Sec- Mr. George Broadmead, and Mr. 88-102 NORMANBY RD., STH. MELBOURNE, VIC. tion in Victoria. The total num- The Victorian Contingent Leslie J. Sibbett; our sincere ber of Sub-Sections now operating formed an Association known as sympathy is extended to their / Telephones: MX 5231 (6 lines). on the mainland is twenty-four, the "Victorian Naval China Con- bereaved relatives. with the prospects of further addi- tingent Association" in 1901 and Continued on ntxt p«g*. A. * T». January, 1949. 47 mchthw worn now m> pleting the Hobart race in time to EX-NAVAL MEN . . . leave on the 74th January. An VONNFLUVORNI^AUXL I NAUTICAL QUIZ CRUISING YACHT CLUB unnamed 90-foot schooner, being Personal. built for Mr. Wedderspoon, and "Wayfarer" are cruising across by We are pleased to hear of the OF AUSTRALIA way of Lord Howe Island in time engagement of Miss Diana •y P. M. LUKE, Vie* Commodorm to take part. Ini. Jentally, the Wallis to Mr. Donald Wurlad; (1) "Toll for the brave!" For whom, and for what ship? C.Y.C. intend I^.Jing a Lord also that of Miss Mary Kirby, As the 26th December draws she is capable. (2) What was the influence of the American, J*din P. Howe race next year, but full de- Miss Millie Draffin; and the near, the tension that goes with Although the Hobart Race has Holland, on modern naval warfare? tails are not yet available. weddings of our friends include the Hobart Race begins to make fired the public imagination to an those of Mr. and Mrs. Norman (3) What is "tumble-home"? its presence felt. Skippers and amazing degree, this year's trans- Jack Earl has reached Cape crews are finishing off the last de- Dunstan; Mr. and Mrs. Arthur (4) Now thi.t an Australian Antarctic Expedition is under Tasman race from Auckland to Town in "Kathleen," and will tails of fitting out, and it is of Sydney should create a widespread Hetwood, and Mr. and Mrs. K. way, whom would you say gave Australia her first link probably be in St. Helena by A. Rasmussen. great interest to them to hear the interest. The course is double that Christmas. With only four hands with Antarctic exploration? handicap ratings of new boats on of the Hobart race, but it is un- working a heavy ship, they are H. E. Ivey, State President. altered rigs as the measurers an- (5) After what were the two Antarctic voleanos, Mounts fortunate that there will not be putting up a magnificent series of W. H. Sullivan, State Sec. nounce them. Calculation in min- Erebus and Terror, named? any opportunity to hear progress runs between ports. I have seen utes per hour are made to find out reports during the 12-14 days it is two sections of his illustrated log, (6) How would you interpret the term "lower handsomely"? which yacht concedes time to an- assumed will elapse before the and I do hope that it will be made other, and the chances of success leaders reach Sydney. There will into book form after the comple- (7) In what localities would you look for the following? weighed accordingly. But, in a be quite an international flavour tion of his world cruise. The ac- (a) The Twelve Apostles, (b) The Seven Sisters, (c) race such as this, the weather will to this event, as the German ketch tual narrative is interspersed with The Brothers, (d) Father Point, (e) The Sow and Pigs, have a large bearing on the out- "Te Refunga" and the Americans water colours portraying high- come. Observers in the covering (f) The Cape of the Eleven Thousand Virgins. "Drifter" and "Cirraba" will be lights of the voyage and incidents aircraft last year saw yachts less starters along with the New Zea- of daily life on board. Jack's flam- • (8) There is a Ninety Mile Beach in north-western Austral'a. than fifty miles apart experiencing land "Rangi," "Seaward," "Lady boyant style and his love of little uswttf Do you know of another on the Australian coast? a wide range in strength and direc- Stirling," "Waitangi" and 'Te ships are blended to convey his tion of wind. However, one can- Hongi." Australian entries, "Peer impressions with a vividness that SoPTtO I (9) Here is a four-in-one: What is a "Jaunty," how was the not rely on, or b! me, luck for suc- Gynt" and "Kurrewa," intend to the written word can never name derived, what is his distinguishing badge, and have cess or otherwise. The crew that press on to Auckland after com- achieve. women ever worn it? keep their craft going at her best under all conditions, good or bad (10) The last entry in Lord Nelson's private diary, recording alike, will always have the best the sighting of. the enemy fleet before Trafalgar, includes chance of saving their time on A Place to Remember., BAtlS the sentence: "At seven the Enemy wearing in succes- their faster competitors. is the imposing M.L.C. building, situ- Since last issue the "Eolo," Mr. ated in Sydney's central Martin Place sion." What was "wearing" as here used? and on the corner of Castlereagh Street. Guiffre's Philp designed 55-footer, The M.L.C. provides a life assurance Aniw.rt on p.g. 64. has been launched and had her service, embracing an attractive range trial sail. She is a fine looking ship of policies designed to meet all the needs and emergencies of your future. and a welcome addition to the The Company's history extends over ocean racing fleet of the C.Y.C. sixty years, and it provides life assur- The Hatvorsen brothers' "Peer ance protection to holders of over a Gynt" has also been sailing in a million policies. ,s incl^ couple of local races, but the weather was so fickle that it was impossible to gain a true indication of hex capabilities. The little "Vo- The lita" which arrived here in 19'9 •SgSsh-*-" from Boston, has been altered from a ketch to a cutter, which should make her a very different boat to MLC her two-man cruising rig. Hal Evar faal slow, sluggish, out-of-fouch? You naed an energising Evans' 34-footer "Moonbi," a con- breakfast food I Start your day with Unci* Toby's Oats for sistent place-winner with /the The MUTUAL LIFE and CITIZENS' breakfast. Every delicious plateful of Uncle Toby's Oats C.Y.C. this season, is' being fitted provides 66 units of the Vitality Vitamin Bl. with a larger bowsprit to urge an- Assurance Co. LN. other knot out of her; and so it is Head Office: all round the harbour. Nothing is Comer of Casdereagh Street and Martin Place, SYDNEY being lfeft undone to ensure that Branch Offices in:— each yacht is going to be made to Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Hobart, Wellington, N.Z. UNCLA producEt of CLIFFORTOBYD LOVE 1> SCO. LTD.OAT, SYDNEY S give the best performance of which January, 194*. Tke I I Lieutenant (S) Frank Lindsay Brady is promoted to the rank of Tem- "An Unforgettable Evening" That is the unanimous re- Naval Appointments, Etc. porary Lieutenant-Commander (S), dated 21st October, 1947. port about a night at Syd- Fixing Rates of Pay.—Temporary Lieutenant-Commander (S) THOMAS ney's most attractive Road- house the "Stork Club"— Frank Lindsay Brady to be paid the rates of pay and allowances pre- Situated in beautiful sur- -NAVAL FORCES OF THE COMMONWEALTH. scribed in the Naval Financial Regulations for Temporary Commander ROBINSON I roundings 12 miles from the His Excellency the Governor-General in Council has approved of (on promotion), whilst acting in that rank, dated 21st October, 1947. G.P.O. down Princes' High- the following changes being made:— way, the "Stork Club" fea- ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVAL RESERVE. SON PTY. LTD. tures those most important PERMANENT NAVAL FORCES OF THE COMMONWEALTH ingredients for a happy out- (SEA-GOING FORCES). Promotion.—Sub-Lieutenant William Ross Smith is promoted to ing; Splendid Food present- the rank of Lieutenant (Provisional), dated 26th August, 1947. FLOUR MILL AND ed with a service, which has Appointments.—Commander Henry John F,ullerton Lane, O.B:E., that continental touch- -And is appointed on loan from the Royal Navy, with seniority in rank of Australia's most Musical and 31st December, 1943, dated 20th September, 1947. Patrick Michael ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVAL NURSING SERVICE. WOOD-WORKING talented "personality" trio Swiney, M.B.E., Commissioned Telegraphist, is appointed on loan Appointment.—Joan Roberta Murphy is appointed Sister, dated of Musicians, playing every from the Royal Navy, with seniority in rank of 1st April. 1946, dated ENGINEERS, night; Dick Freeman, the 15th August, 1947. 2nd January, 1947. amazing and entertaining Drummer, Emil Kew at the Promotion.—Lieutenant (S) Allan Donald Lachland is promoted CORRIGENDA. Piano and Doug Cross who to the rank of Lieutenant-Commander (S) (Acting) dated 27th Oc- tober, 1947. With reference to Executive Minute No. 13—notice of which will sing any of your favour- 160 SUSSEX ST., ite tunes. The "Stork Club" Confirmation in Rank.—Acting Lieutenant Barry Ashley Williams appeared on page 988 of Commonwealth Gazette No. 60 of 27th 600, Prince's Highway, Syl- is confirmed in the rank of Lieutenant, with seniority in rank of 1st March, 1947—that portion relating to the termination of the appoint- SYDNEY, vania, can be reached by October, 1947, dated Uth October, 1947. 'phone for Reservations— ment of James Ernest White, Acting Temporary Commissioned Officer B 4564. Fixing Rates of Pay.—Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander Kenneth from Warrant Rank, Royal Australian Naval Reserve (Sea-going), is N.S.W. 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Tk* Navy JtfHi.ry, IM®. " J The Casde mail boat, homeward bound from Cape Town, was WARRANT OFFICER M. L HARPER, LEGION OF speeding towards them over the E. WRIGHT horizon ahead. From the wireless- MERIT (U.S.A.), SILVER STAR MEDAL (U.S.A.), ed position they had received from * CO. R.A.N.R. (S). her during the previous evening, they should pass within sight of WHERE THERE'S SMOKE each cither about daylight this In speaking of the work of the Australian Coastwatchers Pty. Ltd. - •y A. E. Mollifoa morning. And she carried with • in the Solomon Islands during the campaign against the Japan- her the Chanel No. 3 aura of Mr. ese there during 1942 and 1943, Admiral Halsey, the Ameri- Jinks' beloved, along with Mr. r all happened because Mr. Jinks ficiency which the Chef was in the 148-152 Cleveland St. can Commanding Admiral, Sou^ Pacific, said that their r habit of averring was a serious dis- Jinks' beloved herself. To think activities had saved Guadalcanal, anj that Guadalcanal had and the Second Cook were in ability in one who would essay to of it. So near, and yet so far. To love. Not with each other, of whizz past each other at an aggre- Chippendale, Sydney saved the South Pacific. tempt the palate with the aroma course. Mr. Jinks was Chief Offi- of delicately flavoured and cooked gate speed of something over thirty e Another Australian who earned American commendation cer of the "Manucian," and Chief foods. knots and at a distance of three or four miles in mid occan, in the and decoration for his work in this area is Warrant Officer Officers do not as a rule love Sec- ond Cooks, nor vice versa. Indeed, In any case, Alf. Bedger would doldrums, and to be able to do no- M. I. Harper, R.A.N.R.(S), the citations to whose awards — SCREENS — neither Mr. Jinks nor the Second now have despised the scent of thing about it. It was a dreadful tell the story of his achievements. Cook—whose name was Alf. Bed- freezia powder and Florida water, thought. SCREENS FOR MINING & ger—was aware of the other's ex- or of any other combination which He was awarded the United States decoration of Legion istence as an individual. Each Certainly, she would be thinking METAL GRADING. ETC. Miss Maisie Barttrum had affected. of him. She had said so in the of Merit, Degree of Commander, on 3rd. April, 1944, "For knew that the "Manucian" carried For the fact of the matter was that exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of out- a Chief Officer and a Second Cook, wireless message she had sent. And they had parted brass rags. A rival he had assured her in return that For all enquiries phone ... standing services to the Government of the United States while but beyond that they neither knew had crossed Alf.'s path, a johnny- nor, it is to be feared, cared. he would be thinking of her. And, on temporary duty with the Amphibious Force, South Pacific, on-the-spot, a smart young chap in spite of the early hour at which with a promising job in the city. MX 3428-9 in action against enemy Japanese forces in the Solomon Islands, No! Each was in love with a they would pass, she would be girl. And a different girl at that. Four months was a long time for beginning July 16th, 1942. Through his familiarity with the looking out for him. She would Mr. Jinks' girl had been a first- Alf. to be away, and the rival had be on deck, and would wave. She dangerous waters in the vicinity of Guadalcanal and Tulagi, class passenger from London to the secured the pledge of Maisie's had said that also. But it was, at Warrant Officer Harper, as pilot of the leading transport vessel, Cape two voyages previously, and hand. He was bitter about it, and the best, poor comfort. And Mr. was of invaluable assistance to the Operations Officer in the his memories of her were hallowed brooding. It was a state of mind Jinks, stirred between anguish and which, allied to his olfactory dis- initial occupation of the Islands by our forces on August 7th., by the faint scent of Chanel No. 3 anticipation, ruminated on this fact which accompanied her as an aura. ability, made it somewhat of a 1942. In the subsequent activities he further distinguished as he paced the bridge under the THE Not that he knew that. All that gamble to dine from his prepara- waning stars and anxiously scan- himself frequently in the ce of enemy fire, by his expert pro- he knew was that to be with her tions, and kept the Chef in a con- ned the horizon ahead for the first FLEET-FORGE fessional skill and superior tactical knowledge in piloting our was a delightful intoxication, an stant flutter of apprehension. hint of his beloved's argosy. ships through extremely hazardous channels and in refloating intoxication which had now been a hangover—in itself a holy sort of It was then that the thought PTY. LTD. and bringing to safe harbours those damaged in action. The thing—for over eight months. Life /"VN the particular morning of came to him. The Castle mailhoat courageous determination and unwavering devotion to duty with her in some distant future which this story tells, Mr. was a flash affair. She was a Mail 9-13 LORIMER ST. displayed by W. O. Harper throughout the entire period of was to be a dizzy dream com- Jinks was pacing the bridge of the Boat. A Liner in the best sense of "Manucian" enwrapped in more STH. MELBOURNE his service contributed immeasurably to the successful opera- pounded of Chanel No. 3 and the the term. In that she could put it than usually holy thoughts. It was all over the "Manucian," who tions of our Forces." full moon over the doldrums and VICTORIA under the boat deck awnings, with not' precisely the time and place could, at the most, claim to be a and the loved one altogether, but passenger and cargo liner. And, On 18th. October, 1945, Warrant Officer Harper was the soft strains of music from the Stewards' Band playing at the some of the elements were there. although he had no doubts as to ENGINEERS further honoured by the United States Government when he dance on the promenade deck be- Time was out a bit, for it was the the faithfulness of his beloved, four to eight watch in the morn- STRUCTURAL was awarded the Silver Star Medal "For conspicuous gallantry low, and gentle squeezing of hands, faint suggestions of jealousy assail- and intrepidity in action while attached to an Underwater sighs and understanding silences. ing. Place was all right, for the ed Mr. Jinks Naturally, a man "Manucian" was in the doldrums, MECHANICAL Demolition Team. Voluntarily serving as a member of the likes to appear at his best before southward bound through the At- the object of his affections. In the MARINE first reconnaissance party to survey designated beaches. Alf. Bedger's case was different. His girl, on the nights they had lantic to Australia via the Cape. circumstances, space being what it Warrant Officer Harper rendered gallant service under enemy spent together at the Lcwisham It was a glorious morning, too. A is, he would appear to her at the Quotations given for all fire in the removal of underwater obstacles, and, by his expert Hippodrome and the Catford calm, with the sea's surface unruf- moment of passing this morning, classes of work. counsel 'in connection with coral beach formations, aided Palais de Dance, diffused an aura fled and glassy above a long, slight mainly as the "Manucian." And of freezia powder, mixed with swell; a dew on the awnings, and it had to be admitted that, ship for greatly in preparing the way for combat troops. His tireless the huge, low-hung stars paling in TELEPHONE: Florida water he had taken home ship, the "Manucian" could not efforts and loyal co-operation were major factors in the success- the greying sky. The loved one hold a candle to the Castle boat MX523t (6 lines) to her from Teneriffe. Not that he ful completion of hazardous and vital missions." knew that, for he was singularly was nearly present. Tantalisingly for looks. near. lacking in a sense of smell, a de- Conti.uod on n.it — « Tfc. Nan JO MM RY, 1911. n Furthermore, the thought oc- over the face of the waters, the ap- suitable embellishments of his own curred to Mr. Jinks that it was prentice on the bridge struck four devising. "Ikey" had all of youth's ENGINEERING unlikely that anyone as beautiful bells, and the repeating chimes enthusiasm for his own ship, and and as charming as his beloved from the crow's nest high up the PRODUCTS foremast were followed almost in his exhortation to Mr. Bcdger would be standing alone on the to show that the old "Manucian" Castle boat's deck, even at that immediately by the lookout man PTY. LTD. early hour in the morning. Prob- striking three, signifying a ship could put on as good a two-funne! ably— although, mind you, Mr. right ahead. The Castle boat! Mr. display as a so-and-so Castle boat, 426-436 Burnley St. Jinks was not jealous on this ac- Jinks felt a flutter of excitement he managed to strike a responsive as he yelled "Aye, aye!" to the BURNLEY count—some young smart Aleck of chord. a Castle boat. officer would be lookout man in response to the VICTORIA bells. Then he called young "Ikcy" standing with her, doing the heavy. That he would have failed to do • Robertson, the big-nosed appren- And probably he would, just to so with Mr. Slater is beyond doubt. make himself the big fellow, have tice. "Jump down," he said, "to Specialised The Chef would brook no interfer- something to remark on about the the galley, and tell them to stoke Manufacturers "Manucian." Some sort of a sling up their lire. Let's make the ence in his galley, no suggestions in all types of off, most likely. And it was just at dummy funnel smoke in style even, especially from deck orna- Petrol. Oil and other this moment that the great idea when we're passing the mail boat." ments. Had he been free from the Storage and Dispensing was sort of created in Mr. Jinks' TT was, perhaps, a pity that Mr. "screws," Mr. Jinks" idea would Equipment. mind. Slater, the Chef, was suffering not have been for one moment en- • The Castle boat had two fun- from fibrositis. Not that he was tertained. But with Alf. Bedgcr Telephones: nels. Squat affairs. Large and aware of that fact: he merely it fell on fertile ground. Some- oval, with a racy-looking rake to thought that he had a bad attack thing of his own problem was pro- JA 5251 them. The "Manucian" also had of what he called "the screws," jected into the scheme. In the JA 5252 two funnels. But they differed which had caught him in the right • from the Castle boat's. In the first shoulder. Mr. Slater was a stout Castle boat he saw a rival. An- H. STOREY ENGINEERING CO. place, they were not squat. They man, reputed to own streets of other smart young chap alienating Telegrams: were cylindrical, and rather tall. houses in East H.im, bought with the affections of some Maisic Bart Eppcol, Melbourne And one of them, the forward one, the money he made by skimping trum. He'd make the so-and-so MARINE AND GENERAL REPAIRS was a dummy. It was there just the menus in the Officers' and En- for appearance sake. It had a door gineers* messes and by selling the dummy funnel smoke all right, he on the port side, and two plat- fat from the gallev to various con- would. He'd show the so-and-so forms at various heights inside, federates on the Australian coast. Castle boat. He opened the range BOILERMAKERS. BLACKSMITHS. reached by a ladder. It was used His "screws" were, it was popu- and shovelled some slack coal on. as a store for the Boatswain's gear. larly believed on hoard, in reality- C. GILES OXY-ACETYLENE AND ELECTRIC WELDING There was rope in it, and old tar- gout, brought on by his own high There were other things he'd paulins which were used as savc- IN ALL BRANCHES. living achieved through the low- & SONS alls when the hands were painting, living he imposed on his shipmates. like to be shovelling on also, in- and Jacob's ladders and various Be that as it may, he was now including a so-and-so who pinched odds and ends. Old Lampy kept capacitated in his bunk, and Alf. his girl. Including . . . and it was SUSSEX I. ANE. some of his gear there, also. Paint Bedgcr, the Second Cook, was in then that Alf., the jilted one, got S Y D N E V. pots and brushes and the like. charge of the galley. • SACK Ins impulsive idea, and acted upon But there was another difference "Phone: B 5866. To him, "Ikey" Robertson de- it before he had time to think. He AND between the Castle boat's funnels livered Mr. Jinks' message, with and those of the "Manucian."' Continued on next page. The Castle boat was a motor ves- • PRODUCE sel, and her funnels did not smoke. MERCHANTS. The "Manucian's" did. Both of them. The after funnel smoked S. HOFFNUNG & GO. quite impressively at all times. Even M. FITZGERALD the forward dummy funnel could Boiler Scaler and Cleaner. produce a thin stream, because there 341 MALVERN RD., LIMITED ran up it, inside the dummy cas- Lime and Cement Washing. ing, the funnel from the galley. SOUTH YARRA, And the galley funnel was the nub All kinds of Engine Room & Stokehold Work done. MELBOURNE, 157 CLARENCE STREET, and centre of this idea of Mr. Oil or Water Tanks. VICTORIA. Jinks'. 210 MONTAGUE ST.. STH. MELBOURNE, VIC. SYDNEY, N.S.W. He would have to act on it at "PHONES: BJ 3255-6. once. Because, just as it came to 'Phone—Day or Night: MX 5680. him, and as the dawn came swiftly

TW Navy January, 1948. 55 dashed to his room just across the The smoking of the "Manu- working alleyway, and returned cian's" funnel was really an out- with a large photo frame contain- standing success. It excelled all For Everything in Men's and ing the picture of the faithless Mr. Jinks' expectations. It was Tattersall's £10,000 (1st Prize) Boy's Wear-Shop at "The Maisie, and furiously he jammed not satisfied with smoking. It it in the fire and furiously slam- flamed. And in its flaming it con- CASH CONSULTATIONS Man's Store" - The House med the range door to. The frame sumed the Boatswain's stores and was made of celluloid, and evi- old Lampy's gear, and the two are a weekly affair. for quality and service dently absorbed some of his fury, platforms. It was most impressive. for it blazed immediately in a It impressed Mr. Jinks consider- —Well and Widely Known— miniature holocaust which con- ably. It impressed the "Manu- sumed the luckless Maisie and set cian's" Captain, who heard the ker- THE TICKET 5/-. up an ominous roaring in the gal- fuffle and came tearing out on ley funnel. Alf. Bcdger had done deck to sec what it was all about. Postage for tickct and result, 5d. his job with a vengeance. It impressed Alf. Bedgcr, especi- "To Win You Must Be In." P on deck, the starboard watch ally when about half a ton of red- hot stmt shot down and ruined U was turning to grumblingly to You can write from any ship or any port. wash down, and the "farmers" the boiler of burgoo and the large OW. G.P.O. BOURKl St. AM AT CHJUtl STKET, PtUMUD were preparing to go about their dish of mutton chops cooking for The Address . . . various tasks. The Boatswain, add- seven bells breakfast. ing another pinched-out butt of a It impressed those on the bridge GEO. ADAMS (TATTERSALL) H0BART cigarette rolled from full strength of the Castle Ki.it, and caused cut plug to the couple of do:en al- them to send several suitable sig- ready reposing in the left breast nals. But one person it completely pocket of his patrol jacket, climbed tailed to impress was Mr. Jinks' to the bridge to discuss with Mr. Moved, the one for whom the Jinks the work for the day. He whole business had been contrived. found the officer in the port wing She saw nothing of it. For she had MEiV ! of the bridge anxiously surveying overslept herself, and was still in the Castle boat, which was now the beautiful land of dreams, sur- YOU CANNOT nearly abeam about two miles off. rounded by an aura of Chanel The Boatswain coughed. "Good No. 3. DO BETTER FOSTER'S morning, sir," he said. "Looks a THAN picture, don't she?" "Yes," said Mr. Jinks, and in turning round saw his own for- U.S. NAVY HELICOPTER. MARITIME STUDIOS ward funnel. "All!" he said, "the Demonstrated in Jersey. Photographs available of all ships entering Sydney Harbour. Cook's stoking his fire up all Photos taken on board of crew, or members of crew. right." The U.S. Navy received delivery of its first transport helicopter RING BU 5588 FOR SPECIAL SERVICE. He turned back to stare at the when the Piasecki riRP-1 Rescuer LAGER Castle boat again through his bin- was turned over to Capt. Clayton oculars. "Just a minute, Bos," he MARITIME STUDIOS BREWED BY Carlton & United Breweries Ltd. C. Marcy, commander of Helicop- 181 GEORGE STREET, SYDNEY, N.S.W. said over his shoulder. ter Development Squadron 3 at The Boatswain made no imme- the Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, diate reply. He was looking at the N.J., at' a ceremony on the forward funnel. "Gorblime!" he grounds of the Piasecki Corpora- remarked eventually, "that there tion in nearby Morton las; FOR ALL KINDS OF HAXBY BROS. Cook ain't half stoking up." month. "Make the Castle boat look, During a demonstration the PLASTIC MOULDERS AND CAST RESIN eh?" said Mr. Jinks. helicopter, the first of many sim- PRESSURE GAUGES MANUFACTURERS. The Boatswain was a slow think- ilar craft to be delivered to the Industrial Mouldings, etc. er, and the expression of his next Navy, hovered in the air while CONSULT .... thought was still in process of for- five men simultaneously climbcd WRIGHT ST., SUNSHINE. 'Phone: MW 9720. mation. When it came, it came a rope ladder suspended from its 171 MORRIS ST., SUNSHINE. 'Phone: MW 9781. with emphatic force. "Blime!" he cargo door. The demonstration GLOVER & FLOYD shouted. "The so-and-so's set the was arranged to show that this 143 WELLS STREET, SOUTH MELBOURNE, VICTORIA so-and-so funnel on fire!" And method of mass, rapid rescue HAXBY BROS. with that he clattered down the SUNSHINE, VICTORIA from life rafts, sinking ships or 'Phone: MX 1621. ladder. forest fires is now practicable.

Tfc* Navy JANMRY. I94S. u II TO AUSTRALIA'S ANTARTICA. Japanese. Although the Japanese capitulated previous to the date set "MAIN" COALS Continued from page 14. for the operation, it was carried FROM THE MAITLAND (N.S.W.) COALFIELD ally swallowing the anchor in Aus- out as planned as it was consider- STOREY & KEERS PELAW MAIN—RICHMOND MAIN tralia in 1926. Back to sea in the ed that the Japanese in Malaya ABERMAIN—STANFORD MAIN Navy in 1940, he served in de- might not agree to surrender. As 2-10 SHELLEY STItEET for Gas, Railways, Manufacturers and Householders. stroyers and minesweepers in the a landing ship, "L.S.T. 3501" did North Atlantic and Mediterran- her job so thoroughly on this oc- SYDNEY STOCKRINGTON COALS ean, and then served as command- casion that she ran right ashore unsurpassed for Bunkers. ing officer in L S.T.'s, in which he among coconut palms, so that her FIRST GRADE STEAM COAL FROM THE took part in all the major landings personnel on the bridge were able Marine and General Boilermakers and • BOREHOLE" SEAM, NEWCASTLE (N.S.W.). in the European theatre, during to lean from the wings and pull which he earned his D.S.C. His fruit from the trees. She, also, has Engineers. Apply to: present first lieutenant (Lieut- been fitted with the latest naviga- Commander J. H. Burgess, tional gear for her work with the All Classes of Ship Repairs R.A.N.R.) and engineer officer expedition, and both ships have J. & A. BROWN & ABERMAIN SEAHAM (Lieutenant (E.) A. M. Elvin, been painted orange, and each car- R.A.N.R.(S.) ) are also reserve ries an aircraft. COLLIERIES LIMITED officers. H*.«( Office ... . Woodwork And now, what of the lands they Sl„|»«d: Section: Head Office: Shipping Office: What of the ships? The "Wyatt SHELLEY ST. LOUISA RD., LOUISA RD. will visit? "L.S.T. 3501V first call SYDNEY. BALMA1N. BALMAIN. SYDNEY. N.S.W. NEWCASTLE. Earp" has been on polar explora- after leaving Australia — whence tion work he tore, when she sailed she will take her departure from with the American Lincoln Ells- Fremantle—is Heard Island. This worth Expedition. She brings to unattractive spot, which was dis- the sea and the frozen south a covered in 1853 by Captain Heard WAILES DOVE BITUMASTIC PRODUCTS whisper from the wild west of in the American ship "Oriental," America. Wyatt Earp was one- BITUMASTIC SOLUTION. lies in Latitude 53 degrees 20 min- time deputy United States marshal utes South, Longitude 73 degrees BITUROS SOLUTION. in Cochise County, Arizona. One 40 minutes East, approximately BITUMASTIC HARD ENAMEL of five brothers—the others being 2,100 miles S.W. by W. from Virgil, Morgan, James and Warren Cape Leeuwin, on the south-west FOR PROTECTION AGAINST CORROSION. —he was their leader in many corner of Australia. Roughly 25 shixiting affrays both for and ROT DECAY. miles long by nine miles wide, it is against the law, their Arizona a volcanic island whose peak rises TUT headquarters being a town with to between six and seven thousand J. WILDRIDGE & SINCLAIR PTY. LTD. ominous name of Tombstone. The feet. It is gale-swept throughout "Wyatt Earp" brings with her the year, with the possibility of a 97 PITT STREET, SYDNEY also the scent of the pine forests few days' fine weather in Deccm- of Northern Europe. Built in Nor- t-er. Fog-bound for much of its MELBOURNE BRISBANE way 29 years ago, she is of Baltic time, ice and snow clad, it is de- AGENTS: pine, with beams of English oak. void of vegetation except for moss, ADELAIDE . . . GIBBS BRIGHT & CO. Modernised for her present work, and is the home of seals and pen- she has new engines, radar, echo- guins. Here "L.S.T. 3501" will PERTH . . . FLOWER DA VIES & JOHNSON. sounding gear, wireless telegraphy HOBART ... R. L. MILLIGAN. land a party of scientists, with pre- and a cinema. Her name has been fabricated buildings and equip- changed back to "Wyatt Earp" ment, and the first of the island from that of "Wongala," which bases will be established. The she carried during the war as one party landed from the L.S.T. will ADAMS' CAFES & SILVER GRILLS of the auxiliary ships of the probably remain there for a year, JAMES McKEOWN, SONS PTY. LTD. R.A.N. and will then be replaced and a 484 GEORGE STREET AND 259 PITT STREET permanent meteorological station MANUFACTURERS OF THE FAMOUS The other ship concerned, will be established. LUNCH from 12 Noon. Dinner from 5.30 p.m. "L.S.T. 5501," was launched in FINEST MENUS IN TOWN. A la Carte, from 1 /6 Montreal, Canada, in August, From Heard Island "L.S.T. Dally Football Boots And 1944, having been built by Can- adian Vickcrs Ltd. On commis- 3501" proceeds N.W. by N. ap- ADAMS' NEW FISH CAFE sioning in the Royal Navy, she proximately 240 miles to Kergu- AND elen Island, where she will lay 484 GEORGE STREET (Basement) proceeded to England, and then out to the Far East to particpate down a supply of fuel for .the "Fish for the Connoisseur" in the landing operations planned "Wyatt Earp." Kcrguelen lies in Don Bradman Cricket Boots 'Phone: M 4601. J. O'Keefe. Mgr. to recapture Singapore from the between 48J and 49} degrees of

T». Navy January, 1948. 59 I South Latitude, and 70 in 1820 there- were cats and par- East Longitude, just about midway rots and wild dogs on it. Here between the south-east point of the second research party will be C. EBELING & SONS PTY. LTD. BUCHANAN & BROCK established. , PTY. LTD. South Africa and the south-west point of Australia, but, of course, "L.S.T. 3501" will continue ENGINEERS, BOILER MAKERS, PORTABLE far to the south of a direct line southward to the Antarctic Con- ELECTRIC ARC AND OXY-ACETYLENE between the two. It was discov- tinent to carry out reconnaissance WELDERS. ered in 1772 by the Breton cap- in the Cape Freshfield area in tain, De Kerguelen-Tremarec. Our Manufacturers of: King George V Land, approxi- Marine, Stationary, Hoisting, Pumping & Winding Engines, own Captain Cook was there four mately 1,250 miles due south of Steam Winches, Boilers, Tanks, flCc. years later, coming on it out of Tasmania. some days of thick fog in "Resolu- TAR DISTILLING PLANTS. FACTORY REPAIRS. tion," with "Discovery" in com- "Wyatt Earp" will proceed to SHIP REPAIRS, MARINE ENGINEERS, BOILERMAKERS SHIP REPAIRS. pany. He it was' who gave the the Antarctic Continent at Com- AND WELDERS. name to Christmas Hattiour on monwealth Bay and at Cape OWN FOUNDRY AND LABORATORY. Registered Office: the north-west corner of the is- Freshfield, where magnetic obser- Works: 70-80 STEPHEN ST., YARRAVILLE, VIC. LORIMER STREET, SOUTH MELBOURNE, S.C.5. land, for he anchored there on vations will be taken. She will 'Phone: MW 2255. 25th December, 1776. later proceed to Princess Elizabeth Telephones: MX 2281-2-3. Land and MacRobertson Land, CABLES & TELEGRAMS: "EBELING," MELBOURNE. Reg. Office: 1 CASTLEMAINE ST., YARRAVILLE, W.13 After Hours Ring: T. Buchanan—WF 5085; J. Brock—U 3787. One of his sailors found on the about 2,000 miles west of Cape island a bottle containing a piece Freshfield. It is'hoped to land and VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA. of parchment inscribed: Ludovico establish a scientific party there XV Galliarum Rege et D. De and survey the area and improve Boynes Regi a Secretis ad Res the charting of the coast. Then on Mantinuis Annis 1772 et 1773. to Heard Island to pick up Group The first line of defence for the family On the back of this record of the Captain Stuart Campbell, refuel at is undoubtedly a Life Assurance Policy, and the Policy previous visit of the French, Cook Kerguelen and so back to Australia. AUSTRAL SILK & COTTON MILLS contracts issued by The Colonial Mutual Life Assurance wrote: leaves Resolution et Des- So begins the development of a PTY. LTD. are designed to provide the strongest possible defence for covery de Rege Magnae Britannia* long-range plan for the surveying Decembris 1776. He then replaced the family. and development of the Australian the parchment in the bottle, with Dependency in Antarctica. It is a Manufacturers of . . . They may be obtained by payment of instalments, weekly, a silver twopenny piece struck in work from which important results 1772, and placed the bottle in a monthly, quarterly, half-yearly, or yearly. may well accrue, not to Australia Cotton Yarns and Fabrics. cairn on which was planted the alone, but to the people of the Write for booklet to . . . British flag. Cook's opinion of Southern Hemisphere generally. "AUSTRELLA" Superfine Wool and Cotton Kerguelen may be judged from his The intrepid polar explorers of comment: "Perhaps this is the the past have paved the way, and Fabric. same that Monsieur de Kerguelen in their expeditions Australia has Tiie Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society called the Isle of Rendezvous; but played a part. It is fitting, from Head Office: I know nothing that can rendez- those associations, and also because vous at it but fowls of the air; for Limited of her proximity to the great and 414 COLLINS STREET, MELBOURNE, VIC. it is certainly inaccessible to every Itttle-known continent of the 316 COLLINS STREET, MELBOURNE, C.l. other animal." This was not quite frozen south, that she should be Phone: MU 7748. correct, for the crews of the "Re- continuing the work in this way. solution" and "Discovery" found the shore covered with seals, great numbers of which they slaughtered WILLIAMSTOWN NAVAL DOCKYARD. for the fat. JOHN ZEVENB00M ft CO. Continued from p«g« 18. tons—For Ocean TowingI Macquarie Island, which "L.S.T. ous nationalities were following Tl* 700 too. coil 4 OfcU Laid 3501" will visit on her second each other in close succession in BRUSH MANUFACTURERS journey south after her return to the dock for repair and refit. Australia from Kerguelen, lies To-day, the volume of work at 335 ELIZABETH STREET about 800 miles S.S.E. from Ho- the yard remains high, and refit- bart, in 54 degrees 45 minutes ting berths are seldom empty, MELBOURNE, VICTORIA South, 158 degrees 35 minutes while further building is also in East. It, like the others, is a bar- progress. During our visit in No- EMU BRAND ren island, though with plenty of vember the corvette "Whyalla"" ROPE, CORDAGE, TWINE For all enquiries 'PHONE CEN. 33—3262 AND LINEN THREADS. life on it, such as sea elephants was in the graving dock, together UNNEAR A SONS PIT. Lid. and sea leopards, while, when the with a large floating crane; and 114 KING ST., MELBOURNE. explorer Bellingshausen visited it the frigates "Lachlan," "Gascoyne" I and "Barwon" were alongside un joyed in the days when Captain Repairs were carried out by Mort's dergoing refit. On the building and other Allied vessels carrying Hugh McLean's men watched for Dock Ltd., Sydney, and, when troops between Townsville and berth the hull of a large "Battle" the smoke raised by travellers from completed, she was a renewed class destroyer was in an advanced New Guinea, using Townsville as Melbourne on the beach across the vessel. her base. During these trips she stage of construction, and work is bay. commencing on building berths for "Canberra" resumed service on was often escorted by H.M.A. two "Daring" class destroyers. the coast in 1926, and on 7th July Ships "Stuart," "Arunta," "Ven- T.S.S. "CANBERRA" SAYS FAREWELL. detta," "Warramunga" as well as The Dockyard is at present em- Con,.nu.d ,rom „ of that year "Cooma" was wreck- ploying nearly 800 men—in addi- ed on North Reef, Queensland. corvettes and Allied warships. tion to a staff of about 140—aa was a member of a fast convoy When "Bombala" was sold to Troops slept on her fine teak prom- against approximately 1,100 dur consisting of the A.U.S.N. "In- Greek owners in 1929, "Canberra" enade deck and in her public ing the height of the wartime ac- darra"; P. 6? O. "Malwa," "Kaiser- remained the only passenger vessel rooms, and it is to their credit that J. GADSDEN PTY. LTD. tivity. I-Hind" and "Caledonia"; Orient in Howard Smith Ltd., trading to no panels were disfigured. Later, Cnr. ABBOTSFORD 8t IRELAND STS., Co. "Omrah"; and Union Castle Queensland. whilst carrying troops near Thurs- "Leasowe Castle." "Leasowe day Island, she went aground and WEST MELBOURNE, C.3. It is a Naval Dockyard how, sa In 1930 "Canberra's" colours that the long association of Wil Castle" and "Omrah" were both badly damaged her bottom under 'Phone: FJ 4171 (4 lines) were changed to a grey hull, white liamstown with the Navy is bein| lost by enemy action, and "Can- the boiler and engine rooms, but berra" had several narrow escapes. deckhouses, grey ventilators, the was able to proceed under her own CANNISTER MAKERS, TIN PLATE PRINTERS, CROWN SEALS, continued. Originally owned an( same funnel colours and a red operated by the Victorian Govern- After the Armistice she embark- power to Sydney, where she was BUND ROLLERS, CALICO AND HESSIAN BAGS, TENTS AND boot-topping, which was later temporarily repaired and once ment from its inception, it passed ed at Mersina -(.Ajij Minor) re- changed to black. Within the next ALL CANVAS GOODS. to the Commonwealth Govern-^ leased British prisoners of war of again assisted in returning troops few years she had additional ven- to Australia. ment in 1918. In 1924 it came, the Kut El Amara garrison, even- tilation installed in her accommo- under the control of the Meli tually returning, with Australian dation, hot and cold water service She then ran on her old passen- bourne Harbour Trust, and in soldiers and their families, to Aus- and reading lamps in first-class ger run between Melbourne and 1942 was transferred to the De- tralia, where she was recondition- cabins, and her promenade deck Cairns for a very short period be- partment of the Navy, to be op- ed at Cpckatoo Island Dockyard, fore being laid up and later dis- QUALITY CONCRETE DEMANDS QUALITY closed in with windows at the for- erated as a Naval Dockyard, the N.S.W., before reverting to her ward end. posed of. One reason for her AGGREGATES present General Manager being owners on 27th May, 1920. She popularity can be attributed to her Captain (E.) C.C. Clarke. D.S.C., looked a very attractive vessel in Between 1926 and 1939 all the ship's company, members of which O.B.E., R.A.N., with Mr. W. R. her colours of bronze green top- older vessels trading from Mel- remained in her for years. SPECIFY AND DEMAND Rogers as Works Manager and sides, pink boot-top, grained deck- bourne to Cairns had gradually Mr. H. W. McDonald as Secre- houses and bulwarks, white enam- been disposed of, and later vessels tary. elled promenade deckhouses and had replaced them. "Canberra," B. M. G. varnished teak wood bridge, with "Katoomba" and "Zealandia" were FOLLOW THE CROWD Dockyards are an important buff coloured masts and derricks the only old-timers left when the . . to . . CRUSHED BLUE METAL and GRAVEL. part of a Navy. Indeed, to most of and the usual white funnel with 1939-45 war broke out, and for a while they continued trading in us, used to thinking of a Navy a black top. Her bridge was one The Sport that Thrills solely in terms of ships, it comes of the finest and best protected of their normal peacetime duties. FOR ALL ENQUIRIES 'PHONE BW 2106. as a surprise to learn how great a any vessel on this coast, "Levuka's" "Zealandia" was eventually used as proportion of naval expenditure being a similar style. a troopship to carry troops to TROTTING goes in bricks and mortar and the Singapore, and later, whilst a mem- BLUE METAL & GRAVEL PTY. LTD. upkeep of dockyards and other "Canberra," together with ber of an Ambon convoy anchored shore establishments. As such a Cooma" and "Bombala," main- in Darwin Harbour, was sunk by 34 MARTIN PLACE, SYDNEY, N.S.W. vital part of a Navy, the Williams- tained Howard Smith Ltd.'s pas- Japanese aircraft on the 19th Feb- HAROLD PARK senger and cargo service between ruary, 1942. Her boat davits on town Dockyard is performing a Come once and remain a fan valuable function in the Royal Melbourne and Cairns, and were the port side could still be seen at Australian Navy. The work it normally well patronised. The low tide as late as 1945. "Kat- for ever. carries out, as does that of the A.U.S.N. Co. on the same run oomba," after giving Australia The Poetry of Motion other dockyards in the Common- at various times operated "Wy- great service as a troopship during DAY'S ENGINEERING WORKS wealth, attains prominence in the reema," "Kaoowna," "Levuka," the same war, operating for a long Grayhtund Racing national life of Australia by fos- Wyandra," "Wodonga," "Luva," period in the North-eastern Area, (J. A. DAY, Prop.) tering the shipbuilding industry, "Arawatta" and "Aramac." was sold to Greek owners in conducted at 1946. which must play so large a part On 29th May, 1925, whilst de- Hartli Park GENERAL ENGINEERS in any country dependent, as we layed at Sydney with passengers In 1942 "Canberra" carried are, on the sea. | aboard, a fire broke out in the troops to Port Moresby, and, whilst lilt Balmmi, Birchgrovc, 62 WHITEMAN STREET ! vicinity of "Canberra's working on passage to Townsville in the Fore* Lodge Tram. Great North East Passage, was un- And it retains, for Williams', alleyway, and rapidly spread 10 Races. 7.JO p.m. SOUTH MELBOURNE, VICTORIA town, that early association with throughout the midship section, successfully attacked by seven Jap- the naval activity of Victoria, and ascending to the first-class smoke- anese aircraft. In 1943 she was ALL AMENITIES FOR THE "PHONE:. MX 2425 AFTER HOURS: WM2396 the eminence in the shipping life room and engineers' accommoda- used in conjunction with "Kat- PUBLIC of the State, which that city en- tion. One steward lost his life. oomba," "Duntroon," "Taroona"

T1w Navy •I.liu.ry, 1941. Answers to Nautical Quiz BOYS' TROUSERS AT (1) For Admiral Richard Kem- are a series of coastal hill penfelt, and the crew of the on the Cape Peninsula; (b] WINNS ...ECONOMY PRICES "Royal George," which The Seven Sisters are s' sank with the loss of near- series of -chalk cliffs on Eng- BOYS' AND YOUTHS' CORRECTLY TAILORED ALL WOOL ly all on board—including land's Sussex Coast; (c) WORSTED SPORTS TROUSERS. Smartly cut and neat fitting with The Brothers are isla»ds in the Admiral—on August extended waistband, pleated fronts, adjustable side straps, 2 Mde, hip and 29, 1782, at Portsmouth. the Red Sea; (d) Father fob pockets. Popular shades of Light and Dark Fawn, Silver Grey, Blue The line is from Cowpcr's Point is on the south bank well-known poem "Loss of of the St. Lawrence RiverJ Grey and Navy or Grey stripe. Sizes 9 to 2 J the Royal George." below Quebec; (e) The Sow PRICE and Pigs are rocks in Sydney (2) John P. Holland was the Si zes 9 to 13 3 Coupons. 1 to 6 Coupons. 35/- inventor of the prototype of Harbour, (f) The Cape of the modern submarine. the Eleven Thousand Vir; gins is on the northern sid^ BOYS' SUPERIOR ALL WOOL WORSTED BRACE KNICKERS, (3) Tumble-home is that part distinctively cut and finished. Fully lined with good quality linings, side of a ship's sides which of the entrance to the Strain curve inwards above the ex- of Magellan. pocket and belt loops, smart serviceable shades of Mid Grey, Dark Fawn, treme breadth. (8) Yes, the line of coast be; Striped Grey or Navy. (4) Captain James Cook, who, tween Shallow Inlet and Sizes 6 to 13. II CREAMERY in the "Resolution," cross- - the Red Bluff, runninj PRICE ed the Antarctic circle in " north-east from Wilson'i December, 1773, and Feb- Promontory on the coast of 3 Coupons. 14/- BUTTER ruary, 1774, and got among Victoria. the pack ice. (9) The "Jauntv" is the naval 16 30 OXFORD STREET. SYDNEY NOKCO b.rt.r it Hm (5) After the two ships, "Ere- Master-at-Arms, the name chok«tr of cupwiiy bus" and "Terror" of the being derived from a corrup- REDFERN, ASHFIELD, HURSTVILLE. James Clark Ross expedition of the French word WINNS North Cm* o» N.S.W. NOKCO h • ommm to tion of 1839-1843. Captain "Gendarme." His badge is a James Clark Ross com crown and laurel wreath. It manded the "Erebus," and was worn during the war by IMM hifh U public Commander Francis Crozier Chief Regulating Wrens. the "Terror," and Ross (10) "Wearing" is the opposite gave the ships' names to to "tacking." To come the the two mountains when long way about, keeping o4 Consult Free . . . they were discovered. until the wind is dead aft, (6) Slowly, carefully. and then coming to on the NORCO (7) (a) The Twelve Apostles other tack. HERR RASSMUSSEN THE Celebrated Danish Herbalist, Blood, Skin and Nerve Specialist, JOHNSON'S TYNE FOUNDRY who has had over 40 years' experience in the treatment of all PTY. LTD. diseases of men and women. Herr Rassmussen specialises in the treatment of all Skin Diseases. Nervous Weaknesses, Indigestion and Dyspepsia, Rheumatism, Neuritis, Spondylitis, Arthritis, Gallstones, Kidney and Liver Diseases, Varicose Veins, Duodenal and Keep a Good ^ Gastic Ulcers and Bladder Weaknesses. Lookout Treatment by Post a Speciality. ALL KINDS OF TRUSSES AND MEDICAL NECESSITIES STOCKED.

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CONTENTS Vol. II FEBRUARY, MS No. 2

Letters to the Editors Editorial

ARTICLES

Soma Cook Mamorialt Sydney Jamas 10 First Naval Mambers John Clark 13 The Shios Wa Knew Reuben Ranzo 20 "Queen Mary"-"Curacoa" Collision Appeal 23 On Board tha "Castlecrag" Mr. Pryke 30

PERSONALITIES Commander A. S. Storey, R.A.N. 16 Cover: U.S.S. "Antietsm," sister ship to Mr. A. R. Nankervis 24 U.S.S. "Valley Forge," at present visiting Sydney with units of U.S. Task Force Lieut. I. D. Rhodes. R.A.N.V.R. 32 S.M. Herald Phuio. Able Seaman F. N. Worden. D.S.M.. R.A.N.R. 46

OVERSEAS NEWS.

All the printed pieces described bolow contcin informative dot. and Maritime News of the World 29 illustrations which should be of interost and value to students of elect- News of the World's rical and mechanical engineering — and it will be our pleasure to 39 n forward any or all on request by 'pfic> ® or letter . . . Incorporating the "Navy League Jour- nal," Official Organ of the Navy League SPECIAL FEATURES • "SOLDERS AND SOLDERING" of Australia, and "Tha Merchant Navy." Navy Spotlight ... the story of "Ersin" Multicore Solder, fully illustrated, and Journal of th. Merchant Service Guild 18 Nautical Question Boi including useful tables and data on precision soldering. of Australasia. Captain R. C. Dunn. A.IN.A 26 Seas. Ships and Sailors Norton 27 • "M?IOill" 5EIR & RICK GENERUIKt' MACHINES Circulating through the Royal Austra- ... a catalogue of the unique gear generating plant evolved lian and New Zealand Navies, the Mer- FICTION by the famous Power Pla-.t Co.. Ltd., under McLeoo's Patents. chant Service and to the g.n.rel public. • "SEAR H0BBIN6 MACHINES" Sisters Under the Skin The Passenger 47 . . . the Power Plant Co's. catalogue of single and double Editor: headed gear cutters of ihe "Hobbing" variety. Photographically Commander illustrated. G. H. GILL, M.B.E., R.A.N.V.R. Navy Mixture 38 • "GEARS" Pr.nd.rq.st 38 ... a catalogue descriptive of

Fnbfuury, 1948. 1

"KEMBLA" NAVY FOR NEXT MONTH Destroyers Of The R.A.N. Today the Royal Australian Navy is building its own COPPER, BRASS AND destroyers in Australian Naval Dockyards. A "Battle" class M.V. "DUNTSOON"—10.300 loo vessel, H.M.A.S. "Tobruk," was recently launched in Sydney, OTHER NON-FERROUS and the hull of another is well under way in the Williamstown MELBOURNE Naval Dockyard, Victoria. A number of "Daring" class ships STEAMSHIP WIRE CABLES & TUBES are also to be constructed in this country. These are not the first destroyers to be built here. Some were built in Sydney CO. LTD. during the 1914-18 war, and three Tribals were completed at METAL MANUFACTURES Cockatoo Island between 1939 and 1945. Destroyers have HEAD OFFICE: 31 King St., Melbourne. PORT KEMBI.A, N.S.W. always been prominent in the Royal Australian Navy, and in both wars did credit to their Service in overseas waters. BRANCHES OR AGENCIES ' SELLINC AGENTS Something of the story of these ships will be told in an articic AT ALL PORTS. (vith DiwibuKr* in all Sttlu) in the forthcoming issue of "The Navy." MANAGING AGENTS I The Roaring Forties (or TUBfcS X BRASS WIRE I WISE ft CABLES During the days of the sailing ships, the Roaring Forties, HOBSONS BAY DOCK KNOX SCHLAPP PTY. LTD. BRITISH INSULATED that boisterous stretch of water lying between the Cape and AND ENGINEERING CALLENDER'S CABLES Australia between the Fortieth and Fiftieth parallels, was a LTD COY. PTY. LTD. Collins House, Melbourne - main highway between Europe and this country. With the 84 William St:, Melbourne opening of the Suez Canal and the decline in sail, it lost some SHIP REPAIRERS, ETC. Kembla Building, Sydney 44 Margaret Si., Sydney. of its importance, but for many years it continued to be used Works: regularly by steamers on the "round-the-Cape" service. Now, Williamstown, Victoria. with the awakening interest in the islands lying within or just • & "r- a • 8 • mH beyond its limits—Heard Island, Kerguelen, Prince Edward and Marion—and the suggestion of the possible importance of some of them at least in a southern air route, the Roaring Forties may come into their own again. The author of an articic in next month's "The Navy" tells of the "Roaring Time for a Forties," and offers some descriptions of, and thoughts on, THE UNITED SHIP SERVICES that realm of the Westerlies. PTY. LTD. An Amateur Diver When a young Australian was over in the United States during the war as one of a crew despatched to bring back a CAPSTAN salvage vessel to Australia, he found time on his hands while waiting for his ship. He decided to improve the shining hour by learning something of diving, and, under the aegis of a U.S. Salvage Unit, gained some experience in that walk of life in the salvage operations then being carried out on the capsized French liner "Normar.die." Sidelights on his experi- CAPSTAN ences arc contained in an article he has written for "The Navy" of March. Censorship and Publicity In wartime, volubility inevitably clashes with taciturnity in the matter of the public discussion of, or disclosure of, shipping and shipping movements. Some aspects of censorship and publicity as relating to ships and the sea form the ALL CLASSES OF SHIP REPAIRS AND FITTINGS subject matter of an article in our forthcoming issue. All the usual features will be there. "What the R.AN. UNDERTAKEN is Doing," "Naval Personality," Maritime News of the World, A Short Story, and the 'latest news from the Navy CAPSTAN: THE EMPIRE'S 88-102 NORMANBY RD., STH. MELBOURNE, VIC. League, the Ex-Naval Men's Association, and the Merchant Navy-

a , F.bm.ry, lf«. 3 mk LETTERS TO THE EDITORS

Wants Ship Pictures to move off inland to attack the Sir, German Governor's position at One can only agree with Mr. Toma, when the old ship pooped Dickman ("The Navy," De- off her rounds of six inch quite cember, 1947) that published close inshore—and immediately /CE Ctf&IM photographs of the Frigates and over our heads—without any Corvettes would be a jolly good foreknowledge on our part. (I Romp on the beach . . . sun on idea and worth publishing, more was only a snottie and no one had the sand . . battle with the especially if they could be pub- told me!) It "shook"' me and my breakers in the surf. Make the lished as a supplement, suitable braves, after the events of the most of every simmery, summery for framing or even for putting preceding three days. But I question the honour you have day. And, whenever your activi- in a boot. There are three Cruis- given the old ship of firing the ties get a little too much for you, ers, six Destroyers, 10 Frigates •ind about 55 Corvettes and Mine R.A.N.'s first shot in the four take time off for a Peters Ice years War, as I also remember Cream. Sweepers, not to mention the Boom Defence Vessels, Fleet Oil that on Sunday, 13th. September, 1914, ("Battle of Red Cross Hill" Peters, of course, is your favourite Tankers, and many others. What ,1 beautiful collection the Cruis- Day), H.M.A.S. "Protector" refreshment, and it's a perfect (Lieut.-Commander L. A. Spoon- warm-'weather food. ers, Destroyers, Frigates, Cor- vettes and Minesweepers would cr, R.N. in command) fired a make! I personally would not shot across the bows of a small THE HEALTH FOOD mind paying two or three shillings steamer off-shore from Herbert- OF A NATION a week extra for them. I had the shohe and thereby captured the names of about 400 vessels which enemy-owned "Madang," which flew the White Ensign 1939-45, was afterwards used by our can supply for the purpose, in the Naval Occupation Force on ferry form of Corundum (hence the re- ind being a purchaser of "The gistered trade name "Corundite") Navy" monthly, I for one would duty between Rabaul and Her- bertshohe, or Kokopo, as it was which is fused alumina, and second in greatly appreciate photographs hardness only to the diamond. named later." of the above. And do not forget The "Corundite" insulator, because of that wonderful part of the Scrap its chemical composition, meets the READ THIS REMARKABLE TESTIMONIAL Iron Flotilla—the "Stuart." Yours faithfully, toughest demands made by modem R. S. Vealc, motoring, and combines with the "ClementsToni&myStandby R. Ferguson, Commander, R.A.N.V.R., other outstanding features of K.L.G. Navy Office, to give more efficient sparking plug 11 Either Rd„ Balmoral. Du.ing one serious illness, Bronchial Pneumonia, my 37 Railway Street, service. Dear Sin, 8th May, 1946. health was at low ebb, and 1 found that Clements was Kogarah, N.S.W. Melbourne, Vic. For years Clements Tonic has been my stand-by, tor the only thing to build me up. in my profession I am a, Soprano of wide fame. The I eon strongly recommend Clements Tome to anyone Thank you for your letter. strain on an artist it great but Clements Tonic has always after an illness or needing through then work a nerve or Thank you for your letter. As kept aw0y brain fag and nerves and given me glowing health builder. I would not be without Clements Tonic, Your recollection of H.M.A.S. health att through my career. (tigned) Rath Budcn.il wc advised Mr. Dickman in the "Protector"' capturing the "Ma- December issue of "The Navy," dang" on 13th. September, 1914, we are going into this question has official support in Volume IX. Start today on a course of to see what can be done in the of "The Official History of Aus- KU way of producing a scries of il- tralia in the War of 1914-18," lustrations of H.M.A. Ships.—Ed pp. 112, 144; although no men- "CORUNOiir ^ _ / * * * * tion is made there of the firing of SPARK PLUGS a shot by the "Protector." This E6-M H.M.S. "Encounter" omission by the Official History Sir, to record the firing of the shot by Clements I was interested in the account the "Protector" raises an interest- of certain exploits of my old ship ing point, as the History records (p. 544) that two days earlier, on AVAILABLE FROM ALL LEAD- |V "Encounter," featured in the No- ING MOTOR AND MOTOR V TONIC vember issue of "The Navy." I 11th. September, 1914, H.M.A.S. ACCESSORY HOUSES AND "Australia" captured the North Obtainable at all Chemists and Stores well remember being on the fore- GARAGES. shore at Herbertshohe with my German Lloyd steamer "Sumatra" company of sailors early in the off Cape Tawui, but again no morning of Monday, 14th. Sep- mention is made as to whether a tember, 1914. We were about Continued on n.rt page. Tk» Navy 4 February, 194*. I .LETTERS The Navy League STOREY & KEERS TO THE EDITORS Patron:' H.M. The King. 2-10 SHELLEY STREET shot was fired to bring her to. Head Office: Can any ex-"Australia" personnel SYDNEY Grand Buildings, throw light on this?—Ed. Marine and General Boilermakers and • * * * Trafalgar Square, LONDON, W.C.2. Engineers. board-bothered males comes H.M.S. "Phaeton" news that Ingram's cool, triple- Branches: Sir, All Classes of Ship Repairs treat shaving cream is on the Great Britain, New South Wales. chemists' counter again. A quick I was very interested in your Victoria, South Australia, Tas- trip to your favourite chemist will issue of "The Navy" of No- put you in possession of a cool mania, New Zealand, Ceylon, Hod Offic: SHpyud: vember, 1947, re H.M.S. "Car- Rhodesia. blue jar of Ingram's, the whisker- rick," ex "Phaeton". I did my SHELLEY ST. LOUISA RD.. LOUISA RD. wilting triple-action shaving SYDNEY. BALMAIN. 8ALMAIN. cream. Treat your face to an Stoker's training in H.M.S. Affiliated Leagues: Ingram's good time, three time "Phaeton" at Devonport (Eng- The Navy League of Canada. BX 1924 WB 2151 WB 1066 special . . . shaving cream, face land) in 1911. I do not know if The Navy League of South Africa BX1925 WB 2166 WB 2621 toi}ic, and skin lotion in one. the young stokers of today train There are 120 carefree, happy in the same way. We used to NEW SOUTH WALES. shaves in a jar of Ingram's Concentrated Shaving Cream. have a heap of road metal on the Patron: plates, and fired by numbers. His Excellency the Governor of One, two, Three, etc., until we N.S.W. covered the bars properly. Then, HILf i MILLION SHREWD SHIVERS USE IKRIM'S CONCEimilTED CREIM later, we boarded H.M.S. "Am- President: phitrite" for actual steaming. I T. H. Silk, M.I.C.E., M.I.N.A. did not know the "Phaeton's" history, which was very interest- Hon. Treasurers: ing in your article. I went from D'Arcy M. Shelley training to H.M.S. "Mars," then C. M. C. Shannon. on draft to the Australian Station, Hon. Auditors: and came out in H.M.S. "Edgar" Robertson, Crane and Gibbons. in company with H.M. Ships "Highflyer" and "Pelorus," each Hon. Secretary: towing a submarine to Chin., Comdr. F. W. Hixson, O.B.E. We left ours at Singapore. I am Secretary: enclosing a rather faded photo- W. W. Beale, O.B.E. graph taken on board "Phaeton" in 1911. Any more old "Phae- VICTORIA. tonites" about? Wishing your (Incorporating Navy League Sea magazine the best of circulation. Cadet Corps) Patron: Yours faithfully, His Excellency the Governor of H. Ford, JAMES SANDY PTY. LIMITED Lighthouse, Victoria Cape Schanck, President: SANDY'S for . . . That's right . . . whatever you Vic. Commander (S) J. D. Bates, need you are sure to secure it Thank you for your letter. R.A.N.V.K.. PAINTS, GLASS, WALLPAPER, SHOP at 'THE SENIOR STORE." Unfortunately, the photograph Hon. Treasurer: It is because quality merchan- you forwarded with it is too fad- C. W. Lucas. FITTINGS and ADJUSTABLE LOUVRES dise has been our aim that ed for reproduction. Should you Secretary: you are assured of complete have the negative, and could let L. S. Digby. satisfaction in all transactions. us have the loan of it to have a SOUTH AUSTRALIA 268-270 GEORGE ST., SYDNEY. Phone: BW 1941 print made, we should be happy Patron: to reproduce it. If there are any 123 SCOTT ST., NEWCASTLE. 'Phone: B 2780 old "Phaetonites" about who His Excellency The Governor of ANTHONY HORDERNS* would care to get into touch with S.A. Mr. Ford through the agency of President: BOX 2712C, G.P.O., SYDNEY. PHONE M2401 Day and Night. "The Navy," we should be glad E. A. Brooks JAMES SANDY PTY. LIMITED to forward letters on to him.— Hon. Secretary: SYDNEY & NEWCASTLE, N.S.W. Ed. L. T. Ewens.

n* Navy Mxiurr, 1*41. f part of the recent war and present Minister of success, and compliment them, with the Govern- Defence in the British Government, said: "It is ment and the Naval Board, on the arrangement a stroke of genius for the Navy League to concen- concluded for recognition. It is one that should ROYAL *'NAVY trate much of its work on popularizing in the strengthen the League^ and in so doing assist it in Australia's Maritiae J atrial minds of our youth the idea of a life at sea and carrying out a valuable work for the benefit of AUSTRALIAN giving them to understand what seamanship really the Navy and the Maritime Services of the coun- "THE NAVy" is published months, means, what comradeship means." And he said try in general. municotions, photographs and letters for insert lo. (which also, "It would have been very much more diffi- should be short) should be addressed to Commander «. NAVY H. Sill. Editor of "THE NAVy", c/o Naval Historical cult for us to have carried on in these troublesome Research Section, Novy Office. Melbourne. Vic. The Editor days in the war at sea if it had not been for the does not hold himself responsible for manuscripts, though SHIPPING CONGESTION every effort Mill be made to return those found unsuitable steady stream of fine youth which has come to us with which a stomped and addressed envelope is enclosed. from the Sea Cadet Corps." The opinions eroressed in signed ortlcles ore those of the TN these notes in the January issue of "The writers and IK,; necessarily those of the Navy League. RECRUITS There is, however; far more in the training of Navy," reference was made to the obligation the Sea Gidcts than the giving of technical instruc- Vol. II. Februery, I94«. No. 2 devolving upon Australia to keep the stream of tion and the laying of the foundations of a career overseas and coastal traffic flowing as freely as at sea. The aim of the Navy League, in so far as possible by expediting the turn-around of ships WANTED THE NAVY LEAGUE the Sea Cadet Corps is concerned, is primarily to in port. This is a matter of vital importance. De- sow the seeds of comradeship and good citizcn lays increase the cost of ship voyages to an extent for ship in the boys and young men of the Corps, and IDESPREAD approval will be felt among that can easily make them unprofitable. They im- through social contact, to provide for their spirit- those with the welfare of the Navy and of pose a tax also on wharf storage space, on shore W ual and educational welfare, so that they may be 12 YEARS' the maritime life of the country generally at heart, transport, on primary producers and on consum- of a claracter that makes for better citizenship, at the announcement made recently by the Minis- ers They constitute a bottle-neck that affects whatever walk of lite they may subsequently adopt. SERVICE ter for the Navy (Mr. Riordan) that the Govern- the daily life of the whole community. They are This aspcct ot the work of the League was one ment had decided for official recognition to be felt not only in this country, hut far across the (Approved r*Iingi will have the opportunity of taken into account when the Government reached serving for 22 years with PENSION on given by the Naval Board to the Navy League in world in other countries to which ships trade from its decision. completion.) Australia, and to the Navy League Sea Cadets. our ports. GOOD PAY, GOOD FOOD, TRAVEL, FREE The policy of the League, recently re-affirmed Unfortunately, we are today witnessing serious MEDICAL and DENTAL ATTENTION, by the parent organization in Great Britain, and delays in Australian ports, the position being OPPORTUNITY TO IMPROVE EDUCA- A UNITED BODY TION, OPPORTUNITIES FOR PROMOTION. subscribed to by the League in Australia, is one especially bad in the two main ports of Sydney and with a vital appeal to all citizens of this Common- Melbourne, where berthing accommodation is Use hi. Age Groups. wealth. It is: "To secure as a primary object of HE Navy League in Australia consists at crowded out with ships, and wharves and storage Ratios Pilot (For. Nival Aviation). 17-18. National policy the complete naval protection of T present of Navy League Branches in New sheds are jammed with cargo. In the first week in SasoMol SisaafaMa, Tdonttie, British subjects and British commerce all the world South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, and January, the port of Sydney was suffering a short- lliihn Writer, Store., Side Svsb, Over 171 over, and to urge this policy on all citizen; of the age of more than 4,000 wharf workers, and thous- Cook, Sr...J, Electrical, Need Airman Northern Tasmania, and the affiliated Sea Cadet (aon-*rins>. British Empire and upon the Government of the Unit of the Snapper Island Training Depot, in ands of tons of general cargo, wool and food were Moeiciea. 17»-23. day. To spread information showing the vital Sydney. These Branches are represented on the held up awaiting loading. Twenty-seven overseas importance to the British Commonwealth and ships were working short-handed, and a number of Eassne Rorxo Artificer. TtmUmwn ai 5 years' Australian Council of the Navy League, and it Electrical Aftilktt. apprenticeship or ex- Empire of maintaining such sea and air power as was with the Australian Council that the official ships were idle. At the same time there was acutc Onknc. Artificer. perience, and under 24 will ensure the permanent safety of the British recognition accorded by the Naval Board was ar- congestion in Melbourne, with over sixty ships in BST*' yMrs of a0*. (Special Commonwealth and Empire, of our trade and of ranged. In according such recognition, the Naval port and more due, and the suggestion that it Blacksmith, Painter, Plumber CM under 26 years.) our supplies of food and raw materials, and secure Board has placed the Navy League in Australia on might be necessary to divert some which were on Apprentice Electrical Fitters, over 18, with 3) years' apprenticeship are eligible for Electrical Artificer and, British prestige on every sea and in every port in the same official footing as that enjoyed by the their way. Again, as in Sydney, there was a short- also. Apprentice Shipwrights and Joiners are eligible the world." age of wharf labour. for Shipwrights and Joiners. parent organization in Great Britain, which for It is a policy to which we, as islanders dependent some years has been officially recognised by the It is realised that the condition is not confined Alfcnrft Artificer. Over 181 on sea communications for our economic and na- Admiralty. That recognition in Great Britain (Fitters. Coppersmiths and Sbeetmetal' and under to Australia. Speaking in England recently, the workers of not less than 3 years' 23 years. apprenticeship.) tional safety, must subscribe. goes so far as for the Admiralty to exercise some Chairman of the Royal Mail Lines pointed out supervision over the training of the Sea Cadets. Skilled Aircraft Mechanic. that the increased speed of cargo liners, which Over 20 The Royal Naval interest in the Sea Cadets was (Experience of Airframe or Internal aad under has been contrived at high cost, is almost entirely Combustion Engine maintenance and 24 years. THE WORK OF THE LEAGUE repair, or Sheetmetalwork or Fitting.) symbolised by the action of His Majesty the King, nullified by time wasted in port. It is appreciated, Himself a one-time active Naval Officer, in arrang- also, that the first week in January is one in OMETHING of the work of the League has ing for twelve Sea Cadets to sail in H.M.S. "Van- Ex - ILAJS^ R-AJS.R., and RjVJM.VJl. S been outlined above. The keeping before the which the holiday spirit might be more than usu- RATINGS, not below confirmed rating of A.B. guard" on the Royal visit to South Afriea last ally potent in its effects. At the same time, it is or equivalent (prior to discharge), are invited to people—and we are all of us liable to forget—the year. RE-ENTER lor 6 or 12 year*. fact of our dependence, day in and day out, in perhaps not unseasonable again to mention that peace and in war, on sea communications. There Here in Australia, now that the Navy League it is shipping that makes the world go round, and For full details, apply to: is another side to it. That of the inspiring and has received official recognition, one of the first that delays in shipping retard the recovery of a training of the youth of the nation. Here the Sea endeavour* of the Australian Council of the League world that is very sick. That sickness is not ap- The Recruiting Officer, HMAS. Rushcutter, parent in Australia. But if it is not cured, it might Sach Rood, BdgodiC, Sydney. FB 1211. Cadet Corps comes into the picture. Speaking of will be to arrange for the establishment of Navy the Sea Cadet Corps in Britain, Mr. A. V. Alex- League Branches in Queensland, Western Austra- be catching. That is a point we should bear in ander, First Lord of the Admiralty for the great lia, and Southern Tasmania. In this we wish them mind.

fikwacyi » of the North Sea with regular the north the smoke of Middles- have read the inscription carved lines of white-capped waves, and borough and Stockton lay in a in the stone lintel over the door- SOME COOK MEMORIALS sang away inland over the heath- low pall, but the sky was clear way: "Michael Posgate built this er-purpled itioors. There was an- overhead and there was still a school house in the year 1704." MANY HAVE BEEN ERECTED BY ADMIRERS SINCE THE GREAT NAVIGATOR DIED. other memorial there, a statue of length of twilight. The large vil- When we were there in 1929, the great navigator standing on a lage of Great Ayton, sprawling BUT HIS GREATEST ARE THOSE THAT HE HIMSELF LEFT ON THE CHARTS OF the house in which the elder pedestal on the cliff top, and look- on a hillside, was quiet and still, James Cook lived in Great Ayton, THE WORLD By SMaay James ing across the mouth o{ the River and sounds carried far, the thud- and where his son visited him Esk to Streanaeshalch, the ruined ding of a football on the green before sailing on his second voy- abbey of St. Hilda, on the prom- and the voices of the boys play- age in July, 1772, was still stand- N the Register of the Church stones studding the green grass down the centuries. Not that he ontory beyond. ing, and the cawing of the rooks ing. It is standing yet, but not of St. Cuthbert, Marton-in- of the churchyard. actually wielded the pen. But the in the high trees, where their in Great Ayton. In 1933 the I Whitby knew Cook well, in nests would soon be showing as Cleveland, is the first memorial The first memorial in the entry recorded the baptism of boyhood, and as the seaman and house was put up for sale for to Captain James Cook. Marton- Church Register is sandwiched in one who was to lift the Register large black blobs in the bare demolition, and it was bought by explorer sailing from its harbour branches. in-Cleveland is a Yorkshire vil- between the record of the burial page from being the mere record in the stout Whitby ships to con- Mr. Russell Grimwade of Mel- lage away up in the north of the of John, the son of Thomas Rod- of births, baptisms, marriages and quer the great oceans whose song The school was within sound bourne and presented to the county, almost on the border of man, Bricklayer, and that of Rich- burials of a minor English parish ever echoes on the strand. "For of the football on the green. No State of Victoria as a Centenary Durham, and but a few miles ard Simpson, Day Labourer. It and make it a page in British— the lasting memory of a great scholars chide the lagging feet of Gift,' and now stands in the from Middlcsborough. It is a is dated 3rd. November, 1728, and Australian—history; and link Yorkshire seaman," says the in- time there now, for it is a school Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne, as a typical northern village of grey and tells us that on that date it with the names of capes and scription on the pedestal, "this no longer, but a museum. Cook lasting memorial to the first dis- stone walls and buildings, and "James, ye son of James Cook, bays, of rivers and straits, of bronze has been cast, and is left would, no doubt, recognise the coverer of the Victorian coast. Day Labourer," was baptised. islands and coastlines far spread Marton Church is a low-built in the keeping of Whitby; the school room, for it has heen pre- A firm of Yorkshire architects, stone building with a quaint The young James himself inscrib- over the world. birthplace of those good ships served as it was, with the old ed it in letters that have lived Messrs. Brierley, Rutherford and double belfry, and with grave James Cook, the son of a day that bore him on his enterprises, desk and stool where sat Dominie Syme, undertook the careful brought him to glory, and left Pulleyn teaching his class which demolition of the house, number- labourer. A granite vase in Stew- him at rest." art Park, Marton, marks the site included the day labourer's son: ing and marking every brick and And the boy Cook must often of his birthplace, for the humble The house in which he lived stone so that it could be re-erect- "day biggin," the small single as a boy in Whitby when he was storied cottage in which he was apprenticed to the quaker merch- born on the 27th. October, 1728, ants and shipowners, John and was destroyed over a century and Henry Walker, still stands. It is a half ago. The school he attend- huddled among the red roofs of ed in Marton has gone also. The the town on which you look present one is a memorial school down from the cliff top by the to Marton's noted son. But the statue; down in Grape Lane, and school he attended at Great Ay- it bears the date of its birth in ton, the neighbouring village the figures 1688. We stood there about four miles to the south by the statue on its pedestal, with east of Marton, is still in exist- nearby a flagstaff having at its ence. truck a model of Cook's "Reso- The Cook family moved to lution" as a wind vane, and Great Ayton when young James thought of the Whitby of the was eight years of age, his father past—which could not have dif- working there on Thomas Shot- fered much in essentials of ap- towe's farm, Airey Holme. Some pearance—and of the boy, first in two centuries later we followed the Walkers' "Freelove" and them, by car, in their trek from "Three Brothers" and later as village to village. Mate of the "Friendship"; and It was in the autumn of 1929, then of the grown man and tried a year that was outstanding ia and proved seaman setting out Britain for the glory of its sum- on his voyages of exploration mer season, and that autumn was from the little harbour below. the crown of a year of delightful And then across the moors, weather. We had come up from northwards to Marton-in-Cleve- London to York along the Great land and Great Ayton. The wind North Road, and hajl reached fell away to quiet peace as we Marton - in - Cleveland via the drove into Great Ayton. The moorland roads from Whitby. trees were yellowing to the fall Whitby had greeted us with a of the year, and a hint of chill was in the evening air. Away to Captain Cook's cottage a* -it appeared at Great Ayton in 1939. Tin Cook rt.tue at WMfey. "Far memory of a great Yorkshire seaman." shouting wind that ruled the blue

Tto Navy land, April 19 (ship's log date), April 20 (calendar date), 1770." To- Mr. Russell Grimwade came FIRST NAVAL MEMBERS the idea of presenting to York- SINCE THE FORMATION OF THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY, A SUCCESSION OF shire a part of that Australia which Cook had first seen, in re-' DISTINGUISHED FLAG OFFICERS HAVE OCCUPIED THE POST OF FIRST NAVAL turn for a part of that Yorkshire MEMBER OF THE COMMONWEALTH NAVAL BOARD. THIS ARTICLE TELLS in which Qook had lived. With the help of the Common SOMETHING OF THEM «y JoM Clork wealth Lighthouse Service and their steamer "Gipe York," gran- N Monday, 12th January, own blood and intelligence Service, are the justification and ite quarried at Cape Everard was O 1948, the appointment of something that will launch us on reward of the College, and of the transported to Melbourne and Rear-Admiral John Augustine the beginning of a Naval career, whole system of the Royal Aus- there fashioned into an obelisk, a Collins, C.B., R.A.N., as First and may in time creat- a force tralian Navy. replica of that standing on the Naval Member of the Australian which shall rank among the de- John Augustine Collins was Cape. That obelisk now stands Commonwealth Naval Board and fences of the Empire." On these in Great Ayton, with the inscrip- born at Deloraine, Tasmania, in Chief of the Naval Staff, was an- foundations the Royal Australian 1899. He joined the R.A.N. as tion "This Monument is made nounced from Canberra. By this Navy was built by the untiring of stones hewn from the rock? a Cadet Midshipman in 1913, appointment, the first. phase in efforts of sincere advocates, chief graduating as a Midshipman in of Cape Everard close to Point the story of the Royal Australian among whom ranks Admiral Sir Hieks, Victoria, and is a facsimile January, 1917, and serving in Navy and the Royal Australian William Creswell. H.M.S. "Canada" in the Grand of the memorial erected there. It Naval College reaches full cycle. here marks the site of Captain To the Fisher Labour Govern- Fleet in 1917-18. He specialised Cook's Cottage, removed to Mel- Thirty-five years ago, 28 Aus- ment goes the credit for the ac- in gunnery. One of the earliest bourne in Victoria's Centenary tralian boys entered the Royal tual launching of the Royal Aus- of the College graduates to reach Year, 1934. Presented by W. Australian Naval College as tralian Navy in 1913, the year in the rank, he was promoted Cap- Russell Grimwade." Cadet Midshipmen. Today, two which the newly appointed First tain in 1937. As Commanding Whitby, birthplace of th* "Endeavour." Looking across the mouth of the Eslc to Naval Member entered'the Royal Officer of H.M.A.S. "Sydney" he Streanaashatch. There arc many other memor- of those boys have reached the rank of Rear-Admiral and occupy Australian Naval College in the performed distinguished service ials, in Britain and abroad. There first year of its operation. He, and in the Mediterranean in the early ed in Australia exactly as it had recognised that, if the cottage had are statues at Whitby, at Lon the highest executive positions in to be sold, Australia, and especi- the Service they entered in Jan- his fellows among those first- days of the recent war, and stood in England. The Common- don, at Liverpool: memorial achieved prominence when the wealth and Dominion Line of ally Victoria, had a good claim uary, 1913. One of them, Rear- year entrants, and their success- windows and stones and tablets ors who now hold rank in the "Sydney," under his command, Steamers carried the dismantled on it. As the London "Observ- at Stoke, at Chalfont St. Giles, Admiral Harold Bruce Farncomb, cottage—packed in 253 cases— er" said in an editorial in which in the Mile End Road (where C.B., D.S.O., M.V.O., R.A.N., freight free, over its long sea regret was expressed at the cot- Cook lived in London after his is the Rear-Admiral Commanding route. Even the creeper which tage leaving England, "We are marriage to "Elizabeth Batts. of His Majesty's Royal Australian grew over the cottage was pack- jealous of the exile of historical ye Parish of Barking in ye County Naval Squadron. The other, ed with it, and is growing over monuments, but this seems to be of Essex, spinster" in 1762 by Rear-Admiral John Augustine it now in Melbourne. And just a case in which sentiment is en- George Downing, Vicar of Little Collins, C.B., R.A.N., now occu- one hundred and sixty years after hanced rather than outraged. The Wakering, Essex), in the Nation- pies the highest administrative Cook, in the "Endeavour," had cottage on the new site will be al Portrait Gallery, and at Stock- post in the Royal Australian sighted the Victorian coast at the a stimulus and gratification to ton-on-Tccs, among others. Over- Navy as First Naval Member and dawn of an April day, his cottage Australia's sense of history." seas from England, there are Chief of the Naval Staff. in the "Port Dunedin"—also on As it was, the transfer of the memorials at Venus Point, Tahiti: Today the faith of the found- an April day—was brought into cottage to Australia resulted in an at Kealakckua Bay, Hawaii: at ers and. fashioners of the Royal Port Phillip and unloaded at Mel' Australian memorial to Captain Gisborne, Auckland, Monument- Australian Navy is justified. Ad- bourne's Victoria Dock. On this Cook being erected at Great Ay- al Ship Cove, and Endeavour In miral Sir George Tryon, in 1W6, side of the world, authorities and ton. There is an everlasting let in New Zealand: at Sydney, sowed the seed of the basic prin- individuals were no less eager to memorial to Cook on the Victor- Kurnell, Randwick, Liverpool, St ciple when he wrote, regarding give every assistance and waive ian coast in that feature today Kilda, Bendigo, Cooktown, and Australia's Naval contribution: all charges in connection with the known as Cape Everard, but Possession Island, in Australia: "It is not a mere subsidized force unloading, carriage, and erection which Cook named Point /licks and at Mereville, in France. that will do what is wanted. It of the cottage. The Common-' when it was first sighted from These have all been erected or is not only money that is required wealth Government, the Mel- the "Endeavour." Some years put in place by other people. to produce effective forces, but bourne Harbour Trust, the carry- ago an obelisk was erected there, But Cook himself left his mem- the personal service of our coun- ing company, the stevedoring bearing the inscription: "Lieu- orials far and wide over the world trymen all over the world." company, the builders, and the tenant James Cook, R.N., of the in the names he placed on our Twenty-two years • later Mr. architects, all gave their assist- Endeavour, first sighted Australia charts. There are the Society Deakin, then Prime Minister, ance free of charges. near this spot, which he named Islands, the Friendly Islands, the echoed the sentiment when he The loss of the cottage was felt Point Hicks, after Lieutenant Palliser Islands. New Hebrides said: "We can add to the in Yorkshire, but it was generally Zachary Hicks, who first saw the Continued on page 32. squadron in these seas from our

It •/ Ito Navy rawsryr. L , ir™ioae . Navy; and the Finance Member; Commonwealth Naval policy. Vice-Admiral Creswell was In 1921, Admiral Sir Allan succeeded in 1919- by Rear-Ad- Frederic Everett, K.C.M.G., K.C. as the Admiralty has its Perman- For many years a powerful advo- cate of, and tireless fighter for, miral Sir Edmund Percy Fen- V.O., succeeded to the position ent Secretary and Financial Sec- the establishment of ah Austra- wick Grant, K.C.V.O., C.B. Ed- • of First Naval Member. Born retary; and thsrc is also a Secre- lian Navy, it was fitting that he ucated in H.M.S. "Britannia" and in 1868, Admiral Everett had a tary to the Naval Board, although should be the first director of its at the Royal Naval College, distinguished career in the Royal Greenwich, Rear-Admiral .Grant he is not himself a Member of destinies when that Navy became Navy. At the outbreak of the an actuality. served as a young officer in the 1914-18 War, he was Commo- the Board. Egyptian War in 1882, and was dore First Class, Captain of the Educated at Gibraltar, at South- Lieutenant in H.M.S. "Raccr" Fleet on the Staff of the Com- sea in England, and in H.M.S. during the Brazilian revolution in mander-in-Chief, Home Fleet and On the Naval side there are "Britannia," he began his naval 1893. During the 1914-1918 War Grand Fleet, which position he First, Second, Third, and Fourth career in the Royal Navy in 1865 he was Flag Captain to Vice-Ad- held from 1913 to 1915, when he Naval Members, corresponding to' in H.M.S. "Phoebe." He first miral Sir Lewis Bayly, K.C.B., in went to the Admiralty as Naval the Sea Lords of the Admiralty. saw Australia as a midshipman in command of the 1st. Battle Assistant to the First Sea Lord. As with the Admiralty, the First that ship, when she was one of Squadron, and at the Battle of Of his appointment to the Ad- Naval Member is also Chief of Rear-Admiral Geoffrey Phipps Jutland was Flag Captain and miralty, Lord Jellicoe wrote: "It the Naval Staff. He deals with Hornby's "Flying Squadron." As Chief of Staff to Vice-Admiral was with gre^t regret that I part- matters relating to operations of a young Sub-Lieutenant and Lieu- Sir Cecil Burncy, K.C.B., K.C. ed with Commodore Everett; his war; all Naval Staff business; tenant he saw service against pir- M.G., Second-in-Command of the long experience in the Fleet un- and all major questions of Naval ates in the Larut River, Penang, Grand Fleet, in H.M.S. "Marl- der Sir George Callaghan and policy and maritime warfare, and in the suppression of the borough," which ship was tor- his intimate knowledge of fleet transport, works, and ordnance West, African slave trade, this pedoed during the battle, but work and unfailing tact had been Reer-Admiral Sir William Munro Kerr, stores. latter while in H.M.S. "London." made port. of the greatest possible assist- C.B., C.8.E., 1929 to 1931. Shortly after that, in 1878, his ance." naval career ended for a while, For his services at Jutland he was Mentioned in Despatches and sank the Italian cruiser "Bartol- as he was invalided out of the Promote^ Rear-Admiral in Service, coming out to Australia awarded the C.B. Commanding 1917, he was from 1916 to 1918 omeo Colleoni" in July, 1940. Officer of H.M.S. "Ramillies," Following a period as Commo- and going on the land in Queens-* Naval Secretary to the First Lord land. 1917-1918, he was appointed of the Admiralty, when he re- dore Commanding'China Force First Naval Member of the during the first months of the turned to sea until 1921, being In 1885, however, he returned Naval Board the following year, in succession in command of the Japanese onslaught in 1941-42, he to his first love, accepting an ap- and awarded the K.C.V.O. in was appointed in command of Fourth Light Cruiser Squadron, pointment with the South Aus- August, 1920. Grand Fleet; and the Eighth H.M.A.S. "Shropshire." In 1944 tralian Naval Force, being pro- he was appointed Commodore Light Cruiser Squadron, North moted Commanaer in 1891, Cap- America and West Indies. First Rear-Admiral John Augustine Collins, Commanding the Australian tain in 1894, and being Naval C.B.. R.A.N. Squadron, the first R.A.N. Officer Naval Member of the Common- Commandant from 1893 to 1900. wealth Naval Board from 1921 to to hold this command. As such, He then became Naval Command- he saw much action against the 1923, he was subsequently Com- 1926. Bom at Portsmouth in ant of Queensland, but in 1900, mander-in-Chief, China; going 1877, Rear-Admiral Napier was Japanese, being wounded in Oc- as Commanding Officer of the tober, 1944, when his Flagship, on to the retired list in 1925. a Lieutenant, R.N., in 1898, South Australian Cruiser "Pro- Commander 10 years later, and H.M.A.S. "Australia," was struck tector," proceeded to China for Successor to Admiral Everett by a suicide aircraft. As First was promoted Captain in De- operations in the Boxer Rising. in 1923 was Vice-Admiral Percy cember, 1913, and Rear-Admiral Naval Member and Chief of the In 1904, Sir George Reid, then Henry Hall-Thompson, C.B. Naval Staff, he is eleventh in a in 1924. An expert in Naval Prime Minister of the Common- • Born in 1874, Vice-Admiral Hall- mines, he was awarded the distinguished line. Let us, briefly, wealth, promoted him from his Thompson' entered the Royal survey the careers of his prede- D.S.O. in 1917 for meritorious Admiral Sir Ragnar Mwgrave Colvin, position as Naval Commandant Navy in 1887, reached Captain's cessors. service in mine-sweeping. He K.B.E., C.B., 1937 to 1941. in Queensland, to be Director of rank in 1913, and was promoted commanded H.M.S. "Sir Thomas the Commonwealth Naval Forces, Rear-Admiral in 1923. Five years Picton" at the Gallipoli landing. broad lines the Common- and as such he played a leading later, when commanding the Rear-Admiral Napier was suc- awealth Naval Board, the In all there have been 10 First part in the formation of the Royal Third Battle Squadron, Atlantic body that, under the control of Naval Members, all of them dis- Australian Navy. ceeded in 1929 by Rear-Admiral Fleet, he was promoted Vice-Ad- Sir William Munro Kerr, C.B., the Commonwealth Government, tinguished officers, all of them miral. From 1919 to 1921 he was administers the Royal Australian with active experience? William Rooke Creswell, ly constituted Naval Board, being monwealth Naval Board was from' a Cabinet Minister, the Minister K.C.M.G., who occupied the of- also awarded the K.C.M.G. In dies Stations, and with the At' 1923 to 1926. Rear-Admiral lantic and Home Fleets. Com' for (he Navy, corresponding to fice from 1911 to 1919. Born in 1919 he was, on his retirement, William Rawdon Napier, C.B., Gibraltar on 20th July, 1852, he promoted Vice-Admiral, and manding Officer of H.M.S. "Car- the First Lord of the Admiralty. Vice-Admire! Sir Guy Cherlos Royle, C.M.G., D.S.O., was appointed was destined to be in no small awarded the K.B.E. He died, in adoc" from 1917 to 1919, he took There are also on the Civil side K.C.B., C.M.G., 1941 to 1945. First Naval Member in June, the Secretary, Department of the measure responsible for evolving April, 1933, in his 81st. year. Continued on pege 53.

Tk* Navy February, 1941. IS NAVAL PERSONALITY OF THE MONTH

COMMANDER A. S. STOREY, D.S.C R.A.N.

Director of Naval Intelligence

)MMANDER Arthur Stanley Storey, D.S.C., patra" that he took part in the Malta convoy ac- CR.A.N., the present Director of Naval Intelli- tion with the Italian Fleet which was the theme gence, was born at Leicester, England, on the 23rd of C. S. Forester's book, "The Ship." March, 1909, the son of W. H. and Edith Storey, Returning to Australia in November, 1942, of Melbourne and England. Commander Storey was promoted to his present rank in December, and in January, 1943, was ap- The family came out to Australia when he was pointed Director of Operations at Navy Office, a boy of seven years of age, and in 1923 young Melbourne, serving in that capacity until June, Storey entered the Royal Australian Naval Col- 1944, when he became Staff Officer (Operations) lege at Jervis Bay as a Cadet Midshipman. When to the Commodore Commanding the Royal Aus- he passed out of the College four years later, tralian Naval Squadron, serving in H.M.A. Ships he had secured the Grand Aggregate Prize and "Australia" and "Shropshire," and seeing action was King's Medallist. Proceeding to the United at Aitape, Sansapor, Morotai, Leyte, Lingayen and Kingdom, he served with the Royal Navy from Corregidor. 1927 to 1930, and was then appointed to H.M.A.S. "Australia." On the arrival in the Pacific of the Aircraft Carriers of the British Pacific Fleet under Rear- Commander Storey specialised in gunnery, and Admiral Vian in March, 1945, Commander Storey was again serving with the Royal Navy during the was appointed to H.M.S. "Indomitable," and later Abyssinian crisis in 1935, when he was in H.M.S. to "Formidable," as Staff Officer (Operations) and "London" in the Mediterranean. Returning to Deputy Chief of Staff. In October, 1945, he was Australia, he was appointed Gunnery Officer of appointed to Navy Office, Plans Division, and later H.M.A.S." "Australia" in 1937. In April, 1939, took up his present appointment as Director of he proceeded to England on exchange duty, and Naval Intelligence. on the commissioning of the Reserve Fleet in July of that year he became Flotilla Gunnery Officer I Commander Storey's experience in the recent of the 21st. Destroyer Flotilla, serving in H.M war was widespread, and included service with the Ships "Keith" and "Montrose." Home Fleet durihg which he was well within the Arctic Circle at Jan Mayen Island; . with the It was in August, 1939, that he reached the Mediterranean Fleet at Crete, Syria, and with rank of Liputenant-Commander. A new class of Malta and Tobruk convoys; with the Seventh Anti-Aircraft Cruisers was at that time coming Fleet in New Guinea and Philippine Operations; into commission in the Royal Navy, and at the and with the British Pacific Fleet in operations at end of 1939 Commander Stor .vas appointed to* the Ryukyu Islands, at Formosa, and the Japanese one of these, H.M.S. "Naiad," in which he served Home Islands. He was awarded the Distinguished as Shig's Gunnery Officer and Squadron Gunnery Service Cross in January, 1942, "For courage and Officer of the 15th. Cruiser Squadron from June, devotion to duty in the face of the enemy," and a 1940, until March, 1942, when "Naiad," was sunk Bar to the D.S.C. "For gallantry, skill and seaman- in the Mediterranean. Rear-Admiral Philip Vian ship in a brilliant action against strong enemy was Flag Officer Colnmanding the 15th. Cruiser forces." Squadron, and after the sinking of "Naiad" he transferred his Flag to H.M.S. "Cleopatra," taking Commander Storey married, in December, 1936, with him Commander Storey, who continued as Alison, daughter of R. C. Addison, and has one Squadron Gunnery Officer. It was while in "Cleo- son and one daughter.

Tka Navy Mrs. Tim Synnott, wife of Lt.-Commander Synnott, took a house at Whale Beach during January, and was joined by her husband for week- NAVY ends. They have taken a flat at Rose Bay since Lt.-Commander Synnott completed his term at the Naval Base. Also back in Sydney after a term at the Depot, SPOTLIGHT] are former Commander of that establishment, Commander John Plunkett-Cole and his wife, Betty. They are living in their house at Neutral Bay again. When the infant son of Lieut.-Commander and Mrs. Charles Reid, David Hamilton Reid, was christened on January 11, Rear-Admiral H. B. Farncomb was godfather. » * * * Captain of H.M.A.S. Australia, Captain Bu- The ceremony, on the quarter-deck of the flag- Down came the rain. Later. When the com- chanan, and his wife, are staying temporarily at ship, H.M.A.S. Australia, was performed by the mander arrived home ht was drenched to the the residence of Commander John Walsh, at Port Chaplain (Sydney), the Rev. H. K. W. skin and very annoyed. Now his wife reads the H.M.A.S. Watson. Mathieson. we*thcr forecasts before she sends him off dressed Mrs. Walsh, who has been seriously ill, is now Mrs. Farncomb stood proxy for the godmother, in his best. convalescing at her family's home in Adelaide. Mrs. Keith Aikman, of Melbourne. The other * * * * godfather was Dr. John Green, also of Mel-" bourne. ii Commander and Mrs. T. Gellatly spent last Ex-Royal Navy Commander Anthony Oxley Mrs. Reid wore a suit of beige summer-weight month in the home of Captain and Mrs. D# H. and his wife, former Amber Bushell of Sydney, wool and her hat and accessories were white. Harries, at Vaucluse. Captain Harries is at pres- are back in Australia after spending the last three ent in England, and Mrs. Harries and her1 child- years abroad. Among guests who were entertained at a ren returned at the end of the month from a party in the Admiral's quarters, were the baby's holiday at Terrigal. They are living at Mrs. Oxley's family home in aunt and uncle Mr. and Mrs. John Muir, Rear- Darling Point, and were guests at a Sunday morn- Admiral and Mrs. C. J. Pope, Rear-Admiral and ing swimming party, given by July Sayers, of Mrs. H. J. Feakes, Captain and Mrs. E. C. Rhodes Vaucluse, last month, shortly after their arrival. and Captain and Mrs. J. C. Morrow, whose son Recently wed Lieutenant Alan Dollard and his * » » » James will be christened shortly, Mrs. Mathieson, bride have moved into a house at Flinders Naval Mr. and Mrs. Jim Fraser, wife of the Commander Depot. of the Wyatt Earp, Mrs. Kar Oom, Mr. and Mrs. Commander P. E. Carr (rtd.), his wife Jean and JACQUELINE HELLYAR, of London, who left for Canada Alexis Albert, Mrs. Betty Gviy and Surgeon- their three children, have setded into their at- about tha middla of January, it dancing with LIEUT. B. A. Captain and Mrs. W. E. Roberts. tractive new home at Whale Beach. MILFORD, R.A.N.. at Princai, Sydnay. Sunday Sun Photo. Newcomer to the ranks of Naval wives, is It is situated high on the hill, overlooking Pitt- The Officer Commanding U.S. Task Force 38 attractive Shirley Corrighan who married Lieut. water. and captains and officers of the ships, were enter- (S) Peter Fulton on January 14. tained at a cocktail party aboard the flagship, H.M.A.S. Australia, on January 30, given by Shirley, who is the only jlaughter of Mr. Rear-Admiral H. B. Farncomb. and Mrs. M. Corrighan of Vaucluse, Sydney, was attended by Ann Fulton, who came up from « « » • Melbourne for thP wedding, Noreen Flannery Mrs. E. B. Vallance, wife of Commander Val- and Lorraine Croke. The flower girl was Lois lance (E) (who was one of the party of R.A.N. Noel, and the ceremony was at the picturesque officers who flew to Pearl Harbour to accompany St. Michael's Church, in Vaucluse. the Task Force'to Sydney) spent a short holiday at Singleton, last month. The bride wore traditional white and chose Lt.-Commander Charles Reid, R.A.N., ' ( and Mrs. Reid, with baby son, David * • • * lily of the valley green marquisette for the 'maid6. Gardenias and frangipanni formed the bridal bou- Hamilton Reid, who was christened on Last New Year's Day, when Commander Ken quet while the bridesmaids earned Talisman roses. board the Flagship on January 11. Urquhart, R.A.N., attended the Highland Gather- Best man was Lieut. Ian Broben, an4 grooms- ing at the Sydney Showground, he was such a men were Lieuts. Brian Cleary and Graham Camp- dashing; figure in his complete Highland dress, bell. that Mrs. Urquhart persuaded him to leave his topcoat at home. She felt it would spoil the ef- The groom is the only son of Mr. and Mrs. J. fect. Fulton of Mont Albert, Victoria.

TW Navy \ Of the two sloops, H.M.A.S. up from the coastal trade, as aux- Admiralty transferred her to the "Yarn" was lost during the war, iliary minesweepers, and for Turkish Navy, along with the sunk in action with three Japan- other purposes. Some few were one-time H.M.A. Ships "Broome," ese cruisers and four destroyers lost from various causes during "Geraldton," "Launceston" and while escorting a convoy south of the war. The names "Gooran- "Pirie." Would those of you Java, in the e-.iiy morning of 4th. gai," "Patricia Cam," and "Mat- who served in them in the old March, 1942 ' Swan" is still do- afele" come to mind. But the days recognise them now? Not ing valuable work with the Royal great majority of tl)em survived, under the names they now carry, Australian Navy. As Senior Of- and have been returned to their at any rate. Some others the Ad- ficer of the 20th. Minesweeping owners. miralty disposed of to the Royal Flotilla she recently completed a Naval shipbuilding rapidly Netherlands Navy. "Cairns," for large-scale sweeping operation in swelled the numbers of ships in example, and "Kalgoorlie" and the Barrier Reef area, and is now the Australian Navy List from " Tartworth " ; " Wollongong," operating in New Guinea waters. 1940 on. The largest'single pro- "Burnie," "Ipswich" and "Too- And the old "Moresby"? Ah! gramme was that of the corvettes, woomba." She has gone—disposed of. Old of which 60 were built in Aus- "Whyalla" remained in Aus- age again. tralian yards. Four of these were tralia, and has been sold to the for the Royal Indian Navy, and Port Phillip Pilot authorities for "The Platypus"? She entered "did not commission as H.M A. the war in 1939 as H.M.A.S. conversion for use as a Pilot Ships, i^further 20 were built Vessel at Port Phillip Heads. So, "Penguin," the depot ship at on accoOR of the Admiralty. THE SHIPS WE KNEW Garden Island, Sydney. Then, in those of you i^ho were once These, however, were commis- members of her ship's company, 1941, renamed "Platypus," she sioned as H.M.A. Ships, and were "WHERE ARE THEY NOW?" ASKS A READER OF "THE NAVY". IN THIS BRIEF proceeded to Darwin. She is now you will be able to sec her in the manned by Australian personnel future, continuing those duties of ARTICLE THE AUTHOR THROWS SOME UGHT ON WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO in reserve in Sydney, where she during the war. is Headquarters Ship for the shepherding and guiding merch- WAR-TIME SHIPS OF THE R.A.N. by Reuben Ranzo Commanding Officer, Reserve With the end of the war, they ant vessels, which she did so well Ships. were taken over by Admiralty, in company with her sisters dur- which has since disposed of some ing the wa!r. "TF7HAT," wrote a reader to clusion of hostilities in 1945, that ney. H.M.A.S. "Adelaide" also Expansion of the Royal Aus- of them. "Gawler," for instance, Thirty-six the corvettes were »» "The Navy" recendy. number including 28 Fairmiles, 26 came through the war safely. But tralian Navy went ahead rapidly renewed that acquaintance with H.M.A. Ships, built as such. "about ships in reserve ? Harbour Defence Motor Launches her years were lying heavily on with the outbreak of war in 1939. the Mediterranean, which she be- Four have been lost at sea. The "Wagga", "Burdekin," etc. And and 140 miscellaneous small craft, her. Laid down at Cockatoo Is- Two sloops were building at the gan in 1943 or thereabouts, when Japanese sank "Armidale" in an G.P.V. 962? "Barwon," etc. but including also a number of land in 1917, she was commission- time, H.M.A. Ships "Parra- Again, where is "Platypus," sizeable ships. ed in August, 1922, and was thus matta" and "Warrego." Both "Koala," "Kookaburra," etc.? Let us begin at the beginning, 17 years of age when the recent took an active part in the war. Some of us like to know where with those ships which were in war broke out. In the war she "Parramatta" was lost, Victim to all our old ships are, and what existence as R.A.N, units at the performed good and strenuous a German submarine while on the they are doing." outbreak of war. service. In May of last year, af- Tobruk Ferry run during the ter a quarter of a century of ser- night of 27th. November, 1941. Hence this article. Not that H.M.A.S. "Australia" is still "Warrego" came through, and is we can tell you where all our vice in the R.A.N., she was dis- with us, and is Flagship of the posed of. now employed on survey work on old ships are. There were quite Squadron. Her sister, "Can- the Australian coastal survey. a lot of them, and to tell you ship berra," lies beneath the waters of None of the five destroyers Three merchant ships were by ship would be too tall an or- the Solomon Islands, lost in the with which the R.A.N, entered taken up early in the war for der, besides piking up too much first Battle of Savo Island in the the war in 1939 remains with us duty as Armed Merchant Cruis- space. But it is possible to throw early hours of 9th. August, today. Three of them were lost ers, the "Kanimbla," "Westra- some light on the subject and give 1942-. "Sydney" and "Perth" during the war. "Waterhen," lia" and "Manoora." After ser- a general idea, with, perhaps, a were both lost in action with the first to go, was sunk by German vice in various theatres ' as little detail in,some cases. enemy during the war, "Sydney" air attack on the Tobruk Ferry A.M.C.'s, these three ships were Yes! There were quite a lot of in action with the German raider run in June, 1941. The Japan- converted to Landing Ships In- «them. The Royal Australian "Kormoran"—in which bqth ese sank "Vampire," also by air fantry, and were used in many as- Navy, which entered the war in vessels were sunk—in the Indian attack, in the Bay of Bengal in sault landings against the Japan- September, 1939, with 16 ships— Ocean off the Western Austra- April of the following year. Five ese in the war in the Pacific. One H.M.A. Ships "Australia," "Can- lian coast, on 19th. November, months later "Voyager" was lost of them, H.M.A.S. "Kanimbla," berra," "Sydney," "Hobart," 1941; "Perth," in company with in operations off Timor in the is still doing duty with the "Perth," "Adelaide," "Stuart," U.S.S. "Houston," in action with war against Japan. "Stuart" and R.A.N., carrying service person- "Voyager," "Vendetta," "Vam- an overwhelming Japanese force' "Vendetta" survived the war, but nel. The other two have com- pire," "Waterhen," "Yarra." in the Straits of Sunda during fell victims to age with the con- pleted their naval careers, and "Swan," "Moresby," "Penguin," the night of February 28th.- clusion of hostilities, being dis- have been returned to their own- and the Royal Australian Fleet March 1st., 1942. posed of for breaking up, "Ven- Auxiliary "Kurumba"—had a H.M.A.S. "Hobart" survived detta" in March, 1946, "Stuart" Many other vessels were taken H.MAS. "WhyalU." Strength of 317 vessels at the con- the war, and is in reserve in Syd- in February, 1947. F.brj.ry, If4«. Tto Navy "QUEEN MARY" - "CURACOA" COLLISION APPEAL

Reserve Judgement Upholds and Apportions one-third of blame on Liner

N a letter published in the November, 1947, Pilcher's findings, and he entirely agreed with the I issue of "The Navy," Mr. S. Burkett, of Goul- Judge's judgment Bur there was a difference of burn, N.S.W., referred to the judgment in the opinion in the Court of Appeal. The whole Court case to determine liability for the collision between agreed with him in holding the cruiser gravely the "Queen Mary" and H.M.S. "Curacoa," which to blame, but the other Lord Justices thought the judgment had jppeared in the September issue Judge was wrong in acquitting the liner altogether, H.M.A.S. "Quibaron." of this magazine, and asked if we had any infor- and they held her liable to the extent of one-third. mation regarding a new judgment which had been air attack off Timor in December, 10th. Destroyer Flotilla; "Ba- what has become of the ships made as the result of an appeal. Lord Justice Bucknill, in his judgment, with 1942. "Wallaroo" was lost in col- taan" being (D.10), Ad "Arun- in which they served, and of the jfr which Lord Justice Wrottesley agreed, said that, lision off Fremantle in June, 1943. ta" and "Warramunga" at pres- Navy that Australia put afloat subject to certain qualifications, he agreed with "Geelong" was lost from the same ent in Japan! during the war, something of In replying to Mr. Burkett, we said that an en- the findings of fact of Mr. Justice Pilcher. With- cause in New Guinea waters in what they want to know. Enough, deavour would be made to publish the reserve And the "N's"? "Nestor" was out doubt the collision regulations applied to the October of the following year. at any rate, for them to feel that judgment in a future issue. We now have this, lost, sunk by an enemy aircraft in "Queen Mary," just as the corresponding rules "Warrnambool" fell vitjim to a the Royal Australian Navy is and accordingly reproduce it here, with acknow- the Mediterranean on 15th June, prescribed by the Admiralty for H.M. Ships ap- mine while engaged in sweeping something more than a shadow ledgments to the "Merchant Navy Journal." 1942. The other four—they were plied to the cruiser. The next question was: Did operations with the 20th Mine of its wartime self, even though all on loan to the R.A.N. during the overtaking rule apply? This was a difficult Sweeping Flotilla in the Barrier a number of its ships of those the war—have reverted to the It will be remembered that the original judg- question to answer, but on the whole, though he Reef area in September of last days have gone. And enough, Royal Navy; "Napier," "Nizam," ment, given by Mr. Justice Pilcher in the Admir- had some doubt about it, his Lordship thought year. "Norman," and "Nepal." They also, perhaps, to awaken memories of hours spent in varying cir- alty Division, held the cruiser "Curacoa" alone to that, in the exceptional and almost unprecedented The remainder came safely went back to Admiralty in No- cumstances on board those ships, blame for the collision. The appeal by the Lords circumstances of a combined operation such as through the war, and the most of vember, 1945. and to send thoughts winging to Commissioners of the Admiralty from this decision this, the overtaking and overtaken rules did not them are now in reserve in var- "Quiberon" and "Quickmatch" them, wherever they now are. was allowed by a majority (Lord Justice Scott apply, and that good seamanship required the ious Australian ports. "Delo- were with the R.A.N. during the dissenting), in a reserve judgment given on.30th. cruiser to take the necessary steps to enable the raine," "Echuca," "Katoomba," •war, and are still with us, both July last, in which blame was apportioned as to liner to make her zig-zag pattern by keeping out "Lithgow," and "Mildura" have being with the 10th. Destroyer two-thirds on the "Curacoa" and one-third on of the way. He thought, however, it was the been doing minesweeping woA Flotilla. In addition, three other the "Queen Mary." duty of the liner herself to avoid collision and to with the 20th. Flotilla. "Glad- "Q's" have been made available take timely action to terminate it. stone" and "Latrobe" are attach- to the R.A.N. from the R.N., ed to Flinders Naval Depot on H.M.A. Ships "Queenborough," Mr. Jusrice Scott, in giving judgment, said training duties. "Quality" and "Quadrant," at that Mr. Justice Pilcher's conclusion that grave The question arose whether the "Queen Mary" blame rested upon the cruiser was, in his (Lord acted in accordance with good seamanship in fail- The frigates came along in an-. present in reserve. Justice Scott's) opinion, undoubtedly right, but ing to take any steps to avoid collision until the other building programme. Australian Troopships in U.S. And "Shropshire"? She was a the question whether some minor degree of blame vessels were about 450 feet distant, and to leave Twelve of them. All came safely Passenger Trade gift from the British Government ought ijot also to be attributed to the liner, al- it entirely to the cruiser to keep out of the way. _ through the war, some few of after the loss of "Canberra," and Two ships which carried troops though Mr. Justice Pilcher exonerated Mr, raised Having regard to the "Queen Mary's" weight, them not being completed until many ex-R.A.N. personnel serv- from this country during the war in the very exceptional circumstances of the case speed and other factors, he thought the "Queen after hostilities. "Shoalhaven," ed in her during the war. She is —the Gdynia American Line a mixed problem of law and fact of very real dif- Mary" left her action to avoid collision much too "Condamine," "Culgoa" and in reserve in Sydney at present. motorships "Batory" and "Sobie- ficulty. The "Queen Mary" was the overtaking late. In his view the blame should be apportion- "Murchison" are with the 1st. The list goes on. H.D.M.L.'s, ski"—are making 23 round trips ship, and if the overtaking rule applied the case ed as to two-thirds on the cruiser and one-third * Frigate Flotilla. "Barcoo" and Air Sea Rescue Vessels, G.P.V.'s, from America this year in main- would be much simplified, as it would have been on the liner. "Lachlan" have been engaged on tugs" There are many of them taining services to the Mediter- her duty to keep out of the way. But in the survey work. " Gascoyne," in the reserve fleet of the Royal ranean and Poland. The "Bat- Judge's opinion, in the special circumstances of "Hawkesbury," "Barwon," "Bur- The appeal was accordingly allowed, and the Australian Navy. "Koala" and ory" is at present on the first of the case it did not, and the liner was the stand-on dekin," "Diamantina" and "Mac- Court directed that the costs in both Courts should "Kookaburra" are with us. twelve voyages from New York ship and the cruiser the give-way ship. He (Lord quarie" are in reserve. be apportioned in accordance with the degree of "Koala" in Sydney, "Kookaburra" to Southampton, Copenhagen and Justice Scott) agreed with thit. What of that other building at Darwin. The story, as it has Gdynia and return, and the "So- blame. p programme, the "Tribals"? Those been told here, is incomplete. But bieski" is on the first of eleven three ships are still .with us, and perhaps it tells ex-Naval person- round trips with calls at Gibral- His Lordship found himself in definite agree- Leave to appeal to the House of Lords was in active commission with the nel, who have been wdndering tar, Naples and Genoa. ment with practically the whole of Mr. Justice given. Til* Navy I * . February, 1948. 21 Secretary, Department of the Navy

IN THIS POSITION, ALFRED ROY NANKERVIS IS PERMANENT CIVIL HEAD, AND GUiDES THE ADMINISTRATIVE AFFAIRS OF OUR FIRST UNE OF DEFENCE.

LFRED Roy Nankervis was born at Kadina, his association with the Department of the Navy,' A South Australia, on 10th. March, 1885, the of which Department he was to become the Perm- son of Henry and Mary Nftikcrvis. A second gen- anent Civil Head, which position he holds to-day. eration Australian, he comes of Cornish stock, his With the formation of the Royal Australian Navy, paternal grandfather having arrived in Australia he was one of the original Naval Staff Clerks to as a young man from the Duchy to carve out a be appointed to Navy Office, which then occupied career in the new land. premises in Lonsdale Street, Melbourne. With one short break away, he has been with the De- The story goes that, as soon as he landed in partment of the Navy ever since. Adelaide, the young arrival was accepted as a recruit in the South Australian Police Force, was After a brief stay at Navy Office, Melbourne, equipped with a badge and a baton, and sent out previous to the outbreak of the 1914-18 War, on his beat. The vessel in which he had arrived Mr. Nankervis was appointed to South Australia, in Australia was still in port, and in the course of where he took over the civil side of the staff at his constabulary peregrinations he came across a Port Adelaide, remaining there until 1918, when bunch of his erstwhile shipmates. The natural he was appointed to Port Melbourne. In August, suggestion that the meeting should be celebrated 1919, he was appointed to Navy Office, Mel- over a convivial glass found instant acceptance bourne, in charge of the section dealing with post with all concerned, and an adjournment was made war payments to Naval personnel. From that he to a convenient hostelry. The result was a repri- graduated to the position of second-in-charge of mand for the newly-enrolled constable, who was Naval payments, later being promoted to being so incensed with this interference with civil lib- accountant in the same division. erty and with a man meeting his friends, that he resigned forthwith, adopting a less exacting walk Mr. Nankervis had his brief absence from the in life in which to continue his Australian Department of the Navy during 1938, in which journey. year he spent some time on loan to Canberra, working under Dr. J. B. Brigden and Mr. D. Mc- With such a Cornish background, it was natural Vev on the accountancy side of National Insur- that his grandson should be brought up among ance. Later in 1938, on the appointment of Mr. the Tres, Pols and Pens of the Cousin Jack fra- Ralph Abercrombie to the position of Common- ternity. During his early boyhood, the family of wealth Auditor-General, Mr. Nankervis succeeded A. R. Nankervis moved south a bit along the him as Director of Naval Accounts and Finance Gulf to Moonta, and it was here, in the copper Member of the Naval Board. The following year, country, that he had his early schooling. He re- when the Department of Defence was divided up mained there until he was about eleven years of into the three Service Departments, Mr. Nankervis age, when the family shifted north east to the was appointed Secretary, Department of the Navy. Burra, where he remained at school for another three years before forsaking the mining country Apart from his official duties, Mr. Nankervis for the city. is keenly interested in music and, having taken an • active part in choral performances in his youth, It was shortly before the turn of the Century, has a strong leaning towards Bach as a composer. » when Posts and Telegraphs were still State affairs, He married, in 1910, Miss Ward, of Adelaide, that he went to Adelaide and commenced his South Australia, and is the father of three child- • career in the Public Service in the Department of ren, one boy and two girls, all of whom have as- the State Postmaster General, South Australia. sociations with the Royal Australian Navy. His With Federation, Posts and Telegraphs became a son, Adrian, served in the Navy as a Reserve Commonwealth Department, and in 1907 young Officer during the war; his elder daughter, A. R. Nankervis was appointed to Melbourne, to Marion, married Instructor Lieutenant John Hall; the Central Administration. and his youngest child, Joan, qualified as a Nursing The year 1911 saw the inception of Universal Sister and subsequently joined the Royal Austra- Training, and in that year Mr. Nankervis began lian Navy Nursing Service.

Tk* Navy NAUTICAL ing, but the boats and rafts were scattered by the weather, to cap- size or sink. Munday's boat cap- SEAS, SHIPS AND SAILORS- ^ sJoRjo^-- sized, and shortly after the U-boat QUESTION BOX surfaced near him. A rope was thrown to the few men floating in CONDUCTED BY the water, but only Munday grasp- Captain R. C. C. Dunn, A.I.N.A., London ed it and was fulled aboard. De- '•d to send in any queries on neuticel matters,, and we shall spite his pleadings to Lieutenant NM.'CITYi/BOSION" jfie IWMAN LINES 'CrrrorAs70/V,"E27B TONS endeavour to answer them in these columns. Henke to rescue the others, the 332 FT OVERALL.SHIPRIGCED ANO FITTED U-boat submerged, leaving them all WITH ALL 1MB LATEST DeviCflS SO© S&A- A.J.H. asks what became of the cessary, it is very doubtful if she WOOTWINBSS, SAILED FROM HALIFAX .N S interstate liner "Indarra" which will ever go to sea again, except to their fate. ON jAKI.Za.1870. . . B»SSENGERS CBESV ' traded between Fremantle and perhaps to be scuttled. TOTALLED 199. No EXCEPTIONAL VUIVER A new 15,000-ton liner has been •WAS REPORTED, NEITHER ICE SEEN PTT Sydney. SHIRS IN THOSE WATERS . BESIDES ACACGO Foretop:—The steamer Ceramic named "Ceramic," sister ship to OF FOOD, SHIPV»S PROVlSSOtMED R3R SB QAY5 was well known in the Australian the "Athenic," "Corinthic" and A TMD-BLAD6D, INSTEAD OF HEC USUAL THCEe- The "Indarra" was a twin-screw - BIAD6D, PROeeLlOR, SEEMED HER ONLY WEAK- steamer of 2,700 tons, completed trade, can you say what became "Gothic." -NESS SHE WSNEVEO SEEN ATTAIN in November^ 1912, by Messrs. of her? HER LOSS rvo AN UNUSUAL SEQUEL "me IKLMAN CDMBW SUED A GOSSIP VHO SAID Denny & Brtjs., Dumbarton, for "Ceramic" was a triple-screw VESSEL vtos OVERLOADED, ANC/GOT/SO AS Shipping Note DAMAGES // * the Australian United Steam Navi- steamer of 18,481 tons, built in gation Co. Her dimensions were 1913 by Harland tf Wolff, Belfast, The Blue Funnel Line (Alfred 451.0 feet long by 60.1 feet wide for the White Star Line. Dimen- Holt y Company) of Liverpool, by 37.4 feet deep and she had a sions, 655.1 x 69.4-x 43.8 Taken suffered heavy losses during the speed of 16$ knots. She had two up as a troopship under the num- 1939-45 war, and amongst ships funnels and two masts, but she ber A40 by Australia, she was well known in the Australian trade ON Auc.20.l858 BCUW3 was too short to look the part with fitted for 100 officers and 2,700 were "Aeneas, " "Anchises," "As- Y (COM the WHALER "AUN two funnels, appearing to be, al- canius," "Nestor" and "Ulysses," RL^xANoee"HtenaneD A troops. Twice she escaped Ger- WHALE WMICH SMASHED THE though not, top heavy. man submarines, and for a time of which "Aeneas," "Anchises" FIRST BOAT, THEN THE SECOND was used in the American trooping and "Ulysses" were all lost. New REMAINING BOAT, WITH THBCT: ships carrying the names "Aeneas" CREWS.-18 IN ALL- JUST (2fiacH - Captain Marcus M. Osborne service. She ran regularly in the -ED T/K SHIP, 7 MILES DISTANT- was in command of her for a num- Australian trade until World War and "Anchises" are building at \VHEN WHALE ATTACKED THE present, the former having been WHALER.WHICH SANK IN A ber of years. In 1917, she was II. FE.W MINUTES. . . CTSEVKL WAS requisitioned by the British Ad- launched some time ago; the "An- RESCUED TWO QWS LATER // | miralty, together with "Katoomba" In October, 1940, she was in chises," by the Caledon Shipbuild- and "Canberra," used in a fast collision in Cape of Good Hope ing Co., Dundee, was running her convoy in the Mediterranean. waters, but arrived safely in a trials on April 30th last, when she exceeded her designed speed of 16 After the Armistice, she was used West African port, where she was - „ EAST IMOIA-MEN OFISFE knots. Her dimensions are 450 . 1744 CENTURA WERE KEPT OWN in the Orient Line's mail service repaired to resume her passage to STTSICTUY TO -49Q TONS . .REASON between London and Brisbane. In Australia. In March, 1942, she feet long, 62 feet wide, 35 feet BBING THAT SHIPS OF 500TONS 1922 she was sold to the Royal was reported at Rio de Janeiro, deep; gross tonnage, 8,300; dead- WEiae COMPELLEO BY LAW TO CACtZY A CHAPLAIN , Lloyd Beige of Antwerp for use in damaged by gunfire. On 9th. weight tonnage, 9,300. hps' ©N-PRESENT-DAY OOMPUT- I the Belgian West African trade, December, 1942, Zeesen Radio, -«10NS,»e A«3K WAS450/? which, however, did not develop, Germany, announced she had LONG,WITH A BEAM OF "75/t.AWD as she was sold to the Osaka been sunk (which she actually WAS 45,4 HIGH . DISPLACEMENT WAS 42.413 TONS. ITVASOBIONC Sho6en Kisen Kaisha, changing her had been on 6th December in WITH SIOPINC POOF, FLAT BOTTOM Belgian name, "Pays de Waes," to position 40°30'N, 40°20'W). Then "Horai Maru." on 21st February, 1943, Lieuten- ant Henke, commander of the U- boat responsible, broadcast over She traded in Eastern waters the German radio how he had fired until 1942, when, according to four torpedoes into the ship, sav- American sources, she wis sunk on Oon'c cash War k" PASSAGE- ing only one survivor. Savinti Certificates 1st March in 5.56S., 106.12E. near about to mature— FULL-RIGGEDSHIP HOCKTEBBIK£ I7&910MS hold on (or another WITH CASE OIL UME FROM U^A TO JAPAN' Sunda Strait by American, Aus- This survivor was Sapper Eric S year, and make STRUCK A BeeF, WD THE ceo/, AFTER tralian and Netherlands aircraft Mundjiy, who, on his arrival in en extra 3/- in the BATTLING WITK LEAKS FOR A MONTH. ABANDONED C profit—bringing HeR OFF GUAM ON MARCH I 1888 and American and Netherlands' England on 14th October, 1945, the total retern to 43%onrourorlglnel Ce&U-LESS. BUT STILL UNDER SAIL,SHE surface vessels. However, in Janu- gave details of the sinking, in Investment I OtjNTlhJUED IO TRAVEL. MANY SHIPS,ISJCUJDING ary, 194-7, came a report that she which 655 men, women and chil- Me GERMAN WARSHIP "EECE"PASSED WITHOUT •SEEING ANYTHING WRONG.' HOCKTERRACE' had been found sunk in Singapore dren lost their lives, including Cap- EVENTUALLY PILED UP AT TARANMA .GlLBEWT IS tain Elford, the master. Everyone HAVING SAILED Br HERSELF 1800 MILES Harbour, was refloated and was WAR MWNFF eemnaaix THROUGH REEF-STUDDED SBAS awaiting a purchaser, but with the got clear of the ship before she IKI FIVE MOMTM8 ,/ extensive repairs and overhaul ne- sank three hours after the torpedo-

24 TW Navy -ebruery, 1MB. ent rate of 90 cents a ton for contingent on an assurance from gling of nylons, watches, etc. The laden commercial vessels could the Maritime Commission that special tobacco tax now imposed be reduced to approximately 60 full benefits under the Merchant in Britain has led to an immense cents. Marine Act of 1936 are guaran- increase in tobacco smuggling, in teed. This would mean a 50 per which business Eire is reported to French Merchant Service cent, construction subsidy. The be one of the principal sources The French Government has new ships would be the largest of supply. ordered prc-fabrication to be em- ordered for the Merchant Service ployed in the construction of a in America since the completion Atlantic Passenger Trade number of 2,600 ton motor ships of the liner "America" in 1940. Over 100,000 people in the which it is building. Although The new vessels would be 683 United States are on the waiting this method of building is direct- • feet in length, 89 feet beam, with list for passages to Europe, most ly against French tradition, it is a draft of 30 feet. With 50,000 of them being to Britain, and ap- considered desirable to employ it horse-power they would make plications for sea passages in in the urgent need for restoring 22} knots at cruising speed, with 1949 arc already being lodged. the French Merchant Service as a top of 25 knots. Each will There is a growing tendency to rapidly as possible. make fifteen round trips a year book by air only if no steamship to Western Mediterranean ports, World Tanker Fleet with a maximum of 2o,000 pas- berths are available. The United States Petroleum sengers. Actual capacity for each Council's report, using tables sup- vessel would be 937 passengers, plied by the Maritime Commis- with 314 in cabin class, 318 in sion, shows that the world tanker tourist, and 305 in third. fleet as at October 1st. last was 1,868 vessels of 15,286,141 gross Large Russian Liners tons. The capacity of the According to rumours circulat- world's fleet is now 64 per cent, ing from Moscow, the Soviet greater than before the war. At Government intends to build pas- the same time, petroleum de- senger vessels of up to 50,000 tons mands have increased. The Unit- each within the next few years. ed States domestic demand alone has increased 32.1 per cent., that South African Navigation Aids Bid to Defer American The Royal and Merchant gether and remain the comrades nation's daily demand for petrol- Ship Sales Act. Navies which they should always be. A report from South Africa eum products being estimated at says that the Union Government Panama Canal Tolts President Truman informed Replying on behalf of the 5,308,000 barrels, the daily de- is equipping the whole coast from As one phase of an industry Congress in December that for- guests at the Twentieth Annual mand for the Atlantic seaboard Cape Town to Durban with in- General Meeting of the Officers programme to spur restoration of being 2,000,000 barrels. creased and improved radio bea- eign relief needs made it "essen- shipping in the coastal and inter- tial that the Maritime Commis- (Merchant Navy) Federation last ! cons and other aids to navigation. year, Admiral of the Fleet Lord coastal trades—says the "New Ex-R.N. Ships Said to be sion's authority to operate, sell Chatfield expressed great concern York Times"—the National Fed- Gun-Running German Reparations Ships and charter government-owned at the future of the Royal Naval eration of American Shipping The present troubles in Pales- Apart from six vessels obtained vessels be continued until June Reserve, which was a great lint has appealed to Congress to con- 30, 1949," according to "The tine are reported to have given as scrap, the number of ex-Ger- between the two services. The sider reducing Panama Canal rise to gun-running on a consid- man merchant ships allocated to Niw York Times." Under the Royal and Merchant Navies were tolls. It is the belief of the Fed- DUTTER 1946 Ship Sales Act, this author- erable scale in the Mediterranean, the United Kingdom as repara- not rivals either in duty or in eration, says that body's Presi- the principal centres being Gib- tions is 89, of 350,000 gross tons. NORCO butter the ity would expire at the end of honour. They had both gained dent, Mr. Frazer A. Bailey, that raltar, Tangier, and Oran. Ac- Of these vessels, seven are not chekett of creamery this month. Mr. Truman saijJ the the affection of their country, the Canal was constructed for cording to, the "Merchant Navy yet completed and four have be- batter (rem Hie rick shipping requirements of the and they could not aim higher the dual purpose of commerce North Coo.t ot N.S.W. Journal," a number of the ships come, total losses. Seven of the NORCO is a now to European recovery programme than that. In war, they got to- and national defence, not as a concerned appear to be ex-British passenger ships are being retained jnd the long-range requirements gether, and mixed with each other revenue earner, and he suggest- warships which were sold with- for trooping service, and one of of the Merchant Marine raised in their ships. They had learned ed that it would be a small enough out-due enquiry into the charac- special construction for use as a name that Vol been questions which would demand to respect each other, and they contribution to struggling Amer- ter of the purchasers. cable ship. One ship has been legislative consideration "in the ican industry to haye the interest had found the same courage and transferred . to Newfoundland. hall a century. near future." "Our most im- self-sacrifice and devotion to charges placed against national New Liners for Th; remainder are being disposed mediate need, however," he said, duty. The common heritage of defence. Offering figures based U.S.-Mediterranean Trade of to United Kingdom buyers. "is to assure the maintenance of the sea gave them both the sfcme •on a study of Canal finances(since The American Export Line has essential shipping services by con- feeling, and their hearts were the its construction, the Federation announced plans for two fast Smuggling Into U.K. Rife tinuing in effect the present pro- same about the sea and their ^pressed the belief that if the 20,000-ton passenger liners for The crews of British Atlantic visions of law which make pos- work. But in peace they separ- tolls are based only on covering the Mediterranean service at a liners in American ports Ire be- all expenses incidental to the op- NORCO sible the use of government-own- ated and forgot each other, and cost of 40,000,000 dollars. An ing approached more frequendy ed ships." it became very hard to keep, to- • eration of the waterway, the pres- immediate start on building is than ever to undertake the smug- i The Navy February, 1*4*. » done, anyway," growled old Mr. smoke-room is provided here, of the instruments which they use signing on for three pound* a On Board the "Castlecrag" Travers. "I don't' know what having sufficient small tables and in the ship's work, such as knives, month and a provision scale of things are coming to at sea these seating for all, aranged in the palms and needles, marline-spikes, three quarts of water, one pound of bread, an eighth of an ounce Mr. Pryke, the Second' Mate,I tells of the days. It's hard enough running form of cubicles for four men, rubbers, etc. And considering a crowd as it is and getting such that card games, writing, or their mode of life in othe£ re- of tea, a half-ounce of coffee and discussion on the matter of Improvements in anything done, without putting other forms of Tecreation can be spects, the little time they would two ounces of sugar a day; and Conditions on Shipboard all these "ideas into their heads. enjoyed at the same time without have for laying and clearing away one-and-a-half pounds of beef Now when I first went to sea—" causing disturbance to others." a table with its apparatus, and four times a week; one-and-a- By Mr. Pryke "Yes, Mister," the Old Man in- the room it would take up in a quarter pounds of pork, half-a- "I see," said Mr. McPherson, the Institution 6'' Naval Archi- terrupted again. "And what was He tossed the magazine down forecastle, as well as the simple pound of flour and a third-of-a- the Chief Engineer of the tects. One speaker said that it good enough for you ought to be in disgust. "They'll be thinking character of their meals, consist- pint of peas three times a week; "Casdecrag," "there's a laddie appeared tae him that there might good enough today. I've heard they're signing on for a luxury ing generally of only one piece of •and half-a-pound of rice once a here has designed a fourteen-and- be a grain o' truth in an old story that before. When I first went cruise," he said, "not as sailors meat, it is certainly a convenient week. Do you reckon that was a-half knot cargo ship, wi' every 'that if these things went on much to sea there were four of us in a and firemen—'motormen' they method, and, as the kid and pans very good?" call them here—on board a ship." are usually kept perfectly clean, member o' the crew housed amid- further no ship's captain would half-deck six feet by eight feet, "No," admitted the Mate. "No! ships, an' single berth cabins for be allowed tae grow a beard be- with four bunks and a let-down a neat and simple one." ' "Thanks, Marcy!" Captain but, of course, times have chang- all. He's a man o' ideas an' dis- cause when he went on his rounds table on the bulkhead, and a lock- ed." cretion, yon. Forby," he added kissing the crew goodnight they er to keep our grub in. It was Bates took the book with which Captain Bates looked up from modestly, "he's an engineer." would object". And here's an- under the break of the fo'c'sle the Wireless Operator had re- his reading. "What do you think "Of course they have," said other suggesting that the crew head, and when there was a head turned. "That's all right, Mister. of that?" the Old Man. "And they're still High tea was over in the That's one side of the picture. "Casdecrag's" saloon, and the oc- would be made so comfortable • sea and she was taking it over "How long ago was yon?" ask- changing, and for the better all that they might forget they were forrad there'd be water swishing But listen to this, and see which the time. That's what owners— cupants were relaxing after the is the better. Where is it? . . ." ed McPherson. meal, topping off with highly going tae sea tae dae some wark. around the deck of the room up and sailors too—are realising. sweetened cups of the brew that 'Tradition,' he said, 'had always to the doorstep, about a foot of "Oh! A hundred years or so." And that's where the designer of been that the crew slept tae- it. And we were watch and He flicked over the pages. The Mate laughed. "A hun- this ship we're talking about is cheers but does not inebriate. "Ah! Here we are. This chap's Captain Bates, the Master, a gither, and he thought that some watch, and the only obligation dred years! Times have changed on the right track. What's that. might prefer it that way for com- under the indentures, that I can describing life in the forecastle in since theq. And besides, didn't Chief?" youngish man with fair curly sail in the American merchant hair and a bright and speculative radeship'." remember, was that we boys the chap who wrote that say didn't frequent alehouses and service. 'The forecastles of most that they did not look on those He broke off, to turn to the blue eye, had just had his cup "Yes," said the Old Man. of our ships are small, black, and Chief Engineer, who had picked refilled by the steward from an tdverns when we were ashore." conditions as hardships, but took "And then again, some might not. wet holes, which few landsmen to them as matters of choice?" up the magazine again. enormous white enamelled teapot, Let's have a dekko, Chief." "Well," said the Mate, "you would believe held a crew of ten and was looking round the table. He took the proffered maga- were none the worse off for it?" or twelve men on a voyage of "Maybe they did—then," said "Times nave changed, right "Give the sugar a -fair wind zine, his eye being caught at "Maybe! We were none the months or years; and often, in- the Old Man. "But as you say, enough," said McPherson. "Ye'll will you. Chief?" he asked, and once by the sketch profile of the better for it, anyway. And those deed in most cases, the .provisions times have changed, and condi- mind the auld saying about then, as he put in three heaped proposed ship. "Hello!" he said. conditions were good to what are not good enough to make a tions with them. You don't have Welsh ships: 'Three days out o' spoonfuls and stirred reflectively, "Here's a Crews' games deck, and they had Been." He was struck meal anything more than a neces- to go back a hundred years to Cardiff, an' short o' provee- "What's that you've got hold a Crews' sun deck." He appealed by a sudden memory, and turned sary part of a day's duty; and on find conditions you- would consid- sions?'." er hardships today, and far from of?" to the old Mate. "How does to the Wireless Operator. "Hey, the score of sleep, I fully believe "I do," said Captain Bates. " "Tis a magazine was in the that strike you, Mr. Travers?" Marcy! Where's that book you that the lives of merchant sea- being matters of convenience. bundle sent on board by the It did not strike the Mate fa- lent to me? You know. 'Two men are shortened by the want of You wouldn't like to go back to "Aweel," said McPherson. "I Mission parson," said Mr. Mc- vourably. "Lot of high falutin' Years Before The Mast'." it. I am not sure that I have watch and watch for the Mate see yon felly who wrote yon paper Pherson. "And here's an article rubbish They've tried it before, "It's up in my room. I'll get stated, in the course of my narra- and Second Mate, and being on on improving conditions at sea on the improvement of condi- and where did it get them? There it for you. Sir." tive, the manner in which sailors your pound and pint, would belongs tae a Cardiff shipping tions for the ship's crew. A day- was a ship called the 'Nonsuch' in The Wireless Operator went on eat, on board ship. There are you?" company." neither tables, knives, forks, nor room and a bed-room and a bath- which the pwners tried . . . his mission, and the Mate, who "Of course I wouldn't," admit- room for the Chief Engineer, and "I know," said the Old Man. had taken the magazine from plates, in a forecastle; but the kid (a wooden tub, with iron ted old Travis. "But things are an office for the Second, and a "I ' remember hearing that' yarn Captain Bates, grunted his disap- different now. That extreme case change room .for all the engine when I was serving my time. proval. "Listen to this," he in- hoops) is placed on the floor, and the crew sit round it, and each you were reading was a hundred Are You a •room personnel. Man! This They tried something like this, vited. "From the plan of the years ago." would make the auld "Castle- so it was said. Sheets on the upper deck it will be seen that man cuts for himself with the crag" look up." Jacks' beds, and messrooms, and the seamen and motormen are common jack-knife, or sheath "I know," said the Captain. Subscriber to "What about the rest of us?" so on. And the sailbrs and fire- housed in single-berth cabins on knife that he carries about him. "But I was reading only the They drink their tea out of tin other day a description of a Brit- asked the Captain. "The im- men are supposed to have torn the port and starboard sides re- The Wavy? provements are not confined to up the sheets and smashed the spectively of No. 4 hatch, which pots, holding less than a quart ish sailing ship's fo'c'sle only 40 the engine room crowd, are they? crockery and played old Harry is trunked through to the deck each. These particulars are not years ago, the only Furniture be- What about the Captain?" with everything. I don't know above, separate washing and san- looked upon as hardships, and, ing the bunks, an oil lamp, and Order Your "There's a mention o' hirh in if there was any truth in it. I itary facilities being provided for indeed, may be considered the chain cables for seats; the the discussion that followed the never met anyone who sailed in each, together with oilskin lock- matters of choice. Sailors, in our men providing their own donk- reading o' the paper on this the ship." ers, etc., and private entrances merchantmen, furnish their own eys' breakfasts, eating utensils, Copy Now natter," said Mr. McPherson, "at "It's what they would have each side. A large common eating utensils, as they do many bedding, and everything else; and

TW Navy FtkwY, 1941. SOME COOK MEMORIALS. Continued from page 12. SHOT AN AIRCRAFT DOWN WHILE SINKING and New Caledonia. In New Zealand there are Poverty Bay Lieutenant Ian Desmond Rhodes, R.A.N.V.R., won the and Abundance Bay, Mercury K.A.N,'S only conspicuous gallantry medal in the late War Bay and that River Thames which reminded him of London's ' ' I. river at Greenwich, Cape Palliser A TAN Desmond Rhodes joined the Royal Australian Navy as % J- an Ordinary Seaman R.A.N.V.R. in September, 1940, en- and Cape Colvile, Hawke's Bay, tering at Port Melbourne. He went overseas immediately to Bank's Peninsula, and Cook the Royal Navy, his first seagoing appointment being to the Strait. He gave us one Christmas destroyer H.M.S. "Kashmir." Bay in Tierra del Fuego and a Christmas Harbour in Kerguelen, On May 20th., 1941, the Germans opened their main and named that other cold south- attack on Crete with heavy air attacks on the island, followed ern land of South Georgia. Down by air-borne landings from gliders. Simultaneously they at- in the Roaring Forties he com- tempted to carry out seaborne landings, and to countcr these memorated his fellow explorers attempts three strong squadrons of the British Mediterranean Marion due Fresne and Crojet in Fleet were patrolling in Cretan waters. the islands that bear their names on our charts today. Among the vessels so engaged was H.M.S. "Kashmir," a unit of the 5th. Destroyer Flotilla, attached to a squadron of We can follow him up the which the mam units were the cruisers H.M.S. "Naiad" and Eastern Australian coast from H.M.A.S. "Perth," under the command of Rear-Admiral King. Point Hicks to Botany Bay, Port > V 11 ^ • This squadron, later reinforced by the cruisers "Carlisle" and Jackson, Bustard Bay, Thirsty "Calcutta," accounted for a German convoy of caiques escort- Sound, Cape Tribulation, the En- ed by destroyers in the Aegean early on the morning of the deavour River, and on to Posses- 22nd. May, leaving most of them sinking or on fire. The sion Island. Here, perhaps, was lift' following day the ships were returning to Alexandria to refuel established his greatest memorial and re-ammunition, when they underwent a series of heavy of all, when he "a little before air attacks south of Crete, and the "Kashmir" was hit and sunk. sunset, took possession of the country in his Majesty's name, Let the citation accompanying his award of the Conspic- and fired three volleys of small uous Gallantry Medal tell the story of lan Rhodes' part in this: arms on the occasion, which was "When his ship, H.M.S. 'Kashmir,' was hit by a bomb answered f-om the ship," and and sinking rapidly, he left the port .gun, of which he was thus secured Australia for the gunlayer, and which was going under water, and climbed to people of the British Race. the starboard gun. This he turned on an aircraft which was "We are to consider," he machine-gunning his shipmates, and brought it down in flames wrote, "that we see this country into the sea." , in the pure state of nature: the industry of man has had- nothing lan Rhodes thus became the only winner of the Conspic- to dp with any part of it, and uous Gallantry Medal in the Royal Australian Navy during yet we find all such things as na- the 1939-45 war, and the holder of a distinction very rare ture has bestowed upon it in a among commissioned officers. flourishing state. In this extensive country, it can never be He received his commission in January, 1942, as Sub- doubted but what most sorts of Lieutenant, being promoted to Lieutenant in August of the grain, fruit, roots, etc., of every same year. He subsequently served in H.M.S. "Sheffield" with kind would flourish here were •M'i the .Royal Navy, and was appointed to H.M.A.S. "Shropshire" they once brought hither, plant- when that vessel was commissioned in England in 1943. He ed and cultivated by the hands remained in her until July, 194-1, later returning to the Royal of industry, and here are pro- "'I, H. Navy and serving in H.M.S. ."Mount Stewart" and in Colom- vender for more cattle at all bo. He wa» dempbilised in April, 1946. seasons of the year than can ever be brought into the country." f ^ Could he see his Australian memorial today, he could feel -« SYDNEY-H03/ RT RACE, I947-4'. that his estimate had not been This splendid eerie! picture ihowi tne fleet of ' yachts leaving Sydney Harbour, too high, and, one imagines, a escorted by craft of all dfscriptions. degree of satisfaction and of "S.M. Herold" Photo. faith.

32 Tk« Navy WHAT THE NAVY IS DOING ... at Sea and Ashore —-— —•— V V.R.) is engaged on the opera- only L.S.I, remaining in cojnmis- H.M.A.S. G.P.V. 956 is at tions in connection with the Aus- sion in the R.A.N. Cairns on R.M.S. operations. INCE the last issue of this series of notes in the January number of H.M.A.S. Condamine (Lieut.- tralian National Antarctic Re- "The Navy" there have been only minor changes in personnel and Commander J. H. Dowson, Australian H.M.A.S G.P.V. 957 (Lieut. L. S search Expedition. She reached Mushins, R.A.N.) is at Cairns on in dispositions. The main ship of the Australian National Antarctic R.A.N.) relieved H.M.A.S. Shoal- Heard Island according to pro- Minesweepers haven in New Guinea waters in R.M.S. operations. Research Expedition, the Wyatt Earp, after some delays due to indus- gramme and, having completed her These two vessels are based on Australian National Antarctic December, and will remain there trial troubles in Adelaide, sailed to the southwards but suffered damage work there, proceeded on to Ker- Flinders Naval Depot for training Research Expedition through heavy weather and was ordered to return to, Melbourne. The until relieved in April by guelen, there to establish a fuel Depot personnel:— second ship of the Expedition, the L.S.T 3501, has been carrying out her H.M A S. Culgoa. dump. The landing on Heard Is- H.M.A.S. Wyatt Earp (Com- H.M.A.S. Gladstone (Lieut.- mander K. E. Oom, O.B.E., work at Heard and Kerguelen Islands according *to programme. The H.M.A.S. Murchison- (Lieut.- land was made on 26th December, Commander H. A. E. Cooper, R.A.N.) departed Melbourne on usual list of promotions came forward at the New Year, and details are Commander J. McL. Adams, when the Australian flag was rais- RAN). 19th December for Hobart, and given elsewhere in this issue of "The Navy." At the time of writing O.B.E., R.A.N.) is in Sydney ated ashore. The Minister for Ex- H.M.A.S. Latrobe (Lieut. D. H tached to H.M.A.S. Watson for ternal Affairs (Dr. Evatt) an- sailed from Hobart on 26th De- these notes—in January—the position and future programme are as D. Smyth, R AN ). cember for Macquarie Island, with radar training. During January nounced a few days later that follows: — scientists on board, as main ship of she carried out exercises with equipment put ashore from L.S.T. Survey Ships the Australian National Antarctic H.M. Submarine Aeneas. 3501 included a bulldozer, 50 tons H.M A.S. Barcoo (Lieut.-Com- SQUADRON DISPOSITIONS of lighter stores, and more than Research Expedition Unfortun- 20th Minesweeping Flotilla mander D'A T. Gale, D.S.C., ately, heavy weather which the H.M.A.S. Swan (Captain R. V. 200 drums of oil, which were float- R.A.N.) is at present engaged on ed ashore. The landings and dis- Wyatt Earp encountered after The Cruisers Quic^malch relieves her there next Wheatley, R.A.N.) spent the surveying duties in Spencer Gulf. leaving Hobart opened up a leak month. Christmas and New Year period charge of stores and equipment She is due to refit at Williamstown H.M.A S. Australia (Captain took place in the usual bad weather in the hull, and the vessel was di- H.M.A.S. ûiberon (Comman- — in Sydney, previous to proceeding Dockyard in April, and, on com- rected by the Naval Board to re- H. J. Buchanan, D.S.O., R A N ), on sweeping operations for mag- conditions experienced at Heard pletion, she will be employed on wearing the flag of Rear-Admiral der J. L. Bath, R.A.N.) carried Island, and in consequent difficult turn to Melbourne to Williastown out anti-submarine exercises dur- netic mines in the New Guinea the north-west coast of Australia Dockyard for inspection and re- H. B. Farncomb, C.B., D.S.O, area. circumstances. The fauna of the for the remainder of the 1948 M.V.O., R.A.N., Flag Officer ing January. She takes part in the pairs. She arrived back at Mel- H.M.A. Ships Deloraine (A/ island—its flora is negligible—was survey season. Commanding the Royal Australian Squadron exercises at Jervis Bay bourne on 7th. January. Lieut.-Commander J. A. Doyle, conspicuous in the shape of pen- H.M.A.S. Warrego (Lieut.- Naval Squadron, has been in Syd- and in Tasmanian waters during R.A.N.R. (S.) ), Echuca (A/ guins, skua gulls, and sea lions. Commander R B. A. Hunt, ney since her return from Japanese this month, and on the 8th of Lieut.-Commander N. S. Town- 0.B.E., R.A.N.) is engaged on waters in December, 1947 This March is due to depart Sydney en On her return from Kerguelen GENERAL shend, R.A.N.V.R.), Katoomba surveying work in Bass Straits. month she is taking part in Squad- route to Japan to relieve H.M.A.S. Island, L.S.T. 3501 arrived at (Lt\ R. H. Grant, R.A.N.V.R.), She is due to proceed to Sydney ron exercises at Jervis Bay and in Arunta. Melbourne on 18th January and The programme for the Squadron Lithfcow (Lieut.-Commander H. J. for the making good of defects in Tasmanian waters. H.M.A.S. ûicl^matcli (Lieut.- proceeded to Williamstown Naval exercises to be held this month, Hull, fl.A.N.R ), Mildura (Lieut.- April, and will then continue sur- Commander C. J. Stephenson, Dockyard tor refit before contin- and in which H.M.A. Ships Aus- H.M.A.S. Hobart (Acting-Com- Commander A. W. Savage, vey operations on the north-west R.A.N.) carricd out anti-submar- uing her programme. tralia (Flag), Bataan, Quiberon, mander A. J. Travis, -R A N.) is R.A.N.) departed Sydney on the coast of Australia. ine exercises during January, and A London report states that, on ^,uicl(match, Shoalhaven, Culgoa in Sydney in reserve. 5th January for Fremantle, where takes part with the Squadron in the same day that the party'from H.M.A.S. Lachlan (Lieut.-Com- and Murchison will take part, in- H.M.A.S. Shropshire (Com- they will pay off into reserve on the exercises to be held this month. L.S.T. 3501 hoisted the Austra- mandcr C. G. Little, D.S.C., cludes the following itinerary:— arrival. mander G. L. Cant, R.A.N.) is in She is expected to depart Sydney lian flag on Heard Island, an ex- R.A.N.), after refitting in Wil- Jervis Bay, 2nd-10th February; Sydney in reserve. on March to relieve H.M.A.S H.D.M.L.'s 1328 and 1J29 were pedition from South Africa landed liamstown Dockyard, pays off into Hobart, 12th - 23rd February; on Prince Edward Island, some reserve at Sydney. North-West Bay or Norfolk Bay, 10th Destroyer Flotilla Warramunga in Japan * in Sydney throughout December. They are remaining in ommission fourteen hundred miles west by H.M.A.S. Jabiru is tender to 23rd-27th February. H.M.A. H.M.A.S. Bataan (Captain (D) H.M.A.S. Quadrant is in Syd- ney in reserve. and accompanying H.M.A.S. Swan north from Heard Island, and Warrego. Ships iûiberon and ûicl^match 10, Captain J. C. Morrow, D.S.O., in the New Guinea sweeoing op- there hoisted the Union flag. Both will then return to Sydney. The D.S.C., R.A.N.) has been in Syd- GENERAL. lit Frigate Flotilla erations. islands will be used as meteorologi- remainder of the Squadron will ney since her arrival from Japan H.D.M.L.'s 1323 and 1326 are cal stations, and it is suggested that H.M A S. Air Rest (Lieut. W. visit Hobart from 27th February to in December. She is taking part H.M.A.S. Culgoa, Senior Offi- in Sydney in reserve. Prince Edward Island will be used 1. A. Key, R.A.N.V.R.) is in Syd- 1st March. cer (Commander J. Plunkett-Cole, this month in the Squadron exer- M.S.L. 706 is in Sydney in reas a link in Commonwealth air ney. Promotions, R.A.N. R.A.N ), after refitting at Wil- cises at Jervis Bay and Tasmania. serve. communications in the Southern H.M.A Tug Reserve (Lieut.- The following promotions were liamstown, has joined the Squadron .H.M.A.S. Arunta (Commander Hemisphere. Commander J. M. Adie, R.A. announced by the Naval Board on for the exercises to be held this •10th L.S.T. Flotilla F. N. Cook, D.S.C., R.A.N.) is N R. (S.)) is in Sydney. 1st January:— month at Jervis Bay and in Tas- L.S.T. 3017 (Lieut.-Commander Landing Ships Infantry in Japanese waters with the British H.M.A.S. Kangaroo returned to Commander to Captain: Cap- mania. H. K. Dwyer, R.A.N.R.) is in Commonwealth Occupation Forces. H.M A S. Kanimbla (Captain Sydney after inspecting corvettes' tain W. H. Harrington, D.S.O, H.M.A.S. Shoalhaven (Lieut.- Sydney for dumping ammunition. She will be relieved there neact A. P. Cousin, D.S.O., R.A.N.R. moorings at Corio Bay, Victoria. RAN. month by H.M.A.S. iûiberon. Commander Keith Tapp, R.A.N.) L.S.T. 3014 (Lieut.-Commander (S.) ) spent December and Janu- H.M.A.S. Karangi is at Fre- has been in Sydney since her re- W. A. Wilson, R.A.N.R.) is in Lieutenant-Commander to Com- H.M.A.S. Warramunga (Com- ary in Sydney for leave and refit mantle, boom defence vessel. mander : Commander V. A. Smith, mander G. C. Oldham, D.S.C., turn from New Guinea in Decem- Western Australia for dumping after carrying ex-internees and dis- H.M.A.S. Woomera (Lieut. A. ber, and has joined the Squadron ammunition. D.S.C., R.A.N. Commander Smith R.A.N ) is in Japanese waters placed persons between Melbourne R. Pearson, R.A.N.V.R.) is in is Staff Officer, Air, at Australia for the exercises this month at Jer- L.S.T. 3501 (Lieut.-Commander with the British Commonwealth and Fremantle. She is now the Sydney. House, London. Occupation Forces. H.M.A.S. vis Bay and in Tasmanian waters. G. M. Dixon, D.S.C., R.A.N. February, I94«. Til* Nevy 3S . • Lieutenant-Commander (E.) to T. Bennetts, R.A.N.R.(S.). Com- Four more than last year, this number is the largest since 1919, when SPECIAL CADETSHIPS Commander (E.): Commander mander Bennetts is in H.M.A.S. BLIGH, Lawrence Robert Ashfield, N.S.W. Fort Street Boys' High School, Petersham. (E.) L. N. Dine, R.A.N. Com- Kanimbla. 32 were entered. The record num- BARTHOLOMEW, Ian North Perth, W_A. Perth Boys' High School. mander Dine is at Sydney, Lieutenant (S.) to Lieut.-Com- ber of entries was 36 in 1918. H.M.A.S. Kuttabul. mander (S.): Lieut.-Commander Two of the boys have special ORDINARY CADETSHIPS ANDREWAlfTHA, John Sale, Vic. Sale Technical School. Instructor Commander to In- (S.) J. A. Burstal, R.A.N.V.R., of cadetships, of which two are re- BAIRD, Richard Malcolm Newtown, Geelong, Vic. Geelong College, Geelong. structor Captain: Instructor Cap- Sydney; Lieut.-Commander (S.) served annually for the sons of BEAUMONT, Alan Lee Argenton, N.S.W. Newcastle Technical High School. tain F. G. Rednall, M.A., R.A.N. R. Kennedy, R.A.N.V.R., of Bris- persons who have been on active BODMAN, William Thomas Hayes Yarram, Vic. Yarram Higher Elementary School. t Instructor Captain Rednall is at bane; Lieut.-Commander (S.) W. service abroad in the Royal Aus- CHAMBERS, Kenneth Jame: Rutherglen, Vic. Scotch College, Melbourne. Navy Office, Melbourne. E. Orr, R.A.N.V.R., of Kew, yic. tralian Navy or in an Expedition- CURTIS, John Lyle R.A.N. Carrier Pilots Selected. ary Force under the provisions of Launceston, Tas. Launceston Church Grammar School. Instructor Lieut.-Commander to FERGUSON, John Newtown, Ipswich, Qld. Last month the first 24 officer the Commonwealth Defence Act, Ipswich Boys' Central School. Instructor Commander: Instructor GOUGH, Donald Bert Lanncrcost, Qld. pilots selected by the R.A.N, to fly including Forces sent by the States Long Pocket State School. Commander J. A. Glourv, M.B.E., HARPER, Kenneth James Maryborough, Qld. its oarrier-borne aircraft entered of Australia to the South African Maryborough Boys' Intermediate School. R.A.N. Instructor Commander HARRIS, Robert Graeme Belgrave Heights, îc. Flinders Naval Depot as Probation- War. The successful boys are:— Wesley College, Melbourne. Gloury is at Navy Office, Mel- HOARE, Peter James Belmore, N.S.W. ary Acting Lieutenants to undergo Continued on page 37. Newington College, Stanmore. bourne. HODKINSON, Leslie John Longford, Tas. a special course in naval training. Launceston High School. Surgeon Commander (D.) to HORTON, Anthony Rockley Dec Why, N.S.W. On completion of this course they Navy League Official Recognition North Sydney Boys' Technical High School. Surgeon Captain (D.): Surgeon HUNT, Doyne Tremayne Launceston, Tas. will be sent to England for flying The Minister for the Navy (Mr. Launceston Church Grammar School. Captain A. R. Woolcott, R.A.N. JACOBS, Bruce Edwin Kew, Vic. courses on naval aircraft, conver- Riordan) announced on the 29th Melbourne Church of England Grammar School. Surgeon Captain Woolcott is at McDOUGALL, Digby Philip Cremorne, N.S.W. sion courses to aircraft of carrier December that official recognition Naremburn Intermediate High School. Sydney, H.M.A.S. Kuttabul. MACHIN, Robert Graham Burwood, N.S.W. types, and deck landing training. has been given by the Naval Fort Street Boys' High School, Petersham. MORRICE, James Osborne. Tahmoor, N.S.W. Surgeon Lieut.-Commander (D.) After courses at the R.N. opera- Board to the Navy League in Aus- Barker College, Hornsby. PEDLER, Evan Albert Cottesloe, W.A. to Surgeon Commander (D.): Sur- tional flying school at Lossiemouth, tralia, and to the Navy League Sea Fremantle Boys' High School. SIMPSON, Paul Hudson Wyong, N.S.W. geon Commander P. J. Ward, Scotland, they will join the air Cadets. The Minister said that, in Canberra Grammar School. SINCLAIR, Peter Ross Balgowlah, N.S.W. R.A.N. Surgeon Commander group of one of the Australian taking this action, the Government North Sydney Boys' High School. STEVENSON, Hugh Mont Albert, Vic. Ward is in H.M.A.S. Australia. carriers. All of the men selected had given consideration to the ob- Box Hill High School. VINCENT, Keith Robert Glen Iris, Vic. Commander (S.) to Captain are fully qualified pilots who serv- jects of the Navy League in Aus- Caulfield Technical School. WALLIS, James Harvey Barwon Heads, Vic. (S.): Captain (S.) P. Perry, ed in the recent war, when seven tralia, and the work it is doing for Geelong Grammar School. O.B.E., R A N. Captain Perry is ( WHITE, Peter Adrian Bendigo, Vic. served with the Navy and 17 with the youth of the community gener- Bendigo High School. at Navy Office, Naval Secretary WOODLEY, Cecil Mervyn Rockhampton, Qld. the Air Force. Four of them have ally. The aim of the-Navy League Leichhardt Ward Boys' State School, Rockhampton. to the First Naval Member. been decorated. and Sea Cadet Corps is to keep be- Lieut.-Commander (S.) to Com' fore the British Empire the import- 1911. He became Director of Navy margin. After the match, the mander (S.): Commander (S.) K. Fourteen rating pilots entered relay, 440 yards relay, 880 yards Flinders Naval Depot in December ance of sea power, and the neces- Accounts in 1940. On behalf of Chiefs and Petty Officers, with T. Ridley. Commander Ridley is sity for maintaining an adequate relay, and the cup for the highest for three months' training as ordin- his colleagues, the Secretary of the their guests, were entertained at aggregate points. Petty Officer G. at Sydney, H.M.A.S. Penguin. Navy; and to instil in the boys and Department of the Navy (Mr. A. afternoon tea by the Officers. Promotions, R.A.N. Reserves. ary naval recruits, after which Thew (P.T.I.), in addition to win- they will go to the R.A.A.F. Sta- young men of this country the R. Nankervis) presented Mr. Mit- Lieutenant to Lieut.'Comman- principles of comradeship and good Late in January an interesting ning the obstacle race, helped to tion at Point Cook for their initial chell with an easy chair and a build up points by his efforts. der: Lieut.-Commander R. V. A. citizenship. In addition to giving standard lamp. match will take place, when a com- flying training. After eighteen bined Chiefs and Petty Officers' Corbett, R.A.N.V.R., of Sydney; months at Point Cook they will technical sea training to boys, Mr. H. N. Morteflsen, Director Congratulations have been forth- Lieut.-Commander R. G. Burnell, many of whom subsequently enter team will play the Victorian Cric- coming to Petty Officer Bernie proceed to Britain for training in of Naval Stores, has returned to • ket Association Umpires. R.A.N.V.R., of Hawthorn, Vic.; operational flying and deck land- the Navy or embark upon a Mer- Australia after spending six Lawler on his recent-marriage. He Lieut.-Commander J. B. J. Os- ing. Subsequently they will be chant Service career, it is the aim months in Great Britain studying The Petty Officers had a field received moral suport from Petty borne, R.A.N.V.R., of Sydney; posted to the air group of one of of the Sei Cadet Corps to provide post-war developments at the Ad- day at the Depot Sports on Wed- Officers Alf Harris and Bob Lieut.-Commander F. M. Osborne, the Australian carriers. Of the for the spiritual, social and educa- miralty, including Naval Aviation nesday, 17 th December. They Cooper, who were best man and D.S.C., R.A.N.Vil., of Sydney; fourteen men concerned, five are tional welfare of the cadets and to supply problems. He also attended won four cups: three-quarter mile groomsman respectively. Lieut.-Commander T. Christy, R.A.N, personnel who have trans- develop character and good citizen- the Empire Conference on develop- R.A.N.V.R., of Sydney; Lieut.- ferred from other branches of the ship in their widest sense. ment, design and inspection of Commander G. A. Johns, R.A.N. Service to Naval Aviation. , The Personal. clothing and general stores. VJR... of Sydney. THE numbers of successful applicants in After 37 years in the Depart- Engineer Lieutenant to Engin- this group of new entrants are Notes from the Petty Officers' eer Lieut.-Commander: Engineer ment of the Navy, Mr. George Club, Flinders Naval Depot. from the following States: New William Mitchell, Director' of SOUTH BRITISH INSURANCE Lieut.-Commander R. H. Cham- South Wales, 4; Queensland, 3; Bv Petty Officer M. R. Collier, bers, R.A.N.V.R., of El wood, Navy Accounts, Navy Office, Mel- R.A.N. Victoria, 2; Western Australia, 4; bourne, is retiring from the Public CO. LTD. Vic.; Engineer Lieut.-Commander Tasmania, 1. A "Village Green" atmosphere A. S. H. Spain, R.A.N.V.R., of Service, in which he has had a total • FIRE • MARINE • ACCIDENT New Cadet Midshipmen. of 48 years service. Entering the prevailed at a cricket match held Sydney; Engineer Lieut.-Comman- just before the start of the leave der C. S. McVey, R.A.N.V.R., of Twenty-eight boys entered the Service in the Crown Law Depart- THE SOUTH BRITISH INSURANCE CO. LTD. ment on 24th March, 1900, Mr. period in December. Combined Sydney. Royal Australian Naval College at Chiefs and Petty Officers' team HUNTER & O'CONNELL STS. Lieut.-Commander (S.) to Com- the end of last month as the suc- Mitchell transferred to the Depart- ment of the Navy on 1st July, versus Wardroom, in which Ward- SYDNEY, N.S.W. • (S.) : Commander (S.) R. cessful candidates for 1948 entry. room were defeated by a narrow TIs Na| Fabniary, IHIi 37 Sample Mathematics Jones: "I see here that a few News of the World s Navies years ago wives were responsible for the expenditure of 70 per Current R.N. Decorations. same reason I am unable to make before President Truman's Air NAVY MIXTURE cent, of the family income, iut Despite the fact that the war any forecast of when the .grants Policy Commission, said that that figure has now dropped to ended two-and-a-half years ago, can be made. Approval has been Russia is currently operating more given, however, to the inclusion than five times the fifty submar- — a Blend of Nautical Humour 30 per cent." officers and men of the Royal, Smith: "Yes! Wives and the Navy are still earning decorations. of a Prize Bill among the Bills ines with which Germany enter- other form of taxation have The first naval decorations for which it is hoped will be taken ed the war "and nearly won the changed places." gallantry and distinguished ser- later in this session." Battle of the Atlantic." The vice made in connection with the U.S. Navy to Cut Base Staffs Russians, he said, also have fa- No Nip interception of illegal immigrant Admiral Louis E. Denfield, cilities to produce on short notice Indignant Barman: "What do ships in the Mediterranean, were who recently succeeded Admiral large numbers of the latest type you mean, walking in here and of under-sea craft "vastly super- One Up Plonk announced in the "London Gaz- Chester Nimitz as U.S. Chief of asking for a drink of water, and Naval Operations, has reported ior to any operated by the Ger- Sybil: "Do you see that hand- ette" in November last. They in- A correspondent recalls that he then walking out?" that the expiration of 200,000 en- man Navy." some Lieutenant over there? I clude a Bar to the Distinguished attended a ship launching in McNab: "What did ye expect listments would leave the Navy rejected him once." Service Cross, two D.S.C.'s, six Jet Aircraft Lands on America during the prohibition me tae do? Stagger oot?" 75,000 men short of its present Sylvia: "That's nothing. Dear. era, when the ship was christened D.S.M.'s, and 22 Mentions in "Illustrious." Faith Healing Despatches. personnel figure at the end of this I rejected him twice." with a bottle of champagne from fiscal year. According to the Britain's latest jet fighter, the the local bootlegger's. When the A newspaper report says that a U.S. Naval Strength. Supermarine " Attacker," has man arrested in London last week "New York Times," Admiral Censorship bottle hit the stem, it blew a Denfield said that the shortage of carried out successful trials on on a burglary charge was found An article, "Arms and Amer- board the aircraft carrier H.M.S. Old Lady: "Why wouldn't fluke off the port anchor and ica," published in "American men would force the Navy to cut the Naval Authorities tell us how made two unauthorised scuttles to be stone deaf. He will, how- "Illustrious." There were serious ever, get his hearing at next petty Outlook," sets out the following Base Staffs in order to enable it to many' enemy submarines were under the flare of the starboard maintain fighting strength. difficulties in adapting the At- sessions. details concerning the U.S. Navy. tacker—one of the fastest fight- sunk while the war was on? It bow. Approximate strength—432,000 would have cheered us up." Admiralty Forms W.R.N.S. ers in the world—for landing-on men, 45,000 officers; 80,000 men Reserve. and taking-off. The main diffi- Nobby: "I know, Mum. But in the Marine Gorps, and 8,0C0 we didji't have enough spare For the purpose of building a culty was with the jet motor officers; 550,000 men in Naval strong reserve of women with throttled back the pilot could not divers then to walk about the Reserves, and 266,000 officers. bottom and count 'em." knowledge of the Navy, the Ad« control the rate of sink when "American policy from the Arctic miralty has decided to form a coming in to land—a vital need to Australia and from Britain to Women's Royal Naval Reserve, Over Heard when landing-on a surface which Korea," says the article, "is thus which will become known by the Two ratings from L.S.T. 3501 may rise or fall 20 feet with the poised on a narrowing base of initials W.R.N.R. This decision movement of the sea. The At- were vying with each other in military strength. If that strength means that thousands of wartime describing to interested listeners tacker is reported to have a speed were suddenly challenged in wide- W.R.N.S. officers and ratings, of about 600 miles an hour. the cold down at Heard Island. ly sundered portions of the globe now demobilised, may renew "It was so cold," said one, simultaneously, it could prove as U.S. Carrier-Borne their association with the Navy. Jet Fighter. "that the flame in our hurricane embarrassing for America as it The reserve will be open to those lamp froze, and we couldn't put was for Britain between 1935 and women of British nationality with Also capable of 600 miles an it out." 1941." a satisfactory record of more than hour is the U.S. 'carrier-borne "But that wasn't the worst," "Panther" fighter, which made its Naval Prize Money. 12 months service, who will be said the other. "I told the buffer prepared to volunteer to be called first public appearance recently. Asked in the House of Com- off a beaut one day, but he never up for Naval service in the event Describing a display given with a mons recently whether he could heard me. The words turned to of any future emergency. Of- Panther at a shore field, the now give an estilnate of the ice and-stuck in my throat." ficers and ratings who are selected "New York Times" says that the amount of prize money available, will be enrolled as members of aircraft—a Grumman ^fighter with and when grants could be made, Asked For It the W.R.N.R. but will not re- folding wings—took off within the Parliamentary Secretary to Wolf: "Excuse me, but haven't ceive pay or allowances. There 500 to 600 feet, climbed steeply, the Admiralty (Mr. John Dug- I met you somewhere?" will be no compulsory training, and made several passes at the dale) replied: "No, Sir. Com- Red Riding Hood: "Possibly. but it is under consideration to field at speeds of more than 500 plete returns have not yet been I'm rather careless about where I arrange voluntary training for miles an hour. It went into steep received and cannot be expected go." certain categories. climbs, banked sharply, and roll- for some time in view of the com- ed before landing at about 85 The Cynic plexity of the position in some Russian Navy's Submarine miles an hour. Incidentally, it Small Boy: "Father, what is Dominions. Until the returns Fleet was powered by a British-made 'planned economy'?" have been received in a final form According to the "New York Nene jet engine capable of pro- Parent: "An economic system, it is not possible to make a reli- Herald Tribune," U.S. Secretory ducing a static thrust of about my boy, under which the Gov- able estimate of the amount of of the Navy, John L. Sullivan, 5,000 pounds. Equipped with ex- ernment either gives you all you prize money available. For the testifying on U.S. Naval strength ternal wing tip fuel tanks, the have or takes all. you've got." February, 1941. in TtoNavy —

Panther will have a combat oper- the magazine says. "Vice -Ad- ating radius of 300 miles, and in miral John D. Price, Commander EX-NAVAL MEN'S addition to its role as a fighter Air Force, Pacific Fleet, has for- plane, will carry bombs for raid- warded a report which would ing missions. surprise many sailors who sweat- ed out those long months before Association of Australia U.S. Britain Renounce Share of *V-J Day. The only air bases to Italian Navy. survive the peacetime 'rollback' to Hit Ma/.«ty T»« King HOTEL The Foreign Office has an-, keep within budget limits are nounced that Britain has, with a Agana and Orote on Guam, Federal Council Essendon Sub/Section (Hon. Sec- Services Canteen Trust Fund. few small exceptions, renounced Kwajalein, Midway, Sangley In recognition of* the valuable retary, Mr. C. L. Leggo, 24 Laura A welfare fund of £2,000,000 PLAZA her rights under the peace treaty Point in the Philippines, and to a share of the Italian Navy. services rendered to our Associa- St., Moonee Ponds); Footscray has been established by the Tanapag on Saipan. Discarded tion in Queensland, the Federal Sub/Section (Hon. Secretary, Trustees of the Services Canteen A similar decision by the United or inactivated are many old fam- States Government was earlier Council has approved of the Mr. W. J. Greenwood, 73 Mad- Trust Fund to be distributed for iliar bases—Majuro, Eniwetok, WYNYAkD STATION announced by Count Sforza, the award of Vice-Patronage to Cap- den St., Maidstone); Sandring- assistance in certain cases. Italian Foreign Minister. The re- Truk, Manus, Espiritu Santo, tain E. P. Thomas, R.N. We ham Sub/Section (Hon. Secre- All applications for assistance nounced ships must be scrapped, Guadalcanal, Samar and Tinian." trust that this gentleman will long tary, Mr. W. K. Y. Bromley, 238 are to be investigated by the and cannot be added to the Ital- continue his activities and keen Bluff Rd., Sandringham). All State Regional Welfare Commit- ian Navy, composition of which R.N. Ship to Shore interest in the Association's af- ex Naval personnel residing in tee through various approved or- George St. is fixed by the peace treaty. But Telephone Service. fairs. these districts are invited to con- ganizations or direct. Assistance tact the respective Hon. Secre- the Italian Navy will be spared A short range Radio-telephone Commander (E) O. F. Mc- will be granted in the following the humiliation of handing over Mahon, R.A.N. (Rtd.) first Pres- taries with a view t« becoming classes if authorised by the com- Sydney service is now available for calls members of our Association. its ships to the Allies. Among between Home Fleet ships and ident of the Sydney Sub-Section,' mittee:— is kept busy welcoming ex R.N. ships originally allotted to be shar- other ships on the Home Station, It is the desire of the State 1. To dependants of an ex-ser- ed between Britain, the United and telephone subscribers in and R.A.N. ranks and ratings in- Council to have established in the to our Association besides taking viceman who dies, leaving t States and Russia, were the battle- Great Britain, Northern Ireland, various Metropolitan districts and them in need of assistance, if ships "Italia," 35,000 tons; Vit- and Eire. The service is not an active part in the functions of in Country centres, Sub/Sections the N.S.W. State Council. the committee considers the torio Veneto," 35,000 tons; and available to ships employed on which will be of advantage to the case particularly deserving. "Guilio Cesare," 23,622 tons. Official opening of the N.S.W. ex Naval personnel residing in trooping or to any ships on^pas- 2. To an ex-serviceman, with de- 'Altogether there were some 30 Headquarters, which will be these areas, and request anyone sage to or from foreign stations. pendants, who is sick or un- warships. situated at "Denyer House," interested in the formation of a The effective range of this service able to work through illness George St., Sydney, will be eag- Sub/Section in their district to is about 150 miles from Coast sta- or an accident. U.S. Discards Many Pacific erly awaited by the local mem- contact the Hon. State Secretary tions in the United Kingdom. 3. To an ex-serviceman whose Air Bases. bers who have contributed to the (Mr. W. H. Sullivan), 383 DRINKS AVAILABLE The inclusive charges for all wife or dependant child is cost of purchasing this building. Flinders Lane, Melbourne, for The air arm of the U.S. Navy, radio-telephone calls made from sick and requires attention ad- H.M. Ships to Admiralty, Naval full particulars. WITH MEALS which once had mighty naval air Mr. A. R. J. Trimming, Hon. ditional to that provided by bases operating over the Pacific, Establishments or private sub- It is only by having all who social services. scribers in Great Britain, North- State Secretary of Western Aus- has but six bases left in the en- tralia, who has been in ill health served in the "Silent Service" in 4. To any ex-serviceman's wid- tire ?rea west of Hawaii, accord- ern Ireland and Eire are:— one Association that we can reas- ow who is in need of assist- 10/6d. for three minutes (mini for some months has tendered his ing to "Naval Aviation News," resignation from office. The Fed- onably expect to give you the ser- ance due to sickness of her- the official air magazine of the mum charge), plus 3/6d. for each vice for which we were founded: self or her dependants or to additional minute or part of a eral Executive wishes Mr. Trim- Navy. "You would never recog- ming a speedy recovery and good "Each for All" (f "All for Each." circumstances beyond her con- nise the old battleground now," luck on his retirement from duty. trol. Obituary 5. To ex-servicemen or their de- Victoria Section It is with considerable regret pendants who are in necessi- , T'HE State President and mem- that we have to report the death tious circumstances and who EVERY THURSDAY bers of the State Council are of the following members during are, in the opinion of the HOTEL BOXING pleased to' announce that with the past quarter: Messrs. W. G. committee, deserving of as- NIGHT the close of the year 1947, there Patterson, L. J. Sibbett, G. sistance. were established in Victoria four Broadmead and W. G. Monteith. 6. To the dependants of any tot- PLAZA Sub/Sections, and they look for- To the deceased's relatives we ex- ally or permanently incapaci- ward to more being inaugurated tend the heartfelt sympathy of all" tated eligible ex-serviceman LEICHHARDT STADIUM in the year 1948. Officers and members of our As' in need of assistance. The Sub/Sections already sociation. For the benefit of Ex-R.A.N. EVERY SATURDAY formed in ' Victoria are:—Mel- H.. E. Ivey, personnel who served in the bourne Sub/Section (Hon. Sec- State President. 1939-1945 World War between WRESTLING NIGHT retary, Mr. W. A. Juler, Box W. H. Sullivan, the 3rd September, 1939, and 1201 k., G.P.O., Melbourne); Hon. State Secretary. 30th June, 1947, all of whom, in

Th* Navy F*bra.ry, 194*. i « . \ p^fr'" i case of need, are eligible to apply j presided at the piano. for assistance from the Canteen The election of Miss Hazel le Trust Fund, the Ex-Navalmen's • NAUTICAL QUIZ Marchand, as our first honorary Quarter-Deck Association of Australia (Victory member is worthy of comment. ian Section) has engaged the ser- (1) What is the association of the following ships, in stories This lady promises to prove a vices of a Welfare investigating of the sea by well-known authors? (a) The brig "Pil- tower of strength to our associa- Officer (Ex. W.R.A.N.S.) to grim"; (b) The clipper "The Bird of Dawning"; (c) tion. Already through her good Whiteness handle their applications for as- The steamer "Nan-Shan"; (d) H.M.S. "Piomede"; (e) graces, and other silent support- sistance. This investigating Of- The East Indiaman "Agra"; (f) The whaler "Pequod"; ers, we have come into possession ficer has had considerable experi- (g) The Elizabethan ship "Rose." of a goodly quantity of crockery, ence in handling the cases of (2) The name of Admiral Henderson is prominent in Aus- glassware and furniture. R.A.N, personnel under the R.A.N. Relief Fund and is con- tralian naval defence. Who was Admiral Henderson? There appears every likelihood versant with the problems of Ex- (3) Do you remember the names of the opposing Command- that State Council will launch a R.A.N. Personnel. The Welfare ing Officers in the action between H.M.A.S. "Sydney" building fund appeal in 1948. Officer can be contacted at the and S.Kf.S. "Emden" on 9th. November, 1914? Plans, so far, are in the element- Victorian Section Office, 383 (4) H.M.A.S. "Canberra" was lost in the Savo Island battle ary . stage. An objective of Flinders Lane, Melbourne. Janu- of 9th. August, 1942. Does any other Navy possess a £20,000 is spoken of as the tar- ary 1st., 1948, has been set down "Canberra"? get. Raising this sum would en- IT CLEANS for the commencing date on (5) The former Japanese Mandated Islands, the Maiianas, tail a considerable amount of hard which distributions in approved were originally called the Ladrones. By whom were they work but should be well within IT WON'T RUB OFF cases will be made. so named, and why? our scope. all stores (6) Over a long period of years a famous annual trade We are represented on the was carried on across the Pacific. Do you know it? Australia Day Celebration Com- QUEENSLAND. (7) Do you know an essential constructional difference mittee by Messrs. H. Forbes and Decision of the Brisbane Sub- between the Panama and Suez Canals? W. M. Macdonald. Plans are G A IRS section to introduce a Family (8) Where do you find the following types of craft? (a) afoot for us to be appropriately MELBOURNE night as an adjunct to each quart- Feluccas, (b) Dghaisas, (c) Cobles, (d) Catamarans, (e) represented in the procession. erly meeting was a move in the Caiques, (f) Gufas, (g) Kayaks. Miss M. Beresford (State Sec- FOR right direction. This was evident (9) For what is the American cruiser "Maine" famous? retary) and Mr. C. Lambourne FLAGS and PENNANTS by the responsive attendance of "(10) Who manufactured the first practical chronometer? are our welfare and education representatives respectively on the TENTS and MARQUEES members, relatives and friends at Answers on page 56. the inaugural function on De- Services Canteen Trust Fund. and ALL CANVAS GOODS cember 1. Capt. E. P. Thomas, Administration in this State has R.N., was among our guests. been set up. The Navy and Air tion and photographs depicting and enterprise of our live-wire Forces now come within its scope. GAIRS MELBOURNE Highlight was an illustrated the progress made by that coun- social committee. Each child was Mr. J. P. Hills has resigned as THE GAIR MANUFACTURING CO. PTY. LTD. talk on Asia-Minor by the State try under the -leadership of the recipient of an appropriate Secretary at Rockhampton. He president (Mr. A. C. Nichols). Kemal Pasha (or Kemal Attaturk toy, while they enjoyed a plenti- is now domiciled at Maryborough. '80-4U8 ELIZABETH ST., MELBOURNE, C.l, The speaker related his experi- as he was better known). ful supply of ice cream and other The president is carrying out the VICTORIA. ences as a prisoner of war in Mr. Nichols was accorded a edibles to their keen delight. secretarial duties until a successor Registered Addrfee for Cable* and Telegrams: "Gain Melbourne." Turkey for three years, from To all who forwarded dona- is appointed. Rockhampton is 191." to 1918. He was a member hearty vote of thanks at the in- Phone: FJ6131 (6 line.) stance of Mr. Norman Pixley tions, including Federal Council running a series of dances in con- of the crew of the AE2 which officers, we express^ heartfelt junction with the Air Force As- CANVAS GOODS MANUFACTURERS was abandoned after being struck (Brisbane Sub-section president). The next Family Night is sched- thanks. Our appreciation is also sociation and The Australian astern by shellfire in the Sea of due to Mrs. R. J. Gardner who Legion. Marmora, on April 30, 1915. All uled for March 1 when we hope aboard were saved. to welcome a public figure who will address us on current affairs. When thlpt of the Novy AE2 was one of first two un- "then followed our first Christ- " heave to" this rope derwater craft commissioned by mas Tree party on December 13. holds fast! the Royal Australian Navy. The Circumstances compelled a last HENRY SIMON (AUST.) other was AE1. Both were ill- minute change in venue to the fated. AE1 was lost with all V.A.D. Club rooms. Altogether LTD. hands _ in New Guinea waters 74 children of members and de- Engineers shortly after the outbreak of hos- parted mates, aged from 6 weeks tilities in 1914. to 12 years, were entertained. GROSE STREET, GLEBE, N.S.W. In post-war years Mr. Nichols Parents, too, turned up in force. Pnaumatic and Mvchanleal Handling Plant for . . . kept in touch with Turkish af- Mr. W. M. Macdonald filled the fairs. ' He was in communication role of Santa Claus in a highly GRAIN, COAL, OXIDES, ETC. with the Minister for Education efficient manner. Sack Elevators and Convayon who supplied him with informa- Success was due to the energy

TW Navy Fabni.r/, IMS. ! 7 •: In "Measures of Severity," battle which that day flowed over Max Coolahan's—Second A.I.F David Griffin, 2nd A.I.F., tells the the ridges, where the low holly-oak —"The Battle of Wadi Ya Rekn" BOOK REVIEWS story of Changi Camp, and of the scrub gave cover from height only will make you smile, as will J. dreadful episode of the Selarang about knee high, many companies C. H. Gill's—R.A.N.—story of If it's from . . . barrack square. The story loses no- By «.H.O. had every stretcher-bearer killed or "Bloody Bill" in "Lost By Enemy thing by the sober way in which wounded. Wherever a wounded Action." And Biddy Moriarty's— "AS YOU WERE—1947." A Cavalcade Of Events With The it is told. In the filth and degra- man was seen in the scrub or a cry Australian Red Cross Field Force MORAN Australian Services From 1788 to 1947. Published by the Australian dation of Selarang, the courage of went up for bearers, these men —"Among My Souvenirs" will War Memorial, Canberra. Set up, printed and bound, by Haistead the prisoners shines, a jewel made made their way, whatever the dan- evoke memories in the most pleas- AND Press Pty. Ltd., Sydney. brighter and more serene by its ger." Dr. Bean tells a number of ant way. One could go on, for all I setting. It is a story tc inspire. In- stories of individual heroism, and are good. But we must leave the "As You Were—1947" is the offers an embarrassment of riches. cidentally, it is illustrated by two of quiet paticnce and tenac.:... authors. CATO'S twentieth in an imposing list of There is much of which one would authentic and damning photo- like to write, but space does not graphs. One of the most delightful Of the artists represented, there books published during and since stories in the book is "The Boy allow for it. . are those past and present. George the war by the War Memorial Two historic and interesting With the 'Tin Iggis'," by Lawscn Board. Its predecessors, which, Lambert's "Cairo Street Scene" "Too late now to pull out and photographs also illustrate B. A. Glassop, Second A.I.F. It tells of during the war years, consisted of and "Es Salt Raid" are two good IT MUST BE GOOD go in again farther south. Day Harding's story of "The Battle of how Sorbi Mahomed, Abdul and separate volumes for each Service, reproductions in full colour of typi- would be cracking very soon and Macquarie Point," a battle which Achmcd came to the camp at Dcir set a high standard, both in con- cal work by this fine artist, Colin as the leading boats touched the took place in Sydney Harbour in Suneid one day, to know if any- tent and in presentation and pro- Cclahan's "Ballet of Wind and shingle a light flared on a knoll to April, 1881, and the moral of one wanted to buy "tin iggis.". It duction. '"As You Were—1947" Rain," another full-colour repro- the south, and against the dim sky- which, according to a contempor- tells how Lawson Glassop liked maintains that standard. duction of a painting of airmen line now in the eerie first light, ary newspaper editorial, was that Sorbi Mahomed; and of Abdul battling against a squall on their As was its immediate fore- Azeem, who had read "Robinson was seen the tiny, agitated figure "at all costs we must keep an way across the field to their air- runner, "As You Were—1946," Crusoe" and "The Water Babies" of the first Turk. A light flared enemy out, and if that idea-is fixed craft, is a completely satisfying .. this book is one written and illus- and "David Copperfield," and was again, a hoarse cry floated over the firmly in the minds of legislators, piece of work, as is Ivor Hele's trated by members and ex-members going to be a policcman. Inciden- hills, a rifle flashed and a spark the powder that was burnt yester- "Italian Prisoners Surrendering." of the three Services. It ranges tally, it throws a sidelight on the leapt from the shingle as the bul- day was blazed away to good ad- Frank Norton, Roy Hodgkinson, far and wide in space and time, Arab feeling regarding Palestine. let struck. And then began An- vantage." William Dargie, Donald Friend, J. from the Army in Australia before It is a story written with insight zac." E. V. Timms, First and Austin Laughlin's — First and C. Goodchild and Dennis Adams Waterloo and the days of the and delicacy. Second A.I.F., tells of it in "One Second A.I.F. — "Closing Loop- arc among the contemporary ar- Sudan Contingent of 1885, to the Sunday Morning." holes" is an interesting account of recent past and immediate past of publicity censorship during the the two world wars, and the pre- Crayton Burns, First A.I.F., in war. His description of the test A Place to Remember... sent with the Occupation Forces his "The Aimy in Australia Be- carried out to s,how the possibility COCKATOO DOCKS in Japan. Therein lies something fore Waterloo," justifies the claim is the impooing M.L.C building, situ- of communication with an enemy 1 of the value of this book and of irf his opening paragraph that the ated in Sydney's centra Martin Place It ENGINEERING by medium of audicnce-participa- and on the corner of Castlereagh Street. last yey's production. The record early history of the Australian tion radio programmes, offers con- The M.L.C. provides a life assurance CO. PTY. LTD. of distant events which yet remain Military Forces offers engrossing vincing evidence of the necessity service, embracing an attractive range in personal memory find a perman- reading to the student whose in- of policies designed to meet all the of strict contro' during wartime. needs and emergencies of your future. • ency within their pages. The terest takes him back to those tur- Tom Gunning, a member of the The Company's history extends over Contractor! to . .. chances are that otherwise they bulent days of the late 1780's. New South Wales Sudan Contin- sixty years, and it provides life assur- would be lost, save to the few inti- Crayton Burns is an accomplished, ance protection to holders of over a gent of 1885, has written an inter- million policies. H.M. AUSTRALIAN NAVY. mately connected with private re- tidy, and economic writer, who esting account — and again there Ship-butfders, cords, odd diaries, letters and so loses nothing of colour in his con- art good historic photographs. on. As to more recent events, it is densation. His contribution is a Marine Tom Ronan's — Second A.I.F. — good that they should be recorded valuable one. He makes grateful "The Songs We Sang" will awak- and while their details are still fresh in acknowledgment of 'the use of re en memories. The General Engineers. memory, and before the elusive search material gathered by fhe Dr. C. E. W. Bean, in his "The Inquirlef I rcvitod. stuff of atmosphere has dissipated. former Defence Librarian (the late Most of the material in this Mr. R. K. Peacock) in the notes Stretcher-bearer Tradition," lias book is factual. Much of it is re- "The Imperial Troops from 1783 written with feeling of a fine body MLC miniscence. There is plenty of to 1870," which are now preserved of men. That tradition was estab- humour. Because so much is fac- in the Australian War Memorial lished on the 25th April, 1915. COCKATOO ISLAND - tual and reminiscence, it is good. at Canberra. An enquiring mind, ". . . The stretcher-bearers, ambu- The MUTUAL LIFE and CITIZENS' SYDNEY The authors wrote of what they • and years of association with the lance and regimental, were deter- knew and felt. There is a refresh- Defence Library, made Mr. Pea- mined that, come what might, they Assurance Go. Ltd. ing simplicity, a lack of straining cock an authority with a great would show themselves as ready to Head Office: Phone: WB 1941 after effect, a sincerity, which knowledge- of Australian Military stake their lives on. doing their job Comer of Castlereagh Street and Martin Place, SYDNEY as were any fighting men They (It line.) makes for enjoyable reading. The history, and with his death this Branch Offices in:— trouble with this book, from a re- country suffered a considerable showed this from the first hours of Melbourne, Brubane, Adelaide, Perth, Hohatt, Wellington, N.Z. viewer's point of view, is that it loss. the Landing at Anzac. In the w, r % Ike Navy Nmwy, l*4»v I Aaiiit. rises represented to the book's great " 1m!" said the Saloon Deck- benefit. man. "Colonel 'Amilton, 'e is. Won Award in Russian Convoys Leastways, that's wot's on the card Of considerable interest is the Able Seaman Warden % Distinguished Service Medal on 'is deck chair. But 'e don't reproduction of the painting by count. Colonel! Bloomin' prisoner Robert Hofman of the bombing of was earned on the Arctic Murmansk route SISTERS UNDER THE SKIN of war, that's wo: 'e is, condemned Wadi Fara by aircraft of No. 1 MONG personnel of the Royal Australian Navy who put perpetual to life in a 'orror camp. Australian Squadron on the 21st By "Tb* Passenger" Can't call 'is soul 'is own. And to September, 1918. Robert Hofman, A in the bulk of their wartime service with the Royal Navy is Able Seaman Frederick Neville Worden, D.S.M., R.A.N.R. think," continued my friend, em- an artist by profession now living Y friend, Mr. Arthur Jenkins, and ventured the opinion that they barking on a philosophical strain, in Melbourne, was then an Aus- A New South Welshman, Able Seaman Worden entered M the Saloon Deckman of the were twins. "that there's two poor blokes trian anillery officcr serving with the Royal Australian Navy at Sydney as an Ordinary Seaman "Southern Star," spluttered and "They are, Mister," he said. 'oppin' around this 'ere world, as the Turks. He was in Wadi Fara, in December, 1940, and proceeded overseas nine, months later, gasped for breath so that I was fain "Name of 'Amilton. And as stuck- free as birds an' not knowin' and the destruction of that day remaining with the Royal Navy until his'return to Australia to pat him on the back to assist in up a pair of young smart Alecks they're well off, as is condemned remains in his memory, and the in November, 1945. His service was mainly performed in his recovery. We,were sitting in as you'd find in a day's march. to 'ave 'er for a mother-in-law painting is the result. Also on the Motor Launches, in M L. 471 and M.L. 173. He was also, his locker on the boat deck, watch- Take after their old woman, they before many years is passed, once pictorial side, Lieutenant-General however, in H.M. Ships "Hornet" and "Bamborough Castle," ' ing the blue horizon rise and fail do. One of these 'ere bossy sort. them two twins gets their nips Sir Carl Jess has produced two- and it was while he was in this last named ship, from April, gently and regularly over the Brought their own deck chairs with in." most interesting water colours il- 1944, until August, 1945, that he performed service which snowy boat covers as the ."South- 'em, they did. And all the time lustrating military uniforms in earned for him the award of the Distinguished Service Medal. ern Star" rolled easily to the long it's 'Put my chair 'ere, Deckman,' "Oh, I don't know," I expostu- Australia at the opening of last When, on June 22nd., 1941, Germany attacked Russia, a heavy Atlantic swell. He had been in the an' 'Put my chair there, Deckman,' lated. "They look quite nice girls. . century, those of The Loyal Asso- new commitment was imposed on the Royal Navy. Russia act of drinking fronf the bqttle of as though I 'aven't got enough to Young, of course, and at the silly ciation, 1800, and The N.S.W. was in urgent and continuous need of fighting equipment, and beer I had thoughtfully provided, do without dancin' attendance on age. But they look quite pleasant." Veterans' Corps, 1810. the Arctic route to her northern ports was the main supply and when I had nudged him to at- 'er all day. 'Ad to tick 'er off be- line by which it could be transported to her. The first convoy tract his attention, the result had fore she'd been aboard the bloomin' "That's wot some poor unfor- "As You Were—1947" is a sailed from Britain for Archangel on 21st. August, 1941, and credit to its contributors, its pub- been as unexpected to me as it had ship five minutes, i did. Stooard! tunate blokes is goin' to think," with it began a regular service of military supplies to the been, apparently, to him. Called me stooard!" said Mr. Jenkins darkly, "until lishers and its printers. It is a Soviet. The route was one which was subject to great rigours book well worth having, and one they wakes up w'en it's too late to and great dangers. To the rigours of the Arctic weather, long " 'Ere! Wot did you go a'doin' The Saloon Deckman bridled that this reviewer can commend to do anything about. I seen it 'ap- black nights, heavy gales, sleet and snow and ice, and pene- of that there for?" he asked with with indignation at the thought, you wholeheartedly. pen, time an' time again." trating cold. To the ever present danger of enemy attack, by considerable indignation when he and his normally sunburnt and air, by submarine, and by surface ships. had at last subdued his choking. freckled countenance took on a "They might," I suggested, "take richer hue under the stress of after their father. Girls often do. The story of the Russian Convoys is one of gallantry "Made me spill 'arf that there emotion. And if one does, it's pretty certain and endurance on the part of the men of the Royal Navy and beer, you did. It were a good job that the other will also. Twins are AARONS of the Merchant Service against the bitter Arctic weather it wer- near the end of the bottle, "Has she a husband?" I asked. nearly always alike." and sea conditions, and against a resourceful and determined or you might 'ave caused a serious EXCHANGE accident." foe, and Able Seaman Worden's award was made for his "Don't you believe it, Mister," service and the part he wrote in the story of these convoys. HOTEL He wiped his chin resentfully said my friend." They may Ipol^ The citation accompanying his award reads: "For gallant with the sleeve of his faded dun- alike, but that don't mean noth- service, endurance and devotion to duty while serving in garee jacket, while I apologised ing. Like ships, they is. You can I GRESHAM STREET H.M.S. "Bamborough Castle" in the Arctic Sea while escort- humbly. "I wanted," I explained, get sister ships wot is identical in ing convoys to and from North Russia." "to draw your attention to those every way. Built to the same plans SYDNEY Able Seaman Worden was demobilised in February, two girls." in the same yard, engined the 1946. same, every bloomin' thing the A couple of young passengers, same about 'em. Yet they'll be'ave they had walked pas: the locker, as different as chalk from cheese. Only the Bast Brands and were now at the far end of Take this 'ere ship wot we're now 2} tons—For I the deck, just turning to conic our on board of. She's as good a ship Stocked. Ocean Towing Thi. 700 foot ceil of CW>U Laid way again in the course of their as you'll find, even if I does say it Dining Room " - Bop. 21 too nd promenade. Identical in height as shouldn't, see in' the responsible • 18" in MI It Unsurpassed. id* «t KitmMr'a Foocamy and feature, they were dressed position I 'as on board, wot might (oc an Octu Towing similarly in green and white striped opwarion. 'ave something to do with 'er effi- fishermen's stocking caps, orange ciency, as you might say. An' then Kinnear's coloured pull-overs, short green take 'er sister, the 'Southern skirts, bobby socks and canary Cross." A knol slower, 'igher fuel AARONS EMU BRAND sports shoes. Aged about sixteen, consumption, always in trouble an' EXCHANGE ROTE, CORDAGE, TWINE they were a colourful pair who breakin' down, an', in fact, com- AND UNEN THREADS. had joined the ship a couple of HOTEL pletely different from this 'ere ship. Goo. HNNEAR « SONS PIT. Ltd. days earlier at Teneriffe. I re- aOjfc :'' Of course, I know as she 'asn't got 114 KING ST., MELBOURNE. marked on their appearance and 'a pulls out a quid not* an* 'ands no outstanding personality on similarity to tty Saloon Deckman, H to ml." board, like me, in a manner of Tk* Navy Fabnary. 1*4*. 41 •l i An' then I sees diis bloke is makin' turns on me like a pickpocket. 'An' 'isself at 'ome. 'E 'as tok 'is 'at wot the blazes are you a doin' of The first line of defence for the family 'an coat off an' chucked 'em on the in my room?' 'e asks. settee, an' 'as opened the O' Man's THE is undoubtedly a Life Assurance Policy, and the Policy The Saloon Deckman shook his drink locker an' got out a bottle "Which just shows you, Mis- contracts issued by The Colonial Mutual Life Assurance head. "No, Mister," he said. "You of w'isky an' mixed 'isself a drink, ter," said the Saloon Deckman, FLEET-FORGE are designed to provide the strongest possible defence for can't go on looks, nor you can't an' 'as picked up a framed photo " 'ow grateful people is, 'im 'avin' go by twins, neither, as Captain 'eard me praisin' of 'im up only a the family. of a tabby wot was on the Ol' Rogers, of the "Southern Cross,' Man's desk, an' is lookin' at it an' minute before, me 'avin' raised me PTY. LTD. They may be obtained by payment of instalments, weekly, found out to 'is sorrer." talkin to it. 'And where did you voice on purpose. come from, my dear?' I 'ears 'im 9-13 LORIMER ST. monthly, quarterly, half-yearly, or yearly. "Tell me about it," 1 suggested, "But that's all you expect from and, as my friend cast a longing say. people these days, an' I gets STH. MELBOURNE Write for booklet to . . . look at the empty beer bottle,. I emptied out of his room, an' blow added, "I have another one down "An' then I 'ops round td the me if it don't turn out that this VICTORIA in my room, which I'll bring up door an' walks in an' confronts 'ere strange bloke is Captain later." 'im, as the sayin' is, thinkin' 'ow Rogers, of the 'Southern Cross,' The Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society proud the Ol' Man will be when 'e ENGINEERS "All right," said the Saloon wot 'ad come back from a night learns as 'ow Arthur Jenkins 'as ashore an' walked aboard the Deckman. "I'll tell yer, seein' as been lookin' after 'is interests in STRUCTURAL Limited it might be a warnin' to yer. But," 'Southern Star' by mistake, them 'is absence. bein' sister ships an' 'im being' a MECHANICAL 316 COLLINS STREET, MELBOURNE, C.l. he added, apropos of the beer. "I don't want no bribin', Mister. "Well, this 'ere strange bloke, 'e bit under the weather, as you MARINE That an't in ltiy line, though if . . ain't a bit put out when I 'ops in might say. 'Owever! It were this way." on 'im like that. Instead, 'e faces "Well, I'm down on the saloon Quotations given for all up as bold as brass. deck again, thinkin' over this 'ere classes of work. YIN' in Cape Town Docks, " 'An' 'oo the blazes might you perversity of 'uman nature, when be?' 'e says to me. about 'arf a hour later, Captain L we was. The 'Southern Cross' TELEPHONE: For Everything in Men's and on one side of the pier, an' us on " 'That there were just the ques- Rogers, 'e comes along from the Boy's Wear -Shop at "The the other. As like as two peas to tion I were goin' to ask you," I Ol' Man's -room on 'is way back M X 5 2 3 1 (6 lines) look at, but different in natures, as tel's 'im, dignified like. tn 'is own ship. 'E comes up to me Man's Store"-The House you might say, as I was a'tcllin' " 'Oh! Were it?' 'e says. 'Well, •when 'e sees me, an' 'e says: yer. It were pretty late at night, let me tell you, my lad, you'll find 'Well, my man,' 'e says, 'I'm sorry for quality and service an' everything's quiet like, an' me iut 'oo I am quick an' lively,' 'e about that there mix up. It is a 'avin' a quiet look around the says. 'Are you one of the crew of thing wot might 'appen to any- ENGINEERING saloon deck, w'en a bloke comes up this 'ere ship?' 'e asks. one,' 'e says, an' 'e pulls out a quid the gangway from ashore an' starts " 'I am,' I says. note an' 'ands it to me. 'We'll PRODUCTS to walk for'ard as though 'e owns " 'Then you must be drunk,' 'e forget all about it,' 'e says. An' the bloomin' ship. says, 'to come 'oppin' into the Cap- 'e's just walkin' off when 'e sort of PTY. LTD. tain's room like this. You 'op off remembers something an' comes "A youngish bloke 'e were, an" back. 'By the way,' 'e says. 'You by the looks of 'im 'e'd been ashore quick,' 'e says, suddenly gettin' 426-434 Burnley St. very fierce like, 'or I'll log you in wouldn't 'appen to know the name enjoyin' 'isself. 'Ad one or two an' address of that there lady 'oo's BURNLEY under 'is Belt, as you might say. I the mornin' my lad,' 'e says, 'an' make you sorry for these 'ere picture's on the Captain's desk up VICTORIA thought as 'ow 'e were probably there, would you?' 'e says. a passenger, but I thinks I'll keep carryin's on.' • my eye on 'im, and to my surprise " 'You'll log me,' I says, sarcas- "I tells 'im no, I didn't. An' 'e goes straight along the deck an' tic like. 'Listen, Mister, I'm gettin" then 'e says as 'ow 'e thinks she's Specialised up the boat deck ladder. So I the police to run you in, see?" An' a old friend of 'is, 'oo's address Manufacturers follers. just then I 'ears footsteps on the 'e's mislaid. An' 'e particular in all types of deck outside, ah' I carries on. 'I wants to get in touch with 'er. 'If Petrol, Oil and other "You can imagine, my surprise ain't 'avin' you a'bustin' into the you could get that there informa- w'en 'e makes straight for the Ol' Storage and Dispensing For the best Soft Drinks Captain's room, wot is the finest tion for me,' 'e says, 'an' nick Equipment. Man'3 room, the Ol' Man bein' Captain in the Merchant Service across with it to-morrow mornin'. Always say . . . ashore, an' the door bein' on the of the ol' bloomin' seven seas.' it'll be worth a fiver to yer,' 'e says. • 'ook; an' this 'ere bloke, 'e un'ooks . . . An' just then I'm interrupted "Well, Mister, 'e were a nice Telephones: the door as large as life, an' walks by our Ol' Man comin' in an' sayin. bloke, an' I wanted to oblige 'im if JA 5251 MARCHANTS in': 'Wot's goin' on "ere?" them I could. An' I got that there in- "Well, I don't know wot to do bein' 'is footsteps wot I'd 'eard. formation off of the Captain's JAS252 for a minute or so, an' I 'angs "An, to my surprise, when 'e Tiger. Cost me a quid, it did, 'im • about outside, an' presently I 'ops sees this 'ere strange bloke, 'e says: bein' a thievin' 'ound. Says as 'ow round an' 'as a dekko through the 'Why, Captain Rogers, this ere's it were against 'is principles for to I Telegrams: port, wot 'ad a curtain drawn. a gjeasant surprise.' An' then 'e go givin' away information like I, Eppcol, Melbourne

Tie Nevy NWewf. t*N- * that, stein' as 'ow the 01' Man were very sweet on this 'ere girl, Naval Appointments, Etc. About Aluminium in Shipbuilding No. 7 an' wanted to keep other blokes JOHNS & WAYG000 off, especially blokes like Rogers, The U.S. Naw'a submarine "Marlin," recently broken up, waa an ex- 'oo might cut 'im out. She were LID. cellent example of the auccesa of aluminium

Its Navy Fahnary, l»4». (I „ I. ^jj-tc .,>.., FIRST NAVAL MEMIERS. Lieutenant-Commander) is terminated, dated 24th SeptemberL , 1947. Continu.d from pig. IS. The appointment of John Richard Neville as Temporary Lieutenant m the ' t.war operations ir THOMAS is terminated, dated 19th September, 1947. The appointment of the and B|ack Seas Tattersall's £10,000 (1st Prize) William Bruce Jeavons as Temporary Sub-Lieutenant is terminated, ^^ Qf Dockyard an(j King's Har- dated 13th August, 1947. The appointment of Francis Gerald Squire •bou r Master, Rosyth, 1921 to CASH CONSULTATIONS ROBINSON & as Temporary Commissioned Officer from Warrant Rank is terminat- 1923; Senior Officer Reserver ed, dated 16th September, 1947. Fleet, the Nore, 1924 to 1925; he are a weekly affair. ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVAL RESERVE. was Commanding Officer of the SON PTY. LTD. Termination of Appointments.—The appointment of Ian aircraft carrier H.M.S. "Eagle" —Well and Widely Known— Geoffrey Allen as Lieutenant is terminated, dated 4th September, from 1925 to 1926. Promoted 1947. The appointment of Alexander Joseph Lyons as Lieutenant is Rear-Admiral in 1927, he was ap- %THE TICKET 5/-. FLOUR MILL AND terminated, dated 8th September, 1947. pointed Rear-Admiral First ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVAL VOLUNTEER RESERVE. Battle Squadron, Mediterranean Postage for ticket and result, 5d. WOOD-WORKING Appointment.—John Herman Picken, D.S.M., is appointed Fleet, in 1928. His term of of- Warrant Engineer, dated 29th October, 1947. fice as First Naval Member was "To Win You Must Be In." ENGINEERS, Promotion. Lieutenant Montague William Mathers is promoted from '929 to 1931. Promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Commander, dated 1st September, 1947. Vice-Admiral" he became Vice- You can write from any ship or any port. Resignation.—The resignation of Charles MacDonald of his ap- Admiral Commanding, Reserve The Address . . . pointment as Acting Lieutenant-Commander is accepted, dated 16th Fleet, from 1922;to 1934. Creat- October, 1947. K.B.E. in 1915, he was pro- GEO. ADAMS (TATTERSALL) HOBART moted Admiral and placed on the 160 SUSSEX ST., CORRIGENDUM. reserve list the following year. With regard to Executive Minute No. 46—notice of which ap- Vice-Admiral Sir George Fran- SYDNEY, peared on page No. 2141 of Commonwealth Gaiette, No. 145 of 8th cis Hyde, K.C.B., C.V.O., C.B.E., August, 1946—that portion relating to the termination of the appoint- R.A.N., was the first R.A.N. Of- N.S.W. ment of Lieutenant (Special Branch) James William McNiff, Royal ficer to become First Naval Mem- Australian Naval Volunteer Reserve, is cancelled.— (Ex. Min. No. 62 ber when he succeeded Rear-Ad- —Approved 9th December, 1947.) miral Kerr in 1931. Born in W. J. F. RIORDAN, Minister for the Navy. 1877 at Portsmouth, England, he entered the Royal Navy and transferred to the Royal Austra- lian Navy. Commander of H.M. MAKE A POINT OF A.S. "Australia" from 1913 to FOSTERS 1915, he was Commanding Of- CALLING IN TO THE E. WRIGHT ficer of H.M.S. "Adventure" and Flag Captain to Admiral Sir & CO. Lewis Bayly from 1915 to 1917. FIRST & LAST HOTEL He spent the following year at Pi/. Ltd. (LATE CUTTY SARK) the Admiralty, and was Commo- • dore Commanding the Royal CIRCULAR QUAY Australian Naval Squadron from 1926 to 1929. From 1930 to LACES 148-152 Cleveland St. 1931 he commanded the Third CONVENIENT, CENTRALLY SITUATED. Battle Squadron. His term as Chippendale, Sydney First Naval Member was from 1931 to 1937.

a Admiral Sir Ragnar Musgrave v Colvin, K.B.E., C.B., was Vice- Admiral Hyde's successor, and — SCREENS — M. FITZGERALD S. HOFFNUNG & CO. was First Naval Member at the outbreak of war, remaining in SCREENS FOR MINING & Boiler Scaler-and Cleaner. STOP/ the appointment until ill-health METAL GRADING, ETC. LIMITED forced his retirement in 1941. A Lime and Cement Washing. I HI cadet in H.M.S. "Britainnia" in N f W 5 I'I if 1896, he was promoted Lieuten- All kinds of Engine Room 8C Stokehold Work done. For all enquirieuines phphon< e ... 5 .1 . V C ! 157 CLARENCE STREET, c[tun in: ant in 1902, Commander in '913, Oil or Water Tanks. and Captain in 1917. A gunnery C 3429-9 SYDNEY, N.S.W. specialistsp. , he served in H.M.S. 210 MONTAGUE ST., STH. MELBOURNE, VIC. |""RevengeR " at the Battle of Jut- 'Phone—Day or Night: MX 5680. land. From 1922 to 1924 he was

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EDITORIAL Letter* to the Editors . . 5 Editorial 10

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Th. Roaring Forties Sidney James 12 D.stroy.rs of tha R.A.N. Reuben Ranxo 22 Censorship and Publicity . John Clark 25 ' Diving Hal Ih Moments R. L. White 35

PERSONALITIES Lieut.-Commander 6. J. Cliff, R.A.N.V.R. 15 Captain (S) Patrick Parry, O.B.E., R.A.N. 20 Cover: Combined Operations—R.A.A.F. be- Chief Patty Officer J. H. Hutching, 41 ing instructed in Naval Navigation on board H.M.A.S. Murchieoci. Chief Petty Officer Cook (S) R. H. Bland 41

OVERSEAS NEWS. Editor: G. H. GILL. News of the Worldls Navies 27 Maritime News of tha World 29 Associate Editor: SPECIAL FEATURES Captain That's about the distance covered W. G. LAWRENCE. M.B.E. Tha R.N.S.A. Solani Class Cruiser 14 by a 14-passenger lift in a 12-storey Seas, Ships and Sailors Norton IV building. Needless to say the cables ser- Managing Editor: Nautical Question Bo> Captain R. C. C. Dunn, A.I.N.A. 31 vicing the lift must be tough, pliable BARRY E. KEEN. Navy Spotlight Social Reporter 32 and reliable to stay on the job for any HUMOUR length of time. Incorporating the "Navy League Jour- nal," Official Organ of the Navy League Navy Mixture IT of Australia, and "The Merchant Navy," Prendargast . 37 The C.M.A. lift control cable illustrated Journal of the Merchant Service Guild —10 core, with flame proof braid—has been of Australasia. NAVAL OCCASIONS designed by specialists for a specialist Circulating through the Royal Austra- lian and New Zealand Navies, the Mer- What tha Navy Is Doing at Sea and Ashore— job. Hundreds of specialised types of C.M.A. Cables chant Service and to the general public. Squadron Dispositions .38 are being manufactured in Australia. Every one PnbHshod by The Navy League, Royal General 39 is guaranteed in its own role. Exchange Building, 54a Pitt Street, Syd- Personal 40 ney. N.S.W. Telephone: BU 5808. BOOK REVIEWS Subscription Rate: 12 issues post free in the British Empire, "It Might Happen Again" Admiral Lord ChatfieM 42 12/6: foreign, 16/-. FICTION . Wbolosalo Distributors: A Most Successful Evolution A. E. Mollison 53 C.M.A. FLAME PROOF GORDON ft GOTCH (A/si*) LTD., LIFT CONTROL CABLE Australia and New Zealand. GENERAL

March, 1MB. de Havilland SEA VAMPIRE '"NAVY™ NEXT MONTH A number of correspondents have written in to us asking that consideration be given to suggestions they make regarding publishing certain items in "The Navy." Various consid- M.V. • DUNTKOON"—10.M0 Coat erations govern our ability to fall in with the suggestions made. Most of them are good ones, which we hope to be able MELBOURNE to meet, and which we are giving thought to now. We always welcome suggestions from our readers. So let us have them. STEAMSHIP If we can use them to meet your requirements, we shall do so. CO. LTD. If we cannot, we shall tell you why. But certainly some that we have already received will be met in a forthcoming issue. HEAD OFFICE: In the meanwhile, in "The Navy" for April, you will find 31 King St., Melbourne. among the contents: BRANCHES 6R AGENCIES A Sailor's Delight AT ALL PORTS. MANAGING AGENTS Something of the old days of sail, in picture and story, for especially in picture. A contributor who made a voyage home to "Falmouth for orders" as an apprentice in the Finnish HOBSONS BAY DOCK barque "Winterhude" some years back, has sent along a AND ENGINEERING brief article outlining his experiences, and some interesting COY. PTY. LTD. photographs which will delight all those who love sail—and SHIP REPAIRERS, ETC. they are many. So watch for this in the next issue of "The Navy." Work.: Williamstown, Victoria. Half-Way House The Union of South Africa is a very pleasant half-way house on the via-the-Cape route to Australia, and a contributor, :n an illustrated article, tells something of the run to the Cape from the United Kingdom, and of the Cape itself from the visiting seamen's viewpoint, and of the South African Time for a coast round to D.urban. Many R.A.N, personnel, as well as Merchantmen, have had experience of the Union, and this article may jog their memories of a pleasant spot on this earth. They Wrote Of The Sea The first carrier-borne jet aircraft, the de Havilland CAPSTAN The sea has produced quite a number of writers who have Sea Vampire represents a tremendous step forward in become recognised as masters of their second craft, men such naval aviation. Now in production for the R.N. as Masefield, Conrad, Marryat, and others; while the sea has The larfd version of this famous aeroplane is in service coloured the writings of many other authors who wrote from with the R.A.F. and foreign Air Forces, and is to be but fleeting experience or even—although authoritatively—at second hand of ships and sc.imen. In an article in the April produced in Australia for the R.A.A.F. issue, a contributor discusses some of these, and the work CAPSTAN they have produced. Mr. Pryke Again Mr. Pryke, and the Master and Officers of the S.S. . "Castlecrag" come to us again in the forthcoming issue, and discuss sea affairs over high tea in the ship's saloon. General All the usual features will be included in next month's issue. Editorial Comment, "Maritime Nfws of the World," "News of the World's Navies,'.' "What the R.A.N, is Doing," A Short Story, and the latest from the Navy League and the CAPSTAN: THE EMPIRE'S Ex-Naval Men's Association. FAVOURITE CIGARETTE Order your April issue of "The Navy" now.

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"City of Adelaide" "Athiyyathurrahman," so that it Sir, is possible that there may be some a sailing vessel, rigged as a four Cimiiimillli '- I ItTtTifgffTl f *" *W AtutrmUa misunderstanding regarding the master Jackass Barque. In 1896 I enclose a cutting from a Mel- name, although it is unlikely that I remember seeing her in the bourne paper which gives the two ships are involved. If any timber basin, Yarra, unloading story of "City of Adelaide," the other reader can throw any light American lumber. Some years Legal Service Bureaux hulk which lies beached at Cockle later Howard Smiths converted Bay, Magnetic Island, North on this, his remarks would be appreciated. For the benefit of her into a hulk for service at For the purpose of giving legal advice and Queensland. From this you will other readers who have not seen Townsville. Later still she was no doubt be able to ascertain the newspaper cutting about the superseded by the "Konoowarra," service to present and former members of whether or not she is the same "City of Adelaide," it is from the then sold, gutted and beached in the Forces and their dependants, the vessel as the one mentioned in Melbourne "Age" of 8th Novem- Cockle Bay. When last at Legal Service Bureau was established in "The Colonial Clippers," this be- Townsville I made a special trip ing the information asked for by ber, 1941. Written by "C.D.G.," 1942, as part of the Commonwealth it gives a short but full history of to Magnetic Island in order to Attorney-General's Department This Mr. ,N. Allen, ("The Navy," the "City of Adelaide" from the see what remained of her, and January, 1948). time of her arrival on the Aus- was surprised that she stood up- Bureau is available to assist both men and I find your magazine most in- tralian coast in 1864 and her em- right for so long—a tribute to women. Its address in this State is teresting, but trust that more ar- ployment on the Sydney-Mel- the workmanship and material ticles of Merchant Service inter- bourne run as a brig-rigged used in 1864. 4th Floor, Mercantile Mntual Building est will continue to appear. 117 PITT STREET, SYDNEY steamer, on through her career Yours etc., Telephone B W 18S2 Memories were revived by as a "Jackass rig" four-masted John B. Walker, Under Part II ef tbe Re-establishment and Empley. "One Of The Wavies" reference barque, and to her final period of Seaford, •Ml Act 1945, members and ex-members of tbe Foreea to the Sultan of the Maldives' service as a Howard Smith coal Victoria. are entitled to preference in certain circumstances in brig ih his article on Colombo in hulk at Townsville. Many thanks for your letter engagement for employment. They also have other tan supply for the purpose, in1 the the issue for January. Like many and for the information it con- special rights—for example, in relation ta hensing and Ed., "The Navy." tenancy, and moratorium and re establishment benefita. form of Corundum (hence the re- other Australian seamen I was tains, which in addition to fNWta traoe name v^onmaiie ) infatuated by this beautiful brig- whicfc is fused mlumitui, and second in answering Mr. Allan's question rto Commonwealth Attorney-General's Legal Service antine, "Fathul Bari," as I un- Bareau advisee, without charge, en all legal matters hardness only to the diamond. Not the Lubbock "City" will be of considerable interest derstood her to be at the time. to others of our readers. affecting servicemen or their dependants. Any member Hie "Corundite" insulator, because of Her wood and rope work would Sir, er ex-member of tbe Foreea who believea he has not its chemical composition, meets the have to be seen to be believed, Ed., "The Navy." been given tbe treatment to which be is entitled, under In the January number of tbe Re-establishment and Employment Ad er other toughest demands made by modern as would the perfect cleanliness motoring, and combmcs with the your magazine Mr. Norman Allan wise, is invited ta place tbe facta W bis case before other outstanding features of K.L.G. of the vessel generally. The enquires re "City of Adelaide." Some Suggestions tbe Lega'l Berries B area a. either by letter er by to give more efficient sparking plug neatness with which the half- The hulk referred to is not the Sir, pars seal ea ssrvice. naked native officers kept their sight books would put the aver- ship mentioned by Basil Lubbock, I have just finished reading H. V. EVATT, age deck officer to shame. A but was a brig-rigged steamer my third copy of your very ex- Attorney-General of the built in Scotland in 1864, and cellent book "The Navy." But I visit on board her was certainly Commonwealth. an unforgettable experience. owned by the old A.S.N. Co. have a couple of suggestions I She traded between Sydney and would like to make which I think Yours faithfully, Melbourne mostly. The follow- would be of interest to lots of RU H. W. Bolles, ing details I take from the Reg- your readers:— Second Officer, ister of Australian and New Zea- (1) While you print promo- M.S. "Corinda." land Shipping, 1879. "City of tions and appointments regarding "CHuuir Thank you for your letter, and Adelaide"—Master, D. Walker the R.A.N. there is nothing ever for the cutting you enclosed. In 238—Iron S.S. 200 H.P. Reg. said about the Mercantile Marine regard to the Sultan of the Mal- Tonnage, gross 1211, net 824. or as it is more familiarly known dives' yacht in Colombo, it is in- Length 252-8. Beam 28-3. Depth as, the Merchant Navy. Lists teresting to note that you under- 24-4. Port of Registry, Sydney. could be obtained from the var- stood her name to be "Fathul No. 40261. Date of Registry, ious examination centres of all AVAILABLE FROM ALL LEAD- Bari." You will notice that "One 1871. Built, Renfrew, 1864. those who have passed their ex- INS MOTOR AND MOTOR Of The Wavies," in his article Signal letters, WSHB. Owners, aminations successfully, and I to which you refer, did not him- A.S.N. Co. Survey and referen- suggest that they be printed in ACCESSORY HOUSES AND self ascertain her name when he GARAGES. ces, 1/209, R/1047. Her last this book. was in Colombo, but saw in a appearance as a steamer in Port (2) For the information of the letter published in the English Phillip was in 1885. She was af- "Landlubber" would it not be nautical magazine "The Tri- ANCHOR BRAND dent," that she was called the terwards laid up until 1889, when possible to print the meaning of she was sold and converted into Continued on pegs 8.

March, 1*48. LETTERS The Navy League About Aluminium in Shipbuilding No. 8 TO THE EDITORS STOREY & KEERS Patron: A number of new Life-boats of improved design H.M. The King. 2-10 SHELLEY STREET with steering from a cockpit amidships are to be built the initial letter such as Captain for the Royal National Life-boat Institution, England. (S) or Lieutenant-Commander Head Office: SYDNEY Aluminium alloy will be used for the casing and other . was Finance Member and First Naval Secretary number of people, but we are in the position of in the earlier period. Admiral Sir Louis Hamilton, the people of the Southern States during the K.C.B., D.S.O., was for two-and-a-half years pre- American Civil War, of whom Mahan reminded NAVY END OF A PHASE vious to his departure for England last month, his readers that, apart from the fact that they First Naval Member and Chief of the Naval Staff. had no navy and were not a seafaring people, It may be said that the Royal Australian Navy Rear-Admiral Manisty took part in the formative they were "not proportioned to the extent of the is entering upon the second phase of its career. planning that ushered in Phase One. Admiral sea-coast they had to defend." RECRUITS The first phase was that which opened with the Hamilton is responsible for laying the foundation birth of an Australian Navy, a Commonwealth on which a reconstructed Royal Australian Navy Navy, the seed of which was sown by Admiral enters Phase Two. Sir George Tryon some years before Federation LOOKING AHEAD WANTED when he wrote, in 1886: "It is not a mere subsidized force that will do what is wanted. It is not IN RETROSPECT Admiral Sir Louis Hamilton, looking ahead into far only money that is required to produce effective forces, but the personal service of .our country- that Phase Two upon which we may say that the 9 men all over the world." The seed germinated. In retrospect, Rear-Admiral Manisty could not, Royal Australian Navy is just embarking, feels 12 YEARS The growth of the seedling was slow, but it was he said, feel other than gratified at the results of that in the five-year plan which the Government nurtured by enthusiasts, chief among whom was the work done in those years between 1911 and has laid down, there is a firm basis on which to SERVICE he who, as Vice-Admiral Sir William Creswell, 1914 when the achievements of the Royal Aus- build Australia's naval forces. So far as lies (Approved racings will have the opportunity of was to become First Naval Member of the Aus- tralian Navy are considered. The hopes that within Australia's financial strength—which again aerving for 22 yeara with PENSION on tralian Commonwealth Naval Board, the first in a then were held for it have been realised.. On his means population strength—and so far as can be completion.) line of senior Naval Officers under whose leader- voyage out to Australia this year in R.M.S. seen of the trend of naval development, the carrier GOOD PAY, GOOD FOOD, TRAVEL, FREE ship the Royal Australian Navy came, not with- "Orion," the ship passed close to Cocos Island task force is the correct type of Navy for Aus- MEDICAL and DENTAL ATTENTION, out honour, through the first phase of its life. to drop a mail cask, and the thought inevitably tralia. One thing is unchanged. The function OPPORTUNITY TO IMPROVE EDUCA- came to him of the way the infant Navy won its of the Navy remains the same, the maintenance TION, OPPORTUNITIES FOR PROMOTION. So, with Federation, and after much discussion of our lines of communication, and the fostering and consideration of alternative projects, the Navy spurs there in November, 1914, when the first H.M.A.S. "Sydney" destroyed the German raider and protection of our sea-borne trade. The ex- Aoa Cinpi. was born and became a force in fact, based on tent of that trade, both overseas and coastal, and •alias Nat (For Naral Aviation 17-ta. the "Recommendations" of 1911 of Admiral Sir "Emden," and removed a menace from Austra- Reginald Henderson. As a lusty infant it saw lia's lines of communication across the Indian the dependence of Australian industry, both prim- Ssrw,i Oaa 171 Ocean. That was but a foretaste of greater ary and secondary, upon that trade is, he said, Srtx •mi service in the war of 1914-18, and justified the C-k, Stmt*. fWncJ, Nnl Ainea. faith of its godparents. It passed through its achievement in the war recently ended, when the something which is not realised by the majority 1" »lla«l. Royal Australian Navy, with greater opportunity, of people ashore. Yet it affects the lives and the Mi.nil- 171-25. stripling years in the vicissitudes of the inter-war period. It approached its majority in the conflict displayed greater activity against enemies in wider- livelihood of the fanners hundreds of miles from Ti 1 oi 5 the sea coast as intimately and as vitally as it does •SaJ ZdhaT' of 1939-45, with the appointment of a graduate spread areas than in the earlier war. O li . Aadfcar. " III • — It was merely a case of greater opportunity for those of the merchant and factory worker of the inlian, tmd aadae 24 of the Royal Australian Naval College in opera- faaw ad ape. (S*adal tional command of the Squadron. Now it has action. The basic achievement was the same. coastal cities, and of the people directly concern- III ill'i". till, Pai^.Plffig eaate mtm 24 raws.) reached its majority with the further appointment That of keeping open the lines of communication, ed in shipping activities in our ports. Apprentice Electrical Fitters, over IS. with >i years* of a graduate of the College as its administra- or of restoring them where they had been closed, As Sir Louis said, reiteration is not argument. apprenticcrhip are eligible for Electrical Artificer and, aleo. Apprentice Shipwrights and joiners are eligible tive head, as First Naval Member and Chief of whether for the maintenance of trade, or for the But about this there is no Argument, and reitera- for Shipwrights snd Joiners. the Naval Staff. carrying of the war to enemy-held coasts. With tion is justified if the fact is thereby brought home Aire.* Artificer. that object in view the Royal Australian Navy to our people. The merchant ship is the world's (Fitter*. Coppersmiths and Shretnetal- Ovw JM Phase One has come to and end. Phase Two is workers ot not lest than 1 rears' had been created. For that is the whole objective most important vehicle, and there have been no apprenticeship.) opening. It is not only the fact that College grad- developments to suggest that its importance is uates have now reached Flag rank and have as- and function of Sea Power, to ensure the use of 9UW Alroafc Medaalc. sea communications to yourselves, and to deny in any degree waning. As an island, even al- (Experience of Airfrsaie or Internal One 20 sumed command of the Service that marks the md mmdtt though a large one and in many aspects self-con- Combustion Engine atsintenance and transition. The Royal Australian Navy, in them to your enemy. In what it had done as an repair, or Sheetmetalwork or Fitting.) 24 yaata. tained, Australia is peculiarly dependent on the common with other Navies, is on the threshold instrument of Sea Power working in conjunction of a new era, that of Atomic Energy. It is in a with the other Navies of the British Empire and merchant ship and the maintenance of its lines of • Ex - R.A.N., R.AJM.R., and RAJ4.VJL communication. Australia should, therefore, foe- RATINGS, not below confirmed ratine of A.B. stage of reconstruction, of re-adjustment to meet its Allies, the Royal Australian Navy, in both wars, or styiiaalim (prior to discharge), an inroad to changed conditions. A very brief stocktaking is, had done a notable work, and, especially in the ter her merchant service and her maritime indus- RE-ENTER for 6 or 12 yean. perhaps, not out of place. recent war, when hostilities were brought to our tries, and do all in her power in times of peace to own shores, had justified itself to Australia. insure the integrity of her sea communications in For full details, apply to: Rear-Admiral Manisty could see one cause for times of war. Therein lies the value of the five-year Govern- Tb Rocrokiag OCor, FLM-A-S. Raahcmtar, AT EITHER END disappointment in considering our naval develop- Beech Rood, Bdgodif, Sydney. FB 1211. ment, but that is an important one—the failure ment plan for the reconstruction of the Royal Australian Navy in the light of the experience Within the past few week* "The Navy" has of our population to increase at the rate visualised had the privilege of disciiseing Australia's Naval when the Henderson "Recommendations" were Continued o* p«fo 2t.

Merck. 1*4*. embrace of a squall, sideways athwart your bows in a wild rush. The Roaring Forties Only once has the author seen one caught by an error of judg- THEY WERE ONE OF THE WORLD'S MAIN HIGHWAYS IN THE GOLDEN DAYS ment. He was a magnificent bird, OF SAIL. NOW, WITH THE EMERGENCE OF AIR TRANSPORT THEY MAY and had been hanging in the wind abeam of us a few feet from the REGAIN AND PERHAPS EXCEED THEIR PAST IMPORTANCE By Sidney James wing of the bridge. Suddenly he soared ahead and upwards, and N "The Oxford Companion to And he shone bright, and on the frequently met with near this and swung sideways to cross just ahead I right St. Paul Island, especially in win- of the foremast. Maybe the ship English Literature" there are Went down into the sea. ter, render caution necessary in yawed suddenly to a sea under three items under "Roaring": the approaching them." The Azores the quarter Maybe his judgment "Roaring Boys," those quarrelsome lie in the same northern latitude had failed him. But he struck the London blades of the 16th to The ship drove fast," loud roared as Amsterdam does southern, but forestay and, with ope wing 18th centuries; "The Roaring the blast, in their mild climate the people broken, came tumbling down on Girle, or Moll Cutpursc," a roar- And southward aye we fled." grow fruit and wines in place of to the well deck. He was killed. ing comedy of the 17th century; The Southern Ocean, surely, is Amsterdam's tufted grass and But not by a cross-bow. Perhaps and "Roaring Forties — sec For- the home of the Roaring Forties. small stunted trees. No! For it was only that fact which saved ties." Turning to "Forties, The That almost unbroken waste of consistency in roaring giving them us from the fate of the Ancient Roaring," one finds: "The excep- water girdling the southern hemi- a right to the name against all High seas end e steady, moaning gala. LS.T. 3501 snoring into typical "Roaring Mariner. comers, give me the southern For- Fortiesis" weather. tionally rough part of the ocean sphere, with Tasmania, New Zea- There is a fascination, also, in between 40 degrees and 50 degrees land's southern island and Pata- ties every time. that road of the Roaring Forties, the embodiment of flight. The the great seas that march east- of north latitude; also occasionally gonia offering the only substantial Time was when they played a the albatross and other pelagic wards along the Roaring Forties. applied to the part of the ocean barriers to the Westerlies and the wind is his element. Only when major part in keeping the com- birds were a constant source of in- landing on the sea with feet splay- Where else do you see such noble between 40 and 50 degrees of eastward march of the seas they merce of the world going. Theirs terest. The log of the ship ed before him, or running awk- pattern as in the regularity of south latitude." drive before them. was, in the main, a road of one- "Holmsdale," reproduced in Basil those serried ranks trooping so in- Surely the "occasionally" is way traffic. Part of that wind- wardly as he takes off from the "Roaring Forties" there may be Lubbock's "The Blackwall Frig- surface, does he lose his dignity. exorably? There is the pulse of misplaced here. If, in relation to in the Western Ocean, and in the system made for the sailing ships ates," is full of references to them. the infinite in their rhythm. They the Roaring Forties, one hemi- of Europe, they took over—from "Strong N. wind," it records a For the rest, he glides along be- are majestic in their scale, and northern Pacific, between Hok- side you, outstripping your four- sphere is thought of occasionally kaido and Oregon, but I'll guar- the South-east Trades and the week or so after leaving Mel- in their timeless indifference. The as against the almost constantly antee that they do not roar as variable winds that were met with bourne, when in 47 40 South on teen or fifteen knots without a sudden skirling squalls,may beat of the other, it is the northern. loudly nor as continuously as the below their southern Atlantic the first stretch for the Horn, "in- beat or quiver of his wide-spread with hail and driving sleet upon For myself, when I think of the Roaring Forties of the south. Am- fringe—with the Westerlies that creasing to gale, overcast and very pinions; he soars into the wind, their heads and fling their tattered Roaring Forties I always think of sterdam Island is above the fringe filled the stout heavy-weather can- hazy. Going with topsails and and turns and swoops in a long locks in flying spume, but they that realm of the albatross where of the Roaring Forties in the vas and hurried the ships east- courses. Several birds in company dive to skim the face of a mile- cannot hurry them nor check sailed Coleridge's Ancient Mar- Southern Indian Ocean, "but," wards along the road to Australia —Cape hen, mollyhawk and alba- long sea with one wing-tip; he them. They are of the ages past iner, steering his ship so that says Volume 1 of the "Aus- And they continued on for the tross." And a few days later, speeds ahead of you and swings, and future, with the calmness of tralia Directory," "the strong west- homeward bounders, driving them "Several birds in company, differ- surrendering himself to the rough the elemental. "The sun came up upon the left, erly gales and thick weather so eastward from Australia to the ent species of mollyhawk, many Out of the sea came he! Horn. Day after day, with but stormy petrels and Cape pigeons." occasional changes from another quarter, the Westerlies blow along It was, by the way, a lucky them, and more than one ship, voyage for the sailors, for it was trying to weather the Horn against on a Thursday that they "Crossed them, has been forced eventually into W. long. Jack gets double to run with them the long way duff" day with fresh soup and round. potatoes." Some days later they were more definite with their orni- It is likely that, for the ships thological observations: "Strong of the sea, they have passed their N.W. sea making. Main royal heyday. They were the high road set. 2 albatross, 2 mollyhawks, 2 of the sailing ship With the com Cape pigeons #and 1 mutton birds ing of steam, and the opening of still in company." the Suez and Panama canals, their traffic went by other routes, and Of them all, the albatross is the the great seas roll eastwards alone king. With his proud hooked bill, in their majesty, and one wonders his haughty indifference, the what the albatross find to follow gleaming white and black of his as they glide and soar across the plumage, the effortless ease and grey-backed combers. grace with which he climbs and "On* wing broken, come tumbling down onto the well deck. He wet killed." To those in the ships following swoops and rides the gale, he is Heard Island looms up, stark, sombre and sheer.

12 Tto Nevy March, 194*. 13 yaws to the upward thrust under of St. Paul, and roared and hissed Bonb aid mine disposal was a dangerons 9am. It the counter. The moan and thrum and boiled into the crater. of the gear aloft. And sudden- called far "Gallaatry and Undaunted Devotion" ly, terrifyingly, another ominous We sighted the island, lonely, sound added to the orchestra of dark and forbidding across the Among decorated officers in the Royal Australian Navy's wind and sea, and the startled cry rolling sea, just before dusk, fine list of personnel who were awarded recognition for services from the forecastle, "Breakers on the port bow. We could see, in the recent war, are a number who earned that recognition ahead!" Then, from the blackness, as it drew abeam, the entrance to in carrying out the extremely hazardous operations in con- the blacker mass of, iron-bound Crater Lake, the slopes of the nection with mine and bomb disposal. cliffs towering overhead. A rend- high land, the precipitous cliffs The pace was set early in the war by Lieutenant-Com- ing crash of impact, a worrying with the spray smoking round mander Ouvry, R.N., who, leading a party of experts, stripped of rocky teeth, a thunder of fall- their feet. From our lower bridge down a German magnetic mine washed ashore in the Thames ing gear. Cries. . . . And silence, rockets soared into the darkening Estuary, and thus gave the secret of this weapon to the British save for the roar of wind and sky, and detonating signals banged authorities, enabling counter measures to be devised. Others water. and echoed with a second explo- to continue and expand the work were not wanting, including sion high overhead, and our siren a number of volunteers from the Royal Australian Navy. The author recalls one evening wailed its signal across the water. One of these was Lieutenant-Commander G. J. Cliff, when this picture came to his But there was no answering light R.A.N.V.R., who, for his work in bomb and mine disposal mind. We were running our or sound from the gaunt, lonely in various theatres, was awarded the George Medal in June, Easting Down from the Cape to rock, and it swung past on our 1942, the Bar to the George Medal in the following November, < Melbourne on the composite track port quarter, to melt in the dark- the M.B.E. in {September, 1943, and the O.B.E. in the follow- along the Fortieth Parallel. But ening gloom astern. ing April. for some days the wind had been Ice can be met in the Roaring A New South Welshman from Collaroy, Lieut.-Com- Yet they can be dangerous. Let Australia? That there have been hanging stubbornly in the south, Forties, and has been seen as far mander Cliff, joined the R.A.N.V.R. as a Sub.-Lieutenant us turn to the "Australia Direc- some we know for sailors from sometimes to the east of south, north as their upper limit. The under the Yachtsman's Scheme in January, 1941, and follow- tory" again, and see what it has them have later been rescued. The blowing half a gale, and the cap- "Runic," in 1921, sighted a berg ing courses at "Rushcutter" and "Cerberus," proceeded to the to say of the Great Circle track "Meridian" was wrecked on Am- tain had kept her away to the on the run to Australia from the United Kingdom to "King Alfred," being later appointed to from the Atlantic to Australia. sterdam Island in June, 1853, the northward, so that we were off Cape, and in July, 1895, the H.M.S. "President" for duties outside Admiralty with the "The disadvantages attending the 1Q5 of her company, passengers our beaten track, and would sight "Tainui" passed 13 icebergs be- Director of Torpedoes and Mines. He was later, in 1944, selection of any route in high lati- and crew, being rescued after St. Paul. That fact aroused our tween latitudes 44$ and 45J and again appointed to H.M.S. "President" for duty with the tudes should be clearly understood much suffering, by the American interest in the island, and brought longitudes 44 East and 61 East. United States Navy. by the seamen, especially for pas- whaler "Monmouth." On the forth the story of the Second There are not many ships seen Little is said in the citations to his awards to indicate the senger ships proceeding at a high night of November 13th 1889, the Mate's experience, the time he had down in the Forties these days. nature of his work, the citations in each case reading "For speed, or small, ill-found or deeply English four-masted barque "Holt been there in sail, when they made The busy traffic of the days of sail gallantry and undaunted devotion to duty." The awards, laden vessels. The steadiness and Hill," 2366 tons, ran on to the the island on a fine day, and they has gone, and the steamers that however, speak for themselves. Lieut.-Commander Cliff was comparatively moderate strength weather side of St. Paul, all of had hove to off it and sent a boat clung to the route after the open- one of those who represented the Royal Australian Navy in of the winds with the smoother her crew, except one, managing ashore, which had got into Crater ing of the canals have become the Victory March in London in 1946. seas and more genial climate, north to climb the cliffs, 200 to 300 feet Lake through the kelp, and found fewer and fewer. But life may of 40 S., compensate oy comfort in height, and living ashore on nobody ashore and come away come to them again, and the roar and security for the time presumed penguins for eight days until away again. of aircraft engines supplant the to be saved by taking a shorter rescued by the Adelaide barque tattered wail of the chanties that route, with tempestuous gales, "Coorong." The Norwegian That story, too, raised visions. used to whirl away on their rush- sudden violent and fitful shifts of schooner "Catherine" was wrecked For St. Paul is the peak of a vol- ing winds. The Great Circle wind, accompanied by hail and on Possession Island in the Cro- cano. The island is the rim of the track runs athwart them. And snow and the terrific and irregular zets in December, 1906, and lived craler, the southern side of which with stratosphere air travel it is seas which have been so often en- on the provisions in the depot es- is broken down, so that the sea possible that once again they will countered in the higher latitudes; tablished there until they were entered and formed a lake, above form part of a main highway in moreover the islands in the higher rescued two months later by the which the remaining rim climbs human voyagings across the earth. steamer "Turakina." , latitudes are so frequently shroud- some 800 feet above the sea. Therein, possibly, lies the value ed in fog that often the first sign These wrecks we know of. But There is volcanic activity still on of some at least of those lonely of their vicinity is the surf beat- what of the others which left no St. Paul. Hot smoking ground, islands which rear their heads ing against them." sign? Seeing one of these lonely sulphur impregnated. Thermal above the rolling wastes girdling How many ' ships, running in islands of the Roaring Forties, it springs and hot stagnant pools. the Antarctic continent. And as thick, squall-laden weather and is almost inevitable that this ques- The fauna consists of wild goats such, these specks which have uncertain of their position, have tion should spring to mind. One and cats, rats and mice, petrels, hitherto been no-man's land in the known of their impending doom imagines a black, noise-filled night. gulls and whale birds, and pen- Roaring Forties, may attain an by a last-minute sound of that The ship straining and labouring guins in the breeding season. The importance unforeseen until now, beating surf against St. Paul, or in the great seas, staggering be- flora is long coarse grass, ferns, ana, in doing so, bring to the Kerguelen, or the Croze ts, or some fore a westerly gale, the crests of mosses and mushroom. What a southern Forties an importance other of those islands in the Roar- the combers hanging threateningly cataclysm when the sea finally bat- transcending that of their halcyon over the taffrail as it lifts and die tered down that southern rampart A Heerd Island Itoff * beach—aad two native*. It was on such an wnpromiainf ing Forties between the Cape and days of the past. bottom that LS.T. 3101 beached.

n* Navy M#fdi( IMia IS 28ft. 5in. W.L. cruiser, the sub- In view of the use to which structed of metal or of moulded ject of this article, was accepted, these yachts were to be put, it was ply, the designer produced a set of THE R.N.S.A. the designer being Maurice Grif- decided . that a shoal-draft vessel lines with easy floking curves fiths, A.I.N.A. would have many practical advan- from bow to stern and with no The design of the craft called tages over a design with a deep reverse curves to the garboards. SOLANI CLASS for was a moderate displacement keel appendage. Running aground The lines were actually a develop- auxiliary cruising yacht which in a deep-keeled cruiser by an in- ment of the same designer's "Cari- must be safe and easy for an inex- experienced crew can be not only mon" (17 tons), "Ionia" (29 Tank-tested 13-ton C.B. Cruisers perienced crew to handle, com- uncomfortable but a dangerous tons), "Loon" (9 tons), "Tawana" fortable for four persons to cruise situation, while many of the more (10 tons) and "Lone Gull' (10 for Standard Building. in, reasonably fast, and equally attractive creeks, anchorages and tons). When ready they were suitable for deep water passages small coastal harbours are ren- shown, amongst others, to leading and for estuary cruising or "ditch .dered inaccessible. The design American and New Zealand L.O>. 38' 8" Draught (Hull) 4'0" crawling." Finally, the design of of the shoal-draught centreboard yachtsmen and received their un- l.B.P. 33' 6" Displacement (C.B.) down 6' 5" LW.l. 28' 5" Displacement 7.38 tons

Beam (max.) 10' 6" Lead Keel 3.12 toas Beam at W.L »' 8" T.M. 13.4 tons

OW that the Royal Naval cutter" and be maintained by the In 1944 the Executive Commit- N Sailing Association has es- R.N.S.A. These two yachts will tee of the Royal Naval Sailing tablished a Branch Secretariat on be a welcome addition to the rac- Association decided to call for de- the Australia Station, it is felt ing yachts of this port. signs that would appeal to mem- that members in Australia will be bers and possibly be adopted by better served and able to further As the interest in ocean racing the Admiralty for training of the interests of the R.N.S.A. and is again being encouraged, the naval cadets. the encouragement of yachting time seems opportune to draw at- generally in the R.A.N. tention to the R.N.S.A. Solani Vicc-Admiral Sir Geoffrey Blake, The R.N.O.'s at leading ports Class Cruiser, which is recom- K.C.B., D.S.O., the Commodore throughout the Australia Station mended as a suitable type for of the Royal Naval Sailing Asso- have been asked to recommend deep-water cruising along the ciation at the time, put the mat- suitable local officers so that the Australian coast. ter in hand, and the design for a organisation could cover as wide a range as possible. The Central Executive at Ports- mouth has generously presented a Artist's impression of the saloon, looking aft towards galloy. "Silver Torch Trophy" to be com- peted for annually for the best hull and rig must be inexpensive type, however, must be just right qualified approval. The plans have performance in races conducted by to build and every advantage taken or it may easily prove a failure, now been accepted by the Royal the R.N.S.A. in all ports, and the of unit production. v and it was therefore considered Naval Sailing Association and Rear-Commodore, Lt./Cdr. G. Mr. J. N. Lancefield, Manag essential to employ a naval archi- have received approval from the Pax ton, R.N.V.R., has presented ing Director of Veneercraft Ltd., tect who had great experience in representatives of the Service a massive Silver Mug as a Chal- was called in to advise on the use designing and actually sailing such yacht clubs. It might be said that lenge Trophy. of resin-bonded materials in the craft. Maurice Griffiths was there- this design was one of the "most There is also the R.N.S.A. construction, and he was further fore given the Association's re- vetted" small cruisers ever! requested to "collect the experts quirements and invited to prepare Trophy for competition by mem- Tank Tests bers in Service Whalers in the and produce the right ship" under a design. Anniversary Regatta held in Syd- the direction of Admiral Blake. It was known that this ship As the proof of the pudding is ney each year. H.M.A.S. "Rush- Mr. G. Scantlebury, Lloyd's in- would be subjected to much criti- in the eating and it was out of the cutter" 'is the present holder of spector of wood-built craft, who cism, for sailing men are well question to build a full-size yacht this trophy. was at that time advising the Ad- known to disagree on every single to prove a design, a model was miralty, was also asked to give his point respecting new craft intend- made from the lines and tried out Allocation of two ex-German advice on the question of construc- ed for their use, and it was antici- in a ship-model testing tank. This yachts to the R.N.S.A. on the Paripactiva tion. Incidentally, it should be pated that there woud be no model, made in wax to a scale of Australia Station has "been made v'tow of layout made clear that all the work en- mercy. Keeping in mind the need 4in. to the foot, or one-third full by Admiralty, and the arrival of below decks. tailed was undertaken in off-duty for a hull which could be planked- size, was 12ft. lin. in length and these two yachts is looked forward time as a relaxation from war up with the minimum wastage of 3ft. 6irt. breadth. The sheer was to with great interest. They, will work. timber, or plated easily if con- built up and the model decked te attached to H.M.A.S. "Rush- I March, 194*. 17 Th* Navy with varnish pine. A shaped vessel without inherent vices. This duced parts was to prove the best centreboard was fitted as on the series of trials confirmed the belief and most lasting. SEAS, SHIPS AND SAILORS - ^ Nioô^- plans, while the amount of rudder that here was a thoroughly well- Contrary to some popular be- need to keep the model on a balanced design which should have lief, the war did not develop any straight course under varying a comparatively high turn of speed revolutionary form of ship con- angles of heel and speeds was re- and prove easily controllable under struction which could be adopted corded on a graduated tiller quad- all weather conditions. for a yacht of these dimensions rant specially designed for these Construction and which would not only last a ^ EAELY IN iaeo roue SHIPMASTEES IM MAKIBOROUCH'W tests. Having settled on the design of normal yacht's life but prove ac- NEW ZEALAND ARRANGED TO CACE HOME DUNEDIN" I -I FOO A SWEEPSTAKE OF £200 A long series of runs was car- the hull, many forms of construc- ceptable to the average owner. AUCKLAND •M/ "KYLE MORE QACED NECK-AND ried out in the 900ft. tank and tion were considered so as to ar- Centreboard MECIC ALL THE WAY —ME LATTER, WITH A BETTER very interesting data recorded on rive at the best and least costly The centreboard is especially TUG, BERTHED IM LONDON THeef NOUOS AHEAD OF the behaviour of this type of hull. method of duplicating this class. mentioned because in "Solani" the 'AUCKLAND" Orthodox wood planking with C.B. case is flush with the cabin "MARLBOROUGH'WITH CHEW OF 29 AND The model was towed from vari- ONE BFTSSEWCEE.LEFT LYTTELTON JAN II IQSO — ous points on the hull and from steel, special alloy or bonded-ply- sole except at the after end, where TXJKIEOIN' LEFT OAMALJU U7 001 MARCH 20CRSV the calculated (and very variable) wood frames was considered it extends to the deck, forming a NUMBERED 34 BOTH SHIRS WERE QEPORTED SCON AFTER DEBARIUHE —and then o&vr&ieeo' positions of the C.E. of the sail against a double-planked hull with convenient bulkhead between the KuMOOS MANY YEARS LATER QEPOeED THAT IH6 MAOtBOHOuGM ; WITH SkreLSTONS VÂS ON THE plan when the model was heeled seam battens or an all-metal con- engine-room and the galley. The BEACH KJ6AQ CAPE HORN evioeNCE is ENTIRELY at different angles from 5 to 20 struction. The possibilities of heavy log case, through bolted to ONSAtlSMOOOY.dtK/ iSGEweOALLY OiSCCeCtTBD " deg. by lead weights placed along moulded plywood were also con- the keel, instead of weakening the the "lee" deck, and the sails were sidered, but it was found after hull acts as a substantial keelson •: V ."."vTai assumed to be trimmed from close- every method had been closely ex- and adds considerably to its hauled to a broad reach. By this amined that, with cost and length strength. The board itself may be means it was thought that the ac- of life of the vessel in mind, nor- of oak or elm planks through- tual conditions of sailing in light mal construction with wood plank- bolted or of bonded plywood, to fresh breezes on various cpurses ing on wood frames and unit-pro- Continued on peg* 28. would be simulated as practically AGE reesH VATER as possible. *tO¥ SALT " WHIRLING STOUT At varying speeds and angles of ATMOS - heel the wake and wave formations set up, together with the amount of resistance caused by the passage of the model through EXCEEDS the water were very satisfactory. LANO One of the photographs (repro- IS COUNTERPART OF A duced) taken during the trials WATERSPOUT AT SEA // shows the smoothness of the wake and the comparatively small amount of disturbance caused by this design at a "model" sailing Cs ÛBOVE] lo pes VENT CONVICTS ESCAPES VMBOM SYDNEY BY SEA .GOVE^MEMT0^6RS speed of 6 knots. W!DATE D APRIL 9. 1791. BEAD THUS :- NO BOAT The amount of "weather helm" £to BE BLIILJ BY AMY INDIVIDUAL IKJ THIS needed to maintain a straight SB^LltliNT MOSE LENGTH STEM TO ST*W course proved steady at all speeds '""falls' IN JOtOE, I8C.OA UCHntOUK ON the SOUTHERN HEADLAND Of JERVIS BAY. NS* and angles of heel, and no more ^S^TtON THE than the helmsman in the full-size BUT THE UCUT WAS SHCHOI AS A TEMPOSMJZV ship could hold with one hand or ClGUT TILL MAY I 1899 - ThM/OMBY 1TOR YEA*5 // under the crook of his arm. The model showed no tendency to develop wild antics at maximum practical sailing speeds (estimated here at 7.5 knots under normal conditions) nor to carry lee helm at slow speed in the equivalent of light winds. The undesirability of the shoal draught yacht being balanced so as to carry no weather helm at all when close-hauled is well known to naval architects, and the results indicated a docile i* n* Navy March, l«t. NAVAL PERSONALITY OF THE MONtH

CAPTAIN (S) PATRICK PERRY, O.B.E., R.A.N.

Captain (S) Patrick Perry, O.B.E., R.A.N., was appointed to the Squadron, first is Secretary the present Secretary to the First Naval Member to Rear-Admiral J. G. Crace in H.M.A.S. "Aus- of the Australian Commonwealth Naval Board, tralia," in which he took part in the Battle of was born on the 14th. February, 1903, at Oakey, the Coral Sea, and later as Secretary to Rear-Ad- Queensland. He was the son of the late Frederick miral V. A. Crutchley, also in "Australia," taking Charles Perry, and of Catherine Mary Perry, of part in the assault on Guadalcanal in the Solo- Toowoomba, Queensland. mons in August, 1942, and the later assaults on Cape Gloucester, Arawe, and Hollandia. Captain Educated at St. Patrick's College, Toowoomba, Perry was awarded the O.B.E. for his services Patrick Perry entered the Royal Australian Navy during these operations. In 1944 he was appoint- on 1st. February, 1921, as a Paymaster Cadet. He ed to his present position as Secretary to the was promoted Commander (S) on the 31st. De- First Naval Member at Navy Office, first with cember, 1939, and Captain (S) on 31st. De- Admiral Sir Guy Royle, and then with Admiral cember last. His experience in the Royal Aus- Sir Louis Hamilton. tralian Navy, both afloat and ashore, has been wide and varied, and in his secretarial capacity A keen all-round sportsman. Captain Perry he was associated with many of the officers com- has been a successful oarsman in Fleet regattas, manding the Royal Australian Naval Squadron and has represented the R A N. at Cricket, Rugby, previous to his appointment to Navy Office as Sec- Hockey, Tennis and Squash Racquets; the Home retary to the First Naval Member. Fleet at Cricket and Squash Racquets; and the In 1924 he was in H.M.A.S. "Adelaide" during Royal Navy at Squash Racquets. He is especially her cruise with the Special Service Squadron. well known as a Squash Racquets player in Vic- There followed a year ashore at the Royal Aus- toria. tralian Naval College, Jervis Bay, and then a long spell afloat during which he served on the Captain Perry married, in November, 1938, Staffs of Rear-Admirals John Saumarez Dumar- Barbara Reynolds Riley, daughter of the late esque, Albert Percy Addison, G. F Hyde, and Charles R. Riley. Her death. In August last year, Edward R. G. R. Evans, in H.M.A. Ships "Mel- was a great loss, not only to him, but to her many bourne," "Sydney," "Adelaide," and "Australia." friends in the Service who remembered the great work she had done on behalf of Naval personnel Coming ashore from H.M.A.S. "Australia" in both in London and in Australia. During the 1931, Captain Perry was appointed Secretary to first two years of the war in London, Mrs. Perry the Captain-in-Charge, Sydney, remaining there was one of the enthusiastic little band of pioneers until his appointment as Secretary to the Second that laid the foundation of the Boomerang Club. Naval Member, Navy Office, the following year. In the early days, when sailors were the only He remained at Navy Office until J935, and then \ visitors to England, and later through the months proceeded to the United Kingdom, where he took of the Blitz, they worked and provided comforts the Account Officers' Technical Course at Ports- and food parcels, Australian papers, tea, and a mouth in 1936. There followed a period with warm welcome and advice about leave, etc., for the Royal Navy in H.M.S. "Ramillies" previous Australian Service men, first in a room upstairs to his appointment, in 1937, as Naval Liaison in Australia House, and later in the basement, Officer, Australia House, London, where he re- where the Boomerang Club afterwards flourished. mained until 1941. This was a period of much Back here in Australia she was a willing worker work, which intensified with the outbreak of the for Navy House, Melbourne. The news of her Captain (S) Patrick Perry, O.B.E., R.A.N. war and the German air-blitz on England's cap- death brought to Captain Perry many letters from ital. Captain Perry was Naval Liaison Officer Naval personnel who remembered, with gratitude, during the years before the war when H.M.A. those early days in London and the work done Ships "Hobart" and "Perth" commissioned and by Mrs. Perry and those with whom she was later, during hostilities, when the "N" Class de- associated, Mrs. Stanley Bruce (now Viscountess stroyers were commissioned, and there was, nat- Bruce), Mrs. John Duncan (the wife of the Dep- urally, much to do in connection with these uty High Commissioner), and Mrs. Frank Mc- ships. Namara (wife of the Australian Air Liaison Officer). Returning to Australia in 1942, Captain Perry

21 20 Tkm Navy March, 1948. Tribal Class Destroyer, H.M.A.S. "Arunte."— S.M. Herald" Ph

with which the Commonwealth "Swordsman," "Success," "Stal- the war, by H.M.A.S. "Bataan." Destroyers of the R.A.N. Government has acceded to every wart" and "Tattoo" were dispos- At her hunching, "Arunta" show- SINCE THE FIRST OF THE TYPE, THE •RIVER" SHIPS OF THE 1914-18 WAR, THEY Admiralty request as to the em- ed of, being replaced by five ves- ed a reluctance to take to the ployment of Australian Naval sels made over on unlimited loan water. It rained very heavily HAVE SET A HIGH STANDARD BOTH IN CONSTRUCTION AND ACHIEVEMENT. Forces," the Admiralty offered as by the Admiralty. during the ceremony, and pos- THE R.A.N. NOW HAS GOOD SHIPS BUILDING, AND GOOD MEN TO MAN THEM a gift to the R.A.N. six modern These were the flotilla leader sibly that had in some way af- destroyers, a gift which was grate- "Stuart" and the four destroyers fected the grease on the ways. AND FORWARD THE HIGH TRADITION ESTABUSHED by Reuben Ranxo fully accepted by the Common- "Vampire," "Voyager," "Ven- She started off all right, but wealth Government. They were: detta" and "Waterhen." They stopped before being water-bome, OME few years ago a Member infe the 1914-18 war, for instance, stroyers proceeded to the Medi the flotilla leader "Anzac" and the were to write their name large in and remained for some hours. S of Parliament, speaking on the gave a good account of themselves terranean, "Warrego," "Parra destroyers "Tasmania," "Swords- the history of the Royal Austra- No harm, fortunately, resulted. question of defence, spoke slight- in the Mediterranean and the matta" and "Yarra" from Aus man," "Success," "Stalwart" and lian Navy as "The Scrap Iron Admiral of the Fleet Lord ingly of destroyers of the "River" Adriatic, in the Black Sea and the tralia, where they had been en "Tattoo." These six vessels did Flotilla," and during the 1939-45 Chatfield tells of a similar hap- class, which, hie suggested, would Western Pacific among other gaged on patrol duties, and not rcach Australia until 1920, war to do great work in the Medi- pening at the launching of a de- be useless, suitable as they were places. "Huon," "Torrens" and "Swan," arriving in Sydney on the 29th of terranean and other theatres. stroyer in England, when the ship, only for work in rivers. He was "Parramatta," "Yarra" and which had been operating in Mai April of that year. The period of rearmament dur- owing to a cold spell of snow and putting himself in the position of "Warrego" were the first three, ayan waters, from Singapore The record of these twelve de- ing the years preceding the out- severe frosts, had become frozen a foe who would say, with Juliet. all being in commission when the Based on Bnndisi, they did good stroyers in the R.A.N. for the re- break of war in 1939 saw history to the ways and refused to move • " Tis but thy name that is my war broke out in 1914. They were work in the Adriatic and Medi mainder of their lives was one of repeat itself in Australia with the when the launching button was I enemy," and was thereby deceiv- followed by 'Huon," "Torrens" terranean, and later in the Black pcactime routine during which, local building of destroyers being pressed by Lady Chatfield. She ing himself. and "Swan" in 1916, these three Sea, before their return to Aus for considerable periods and owing undertaken at Cockatoo Island. was eventually started with jacks The "River" class destroyers, to being built in $ Australia at tralia via the United Kingdom, to the financial stringency of the The first of these vessels—which and tackles, but moved so slowly which Australia's first vessels of Cockatoo Island Dockyard. "Par- reaching Darwin on 26th' April, times, tney were in reserve. The are large destroyers of the "Tri- that it was obvious that she would I that class belonged, were so named ramatta," "Yarra" and "War- 1919. During 1919 the de six "River" class vessels- were, for bal" class, mounting eight 4.7in. not reach the end of the slipway merely because they took their rego" were early in the picture, stroyer strength of the R.A.N. instance, in reserve from 1922 un- guns and with a speed of 36 knots before the tide fell, and would run names from rivers. As to the work taking part in the operations in was doubled. In recognition of til they were finally broken up —was H. M. A. S. "Arunta," the risk of breaking her back. She they performed, it was done in all connection with the capture of "the intimate co-operation of the during 1930 and 1931. A year launched towards the end of had to be stopped, and was B I sorts of weather and in all sorts German New Guinea. Later in Royal Australian Navy through- or so later the six "S" class de- 1940, and followed by H.M.A.S. brought up again after some of seas. The Australian ships dur- the war, during 1917, all six de- out the war, and of the readiness stroyers, "Anzac," "Tasmania," "Warramunga" and, at the end of trouble. "There is," said Lord 22 Tk* Navy Chatfield, "always a certain Calabria, at Matapan, in the "Nepal." amount of superstition about battles and evacuations of Greece "Nestor" was lost in a German ships, and we left rather unhappy and Crete, and as leading lights in air attack while with a Malta con- Censorship and Publicity that this one had made a bad start the Tobruk Ferry Service. voy force on 16th June, 1942, for- in life. Great was my wife's joy, It was during the days of the tunately, as in the case of the EACH IS A POTENT WAR TIME WEAPON —BUT DOUBLE-EDGED. THEIR STUDY therefore, when, about a year Tobruk Ferry that "Waterhen" "Waterhen" a year previously, later, she received a letter from was lost on 29th June, 1941, the without casualties. "Norman" and IS WORTHY TO RANK WITH THAT OF OTHER OFFENSIVE AND DEFENSIVE her captain, then in Eastern first Australian ship to be lost in "Nepal," as did "Napier" and WEAPONS By J oh* Clark waters, saying that she was a suc- action against the enemy since the "Nizam," survived the war, and cessful and exceedingly happy loss of the submarine AE2 in the did a good job of work against the N his book, "Secret Service," tor from the mother of the Ger- cult to convince them of the ne- ship." Sea of Marmora in the 1914-18 Japanese, mainly with the Eastern I man airman. In this letter she cessity, or wisdom, of their deci- Any superstition that may have war. With the outbreak of the .Fleet. They were represented in Sir George Aston, who spent quoted a letter in praise of her son sions. They have to give due heed attached to "Aruntn" as a result Japanese war, the remaining four various operations against the many years in the British Intelli- which she had received from an to the requests of the Services for of her bad start-off proved, also, ships returned to eastern waters, Japanese, including air strikes on gence Service, tells a story of how officer of high rank, the German silence on such and such matters to be unfounded. Both she and "Vampire" being lost in April, the Dutch East Indies, and in the an obscure paragraph in a small Army Commander in the St. and, when convinced of the neces- "Warramunga" had most success- 1942, during an air attack by the Burma campaign in support of the German provincial newspaper gave Quentin area. It was signed von sity of the request, to issue a cen- ful wartime career's in operations Japanese in the Bay of Bengal, 14th Army, when "Napier" was British Intelligence the warning Hutier. sorship to the publicity media. against the Japanese in the South- and "Voyager" being lost later in (D)7. One of her officers was the of the impending German attack General Gough thus became To those not aware of the im- west Pacific, and suffered but few the year in operations at Timor. first ashore at Akyab, being a few on General Gough's Fifth Army aware of von Hutier's presence plications of apparently harmless casualties and little damage, while "Stuart" and "Vendetta," after hours ahead of the army coming before Amiens in March, 1918. opposite him, and reached cer- and unrelated items of informa- taking part in major assault land- performing valuable service in down the coast from the north, In the early months of that year tainty of conviction that the tion, and the value that they ing operations from New Guinea north-eastern waters in the war and hoisted the Union flag in the the Fifth Army was consideraHy weight of the German attack might have for an enemy, the re- to the Philippines. against Japan, were disposed of town. weakened by the extension of its would.be directed against the Fifth quests of censorship can easily ap- Some months previous to the subsequent to the conclusion of Two other modern ships were front from about 12 miles to 42 Army. The result was that Gough pear to be frivolous and unwar- launching of the "Arunta," Aus- hostilities. made available to the R.A.N. on miles in length. No reinforce- was prepared, and although the ranted. Generally, however, once tralian naval history had found a During the war, Australia's de- similar terms to those governing ments were available and, lacking line of the Fifth Army was bent it had been made clear how infor- parallel in the departure of the stroyer strength was increased by the transfer of the "N" ships. as he was in strength, intelligence back almost to Amiens, it did not mation could be divulged by ap- five ships of the "Scrap Iron Flo- modern vessels made available by These were the two "Q's," of the enemy's plans was vital to break, and the great German plan parently harmless news items, pub- tilla" in the tracks of the six Admiralty, manned by R.A.N. "Quiberon" and "Quickmatch." General Sir Hubert Gough. That failed. licity censorship worked fairly "River" class vessels of the 1914- personnel, and classed as H.M.A. "Quickmatch" was in conflict with intelligence was obtained, and on The story gives an example of smoothly in Australia. News- 18 war, across the Indian Ocean Ships. First of these were the two the enemy in the Atlantic in No- 3rd February, 1918, the general how a small, and apparently harm- papers and radio stations were, in to the Mediterranean. There, as "N" class ships "Napier" and vember, 1942, when she was one deduction was drawn: "The main less, item of news can convey in- general, willing to co-operate, and members of the 10th Destroyer "Nizam," which joined the British of a number of convoy escorts that German attack may be expected formation of the utmost value to sympathetic to the censors, and Flotilla, under the command of forces in the Mediterranean early intercepted an Italian ship trying against the Third and Fifth Brit- an enemy. It may appear com- after some teething troubles the Captain (D) 10, Captain Hector in 1941. They took part in the to run the blockade. "Quiberon" ish Armies, with Amiens for its pletely unrelated to events, yet it system worked efficiently and with- Waller, D.S.O. and Bar, R.A.N., Grecian campaign and also in the was at the North Africa landings objective." may be the final piece which, out undue friction. they made a great name for Tobruk Ferry service, and con- in November, 1942, and was one Some time earlier, British Intel- dropped into an incomplete mo- From the earliest days of the themselves. They represented the tinued the high tradition set by of a force which fought a night ligence on the Western Front had saic, makes the finished picture war the Government took the at- flotilla, either together or indi- the forerunners, the old and gal- action against an Axis convoy try- received news about new German which has been sought. It may titude that it was desirable to have vidually, in the major actions lant "V" and "W" ships. Other ing to run troops across to Tun- methods of attack which had been provide the confirmatory evidence as little interference as possible of those early days of war- "N" class ships came along isia. The action lasted about an employed very successfully by that transforms conjecture into with the freedom of expression of fare in the Mediterranean. At later, "Nestor," "Norman" and Continued on page 26. General von Hutier. He had com- certainty. By itself it is harmless. press and broadcasting. Within manded the German army which But taken in conjunction with less than a week from the com- inflicted the final defeat on the other scraps of information, it can mencement of hostilities in Sep- Russian army at Riga. He was provide the key to a puzzle. tember, 1939, the Prime Minister credited with the plan of attack It is to guard against such leak- (Mr. Menzies) informed the which resulted in the Italian de- ages, through any medium, that House of Representatives that the feat at Caporetto. His presence on censorship is introduced in war- Government had decided to estab- the Western Front would have time. Censorship is not an easy lish a Ministry of Information, indicated the imminence of an at- matter, for the censored or for the and that "one of the most impor- tack there. censors. So far as the censored tant activities of the Ministry of During January, 1918, a young are concerned—in the case of pub- Information will be wartime cen- German airman was shot down in licity censorship, the newspapers sorship, the administration of the Fifth Army area. He died in. and other publications and the which will be taken over from the a British hospital and was given radio stations—they have no de- Defence Department." a military funeral. Some time sire, naturally, to publish anything Under the arrangement that was later, a British agent in Switzer- ' that they feel may be of any pos- reached, censorship of published land, whose duty it was to search sible help to an enemy. So far as material operated only in the in- through German newspapers for the censors go, they have no wish terests of security, and censorship any items which might give use- to hamper publishers or broad- was one of fact, not of opinion. ful information, noticed, in a casters, but sometimes find it diffi- Naturally, the Services were most Baden journal, a letter to the edi-

Merck 1944. 2t I News of the World s Navies

The "Pocket" Battleships. which attained prominence when with catapult aircraft, they have That the German "Pocket" Captain Vian took the destroyer hangar and elevator in the stern. battleships were utter technical "Cossack" into Josing Fiord and U.S. Navy Crane failures is the conclusion reached removed British Merchant Ser- The wcfrld's mightiest crane, in an article published in the vice prisoners from her, has been built by the U.S. Navy at San "Nautical Magazine." At a cost commissioned in the Royal Navy Francisco at a cost of 2,500,000 of £375 a ton "Washington" as H.M.S. "Bulowayo." dollars, recently lifted a 630-ton displacement, they were the most Royal Navy Reductions metal and concrete block at a de- expensive ships on record. Their With the reduction of British monstration. So delicate are its armour belt of 4" was certainly capital ship strength to the four controls, that it set down this not the standard of a capital "King George V." battleships and great weight on a hen's egg ship. Under active service con- the "Vanguard," and with no cap- without cracking the shell. The "Sii transports, laden with troops, loft Sydney this morning et 11 oldock, escorted by ditions they showed ominous ital ship construction in sight, the weight was then cased downwards H.MA.S. 'Hobart,' sailing south." cracks parallel to the lines of "New York Times" suggests that again enough to break the shell welding. Their diesel engines "Today it is the 'back room without disturbing the yolk. Ac- cording to the "New York interested in the maintenance of borderline cases it was often dif- Elizabeth." Yet for days on end were very heavy, terribly noisy, boys' devoting their time and security of information, hut their and gave a lot of trouble by vi- 400,000,000 dollars of the nation's Times," engineers said that the ficult to convince petitioners or these ships swung to their anchors crane could lift a 400-ton battle- authority was limited to advising opposers of the merits of" their in Sydney Harbour, in full view bration. money to defencc research, in- Censorship and, where they con- cluding atomic bombs and guided ship gun turret "with its little case. of thousands of people from the Pembroke Dockyard finger." sidered it necessary, requesting the The Services naturally felt that shore and from ferries and other When Lord Chatficld was Con- missiles, who form Britain's first imposition of censorship on classes it was their duty to guard against passing vessels. Their presence troller of the Navy between 1925 line of defencc." R.I.N. Corvettes for Siani or specific items of information. any possibility of leakage of im- there was "common knowledge." and 1928, during the years of Rccent additions to the Siam- U.S. Navy Rejects Air ese Navy are the corvettes H.M.I. They had no power themselves to portant information, and there was But common knowledge inside retrenchment, he had to sign the Supremacy" impose censorship, or to forbid with them a tendency to play safe. a country does not necessarily order closing down Pembroke Ships "Burnet" and "Betony," Casting doubt on the value of both formerly of the Royal In- the publication of any material. In the United Kingdom, Francis mean common knowledge outside. Dockyard, an action which caus- air power in repelling invasions, They advised-and made their re- Williams, in his book, "Press, Par- The great problem of spies is not ed him particular regret. Taken dian Navy, and H.M. fleet mine- Mr. John L. Sullivan, U.S. Sec- sweeper "Minstrel," which have quests to, the Department of In- liament and People," tells how: the collection of information, but over again by the Admiralty, it retary of the Navy, told the Pres- formation through the State or "Censorship in its early days had its transmission to interested par- has once more 1ieen relinquished, been purchased by the Siamese ident's Air Policy Commission re- Government. Chief Publicity Censors. The been plagued by a blight of ad- ties beyond the borders, and it is in and has been let to private in- cently that at Okinawa the Jap- final decision lay with the Minis- mirals and other senior naval offi- the effort of that transmission that terests for engineering, ship re- anese "lost 7,830 aircraft, of Emergency Steering ter for Information, after discus- cers nominated by the Admiralty most spies have been detected and pairing, and ship-breaking. which number 4,155 were shot When a British naval boarding sion if necessary with the Service on the grounds that, as the senior caught. It was the obvious job of U.S. Navy League down by the fleet that came to party boarded the illegal Jewish Minister concerned. —and silent—Service, it was the Censorship to prevent the publi- The United States Navy stay . . . Only 36 American emigrant ship "Madina Jvrit" re- Publicity censorship in Aus- most capable of handling news- cation of anything that would es- League has launched a member- ships were sunk. Of this number cently, the crew welded them- tralia, as in the United Kingdom papers. Mo6t of these officers were tablish the fact that at a certain ship campaign to raise its enrol- 12 were destroyers, two were de- selves into the wheelhouse, think- and the United States of America, convinced that the way to deal time those liners were, or had ment from 16,834 to 300,000 dur- stroyer escorts, and the rest were ing that they thus had the con- was voluntary. 'The publicity or- with the Press was to treat all been, in Australian waters, since ing this year. Addressing the smaller craft. In other words, in trols sewn up. The boarding ganisations were expected to ob- newspapermen as potentially mu- a newspaper paragraph or photo- League recently, Mr. John L. a three-months engagement in party thereupon destroyed the serve the decisions made by Cen- tinous naval ratings who should graph, or a reference on ttje wire- Sullivan, Secretary of the Navy, which the Japanese lost 7,830 steering connections, and rigged sorship, and to submit for censor- be warned that they would be put less, could easily, even although said that the U.S.A. had pared aircraft, they did not succeed in an emergency gear aft. ship any material regarding which instantly in chains if they dis- delayed in reaching those seeking its defences to the minimum, and sinking one single American car- "Conway" Scholarship they were in doubt, but there was obeyed an order." Among a few information, provide a missing link he doubted if the nation had se- rier, one single American battle- A Scholarship of £160 per an- no legal compulsion upon them to of the less enlightened, that frame or confirm a doubtful report. curity. He said that the size of ship, one single cruiser or one um, plus £20 for extras, which single transport." do so. Under the National Se- of mind did exist in Australia in That it would have been pos- the U.S. Navy as envisaged in will operate annually in H.M.S. curity regulations it was, however, the early days, and it was not con- sible to convey a message by wire- "Post-War Plan One" was an Brazilian Navy (School Ship) "Conway" from an offence for anyone to publish or fined to the Navy. But it was less broadcast was amply illus- enlisted strength of 500,000 men The Brazilian Navy has in- the January term of this year, has convey to the enemy information overcome. trated in a test carried out by and 56,000 officers. It was now creased its strength by the pur- been awarded by the Indo-China down to 383,000 men and 45,000 likely to be of value in carrying On the other side, newspapers Military Intelligence during the chase of the U.S. cruisers "Nash- Steam Navigation Company, on the war. and broadcasting stations were at officers, with 761 ships, of which ville" and "Phoenix." Of the Hong Kong. Limited to the son war. At the time certain radio only 222 are combat vessels rep- After some preliminary difficul- first inclined to over-estimate the stations were including audience "Brooklyn" class, built shortly of a Merchant Navy or R.N.R. ties, the system worked well. Ad- resenting "the ready force of before the recent war, these Officer who was killed or died on extent of "common knowledge." participation sessions in their pro- America's sea power today." ministration was not simple, for it For example, mentioned was not grammes. The announcer would ships are of 10,000 tons displace- active service during the 1939-45 war, the Scholarship is named the was well-nigh impossible to lay permitted of the presence at vari- invite casual members of the pub- The "Altmark's" Sister ment, 100,000 horsepower giving down set rules save in the broad- ous times in Australian waters of lic to step to the microphone and them 32.5 knots, armed with "Wilkinson Memorial Scholar- The German naval tanker, ship," and has been established j cast way. Individual cases had to the two large Atlantic liners, answer questions on this and that "Northmark," sister to the war- 15-6" guns, 8-5", and smaller anti-aircraft armament. Equipped in order to perpetuate the mem- be treated on their merits, and in "Queen Mary" and "Queen Continued on p«g« 60. time prison ship "Altmark"

TW Navy Merch, 1*4*. 27 ory of the late Lieutenant Thomas in whichever yard they preferred. available as H.M.A. Ships, Wilkinson, V.C., R.N.R., who One stipulation would be made, "Queenborough," "Quality" and served with the Company. however, and that is that any "Quadrant." yachts built to this class must be Weather Ship built under Lloyd's survey. A cer- And now Australia is repeating It was some time ago decided tain amount of preliminary work the past in the further building of to establish a chain of weather has been done by two yards who destroyers. Recently the new observing ships in the Atlantic are prepared to jig the design, "Battle" class, H.M.A.S. "To- Ocean, using ex-Royal Naval thereby very greatly reducing the bruk," was launched at Cockatoo corvettes for this purpose. The cost per ship, which has now been Island yard in Sydney. Another first of these to take up her sta- estimated at E.£1955. This figure vessel of the same class will soon tion—ex-H.M.S. "Marguerite," includes designer's fees, a 10-20 be ready for launching at Wil- now "Weather Observer"—has h p. engine, sails and a full in- liamstown Naval Dockyard. The recently commenced her duties in ventory but does not include pur- building programme includes fur- 60 degrees North, 20 degrees chase tax nor such equipment as ther destroyers of the "Daring" West. bedding, cutlery, carpets or class. cushions. Polar Submarines Much water has flowed under The United States Navy is Enquiries outside the R.N.S.A. the destroyers' bridges since the following in the wake of the Aus- should be addressed to Mr. J. N. days of the Australian "River" tralian explorer. Sir Hubert Wil- Lancefield, Veneercraft Ltd., 18 class in the 1914-18 war. They kins, in polar exploration by sub- Bedford Square, London, W.C.I, founded the tradition of the marine, and is at present experi- from whom fuller particulars may R. A. N. in destroyer work. mentally fitting four submarines be obtained. Three of them founded the for this work. Service enquiries should be tradition of Australia's build- made to the Branch Secretariat, ing of these ships. Those at pre- R.N.S.A. SOIANI CLASS CRUISER. R.N.S.A., Box 1, P.O., EdgcclifF, sent under construction are a great Continued from page 18. Sydney. advance in size, in striking power either form being suitably weight- and in speed on their forerunners. ed and shaped to offer the least DESTROYERS OF THE R.A.N. But even so, they have a high • resistance. As in the designer's Continued from page 24. standard to maintain in achieving that set by those that went before own "Lone Gull," the case exten- hour, and "Quibcron's" report recorded a "total bag for the —both in the ships themselves and sion in the galley can be opened in the men that will man them. up above the L.W.L and the night of three destroyers and four Cunard Centenary England-Australia Passenger South Pacific children paddled board examined and cleaned of merchant ships, two of which were Berths Trebled round their island to a Japanese troopships." The following morn- mud and stones while the yacht is EDITORIAL It was a hundred years ago on On his arrival in Australia re- midget submarine of World War afloat. ing "Quiberon" had a hectic time Continued from page II. the 28th. December la^t when II., are among the exhibits at a alongside a British destroyer which cently, Mr. A. I. Anderson, a di- The displacement of the ship gained during the recent war. Samuel Cunard laid the founda- rector of the Orient Line, said Mariner's Museum near Newport being under 8 tons, a moderate sail had been torpedoed during a tor- tion of New York's greatness as News, Virginia, U.S.A. The ex- pedo-bomber attack and was sink- Therein also lies the value of the that three times the number of area will be sufficient for ordinary nursing and development of Aus- a seaport with the inauguration passenger berths available last hibits in the museum trace the ing. "Quiberon" removed her of the first regularly scheduled entire history of man's conquest cruising requirements. -Alternative complement, during which pro- tralia's shipbuilding industry, and year from Britain to Australia Bermudian sloop and ketch rigs the general continuity of employ- trans-Atlantic service between were expected in 1948 on British of the seas, and the museum—ad- cedure she was bombed and can- New York and Europe. On 28th mission to which is free—is a were adopted, and in both rigs all noned by attacking aircraft, the ment in maritime industries which Conference Lines. The Orient gear is inboard. The sloop has a gives confidence of future secur- December, 1847, the Cunard Line's new "Orcades," which popular attraction to visitors to attack being pressed after she got steamship "Hibernia" arrived at the city and neighbourhood. standing masthead backstay. clear with low-level bombing, dive- ity to those employed in them, should be completed by the end The raisedmidship deck gives and thus builds up a healthy and Jersey City, a significant event of this year, should provide 6,000 bombing and torpedo-bombing. following by seven years the es- "Clan" and "Shire" Losses a vefy strong midship section She camc through, however, to vigorous sea-minded and sca-far- berths a year in either direction. whilst allowing 5ft. lOin. heading population. The growth of tablishment of regular trans-At- The "Orontes" should re-enter The Clan Line and the Scottish continue the war against the Jap- lantic service between Boston Shire Line between them lost 36 room under the deck beams. This anese, as did "Quickmatch," with such a population, Sir Louis said, service about the middle of this construction was adopted because is of the utmost importance to and Europe by Cunard's pioneer year, and the "Otrafito" is ex- out of their 66 ships as a result of the Eastern Fleet and later the steamer "Britainnia." With a enemy action during the 1939-45 it is .both stronger and less expen- British Pacific Fleet. Australia, as to any maritime pected to go for reconditioning sive to build than the coachroof power. For it is on such a pop- length of 217 feet and a gross next month. war, said Lord Rotherwick, Chair- tonnage of 1,422 tons, the "Hi- man of the Companies, when he form, it is less liable to deck leaks, With the conclusion of hostili- ulation that(a country's Navy de- ties, the four "N" class ships pends. While the sea communi- bernia" accommodated 110 pas- Marine Museum visited Australia recently. Fif- and gives far more roomy accom- sengers on two decks. This con- modation below as well as better "Napier," "Nepal," "Norman" cations retain their significance, A library of 30,000 volumes; teen of the lost ships have already and "Nizam" reverted to the the dictum "He who would be trasts with the "Queen Elizabeth" relics from the "Bounty," Nel- been replaced, and five more are stepping of the mast. This wide which has 14 decks, accommo- deck also allows a 10ft. dinghy to Royal Navy. "Quiberon" and secure on land must be supreme son's "Victory," and America's on order. Meanwhile, the com- "Quickmatch" remained with the at sea," retains its truth. And he dates 2,314 luxury passengers, and famous "Constitution"; Mark panies have bought another 25 . be carried. during the war carried an entire The design is open to yachts- Royal Australian Navy, and in who keeps that fact before Aus- Twain's pilot license and historic ships to serve them until their place of the "N" vessels the Ad- tralia is doing his country a ser- division of 15,000 men at a time logs; and examples of ships from own tonnage can be built. men outside the Service clubs who vice. across the Atlantic. would have the freedom to build miralty made three more "Q's" a wooden bowl in which some Continued on neat page.

March. 1948. 21 Tin Navy 29 MARITIME NEWS . . . • fected and established, under- NAUTICAL perforated, but die looked good H.M.A.S. "Bataan," which is writers will give more favourable enough to last many years. Captain' Fletcher terms to radar-equipped ships. Many officers of the Merchant leader of die 10th. Destroyer In December issue, Mr. J. Pen- Service will have studied at the Flotilla, is not the only vessel Italian Merchant Marine be rthy mentions that H.M.S. London County Council School carrying that name. A Norweg- Italian shipyards are now quot- QUESTION BOX "Audacious" name continued to ian Merchant Vessel is alio the of Engineering and Navigation ing delivery of new orders in CONDUCTED IT appear in the Navy List long after before sitting for their examina- "Bataan." Built at Akers Yard, 1950 and, but for the shortage of she was lost. The reason, of tions for Master's or Mate's Cer- she is the biggest ship yet built coal and material, they could Oaptaia R. C. C. Dan. A.I.N.A.. Loads* course, was so that the enemy in Norway, being of, 9,500 tons get many more. In the meantime, tificates, and will remember Cap- Roadan are ia.itad to load ia any qtseeiaa on aestticel wallets, end we shall would not be sure whether she was tain John Spedding Fletcher, deadweight. She averaged 19 the Italian Merchant Service is gone or not. Later the story was who was head of the school's nav- knots on her trials. now nearly 2,000,000 tons gross, spread that she had reached Har- igation department. They will be and further purchases are being Radar In Ships land 6r Wolff's yard at Belfast, sorry to learn of his death last arranged. In the January issue of "The wide, 18.8ft. deep. The one lying and still later, about 1917,' the Navy" Mr. Norman Allen aakrd near Townsville was originally a year. In a letter of tribute to It has been estimated that £30,- Fast Old Lady story was spread that a new "The Nautical Magazine," the if the "wooden" ship "Agnes steamer, built in 1864 and of 1211 000,000 worth of future orders Many years after her bijth, the Muir" mentioned in the book "Audacious" had been commis- correspondent wrote what will be may come to radar equipment tons, owned by the Australasian sioned, reputedly the sixth ship of echoed in the minds of many: old "Mauretania," the four-fun- Colonial dipper* is identical with Steam Navigation Co. She was a manufacturers for fitting 15,000 nelled Atlantic flyer, turned round the hulk lying in Melbourne.— the "Queen Elizabeth" class of "His death is a great loss to the of the world's ships with radar, brig-rigged steamer when she ar- battleships. It was a wise deci- Merchant Navy. A better sailor and broke her own youthful re- Yes; she is the same ship. rived in Melbourne on 24th July, as it is thought that radar, like cord in Western Ocean crossing sion not to disclose her loss, for or a finer gentleman never walk- radio, may in time be made com- The "Agnes Muir" was an iron 1864, and she engaged in the coas- the Germans were never certain ed the poop of a ship. His kind- speed. Now one of her contem- tal trade until June, 1871, when pulsory for all vessels above a poraries—also one of the few ship of 874 tons gross and 817 and at the time she was actu- liness and courtesy were prover- certain tonnage. Four thousand tons nett, built by R. Duncan d she underwent an extensive recon- ally lost the battle squadrons bial and he was admired and lov- 'four-funnelled ships afloat—the struction in Sydney, having her of these ships, it is also estimat- "Aquitania," is doing something Co., Port Glasgow, for Patrick of the Grand Fleet were badly ed by all. There must be dozens ed, would be under the British Henderson 6/ Co. She was com- well decks built in and an extra depleted by more than half the of sailors who are better officers similar. Built in 1914, she re- flag and, at £2,000 for each in- cently made a passage between pleted in March, 1869, and her deck 8ft. high was constructed ships being out of action through and men for having known Cap- stallation, £8,000,000 worth of dimensions were 197.5ft. x 32.2ft. amidships. She was then used, to- tain John Spedding Fletcher. He Halifax, Nova Scotia, and South- condenser trouble. When they, the total orders would be for ampton, at 23.62 knots—more xl9.9 ft. She left Glasgow on her gether with the steamers "Wonga were back in service the secrecy will never be forgotten by those British ships. It is anticipated maiden voyage under the com- Wonga" and "C-ty of Mel- who have known him." than her original designed speed. was not so important, but the that as radar becomes more per- mand of Captain Laing, bound for bourne," as a mail steamer to truth never actually leaked out. Roaring Forties Port Chalmers, carrying a number Honolulu and San Francisco via There will be a little more of passengers. She arrived after a Auckland. The British Labour Minister in introducing the "1946 Assurance Companies Act," stated that "The 1946 Act":— traffic on the "Roaring Forties" passage of 99 days. Altogether she In 1886 the British India S.N, "Acknowledges the inherently international and comprehensive character route in the near future, for the made five voyages to New Zea- Co. purchased the shares of the of Insurance." Shaw, Savill and Albion Line is land carrying a total of 445 pas- Life Assurance The Labour President of the Board of Trade in the House of Commons also A.S.N. Co. and also of the IS THE "" diverting some of the ships from sengers, and on one of these she Queensland Steam Shipping Co., auted that it would be proper in thia connection to inform the House of the carried a number of grouse in an attitude of the Labour Government toward the future of British Insurance busi- the Panama to the Cape route for merging them into the Austral- ness. The Government, he stated, had no intention of interfering with the inter-Dominion passengers. attempt to acclimatise them in the asian United Steam Navigation Basic Investment transaction of Insurance business by private enterpriae. It is, he stated, the Speeding Cargo Handling Dominion, but they all died en Co. The "City of Adelaide" was deaire of the Government that Insurance should be in the future, as in the past, route. IN BUILDING YOUR dealt with on an international basis and as business of an international character. A recent report of President out of commission at the time and The interests of the people of Australia would be best served by its Govern- Truman's Advisory Committee on During subsequent years she lay in Sydney awaiting a buyer aaent following the sound principles so clearly enunciated by the Labour Gov- the Merchant Marine recom- was reduced to barque rig and was until 1889, when she was pur- Future Security ernment of Great Britain. mended that the U.S. Govern- eventually sold to E. M. Olsen, of chased for conversion to a hulk. CONSULT ment sponsor a concerted co-op- Tonsberg, Norway, being renamed When her engines were removed, For Years erative effort by shipping com- "Adele." Thjn in 1909 she was the hull was found to be in such GEORGE S. MANSELL the MERCANTILE MUTUAL panies, shippers, ship designers, purchased by Mcllwraith McEach- good condition that she was con- maritime labour and port author- arn and converted to a coal hulk, verted to a "jackass barque"; that CERTIFICATED Insurance Coy. Ltd. ities, towards the reduction of resuming her original name. Still is, a four-masted vessel, with yards MASTER MARINER. AN AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTION HAS BEEN PROVIDINC SECURITY cargo handling costs. One result in use to-day. on fore and mainmasts and fore FOR THE HOMES OF THE PEOPLE. ITS HQTTO BEING was a meeting of interested auth- Mr. Allen ask* if the composite and aft rig on mizzen and jigger Associated with "SERVICE TO THE PUBLIC" orities recently to attend ^ de- ship "City of Adelaide" mention- masts. About 1900 she was hulked THE monstration of newly developed ed in Colonial dippers is identi- for Howard Smith Co. and .taken MUTUAL LIFE 8C CITIZENS' Insurance Means Security. cargo-handling appliances. One cal with a vessel of the same to Townsville; in 1912 her coal ASSURANCE CO. LTD., of these, the Siporter Loader, is name lying in devdand Bay, cargo was on fire for some days. 44 M«tin Place, Sydney, MARINE, ACCIDENT, MOTOR CAR AND HOUSEHOLDERS' HOUSE-OWNERHOUSE S for loading through side ports; near Magnetic Island, Townsville. Soon after she was superseded by Unaurpaaed m a Life Office ia (CORHNBD) INSURANCE, CROPS, STACKS, FENCING, PLUVIUS. another is an improved type of ALL CLASSES OP AGRICULTURAL INSURANCE. No, these were two different the hulk "Koonoowarra," and in British Empire. overhead handling -gear; and a vessels. That mentioned in "Col- 1915 she was. again sold to be Allow one of your own "doth" third, the Magi electric winch, is the privilege of airaqging Head Office: 117 PITT STREET, SYDNEY. onial Clippers" was 791 tons, built stripped of everything of value, your Life Aaunooe. given flexible speed control ai,d and was then towed to Magnetic Me ta all Smm nd Aasadea k> all Sofcatao and Com, manoeuvrability by means of a by Pile's, Sunderland, for Devitt 'Phoges: hew d» >*m all daaae ol km a 6/ Moore in 1864. Her dimen- Island and beached in Cockle Bay. OFFICE: PRIVATE: • br mr ol ike ruaasiaei'a 4000 «•« traieed to tin magnetic clutch. "Service to the Public." sions were 176.8ft. long x 33.2ft. Her iron plates in 19*1 were much B 6754. XB2226.

> TW Navy News of Mrs. John Ennion Commander Dowson, is captain down in Sydney with his wife (formerly Meg Theophilus) who of H.M.A.S. Condamine, at pres- Beth, and two small and very at- lived in Sydney for some years ent in New Guinea. tractive daughters. and has innumerable friends in He is with the Maritime Ser- NAVY Navy circles. Mrs. Dowson and son John, vices Board and has bought a Jnr., are living at Elizabeth Bay house at Rose Bay. Writing to a friend from Dun- at her mother's harborside home. * * * fermline (Scotland) where she Mrs. Gerry Carter, who flew SPOTLIGHT] and her husband, Lt.-Command- to Canada to visit her mother Mrs. Walker, widow of the er Ennion, R.N. (who also lived some months ago, is returning by late Captain Walker, R A.N., for a time in Sydney, when he air to Australia with her baby visited Sydney during the month, was on Admiral Lord Fraser's daughter, and will go on arrival from Adelaide, where she has staff) she tells of plans they are to Dreger, where her husband, been living for some time. She making for their forthcoming so- "ICK-OFF for the five-day round of parties arranged for Mrs. Humphrey Becher made Lt.-Commander Carter, R.A.N., addressed members of the War journ in Greece, with the Mili- K*'U.S . Task Force 38's visit to Sydney was Rear-Admiral a flying trip to Sydney last month is stationed. Widows' Craft Guild on the from Melbourne, where the fam- tary Mission to Athens. work of the South Australian H. B. Farncomb's cocktail party aboard the Flagship on January ily is living. * * * branch of the Guild, with which 30, the day the Americans arrived, when about 200 people met Daughter Gillian, who went to she has been associated since its * * * school in Vaucluse, is rising inception. Rear-Admiral Martin and officers of the U.S. ships. Mrs. F. Knollema, wife of the eighteen and will shortly be leav- Former R.A.N. Fleet Air Arm Observer and ex-Union Steam- former Netherlands Navy Liaison ing her school in the south of * » » Mr. Orsen Neilson (Consul- which was a large block of red- Officer, Commander Knollema, ar- England. ship officer, Robert Scott, who served as a Lieut, in the famous Lieut.-Commander and Mrs. General for the United States) lit ice, on which was mounted a rived in Holland recently in the • * * atftl Mrs. Neilson entertained pineapple. Abbekerk. Before she and her carrier Ark Royal, along with James Ramsay are receiving con- their countrymen the following Recipe for "Ananas Oriental" two children, Johann and Juliana, many other Australians, has gratulations on the birth of a Among the farewell parties for given ihe sea away and settled son to be named David. evening at the Hotel Australia, which is the name Americans left Sydney they were farewelled Lt.-Commander John Peel and and as on the previous night give to this sweet is as follows— by their many friends in the his wife, who left Sydney and Princes was crowded with U.S. Cut the top off a pineapple, scoop R.A.N. went to make their home at the officers who squired the girls they out the inside and fill with diced They have joined Commander Naval Depot at Flinders last had met at the parties to dinner pears, peaches, cherries and pine- Knollema at The Hague. month, was one given by Mrs. and dancing. apple. Pour liqueur over this * * * Peel's cousin Miss Betty Pinker- and stand in a refrigerator for ton, who arrived from England On the Sunday there was U S. Mrs. H. B. Farncomb and Mrs. half a day. Then scoop out a last year. Ambassador R. Butler's lunch- block of ice, place a small torch Tim Gelladey are among Sydney eon party in Canberra to which covered with red cloth or paper Naval wives who are in Hobart John and Sybil arrived in time the Americans were flown. in it, stand pineapple (with its for the Regatta festivities which for the farewell party Command- February 2 was quite a night top on) in the scooped out part coincide with the R.A.N. Squad- er and Mrs. Warwick Bracegirdle with the Ambassador's dinner of the ice, and serve. Looks ron's visit to Tasmania. gave prior to their departure for dance at Prince's immediately most fascinating! * * * England in the Orion. They were following the super cocktail Miss Barbara Moore entertain- accompanied by their three child- party given by R~ar-Admira! G. Bourbon whiskey came on after the coffee and caaused a mild ed about 70 guests at a cocktail ren and will probably be away D. Mocre and Mrs. Moore, at party last month, at "Tresco," in for a couple of years. "Tresco." furore among those who hadn't tasted its warmth-making strength honor of visiting New Zealand- Numbers of men came to the previously. It appears to be ers Lt.-Commander and Mrs. Admiral's party dressed r:ady for stronger than Scotch, or Austra' Kenneth Douglas Morris, who The captain and officers of the spent a fortnight in Sydney. the dinner. Others had a rush lian whiskies. * » '» Flagship entertained officers and to dash home and change and be Among guests were represent- their wives at a cocktail party on back in town in time to make atives of the R.A.N., Consular Arch of swords for Miss board, when the ship visited the the receiving line at Prince's and Diplomatic officials and num- Daphne Cotterill and Lieut. Flinders Depot last month. which commenced at 8 p.m. bers of the many friends Mr. and Colin Buhl, R.A.N., who were * * * sharp. Among Canberraites in Mrs. Butler have made during married at the Chatswood Sth. town for these parties was Miss their stay here. Methodist Church on February Mrs. John Bath, wife of Com- Ivy Williams, daughters of the On. February 3 Rear-Admiral 6. High Commissioner for the U.K. mander Bath, is a passenger in the Martin, officers and men of the The bride is the youngest Strathaird for England, where she Champagne flowed during Mr. Task Force returned hospitality daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. ,G. will stay with her parents for a at a reception on board the air- Butler's wonderful dinner, main Cotterill, of Willoughby, and few months. course of which was Filet Mig- craft carrier, Valley Forge. Lieut. Buhl is the eldest son of non. The sweet came in with a This party commenced at 4 Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Buhl, of * * # fanfare of trumpets from the or- p.m. and carried on until after 7 Bellingen, N.S.W. chestra and dimmed lights. It was p.m. with a buffet dinner and After a brief honeyipoon the Back from a year and a half's Reer-Admiral H. N. Martin, U.S.N., photographed with Mn. Raymond Higgim at born aloft by about eight waiters dancing in the hangar deck, and bridgeroom left in ail L.S.T. stay in Melbourne is Mrs. John *he party givan by U.S. Consul-General Mr. Orson Neilien and Mrs. Neilson at tha who carried a tray each, on the ship open for inspection. for New Guinea. Dowson, whose husband, Lt.- Hotol Australia during tha five-day visit of Task Force 38 to Sydney.

II 32 Th* Navy March, 1944. blind. The digging job usually ended in the hose taking charge DIVING HAS ITS MOMENTS and rolling the inexperienced JOHNSON'S TYNE FOUNDRY i Diver about the bottom. C. GILES An Australian Merchant Service Officer whose PTY. LTD. life has included the ups and downs of a diver The second section was execut- & SONS ed on a metal staging some in New York Harbour tells something of his twenty feet down, and comprised experiences. tasks such as chipping off rivet heads, building a box, etc. It By R. L White was designed to accustom a man • SACK to the use of tools under water. The six years of the 1939-45 in theory, was given. The sole The job of building a box under AND war intruded upon the monot- preparation was a quick medical water presents quite a problem. onous regularity of most lives, examination, and a run through Wood floats, as we all know, and the Recompression Chamber to a Diver who becomes too absorb- • PRODUCE MFG. ENGINEERS, SHIP BUILDERS, SHIP REPAIRERS, Etc. and few people did not, at some time during that period, find ensure that your lungs and ears ed in his work will sooner or MERCHANTS, themselves in strange environ- would take pressure. On my first later straighten his back for a Cnr. LORIMER Be TYNE STS., dive, my sum total of diving breather and have the chagrin of SOUTH MELBOURNE. ments, willingly or unwillingily knowledge was: "Turn the watching his work go soaring up employed in unaccustomed occu- 'Phone: MX 2189. valve towards you for more air, to the surface. The best plan pations. Being one of the more and away for less," with an ad- when it comes to your turn for fortunate ones I found myself, 341 MALVERN RD., monition not to spoil the school's this job is to carefully place the at one stage, entertainingly if good record of no fatalities. Thus pieces of wood underneath the SOUTH YARRA, strenuously employed in the, to armed, and with vivid memories staging where their buoyancy will MELBOURNE, me, unusual vocation of Marine from schoolboy thrillers of blood- keep them until wanted, then go VICTORIA. Diving, under the excellent tui- curdling encounters with giant to work with a hammer in one tion of the U.S. Navy's Salvage octopii arid other monsters of the hand, a nail in the other, a piece unit, situated at pier 88, New 'PHONES: BJ 3255-6. deep, I sank to the bottom for of wood in the third and fourth York harbour. There the great the first time. hands, which leaves the other Atlantic Lady, "Normandie," was hands free for any odds and ends lying helpless and embarrassed Familiarity breeds contempt that crop up. on her side. It was a condition however, although with me a which she and I shared in com- certain reserve of caution always The third and last section of mon with frequent regularity remained. That was just as will, THE during the first few weeks. the course took place in the Ex- J. GADSDEN PTY. LTD. for it is the easiest thing in the perimental Tank on the wharf, FLEET-FORGE Work started at seven in the world to fall into difficulties, even where we were taught under- Cut. ABBOTSFORD 8C IRELAND STS., morning at the Diving School, in such perfect conditions as water welding and cutting, two WEST MELBOURNE, C.3. and being accustomed to Austra- those which prevailed in and singular and fascinating tasks. PTY. LTD. around the "Normandie." Any But I found it is not only your 'Phone: FJ 4171 (4 lines) lian conditions, under which iv,is impossible to find any restaurant slight relaxation of alertness can work that can be welded. Noth- CANNISTER MAKERS, UN PLATE PRINTERS, CROWN SEALS, open to business before ten a.m. waste vital seconds, and then one ing, not even I myself, was safe 9-13 LORIMER ST. more casualty is hauled to the ooce a welding rod was placed BLIND ROLLERS, CALICO AND HESSIAN BAGS, TENTS AND at the earliest, I had resigned my- STH. MELBOURNE self to going one meal short each surface. in my hand. For some unknown ALL CANVAS <300DS. day. I was, however, to be pleas- reason I was waving my welding VICTORIA The course of instruction last- rod about my head when it struck antly surprised. Walking towards my helmet. There was a flash, the waterfront the first morning, ed six weeks or longer, depend- ENGINEERS- ing upon the pupil's aptitude. It and rod and helmet became one. my gratified gaze met not one, embraced a thorough and com- What God has joined together let but many restaurants and eating STRUCTURAL prehensive curriculum, divided inno man put asunder, but with a DAY'S ENGINEERING WORKS houses open. From then onwards to three main sections. The first hammer and chisel as intermed- MECHANICAL I looked with favour on all included several jobs to accustom iary, a divorce was effected. The American customs, and was en- 0. A. DAY, Prop.) one to working in the mud; as- vagaries of an electric current, MARINE abled to start the day fortified sembling a metal flange, building as of a woman's mind, are some- % with a good lining. a watertight patch, and digging thing to be wondered at. In Quotations given for all GENERAL ENGINEERS a hole in the harbour's bottom either case they can lead a man To arrive at work feeling in classes of work. with a high pressure fire hose. into unexpected difficulties. 62 WHITEMAN STREET the best of form was all to the None of these tasks was simple. good at the U.S. School of Div- TELEPHONE: The bottom of the Hudson River After graduating from the SOUTH MELBOURNE, VICTORIA ing. The guiding principle seem- about Pier 88 is of the consistency M X 5 2 3 I (6 lines) ed to be Xearn by your own mis- school, we stepped across the of chocolate blanc-mange, and all gangplank and went to work in 'PHONE: MX 2425 AFTER HOURS: WM2J96 takes ana hard experience," for work had to be done completely no preliminary talk, or instruction earnest aboard the stranded "Nor- t I sU _ IM.rch, 194®. mandie". As usual we found the engineroom spaces, portholes, each section t -ing detachable to Crossed in Love practical application somewhat etc., had been sealed effectively. further study and discussion. It Judy: "My young man says different to the school. The most Then each section was pumped was a great pity that the Divers I've got such affectionate eyes. I noticeable contrast was the tem- dry to test its efficiency, and flood- could not have been given a look wonder what he means." perature. The water was toler- ed again. Once all sections were at this model. Their work would ably warm in the Experimental complete and had passed the have been made much clearer to Julie: "That they're always Tank, but in the open of a New test, the whole ship was pumped them. However, such was the looking at each other, I suppose." York's winter it was bitterly cold. dry, and with the aid of heavy number of Divers employed that Only Needs The Sand When diving outside the hull, if tackles, jacks and other gear, for security reasons such an idea work allowed of it, we would she was righted. There must would have been out of the ques- Sarcastic Captain on Inspec- sink ourselves into the soft mud have been anxious hearts on the tion. tion, to Ship's Baker: "You've on the bottom. This acted as a final day, as she slowly righted got something here, my man. kind of blanket, and the temper- herself and once more floated in Diving is an absorbing game, These loaves of yours are the perature would be more congenial. the manner of all welt found and adds that variety so necessary fect size for a holystone frame." By far the coldest part of the ships. To my regret I never saw to life, for a Diver never knows His Only Chance. Easy whole day was when one's turn this day, as I was by that time in Firing Exercises what may lie beneath him when Friend: "Why does your hus- Passenger, at Saloon Bar: "Tell came round to tend the other other climes. Pilot: "I suppose your wife he goes down. One last dip as a band stick out his hand when me, Chief, do you know the dif- Diver. One was then being will hit the roof, your bringing farewell before leaving New he's driving?" ference between a Scotsman and obliged to hold a freezing air In spite of the cold and watery me home at this hour." environment, we had our mo- York, and I came to grief with a coconut?" hose and life line, often in falling none but myself to blame, being Wife: "The worm's getting Guns: "Probably. She's a ments of excitement. On "B" Chief Engineer: "I dinna ken." snow, and unable to jump around by now, as I thought, an experi- ready to turn." rotten shot." deck one morning I saw two sail- Passenger: "Well, you can get to stimulate the circulation. enced hand. Becoming somewhat ors taking their ease beside a Tangible Evidence a drink out of a coconut. But . . . Homeward Bound Diver's broadcast telephone, from careless about a certain law relat- The salvage of the "Norman- Chief Steward: "Can you iden- Ha! Ha! Ha! Not bad, eh?" Passenger: "That fellow you which issued loud and anguished ing to gases and volumes, discov- . die," though supervised by and tify the steward, sir?" Chief Engineer: "Verra guid. told me was quite reliable in appeals for help. Speaking to ered by Mr. Boyle, I suddenly in charge of the U.S. Navy who Irate Passenger: "Certainly! I Verra guid indeed. Wull ye hae Colombo is just a fraud. This those two worthies, I was told found myself rising with ever-in- provided a section of Divers, was havq his fingerprints on my soup a drink?" ivory carving I bought from him he would come to no harm, he creasing speed towards the sur- mainly carried out by the firm of plate." is an imitation." was just temporarily lost and as face. I broke water like the Passenger: "I'd like one very Merritt, Chapman and Scot, who Demon King, landing back as much." had as many as seven hundred he, being an Officer, had run Cause and Effect Purser: "I can't understand helpless as a cow in its bail, for Chief Engineer: 'Then awa' that. The elephant must have Divers employed on the job. Be- those two Sailors into the Cap- Cissie: "So poor Fanny's ro- tain's report the week previous, the pressure of air inside my suit wi ye an' buy yersel' a coconut." had a denture." ing just one of the many Divers, had spreadeagled my arms, de- mance was ruined. That accounts I cannot lay claim to any know- they guessed it "Would do that for her sad face." wise guy a lot of good to cool priving me of their use. ledge of the inside plans of the Susie: "No! You've got it the operation, but am inclined to off a mite." 1 was by then properly alarm- wrong way round." think the claim that it is the big- Such a salutory lesson may or gest salvage job ever attempted ed. Not so my attendants, how- Beginner's Luck may not have had the desired ever. They merely hauled me is a slight exaggeration, and true effect. But I am sure that no kind Judge: "And why do you only insofar as the "Normandie" along the water until they could of skylarking should be permitted reach down and turn off my air think I should be lenient with is the biggest ship ever to require under water. It is far to easy for you?" salvage. valve. My suit began to sag, and serious consequences to follow in much to my relief I regained the Defendant: "Well, your Hon- the wake of a practical joke. our, it's my lawyer's first ease." Compared to many other pieces use of my arms. But it was most Life is not all beer and skittles undignified while it lasted. of salvage work brought to a suc- for a Diver. He must, while on Wrong Target cessful conclusion during the re- the job, eschew all thought of Nobby: "Ah! She's a trim- I cent war, and executed under hos- beer and other kindred solace, mer. She's a girl after my own tile action and difficult conditions, for the gas absorbed with alcohol heart." the work aboard the "Norman- renders a Diver prone to the Dusty. "I used to think that die," though spectacular, was "Bends," a painful and often Are You a about her too. But she always a straightforward job performed fatal affliction. seemed to have the idea that I under ideal conditions. After carried mine in my pocket." cleaning out the inside of the One Monday morning aboard Subscriber to ship, half of which was under the "Normandie," I was quite Experienced water, and removing every piece pleased at being sent for and told Jeff: "This Government has of her construction it was pos- to join up with a class of Officers The Navy? introduced some good ideas, any- sible to remove in order to light- studying the theoretical side of way. What about the pay-as- en her, a number of concrete ship-construction and salvage Order Your you-earn scheme?" water-tight subdivisions were work, held in rooms above the Mutt: "Good heavans, man, Dtfili across her beam at intervals wharf. Here I saw a large scale Copy Now there's nothing new in that! We along her length. All apertures model of the "Normandie," built married men have been doing it in die hull, such as boiler and in exact replica as she. then was. for years." "It's ten fathoms. Sir." "Yes, yes—but whet's tfiet in feet?"

It* Navy March, I Ml. WHAT THE NAVY IS DOING . ... at Seq and Ashore

HE outstanding development in the doings of the Royal Australian and will be granted availability 1st Frigate Flotilla 20H Mlaeswoepiaq Flotilla Navy since these notes were last written has been the change in H.M.A.S. Gladstone (Ueut.- T for refit and to give days' leave H.M.A.S. Swan (Captain R. the appointment of the First Naval Member, with the result that, for H.M.A.S. Culgoa, Senior Offi- Commander H. A. E. Cooper V. Wheatley, R.A.N.) Senior the first time in its history, the Royal Australian Navy has, as its to each watch. cer (Commander J. Plunkett- R.A.N.), H.M.A.S. Latrobe Officer, with H.M.A. Ships Kan- administrative head at Navy Office, as well as in command of the Cole, R.A.N.), departed Sydney (Lieut. D. H. D. Smyth, R.A.N.). garoo, H.D.M.Ls. 1328, 1329 and Squadron, an officer who, in each case, is a graduate 6f the Royal H.M.A.S. Warramunga (Com- 4th February with the Squadron G.P.Vs. 960 and 963, is carrying Australian Naval College. Rear-Admiral John A. Collins, C.B., arrived mander G. C. Oldham, D.S.C., for exercises with U.S. Task Force Survey Skips out minesweeping operations in in Australia last month in S.S. 7\(eu> Zealand Star from the United R.A.N.) is with the British Com- 38 and Squadron exercises. She the New Guinea area. H.M.A.S. Barcoo (Lieut.-Com- Kingdom, and has taken up his appointment as First Naval Member monwealth Occupation Forces in is due back in Sydney on the 3rd mander D'A. T. Gale, D.S.C., of the Australian Commonwealth Naval Board and Chief of the Naval Japan, where she will be relieved of this month, and will spend R.A.N.) is engaged on surveying lOM L.S.T. Flotilla Staff, vice Admiral Sir Louis Hamilton, K.C.B., D.S.O., who had occu- about the 23rd of this month by March in the Sydney-Jervis Bay duties in Spencer Gulf She is due pied the position since 1945. Sir Louis left in the Stratheden for H.M.A.S. Quir^match. She is ex- area, and will depart Sydney on L.S.T. 3014 fLieut.-Comman- to return to Sydney for refit and England, where he is retiring. Some changes were made in the Squad- pected back in Sydney about 7th the 30th of the month to relieve der W. A. Wilson, R.A.N.R.) is to give leave on 1st May. ron exercise programme planned for February, this being amended to April, and will be granted avail- H.M.A.S. Condamine in New employed dumping ammunition allow for exercises in conjunction with U.S. Task Force 38, which, ability for giving 21 days' leave Guinea waters. from Fremantle and Albany, Wes- H.M.A.S. Warrego (Lieut.- Commander R. B. A. Hunt comprising the aircraft carrier Valley Forge, the destroyers Lloyd to each watch. tern Australia. 0.B.E., R.A.N.) is engaged on Thomas, William M. Wood, Keppeler and W. C. Lawe, aiid the H.M.A.S. Shoalhaven (Lieut. - L.S.T. 3017 (Lieut.-Comman- H.M.A.S. Quiberon (Commart- Commander Keith Tapp, R.A.N.) der H. K. Dwyer, R.A.N.R.) is surveying work in Bass Straits. tanker Mistillion, arrived at Sydney on a goodwill visit on 30th January. She is due to return to, Sydney for So far as the ships of the Squadron are concerned, activities during der J. L. Bath, R.A.N.) departed departed Sydney 4th February. employed dumping ammunition Her programme for the month , from Sydney and from Tasmanian refit and to give leave about lit February, and proposed future programmes, are as follows:— Sydney 7th February for West- May. ernport and for exercises with the was similar to that of Culgoa. ports, and in transporting stores Squadron, being at Port Pfiillip, After spending this month' and between Sydney and Melbourne. H.M.A.S. Lachlan (Lieut.- Hobart, Port Arthur and Sydney part of April in the Sydney-Jervis L.S.T. 3501 (Lieut. Comman- Commander C. G. Little, D.S.C., SQUADRON DISPOSITIONS during the month, and departing Bay area, she will proceed to Wil- der G. M. Dixon, D.S.C., R.A.N. R.A.N.), after refitting at Wil- Sydney on 29th February for Jap- liamstown, where she will be V.R.), after carrying out success- liamstown Dockyard, pays off into anese waters. Her programme for granted availability for refit and fully her first operation in connec- reserve at Sydney. mander G. L. Cant, R.A.N.) is The Cruisers the passage is: Cairns, 12 th to give 21 days' leave to each tion with the Australian National in Sydney, paying off into reserve. watch before departing from Syd- Antarctic Research Expedition, H.M.A.S. Jabiru is tender to H.M.A.S. Australia ' (Captain March; Dreger Harbour, 15th Warrego, and her programme is ney in company with Bataan in when she landed a party of scien- H. J. Buchanan, D.S.O., R.A.N.), March, and Japan, where she will similar to that vessel's. 1Mb Destroyer Flotilla relieve H.MA.S. Arunta, 23rd of June for Japan, where she will tists on Heard Island and estab- wearing the Flag of Rear-Admiral relieve H.M.A.S. Quiberjm. General Farncomb, CB., D.S.O., M.V.O., H.M.A.S. Bataan (Captain (D) this month. She will be relieved lished a fuel dump at Kerguelen, 10, Captain J. C.. Morrow, in July by H.M.A.S. Shoalhaven. returned to Australia during H.M.A.S. Air Rest (Lieut. W R.A.N., Flag Officer Command- H.M.A.S. Condamine (Lieut.- D.S.O., D.S.C., R.A.N.) sailed January, and proceeded to Wil- 1. A. Key, R.A.N.V.R.) is in ing the Royal Australian Naval Commander J. H. Dowson, from Sydney 4th February, her H.M.A.S. guicl^match (Lieut.- liamstown Naval Dockyard for Sydney. Squadron, departed Sydney,,4th R.A.N.) is being relieved in New programme being in the main in Commander C. J. Stephenson, repairs. The second part of her H.M.A. Tug Reserve (Lieut. I. February, with H.M.A. Ships Guinea by H.M.A.S. Culgoa and line with that of the Flagship. R.A.N.) departed Sydney 4th operation entails a voyage to Mac- M. Adie, R.A.N.R. (S) ) was at Bataan. $uic\match, Shoalhaven will proceed to Williamstown, Bataan, however, carried out tor- February with the Flagship for ex- quarie Island, approximately 800 Sydney availability to 6th Febru- Murchison and Culgoa, and exer- where she is due on 5th April, pedo firing exercises in Port Phil- ercises with U.S. Task Force 38, miles S.S.E. from Hobart. ary. cised with U.S. Task Force 38, calling at Sydney en,route. On lip Bay during 9th and 10th Feb- and for Squadron exercises. Her and later carried out Squadron ex- arrival at Williamstown she will H.M.A.S. Karangi is at Fre- ruary. It is anticipated that she programme throughout was simi- Loodlag Ship* lafaatrv ercises, visiting Westernport, Ho- be granted availability for refit and mantle, boom defence vessel. will spend part of April in the lar to that of H.M.A.S. ûiberon, H.M.A.S. Kanimbla, tne only bart, Norfolk Bay during the to give 21 days' leave to each Sydney-Jervis Bay area, and will with the difference that she car- Landing Ship Infantry now re- H.M.A.S. Woomera (Lieut. A. month, sailing from Hobart on the watch. 1st of this month for New Zea- commence 50 days' availability at ried out gunnery firing exercises maining in commission vith the R. Pearson, R.A.N.V.^.) was at in Port Phillip Bay during 9th and Royal Australian Navy (Captain land, where she is due at Dunedin Sydney for leave on 24th April H.M.A.S. Murchison (Lieut.- Sydney availability 7th February. 10th February. With ûiberon, A. P. Cousin, D.S.C., R.A.N.R. on 5th March. Her programme before departing for Japan in June Commander J. McL. Adams, she is expected to arrive in Japan- (S) ), having completed her period H.M.A.S. G.P.V. 956 is at for .March is: Lyttleton, 10th to to relieve H.M.A.S. ^.uic^match O.B.E., R.A.N.) departed Sydney ese waters on 23rd March to re- of availability in Sydney, resumed Cairns on R.M.S. operations. 15th March; Wellington, 16th to there. 4th February with the Flagship lieve H.M.A.S. Warramunga. She trooping operations to Japan in 22nd March; Auckland, 24th to H.M.A.S. Arunta (Commander for exercises. She was detached H.M.A.S. G.P.V. 957 is at will herself be relieved in July by February. 30th March. She is due back in F. N. Cook, D.S.C., R.A.N.) is from the Squadron for exercises Cairns on R.M.S. operations. H.M.A.S. Bataan. During the ex- Sydney on 2nd April. in Japanese waters with the Brit- with H.M. Submarine Aeneas, ercise period in Tasmanian waters, ish Commonwealth Occupation and later rejoined the Squadron Auitraliaa H.M.A.S. Hobart (Acting- ûiberon and Quickmatch were Australian National Antarctic Forces, and will be relieved there for the Tasmanian exercises, re- Mlmwnpin Commander A. J. Travis, R A N.) inspected while at Port Arthur by Research Expedition is in Sydney, paying off into re- about 23td of this month by turning to Sydney, where she is These two vessels are based on H.M.A.S. Sluibcrcm. She is due Captain (D) 10th Destroyer Flo- due with H.M.A. Ships Culgoa Flinders Naval Depot for training H.M.A.S. Wyatt Earp (Com- back in Sydney about 7th April, tilla. RM.A.S. Shropshire (Com- and Shoalhaven on 3rd March. Depot personnel:— mander K. E. Oom, O.B.E.,

Ik* Navy M«A 1949. M Hollandia to the invasion of the R.A.N.), after suffering some hull Purvis is a qualified torpedo and Philippines, among others. A keen damage due to heavy weather en- anti-submarine officer. Previous cricketer, Commander Morrison THEY WON DECORATIONS WHEN THEIR countered after leaving Hobart on to his appointment he was sta- represented the Royal Navy in her- previous voyage towards Mac- tioned at Flinders Naval Depot, first-class matches when he was in SHIPS WENT DOWN quarie Island, returned to Mel- Victoria. England in 1932, 1936 and 1938. bourne in January and proceeded Commander John Plunkett- to Williamstown Naval Dock- The Australian Commonwealth Two Chief Petty Officers of the Royal Australian Navy Cole, R.A.N., who has assumed Naval Board entertained two of yard, where she docked for repairs command of H.M.A.S. Culgoa as who were awarded decorations for their service when their before again proceeding to the its former members at a luncheon ships were lost in action with the Japanese are Chief Petty Senior Officer, 1st Frigate Flotilla, at the Oriental Hotel, Melbourne, southward. Work on the vessel was Commander of the Roya! Officer J. H. Hutchings, of Kogarah, New South Wales, and was completed by the end of Jan- on 30th January. The guests, who Chief Petty Officer Cook (S) R H. Bland, of Auburn, New Australian Naval College at Flin- had arrived on a visit to this coun- uary, and full power and sea trials ders Naval Depot ( revious to tak South Wales. Both have had long service—in each case over were carried out during the first try in R.M.S. "Orion," were Ad- 20 years—in the R.A.N. ing over his present command. He miral P. H. Hall-Thompson, C.B., week in February in Port Phillip had considerable sea service in the Bay and outside the Heads. C.M.G., who was First Naval Chief Petty Officer Hutchings was in "Vampire" when recent war, serving in the Medi- Member from 1924 to 1927, and she was sunk during a Japanese air attack in the Bay of Bengal terranean during the early months Rear-Admiral Sir Eldon Manisty, in April, 1942. In November of that year he was awarded a of the campaign in that sea, and Commandar J. Plunkatt-Cola. K.C.B., C.M.G., who, from 1911 Mention in Despatches "For bravery when H.M.A.S. 'Vam- GENERAL taking part in the operations at to 1914, was Finance Member and pire' was sunk by Japanese aircraft." Later, he managed to the evacuation of Crete. He com- First Naval Secretary of the Aus- get some of his own back, when, in H.M.A.S. "Quickmatch" PERSONAL manded four of the Royal Aus- tralian Naval Board. Sir Eldon he was, in October, 1944, awarded the D.S.M. "For outstand- R.M.S. "Orion," which arrived tralian Navy's destroyers during Manisty afterwards became Pay ing courage, skill and determination in pressing home a suc- in Melbourne on Wednesday, 28th the war (H.M.A. Ships "Ven- Master Director-General of the cessful attack on the Japanese Naval Base at Sabang." January, from England, brought Lieut-Commander (L) John Royal Navy. Members of the with her ten officers and three rat- Edward Ironmonger, R.N., has Naval Board who attended the Chief Petty Officer Bland received his first award, a ings of the Royal Navy, who are joined the staff of Naval Aviation luncheon were the First Naval Mention in Despatches, for action against the Germans in the here on loan to the Royal Aus- at Navy Office as technical offi- Member (Admiral Sir Louis Ham- Mediterranean whilst he was serving in H.M.A.S. "Perth." tralian Navy for duties with the cer for air and ground radio. A s ilton, K.C.B., D.S.O.), the Third This award, in November, 1941, was "For gallantry and dis- Naval Aviation Branch. Three of keen amateur radio enthusiast, his 1 Naval Member (Engineer Rear- tinguished service in operations in Greek waters." He was in the officers visited Australia last radio-telephony transmission from Admiral A. B. Doyle, C.B.E.), "Perth" when she went down fighting against a powerful year with the Royal Navy's 1st England — where he operated the Secretary, Department of the Japanese force in Sunda Strait during the night of February Aircraft Carrier Squadron. Lieu- Amateur Station G.8.P.O.—have Navy (Mr. A. R. Nankervis), the 28th., 1942. Subsequently he was, until the end of the war, a tenant-Commander (P) D. W. been heard clearly in all parts of Finance Member (Mr. R. An- prisoner in the hands of the Japanese. In March, 1946, he Kirke, R.N., was Lieut -Comman- Australia. During the four thony) and the Acting Secretary was awarded a Mention in Despatches "For gallantry and der (Flying) in H.M.S. "Glory," months previous to his departure to the Naval Board (Mr. F. G. resolution whilst serving in H.M.A.S. 'Perth' lost by enemy Lieut. (S) G. W. G. Pugh, R.N., from the United Kingdom, Lieut - Cummins). Also present was Mr. action in the Far East on 1/3/42." He had previously, in the was Deputy Supply Officer in the Commander Ironmonger carried G. L. Macandie, C.B.E., who was New Year's Honours List of 1942, been awarded the British same ship, and Lieut. (A) M. W. out extensive experiments with an Secretary of the Naval Board Empire Medal. Henley, R.N., was a member of unusual beam aerial. Operating from 1914 until 1946. the Firefly Squadron borne' in the system on the twenty-metre In Sydney on 30th January, and H.M.S. Theseus. Lieut. Comman- band, he succeeded in making 368 der P. F. Dick, R.N., was also in telephony contacts with Australia on board his Flagship, H.M.A.S. R.A.N., who collapsed from a Australia during the war years, in 96 days. A great number of Commandar T. K. Morrison. "Australia," Rear-Admiral Farn- heart attack and died in his room when he was Supply Officcr to these contacts were of one to two detta," "Napier," "Norman" and comb was decorated by Rear-Ad- in U.S.S. "Valley Forge" on her Flag Officer Naval Air, Pacific, hours duration, and strength of "Nepal") and served in the miral Martin, U.S.N., Flag Officer arrival at Sydney on 30th Janu- based in Sydney. signals were invariably reported as cruisers H.M.S. "Sussex" and Commanding U.S. Task Force 38, ary. He was in the "Valley quite outstanding. For the infor- Other officers returning to Aus- H.M.A.S. "Canberra," being in with the U.S. Naval Cross "For Forge" as one of the six R.A.N. mation of those of our readers tralia in the "Orion" were Lieu- the Australian cruiser when' she contributing materially to the re- officers who had flown to Pearl who are especially interested in tenant-Commander R. L. Wil- was sunk in the first Savo Island capture of the Philippine Islands." Harbour and joined the Task radio, it might be mentioned that liams, R.A.N., and Lieut. W. G. battle in August, 1942. At the ceremony, Rear-Admiral Force for experience on the voy- details of the beam aerial used Wright, R.A.N., who had been Commander Thomas K. Morri- Martin said that he was present- age to Australia. Commander were given in the November, on exchange service with the son, O.B.E., D.S.C., R.A.N., has ing the Cross "at the direction of Vallance joined the Royal Austra- 1947 issue of the Radio Society Royal Navy; Lieut. (S) L. Penn- succeeded Commander Plunkett- President Truman" for "extra- lian Navy as a midshipman in of Great Britain Bulletin. Gaskell, R.N., who will take up Cole as Commander of the Royal ordinary heroism during the cap- 1917, and was promoted Com- an appointment as Secretary to Lieut.-Commander Ian Kit- Australian Naval College. He ture of Lingayen Gulf, and the mander in 1938. During the war Rear-Admiral A. R. M. Bridge, chener Purvis, R A N., of Mel- also saw wide and varied service landing oil Luzon in 1945." he served at sea in H.M.A. Ships head of the United Kingdom Ser- bourne, has been appointed to at sea during the war in H.M.A. His many friends in and out of "Adelaide" and "Australia," and vice Liaison Staff in Australia; Navy Office, Melbourne. He will Ships "Hobart" and "Australia," the Navy will have been shocked at Navy Office, Melbourne. He is and Lieut. (P.T. and W.) D. D. be attached to the staff of the Di- taking part in the operations at survived by his wife and two chil' Tha late Engineer-Commander at the sudden death of Engineer Howson, R.N., who is here on rector of Training and Staff Re- British Somaliland, the Java Sea E. B. Vallance, R.A.N. Commander E. B. Vallance, dren. exchange service with the R.A.N. quirements. Lieut.-Commander and the South-west Pacific from March, 194*. 41 40 Tk» Navy partment*; and in those depart- chine to supplant armed force, fate he had to settle as Con- tache in Japan were kept at arm's ments themselves it had its fam- but they continued for fifteen troller. They were the "V" and length and permission to visit BOOK REVIEWS iliars who could, if they used years trying to strengthen the ma- "W' Class destroyers, of which naval yards became more and their power, oppose or delay all chine and to weaken the only al- the Royal Navy had a large num- more restricted, Great Britain ly e.H.G. action involving the spending of ternative. But the machine was ber it could neither afford to was on the contrary flooded with money. In the 'twenties, this built on sand, and when the keep in commission nor allow to Japanese naval officers, ever on "It Might Happen Again," The Autobiography of Admiral of the power given to the Treasury, storms came it was to wobble and depreciate. A plan was worked the prowl and claiming admission Fleet Lord Chatfield, P.C., G.C.B., O.M., Etc. William Heinemann backed by popular opinion, was finally to crash, leaving the vic- out to lay them up in "cold stor- to our ships, dockyards, arma- Ltd, London. used with crushing effect by that tors exposed in all their naked- age" at Rosyth Dockyard, where ment factories and colleges." The efficient department . . . There ness." they were ke£t at three months' matter was finalised by Lord must be a great change in the fi- "It Might Happen Again" is quently, from 1939 to 1940, he The feeling of peace and se- notice for sea and in good order. Chatfield asking the Japanese the second volume of Lord Chat- was a Cabinet Minister as Minis- nancial control of the Defence "The scheme proved all I had Naval Attache in London for a Services if the Empire is to avoid curity consequent upon the for- field's autobiography "The Navy ter for the Co-ordination of De- mation of the League of Nations hoped, and these ancient warriors quid pro quo in respect of the and Defence," under which title fence. Few, therefore, are as qual- a recurrence of the danger it has were ready for action when the Japanese Ambassador's request passed through, saving itself not and the Washington Conference the first volume appeared. Deal- ified to speak authoritatively on led to the first weakening. The bell rang in 1939." The Royal that Japanese naval constructors ing, as this volume does, with the defence generally and naval de- by inadequate, and in some cases Australian Navy's "Scrap Iron be admitted to naval construction obsolete, material, but by the "Geddes Axe" fell on the De- between-war period, from the fence in particular. fence Services. It was followed, Flotilla" was of this class, and courses at Greenwich College. time of the Washington Confer- The book is a strong indict- magnificent sacrifice of its fight- gave a good account of itself dur- The quid pro quo was a certain ing personnel, aided by the genius in 1923, by the Ten-Year Rule, a ence and carrying on until the ment of the control of the de- dangerous rule laid down by the ing the war. technical drawing of the new Jap- early months of the late war, it fences of the Empire by the of its great industrialists, called in anese cruiser "Furataka." The at the last hour, and the skill of Government for the guidance of has the greater current interest. Treasury, and of the abuse of the t'.'e Services, by which it was to It was during Lord Chatfield's Ministry of Marine in Japan re- Its author was uniquely placed to great power wielded by that De- its people thrust at a moment's period as Controller that the ef- fused the drawing, whereupon notice into munitions-making." be assumed that there would be write an absorbing book, and he partment. "That power was to no great war for ten years. It fect of the determination of the the edict was issued "no 'Fura- has done so. During the period be found everywhere. Its proper The story of the period with arose from the ten-year holiday Anglo-Japanese Alliance began taka', no courses." of which he writes he was for function of avoiding waste and which Lord Chatfield deals is one for capital ship building agreed to be felt in the naval relations three years—from 1925 until extravagance was extended until it of wishful thinking in clinging to upon at Washington. The dang- between the two countries. "Still On the subject of the termina- 1928—Controller of the Navy, ruled as an autocrat in White- the idea of a collective security er in this rule lay in the fact that outwardly friendly, a growing tion of the Alliance, Lord Chat- the chief of the material side of hall, a veritable tyrant. It pos- system which lacked the means the British Cabinet did not ac- secretiveness on Japan's part de- field says: "We had abandoned the Navy, and for nearly six sessed innumerable officials whose of providing that security; of liv- cept 1933 as the year in which it veloped. While our naval officers in 1921 our alliance with Japan years—from 1933 until August, duty it was to be ready to counter ing more luxuriously, but danger- would expire, but decided that on the China Station and our at- with the full assent of, indeed un- 1938—First Sea Lord. Subse- the demands of the fighting de- ously, by diverting to social ser- the rule should commence afresh vices money which should have each year, so that until it was re- been expended in insuring British voked the three Services would social life by providing adequate always be at ten years' notice. defences; and of a failure to cut POOLE & STEEL LTD. the coat of foreign policy accord- This in spite of the fact that ing to the cloth of power to im- Defence Services cannot be re- HOTEL PLAZA plement that policy. It is the built at short warning; that it story of the fight of the Defence takes years to build or recon- Services, and particularly of the struct a capital ship; that spec- 43 STEPHEN ST., BALMAIN, Navy, to make headway against ialised industry, lacking employ- WYNYARD STATION, ment in ship-building and other N.S.W. uninformed criticism and misplaced idealism—and against time defence work, would lose its GEORGE STREET, SYDNEY, running dangerously short—and skilled technicians and vital plant: N.S.W. to get the defences of the Em- and that the Empire's defence po- pire on a. basis affording some tential suffered in consequence. "Protest was unavailing. Gagged General Engineers, Boilermakers, Shipbuilders, Dredge Builders measure of security against ag- gression, the imminence of which and bound hand and foot, the was more and more becoming ap- Services were handed over to the DRINKS AVAILABLE WITH MEALS. Plans, Specifications and Estimates prepared parent. Treasury Gestapo. Never has for Mining Dredges and Plant of all kinds. there been such a successful at- Electric Welding and Oxy-Acetylene Work. It is the story of an era in tempt to hamstring the security • which British national thought of an Empire. It was of course, and inclinations were divorced in those days, a secret instruction, from reality in the atmosphere not to be let out, so that a future of the League Covenant and dis- enemy might not hear of it and armament conferences, when to " Telegrams: lay his plans. Parliament must speak of Empire Defence was to not be told, nor the public." be a warmonger or a militarist. HOTEL PLAZA "POOLSTEEL," BALMAIN, N5.W. Lord Chatfield mentions some "Not only did statesmen believe ships of interest to the Royal that thev had created a peace ma- Australian Navy, ships whose * TW Hnfy M.rck, IV4*. many quarters since the determ- course of his speech, Mr. is the desire "of the majority of ments but would support a re- ese writers; and it is felt that der some pressure from, the Do- the people." minions. In this act, however ination of the Anglo-Japanese Al- Hughes said: "Every citizen of newal of the Treaty if assured it it would be regrettable if such political!/ wise, we had weaken- liance, that Australia was strong- Australia realises that the destiny Mr. Hughes was thus armed was Imperially necessary. The misrepresentation received unin- ed, most gravely, our Imperial ly in favour of the abrogation of of this country is to be played with a mandate to press for a re- strength of Mr. Hughes' feelings tentional support in a book by so strategic position. We had turn- the Treaty. Actually, the oppo- on the mighty stage of the newal of the Treaty when he left over this matter caused a violent high an authority as Lord Chat- ed a proved friend in military, if site was the case. Australia put Pacific. Therefore, when we Australia for the 1921 Imperial disagreement between him and field. not in political, matters into a po- up a strong plea for the renewal speak of foreign policy, we speak Conference, and at that Confer- Mr. Meighen, and a profound In the fight to replace old cap- tential and powerful foe ten of the Treaty, and made its atti- of foreign policy in relation to ence, in company with Mr. cleavage in Empire councils at the ital ships, Lord Chatfield had to thousand miles away from our tude perfectly clear at the 1921 Pacific problems and of war as it Masscy, Prime Minister of New 1921 Conference oppose that school of thought main bases. A potentially hostile Imperial Conference. may come out of the East. No Zealand, spoke strongly in favour This matter has been dealt which based its conclusions on fleet had thus, as it were, sud- Before he left Australia to at- man can deny that it is a thing of a renewal of the Alliance. In with at some length in this review the theory that if an aircraft cost denly sprung into existence." tend that Conference, Mr. W. M. more precious than rubies that we his opening speech at the Con- because Australia's attitude has * £10,000 and a battleship £10,- ference, Mr. Hughes said: "I This reference to the attitude Hughes, then Prime Minister, told should have an alliance with the been in the past misrepresented 000,000, you could get a thousand think from every point of view of the Dominions should be qual- the House of Representatives that greatest Power in the East; and by British, American and Japan- aircraft for the cost of one battle- that it would be well that the ified. Left as it is, it lends weight he intended to press for the re- no man who was not a criminal, Treaty with Japan should be re- to the charge, repeated from newal of the Treaty. During the who was not utterly dead to the duty that he owed to this coun- newed. Should we not be in a try, would do anything to involve better position to exercise greater this country in war. So, when influence on the Eastern policy we are asked what the Treaty as an Ally of that great Eastern means to us, either in its present Power than as a potential enemy? Quarter-Deck form or any other acceptable Now if Japan is excluded from form, we are to say that it means the family of great Western na- everything to us . . . So, in the tions—and, mark, to turn our Whiteness face of these facts, if we are ask- backs on the Treaty is to exclude ed, are we in favour of a renewal Japan—she will be isolated, her of that Treaty, I take it that, as high national pride wounded in Australians who want peace, its most tender spot. To renew there can be but one answer, we this Treaty is to impose on her are ... As to the renewal of the some of those restraints insepar- Treaty with Japan, this is my able from Treaties with other civ- WHEN IT'S AN attitude, and I submit it for the ilised nations like ourselves. We consideration of honourable mem- will do well for the world's peace, bers: I am in favour of renewing we will do well for China, we Hxibe * frM^^^ TITT WHITENlirUTTTHTSO the Treaty in any form that is will do well for the Common- satisfactory to Britain, America, wealth of British Nations to re- IT CLEANS and ourselves. I am prepared to new this Treaty. We want YOU START renew it in those circumstances. peace." IT WONT RUB OFF If it is suggested that the renewal At all stores should take a form which would Mr. Massey strongly support- involve the sacrifice of those prin- ed Mr. Hughes. ciples which we ourselves regard as sacred"—(i.e., the White Aus- The Dominion opposition to Commonwealth Reconstruction Training Scheme. BIRT AND COMPANY tralia Policy and friendship with the renewal of the Treaty came America)—"I am not prepared from Canada, whose representa- TRAINING IN THE (PTY.) LIMITED to accept it." tive, Mr. Meighen, opposed re- • newal in any form on three grounds; first, that the condi- NURSING PROFESSION 4 BRIDGE STREET. SYDNEY, N.S.W. During the course of the same ditions which necessitated the The CLOSING DATE for applications for debate, the Leader of the Labour Treaty in 1911 did not now exist: training In the Nursing Profession has been P.O. Box 544, G.P.O. Opposition in the House of Rep- second, the renewal would be re- Telephone: BO 529 (15 lines). resentatives said: "I summarise garded with disfavour in Amer- EXTENDED TO 30th JUNE. 1948 my views in these words: that ica; third, such alliances were an- Also at: 64 EAGLE STREET, BRISBANE. the White Australia poiicy should tagonistic to thfe spirit of the ELIGIBILITY for training in the Nursing Profession Musgrave Cold Stores, Stanley St., South Brisbane. be maintained, and that nothing League of Nations. Failing to has now been extended to include all ax-seivicawomen, should be done to create division secure a denunciation Mr. Meigh- honorably discharged after six months' full-rime service, SHIPPING and GENERAL AGENTS. between us and the United an would, he said, propose inser- who entered tha Forces ON OR BEFORE THEIR CARGO AND PASSENGER SERVICES TO UNITED States of America. If we can tion of a clause exempting Can- THIRTIETH BIRTHDAY. For further details contact achieve these two things, in ad- ada until the Dominion Parlia- KINGDOM, CONTINENT, AMERICA AND THE EAST. ment approved. South Africa DEPUTY DIRECTOR Of RE-ESTABLISHMENT, dition to an extension of the An- Tha Grace Buildings, 77 Yorl Street. FULL PARTICULARS FURNISHED ON APPLICATION. (General Smuts) concurred in the glo-Japanese Treaty, we shall be SYDNEY. N.S.W. doing something which, I believe principles of Mr. Meighen's argu-

44 It* Navy MarcK, 1941. ship. Before the Capital Ship Committee sat, "the Naval Staff EX-NAVAL MEN'S The first line of defence for the family made a calculation, that you is undoubtedly a Life Assurance Policy, and the Policy could build and maintain over a period of time, including over- contracts issued by The Colonial Mutual Life Assurance head charges on each side, about Association of Australia are designed to provide the strongest possible defence for forty-five medium bombers for the family. » one battleship. We asked the Air Mnt-h-etM Hit Mo/e.ty Tta Kief Ministry to make their own cal They may be obtained by payment of instalments, weekly, culations and they informed us monthly, quarterly, half-yearly, or yearly. that thirty-seven represented a Federal Council may be approved of, and of Mr. H. H. Hanby,'State Presi- Write for booklet to . . . fair approximation. We fixed on With the expected early re- course co-incide with the release dent of South Australia, to ac- forty-three. These figures were lease of the film "Always An- of "Always Another Dawn." company his fellow officers and put before the critics when giv- other Dawn" our Federal and Services Canteen Trust Fund many members of the Adelaide ing evidence and of course State Councils are extremely Federal Council have been in- and Port Adelaide Sub-Sections The Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society dumbfounded them. The com- anxious to help the producers formed by the Secretary, Depart- on the recent visit to the South mittee was also dumbfounded." bring the second world war deeds ment of the Army, that conse- Coast (Victor Harbour) Sub- Limited Much more is dealt with in this of the Royal Australian Navy, quent upon the resignation of Section. The trip, which was valuable book. The Abyssinian particularly the exploits of Mr. J. R. Dalziel, a former Trus- made by bus, proved to be a most crisis, the Irish Ports, the Span- 316 COLLINS STREET, MELBOURNE, C.l. H.M.A.S. "Yarra's" last action, tee residing in Victoria, the Gov- enjoyaable week-end outing; the ish civil war, the Fleet Air Arm before the general public besides ernor-General in Cou- cil has now ex-Naval Men's Association Band . . . the future. our Association members. State revoked his appointment and has provided musical items at the Councils have already been reappointed Mr. James H. Jamison conclusion of the General Meet- For the future. Lord Chatfield quested to seek the support and as a Trustee of the Fund. Noti- ing on the Saturday night, led lays down five principles. (1) assistance of their Sub-Section fication of the above appears in the church parade on Sunday Peace strength must be fixed in members in making the Austra- Commonwealth of Australia Gaz- morning, and later gave two per- AUSTRAL SILK & COTTON MILLS accord with the organised power lian Premiere and subsequent ette No. 5 of 8th January, 1948. formances in the local band-stand. to recover to war strength. It screenings a huge success. To those who do not already The Federal Council has com- must be related to the strength PTY. LTD. We hope, too, that this film know, Mr. Jamison is the A.C.T. mended South Australia State of the principal Powers, and in Section's very able and esteemed Council and its Sub-Sections on accordance with our geographi- will also be the means of assisting to bring further enlistments Federal Councillor elected after their activities. . Manufacturers of . . . cal position as an Empire; \2) the Perth Conference. strength can only be changed of ratings to the R.A.N, which Fremantle Sub-Section mem very slowly, so it must be based is now rapidly re-expanding to Names of the ex-Servicemen bers are fortunate in acquiring Cotton Yarns and Fabrics. on a national defence policy cope with the addition of the and women selected for the re- their own Club-rooms. In future two air-craft carriers which will cently constituted Regional Wel- all General Meetings and social ' "AUSTRELLA" Superfine Wool and Cotton which looks wel! ahead. The policy should not change with be arriving in Australian waters fare and Educational Committee evenings will be conducted in Fabric. changes of government, and the near the close of the present year. in the Capital Territory are now these premises situated at 42 Cliff national safety should be inde- It is anticipated that an appeal awaited by Federal Council who St., Fremantle. will shortly be made to the Aus- submitted a panel of names re- A new Sub-Section in New Head Office! pendent of party politics; (5) the safety of the country must tralian Naval Board to arrange, ceived from our Association in South Wales is contemplated for be a first call on finance; (4) if possible, a NAVY WEEK, or Canberra. the Campsie and surroundings 414 COLLINS STREET, MELBOURNE, VIC. the three arms of defence being even a NAVY DAY in each of Federal Councillors Angas Mc- districts; Federal Council wishes the ports of the capital cities of Phone: MU 7748. interdependent, their annual esti- Kee and R. D. Middleton, repre- success for a happy and grand in- mates should be presented to Par- Australia; we trust that any senting South and Western Aus- auguration. liament in a combined form, after Naval functions along such lines tralia respectively, were invited by G.W.S. examination by the Committee of Imperial Defence and approval BOOK REVIEWS. by the Cabinet; (5) foreign this dangerous democratic weak- Motorist: "Why not? This policy must be in accord with ac- Continued from previous page. ness be for the first time over- is a cul-de-sac." HAXBY BROS. tual national strength. come." Parking Attendant: "I don't grapple seriously with the prob- "It Might Happen Again" is a PLASTIC MOULDERS AND CAST RESIN lem of uniting the Empire in de- care what make ot car it is. Discussing in a postscript the book that should be read by all You can't leave it here." MANUFACTURERS. fence. "The prirtciples on which students of naval defence, and by White Paper, "Central Organisa- our safety should rest must be « » • • - Industrial Mouldings, etc. tion for Defence" (Cmd. 6923) those who would benefit by the Say It With Flowers laid down in Parliament and be lessons written clearly in the MW 9720. which has appeared since the understood and accepted by pub- WRIGHT ST., SUNSHINE. 'Phone: years between the wars. Butcher's Assistant: "I sent a 171 MORRIS ST., SUNSHINE. 'Phone: MW 9781. book was written. Lord Chatfield lic opinion. To-day the Govern- * * * * sprig of mint, with Mrs. Flinter's says that it will improve the de- ment is already struggling lamb." fence administration of the Unit- against uninformed pinion. Only Special Model Butcher: "Did you? Well HAXBY BROS. ed Kingdom, but it does not • by education will defence expen- Parking Attendant: " You you'd better send a sprig of for- 'SUNSHINE, VICTORIA Continued at foot of naif page. diture cease to be unpopular and can't park your car here.' get-me-not with the bill."

Ito M«»i 47 CITIZEN NAVAL FORCES OF THE COMMONWEALTH. ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVAL RESERVE (SUMMING). Naval Appointments, Etc. Termination of Appointment.—The appointment of Stewart Stanley Dow as Temporary Lieutenant is terminated, dated 6th Oc- tober, 1947. ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVAL VOLUNTEER RESERVE. NAVAL FORCES OF THE COMMONWEALTH. Termination of Appointment.—The appointment of Herbert Rocke Savage as Acting Lieutenant-Commander is terminated, dated His Excellency the Governor-General in Council has approved of 25th August, 1947.—(Ex. Min. No. 2—Approvt ' 21st January, 1948.) the following cbinges being made:— W. J. F. RIORDAN. " inister for the Navy. NAVAL FORCES OF THE COMMONWEALTH. PERMANENT NAVAL FORCES OF THE COMMONWEALTH His Excellency the Governor-General in Council has approved of (SEA-GOING FORCES). the following change* being made:—• MORRISON A PERMANENT NAVAL FORCES OF THE COMMONWEALTH Appointments.—Lieutenant (A) Terence Macrae Myles is ap- SINCLAIR pointed on loan from the Royal Navy, with seniority in rank of 12th (SEA-GOING FORCES). December, 1941, dated 1st October, 1947, Lieutenant (L) (Acting Appointments.—Lieutenant-Commander David Walter Kirke, PTY. LTD. Lieutenant-Commander (L)) John Edward Ironmonger is appointed Lieutenant (A) John Edward Bullen and Lieutenant (L) Thomas Orr The futuro of »t««m for merino purpoiot are appointed on loan from the Royal Navy, with seniority in rank It mot by fho lotott Bobcock dovolop- on loin from the Royal Navy, with seniority in rank of 30th No- • monty, which, in turn, oro backod by vember, 1941, dated 1st November, 1947. of 1st December, 1945, 31st January, 1945, and 3rd June, 1942, re- ovor SO yoors' too oxporionco. At <00, spectively, dated 15th December, 1947. Lieutenant-Commander (S) os on lond, timo hot provod tho torvico Promotions.—Instructor Sub-Lieutenant Robert Charles Linaker Peter Francis Gick and Lieutenant (S) Gilbert William James Pugh of Bobcock Boilor Plont. is promoted to the rank of Instructor Lieutenant, dated 1st November, ,ire appointed on loan from the Royal Navy, with seniority in rank Shipbuilders 1947. Acting Lieutenant-Commander (S) Alan Bernard Bryan is of 1st January, 1945, and 21st May, 1941, respectively, dated 15th LON&NOSE POINT promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Commander (S), dated 1st De- BABCOCK & WILCOX December, 1947. Acting Temporary Commissioned Aircraft Officer SYDNEY cember, 1947. (Ordnance) James Henderson is appointed on loan from the Royal Navy, with seniority in rank of 30th June, 1946, dated 26th October, L6an to Royal Navy for Service and Training.—Lieutenant- 1947. Cecil Wilding, Warrant Stores Officer, is appointed on loan 'Phone: WB 1951 (2 lints) Commander Richard Terence Power is loaned to the Royal Navy for from the Royal Navy, with seniority in rank of 16th September, service and training, dated Tlst October, 1947. Lieutenant Alexander 1942, dated 15th December, 1947. Claude Leonard Purton (Tem- Duncan Black is loaned to the Royal Navy f .r service and training, porary Warrant Catering Officer) is appointed Warrant Catering dated 8th September, 1947. Officer, dated 20th November, 1947. Transfer to Emergency List.—Instructor Lieutenant-Commander Promotions.—Edward James Kerkin, Chief Petty Officer Radio WATSON'S Bernard Edward Flood is transferred to the Emergency List and re- Mechanic, Official Number 30814, is promoted to the rank of Warrant WILHELMSEN LINE Electrician (Acting) (Provisional), dated 10th December, 1947. appointed for temporary service, dated 30th October, 1947. (Norwegian Australian Transfer to Emergency List.—Lieutenant-Commander (Acting PARAGON Resignation.—The resignation of Henry Hersee Palmer of his Commander) Robert Stephen Pearson is transferred to the Emergency Line) appointment as Commander is accepted, dated 26th September, 1947. List and re-appointed for temporary service, dated 22nd December, Termination of Appointment.—The appointment of the Reverend 1947. Regular Services HOTEL Extension of Appointment.—The appointment of Lieutenant- John Robertson Barrie as Temporary Chaplain is terminated, dated maintained with 1st December, 1947. Commander (Acting Commander) William Harold Thurlby is extended for a period of one year from 4th January, 1948, under the fast motor vessels. NAVAL ORE NANCE INSPECTION BRANCH. provisions of the Defence (Transitional Provisions) Act. Secondment.—The secondment of Commander (S) Frank George For further particulars Appointments.—Commander Jack Denny and Lieutenant-Com- Crowther for duty as Comptroller and Military Secretary to His mander Henry Charles Waldegrave Brewster (Emergency List) are Excellency the Governor-General, with the rank of Captain (S) (Act- apply: CIRCULAR QUAY appointed Assistant Inspectors of Naval Ordnance, dated 4th August, ing) is terminated, dated 12th December, 1947. 1947. CITIZEN NAVAL FORCES OF THE COMMONWEALTH. WILH. WILHELMSEN EMERGENCY LOT. ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVAL RESERVE (SEA-GOING). SYDNEY, N.S.W. Transfer to Retired List.—Lieutenant David Fleming Smith is Termination of Appointments.—Th: appointment of Samuel AGENCY PTY. LTD. transferred to the Retired List, dated 25th December, 1947. (Amend- Clifford Smith as Temporary Lieutenant (Acting Temporary Lieuten- ing Executive Minute No. 55 of 1947.) ant-Commander) is terminated, dated 15th October, 1946. The ap- 63 PITT ST., pointment of Bernard Richard Brodie as Temporary Engineer Lieuten- » SYDNEY RETIRED LOT. ant-Commander is terminated, dated 10th November, 1947. ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVAL RESERVE. Termination of Appointment.—The appqyitment of Engineer Appointment.—Lieutenant Frederick McCardeli (Retired List) 51 WILLIAM ST.. Commander Archibald Edwin Creal for temporary service as Assist- is appointed to the Active List in the rank of Lieutenant, with sen- MELBOURNE ant Inspector of Naval Ordnance is terminated, dated 11th December,' iority in rank of 10th February, 1940, dated 19th December, 1947. 1947. Continued on p.g. 51.

Ik* Navy ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVAL VOLUNTEER RESERVE. "MAIN" COALS Appointment.—Lieutenant Frederick McCardell (Retired List) is appointed to the Active List in the rank of Lieutenant, with seniority FOR SERVICE, FROM THE MAITLAND (N.S.W.) COALFIELD FOR ALL . . . in rank of 10th February, 1940, dated 19th December, 1947. PELAW MAIN—RICHMOND MAIN QUALITY AND ABERMAIN—STANFORD MAIN Termination of Appointments.—The appointments of Thomas ECONOMY . . . for Gas, Railways, Manufacturers and Householders. BOAT & YACHT GEAR Eccott Edwards, Raymond Batchelor and Noel Lang Rutledge as Sub- Lieutenants are terminated, dated 18th November, 1946, 6th August, STOCKRINGTON COALS 1947, and 12th August, 1947, respectively. SHOP AT unsurpassed for Bunkers. BROOMFIELDS LTD. ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVAL VOLUNTEER RESERVE. FIRST GRADE STEAM COAL FROM THE Appointments.—Norman Hartley Smith is appointed Lieutenant, EDWARD ARNOLD •BOREHOLE" SEAM, NEWCASTLE (N.S.W.). with seniority in rank of 22nd October, 1945, dated 13th April, 1946. AU Quotations attended Alan James Cruickshank is appointed Sub-Lieutenant, with seniority Apply to: & in rank of 30th April, 1945, dated 30th October, 1946. Percy Maxwell Pty. Ltd. to immediately Brett is appointed Surgeon Lieutenant, with seniority in rank of 2nd J. & A. BROWN & ABERMAIN SEAHAM August, 1943, dated 30th November, 1946. Gavan Lindley Home- General Clothiers, wood is appointed Surgeon Lieutenant (D), with seniority in rank of COLLIERIES LIMITED Phone: M480I 29th June, 1944, dated 6th March, 1947. Harold Leon Billman, Drapers and D.S.C., is appointed Lieutenant (Special Branch) with seniority in Furnishei s, Head Office: Shipping Office: BROOMFIELDS LTD., rank of 31st March, 1943, dated 18th December, 1945. Henry Dudley SYDNEY. N.S.W. NEWCASTLE. Ward is appointed Lieutenant (Special Branch) with seniority in rank 113 OXFORD ST., of 1st August, 1944, dated 16th April, 1946. 152 SUSSEX ST. Termination of Appointment.—The appointment of Bruce SYDNEY. Clifford as Lieutenant (Special Branch) is terminated, dated 7th No- • (near King St.), vember, 1947.—(Ex. Min. No. 4—Approved 21st January, 1948.) Tattersall's £10,000 (1st Prize) W. J. F. RIORDAN, Minister for the Navy. SYDNEY 'Phone: M 2121. CASH CONSULTATIONS NAUTICAL QUIZ are a weekly affair.

—Well and Widely Known— (1) Australia is now building destroyers in her own dockyards. Has she ever built cruisers? T . G . G O V E R THE TICKET 5/-. PITTWATER (2) What do you know of the Burns Philp steamer MARINE "Matunga"? Postage for ticket and result, 5d. for SERVICE (3) The Tudor Queen Mary said that the word "Calais" "To Win You Must Be In." would be written on her heart. What did Nelson say • WEBBING STATION would be written on his? • LANYARDS You can write from any ship or any port. (4) Old sailors know of the Diego Ramirez Isles.. Do you? The Address . . . (5) H.M.S. "Ophir" was an Armed Merchant Cruiser of • BAND REGALIA the 1914-18 War. What else was she? CHURCH POINT • CORDS, Etc. GEO. ADAMS (TATTERSALL) HOBART PITTWATER (6) There is an exception to the naming of Tribal Class Destroyers after tribes. Do you know it? Marine Engineers. (7) In 1836, H.M.S. "Bejgle," a ten-gun brig under the Slipping, command of Captain Fitz Roy, R.N., arrived in Aus- Painting, tralia. Do you know the name of her distinguished SMALLWEAR WEAVING passenger? S. HOFFNUNG & GO. Moorings, S SPINNING MILLS etc. (8) Who was the first R.A.N. College Graduate to attain STOP/ the rank of Captain? (9) The United States Navy and the Royal Australian LIMITED Brown Street, Ashfield IHf Navy have established systems for naming their ships NIW J 11 AH For all enquiries, 'phone of various classes. What are they? SA VIUCS 157 CLARENCE STREET, (10) Of whom was it said that he knew all the havens from imnnCA jts Scotland to Finisterre, and his beard had been shaken 'Phone: UA 2871 (2 lines) SYDNEY, N.S.W. XW 9007 by many a tempest? Aniw.n on p.g. 58.

Much. 1948. Tie bow. Mr. Driscoll had the crowd washing paintwork on the starboard side of the promenade deck, where they got the full benefit of the rain-laden wind. The older men washing the long A MOST SUCCESSFUL EVOLUTION length of rails, the younger bucks on stages over the side at work By A. B. Motlison on the deep fish plate. The remarks passed about Mr. Driscoll HE state of feud between By virtue of his position, Mr. were to the point, if not exactly T Mr.Driscoll, the Chief Of- Driscoll usually held the winning complimentary. ficer of the "Gryphon," and the hand. He had won, for instance, He himself was in one of his band of braves constituting his on the question of holystoning of moods. His drinking was not of deck crew, was a most unfortu- the after well deck during the the convivial variety, but of the nate affair. No one quite knew middle watch. That deck, as he quiet, solitary "nipping" type. It how it originated. It was, prob- told Bannister, the Bo's'un, was manifested itself in the morose-, .ibly, merely the result of a clash going to be as white as a hound's ness of his temper, lit by suddenj of personalities. Mr. Driscoll was tooth, or he'd know the reason bursts of irresponsible enthusiasm* one of the old school. The days why. He'd show that crowd who and lapsing into deeper gloom! 'ALET SERVICE of sail were not remote enough was boss in this ship. They could from which thunder-cloud the) from him in his recollection. He do it in the middle watch. And lightning flash often struck which Your clothes will retain their original ihape was apt to dwell upon them in he had brushed the Bo's'un's started a major row. He hadj and neatness if you are careful in your his conversation. Those had protests aside. A middle watch passed through the initial morosei choica of a Cleaning and Pressing service. been the days. The men of the off, except for the lookoutmen, stage—it had been responsible, Grace Bros, employ only fully qualified and present were but shadows of was a privilege, not a right. experienced MEN TAILORS' PRESSERS and for the crowd being at work on all garments are HAND-PRESSED. what they had been when he was There was no middle watch off soojie-moojie along the weather, a young fellow. Then sailors when he was a ycung fellow in side this blustery, ram-spattered- Phone: M 6506. Orders Called for and Delivered. were sailors. And they were not, sail. If the Bo's'un couldn't man- day. He was now in the stage; furthermore, afraid to work. age the men, he'd get someone of enthusiasm. Whereas today . . . and Mr. Dris- who could. And the Bo's'un had coll would leave a great deal to better impress on the Divers of With such a breeze it was the the imagination of his listeners. the watches that this job was go- ideal time for a sail, and to give WILLIAM CHALMERS & SON PTY. LTD. ing to be done properly, with no the boys a little boat work. Also,- INSULATING CONTRACTORS AND MANUFACTURERS OF ASBESTOS GOODS damn shinannikin. he was going to work out a little Such remarks were apt to gall idea that had come to him. He Head Office: 17 MACQUARIE PLACE, SYDNEY. 'Phones- BW 2373-4 those at whom they were direct- It was done. Naturally, under tried to seduce the Second Mate] Factories: SYDNEY — BOTANY RD. and MORLEY AVE., WATERLOO — MU 2659- CANAL ed. This was especially so in the protest, and half-heartedly, and into being one of the party, but RD., MASCOT-MU 1915. MELBOURNE—BRUNSWICK STREET, FITZROY — JA 1865 case of Mr. Driscoll, who em- slowly and badly and with plenty that worthy was too fly, and' BRISBANE—114-116 CHARLOTTE STREET—B 5801. bodied in his make-up some lin- 1 of growling. But there was a fair pleaded large arrears in his ab- gering memory of the blue-nose average of older men forward, stract log sheets that would keep; Mate tradition. He believed in long service men in the Company him busy. The Wireless Oper-! driving his crew. He was, more- who were getting their extra ten ator was easier meat. He be-; over, of a moody and taciturn dis- shillings a month for that long came one of the boat's crew. position, and disposed to seek re- Q service, and who hoped that Mr. Three of the apprentices, and Mr. fuge in the bottle, on occasion, O Driscoll would not be with them Driscoll, completed the comple- from the decadence that had for ever, and who therefore sway- ment. overtaken the sea. When thus ed the hotheads, albeit the bulk inspired he became unreasonable, The "Gryphon" was equipped of the work was left to them. and could no more see or sympa with Welin davits, and the boat thisc wifh the point of view of Mr. Driscoll scored, al#o, on that Mr. Driscoll was going to others, than the members of his the question of shore leave in use was a gig, which was in deck crowd -many of whom Marseilles. There had been chocks under the after pair of were young chaps who had not none. Now, with the ship lying boat deck davits on the starboard had the benefit of familiarity with outside in Lestaque Roads, he had side. Driscoll had gone to some the halcyon days whose passing scored again. trouble with her. She had been Mr. Driscoll lamented—could be The weather was unpleasant. originally rigged with a dipping at one with his. So thq feud had There was a fair sea running and lug, the same as the lifeboats, SHIP REPAIRS . . . Asbestos Compositions and Magnesia for Steam Pipes and Boilers . . . carried on, and had gathered a stiff, cold, wet breeze. The but he had fitted her with a false Portable Asbestos Mattresses for Valves and Fitting. . . . Cork Insulation for Pipe and Bulk- strength on each side, until the "Gryphon," lying in the open keel and rigged her with a jib heads . . . Sound Insulation. "Gryphon" was anything but a roadstead at anchor, had wind and and mainsail, and was anxious to happy ship. sea slightly on the starboard try her out. The Bo's'un was in-

Tfc. I Marek, IM*. structed to get her all ready for lowering while the Mate was at As the boat, with sail set, slither- lunch, to have the davits swung ed down the ship's side, it became PORT LINE LIMITED out, the cover off, all the gear obvious that the scend of the sea BUCHANAN & BROCK Regular sailings for: ready, and the mast stepped and was much greater than it had ap- PTY. LTD. guyed. peared from the high boat deck. In the open roadstead it was run- ENGINEERS, BOILER MAKERS, PORTABLE UNITED KINGDOM and CONTINENT, it was then that Mr. Driscoll ning at five feet or so, and it ELECTRIC ARC AND OXY ACETYLENE unfolded his plan for a spectacu- TAKING WOOL, REFRIGERATED and GENERAL took charge of the boat as soon as WELDERS. lar dash from the ship's side. He CARGO, ALSO LIMITED NUMBER SALOON she took the water, snubbing was going to lower away with jib PASSENGERS. her up sharp in a series of vicious Manufacturers of: and mainsail set. As soon !ts the jerks on the boat rope while the Marine, Stationary, Hoisting, Pumping 8C Winding Engines, For further particulars apply: boat was in the water and un- Wireless Operator strove valiant- Steam Winches, Boilers, Tanks, 0U. . hooked, the wind being fine on ly but unsuccessfully to fend her PORT LINE LTD., 1-7 BENT ST., SYDNEY. the starboard bow of the ship, TAR DISTILLING PLANTS. FACTORY REPAIRS. head off from the ship's side, and (Inc. in England) the Wireless Operator, in the SHIP REPAIRS. Rogers struggled to unhook the Or Agents: bows, would fend her head off heavy fall block. with a boat hook; Rogers, the Registered Office: GIBBS BRIGHT &. CO., 37 PITT ST., SYDNEY. Senior Apprentice, would tend There was a good deal of slat- LORIMER STREET, SOUTH MELBOURNE, S.C.5. Also at BRISBANE, MELBOURNE, ADELAIDE, PERTH, the jib sheet to leeward so that ting of canvas, of bumping, and the sail filled to assist in paying Telephones: MX 2281-2-3. and NEWCASTLE. of shouting and cursing from Mr. her head off; Mr. Driscoll him- Driscoll aft, who was bellowing After Hour* Ring: T. Buchanan—WF 5085; J. Brodt—U 3787. self would take the tiller and sup- to his forward hands to shove ervise the other two boys at the her head off and to unhook the main sheet, and Presto! she falls. In the general excitement would fill and shoot away on the Hanson, the junior apprentice, H. PEEL & SONS port tack. It was a fool proof and let go the boat rope, which snak- smart evolution. QUALITY CONCRETE DEMANDS QUALITY PURVEYORS OF FRESH AND SMOKED ed away aft in the wind and flak- The Bo's'un shook his head ed itself down anyhow on the AGGREGATES FISH and argued against it in vain. jib and the Wireless Operator, The Second Mate added his pro- gravely endangering his life SPECIFY AND DEMAND tests. The Wireless Operator, from strangulation. It was just bewildered by the technicalities, at this moment that Rogers suc- 239 HARRIS ST., PYRMONT was mildly apprehensive The ceeded in unhooking the block, SYDNEY. N.S.W. three apprentices were resigned which swung wildly and met the Ba M. Ga to whatever fate held in store. Wireless Operator's head with a Theirs not to reason why. And resounding crack as the bow rose CRUSHED BLUE METAL and GRAVEL. Mr. Driscoll would not reason on a sea. With a yeli of anguish PHONES: MW 1603 and FF2038 anyway. he let go the boat hook, and the FOR ALL ENQUIRIES 'PHONE BW 2106. His enthusiasm mounted dur- gig, released from boat rope and falls, and pressed against the Shipping Providores ing launch, and he was full of fight and seamanship when he ship's side by the wind on its BLUE METAL & GRAVEL PTY. LTD. and his crew arrived on the boat sails, scraped and bumped and deck after the meal. Meanwhile, bounded rapidly along it on its 34 MARTIN PLACE, SYDNEY, N.S.W. the news of the proposed evolu- way aft, while the delighted tion had reached the deck crowd paint-washing crowd on the more or less industriously sooji- promenade deck drank in the en- moojieing away on the promen- trancing sight. ade deck. They were to have a grandstand view of the whole Alas for Mr. Driscoll's plan of JAMES McKEOWN, SONS PTY. LTD. thing. It exceeded their wildest shooting away on the port tack. anticipations. Unavailing were his shouts to the MANUFACTURERS OF THE FAMOUS Wireless Operator and Rogers to All hands on board, and dis- shove her head off, to lower away posed according to the Mate's in- the jib, to jump to it. Time and structions, lowering away began tide were against them, and the Dally Football Boots under the supervision of the only thing to jump was the gig. RUM Bo's'un. Hanson, the junior ap- Rising and falling to the heavy AND OVERPROOF prentice, who was not one of scend, it swept along the side, FESQ CASSON & CO PTY LTD EST 1848 (rail the sailing party, was detailed to round under the counter, and tend the boat rope, stretched for- then lowered away jib and main- Don Bradman Cricket Boots ward along the promenade deck. sail together in one hit as the

The Navy March, IMS. masthead caught under the edge COLOURFUL FAREWELL of a plate, and the mast snapped ^ tons—For Ocean Towing2 off short at the thwart and nearly brained Mr. Driscoll as it came Thia 700 foot coil of Cable Laid TO LINER Manilla Rope weigha 2J tons and down into the boat, smothering mcaaurc* 18 ' in circumference. It F wai made at Kinncar'a Footacray the after guard in the mainsail. factory for an Ocean Towing operation. To say that the ranks of Tus- cany on the promenade deck Kinnear's could scarce forbear to cheer would be to understate the case. EMU BRAND They made no attempt to forbear. Rather did they give tongue ROPE, CORD/ GE, TWINE with a spontaneity that was AND LINEN THREADS. Geo. KINNEAR Be SONS Pty. Ltd. worthy of a nobler cause. Ex- 114 KING ST., MELBOURNE. tricating themselves from the lov- ing embrace of the mainsail and the clinging tangle of guys and halyards in the gig a quarter of a mile astern and rapidly drifting to leeward, the sailing party could THE BATTERY THAT SAYS hear the plaudits borne to them on the breeze. The question of that cheering was never raised. It was a long "YES SIR!" and stiff pull back to the ship, and by the time the voyagers • Continuously made it the soojie-moojie party had recovered its outward calm, and the gig hauled alongside the falls and hooked on with none but those actively engaged in the task of heaving her up to the davits taking any interest in her. The soojie-moojie crowd was intent on its own work, washing paint with assiduity and content. Its members could afford to be content. The story, as they knew, and as Mr. Driscoll knew, was a good one, which would lose nothing in the telling as the days slipped by. For once they had held a winning hand. For them, Mr. Driscoll's sailing drill had been a most successful evolution.

All tlv- colour and excitement of a pre-war farewell are reflected in this picture, taken at the "Stratheden" sailed from Sydney on February 21st. Brilliant streamers made a canopy for a lone ••• tke power to cany on I SAV/M6S CBVJfMMTeS policeman. More than 3,000 people saw the ship leave. i. eupfmy/ ' suv/ms1 cumnturev trtum 1941. Tke Nevy Answers to Nautical Quiz JAMES SANDY PTY. LIMITED (1) Yes. H.M.A.S. "Brisbane," ment. She was scrapped in laid down at Cockatoo in 1922. January, 1913, was complet- (6) H.M.A.S. "Bataan," al- SANDY'S for . . . ed in December, 1916; and though a Tribal class de- H.M.A.S. "Adelaide," laid stroyer like her sisters, PAINTS, GLASS, WALLPAPER, SHOP down at Cockatoo in No- H.M.A. Ships "Arunta" and vember, 1917, was complet- "Warramunga," is not called FITTINGS and ADJUSTABLE LOUVRES in July, 1922. for a tribe. She was named (2) The Burns Philp steamer, "Bataan" as a compliment to General Douglas Mac- 268-270 GEORGE ST., SYDNEY. 'Phone: BW 1941 "Matunga," 1618 tons, Cap- tain A. Donaldson, was in- arthur. 123 SCOTT ST., NEWCASTLE. 'Phone: B 2780 tercepted while on a voyage (7) Charles Darwin, the fam- from Brisbane to Rabaul by ous author of "The Origin the German raider, "Wolf," of the Species." He tells of on the 6th August, 1917, his voyage and his impres- JAMES SANDY PTY. LIMITED and was taken to Offak Bay sions of Australia in "A Head Offio: 67 Yorlc Street SYDNEY & NEWCASTLE, N.S.W. in Waigeu Island (between Naturalist's Voyage in H.M.S. 'Beagle'." He con- Bos 1555, S.P.O., Sydn.v Jilolo and New Guinea) and Works: Parramatta, M.lb., Adelaide there sunk after her crew cluded his chapter on Aus- and cargo had been remov- tralia with the words: ed. "Farewell, Australia! You are a rising child, and doubt- (3) Ramsay MacDonald, when less some day will reign a G AIRS Prime Minister of Britain, great princess in the south: MELBOURNE said to Lord Chatfield, who, but you are too great and as First Sea Lord, had asked ambitious for affection, yet Bardsley's FOR him what he would say if not great enough fdr re- FLAGS and PENNANTS the Navy could not defend spect. I leave your shores TENTS and MARQUEES the trade routes for want of without sorrow or regret." SHAVING cruisers: "Ah! Admiral, in Darwin was then a young and ALL CANVAS GOODS that case I should say, like man in his mid-twenties. CREAM Nelson: 'The want of frig- (8) Captain Harold Bruce Farn- ates will be found written GAIRS MELBOURNE comb (now Rear-Admiral For > quicker on my heart.'" THE GAIR MANUFACTURING CO. PTY. LTD. H. B. Farncomb, C.B., (4) The Diego Ramirez Islands D.S.O., M.V.O.), who was and 180-488 ELIZABETH ST., MELBOURNE, C.I, are huge lonely rocks—the appointed Captain in June, more comfortable VICTORIA. largest is about a mile and 1937. a half long, and lifts up to Registered Addrejs for Cables and Telegrams: "Gairs Melbourne." (9) United States battleships are some 600ft.—in 56 degrees Phone: FJ6131 (6 lines) named after the States of 28 minutes South, 68 de- the Union; carriers are nam- SHAVE CANVAS GOODS MANUFACTURERS grees 43 minutes West, lying ed after battles; cruisers are 56 miles south-west of Cape named after cities; and de- Hori). They were discover- stroyers are named after ed by Bartolome Garcia de outstanding naval personnel. Nodal and his brother Gon- In the Royal Australian THE zalo in 1619, and were nam- Navy cruisers (generally) ed after their cosmographer. are named after capital EVERY THURSDAY SOUTH BRITISH INSURANCE "(5) "Ophir" was an Orient cities; sloops and frigates BOXING Royal Mail Line steamer of after rivers; and corvettes NIGHT 6814 tons, built in 1891. after provincial towns. Of CO. LTD. She was a luxury ship of her the Australian destroyers, a day, and in 1901 was fitted number retain the names • FIRE • MARINE • ACCIDENT out as the Royal Yacht which they held in the Royal Navy, and two are named THE SOUTH BRITISH INSURANCE CO. LTD. brought Their Majesties LEICHHARDT STADIUM King George V and Queen after Australian aboriginal HUNTER & O'CONNELL STS. Mary, then Duke and Duch- tribes. The Australian de- EVERY SATURDAY SYDNEY, N.S.W. ess of York, to Australia to stroyers built during the WRESTLING open the first Federal Parlia- 1914-18 war were called NIGHT after rivers.

Tti. Navy March, 1948. (10) The Shipman, in Chaucer's the experiment, and in each case "Canterbury Tales": the "spies" got to the microphone "With many a tempest hath and said their pieces without dif- his beard benshake, ALLEN TAYLOR ficulty and without arousing the W. KOPSEN DELAIRCO He knew wef alle the slightest suspicion. So easy was it, & CO. PTY. LTD. havenes, as thei were, that they took the Navy listeners ft CO. LTD. by surprise in the first instance, From Scotlond to the cape Ship Cbandits of Fynestere." and through being unprepared ELECTRICAL (_ ^ « ELECTRICAL they jumbled their receipt of the • message. The second one, how- 1 CENSORSHIP AND PUBLICITY. TIMBER SHIP ^ ^ MARINE Continued from page 26. ever, they received perfectly, and decoded it absolutely correctly as: REPAIRS subject of topical interest. War MERCHANTS T .4.,'. SURVEY "Six transports laden with troops Suppliers of all classes of was tabu, and, of course, no men- left Sydney this morning at 11 tion was permitted of ships or o'clock escorted by H.M.A.S. MARINE EQUIPMENT troops or any such thing. The an- 'Hobart,' sailing south." H1 nouncer, it was claimed, had com- and The broadcasting interests were I 99 SUSSEX ST., SYDNEY, NsSsW. plete control of the situation all the time, and could stop any harm- so impressed by this test that GENERAL STORES ful utterance at birth, certainly thereafter they had to be restrain- • 'Phones: BX 2287-1314: After hours: XM 2380 ed in their enthusiasm to place re- before any possible damage could COMMERCIAL ROAD be done. strictions on themselves. Military Intelligence was con- While on the subject of the big ships in Sydney Harbour, an amus- vinced that this could be shown 376-382 KENT STREET to be a wrong assumption. A ROZELLE, N.S.W. ing incident illustrates the danger simple code of everyday words was of "divulging" information cal- SYDNEY culated to deceive. A certain AT . . . evolved, words such as could easily 'Phone: WB208I be interpolated into a remark or gentleman who then held a posi- 'Phone: MA 6336 (9 lines) VIC. TRUMAN'S answer to a question without ap- tion in the Department of Infor- pearing out of place. A warning mation, was staying with some You will find comfort and ease in our perfectly phrase uttered earlier in the broad- friends in Sydney whose home fitting uniforms and working clothes. cast remarks gave the words their overlooked the harbour. After And enjoy your leave when you choose your code meaning to an informed lis- dinner they were sitting out on attire from our specially selected stock of civvies. tener. the verandah watching the "Queen We can now offer you an excellent naval blazer. Mary" lying at anchor below E. A. HARPER The broadcasting interests were them, and discussing the value of ft SONS PTY. LTD. invited to produce two messages of official news broadcasts One of FOR TRUE VALUE. . JAMES HARBER ST., ALEXANDRIA military value in plain English, the party had been expresing • and Military Intelligence guaran- MUNRO doubts as to the accuracy of VIC. TRUMAN PTY. LTD. teed to broadcast these at an audi- B B C. news, and the guest was in NAVAL AND CIVILIAN OUTFITTERS ence participation session without PTY. LTD. the middle of stoutly upholding the announcer, or anyone else in • B B C. broadcasts as being beyond Manufactures of all descriptions the audience, or even the "tools" of er+icles Ir Sheet M.tall, Stain- 35 PITT STREET, SYDNEY, N.S.W. question in veracity when the nine used to make the broadcast, being o'clock B.B.C. news came through less Steel, Copper, Brass and 'Phone: BW 6680. aware of the significance of what the radio loudspeaker, one of the Muntz Metal, Hospital Equipment, was said. The broadcasting inter- WOOD BENDERS first items being: "The liner lockers, Sterilisers, Tanks, etc. ests co-operated and produced the 'Queen Mary' arrived at Cape STAINLESS STEEL SINKS AND messages. These were encoded in Town to-day." DRAINING BOARDS simple sentences and given to two pseudo spies, who were instructed There are times, of course, when A SPECIALITY. JOHN ZEVENBOOM & CO. to be in the audience and unob- correct and truthful publicity is trusively to offer themselves as 172-194 WALKER ST. of great value, and when an error Government Contractors—State BRUSH MANUFACTURERS subjects for questioning at the REDFERN on the side of over-caution can do end Federal. microphone. Meanwhile, some considerable harm. The release of • Navy listeners, supplied with the the news of Jutland is a case in 335 ELIZABETH STREET code but with no knowledge of point. As Sir George Aston points out in "Secret Service," Nelson's the two messages which were to Phone: MX 1458 MELBOURNE, VICTORIA be transmitted, listened in at their definition of a navy victory was P.O. Box 33, Alexandria. (2 lines) "By completely victorious, I mean homes in outlying suburbs. Phone: LA 3681 (4 lines). For all enquiries 'PHONE CEN. 33—3262 Two seperate audience partici- able to remain at sea whilst the pation sessions run by different enemy must return to port." That "B" Class stations were chosen for Continued on pege 63.

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