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January, 1948 Contents Na¥¥ Vol Ii 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- ment in H.M.A. NAVAL ESTABLISHMENTS at SYDNEY. Managing Editor: BOOK REVIEWS BARRY E. KEEN. "British Coaster, 1939-1945" "Best Stories of ttie Navy" TWO YEARS' ENGAGEMENT. SALARY: £332 to £367 p.a. Published monthly by Tlte Nevy Leegue. Royel Exchange Building, Pitt end Bridge GENERAL Streets. Sydney, N.S.W. Telephone: BU 5808. "The Nevy" for Next Month 3 for FULL DETAILS apply Passing Out Ceremony at R.A.N. College 15 41 Subscription Rote: Neutical Quii Naval Appointments, etc 50 THE NAVAL RECRUITING OFFICE 12 issues post free in the British Empire, 12/6: foreign, It/-. ASSOCIATIONS. CLUBS. H.M.A.S. "RUSHCUTTER." Beach Road. Edgecliff. Sydney. Tel.: FM 5001. Ex-Naval Men's Associetion of Australia 47 Wholesale Distributors: * £ GORDON I GOTCH (A/sie) LTD., The Navy Leegue Australia and New Zealand. Cruising YecM Club of Australia 49 January, 1948. of the There's no room on a destroyer for mistakes. That's why Australia n-biylt Tribal Class destroyers are wired throughout with C.M.A. Cables. No matter whether it's for radar or fire control, or limply for house wiring, there's a C.M.A. Cable to do the job. Made in Australia to over 850 different specifications, C M.A. cables are serving throughout the Empire, and are obtainable from leading elect ical houses in all States of Australia. t>ie* c0 BACKED BY OVER 100 YEARS OF RESEARCH C.M.A re*^ n*«. Trait* Mark No». 3093S-7-S 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.
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