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_^_ i t ~m— / ' -:--•'•--.- ,':.;.-: •'•-!>{,] •' ••:• ;--;V'.';v- ' *-*».*.ue .nuBMAL_ JANUARY 1949 NAVY CONTENTS THE UNITED SHIP SERVICES Vol. 12 JANUARY. 1949 PTY. LTD. EDITORIAL Page Utl.,,.. to the Ed 5 ARTICLES Editorial 10 Sculling Around "G.B." 12 Landfall! Reuben Ranzo 17 PERSONALITIES Roar-Admiral C. T. M. Piiey, C.B.. D.S.O. Cov«t; H.M.S. "Glory" and units of Exerciae Squadron, photographed from H.M.S. 'Ttttttut" entering Sydney Harbour. OVERSEAS NEWS. ALL GLASSES OF SHIP REPAIRS AND FITTINGS "S.M. Herald" Photo. Maritime News of the World M New, of the World'i Navle, UNDERTAKEN Editor: G. H. GILL, 88-102 NORMANBY RD., STH. MELBOURNE. VIC. SPECIAL FEATURES Telephones: MX 5251 (6 lines). Associate Editor: Nautical Question Boi Captain R. C. C. Dunn 22 Captain Seat, Ship, and Sailors Norton 23 W. G. LAWRENCE,. MJ.E. Managing Editor: NAVAL OCCASIONS BARRY E. KEEN. What the Navy is Doing at Sea and Ashore — WEIR Incorporating the "Navy League Jour Squadron Dispositions 34 nal," Official Organ of (he Navy League General 35 of Australia, and "Trie Merchant Navy," Personal Journal of the Merchant Service Guild 37 of Australasia. MAKIM: AI XILIAHIES FICTION for Circulating through the Royal Austra A Memory H.G. 28 lian and New Zealand Navies, the Mer STEAMSHIPS and MOTOItSHIPS chant Service and to the general public. BOOK REVIEWS Published by The Navy League, Royal Exchange Building, 54a Pitt Street, Syd "A Shipbuilder's Yarn" 30 ney, N.S.W. Telephone: BU 5808. "Last Viceroy" Feed Pumps. Feed Heaters. Air Pumps, Cil Fuel Pumps. Feed Regulators. Service 32 Pumps. Closed Feed Systems, Evaporators, Filters. Drysdale Extraction and Circulating Subscription Roto: "Handbook for Ships' Captains and Skipper*" 33 12 issues post free in the British Empire, Pumps. 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The opinions expressed in signed articles ore The Navy League 9 LA 3268. those of the writers and not necessarily those of the Navy League. E.-Naval Men's Association 39 , 7VfNAYYF0R NEXT M0NTH A good variety of material is ill preparation for the Febru M.V. "DUNTROON"—10.500 lorn ary issue of "The Navy," and some of the articles of interest you may expect to find in the pages of the Magazine MELBOURNE next month are listed herewith. STEAMSHIP FULL CARGO OF GOLDEN GRAIN CO. LTD. Captain Brett Hilder, an Australian Master Mariner, who HEAD OFFICE: contributed the interesting article on Wave Formation which appeared in our issue of July last year, has favoured us with 31 King St., Melbourne. another contribution from his facile pen in "Full Cargo Of BRANCHES OR AGENCIES Golden Grain," in which he discusses the occasion two years AT ALL PORTS. ago when there was a shortage of wheat in the Eastern MANAGING AGENTS States, and full cargoes of grain were imported from Western (or Australia. Captain Hilder was at that time in one of the Commonwealth-owned "River" class freighters, and he de HOBSONS BAY DOCK A11A - AllCTT^IlVc INDUSTRIAL expansion at Whyalla, S.A., is dearly illustrated in this scribes the preparation of the ship, and the loading of the AND ENGINEERING Why dlla ~ /AUSTralia 5 J- aerja| photograph ahowinR the Broken Hill Proprietary's shipyard and bl.ist furnace plant (on left). The' photograph was taken prior to the full cargo of wheat in bulk at Bunbury for discharge in COY. PTY. LTD. launching of the *.<•. "Iron Yampi" (seen in the centre foreground) on Sydney. Progressive Shipyard September 1, 1947. Four ships of this 12,500-ton ore-carrying type will SHIP REPAIRERS, ETC be built. The yard has completed sixteen vessels to date. For ambitious Works and enterprising young Australians, splendid opportunities for remuner SEAMEN IN PAINT Wiliiamstown, Victoria. ative employment exist at Whyalla. Portrait painters down the years have found subjects of outstanding interest in seamen, and the British people have thus acquired a record of their great Sea Captains which is \ invaluable. An Australian portrait painter—whose work frequently appears in the pages of "The Navy," to which she has contributed pencil and charcoal drawings of men as Time lor a sociated with our own sea scene—now contributes an inter esting article on the portraits of seamen handed down to us ZINC by the painters of the past. Watch for this article by Esther Patcrson in the forthcoming issue. Without this essential metal there would be CAPSTAN LANDING SHIPS NO GALVANIZED PRODUCTS and The Landing Ships (Tank) of both the Royal and Royal NO BRASS. Australian Navies have recently been given names in place of the initials and numbers—as "LST 3501"—by which they ZINC Is also used extensively in lead-free PAINTS and in DIE CASTING and is a basic require have previously been designated. One reason for the change ment for many industries. is that to most people ashore the previous designation would have conveyed little. On this assumption, our contributor High-grade ZINC is produced in Australia, using zinc concentrate from Broken Hill, N.S.W., and Reuben Ranzo is at work on an article on Landing Ships from Rosebery, Tasmania, and electric power generated by the Hydro-9ectric Commission of generally, which will appear next month. Tasmania. GENERAL Sole Australian producers Space restrictions denied publication of John Clark's prom ised article on Oversea and Undersea warfare in this ijsuc, but we hope to use it next month. Also all the usual features ELECTROLYTIC ZINC COY. of AUSTRALASIA Ltd. —What the Navy is Doing; Maritime News. News of the Head Office —360 COLLINS STREET. MELBOURNE World's Navies: fiction; and the latest from the Ex-Naval Men's Association, and the Navy League. Order your copy CAPSTAN: THE EMPIRE'S Works —RISDON, TASMANIA of the February issue of "The Navy" now. FAVOURITE CIGARETTE 2 Th. N.»y Janti.ry, 1949 LETTERS TOTHE EDITORS aeonm BRYANT MELBOURNE NAVAL Wc arc happy to publish your CENTRE letter, to bring the facilities offer & Sir, ing at the Melbourne Naval IEEPS YOU On the :7th. October, 1948, a Centre to the notice of our Naval Billiard-Lounge Room and Library and ex-Naval readers, and wc MAY'S was officially opened in the Mel trust the Centre will receive the bourne Naval Centre, 383 Flinders good support it deserves. SAFETY MATCHES. Lane, Melbourne, by the chairman Ed. "The Navy." of the Trustees, Sir William Ang- liss, for the use of all those who • New Improved Blue have served, or who are serving in, THE FRIGATE "FAL" Head! A cloudless sky ... a sunlit sea . the Navy. All Naval and ex-Naval Sir. a long cool swim when you wish! And men must have happy memories of of course, at the end of it ... a delicious the leisure hours spent at "Navy I have recently noticed the news • Improved, Steady-burn refreshing Peters Ice Cream. Peters, House," Melbourne, during the in your June issue of the ing Wood! quite apart from its health-giving vita war years, and with the closing "River" class frigate, H.M.S. mins, is an excellent down of that establishment in "Fal," being transferred to • Longer-wearing Strik energy food. 1946, the Trustees of the Mel the Burmese Navy. This bourne Naval Centre realised the was of particular interest to me as ing Surfaces! need for another such building to I commissioned "Fal" in the East w cater for the many who have a de India Docks, London. I was • Uniform High Quality. sire to use such amenities as are her first Commanding Officer, and •*•** at present available. The Trustees served in her from July, 1943, to ***** appreciate that the numbers of March, 1944, when I left her at 1st FOR VALUE. THE HEALTH FOOD OF NATION Naval personnel in and around Melbourne are not to be compared Freetown, Sierra Leone, to return with those during the War Years, to Australia after more than four but there are still sufficient numbers years* service on loan to the Royal oi Naval and ex-Naval personnel Navy. There are two unique points NETTLEFOLDS • i to warrant such a room being of interest with respect to H.M.S. opened, and they trust it will be "Fal." One: She was built at South SCREWS *KEMB'L*A patronised and thereby justify the Bank, River Tees, by Smiths Dock establishment of a Naval Centre in Company, where ships were being ARE Melbourne. Also housed in the launched at a greater rate than Melbourne Naval Centre are the COPPER, BRASS AND they could be completed. She was USED R.A.N. Welfare Officer and the OTHER NON-FERROUS State Office of the Ex-Naval Men's thus loaded with a cargo of her IN own fittings, and with just the Association, where assistance and EVERY WIRE CABLES & TUBES advice may be obcained in regard minimum of essentials in place, was to Welfare, Rehabilitation, Em steamed down to London under ployment, and many other prob the Red Ensign by a Merchant BRITISH lems which confront all Naval and Navy crew, and was there fitted METAL MANUFACTURES LTD.