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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.

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"THE NAVY" it published monthly. Literary They Keep Trade Moving end Australia Prosperous 21 communications, photographs ond letters tor Nautical Qua 95 FERRIER, DICKINSON & WEIR-DRYSDALE LTD. insertion (which should be short) should be addressed to 6. H. Gill. 258 leoconsfieka Naval Appointments, Etc. an Parade, Middle Park, Melbourne, Vk. The ENGINEERS AND FOUNDERS Editor does not hold himself responsible for manuscripts, though every effort will be mode to return those found unsuitable with which a ASSOCIATIONS, CLUBS. 4 EDINBURGH ROAD, MARRICKVII.LE, N.S.W. stamped ond addressed envelope Is enclosed. 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. SHIP ex-Naval personnel. out by Messrs. Green and Siley PORT KEMBLA, N.S.W. Weir. Two: When she was com­ It would be appreciated if you SELLINC AGENTS , - . could make the foregoing known missioned, "Fal" was lying against (with Distribute* ip ill St**«a] to your readers in the pages of the Southern side of the dock with "The Navy." Any of them who the meridian of Greenwich exactly NETTLEFOLDS TUBES * BRASS WIRE WIRE * CABLES wish for further information could bisecting the ship. When the ships" KpSOX SCHLAPP PTY. LTD. BRITISH INSULATED obtain it from the undersigned at company went aboard they had to CALENDER'S CABLES the address of the Centre, 383 walk into the Eastern Hemisphere PTY. LTD. LTD. Collins House, Melbourne Flinders Lane, Melbourne. to do so, and then had to go back 84 Waiiam St., Melbourne Yours Sincerely, to the Western Hemisphere to get SUNSHINE Kembla Building, Sydney 44 Margaret St,, Sydney. W. H. Sullivan, to their quartets. A further fea­ VICTORIA Manager-Secretary, ture of interest was the Dedication Melbourne Naval Centre.

J*n«t«fy. r*M» I Advice regarding your subscription LETTERS is being forwarded. LETTERS Ed. "The Navy." TO THE EDITORS TO THE EDITORS CAPTAIN HAWKSWORTH The accepted training for professional and exeautiYt Sir, responsibility. Ceremony, which was recorded by closed herewith my subscription Captain "Bert" Hawksworth of a B.B.C. van, and was later broad' inter form and postal notes, some­ Albany, passed to his rest in Oct­ cast lo Australia on the Facafic thing I have meant to do for some ober after a lifetimt of service in Programme on the 20th. July, :ime. connection with thejharbour of this A special training for top and near-top executive*. 194J. Yours sincerely, port. Away back/ in 1902 when we landed at Albafy we met dear, Yours faithfully, K. Symington, old "Bert" on his {job of working M. G. Rose, 20 Schwebel Street, BtBCOlli Marrickville, N.S.W. out the plan for tie great Albany Commander, R.A.N.V.R. MARIN! Many thanks for your letter, and Harbour Scheme. JThis place is at (President, Launceston Training in preparation for the era of the "Buyers Market.'' for your pleasant remarks about last coming into ss own, and he Branch, Ex-Naval Men's "The Navy." I am glad you found was one of thoseJcngaged on the Association of Tasmania). The Three Sydneys" interesting. planning and dnslging necessary. V ESTERDAY'S experience i- nal enough lo niffl Thank you very much for your The photograph used as an illus­ The late Captain] was known to * tomorrow's problems. How much further men thousands of seagoing men. A progMM lo ihe- more senior positions depends upon the most interesting letter, and for the tration to that article is definitely Tho (utura of «t.«m for marina pur pom of the "Sydney." It was taken fine officer, and : friendly man. It mat by tha latatt tabcact dav.lop- l'ii';nlfiiinf: of their knowledge >n i iiromjKi— business sidelights on the "Fal." I am sure activities and administration as a whole. when the ship was leaving Sydney Y urs faithfully, manh, which, ia tern, ara backad by that our. readers will be intrigued Harbour in April, 1941. The fact evar 50 yaart' »a aipariaflca. At taa, Plan Today lor Tomorrow . . . by these unique features associated C aude J. Batelier, at on land, tima hat provad tha tarvtca that the superposed after turret / bany, of labcocl aoil.r Plant with the ship. Mental ^agnation ran halt a man** progress . . . 'he does not show up clearly in the re­ V 'estern Australia. rharacteri-lir of men who hive pone far beyond ihe Ed. "The Navy." production is due to the fact that ftart success mark. Thank you fc your letter. A IA1C0CI 4 WILCIX we are unfortunately at present reference to the death of Captain Cnniiull II.K.I. mi id.- higher, and hrnarirr a-pecls »f H.M.A.S. "SYDNEY" forced to use a paper which does Hawksworth is i lade elsewhere in :itltiil education. Our half century of prr-mia! individual not lend itself kindly to the print­ itnin-na. and tutorial experience i* th«- logical step for Sir. this issue of "Tl e Navy." ing of half-tone blocks. The tur­ your future success in hn-iness. -Ed) "The Navy." 1 have lust finished reading the ret .shows up quite clearly in the •^ Year after veai M.K.I. student* ili'mnn«lrale ihrir training November issue oi "The Navy." : original photograph. Enquiries h> winning more honours places at eiam nations than Again it is immensely• interesting. won by all other students in Australasia combined. are being made in regard to secur­ One article in particular I have read ing a copy of the photograph for Under H.P.I, Yon Make No Experiment with more than usual interest, you, and you will be advised by namely "The Three Sydneys." In- letter direct. Thank you for your - - To H R I- nm*r - ma luta'mtU** liim.tiw, fr«* an. I wDhMl ublik'ation * eluded in this article is a very good subscription. HOTEL PLAZA j .Vawie /\om photograph of the second "Syd­ ney." Having always had a soft Ed. "The Navy." Inter ft rd in... spot for the "Sydney" I would like, if possible, a copy of this photo­ "THE THREE 'SYDNEYS'" WYNYARD STATION, HeminKway Robertson Institute graph. One of approximately 10" Sir, Founded and Owned by Hemingway k Robertson Pty. Ltd. JEORGE STREET, SYDNEY, Conaultina Accountant* Proi***ionml Tutor* by 8" size. So can you tell me if I was very pleased when I re­ 1.13 BARRACK HOt'SE - • 16 BARRACK STRUT - • SYDNEY and where I can order a copy and ceived my November issue of NAW. 153 BANK 1101 SK - . . BANK PLACE - • - HBLBOUBNI what the cost will be so that I can "The Navy," as I read with inter­ OfJft—j| Capital Citie*. NtirautU and Launeaatcm. send a postal note in return? I est the account of H.M.A.S. "Syd­ hope this is possible. Can you tell ney." I had a friend on board her, me where and when the photograph and have often wondered what hap­ Wfcen skip* at **• Navy was taken so that I can list it ac­ pened to him. He was a Red Cross DRINKS AVAILABLE WITH MEALS. - "llMM *•" curately? Lastly, I would like an Captain, I think. His name was tkh rep* Harry Shipston. Please let me M ^^ hold* assurance that the photograph shown is actually of "Sydney," be­ know when another subscription is cause in the photograph, although necessary for next year, and I will the ship is camouflaged, I can only forward it to you. make out one 6-inch gun turret Yours sincerely, aft. As I recall it, "Sydney" still H. A. Fox, had eight 6-inch guns when - she 135 Allen Street, disappeared in November, 1941. So Hamilton, Vic. HOTEL PLAZA if you can tell me whether it is Thank you for your letter, ANCHOR really of H.M.A.S. "Sydney," I it is pleasing to know that you would be most grateful. I have en- found die article of interest.

7 . — _.. • Navy Seeks Civilians Fer New Guinea The Navy League Patron: Opportunities For Ex-Naval Personnel. H.M. The King. Head Office: increased considerably were Ladies With the anticipated move of Grand Buildings, Hairdressing undertaken. H.M.A.S. "Tarangau"—the Base Trafalgar Square. Headquarters of the Royal Austra­ Tailor: As for Hairdresser. Net LONDON, W.C.2. lian Navy in New Guinea—from income expected to total at least Dreger Harbour. New Guinea, to £7 to £8 a week. Branches: Manus, Admiralty Islands, about Great Britain, New South Wales, the middle of the year, the Navy Appointment: Victoria, South Australia. Tas­ is desirous of obtaining the services In each case, subject to three mania, New Zealand, Ceylon, TATTERSALL'S of three civilians, one as Canteen months' notice of termination on Rhodesia. Manager, one as Hairdresser, and either side. Affiliated Leagues: the third as Tailor: and applications The Navy League of Canada £10,000 (1st PRIZE) for the positions are invited by the Victualling: The Naval BoarJ have approved The Navy League of South Africa Naval Officcrin-Charge, N c w of the supply of Victualling Stores Guinea. THE COUNCIL OF THE CASH CONSULTATIONS at the Naval Fixed issuing price NAVY LEAGUE IN Conditions are as follow: plus 15/c to the Canteen Manager, are a weekly affair. AUSTRALIA. the Hairdresser, and the Tailor, Location: WELL AND WIDELY and to their respective families, Employment in any one of the subject to the limitation of daily Commander (S) J. D. Bates, V.R.D.. KNOWN R.A.N.V.R. three capacities would initially be per capita rate of victualling for Acting Vice President: at Dreger (next door to Finsch- Naval personnel for all members of Commander R. A. Nettltfold, THE TICKET 5 -. hafen), transfer to Manus being the households (i.e., at present D.S.C., V.R.D., R.A.N.R. effected probably about the middle 2/6$ a day each person). This re­ Honorary Secretary and Treasurer: Postage for tirket and result, Lieut. (S) J. H. H. Paterson, of the year. sults in a considerable saving in M.B.E., RANK 5d. living expenses compared with that NEW SOUTH WALES. •TO WIN YOU MUST Accommodation: of the normal civilian employed in BE IN." New Guinea, or for that matter, in Patron: Canteen Manager: For the Can­ His Excellency the Governor of teen Manager, married quarters Sydney or Melbourne. You can write from any ship N.S.W. are available at Dreger, and tem­ President: or any port. porary married quarters will be Working Accommodation, Etc.: G. R. Rickards. available at Lombron (Manus). Hairdresser: Will be supplied Hon. Treasurers: D'Arcy M. Shelley The address— This latter will ultimately be. put with a suitable Hairdressing saloon and all necessary tools of trade, in­ C. M. C. Shannon. GEO. ADAMS on an official permanent basis. No Hon. Auditors: cluding chair. (TATTERSALL) rent would be charged for quarters Robertson, Crane and Gibbons. at Dreger, nor for the tem­ Tailor: A suitable workshop and Hon. Secretary: all necessary tools of trade, includ­ Comdr. F. W. Hixson. O.B.E. HOBART porary quarters at Manus, but Secretary: rental may be charged when the ing an electric machine, will be W. W. Btale, O.B.E. supplied. Breakages, damage to permanent official residences are VICTORIA. Phone: BX 3584. completed. machines or losses, are to be made good by the tailor. Materials may­ (Incorporating Navy League Sea Hairdresser: Single accommoda­ be purchased from Naval stocks Cadet Corps) tion is available at Dreger, the only at the prices at which these mate­ Patron: 1 cost being a charge of V' a day Hold i rials would normally be supplied His Excellency the Governor of for meals. As to Manus, simila. BUY to Naval personnel. Materials, Victoria WAR SAVINGS conditions to those applying to the other than those supplied through Canteen Manager will obtain. Commander (S) J. D. Bates, V.R.D., Naval channels may, however, be R.A.N.V.R. Tailor: As for Hairdresser. purchased by the Tailor. Naval Hon. Treasurer: PHILIPS trading firms will not be permitted C. W. Lucas. Salary: to commence business in competi­ Canteen Manager: Salary £10 tion. L. S. DiKby. a week. SOUTH AUSTRALIA LAMPS Hairdresser: Fixed salary will Applications: not be paid, but Hairdresser will Applicants for all three positions His Excellency The Governor of be given an authorised price list should apply to the Naval Officer- S.A. AND SEE for work performed. His net in­ in-Charge, New Guinea, H.M.A.S Pu aidant: E. A. Brooks come is expected to total at least "Tarangau," Dreger Harbour, Hon. Sacitaryi £7 to £8 per week, which could be New Guinea. L. T. Ewcns. *n*iMa«t January, 194* •

not free, with a healthy overseas trade protected THE LIFE-LINE by an efficient Navy, to use the world's greatest f carrying highway—the Sea—we would be im­ ™'NAVY poverished in Peace, indefensible in War. DAVEY'8 Australia's MtrftiM Jurial The Sea is Australia's life-line. By it she was born when Cook first sighted the coastline of Vol. 12 JANUARY. 194? No. I "New Wales" on the 19th. of April, 1770, and FLOUR ... coasted along its length some 2,000 miles to land AUSTRALIA AN ISLAND on that island he named Possession Island, where THE FUNDAMENTALS he "a little before sunset, took possession of the • country in his Majesty's name, and fired three Australia's future is hound up in the one fact volleys of small arms on the occasion, which was that we must never overlook—that she is an "T177E are to consider,'" wrote James Cook in answered from the ship." island. That she is a very large one does not alter Established in Australia for over 1770, after coasting up the Eastern side Eighteen years later, with the First Fleet, the the fact. The man on the land in the centre of of the Australian Continent, "that we sec this her mass, hundreds of miles though h: may be 80 Years first of the "grain, fruits, roots, etc.", arrived, country in the pure state of nature; the industry and the "hands of industry" to plant and tend from the coastline, is in the long run as vulner­ of man has had nothing to do with any part of them; and the cattle to browse on the country's able—and as safe—by virtue of her insularity, as it, and yet we find all such things as nature has provender. They came along the life-line, the Sea, is his compatriot standing on her beaches and • staring out across the encircling sea. If that sea, bestowed upon it in a flourishing state. In this over which for many years the sustenance of the land in that near-natal period was to flow from and the roads stretching across it, are his, he is extensive country, it can never be doubted but safe. But if they arc denied to him he is vulner­ Suppliers to the R.A.N, and the R.N. what most sorts of grain, fruit, roots, etc., of every the Mother Country. Fortunately for Australia the Motherland controlled that life-line. Lengthy able, vulnerable to poverty by the inability to kind would flourish here were they once brought though it was, both in miles and in months of dispose of his products in peace, vulnerable to hither, planted and cultivated by the hands of in­ passage, she could use it at will to sustain the new attack in war. • dustry, and here arc provender for more cattle land and its handfull of people, and to protect Nor need an enemy in war to assault him. He at all seasons of the year than ever can be brought them from interference by others. could efficiently destroy Australian economy mere­ ESTABLISHED MM into the country." Under the shelter of that protection the new ly by severing the life-line, coastwise and over­ land grew, in population, in strength, in industry seas, by which Australia—in common with every 1>AVEY&"LI0N" He spoke truly, and events have proved the and production, until there was two-way traffic other island—lives. Think for one moment, if rightness of his conclusions. By the road that along the life-line, and the products of a youthful no wool, no butter, no frozen meat, no wheat, he himself had followed, that sea road which Australia, which had flourished and multiplied, as could be shipped overseas; if no iron ore could gives to him who may use it the freedom to tran­ Cook had foretold, to a degree beyond the im­ be shipped from South Australia to New South mediate needs of the people of the country itself, Wales, or limestone from Tasmania; if coal could sport himself and what goods he will all over the be prevented over an extended period from car­ world, the "grain, fruit, roots, etc.", were brought flowed in the contrary direction, to enrich them in markets across the water. riage coastwise from Newcastle. Our clock would hither. With them came the hands of industry to run down fairly fast. plant and cultivate, and the cattle to fatten on the provender that the land provided. THE NEED REMAINS It is less than two hundred years since Cook WE MUST REMEMBER wrote those words. It is not to be doubted that 1— what has been achieved in Australia by "the There came then a new need for the life-line. TELEGRAPHIC AMD CABLE ADDRESS: hands of industry" since then would have exceed­ It became less an avenue of direct sustenance. LIONFLOUR.' SYONtr That is something we must always remember. ed his expectations. The achievements have not The need for it as a protecting link, as the shield The integrity of our sea communications is vital been limited to agriculture. Something of what i under which the land could develop in peace, to us, wherever we are, however we are employed, the country could do in that direction was vision - remained. But it developed a new significance, in this island continent. They are at once our the source of wealth .as a safe highway to the great strength and our potential weakness. With­ • ed by him. But other potentialities were hidden overseas markets for Australia's surplus produc­ from his sight. Those other riches in the soil— out them we could languish. By them we could tion. And today that significance remains, and be assailed. the minerals; the rapid advances that would be is, indeed, enhanced. made through mechanisation, in agriculture as in EDWIN DAVEY & The wealth of the continent springs from the Time has brought changes, but it has not alter other branches of human endeavour; the fruits, land. But it would iv.nl nothing, to farmers and ed the status of the merchant vessel as the world's not alone of industry, burof the Industrial Revo­ country alike, if the fruits of Australian industry most important carrying vehicle. And we must SONS PTY. LTD. lution, which Cook preceded, but with which could not be shipped overseas; if the roads to he always in the position to assure the merchant Australia, as an embryo nation, was born. There the markets ceased abruptly at the coastline; and vessel free use of our ports, and of the sea roads ALLEN STREET, PYRMONT have been many changes in those less-than-two- the Sea, with the life-line severed, became not leading to and from- them. For it, and its pro­ hundred years. But one thing remains unchang­ the highway giving free access to the outside 'Phone: MW25 51 (3 lines) world, but the imprisoning plain across which ed, the dependence of the land, in its integrity, tecting Navy, are our greatest asset, and our ever- none but enemies could travel at will. Were we in its prosperity, upon the sea. present need. , JoMory, If4t . • •

of working, always came on board SCULLING AROUND with British tin cabin trunks which IN TOUCHING ON EVENTS IN A VARIED CAREER AT SEA THE AUTHOR OF THIS they guarded with their lives, as they contained their worldly goods. ARTICLE TELLS OF THE INDIAN COAST, OF EXPERIENCES IN MADRAS AND A6 a junior officer, one's duties PENANG WITH THE ••EMDEN", AND OF MEMORABLE MOMENTS IN THE were to assist the Doctor in births, GALUPOU CAMPAIGN By "Li." marriages and deaths. The births usually happened quite easily, ex­ cept that one mother gave birth All three T.B.D.'s earned dis­ )INING, as a passenger, the sides of bacon to last till the war to a baby girl whilst the ship was tinction at the Dardanelles, the British-India Steam Navigation is over, before there is a scarcity berthing. The Doctor and writer "Chelmer" being nicknamed ,'s R.M.S "Malda" in London and prices rise." So, grabbing his being required on deck, the nec­ E topee, the Superintendent jumped "Mamma," and the "Colne" early in 1914, the writer travelled essary surgical gear was left with "Nursie," by the "Ansacs," on out to Madras to )oin the R.M.S. into a rickshaw, and off he went the mother; but on returning to account of their daring exploits off "Erinpura" (Captain H. Kilner) to the markets. H.M.S. "Implacable." battleihip of «ho "Formidable" Clan. Built 1898. Shipi see the proud parents some time Gaba Tepe. Lt. Commander Mu­ of thil clan did good work at the Dardanelles. of the same Company, on the Mad­ Completing the ship's business after the ship had berthed, not lock served in H.M.S. "Discovery" ras-Rangoon mail and passenger at the Mission and reporting on only had the whole family disap­ with Captain R. F. Scott, R.N., run as a junior officer. The old board to Captain Walton, a cold peared ashore but all the Doctor's in the Antarctic Expedition, 1901- ages at Cuddalora, Tranquebor, the harbour, was believed to have Indian-owned "Apcar" Line of bottle of German "Girl Brand" surgical gear as well. Calcutta, consisting of the steamers Pilsner beer was much enjoyed 04. During 1916-17 he command­ and Negatapam; always seemed the fired a few rounds at the "Emden," "Catherine Apcar," "Gregory Ap ed H.M.S. "Sawfly" on the River most depressing parts of the Ind­ but it would have taken a pretty whilst discussing the Superinten­ A gruesome duty was the in­ car," and "Aratoon Apcar" were Tigris, retiring in 1922 as Captain, ian coast, although one could often smart gun's crew to have got into dent's food hoarding. One sincere­ spection of the emigrant and main purchased by the British-India D.S.O. and being appointed Mar­ buy some quite good real Indian action and hit the flashes of the ly trusts that the flour and bacon decks during washing down, ac­ Steam Navigation Co, the writer ine Superintendent for the Asiatic brass and copper chatties (cook­ "Emden's" guns—a fast-moving lasted for the "duration." companied by the Doctor, Tamby joining the old clipper-bowed Petroleum Company at Shanghai. ing and water pots) in these target. "Once upon a time" Will's Serang and Topaie's. The pock­ "Catherine Apcar" (built in 1892) Lt. Commander Claude Seymour ports. "Flag" brand cigarettes cost 9d. for retired in 1926 as Vice Admiral, The British-India Steam Navi­ marked bodies of any Indians who on the Rangoon Singapore run. Berthed on the south side ot 50. Fine Cut Capstan l/6d. i-lb. D.S.O., and Lt. Commander H. gation Co. was founded in the had died during the night were Madras harbour on 22nd. Septem­ tin; and five bob bought 50 Burma T. England retired as a Rear Ad­ early seventies, its main trade be­ promptly rolled in a blanket with Muttra is famous in Hindu myth ber, 1914, the officers of the "Mut­ cheroots. Who can doubt the vera­ miral in 1935. ing on the Indian coast, with fire-bars and committed to the and history as the place where city of the story of the "Big Bad tra" were enjoying a smoke, yarn, branch services to all parts of the deep, the officer-of-the-watch swing­ "Lord Krishna" dallied with the Wolf?" ' and iced stinger, under the poop world. Although the run from ing the ship without reducing milkmaids. Poor old "Straw­ Some weeks later, with "Pulo Rumours flew—the Dutch at awning, when without the slight­ Madras tc Singapore was entirely speed, whilst the Indians set up a ' berry" is mated and milked in Way" abeam, three grey smudges Sumatra hand-in-glove with Huns, est warning, the brilliant beam of uninteresting, much amusement dismal wailing. Any suspected Australia. In India she is "Holy." were observed rapidly overhauling doubts of the German Far East a searchlight swept across the har­ could be found in the conveying cases of smallpox were instantly Joining the "Muttra" at Calcutta the old British-India Steam Navi­ Squadron; but with all the sub­ bour, its beam staying on the oil of Tamil emigrants travelling back separated from the emigrants. on the Singapore-Madras run just gation Co.'s "Muttra." Passing lime confidence in the world, the tanks for some moments. Then fol­ and forth from India to the Feder­ Owing to crowded space, little prior to the out-break of War. a close to port we were thrilled to old Mercantile Marine passed lowed complete and blinding dark­ ated Malay States to work on the could be done except to lay the week's holiday was much en­ watch His Majesty's T.B.D.'s from their "lawful seaborne trade" ness. We sprang to cur feet, rush­ rubber plantations. The emigrants, sick person on the fidley deck and joyed with an elder brother engag­ "Jed" (Lt. Commander G. F. A. to the unknown perils of war ed to the rail and peered seawards. returning to India after some years leave the rest to the "gods." ed in rubber planting at Kuala Mulock), "Colne" (Lt. Comman­ without the slightest deviation Before anyone could voice an Lumpur. der C. Seymour), "Chelmer" (Lt. from their course. It is of interest opinion, we saw the flash of gun­ that Vice Admiral T. H. M. Jcr- fire, and a salvo of the "Emden's" "You will have to excuse me, Commander H. T. * England), ram, the Commander-in-Chief of four point ones came whistling with sir," said the Superintendent of punching their sharp bows into the the China Station 1913-15 as a a crash and burst all round the oil the Sailors' Mission at Singapore calm swell, the message "Good Lieutenant commanded the 113 ft. tanks. One shell hit the "Chil- on the 4th August, 1914. "Now Luck and Pleasant Voyage" being torpedo boat "Childers" on her kama," moored astern of the that war has broken out, I must semaphored, and the old Red Dus­ voyage to Melbourne in 1884, re­ "Muttra." Salvo followed salvo buy six bags of flour and three ter dipped. ceiving the thanks of both the with a crash and a terrific burst of Victorian Government and Ad­ flames. The oil tanks were soon on miralty. He retired in 1926 as fire—visible over 100 miles away Admiral Sir Thomas H. M. Jcr- at sea. ram, G.C.M.G., K..C.B., K.C.M.G. The Indian watchman on the The famous German light wharf was killed outright. Shell cruiser "Emdcn" was yet to shat­ splinters, bits of wood and iron, ter the peaceful calm of the Bay fell on board. In a few minutes of Bengal. The artificial harbour the firing ceased. But not a soul of Madras; the open roadsteads at slept a wink that night, as we ex­ the French settlements of Pondi- pected the "Emden" might return "Rivar" CUu Daitroyan of TWnycrofh, "Chulmnr." "Jed" and "Coin*," wara and shell the ships in harbour. of thit clan. cherry and Karrikal, the anchor- The latt of Antec at .een from H.M.S. "Cornwall!.," • "Duncan" dais "Fort St. George," lying south of b.tlle.hip. built ItM. "Cornwall;." was torpedoed in tne IVI4-II war. Tfc* Navy January, 1*4* . ' " '

"If you've 'card the East avail­ In 1915 the Canal was indeed an ••->v- ing you won't ever *eed nought M$&>*"F*' • • eye-opener—sand-bagged trenches, &$t ^ \ w\! »; " ""ft- else," sang Kipling's old soldiers Indian Army mountain guns, In­ on the Road to Mandalay, hut the dian sepoys, the East Lancashires, 1 * ^ .. writer has never seen the glamour the British Yeomanry, Gurkhas, tho • 1 "' .J i of the East, only the untold misery, Imperial Service troops and Bikan- filth, squalor and poverty. Per­ cr. Camel Corps—a kaleidoscope 1 • haps "Mother India" has that of moving men, guns and animals. " *~— \__ charm in the Burra Sahib's cities The old "Muttra" threshed along, like Simla and Delhi. It certainly hailed from the canal banks in In­ does not exist in the seaports, Cal­ dian, broad Lancashire, and good ' ft cutta, Madras or Bombay. The old Cockney bat. Eurasian girls employed by large Tha Russian 'Jemtchug " attacked by "Emdan" in Penang Harbour. 28th Port Said, with its bumboat men October 1914. firms in Bombay had a notorious doing a roaring trade. Gone are the reputation tor street walking be­ days of one new shirt for a couple ing. Being at loggerheads with his Great War—second to none. The cause of starvation wages. A visit of dozen oranges, a book of brum- captain, he named the hills in late Sub-Lieutenant Doolan, who to that sink of iniquity—Grant my flowers from Jerusalem, a Mudros, Den, Madeb, Eir, Roc, was killed at the Dardanelles, and Road—was to witness one of the stuffed sunfish, or a trashy French Yam. On laying the result of his the writer, have cause to remem­ most dreadful exhibitions of pros­ pencil with a beauteous naked dam­ work before Captain Corrie, his ber the late General with a grati­ titution one could ever see in any "Cornwtllil," the lait ship to leave Suvlt Bay. firing a parting broad,ids. sel in the glass-ended top. CO., most innocently remarked: tude unknown to him. It was thus large seaport in the world. The With all due respect to those "What funny names these Turks wise:— swarms of beggars and deliberately magnificent ships, "Queen Eliza­ called their hills, Lockyer." He maimed children; the squalor of round their middles. The most warning came a crash, and a sheet Two "K" lighters were ordered pathetic aspect of the returning of flame shot up from the Russian beth," "Queen Mary," "Awatea," would have thought them less to "proceed forthwith" to load the streets and the hideous cruel­ "Aquitania," and "Dominion Mon­ funny read backwards. ties inflicted on Indian women and emigrants was their half-starved ship. The "Emden" had opened up and land certain bulky packages for with a broadside of her four point arch," who visited Australia during men in the worship of their condition, due to the desire to save What a muddle "Alex" was in G.H.Q. at Kephalo. It being ob­ every possible pice before returning ones. We stood petrified at the 19J9-45, the might of Britain was served that the wellknown names "gods" was unbelievable. seerf in Port Said during the early 1915—orders to unload, to re­ to their villages. In consequence roar, crash, and sheets of flame. In load, to sail and not to sail. The of "Fortnum and Mason" and they over-ate themselves while on a few minutes all was over, the days of 1915. Here were gathered "Bass" were plainly printed on the the cream of the Mercantile Mar­ writer sailed to Mudros, whose The fore-well deck was always board ship, and suffered for it. "Emden" rapidly disappearing sea­ harbour was packed with merchant cases, a sample of each was sunk a bright, animated scene, especially ward in the early morning mist. ine. Every shipping company in in a chosen spot for future inspec­ Anchored astern of the old Rus­ ships and the Dardanelles fleet, at meals. The emigrant's cook, Boats were manned, some dread­ the Empire- was represented: tion. sian cruiser "Jemtchug" in Penang tramps, cargo steamers and ocean preparing for the "Landing." armed with a huge spoon, ladelled fully mutilated Russian sailors, Harbour on 28th. October, 1914, liners, the convoy bringing the On the 15th. May, 1948, the The fury of the Regimental out the curry and rice on to dry alive and dead, being picked up; dawn just beginning to break, the also some Japanese girls. The old A.I.F., the extraordinary looking full ceremony of lowering the Sergeant Major from G.H.Q. on plantain leaves, to the queued-up Serang in charge of the washing French eruiser "Jeanne D'Arc," colours marked the passing out of discovering two cases missing, lin­ natives, who ate it with their French cruiser "D'Iberville" was down drew our attention to a large lying alongside the wharf with her the Royal Indian Marine ships and commission of the battleship gers still in one's memory. Never fingers. The funny, pot-bellied four-funnelled cruiser which we engines adrift, but the French the Royal Navy. "Queen Elizabeth" at Pompey. As were two young officers subject to naked little boys and girls wore thought was H.M.S. "Weymouth," T.B.D. . "Mousquet," on patrol In 1892 the British Mediterran­ the ensign was hauled down for nothing but a dirty piece of string entering harbour. Without any duty outside Penang, most gallant­ ean Fleet, under Admiral Sir the last time, the Royal Marine ly attacked the "Emden." She was George, Tryon, lay at anchor in band played "Sunset" and "Auld sunk, nine French sailors being Mudros Harbour The navigator Lang Syne," the National Anthem saved. of H-M.S. "Fearless"—a Lieuten­ ending the impressive ceremony. ant H. C. Lockyer—quietly did Never will one forget the thrill of Had the "Emden".been a British some marine surveying. Many will pride when the "Lizzie" steamed ship, the story of her career would remember the appalling collision past us at Kcphalo, a brand new have been an epic in our Naval between H.M. Ships "Victoria" ship—the pride of old Britannia'; annals. One cannot but admire and "Campcrdown" on 28th. heart. the skill, courage and humanity of June, 1893, in which Admiral Sir Whatever failings, faults, or Captain Von Muller, the only Hun George Tryon ant! 350 officers and foibles the late General Sir Ian S. seaman who displayed the same men lost their lives, and Comman­ M. Hamilton was cursed or blessed traits that have made old Eng­ der J. R. Jcllicoc (the late Admiral with, there can be no doubt of his •«*» land's and her sea captains' names of the Fleet Lord Jellicoe) was honour, and his love for the Old ring from Pole to Pole. amongst the survivors. It is also Country. No general in command of interest that Sir George had of any Army did more than he to In the piping days of peace, with written, in 1886, the idea that bring the Dardanelles armies to a Port Tcwfik ahead; Newport Rock eventually became the seed of the victorious march to the Square of astern; the French pilot and his Royal Australian Navy. St. Sophia. He died in London on Arab boat's crew aboard; the In 1896, Lieutenant Lockyer the 10th. October, 1947, leaving The oil tanks at Madras, ihallad and "A.-«qon. tha Haadquartars Ship, at Mudroi during the Gallipoli Campaign. Canal searchlight rigged, and the a record of military duties from found himself again at Mudros, sat on fira by the "Efndan" on 22nd Torpedoed in the Mediterraneen in 1917. anchor aweigh, Port Said lay ahead. and again did some secret survey- Kandahar to Colenso, and the September. 1914.

Tka Navy January, 1949 . *, - •'•.sun higher up, so that the western night to find the Captain up there, Slowly but surely the old Dar­ glorious victory at the Falkland of the Tommies down, the officer sea passages are not of the length sky, well above the horizon, wa.> the ship slowed to six knots, and danelles armies are passing away Islands. Rumour said that the being killed outright. they were in the days of sail, when veined and patterned in a gos­ regular soundings being taken. But -the Anzac, the immortal 29th, "Aragon" lay on so many empty the cry of "Land ho!" from aloft samer web of sparkling phantasy, the noon position had been good, Sculling round the Fleet to draw the 10th. Irish, the 11th. North­ Kittles that it would be impossible after many wearying and length­ occasioned by the sun shining and no one was perturbed, until rations was always an ordeal, the ern, the 13th. Western, the 52nd. to shift her. Anyway, she was ening days at sea must have elec­ through the dissipating haze on to the expected fog signal did not ma­ Lancashire, the 53rd. Welsh and torpedoed in the Agcan in 1917. coxswain disappearing into the trified the ship's company to a the peaks of the island's northern terialise at the anticipated time. It the 54th. Anglian Divisions. Gone The late Admiral Sir Richard F bowels of a battleship for hours. degree not far short of that of hills. It was a lovely and unex­ was after six bells, when the writer arc H.M.S. "Minotaur" Captain Phillimorc, G.C.B., K.C.B., K.C.- But the A.S.C. dumps were a Balboa's people when he pointed pected sight, whose mystery was was returning from aft at the E. B. Kiddle (late Vice Admiral. M.G., M.V.O., was the son of an great source of attraction to the out to them the Pacific from the explained when the strengthening double with sounding tube and C.B.); H.M.A.S. "Sydney"—Cap­ Admiral; he was the Principal coxswain, as it gave the heaven­ peak in Darien. For another, nav­ sun removed the veil and revealed arming and news that the water tain J. C. T. Glossop (Vice-Ad- Naval Beach-Master at the "Land­ sent opportunity for a good igation is becoming much more of the land in its continuous outline was shoaling rapidly, that he beard miral, C.B., died December, 1934); ing," was attached to Russian Im­ scrounge, Army cheese being very an exact science, and the navigator down to the water's edge. a fog signal broad on the starboard H.M.A.S. "Melbourne"— Captain perial Headquarters 1915-1916, much in demand. bow. It was that on the northern today can often get a preview Certain landfalls were the bane M. L'E. Silver (late Vice Admiral Commander-in-Chief at Plymouth end of Belle Isle. A few minutes Suvla Bay—what a tragedy! through the agency of radar long of Masters' lives. One is remem­ C.B.E.); the A.I.F. transports and 1922 till his retirement in 1926. later, and the ship would have hit The "K" lighters carried out their before the expected coastline be­ bered. In the days when we the vast concourse of drifters, The old four-funnelled cruiser the island fair and square amid­ job of landing the troops, and we comes visible from crow's nest or steamed direct from the Cape to trawlers, coasters; the fast auxil­ ships. That was one of the less "Europa" was our depot ship, and young fellows had no illusion as bridge. Melbourne, we often sighted Ot- iaries "Newmarket," "Reindeer," pleasant landfalls. • one naturally gave her as wide a way light—our Australian land­ "Gazelle," "Ben-my-Chree," etc.: to the disaster to our Armies. As for those gallant souls who berth as possible. One remembers fall—in the middle watch. One transports, hospital ships, and that "The Stormy Peterel," the late Ad­ sailed off into the Unknown, with Kipling's fisherman smelted the meeting on board her the late Cap­ Master never failed to express the beautiful old Lady of the Herring miral of the Fleet Lord Keyes only Faith to tell them that they lead to get an idea of his position tain Sir Lionel de L. Wells, R.N. fear that Otway light might be Pond "Mauretania," whose lines (died 1947), as Commodore and would make any sort of landfall in the Channel. No doubt many late Chief of the London Fire Bri­ that of King Island. It was a bug­ were a joy to behold as she lay at Chief of Staff to the then Vice at all instead of, perhaps, sailing of you have anticipated a landfall gade, one of the most charming of bear with him. anchor in Mudros Harbour —"a Admiral J. M. de Roebeck (late clean off the edge of a flat world by the smell of the land. The spicy officers, whom it was a pleasure to Admiral of the Fleet Lord de Roe- into nothingness. Well! few oppor­ painted ship upon a painted sea." serve under. Sights—even apparently good smell can be experienced miles out beck, died 1935), was often seen tunities of making an entirely new ones—could be deceptive in those at sea off Ceylon in favourable cir­ During the early period of the landfall will come the way of theif The "Dardanelles Fleet," al around about the Beaches, usually earlier days when navigation was cumstances, and the writer re­ though too old and slow to lie in war. Lord Fisher designed a land­ successors in the realm of explor­ accompanied by Captain the Hon­ less of an exact science. On the members a night during the recent line of battle with the Grand ing barge for troops to land on the ation until the first voyagers leave ourable Lionel J. O. Lambart, North Atlantic trooping run dur­ war when, stealing along the coast Fleet, comprised perhaps the finest Baltic and Frisian Island coasts. this planet by rocket for the Moon. D.S.O. (heir presumptive to the ing the 1914-18 war we were bound of New Guinea in a corvette full fighting ships, sea boats and Sent to the Dardanelles, they were 10th. Earl of Cavan). It was par­ Nevertheless some faint shaoiow for Montreal via Belle Isle Straits, of A.I.F. troops bound for Cape steamers, the Navy ever had. They called "Beetles" by the troops and ticularly noticeable, on Comman­ of those greater thrills does re­ being due to enter the Straits be­ Sudest for the Allied assault on cost on the average a million "K" class motor lighters by the der Lambart's appearance, how main today for seafarers, for it is tween Belle Isle and Newfound­ Japanese-held Buna, the heavy pounds to build \\l about 1900 Navy. Some of these lighters were rapidly the "Beetle" subs and crews likely that the first sight of land land about four bells in the middle scent of tropical vegetation and vintape: splendid ^iips, mostly de­ twin-screw. All had Diesel motor got busy, as he had an eagle eye after even the short sea passages watch. sleeping earth drifted across the signed by the late Sir Philip Watts. engines, and were the most awk­ for any slackness—"all ship shape over beaten tracks which remain to The previous day had been dark, still water from Oro Bay, to ward craft imaginable to handle and Bristol fashion." Read, mark and learn—these us today will awaken enthusiasm bright and sunny, with a glassy evoke whispered comments on the in any wind or sea, except when Well does the writer remember bridge. names are the very foundation of fully laden. and interest, especially among those smooth sea and an apparently true the traditions of the Royal Navy. assisting Captain. E. C. Carver, who are sighting a coast for the and clearly-defined horizon. Excel­ Durban could be a deceptive "Albion," "Majestic," "Magnifi­ Taking command of my first R.N., endeavouring to prevent the first time. lent forenoon and noon sights had place to make from the eastward cent," "Lord Nelson," "Swiftsurc," lighter, my coxswain being from slashing of the water hose by the The writer well remembers his been obtained, tallying nicely with from Australia, especially if good "Triumph," "Irresistible," "Index the old "Prince George," we parched Tommies on the beach at first landfall, largely because it was the dead reckoning position. There sights, had not been obtained some lble," "Implacable," and many promptly rammed the old A.T.L. Suvla. entirely different from what he were icebergs about, and we circl­ hours beforehand. The Agulhas others. "Implacable's" famous liner "Minnetonka," being unable For many years Greeks of Con­ had expected. Indeed, for some ed one in the early afternoon while Current, sweeping strongly athwart namesake is the sole survivor with to keep her head away in a strong stantinople have carried out towing time he did not realise it was land. carrying out some firing practice the course to the southward, could the "Victory" of Nelson's "Trafal­ wind and the C.E.R.A. being un­ and salvage work in the Aegean. It was the island of Teneriffe, seen on it with our four-point seven gun. lead a navigator astray. gar"—a grand old 74-gun ship-of- able to put the engines full speed The ocean-going tug, "Vincent by him at his first coming up on Shortly afterwards it became hazy, Somewhat similar conditions the-line. Funds are now urgently astern at the critical moment. We Greek" was taken over by the deck just at sun-up. The ship was turning to fog during the evening, prevailed in making the Channel needed to preserve her.—What bunged a truly unsightly gash in Navy and renamed "Alice," in dose under the land, making down and by midnight being as thick as in thick weather. We ran into about it! Her successor gave her the "Minnetonka's" plates, much Continued on pag« 37 for Santa Ctux. The shoreline one could wish. thick weather when England-bound Coittimiod on paoo 44 M Tto N«*< 1*4* »4 , ___

NAVAL PERSONALITY OF THE MONTH

REAR ADMIRAL G.T.M. PIZEY, C.B., D.S.O. Head of the United Kingdom Services Liaison Staff in Australia. EAR Admiral Charles Thomas Mark Pizey, mands, as he was appointed from "Torrid" to R C.B., D.S.O., is a son <>f the Manse and a "Boreas," and in this ship exchanged the Home West Countryman. He was horn in the village Fleet's north wind latitudes for balmier airs of of Mark, in Somerset, where his father was Viear, the Mediterranean. and had his first sea experience following hi? In 1933 he was promoted Commander, and was period at the Royal Naval College during the appointed Executive Officer of H.M.S. "Wool­ 1914 IS War. Appointed to H.M.S. "Revenge" wich," the Destroyer Depot Ship with the Med­ when she commissioned as a new ship, he had his iterranean Fleet. He was in the Mediterranean haptism of fire at Jutland, where "Revenge*" was during the period of tension of the Abyssinian one of the Sixth Division of the Battle Fleet Crisis and the Nyon Patrol of the Spanish Civil under Vice-Admiral Sir Cecil Burney. who trans­ War, remaining there until his appointment in ferred his Flag to "Revenge" after his Flagship. 1938 as Commanding Officer of H.M.S. "Fortune" "Marlborough," was torpedoed. and Division Leader of the 7th. Destroyer Flo­ Midshipman Pizey was for two years in tilla. In June, 1939, he was promoted Captain. "Revenge," being promoted Sub-Lieutenant in With the outbreak of War in 1939, Captain 1918 and appointed to H.M.S. "Trenchant," a Pizey commissioned the Armed Merchant Cruiser destroyer, with the Grand Fleet. He spent two "Ausonia" in command, and was for some months years in "Trenchant," she being employed in the employed on Atlantic Patrols and Convoy Escort North Sea and with the Irish Flotilla. In 1920 work. From 1940 until 1942 he was Captain (D) came a temporary break with the sea when he 21st. Destroyer Flotilla of the Nore Command, spent a year at Sclwyn G)llege, Cambridge, doing and in command of H.M.S. "Campbell." The a special refresher course with a number of other FlotiH* -,was employed throughout on English young Naval ctfccers. Channel and North Sea operations, largely on Following f! :s University experience, he took anti-E Boat work, and the defence of East Coast his courses for Lieutenant, being promoted to that convoys. It was for his service in these opera­ rank and appointed to the light cruiser H.M.S. tions that he was awarded the D.S.O., besides "Danae," with the 1st. Cruiser Squadron. His being twice Mentioned in Despatches. service in this ship was first in the ^Baltic, and During this period the German cruisers later on a world cruise when "Danae" was one "Scharnhorst," "Gneisenau," and "Pnnz Eugen" of the Special Service Squadron commanded by made their dash from Brest up Channel in Feb­ Vice-Admiral Sir Frederick L. Field, K.C.B.. ruary. 1942, and the 21st. Destroyer Flotilla took C.M.G., in H.M.S. "Hood," the other ships of a hand in that. The Flotilla was at sea off Har­ the Squadron being "Repulse," "Delhi," "Drag­ wich when the signal was received telling that on," "Dauntless," and "Dunedin." Thus Rear- the German ships were coming through the Straits Admiral Pizey had his first association with Aus­ of Dover, and the Flotilla moved to intercept them tralia, for th>e Special Service Squadron visited all to the eastward of the Straits. They picked up the British Dominions and Colonies on its cruise, the German ships by Radar at 20,000 yards, ob­ and was in Australian waters during March and taining the first sighting at 8,000 yards, and ap­ April, 1924. proaching in a good torpedo attack position on Following the Special Service Squadron cruise, the enemy's bow. The attack was pressed home he spent a number of years in destroyers in the under continuous heavy air attack and heavy fire Home and Mediterranean Fleets, being promoted from the enemy ships, and the destroyers were Lieutenant-Commander in December, 1928, and within 3,000 yards of the German cruisers be­ the following year being appointed once again to fore they turned to fire their torpedoes, scoring H.M.S. "Revenge," but this time as Flag-Lieuten­ a hit on "Gneisenau" which was one of the con­ ant to Vice-Admiral Sir Howard Kelly, Second tributing factors to that ship's taking no further in-Command, Mediterranean Fleet. part in the war. It was for his part in this action that Rear-Admiral Pizey was awarded the C.B. Back to destroyers in 1931, and his first com­ mand—H.M.S. "Torrid," with the Home Fleet, From 1942 to 1943 he was Chief Staff Officer which was followed by a change in temperature to Rear-Admiral (Destroyers), Home Fleet, and which ran in opposition to the names of his com­ in command of H.M.S. "Tyne" at Scapa Flow.

Continued oil page 20 REAR-ADMIRAL C. T. M. PIZEY, CJL. D.S.O.

Th« Navy January. If49 - VISIT TO P. & 0. "STRATHEDEN" BY H.S.W. SEA CADETS

On December 14th., by kind A trek was then made to the dation to the First Saloon where permission of her Commander, foc'sk head where the windlass, they wei" served with refreshments Captain S. W. S. Dixon, a visit anchors cables, and mooring equip­ as the giests of the President of was paid by a party of 36 Sea Ca­ ment were explained. They then the Navy League (N.S.W.) to dets representing all Sydney Train­ visited the passenger accommoda­ whom together with the Comman­ ing Depots, to P. 6?0. S.S. "Strath tion, here special interest was dis­ der a vote of thanks was passed by cden." played in the swimming pools acclamation. The party was in charge ol which unfortunately do not look their best when empty. It is hoped that similar visits "Lieutenant Commander F. R. W. can on occasion be arranged to Page, R.A.N.V.R., of T.S. Aus­ At the First Class Swimming other P. y O. Mail Steamers as tralia, North Sydney, himself an Pcx>l the order "Stand Easy" was circumstances permit. officer with 20 years" service at given and cameras were exercised. sea in the P. i£ O. Company It is interesting to note that with A tour was later made of the The Cadets fell in on the wharf the approval of the Commanding boat deck where the cadets saw the at 1430 and then boarded the ship. Officer of T.S. Australia—the tennis court, the lifeboats and had The inspection commenced at the North Sydney Depot Cadets will their lowering gear explained. Compass Platform where Gyro and soon be experiencing an innova­ After that the galley was visited, magnetic compasses were on view tion in their training syllabus, in­ where the lads were steered safely also visual signalling equipment, asmuch as it is intended to hold round a large mound of chipped thence to the bridge, wheelhouse at intervals their seamanship in­ potatoes, an officer who watched and chartroom, where they saw struction classes aboard visiting these with an eagle eye swears all the latest aids to navigation, vessels of the P. 6r" O. Fleet, sub­ that none was missing although a such as the Radar screen, echo ject of course to the necessary per­ count was not taken. sounder, electric log chronometers mission from their Commanders. etc., also such equipment as fire * A descent was 'hen made to the •This will enable the actual sub­ detectors, loud-hailers, revolution engine room which was of course jects of their instruction to be de­ indicators, engine room telegraphs, most interesting, if not quite so monstrated to the cadets in a ship­ THEY KEEP TRADE MOVING AND AUSTRALIA PROSPEROUS etc. Of course a great attraction impressive as those equipped with board atmosphere It is hoped eventually to hold one such class was the Sperry Gyro Pilot or "Iron the older reciprocating engines. 1~\0 you remember the year 1940, and the could not eat a tithe of what he produced, try a month, the classes of the depot Mike" by which the ship steers After the inspection of the en­ *"^ broadcast exhortations that used to stream as we might. But his necessary markets beyond taking it in turn for shipboard ins­ herself once the course is set in gine room the party proceeded from our wireless receivers in those days? We our shores were restricted because of the shortage truction. open waters." through the Tourist Class accomo­ refer to those that had to do with food. With of ships to carry his goods overseas—and to bring Australian food, and the desirability of Austra­ payment in money or kind back to repay him. lians eating as much of it as possible. So the exigencies of the times gave us a small Resr-Adm,-,! C. T. M. Pii.y. C.8.. O.S.O. From 1944 to 1945 he was Director of Opera­ There was no talk then of "Parcels For Britain." object lesson in the fact that our products must On the contrary, wc were ourselves besought to go far distant overseas to return to us the fruits Continued from page 18 tions on the Naval Staff at Admiralty, when much of his energies were directed to the task of pre­ "Eat More Butter." We were told that *"It*s or toil. And to get them overseas wc arc depend­ This was the period when Russian Convoys paring a British Pacific Fleet for participation in Better With Butter." We were exhorted, also, ent upon the ships that carry them, and the ship* reached their peak, and Rear-Admiral Pizey sail­ the Eastern War. In 1946 he was appointed to "Eat More Lamb." Far from rationing being and men of the Navy that protect those carriers. ed with Convoy P.Q.I8, with Rear-Admiral R. Chief of Staff to the Commander in Chief, Home necessary, there was in Australia a surplus of Events of the year 1940—the year of "It'« L. Burnett, O.B.E., D.S.O., in the anti-aircraft Fleeti-Admiral Sir Neville Syfret, K.C.B., food, of those meats and fats which later we grew Better With Butter" and "Eat More Lamb"— cruiser "Scylla," with an escort of the aircraft K.B.E.—as Commodore 1st. Class in H.M.S. to value so highly. Why was that? hinted at our dependence on sea communications. carrier "Avenger."' 16 destroyers, two submarines, "Duke of York." The answer lies in one word--SHIPS. There Events crowded so fast in the succeeding years, and a number of smaller craft. There were 40 was a shortage of ships then, and especially of that we are to be pardoned if that hint has now The following year was spent at the Imperial merchant ships in the convoy, of which 13 refrigerated tonnage, so many of the big pas­ faded from our memory. But, perhaps, at times Defence College, London, among others at the were lost in a continuous series of fierce air and senger ships that carry refrigerator cargo having we might revive it, and think of the ships of the College during that period being Rear-Admiral submarine attacks, and under the constant threat been taken up for service as Armed Merchant Merchant Service and the ships of the Navy, and Collins, the 1st. Naval Member; and Commodore of raids by the "Tirpitz" and other heavy German Cruisers, as transports; or, instead of having of the men who man those ships. For without Guy Willoughby, the 4th. Naval Member; so surface units. The defenders had profited by the been taken up, having been "sent down"—to the them our supply lines to our main markets would that Rear-Admiral Pizey's present association with disastrous experience of the previous convoy, bottom, by enemy submarines. stop short at our sea coasts, and we would be them in Australia had a good grounding. P.Q.I7, and P.Q.I8 was the most heavily armed So, to help the producers of sheep and Iambs, "poor in a land of plenty. convoy that had made the North Russia run. In­ In January of last year he was promoted Act­ and to assist the dairy farmers, we were invited That is why we say "They Keep Trade Mov­ cidentally, it was subjected to the worst air at­ ing Rear-Admiral, and appointed to his present to come back, like Oliver Twist, for bigger and ing—And Australia Prosperous", and why we tacks suffered on that route -and the Luftwaffe position as Head of the United Kingdom Services better helpings. It was a small object lesson on should bear always in mind that a flourishing sea paid for the ships they-sank at the rate of more Liaison Staff in Australia. And in the following the extent to which the primary producer of Aus­ trade and a strong Navy to defend it axe the sure 'han four to one. Rear-Admiral Pizey received a June he was confirmed in his rank of Rear-Ad­ tralia is dependent upon ships to get the product shield and defence of that Primary Production by I Bar to his D.S.O. for his part. miral. of his land and labour to market. We here in which we live and prosper—in Peace as well as j Australia were within his reach—although we in War. T«. Navy JoMMry, 194V •- VISIT TO P. & 0. "STRATHEDEN" BY H.S.W. SEA CADETS

On December 14th., by kind A trek was then made to the dation to the First Saloon where permission of her Commander, foc'sk head where the windlass, they wei" served with refreshments Captain S. W. S. Dixon, a visit anchors cables, and mooring equip­ as the giests of the President of was paid by a party of 36 Sea Ca­ ment were explained. They then the Navy League (N.S.W.) to dets representing all Sydney Train­ visited the passenger accommoda­ whom together with the Comman­ ing Depots, to P. 6?0. S.S. "Strath tion, here special interest was dis­ der a vote of thanks was passed by cden." played in the swimming pools acclamation. The party was in charge ol which unfortunately do not look their best when empty. It is hoped that similar visits "Lieutenant Commander F. R. W. can on occasion be arranged to Page, R.A.N.V.R., of T.S. Aus­ At the First Class Swimming other P. y O. Mail Steamers as tralia, North Sydney, himself an Pcx>l the order "Stand Easy" was circumstances permit. officer with 20 years" service at given and cameras were exercised. sea in the P. i£ O. Company It is interesting to note that with A tour was later made of the The Cadets fell in on the wharf the approval of the Commanding boat deck where the cadets saw the at 1430 and then boarded the ship. Officer of T.S. Australia—the tennis court, the lifeboats and had The inspection commenced at the North Sydney Depot Cadets will their lowering gear explained. Compass Platform where Gyro and soon be experiencing an innova­ After that the galley was visited, magnetic compasses were on view tion in their training syllabus, in­ where the lads were steered safely also visual signalling equipment, asmuch as it is intended to hold round a large mound of chipped thence to the bridge, wheelhouse at intervals their seamanship in­ potatoes, an officer who watched and chartroom, where they saw struction classes aboard visiting these with an eagle eye swears all the latest aids to navigation, vessels of the P. 6r" O. Fleet, sub­ that none was missing although a such as the Radar screen, echo ject of course to the necessary per­ count was not taken. sounder, electric log chronometers mission from their Commanders. etc., also such equipment as fire * A descent was 'hen made to the •This will enable the actual sub­ detectors, loud-hailers, revolution engine room which was of course jects of their instruction to be de­ indicators, engine room telegraphs, most interesting, if not quite so monstrated to the cadets in a ship­ THEY KEEP TRADE MOVING AND AUSTRALIA PROSPEROUS etc. Of course a great attraction impressive as those equipped with board atmosphere It is hoped eventually to hold one such class was the Sperry Gyro Pilot or "Iron the older reciprocating engines. 1~\0 you remember the year 1940, and the could not eat a tithe of what he produced, try a month, the classes of the depot Mike" by which the ship steers After the inspection of the en­ *"^ broadcast exhortations that used to stream as we might. But his necessary markets beyond taking it in turn for shipboard ins­ herself once the course is set in gine room the party proceeded from our wireless receivers in those days? We our shores were restricted because of the shortage truction. open waters." through the Tourist Class accomo­ refer to those that had to do with food. With of ships to carry his goods overseas—and to bring Australian food, and the desirability of Austra­ payment in money or kind back to repay him. lians eating as much of it as possible. So the exigencies of the times gave us a small Resr-Adm,-,! C. T. M. Pii.y. C.8.. O.S.O. From 1944 to 1945 he was Director of Opera­ There was no talk then of "Parcels For Britain." object lesson in the fact that our products must On the contrary, wc were ourselves besought to go far distant overseas to return to us the fruits Continued from page 18 tions on the Naval Staff at Admiralty, when much of his energies were directed to the task of pre­ "Eat More Butter." We were told that *"It*s or toil. And to get them overseas wc arc depend­ This was the period when Russian Convoys paring a British Pacific Fleet for participation in Better With Butter." We were exhorted, also, ent upon the ships that carry them, and the ship* reached their peak, and Rear-Admiral Pizey sail­ the Eastern War. In 1946 he was appointed to "Eat More Lamb." Far from rationing being and men of the Navy that protect those carriers. ed with Convoy P.Q.I8, with Rear-Admiral R. Chief of Staff to the Commander in Chief, Home necessary, there was in Australia a surplus of Events of the year 1940—the year of "It'« L. Burnett, O.B.E., D.S.O., in the anti-aircraft Fleeti-Admiral Sir Neville Syfret, K.C.B., food, of those meats and fats which later we grew Better With Butter" and "Eat More Lamb"— cruiser "Scylla," with an escort of the aircraft K.B.E.—as Commodore 1st. Class in H.M.S. to value so highly. Why was that? hinted at our dependence on sea communications. carrier "Avenger."' 16 destroyers, two submarines, "Duke of York." The answer lies in one word--SHIPS. There Events crowded so fast in the succeeding years, and a number of smaller craft. There were 40 was a shortage of ships then, and especially of that we are to be pardoned if that hint has now The following year was spent at the Imperial merchant ships in the convoy, of which 13 refrigerated tonnage, so many of the big pas­ faded from our memory. But, perhaps, at times Defence College, London, among others at the were lost in a continuous series of fierce air and senger ships that carry refrigerator cargo having we might revive it, and think of the ships of the College during that period being Rear-Admiral submarine attacks, and under the constant threat been taken up for service as Armed Merchant Merchant Service and the ships of the Navy, and Collins, the 1st. Naval Member; and Commodore of raids by the "Tirpitz" and other heavy German Cruisers, as transports; or, instead of having of the men who man those ships. For without Guy Willoughby, the 4th. Naval Member; so surface units. The defenders had profited by the been taken up, having been "sent down"—to the them our supply lines to our main markets would that Rear-Admiral Pizey's present association with disastrous experience of the previous convoy, bottom, by enemy submarines. stop short at our sea coasts, and we would be them in Australia had a good grounding. P.Q.I7, and P.Q.I8 was the most heavily armed So, to help the producers of sheep and Iambs, "poor in a land of plenty. convoy that had made the North Russia run. In­ In January of last year he was promoted Act­ and to assist the dairy farmers, we were invited That is why we say "They Keep Trade Mov­ cidentally, it was subjected to the worst air at­ ing Rear-Admiral, and appointed to his present to come back, like Oliver Twist, for bigger and ing—And Australia Prosperous", and why we tacks suffered on that route -and the Luftwaffe position as Head of the United Kingdom Services better helpings. It was a small object lesson on should bear always in mind that a flourishing sea paid for the ships they-sank at the rate of more Liaison Staff in Australia. And in the following the extent to which the primary producer of Aus­ trade and a strong Navy to defend it axe the sure 'han four to one. Rear-Admiral Pizey received a June he was confirmed in his rank of Rear-Ad­ tralia is dependent upon ships to get the product shield and defence of that Primary Production by I Bar to his D.S.O. for his part. miral. of his land and labour to market. We here in which we live and prosper—in Peace as well as j Australia were within his reach—although we in War. T«. Navy JoMMry, 194V •- " I •

NAUTICAL members of. the orew were ordered into the boats. The ship soon found- SEAS, SHIPS AND SAILORS NJORJONO • dered and the lighthouse keepers at Leeuwin, who had seen the ship QUESTION BOX nnk, lit fires to make smoke sig­ nals for the boats to find their way CONDUCTED BY through the surf to landing GKE4J V0U4GES /LOTTIE SUPS '» beaches. The steamer "Monaro," N93 Captain R. C. C. Dunn, A.I.N.A., London of the Melbourne Steamship Co., Vl THE CeMTUGY-OUD SLOOP ft««d*rt are invited to tend in «ny queries on nautical matters, .and we shall was signalled and picked up all "&&TY'\*UCU HE BEFITTED KIM- -SELF, CAPT JOSHUA SLOCUM endeavour to answer them in these columns. hands, taking them to Fremantle. SAILED FfcOM BOSTON.USA. ON There were no casualties. MMT peOvtOTO BE 1ME F1R»T SINGLE-HANDED OQCUM NAVIGATION R.L., of St. K.ld.1, Vic: The inson, and bound from Panama to A.A.S., of Pymble: The steam­ OF THE tJOMsP • ON ApQIL 34.1835. steamer "Star of Australia" was Hull, came across the disabled *"SP«AY"VAfc 3e>/7T9#VCUffS LONG, er "Asturias," recently in Austra­ W'2"BEAM, •Vxr<4*S?"DRAFT. one of the four sister ships built American steamer "Tashmoo." She lian waters, is not the vessel you CROSSING THE ATLANTIC HE FIGST by Messrs. Workman, Clark if towed this vessel some 1,200 miles are enquiring about. That one CALLED AT (SteJeALTAe.TMEM SAILED Co., Belfast, the other ships being into Queenstown, the latter part DOVN TM6 STH. AMERICAN COAST, was built in 1908 by Harland and THBOUGH MAGELLAN STRAIT, AOOTS "Miniro," "Star of Japan," and of the passage being in a howling THE rVoiFK^,N^S4TCQAuSTI3ALIA. Wolff at Belfast for the Royal .AMD THEN HOME VIS TOG*fi>CS "Star of Scotland." Details of the gale of wind. Mail Steam Packet Co., Liverpool. STBArT. THE IMCXAM OCCAM Tyser Line and Milburn's Port "Matatua," and the four-masters, toGOOKTMAU. . IN STVPU staff and the crew lost their lives. o»ts. Line, were taken over by the "Drayton Grange" and "Oswestry She was renamed "Arcadian," and IDENTICAL BOATS "ACC newly formed Commonwealth and BEIINC. UGED TODAY Grange." These were ten feet used as an ocean yacht until the Brf FISWeCMtN ON THE Dominion Line, being later re­ longer. depression of 1930 laid her up. She SEVEBN (avee.EwciAuo. named "Port Stephens." >KJ K2GLANO.ANO IN J.J.L., of Williamstown, asks went to the ship-breakers 1n 1932. BAOTFS OF VAIPS In 1912 however, she had broken about the sailing ship "Kinkora," which he deserted away back in HIX)e OF THE MOST COEFU.T <**/ DISASTROUS ATTEMPTS TO her propeller shaft some 600 miles OBITUARY CO*£MCE- me ATLANTIC nAsseucER. TRADE fMH Ml east of Aden, and as there was no 1896. QFSS.7fr'/irviV-iM WrvYofc;*: k*j 1852. . fWlNBPfoCARft? Captain A. Hawksworth 3,OOOMSGCMCnS, 5MCV^5 *DO FT LONG. MAO Ifc. fUNNEIS other way to communicate with The "Kinkora" was a full rigged *AtNO Ife 30A4M*m ClMCTKMrs. TOTALLING 5.000 HO«SBFO«rCe — ship of some 1,900 tons, owned by Well Known Albany -JrTTH A*HOPeD-POfi~9PeftD OT ZS KNOTS. the shore or other ships, a life­ OM TRIAL'S SHE BABBLEMAOe*»CMJR MILES AMHCM)- boat with two officers and four men Iredale and Porte, and sailed from Maritime Resident AND *A« PQOMPTLY SCBAPPCD /' set off to get help, and after five Victoria, British Columbia, with a Captain Albert Hawksworth, cargo of lumber in 1898, and after who died in Albany, Western/ days at sea, they were picked up NINE-TON MAINSAIL // by the steamer "(Jlenlochy," which a long passage was beached on Clip- Australia, in October last had set out to find the disabled ship. perton Island in the North Pacific been associated with that town in August of the same year. FIRST CHINESE JUKJK. EVEB SEEU This she did, and# putting a tow- since January, 1892, and had IM EMCL^JO •«« Mr'KeviMG:oF line aboard her, towed her to ' A.EJC., of Launceston. been directly connected with the T001DW5,»«ICH SrtHBP FROM Aden. From there she was towed OW10W,CM»«, DK.4 . I844.J« The steamer "Pericles" was a waterfront there from 1900 on­ VIA CAPETO^/M, ST. HELENA, AND to Britain, by one of the Dutch wards, having for nearly half a Kfofc/Tbe*. esyn«n LOMDQM four-masted vessel of 10,925 tons, AFree A WSSWCE OF477OAT5. firm of Smits tugs, for repair. built in 1908 by Harland and century been engaged in dredg­ Sue -AOWSD A CBBM OF la Earlier in her career, in 1904, she aJOUMfcWM, 3QOW — - Wolff, Belfast, for the Aberdeen ing operations on the dredges /VUDNMOEOCVOttYCUt' met up with a Canadian barque, White Star Line, G. Thompson "Premier" and "Governor." The FJ BAD WCATMBIe IT TOOK2DHSM bound for South America from TO sreee HEJB, AND HOISTING and Co., Aberdeen. In March, knowledge of the Albany harbour THE <3-!ON MAINSAIL TOOK. TWO Canada with a cargo of timber, in 1910, she left Sydney for London, system he accumulated during HOURS. distress. The "Star of Australia" tir GJCVT - and called at Hobart and Mel­ that period was intimate and ex­ took off all the crew, including the ,7 Rao»Aieux -rwa F«*srr bourne before proceeding west­ tensive, a fact which was recog­ Cwe-«MH0'FIGue8*S3A£> IM master's wife, and the barque was KVteiTIME HI»TO«Y %WS FITTED wards. At 3.30 p.m. ot. March get on fire to prevent her becoming nised, and which led the West­ TO U M S HOIUJIO'. A FIFTH-B»re, 31st. 1910, she struck a sunken B4J1L.T IN iect7,T»*omAB3^HBH a danger to shipping. ern Australian State Government RjfiiaOhlto MSATH.OQMMCMOSnr- reef a few miles from Cape Leeu- to request his appearance as a -nc THE. ueao anM D«Y // In 1920, the "Star of Australia," win, and her master, Captain witness before the Select Com­ now known as the "Port Stephens." Simpson, realised that she would mittee inquiring into the devel­ Under command of Captain Rob­ soon founder, so all passengers and opments of outports in 1946.

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ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN times delay ships for weeks, and than it was before the war, when ) SHIPPING shipping companies are threat­ ships turned speedily without I It is estimated that there will ened with operating at a loss congestion. The effect of the 1 be approximately 160 passenger in consequence. labour shortage on Melbourne's \ ship sailings in 'each directum be- waterfront would have been even LABOUR SHORTAGE MAIN more severe if it were not for the tvveen Britain and Australia this REASON year, nearly ?0 ships being em­ fact tha-t the port is the most ployed' from cargo vessels earry- Shortage of port labour was highly mechanised in Australia. I. ing only a few passengers each, the main reason for delays in the ! to large ships like the Govern­ turn-round of ships in port, the ment-operated transport "Georgic," Chairman of the Melbourne Har­ which will bring some 2,000 nii' bour Trust (Mr. A. D. Mac­ grants each voyage. This means kenzie) said recently. He stated Are You a an average of more than three that during List year the Mel­ passenger sailings a week, in ad­ bourne waterfront was short of Subscriber to dition to purely cargo ships. an a\erage of 800 men daily. Sometimes the deficiency was 1,700 men a day. He said that The Navy? BERTHS STILL SHORT- despite the fact that since 1°M> FARES HIGH more sheds, more paved areas, Order Your Normal passenger accommoda­ and increased wharf space and tion between Britain and Austra­ mechanisation had been provided Copy Now lia is —by pre-war standards - in the port of Melbourne, the practically restored. But the trade of the port was still less heavy flow of migrants means that there are still not nearly enough berths to meet present needs. Even Australians return­ ing from Britain, who receive NAUTICAL QUIZ priority over other travellers, must wait up to three months for berths. The same situation ap­ (1) What do you know of-the three battle-cruisers "Furious," tion. He estimates the cost of the sociation has recommended that TRANSATLANTIC PASSAGE plies to the air lines, the Anglo-' "Glorious," and "Courageous."? first aeroplane at 10,000,000 a survey be made with single The steam pressure and tur­ Australian route being more fully dollars. An engine capable of the chart showing the St. Mary's. bines ot the Transatlantic express booked than any other British (2) Who constructed the first practical submarines, and when? fuel economy needed for such a River, between Lake Superior and passenger steamers put the old air route. A problem-creating transport was now being devel­ Lake Huron. If the plan takes (3) Do you know what is a barbette? Western Ocean Packets in the factor, both for sea and air tra­ oped, he said. He visualises the hold, charts probably would be shade in the way they have cut vel, is that demands for passenger (4) The name Winstanley has a close nautical association, sweptback wing being applied to made of other harbours and down the passage time; while accommodation and cargo space Do you know it? transport aircraft; the next step channels. the . passenger steamers were from. Britain to Australia far ex­ being to retract the wings for themselves - in that regard out­ ceed requirements for Australia to (5) How did "navvies" come to be so called? high-speed cruising, while event­ SHIPBUILDING stripped by the present-day air­ Britain. There seems to be no ually there might he a disappear­ Of the nine large ships of (6) The present King, when Duke of York, came to open craft. Now a leading American solution of this difficulty, which ing wing at really high speeds. 20,000 gross tons and upwards Federal Parliament at Canberra. His father, when Duke aircraft engineer—Mr. Hal Hih- under construction throughout means that fares and freights of York, came to open the first Federal Parliament in bard—sees the present Transat­ RADAR CHARTS the world during the third quart­ must remain high. Melbourne. Do you know in what ships Their Royal lantic air passage time halved, The opinions of masters of er of 1948, seven were being built Highnesses came to Australia? and fares reduced by 25 per cent , ships sailing the American Great in Great Britain and Ireland, and with the development of jet OCEAN FREIGHTS MAY (7) Victoria is dependent on seaborne trade for a commodity Lakes are being sought on the the remaining two in France, ac­ transport, according to a report RISE vital to her industrial prosperity. What is it? question of using navigation cording to Lloyd's report. A in the "New York Times." charts especially designed for use considerable volume of the ton­ Australian shipowners and (8) Who was the European discoverer of the Pacific Ocean, with their radar sets. These nage under construction was for agents of overseas shipping firms and to whom has that discovery been wrongly attributed? SIX YEARS' PROCESS charts are printed on fluorescent countries other than those pro­ fear that ocean freights might Mr. Hibbard- who is engin­ paper and when viewed in ultra ducing it. The total building for have to be increased if the turn- (9) What does the word "scantling" denote in naval archi­ eering vice-president of the Lock­ violet light show the picture of a foreign registration in Britain round of ships in Australian tecture? and Ireland during the period ports does not improve. Increas­ heed Aircraft Corporation—esti­ channel or harbour exactly as it (10) In New South Wales is La Perouse; in Western Australia appears on the radarscopc. Thus was 695,550 tons; in Sweden ed costs in interstate shipping mates that it will take three-and- are D'Entrecastcaux Point, the Archipelago of the Re­ a-half years to fly the first jet a navigator would compare his 217,275 tons; in the British Do­ have already bAn passed on to chart with his radarscope and minions 96.J50 tons; in Den­ the public, and there is a possi­ cherche, and Espcrance Bay. What is the connection be­ transport aeroplane, and another tween them? one-and-a-half years to go easily determine his exact posi mark 91,596 tons; in Holland bility that overseas freights Aniwars on paga 43 through the processes of getting tion. The Shore Captains' Com­ 79,504 tons; in the U.S. 85,879; might have to rise also. Conges­ it into scheduled airline opera­ mittee of the Lakes Carriers' As­ and in Italy 160,31 J tons. tion and labour troubles some- » * Tfc. Navy January, It4t • '• • . •

Bridge to H.M.S. "Chrysanthe­ cruiser sailed he had been "up the for the Australian War Memorial mum," lying off the Victoria Em­ pole" for 45 days. As a contrast, at Canberra, the ship's badge of News of the Worlds Navies bankment. The ratings' course they went to the San Francisco the famous battleship "Queen was from Lambeth 'Bridge to Zoo, where an elephant, who had Elizabeth," which is being broken H.M.S. "Chrysanthemum." After fallen down a hole, had failed to up. The badge weighs one ton. At U.S. OVER-UNDER-SEA sailed recently across the Atlantic. full-time basis is being prepared the races, the London Division of surface after three days. the War. Memorial, it will Obm- DEFENCE They were the destroyers "Hot­ for introduction in the Central the R.N.V.R. entertained compet­ memoratc the part played by In "Submarine and Anti-Suh- spur" and "Fame," the former of Legislative Assembly of the East ing crews in H.M.S. "President," H.M.S. "Queen Elizabeth" at Gal- marinc," Sir Henry Newbolt told which sailed from the United King­ African territories, and should be headquarters ship of the Division. "Q. E.V BADGE TO lipoli, where so many Australians of the underwater battle between dom in November, while "Fame" introduced early this year if the AUSTRALIA lost their lives in World War I. a British submarine (E.50) and a took her departure last month. territorial legislatures agree to po- WIDE HORIZONS The Australian Government has vidc the annual recurrent costs of thanked the Board of Admiralty German U-boat during the 1914- The "New York Times" records The Admiralty has presented to 18 War. Each sighted the other FRIGATES FOR N.Z. NAVY the force, detailed estimates of the Commonwealth Government, for the gift. which have been prepared. The [he achievements of rocket-borne at periscope depth, and the British Four of thj six Loch Class fri­ cameras in securing pictures of the boat rammed the German. There gates to be transferred to the Royal Admiralty has been approached with regard to the provision of earth embracing very wide hori­ followed a fight, the German try­ New Zealand Navy from the Royal zons. Two new automatic "se­ ing to surface, the Britisher striv­ Navy were handed over during suitable vessels. According to an Admiralty news release, the depot quence" cameras were mounted in ing to force her enemy down; a September and October of last year. a U.S. Navy Aerobee rocket, and fight "like the death grapple of two They were "Loch Shin," "Loch of the Force is likely to be at Mombasa, and will be called H.M. | one in a German V-2 rocket, and primeval monsters." The E.50 won Achanalt," "Loch Achray" and took pictures covering more than and, eventually on the surface, saw "Loch Eck," and have been re­ East African Ship "Mvita," this being the Swahili word for war. 800,000 square miles of country nothing of her late antagonist but named H.M.N.Z. Ships "Taupo," in the Western United States, pro­ the oil "pouring up like the thick "Pukaki," "Kaniere," and "Ha- bably the largest land area ever to A SYMBOL OF PERFECTION rank life-blood of the dead sea- wea" respectively. The remaining JATO be photographed at one time. The monster." Such encounters arc Perfection is never accidental. Long two vessels, H.M. Ships "Loch "Jato" is another of the many Aerobee reached a peak altitude rare, but may become more com­ Katrine" and "Loch Morlich," will of about 70 miles, and its two experience, good engineering and expert mon in future naval wars, for the "attache case" words coming into supervision have built the reputation of be handed over early this year. circulation nowadays, and is a cameras recorded more than 400 U.S. Navy's plans include, in ad­ individual pictures of an area Ducon Capacitors. dition to Naval Aviation, the con­ compression of "jet assist take-off." V.2 SHIP Powerful jato rockets have been calculated at 300,000 square miles, struction of "anti-submarine sub­ and 1,400 miles long, with an hori­ marines" which, smaller than any The United States Navy now has used recently to speed up the take­ a sea-going rocket laboratory from off of the U.S. Navy's giant 180- zon about 400 miles long. The V-2 submarines built in recent years, reached about 60 miles of altitude, will be fully equipped to do battle which fourteen-ton V-2 missiles passenger Lockheed Constitution could be sent aloft. The vessel, aircraft. Six rockets were used in but its camera covered greater ter­ with other submarines on or be­ ritory with its more than 200 sep­ neath the surface." the "Norton Sound" is a convert­ the tests, giving extra power equal ed seaplane tender, which is based to the 3,500 horse-power of one of arate pictures by spinning slowly on a California!-, port, and will the aircraft's engines. Tests were at its peak. As a result of this ATTACK VIA ARCTIC operate in the Pacific. "Her basic made up to the maximum weight spin the camera captured a section mission," it has been announced, of 184,000 lbs., with no effect on of horizon estimated at 2,700 miles The U.S. Navy's defence plans long,' with the distance from the visualise the possibility of air at­ "will be to widen the horizon of the control of the huge aircraft. upper atmospheric research through In the tests, the rockets were fired horizon to camera believed to be tack across the Arctic, and ships about 700 miles. The two rockets equipped for polar and picket ser­ rocket firing experiments far out by the pilot as soon as the aircraft at sea in safe, isolated areas at broke ground and retraction of were launched 76 minutes apart. vice are included in the vessels to The V-2 camera was found three- be built or converted. The devel­ various latitudes, extending from landing gear began. It is predicted The Breakfast Food the equator to the polar regions, that the installation of jato rockets and-a-half days after the launch­ opment of advanced prototypes in ing, but searchers worked for 19 four major fields is listed: first, that are not feasible for land tests." on large transport aircraft as stan­ The "Norton Sound" has been spe­ dard equipment would provide an days before finding the cameras THAT RA FOOD ! aircraft carriers capable of handl­ from the Aerohce. ing fast, heavy, long-range naval cially converted for her new role, extra measure of safety in case of The name is Uncle Toby's Oats. Not only is Uncle Toby's sudden power failure during take- planes; second, high-speed, deep- her deck having been sheathed with a really delicious breakfast food, it is an important food metal to withstand the heat of the offs. submergence submarines; third, ABOVE. AND BELOW. factor in the diet of children and adults alike. Uncle anti-submarine vessels Do counter rockets; a helicopter landing plat­ form having been erected forward; When H.M.S. "Sheffield," Flag­ Toby's Oats provides all the Vitamins of the. Vitamin B these submarines; and fourth, ships R.N.V.R. WHALER RACES ship of the America and West Group, and also Vitamin A. See that every member of equipped for polar and picket ser­ and storage tanks for the special Indies Squadron, was in San Fran­ the family obtains this vital nourishment every morning. vice. rocket fuel, and firefighting and Last year whaler races for officers damage control equipment having and men of the Royal Naval Vol­ cisco shortly before her return to Serve Uncle Toby's Oats. Veen fitted. unteer Reserve were revived in England last year after having SOLD IH PACKAGES—NEVER IN BULK R.N. SHIPS FOR DOMINICA Great Britain forthc first time since been for more than two years on The Dominican Government has the war. During September, races the station, her Ship's Company purchased two British destroyers EAST AFRICAN NAVAL were held on the Thames between witnessed the closing stages of the for the Navy of the Republic, and DEFENCE the leading crews of the North' and ordeal of a man who was within four days of beating the world's UNCLE TOBYS OATS after refitting at Devonport, the Legislation establishing an East the South. The course for the two ships were handed over and African Naval Force on a regular officers' race was from London pole sitting record. When the A PRODUCT OF CLIFFORD LOVE W CO. LTD., SYDNEY. • TW M«vv _

merrily, accompanying its music der the wan lights of street lamps. shuffle to restore the circulation to sea companions be would cling to with a shuffling noise as it circled The darkened shop windows those large portions of his anat­ her as a secret and ennobling in­ clumsily on its unwinding alarm stared at him with lifeless eyes as omy. Then, drawing a watch from spiration. He would . . . key. he passed, and his shadow alter­ somewhere inside him by a long "Fez!" nately stole contractingly upon chain, he held it out to the driver The hoarse voice of the con­ To ignore it was impossible him from behind and raced with a significant look. The driver, ductor broke through the holy George perforce fell sleepily out lengtheningly and hugely ahead of morosely pulling on a pair of aura that surrounded him, and he A MEMORY of bed and, crawling underneath him as he passed under the street huge, fingerless gloves, opened the became aware of the decorated on the cold oilcloth, retrieved and lamps. front door leading into the driv­ person of its owner standing, By H.G. stifled it, bumping his head sev­ But for a policeman, and two ing cabin and stepped through straddle-legged, before him, bal­ erely in the process. Followed rattling, chariot-like milk carts, he with a blast of icy air that ancing against the swaying of the more search for the matches, was alone in the world until he wrapped itself round George's speeding tram. which had fallen from the chair came upon the first tram waiting ankles. With a warning jangle of "Fez!" repeated the conductor, with the clock. Then the spurt of cheerlessly under the Brockley its bell, the rumble of wheels skid­ brandishing his tickets and clipper. flame, the dismal light of a candle railway bridge. A vast, coldly ding on the slippery rails, the George fumbled in his pocket throwing grotesque shadows on glittering two-decked thing of tram started. The conductor re­ for a penny. "Marquis of Gran- walls and ceiling. glass and electric lights, it spilled tired to the solitary magnificence by, please," he said. The clock, now ticking noisily of his own platform at the rear a spiritless gleam under the dark "Markis!" said the conductor on the chest of drawers, showed and George was left alone with bridge. The driver and conductor, sarcastically, snatching the penny that the hour was 4.45 a.m., and his thoughts. sitting inside and drinking some­ and clipping a ticket with pedantic suddenly as wakefulness came to thing steaming from blue enam­ precision. "Markis! We passed George, the import of this day Snuggling deeper into his over­ elled cans with hinged lids, ig­ the Markis five minutes back. You came to him also. For to-night he coat, George gave himself up to nored George with British reserve didn't oughter sit there dreamin', was to take Margery to the New day-dreams of Margery. She had, as he climbed aboard and snuggled young feller. You oughter keep Cross Empire. Booked seats for he knew, altered the whole aspect into the corner nearest the front yer eyes open." He pulled the sig­ the second house, which opened of his life. Since he had met her and away from the draughts, and nal cbrd majestically, and the at 9 p.m. And life took on a a week earlier at a party at which carried on a muttered conversa­ tram obediently screeched to a new savour. he, in his apprentice's uniform, tion between noisy sips. had been the guest of honour and standstill. "You oughter keep yer George Crowther, sixteen years George sank deeply into his the cynosure of feminine eyes, eyes open, me boy," he advised. of age and apprentice to the sea overcoat and thought of Margery. the seriousness, the importance of "You won't never git nowhere in in the Cranston Line's "Hermes," And, realising the possibility that his career, had come forcibly home this world if you don't, you mark was in love. Margery might conceivably at to him. my words." So, despite the unsympathetic some time or other travel on this Girls like a manly fellow. Mar­ "Blasted old fool," muttered darkness and the frost of this Lon­ very tram, he felt warmly dis­ gery had hinted as much to him, George to himself as he got off don winter morning—it would posed towards the driver and con­ with admiring but maidenly glan­ the tram. not be light yet for three hours— ductor, and found himself won­ ces. Well; He would be worthy He had to walk back to the and defying the prospect of a dering if it was tea, coffee or of her. If she would wait, he Marquis of Granby to get the day's work from 7 a.m. until 5 cocoa that they had in their cans. would work hard for his certifi­ Woolwich tram that was to take p.m. on the "Hermes" in the Why! Margery might even catch cates ... get command . . . marry him a step nearer his destination, Royal Albert Dock, a certain this tram when she came to New her. It was something for a fel­ and, when it came along, he lightness prevaded George's soul Cross ,to meet him to-night. In low to work for. boarded it gloomily, climbing to as he dressed and thought of the which case the conductor would Tonight he would have to say the top deck, where a few passen­ evening that would crown the see her before he, George, would. farewell, for the "Hermes" sailed gers were smoking aromatic (hag day. George regarded the conductor in two days' time, and the last and rustling their newspapers. He was to meet Margery' at with new and envious interest. evening must be spent at home Stage by stage it swayed 6.30 p.m. at New Cross. That He was a small man with a meagre with his father and mother. But through the dark but awakening would give him ample time to and straggling moustache, whose this evening would be theirs, Mar­ streets. Here and there a warmly change from his working clothes, wetness he was at the moment gery's and his. There would be glowing coffee stall flung a wel­ clean himself up, and get to the wiping with the back of a hand, something noble about it. He coming gleam across the roadway, "Dimly apprehended like torn* incenie ihrouded Bhudda." rendezvous. They would have tea preparatory to shutting the lid would confide in her his plans for Lights appeared at intervals in die together, go to the New Cross of the can and putting it away. their future. Tell her what an in­ living quarters above shop win* Empire, and he would see her He wore a peaked cap and a centive she would be to him. How dows. Despite the cold, the at* home. It was a delightful heavy overcoat of a semi-military he was going to study, spend every mosphere in the upper deck of -RfR-R-R-R-R-R-R . . blankets to knock it with a crash prospect. pattern, and was much bedecked spare moment, from a hard life— the tram became oppressive as it. B The metallic thunder of the from the chair at his bedside to the floor, where it rolled under To the tram terminus at Brock- with chains, ticket clippers, save those he devoted to writing filled up. Heavy with tobacco alarm dock slowly pierced the whistles, and a huge, jingling the bed and continued its dinning ley, the first stage of his journey to her—deep in books on naviga­ smoke and the smell of overcoat*. armour of sleep in which, for six leather money bag. His boots with undiminished vigour. to the docks, was three-quarters of tion and seamanship. George tried hard to revitalise hours, George Crowther had pro­ were very shiny and thick soled. tected himself against the slings Lying on its back right up a mile's walk. George's heels He would give up swearing and the holiness that had immersed As George watched him he rose and arrows of this world; and he against the wall and well beyond echoed hollowly on deserted pave­ other vices. Live a "higher life for him in the Brockley tram, but to his feet and did a heavy double- reached protestingly from the reach from the bed, it clanged ments that sparkled with frost un- her sake. In the midst of his rude failed. He was wedged again*). CofltiiHM

of us. During that time we got Our author tells us of the build­ out several important new designs, ing of later ships—the fast, light BOOK REVIEWS including those of tne "Royal Sov­ battle-cruisers "Furious," "Coura­ ereign" class and the "C" class geous" and "Glorious"; the "K" cruisers which followed the "Are- Class submarines;; the post-war •y e.H.e. thusas"—a new type of cruiser "Nelson" and "Rodney," and "A SHIPBUILDER'S YARN," by Sir Eustace H. W. Tennyson- designed and developed under Sir others. d'Eyncourt, Bt., K.C.B., F.R.S., M.I.N.A., M.I.C.E., D.Sc., LL.D. Philip Watts towards the end of In 1924 he resigned from the* Hutchinson and Co., Ltd., Melbourne. his term of office." It was just be­ fore the war, too, that the "Bulge" Admiralty to return to Arm- . "A Shipbuilder's Yarn" is the paratory schools and, in 1882, to protection against torpedoes was strongs. He.took part in various Autobiography of the former Ad­ Charterhouse, where he remained initiated following a scries of ex­ inquiries of national importance, miralty Director of Naval Con­ for four years, when, at the age of periments, some of the first ships one being that into whether Arma­ struction, and in it Sir Eustace eighteen, the question of his future to be fitted being the four old "Ed­ ment manufacture should be a Tennyson-d'Eyncourt has told a arose. gar" class cruisers. "Altogether," Government monopoly. This, al­ very good yarn indeed. He has His inclinations were towards en­ says Sir Eustace, "I believe no lives though favouring some measure of written with a simple charm that is gineering, and "luckily for me my were lost in any of the ships pro­ Government control being applied most engaging, and has given us a parents were not hidebound." Ar­ tected by this method right through to armament firms, he is against, hook which deals with much more rangements were made for him to the first World War, and we felt because: "I am certain we should than shipbuilding; there is in it join Armstrongs at Elswick, and in our efforts to provide some sort of to a great extent lose the advan­ something of the social history of 1886 he set out for Newcastle- safeguard had been more than re­ tage of the skill and inventive n CREAMERY his times, and—as is inevitable in upon-Tyne to start his apprentice­ paid." genius of numbers of people em­ a good autobiography—something ship. There followed a thorough Sir E. H. W. Tennyson-d'Eyncourt, Bt. ployed by private firms in improv­ of his philosophy of life. You will grounding in his profession. Work Sir Eustace tells—in language ing and designing fresh methods find it a good book to read. at the Elswick yards started at 6 easily understood by the layman— of defence and attack. It had be­ jority of British workmen, and ever of the designing and building of BUTTER His book covers a long period. a.m. and the day shift was of come pretty clear, during my ex­ nine and a half hours. He worked since that time nothing has annoy­ ships for the Navy. "It would be perience with both forms of ser­ NOKCO bullir l> *• He himself was just on eighty years ed me more than to hear anyone correct to say that every single chain-* •» cwmiT of age when he wrote it. His in turn at all branches of ship­ vice, that most of the new ideas in -and it is always one who has no ship is in the end a compromise-" engineering and mechanical indus­ k.K.. IM Ik. rick father Louis Charles Tennyson d"- building, with the platers, with the Na-tfc Cart o» N.S.W. frame-bending squads, and at var­ personal knowledge of the subject and he paints for us, in telling tries came not from Government Eyncourt, was fifty-five years old whatsoever—say a derogatory word strokes, pen pictures of personal­ NOiXO h • MM to when this son of his was born, hav­ ious times in most of the shops, sources, but from outside . . . But about them." ities with whom he had to deal ing first seen the light in 1814, the with blacksmiths, carpenters, one of the most vital points of »!1 joiners, and all other trades con­ The 'prentice days at Elswick during his tenure of office, promi­ is that we must have in the country Ml Mffc i« •»•!« year before the battle of Water­ nent among them being Lord loo. Louis' grandfather—George cerned in shipbuilding, in addition were broken with a course in naval a great reserve of skilled men. If HN4M M •»•#• !*•• Fisher and Mr. Churchill. arms were manufactured merely in half • c«»t«ry. Tennyson, "and a fine old Lincoln­ to spells in the drawing office. architecture, at the Royal Naval a few Government factories, when shire squire he was"—was also the As important to him as the prac­ College, Greenwich. When his six There were ships other than sur­ an emergency did arise there grandfather of Alfred Tennyson, tical training he received was the years of apprenticeship were up, face ships and submarines to de­ would not be nearly enough skill­ the Poet Laureate, and our author experience he gained amongst the he remained with Armstrong for sign and build—there were airships ed workers to cope with the sudden remembers how, as a child, he was workmen. "I realised to the full another seven years and then, in and landships also, the design and rush of orders and demand for taken by his father once or twice when working amongst them how 1898, he went accross to the Clyde construction of the airships R33 speed of production ... It is essen­ to call on Alfred, "who spoke to they all, especially the married men, to get experience in merchant ship and R34 being an Admiralty res­ NORCO construction with the Fairfield tial, if an urgent call for skilled me very kindly. I was rather had their future on their minds the ponsibility; and it was in February, men arises, to be able to draw afraid of him the first time, hav­ whole time—not, as in my case, as Shipbuilding and Engineering 1915, that Mr. Churchill sent for them from all over the country in ing been warned that he was a something to look forward to, but Company, remaining there for Sir Eustace and asked him to try great numbers. The private firms great man, and also that I must with a sense of continual fear, tour years when, in 1902, he re­ to design a "landship." "That was have these men trained and exper­ hot mind how hard he shook my from week to week any or all of turned to Armstrongs. Established the name we gave to them at first, ienced in all kinds of engineering, hand. This, I found, was no ex­ them, however skilled, might at a now in his profession, he travelled and it might have been the same to for when not engaged on war mat­ aggeration, and I well remember week's notice, or even less, find for the firm, visiting South this day had not a difficulty arisen Hold M to erial they are using their skill on the grip of his hand, which was an themselves with only their savings America and other places .in con­ when we shipped the first two the best classes of products for • || WAR SAVINGS extremely powerful one of enor­ to depend on. Often I used to nection with shipbuilding contracts. vehicles to France the following civilian use. It is only in private 1 mous strength." go and have tea with my mates and It was in 1912, on the resignation yaar." It was desired to keep the CERTIFICATES^ firms that you get this inter- | their wives and children on Sun­ of Sir Philip Watts as Director of identity of the vehicles secret, and Young Eustace had a happy activity, and it was largely this I days, though I fear they regarded Naval Construction at the Admir­ was proposed that they be shipped, childhood, "I found the world an practice that gave us our lead in 1 me as something of a curiosity. But alty, that Sir Eustace applied for cased, as "Water Carriers for entirely agreeable place, and have engineering, shipbuilding and kin- J we had long talks together about the appointment, which he receiv­ Russia"; but the objection was rais­ still a clear recollection of the un­ dred industries." M their problems and their children's ed, signing the agreement with ed that the War Office pundit's troubled happiness of my first eight future prospects, and I know those Admiralty in August of that year, would probably contract the des­ years at Hadley House, by Barnet contacts were among the most val­ thus getting-two years' experience cription, to "W.C.'s for Russia." Green, in Hertfordshire." The Finally, on the question of the I uable experiences I have ever had at Admiralty before the First So the cases were labelled "Tanks." family was well-to-do, and the Navy, Sir Eustace points out that ] ... In the end I formed an exceed­ World War begin. , ' "So tanks they became, and tanks home atmosphere warm and com­ "All history has shown that when I ingly high opinion of the great ma- they have remained." panionable. The boy went to pre- "It was a busy two years for all the Navy is' strong the country • 1 ' J.n..ry, IM9 ^mw.•;f ^ prospers, and that weakening it book, rich in experience and full very fair and balanced picture, The combination of "sanguine has never contributed yet towards of wisdom. It is one that this re­ which presents both subject and notion," of imagination, of liberal the peace of the world." viewer can strongly commend to author in a good light. outlook and sense of duty, have This is a kindly, thoughtful readers of "The Navy." Of Mountbatten's stature among .quipped Mountbatten for his suc­ us ordinary humans there is no cesses as Chief of Combined Oper­ ations, as "Supreme South-East "LAST VICEROY"—The Life and Times of Rear-Admiral The question. He stands out. He had, as Mr. Murphy says, the advan­ Asia Command," and as the "Last Earl of Mountbattcn of Burma, P.C., K.G., G.C.S.I., G.C.LE., tage of being born to responsibility. Viceroy"; all of which Mr. G.C.V.O., K.C.B., D.S.O., A.D.C., by Ray Murphy, Jarrolds "It is incontrovertibly of no par­ Murphy shows clearly and capably (London) Ltd. ticular advantage to be born a in this book. It is a good book, and prince in the 20th. Century; in­ one to read. Incidentally, it is of Here we get what would appear "Last Viceroy" improves the deed, when Churchill proposed to interest to learn from it that, in J. GADSDEN PTY. LTD. to be a true picture of a most un­ deeper one gets into its pages. The the Chiefs of Staff that Mountbat­ 1929, Lord Louis served in the usual man, and a picture drawn at Cnr. ABBOTSFORD &. IRELAND STS., reader should not base his judge­ tcn be made Advisor, Combined Mediterranean in our own old first hand. Furthermore, Mr. ment on the opening chapters Operations, he suggested that the "Leader of the Crocks"—then WEST MELBOURNE, C.3. Murphy is well informed as to the which deal with the childhood and only factor which mitigated against H.M.S. "Stuart." background against which the main 'Phone: FJ 4171 (4 lines) boyhood of Lord Louis Mountb.it his- appointment was his royal actor in the story plays his part; ten. In them, Mr. Ray Murphy blood. Nevertheless it is an advan­ CANNISTER MAKERS, TIN PLATE PRINTERS, CROWN SEALS, well informed also, as to the other does not seem to be entirely at his tage to have been teethed on the BUND ROLLERS, CALICO AND HESSIAN BAGS, TENTS AND characters in the story. His book ease. One imagines that he was lesson, not that the world owes you •HANDBOOK FOR SHIPS'. becomes intriguing, and, one feels, ALL CANVAS GOODS. writing from what he had been a living, but that you must be pre­ CAPTAINS AND SHIPPERS," a valuable comment on men and tokl of the early life of his sub­ pared to accept the responsibility affairs, and a valuable interpreta­ by Captain A. R. Baxter, ject, with the result that he gives which the authority of your birth tion. He is frank as to his subject. F.R.G.S., A.I.N.A., the Tail us a collection of anecdotes rather has thrust upon you." in the nature of those compiled by An admirer, but while apprecia­ Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., Society gossip writers. But later tive of his strength and many vir­ Growing- from that advantage, Melbourne. on, when he gets into the adult tues, not blind to his foibles nor but added to it by his own charac­ _ period, and more especially into the failing in mentioning them. Alto­ ter and conviction, is his quality of "Handbook For Ships' Cap­ war period, he is at home. gether, one feels that he draws a leadership. He believes in himself, tains and Shippers" is a slim, and spares no effort to justify that most .handy little volume which W^iU^ain^Ur "V^ belief and to increase the status of Captain Baxter has compiled in a r Hif^abrxaat ^', whatever his hand is put to. Thus manner deserving of praise. There he can achieve things. "That silly, will be no question as to its value, KEEP HIM FIT sanguine notion, which is firmly not only to Ships' Captains and entertained here, that one English­ Shippers, but also to Ships' Offi­ man can beat three Frenchmen, en­ cers, and to anyone else who at any courages, and has sometimes en­ time requires a quick and reliable Health is his abled, one Englishman, in reality, reference to various matters con­ to beat two," wrote Lord Chester­ nected with Australian shipping. ^fik greatest asset! field. It is a similar notion that Take a look at the contents: gives men of the Mountbatten Coastal Distance Tables—most stamp their superiority over their comprehensive, and giving dis­ Naturally you dream of his fellows, especially when allied to tance in nautical miles between * future and the position you hope imagination. V' Australia ports; Main Aus­ he will win in the world; but His imagination, Mr. Murphy tralian lighthouses, giving name, be sure his health will stand the believes, is Mountbatten's greatest position, character, elevation, vis­ characteristic. "This characteristic ibility, and remarks; Tables for strain by giving him Cornwell's gives him the double advantage of time of voyage, giving time taken Y THURSDAY Extract of Malt. There is nothing being able to see things as he would at speeds from six to 14 knots to BO)(IN G "B lake it for building sound digestive organs, like them to be, and of being able travel distances from five to NIGHT to put himself in the position of 3,600 miles; Shipping and Port strong bones and healthy tissues. others, and thereby understanding Information; Stowage factors SOLD EVERYWHERE. their point of view. This faculty for cargoes: and Port Control of being able to see things as one Information, including Lloyds and would wish them to be is fre­ chart agents, cranes and Coaling LEI CHHARDT S TADIUM CORNWELL'S quently found in great leaders. Irs plant, drydocks, quarantine and possessor has the advantage of not Customs regulations, pilots, signal being able to envisage defeat be­ stations, and other useful informa­ EV R SATURDAY cause he is incapable of accepting tion. It is a book that should be NATURE'S TONIC FOOD WR ESTLING * ] on" Mlever. yII Shipmaster'iS • s and Officer's FOR YOUNG AND OLD any faets which are counter to his IIGHT St hopes." shelf, and on very many ashore.

Tfc. Nav? . I LoshelfJanuaryn ever, an,y d 194Sht o*rj WHAT THE NAVY IS DOING at Sea and Ashore is due to sail from Williamstown Australian Antarctic Research Ex­ Australian Navy—have been given a cord which released a flag cov­ later spend a week at Jervis Bay, H.M.S. Terrible became on the 7th. February for Tasma­ pedition on that island. She will names. The ships are L.S.T.'s ering the ship's new name. The and it is anticipated that she will H.M.A.S. Sydney on the 16th. of nian waters, where she will be in then return to Melbourne, and sub­ 3017, 3035, and 3501, which have carrier's Australian Ship's Com­ depart from Sydney on the 4th. of last month, when Mrs. J. A. Beas- company with the Flagship until her sequently proceed to Macquarie been named respectively H.M.A. pany—under the command of Cap­ May for Japanese waters, proceed­ ley, the wife of the Australian High return to Williamstown on the 6th. Island to relieve members of the Ships "Tarakan," "Lae," and "La­ tain Roy Russell Dowling, D.S.O., ing via Cairns, Darwin, Tarakan, Commissioner, performed the of­ May. She will then commence 50 Expedition there, returning to Mel­ buan." The announcement of'the R.A.N.—then took over from the and Hong Kong, to Sasebo, where Jays availability for leave and 45 bourne about mid-April. naming of the ships was made by ficial commissioning ceremony, and Royal Naval complement, and the she will relieve H.M.A.S. Shoal- for refit, previous to her departure the Minister for the Navy (Mr. renamed Australia's first aircraft ship became a unit of the Royal haven. It is expected that Bataart H.M.A.S. Lac (L.S.T. 3035) is for New Guinea waters about mid Riordan) last month, when he said carrier at Devonport Naval Dock­ Australian Navy. Following a per­ will herjelf be relieved in Japan paying off into reserve. that the names would commemorate yard. Mrs. Beasley was escorted on iod of training and "shake-down" by H.M.A.S. Culgoa early in Sep­ H.M.A.S. Shoalhaven (Lieut. - Landing Ship* Infantry amphibious landings undertaken by .. board the Sydney through a Naval extending over some weeks, the tember. Commander Keith Tapp, R.A.N.) H.M.A.S. Kanimbla (Captain Australian forces in the South ship will sail for Australia via the Guard of Honour, and performed H.M.A.S. i^uiberon (Comman­ is in Sydney, and is due to depart A. P. Cousin, D.S.O., R.A.N.R. West Pacific in the Second World Suez Canal. the renaming ceremony by pulling der J. L. Bath, RAN.) is in Syd­ on the 21st. of this month for (S) ) arrived in Sydney last month War. ney, and should complete refit Japanese waters, via Cairns and from Japan, having sailed from about the end of February. Dreger Harbour, being due at Kure Kure on the 7th. December. This Royal Navy Set Lead SQUADRON DISPOSITIONS H.M.A.S. ^uic^match (Lieut- on the 9th. February. Shoalhaven is her last voyage as a naval ves­ In naming the Landing Ships Commander R. R. Brown, R.A.N.) will be relieved in Japanese waters sel. She is now paying off into re­ (Tank), the Royal Australian is in Sydney. <£uicltmatch will com­ by Bataan early in June, and will serve, reverting to the administra­ Navy has followed the lead set by Tne Cruisers in February. Warramunga is ex­ mence refit about the beginning of call at Hong Kong on her passage tive control of the Flag Officer-in- the Royal Navy, which recently H.M.A.S. Australia (Captain pected to arrive back in Sydney April. south to Williamstown Naval Charge, N.S.W., for reconversion named its own Landing Ships and H. M. Burrell, R.A.N.), wearing on the 28th. of next month, when 1st Frigate Flotilla Dockyard, where it is anticipated to trade and return to her owners. abolished the numbers by which the Flag of Rear Admiral H. B. she will be granted 50 days avail­ H.M.A.S. Culgoa, Senior Officer that she will commence 50 days they had previously been known. Farncomb, CB„ D.S.O., M.V.O., ability for leave and urgent defects. (Commander J. Plunkett-Cole, availability for leave and 45 for re­ Australian Those which were to be used by Flag Officer Commanding the It is anticipated that she will sail R.A.N.) has been refitting and fit early in July. Minesweepers the Royal Navy for general com­ Royal Australian Naval Squadron, from Sydney for Jervis Bay on the granting leave in Williamstown H.M.A.S. Murchison (Lieut.- These two vessels, which are bined operations had been named is in Sydney, whence it is antici­ 20th. April, and the following Naval Dockyard, whence she is Commander W. F. Cook, R.A.N.) based on Flinders Naval Depot, "Anzio," "Dieppe," "Lofoten," pated that she will depart on the month will carry out a cruise to due to depart on the 3rd. of this is carrying out training exercises comprise the Training Flotilla: "Suvla," and so on, after places at 10th. of this month for Jervis Bay. Western Australia, visiting South month for Sydney. Arriving in under the control of the Flag Offi- H.M.A.S. Gladstone (Lieut.- which famous landings or raids had taken place in either of the two She is expected to remain at Jer- Australia during the return pas­ Sydney on the 5th. January, she is ccr-in-Charge, N.S.W. Murchi­ Commander H. A. E. Cooper, vis Bay until .the 21st. January, sage to Sydney, when she is ex­ world wars. The decision to name to depart on the 7th. for New son will commence 45 days refit on R.A.N.) then returning to Sydney, and sail­ pected to arrive the second the Landing Ships (Tank) was Guinea waters via Cairns, arriving the 7th. June. H.M.A.S. Latrobe (Lieut. M. G. ing again on the 2nd. February for week in June, departing on a fur­ reached because it was felt that at Dreger Harbour on th°: 15th. of 10th L.S.T. Flotilla Pechey, D.S.C., R.A.N.) a cruise of some six or seven weeks ther cruise later in that month. the month. During her stay in ships without names lacked pers­ Survey Ships in the Hobart area, returning to H.M.A.S. Arunta (Commander New Guinea waters until the end H.M.A.S. Taraltan (L.S.T.- onality, and that the granting of Sydney via Westernport and Mel­ F. N. Cook, D.S.C., R.A.N.) is of March, Culgoa will be under 3017)— Lieut.-Commander H. K. H.M.A. Ships Warrego (Com­ names would increase the pride felt bourne early in April. She should in Sydney, completing 50 days the operational control of the Naval Dwyer, R.A.N.R.—has forward mander G. D. Tancred, D.S.C., in them by their companies, which later visit Western Australia and availability for leave and urgent Officer-in-Charge, New Guinea. commitments to ship stockpile of R.A.N.) and Barcoo (Lieut.-Com- proper pride would be reflected in South Australia, returning to Syd-. defects. Following a cruise in Jan­ She will return to Australia via the material and equipment for the mander D' A. T. Gale, D.S.C., improved morale. Furthermore, ney the first or second week in uary, Arunta will be in company British Solomon Islands and the construction of the advanced Naval R.A.N.) will shortly commence there were many members of the June. She is' then due to com­ with the Flagship in the Hobart New Hebrides, and is expected Base at Manus. Tarakan will also their work in the 1949 Surveying public who had no idea what* mence availability for leave and area and on the Australia's cruise back in Sydney on the 5th. April. be used for the transfer of men Programme. Both ships are in Syd­ Landing Ships (Tank) were, and refit, and to depart on a cruise to Western Australia. The following month she will pro­ and stores from the Royal Austra­ ney, where they have been at avail­ the designation was merely con' early in August. ceed to Williamstown Naval ability for leave and refit follow­ fusing. H.M.A.S. Bataart (Commander lian Navy base at Dreger Har­ Dockyard, and will be at 50 days ing their return from the survey­ H.M.A.S. Hobart (Acting Com­ A. S. Storey, D.S.C., R.A.N.) is bour, New Guinea, to Manus, availability for leave and urgent ing grounds on the completion of mander A. J. Travis, R.A.N.) is in Sydney, completing 50 days when the latter base is ready for The R.A.N. College defects from the first week in May. the 1948 Surveying Season. in Sydney, paying off into reserve availability for leave and 45 days occu nation. The Naval Board have recently It is anticipated that she will sail H.M.A.S. Shropshire (Comman­ for refit after her period in Japan­ Meanwhile she is employed issued an attractive illustrated bro­ from Sydney about the 10th. Aug­ ese waters. It is anticipated that dumping ammunition at Mel- chure which will be of interest to der G. L. Cant, R.A.N.) is in Syd­ ust to relieve Bataan in Japanese GENERAL ney, paying off into reserve. she will depart from Sydney on Kjurne. schools, and to parents whose sons waters. Landing Ships Tank lOtfc Destroyer Flotilla the 22nd. of next month, and will H.M.A.S. Labuan (L.S.T. 3501) have heard the call of the sea and In the foregoing statement of H.M.A.S. Warramunga (Cap­ be in Tasmanian waters until late H.M.A.S. Condamine (Lieut- -Lieut.-Commander G. M Dixon, who wish to learn something of Squadron Dispositions, it will have tain (D) 10, Captain W. H. Har­ in March, then proceeding via Commander J. H. D o w s o n , D.S.C., R.A.N.V.R.—is due to' what the Navy offers as a career been noticed that the Landing rington, D.S.O., R.A.N.) is in Westernport and Melbourne to R.A.N), is in Williamstown Naval depart from Melbourne in mid- for permanent service officers. En­ Japanese waters, where she is to be Sydney, where she is due during Dockyard, completing availability January for Fremantle and Heard Ships (Tank)—which are on loan titled "The Life of a Cadet-Mid­ relieved by H.M.A.S. Shoalhaven the first week in April. She will for leave and urgent defects. She Island to relieve members of the from the Royal Navy to the Royal shipman at the Royal Australian

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livan, Manager-Secretary of the SCULLING AROUND. Naval College," the booklet out­ They are Midshipman J. L. Jobson, visit to the Royal Australian Naval Melbourne Naval Centre, bringing Confinuad from paga 16. of Melbourne; Midshipman J. G. Air Station, H.M.A.S. "Alba­ lines briefly—in story and picture to notice the opening of a Billiard- Stacey, of Adelaide; and Midship­ tross," at Nowra, near Jervis Bay, —how a boy gains entry into the Lounge Room and Library at the honour of Admiral Wemyss's man G. J. H. Woolrych of Towns- N.S.W., during December. He College in the first place, what Centre, at its premises, 383 Flin­ daughter (the late Admiral of the ville. The postponement of the . was accompanied by the Fourth happens to him during his four ders Lane, Melbourne. Naval and Fleet Lord Wester-Wemyss). The Royal Tour has, of course, altered Naval Member, Commodore Guy years of training there, and what ex-Naval men are invited to make "Alice" was armed and used as the arrangements concerning the Willoughby, R.N., who is in charge possibilities lie ahead of him when use of the facilities offering at the both a salvage vessel and on patrol movements of the "Vanguard." of the Naval Aviation activities of he has graduated. To be accepted Centre, where, in addition to the duties. Her three Australian mid­ the R.A.N. Since it was commis­ for entry, a boy must pass a qual­ recreational provision that is made, In 1911, the Commander in shipmen will, like other grad­ sioned last August, considerable ifying educational examination in assistance and advice may be ob­ command of one of His Majesty's uates -of the R.A.N. College, progress has been made in the September, and a prescribed medi­ tained in regard to Welfare, Re­ sloops of war had a disagreement spend about three-and-a half years construction of accommodation for cal examination in November, and habilitation, Employment, and with his crew, the result of the in ships and establishments of the officers and ratings at H.M.A.S. then be selected by an interview­ other problems, since the Centre court-martial being his retirement Royal Navy before they return to "Albatross"; and workshops and ing committee appointed by the also houses the R.A.N. Welfare with the rank of Captain (retired). Australia as Sub. Lieutenants, to other buildings are approaching Naval Board. Officer and the State Office of the begin their careers as commissioned completion. There are at present The Captain repaired to Canada The booklet points out that the Ex-Naval Men's Association. As officers of the R.A.N. approximately 400 officers and and engaged in farming. On the R.A.N. College is a truly demo­ ratings at the Naval Air Station, Mr. Sullivan says: "Remember! outbreak of war in 1914, he bom­ R.A.N. Men Fight German cratic educational establishment, which is commanded by Captain This Naval Centre is yours." barded the Lords Commissioners of Measles "Boys chosen as Cadet-midship­ R. G. Poole, R.N. the Admiralty for employment. men come from schools throughout Naval ratings at Flinders Naval N.I.D. Party They at last sent him to the Dar- the Commonwealth, both Govern­ Depot have helped in the fight R.A.N. Reserve denelles. One will never forget, Ex-Niddites, and present ment and private. They are asked against German measles by volun­ Following the announcement by vice with the Navy before the as 1st. Lieutenant of the "Alice," members of the Naval Intelligence only to prove that they have good teering as "guinea pigs" during an the Minister for the Navy (Mr. 1914-18 war, when Navy Office the look of sheer horror on the Division, Navy Office, Melbourne, character and intelligence, that they outbreak of the measles at the Riordan) of the re-establishment was in the old building in Lons­ coxswain's face as our new CO. enjoyed a seasonable "get together" desire to make their way in the Depot some months ago. They of the Royal Australian Naval dale Street, Melbourne. The son came alongside to take command party in the Mess at H.M.A.S. world and that they possess the gave blood which was used to deve­ Volunteer Reserve and the forma­ of Charles Henry and Amelia of the "Alice," and had "cleared "Lunsdale" on the 22nd. Decem­ personality and other attributes lop an anti-measles serum. Others tion of the Women's Royal Aus­ Allen, of Elsternwick, Victoria, lower decks" before he had even ber. The Director of Naval In­ that will ensure them success as have since followed their example tralian Naval Reserve, many appli­ Harry Allen was born at Ascot set foot on the gangway. officers in the Royal Australian and donated blood to the Red cations for enrolment in both ser­ telligence, Commander G. C. Old­ Vale, Victoria, on the 25th Navy. No parent or guardian can Cross Blood Bank for similar pur­ vices have been received. During ham, D.S.C., R.A.N., was in the November, 1883. He started his From then on we had our mo­ enter a boy at the Royal Austra­ poses. Altogether, between May November last, applications for the chair, and all those present remem­ career of public life in the Vic­ ments, a notable occasion being lian Naval College by paying fees. and December, 1948, there were month were over 1,300 for the bered old N.I.D. shipmates un­ torian Railways as a Junior Clerk that of the bare fists battle between Every boy admitted to the College 48 volunteers for this service R.A.N.V.R., and nearly 100 for avoidably absent, and wished them in 1900. In 1912 he transferred our Captain and the Captain of wins his place in competition among Naval Ratings at Flinders the W.RA.N.R. the Compliments of the Season, to the Commonwealth Public Ser­ the old London paddle tug "Mars- which are hereby passed along to vice and became a Naval Staff den" before an excited audience of against other applicants by intelli­ Naval Depot. Applications to join the such ex-Niddites as may read this Clerk at Navy Office, where he sailors and matelots, both Cap­ gence, initiative, physique and out­ RA.N.V.R. closed on the 31st. R.A.N. Guard at War note. Arrangements for the party remained for five years, being then tains retiring to effect repairs, and standing ability. One result of this December. Only ratings with war­ Cemetery were made—as might be expected, appointed Secretary and Account­ ours to report himself with two is that future officers of the Royal time service were eligible to join. The Royal Australian Navy capably— by "B.I." ant at the Repatriation Vocational black eyes on board H.M.S. Australian Navy are selected from They are not under any obligation provided a guard of honour when School, Randwick, N.S.W. He "Europa." » among the best examples of youth to do any training before the 30th. His Excellency the Governor of returned to the Defence Depart­ in the Commonwealth. They will June, 1952, unless they are called The old "Marsden" now lies a Victoria, Sir Winston Dugan, un­ ment in 1921 as Expense Ac­ inevitably uphold and carry on the up by proclamation. In the mean­ rusty wreck on the beach north of veiled the Cross of sacrifice in the counts Officer and later Civil great tradition which the R.A.N, time, they will be kept informed PERSONAL Anzac. war cemetery at Springvale (Vic.) Secretary at H.M.A. Naval Estab- has already built in its compara­ of the latest Naval developments on the fifth of last month. The lishmcitts, Sydney. From 1938 to The H.M.S. "Lord Raglan" (a tively short existence." by means of lectures, instructional Guard consisted of two officers and Captain H. J. Buchanan, D.S.O., 1939 he was Secretary to the De­ monitor) blew ashore in the bay films, and news letters. Interested parents and guardians 50 ratings from Flinders Naval R.A.N., formerly Deputy Chief of fence Committee, and was then south of Kephalo in 1915, the desirous of obtaining a copy of Depot, while H.M.A.S. "Lons­ Enrolment in the W.R.A.N.R. the Naval Staff and later Captain for three years Assistant Secre­ "Alice" being instructed to com­ the brochure can do so by applying dale," Port Melbourne, supplied a is open to former officers and rat­ of H.M.A.S. "Australia," Flag­ tary, Department of Air, in 1942 mence salvage operations. The to the Secretary, Navy Office, Mel wreath-bearing party, and flags for ings of the W.R.A.N.S. who serv­ ship of the Royal Australian Naval returning to Navy Office as As­ "Raglan" was high and dry, but Squadron, left Melbourne in the bourne. draping the Cross. The R.A.N. ed for more than twelve months, sistant Secretary of the Depart­ due to a fine piece of seamanship, Orient Steamship Line's "Orion" our Captain got her off. The "Rag­ was represented at the ceremony and who would be prepared to ment, a post he held until his re­ on the 2nd. December. Captain lan" was eventually sunk in action R.A.N. Midshipmen in by the First Naval Member, Rear serve again in any future national tirement. Mr. Allen married, in Buchanan is bound for London, with the "Goebcn" off -Kephalo in "Vanguard" Admiral J. A. Collins, C.B.; and emergency. The»e is no obliga­ 1911, Helen Campbell, daughter tory training, but voluntary train­ where he will attend the Imperial 1918. Three Midshipmen of the Royal the resident Naval Officer, Port of Mr. T. L. Paterson, and is the ing may be arranged for certain Defence College. Australian Navy who graduated Melbourne, Commander J. B. S. father of two daughters. His own The ship's blacksmith, through categories of officers and ratings. at the R.A.N. College in 1947, Barwood, R.A.N. father is hale at the ripe age of some unfortunate misdemeanour, Melbourne Naval Centre A Navy Department Civil Offi­ were to have been officers in First Naval Member at Nowra 91. Mr. Allen plans a busy re­ incurred our C.O.'s wrath during cer who retired recently after tirement, in which golf and tennis the salvage operations, and was H.M.S. "Vanguard" when she The First Naval Member of the In the "Letters to the Editor" many years* service is Mr. Harry brought the King and Queen and Naval Board, Rear Admiral J. A. section of this issue of "The Navy," will have a place. promptly confined to his hammock, Charles Allen, who started ser­ hourly inspections being made for Princess Margaret to Australia. Collins, C.B., paid his'first official is a letter from Mr. W. H. Sul- January, 1949 U Tto Navy 37 -I'M. Tfpp

him to "show a leg." It was an aliens willing to serve either Eng­ Squadron by Vice Admiral E.F.A. extraordinary punishment, esrjK- land or Turkey for cash. At the Gaunt (later Admiral, K.C.B., ially as his services were required, little cafe at Kastron, delicious K.B.E., C.B., C.M.G.). It is of EX-NAVAL MEN'S which was strongly represented to omelettes and quite a good wine interest to Australians that both the Captain who, however, remain­ were obtainable; but the real en­ Admiral Sir E. F. A. Gaunt and ed adamant to all reason. In fact, joyment was the donkey race back his younger brother, Admiral Sir Association J&i of Australia the writer nearly walked the plank to the barbed wire fence; saddles G. R. A. Gaunt, K.C.M.G, C.B., for arguing with his senior officer. slipped and riders, donkeys would C.M.G., were sons of the late not budge. But it was all good Judge Gaunt of Melbourne, and Prtm-ta-CkM Ml M.|«ty T». Miff Proceeding at night at full speed, fun. their sister, Mary Gaunt, became without lights, in a deeply-laden the well-known authoress Federal Council Vice Admiral R. H. Pearce was Queensland Band of twenty-three members and "Beetle" full of .50J and shells for HE Federal Executive is ex­ Mr. Alf Westman, a magician.' Cape Helles. the T.B.D.s "Shell- Commander-in-Chief of the East No wonder Leandcr swam the Many "dits" were retold when tremely pleased with the value Members are reminded of the il­ drake" (Lt. Commander R. A. A. Indies 1913-1916, flying his flag in Hellespont to visit his love-sick T "old ships" met at the Christmas of Association publicity which has lustrated talk to be given by Mr. Plowden) and "Scorpion" (Lt. the H.M.S. "Euryalus" (Captain damsel, for indeed the waters, Party held at the Alice St. Naval been gained through the courtesy R. Marriott at the monthly meet­ Commander A. B. Cunningham) R. M. Burmeister). He took part islands, and scenery of the Aegean Depot on Dec. 6. Sponsored by of the "Navy" Magazine over the ing on Feb. 1. The subject will crossed our bows from port to in the Turkish attack on the Canal, arc truly lovely. Steaming in the the Queensland State Council, it last eighteen months. This has been be "A trip to the Arctic." A good starboard, the "Sheldrake" merely and demonstrated before Smyrna. "Alice" past the ancient monastery was attended by 180 members and The "Alice" proceeded in company at Mt. Athos, Lemnos Island. The Military this being possible and that you at school, work or play, did those ber of N.S.W., was warmly greet­ authorities did not approve of the presented each child with a gift. will phrase the notice as you think In 1916 Vice Admiral R. H. sailors and soldiers, who laid down ed on his return after an absence There was a plentiful supply of fit. Navy having passes—why, heaven Pierse (the late Admiral Sir Rich­ their lives on the beaches, derves, of several years spent in the U.S.A. good things to eat and the young­ Yours faithfully, alone knows,, as the Aegean was ard H. Pierse, K.C.B., K.B.E., C.B., and tepes of the Osmanli, ever Mr. Harris intends residing at Dur- sters were in their element. D. J. MORT, full of Greeks, so-called Gieeks. M.V.O.) was succeeded as Com­ imagine that in that unknown land ras Lakes, near Bateman's Bay, Entertainment was provided by Hon. Commanding Officer. and hundreds, if not thousands, of mander-in-Chief of the East Indies only "Death" awaited them. N.S.W. —G.W.S. the Grecnslopcs State School Pipe T.S. "Australia."

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EMERGENCY LIST. Transfer to Retired List.—Instructor Commander Charles Reed ENGINEERING Naval Appointments, Etc. Fruiklin is transferred to the Retired List, dated 21st September, 1948. Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander Jack Rupert Law Willis is transferred PRODUCTS tn the Retired List, dated 17th October, 1948. WATSON'S NAVAL FORCES OF THE COMMONWEALTH. PTY. LTD. RETIBED LIST. The Governor-General in Council has approved of the following Termination of Appointment.—The appointment of John Alfred PARAGON changes being made:— Newton, Commissioned Instructor, for temporary service is terminated, 426-436 Biirnlcy St. PERMANENT NAVAL FORCES OF THE COMMONWEALTH dated 20th August, 1948. (SEA-GOING FORCES.) BURNLEY CITIZEN NAVAL FORCES OF THE COMMONWEALTH. HOTEL Appointments. Lieutenant Richard Gordon Shaw is appointed VICTORIA on loan from the Royal Navy, with seniority in rank of 16th October, ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVAL RESERVE. 1943, dated 23rd August, 1948. Arthur John Gould (Lieutenant (A) Termination of Appointment.—The appointment of John Patrick Royal Navy), is appointed Lieutenant (Acting), with seniority in Staunton as Acting Lieutenant is terminated, dated 23rd July, 1947. Specialised rank of 3rd September, .1943, dated 27th September, 1948. Keith ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVAL VOLUNTEER RESERVE. Manufacturers Elwood Clarkson, D.F.M., (Lieutenant (A) Royal Australian Naval Resignations.—The resignation of Alfred Dudley Barling, D.S.C, in all types of Volunteer Reserve) is appointed Lieutenant (Acting), with seniority of his appointment as Lieutenant-Commander is accepted, dated 19th CIRCULAR QUAY Petrol. Oil and other in rank of 27th February, 1945, dated 7th October, 1948. Geoffrey July, 1948. The resignation of Jack Athol Crawcour of his appoint­ Storage and Dispensing Preston Hood, Lieutenant (E) (for temporary service), is appointed ment as Lieutenant (Special Branch) is accepted, dated 28th Septemb­ Equipment. to the Permanent List, with seniority in rank of 28th November, er. 1948.—(Ex. Min. No. 76—Approved 18th November, 1948.) • 1941, dated 2nd September, 1948. Instructor Lieutenant Cyril Donald SYDNEY, M.S.W. Munden is appointed on loan from the Royal Navy, with seniority in PERMANENT NAVAL FORCES OF THE COMMONWEALTH Telephones: rank of 1st July, 1939, dated 25th August, 1948. Instructor Lieuten­ (SEA-GOING FORCES.) JA5251 ant Gordon Harold Vernon Lovatt is appointed on loan from the Royal Navy, with seniority in rank of 8th December, 1940, dated Appointments.—Lieutenant John Ernie Pope be appointed on JA5252 25th August, 1948. Commander (S) (Acting Ciptain (S) Theodore loan from the Royal Navy, with seniority in rank of lstjebruary, Eric Nave is appointed on loan from tht Royal Navy, with seniority 1942, dated 8th October, 1948. Lieutenant (A) John Humphrey in rank of 30th June, 1937, dated 1st January, 1948. Roy Davis Charlesworth Sykes be appointed on loan from the Royal Navy, with Telegrams: B 4223—Telephone—B 4223 Eppcol, Melbourne! Norris (Temporary Warrant Cookery Officer) is appointed Warrant seniority in rank of 14th September, 1942, dated 13th September, Cookery Officer, dated 6th September, 1948. 1948. Lieutenant (E) Anthony Charles Temple Morris be appointed on loan from the Royal Navy, with seniority in rank of 16th No­ Promotions.—Sub-Lieutenant John Charles Leland Bennett is vember, 1941, dated 1st September, 1948. Lieutenant-Commander promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, dated 16th October, 1948. Ken­ (L) John Michael O'Keeffe be appointed on loan from the Royal neth Daniel Finn, Acting Commissioned Gunner, is promoted to the Navy, with seniority in rank of 16th November, 1947, dated 30th The Poetry of Motion THE rank of Commissioned Gunner, dated 1st October, 1948. Alexander September, 1948. Bertram Charles Morgan be appointed Surgeon Francis Heggie, Warrant Electrical Officer (R), is promoted to the Lieutenant (for Short Service), dated 19th October, 1948 (amending Greyhound Racing rank of Commissioned Electrical Officer (R), dated 1st October, Executive Minute No. 40 of 24th June, 1948). Norman Thomson FLEET-FORGE 1948. Ronald John Herniman, Acting Commissioned Ordnance Of­ Smith be appointed Surgeon Lieutenant (for Short Service), dated conducted at ficer, is promoted to the rank of Commissioned Ordnance Officer, dat­ 2:rd October, 1948. Commander (S) Frank Langford Whitehouse PTY. LTD. ed 1st October, 1948. William Matthew Maughan, M.B.E., Warrant he appointed on loan from the Royal Navy, with seniority in rank of Harold Park Ordnance Officer, is promoted to the rank of Commissioned Ordnance ."1st December, 1941, dated 1st October, 1948. Lieutenant (S) Charles Officer, dated 1st October, 1948. 9 13 LORIMER ST. Arthur Winfield Weston be appointed on loan from the Royal Navy, Take Balmain, Birchgrove, Loan to Royal Navy for Service and Training.—Lieutenants El with seniority in rank of 1st July, 1943, dated 1st September, 1948. Fomt Lodge Trams STH. MELBOURNE dred Pottinger Keatinge, Peter Gyllies, M.B.E., and Andrew John Lieutenant (S) Malcolm Charles Denman be appointed on loan from Robertson are loaned to the Royal Navy for service and training, the Royal Navy, with seniority in rank of 1st October, 1943, dated 10 RACES. 7.30 P.M. VICTORIA dated 7th September, 1948. Lieutenant (E) George Angus Bennett 10th September, 1948. Thomas Frederick Samuel Brown, Warrant is loaned to the Royal Navy for service and training, dated 7th Sep­ Aircraft Officer, be appointed on loan from the Royal Navy, with ALL AMENITIES FOR THE tember, 1948. Lieutenant Peter Brasscy Cooper is loaned to the seniority in rank of 14th February, 1945, dated 20th August, 1948 ENGINEERS PUBLIC Royal Navy for service and training, dated 28th September, 1948. (amending Executive Minute No. 68 of 21st October, 1948). Stanley STRUCTURAL Lieutenant David John Hamer, D.S.C, is loaned to the Royal Navy John Dow, Warrant Electrical Officer (R), be appointed on loan for service and training, dated 9th October, 1948. The loan of from the Royal Navy, with seniority in rank of 26th September, 1942, FIXTURES: MECHANICAL Francis Albert Pascoe, Gunner (T.A.S.), Darrell William Bertram, dated 20th September, 1948. Saturday January 1st MARINE Acting Warrant Communication Officer, and Geoffrey James Harle, Acting Warrant Communication Officer, to the Royal Navy for ser­ Promotions.—Lieutenant Bruce John Bevis Andrew, D.S.C, be Monday L January 3rd Quotations given (or all vice and training is terminated, dated 10th September, 1948. promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Commander, dated 1st October, Saturday - January 8th claaaes of work. Transfer to Retired List.—Engineer Rear-Admiral Alec Brough- 1948. Sub-Lieutenant" John Peter Brent be promoted to the rank of Saturday January 29th Lieutenant, dated 1st November, 1948. Lieutenant (E) Philip Leslie ton Doyle, C.B.E., is transferred to the Retired List, dated 5th Oc­ Saturday - _ February 12th TELEPHONE: tober, 1948. Luby be promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Commander (E), dated 1st October, 1948. William James, Acting Temporary Commissioned Saturday February 26th MX 52 3 1 (6 line*) Termination of Appointment.—The appointment of Thomas Joseph Curtin as Temporary^ Instructor Lieutenant is terminated, dated Gunner (T), be promoted to the rank of Temporary-Commissioned Saturday March 12th 18th September, 19*8. Gunner (T), dated 1st October, 1948. Percy William Herrington,

August, 1946. Norman Austin Fenwick Wilson be appointed Sub' Commonwealth Parliament Acting Temporary Commissioned Boatswain, be promoted to the in Melbourne. rank of Temporary Commissioned Boatswain, dated 1st October, 1948. Lieutenant, with seniority in rank of 24th March, 1947, dated 17th Confirmation in Rank.—Acting Lieutenant (on probation) Julian |uly, 1947. George Hoy Shand be appointed Engineer Lieutenant, (7) Black coal. Practically the C. GILES Horace Garfit Cavanagh be confirmed in the rank of Acting Lieuten­ with seniority in rank of 15th June, 1940, dated 15th November, whole of her supplies of ant, with seniority in rank of 14th January, 1945, dated 22nd Sep­ 1946. black coal come from New tember, 1948. Stanley Arthur Hall, Warrant Communication Officer Promotion.—Acting Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander Douglas South Wales. It was be­ & SONS (Acting) (Shore Wireless), be confirmed in the rank of Warrant L ckhart Barnes Fearon be promoted to the rank of Surgeon Lieuten­ cause of this dependence, on ant Commander, dated 5th October, 1948. outside sources of solid fuel Communication Officer (Shore Wireless), with seniority in rank of Termination of Appointment.—The appointment of William that the Victorian Govern­ 9th October, 1947, dated 9th October, 1948. R^inald Blower as Lieutenant be terminated, dated 17th August, ment in 1918 laid the foun­ Fixing Rates of Pay.—Lieutenant (S) Robert Peter Newey be 1948. dations of the State Electri­ •SACK paid the rates of pay and allowances prescribed in the Naval Financial city Commission to exploit Regulations for Lieutenant-Commander (S) (on probation), whilst CORRIGENDUM. , With reference to Executive Minute No. 29—notice of which ap­ the State's resources in brown acting in that rank, dated 1st July, 1948. AND peared on page 150' of Commonwealth Gazette No. 98 of 5th June, coal and hydro-electric Transfer to Emergency List.—Lieutenant (S) Walter James 1947—that portion telating to the termination of the appointment of power. • PRODUCE Honeybunn be transferred to the Emergency List, dated 6th Septemb­ Surgeon Lieutenant Peter Dudley Blaxland, Royal Australian Naval er, 1948. Reserve, be cancelled.—(Ex. Min. No. 78—Approved 8th December, MERCHANTS, (8) The European discoverer of Resignation.—The resignation of the Reverend Alan Josland 1948.) the Pacific Ocean was Vasco Cutts'of his appointment as Chaplain be accepted, dated 18th October, W. J. F. RIORDAN, Minister for the Navy. Nunez de Balboa, who saw 1948. the great ocean from a EMERGENCY LIST. mountain peak on the 25th. September, 1513. He named 341 MALVERN RD., Appointment.—The Reverend Norman Catchlove Paynter be appointed Chaplain, with seniority of 5th January, 1944, dated 14th Answers to Nautical Quiz the Gulf of San Miguel, and SOUTH YARRA, October, 1948. took possession of the ocean MELBOURNE: (1) "Furious," "Glorious," and (4) Henry Winstanley (1644- for the Spanish King: "Long Transfer to Retired List.—Engineer Commander Samuel Lievesley 1703) was an English engin- VICTORIA. "Courageous" were original­ live the high and mighty Beeston be transferred to the Retired List, dated 27th October, 1948. ly designed during the 1914- ' eer who became Clerk of the monarchs Don Ferdinand and CITIZEN NAVAL FORCES OF THE COMMONWEALTH. 18 war as fast light battle- Works to Charles II. He 'PHONES: BJ3255-*. Donna Juana, sovereigns of ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVAL RESERVE (SEAGOING). cruisers, for use as enemy designed the original Eddy- Castile, Leon, and Aragon, Promotion.—Lieutenant James Armstrong be promoted to the surface raider hunters. They stone Lighthouse in 1696, in whose name I take real rank of Lieutenant-Commander, dated 26th October, 1948. were to be very fast and completing it in 1700. It was and actual and corporeal Termination of Appointments.—The appointment of James Or­ mount only two big guns but a wooden structure, and was possession of these seas, monde Sutherland Bell as Temporary Lieutenant be terminated, dated considerable secondary arma­ totally destroyed in a storm and lands, and coasts, 17th August, 1948. The appointment of Roger Molloy as Acting ment. They were later con­ on the night of 26th. Nov­ and ports, and Islands of the FOR ALL . . . Temporary Commissioned Officer from Warrant Rank he terminated, verted to aircraft carriers, ember, 1703, and Winstan­ South, and all thereunto an­ dated 9th August, 1948. and, as such "Courageous" ley there lost his life. nexed ... I am ready to BOAT & YACHT GEAR ROYAL AUS,-RAUAN NAVAL RESERVE. and Glorious" were lost by (5) The word "Navvy" is a con­ maintain and defend them in Appointment.—The Reverend Bernard Morey he appointed enemy action during the traction of "Navigator." the name of the Castilian Chaplain, dated 11th November, 1948. 1939-45 War. Spencer, in "Principles of sovereigns, whose is the em­ Resignation.—The resignation of James Alexander Blaikic of his (-) An American ship-designer, Sociology," Vol. 1, says: pire and dominion over these BROOMFIELDS LTD. appointment as Lieutenant-Commander (S) be accepted, dated 29th David Bushnell, invented and "Canals were thought of as Indies, islands, and terra September, 1948. constructed the first practi­ lines of inland navigation, firma. Northern and South­ ern, with all their seas, both Termination of Appointments.—The appointment of Philip John cal submarine in the year and a tavern built by the All Quotations attended side of a canal was called a at the Arctic and Antarctic Cardwell as Lieutenant be terminated", dated 28th June, 1948. The 1775. His ideas were more 'Navigation Inn.' Hence it poL.., on either side of the appointment of Peter Dudley Blaxland as Surgeon Lieutenant be fully developed about 25 to immediately years later by his compat­ happened that the men em­ equinoctial line, whether terminated, dated 2nd August, 1948. The appointment of the Rev­ ployed in excavating canals within or without the tropics erend Robert William Macleod as Chaplain be terminated, dated riot, Robert Fulton, who constructed an under-water were called 'navigators,' of Cancer and Capricorn, 10th November, 1948. shortened into navvies." both now and in all time, as PkMMi M48QI ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVAL VOLUNTEER RESERVE. vessel called the "Nautilus," Appointments.—John Francis Beaumont be appointed Lieuten­ driven by a hand-worked (6) The present King, as Duke long as the world endure, and BROOMFIELDS LTD., ant, with seniority in rank of 19th August, 1941, dated 16th Febru­ screw, and having a tank of of York, came to Australia until the final day of Judge­ ary, 1946. John Colin Patrick Boyle be appointed Lieutenant, with compressed air for breathing in 1927 in the battle-cruiser ment of all mankind." The discovery—whether by mis­ 152 SUSSEX ST. seniority in rank of 8th December, 1941, dated 1st May, 1946. Len- H.M.S. "Renown." King ton Edward Lapthorne be appointed Lieutenant, with seniority in George V, as Duke of Corn­ take or in the exercise of supply, poetic licence—was attribut­ rank of 29th January, 1944, dated 17th January, 1946. Robert Henry (j) Barbette, from the French wall and York, sailed from (near King St.), Kendick McKerihan be appointed Lieutenant, with seniority in rank England on the 16th. March, ed, by Keats to Hernando' of 18th February, 1944, dated 11th March, 1948. Robert Arthur "little beard," is the term 1901, in the Orient Line's Cortes, the Spanish conquer­ applied to armour protection or of Mexico, in the lines of SYDNEY Franklin be appointed Lieutenant, with seniority in rank of 6th Aug­ "Opnir," on a tour of the ust, 1945, dated 23rd January, 1946. William Johnstone Frew be ap­ of a gun's mountings. Bar­ British Dominions, during "On fiat Looking into Chap­ pointed Sub-Lieutenant, with seniority in rank of 10th March, 1944, bettes are a more exposed which he opened the first man s Homej": dated 13th February, 1940. David Robert Watson be appointed Sub- form of turret, and lighter in Lieutenant, with seniority in rank of 23rd December, 1944, dated 8th construction. Mytry, lt«t . IE- iasaaaaa&i.. -t^-. ... !i rt ; s , < "Or like stout Cortez, when Wr* * '"**' »~K5?!'"' " •» ' ' / * - - - -'r-'mmSm^Hr with eagle eyes. anJ port sidelight slid rapidly past, He star'd at the Pacific and the wash of the two ships —and all his men chattered together in the silence. Look'd at each other with a Then she was gone, and the Old wild surmise— Man said: "That was too close Silent, upon a peak in to be pleasant. Full ahead both!" Darien." We felt our way along by sound­ afl ings, and at the expected time, dur­ .; -•!,, •f^ (9) The word "scantlings" is ing the following forenoon, the ffl L • ; J used to denote the prescribed boom of the Eddystone gun sound­ FOSTER'S minimum size of a material ed on the port bow, and magically put into a structure, design­ the fog cleared to show the light­ ed to support or carry a spe­ house standing up like a spear in cific weight with absolute bright sunlight. safety and likewise to bear an equivalent stress. It was a perfect landfall, but the fog came down thicker than (10) La Perouse is named after ever as we anchored in Cawsand Jean Francis de Galaup, B.iy, and the "Sir Francis Drake" LAGER was hooting and screeching for Comte de La Perouse who, BREWED BY Carlton & United Breweries Ltd. in command of the frigates what seemed hours around us "Boussolc" and "Astrolabe," m answer to our bell before she CAPTAIN'S CABI N OF THE S.S. "CULCAIRN" disappeared from human ken finally found us. (James 1 'atrick a Co. Pty. Ltd.) on his departure from Botany Bay in 1788 until traces of A MEMORY his expedition were picked C nrinuad from page 29. SHIPS joir •IERY 8C FURNITURE up at Vanikoro Island in FOR the following century. "Re­ the side by his seat's fellow occu­ cherche" and "Esperance" pant, a fat man who wheezed as +LASK YOUR GROCER S.S. 'CULCAIRN" were the names of two IK breathed, and who pressed one French ships under the com­ heavy arm on George's in order mand of Joseph Antoine to spread his newspaper to better WAS MANl'FAf :TURED AND SUPPLIED BY Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, which advantage. And the memory oi SMORGONS carried out a fruitless search the Brockley tram's conductor for La Perouse between the kept obtruding itself George felt CANNED MEATS GKEI 2* POIIW years 1791-0 J. himself blushing, as though the tat man, and all the other passen­ Your Grocer socks and recommends SMORGONS CANNED , Shipbuilding i k Engineering Pty. Ltd. gers, knew of his humiliation at MEATS, Prepared in a most up-fc~date factory- and supplied LANDFALLS the conductor's hands. from SMORGONS own Abattoirs. Ml.RTLAK E Continued from paga 17 Resentment against the fat NORMAN SMORGON &. SONS PTY. LTD. man's pressure welled within him. one voyage off Finisterre. It was Tentatively he moved his arm. SOMMERVILLE ROAD, BROOKLYN. VIC. Tel. UF1321. Box 11 Concord. really thick, too The Old Man'- The fat man pressed and wheezed theory was that to slow down was the harder. George shifted his to risk being swept "to hell and arm with more decision, and sud­ .gone" by the tides, and to lose com­ denly the fat man removed his. pletely our sense of position. He Taken the hint," thought decided to keep going at full (ie.irge. But the fat man had M. FITZGERALD speed, with whistle blaring and merely reached his destination, following a regular system of half- <»nd had finished with George's Boiler Scaler and Cleaner. hourly soundings. arm anyway. He folded up his For the best Soft Drinks The fog remained with us as newspaper and grunted to his Lime and Cement Washing. thick as a hedge. We had one anx­ feet, staggering down between the Always say . . . ious moment, when a whistle scats of the swaying tram to the All kinds of Engine Room 8C Stokehold Work done, answered ahead during the middle steps at the rear. oa or Water Tank*. watch. We stopped engines, as MARCHANTS the answering whistle drew nearer, 210 MONTAGUE ST., STH. MELBOURNE, VIC. seemingly dead ahead. Suddenly PLEASE! 'Phone—Day or Night: MX M»0. the other ship's whistle blared right on top of us. Haloes of masthead

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going further, he marched in a And the scents of kippers and' banks, and made mote vast by the washing round nuts and bolts sombre procession to the old bone- bloaters; the aromatic hue that darkness. The ferry swung across above his head, with the icy sooji drawn tram waiting to take them filled them; and, more than any­ the tide, squattering broadside on water trickling down his arm, and —HAMBURGER BUN CO. to the Free Ferry. thing else, the trays of sizzling like an ungainly crab, and the his hands numb and blue. With brown sausages and bubbling, Mack water sucked and gurgled olc" Uhlin, the, Swedish quarter- 30-38 VICTORIA ST., PADDINGTON Its pace was slow and diy.iified. a protest against the hurly-burly curling onions that—veiled only under her rubbing strakes. A fleet miister, for company. Uhlin— N.S.W. of the modern world that was by their own exhalations of of sailing barges, their sails loom­ being a grown man—got thirty striving to displace it. Its interior, vaporous fragrance misting Mr. ing largely against the greying shillings a week for working by in by the time George boarded it, Harris's plate glass—spluttered be­ sky, swept down on the ebb; and London. And he always worked was full, and he had to climb to hind their windows in full view a tug, foaming up river with a by, for he was not able to save • its uncovered top, where it was or the passer-by, assured Wool­ string of lighters in tow, pointed enough out of his four pounds very chilly and draughty indeed. wich, if further assurance were a blood-red finger across the ten a month sea pay to enable him In place of the sway of the elec­ needed, that not only were the water's oily surface from her port to keep a wife and family and tric trams, it had an up and down Free Ferry Dining Rooms a Good sidelight. also spend the time in port in that l'ull Up for Carmen, but also 'Phone: FA 3998; Office: XA 1553 pitching motion, and the rumble family s bosom. of its wheels was slow and sonor­ were excellent stopping places for Once more, anticipation of the He was an old, bearded, wind' ous, an undercurrent of thunder any other men possessed of pal- evening to come swept George on jammer man. And he chewed to­ against which the clip-clopping of ates and stomachs. a wave of elation not untinged bacco, which was his one luxury. its horses' hoofs played a stac­ with gentle sadness. Again he So George stopped, and gazed Having none too fastidious habits, cato xylophonic tune. planned the course of the conver- BAKERS hungrily at them, and at the rather saton. Delicate innuendo; subtle but a sailorly regard for the The Free Ferry at last. And grimy shirt-sleeved figure of Mr. hint; leading up to the stern de­ whiteness of decks, he used his the river, darkly secretive, with Simmy Harris himself, somewhat claration of his noble purpose. own and George's sooji buckets' here and there a light drifting dimly apprehended, like an in­ The sad but joyous parting, made impartially as spittoons, which slowly—red, green or yellow—on cense-shrouded Buddha, among the fine by the fusing of two great George, privately, disapproved of. "MAIN" COALS its broad surface. The black, tea and coffee urns in the back­ souls in high ideal. He sensed it The morning wore slowly on to FROM THE MAITLAND (N.S.W.) COALFIELD light-spangled bulks of the two big ground. all with melancholy pleasure. dinner time, and factory whistles ferries circling past each other in PELAW MAIN—RICHMOND MAIN For George had breakfasted screeched ashore, and, tempo­ Tiidstream. From Gallions Reach There was a jangle of bells ABERMAIN—STANFORD MAIN early, and travel whets the appe­ rarily, work on board came to a the mournful hoot of a steamer's from the ferry's oily smelling en­ for Gas, Railways, Manufacturers and Householders. tite. And, moreover, he loved standstill. whistle was wafted up on the light gine room. A bump, and the hur­ sausages and onions. And never wind that brought with it the tang ried beat of her paddles in reverse. George dined in solitary state in STOCKRINGTON COALS did sausages and onions look more of mud and the myriad river The thump of ropes, and the, the halfdeck, on food from the inviting than those of Mr. Sammy unsurpassed for Bunkers. smells. creaking as they took the strain. officers' mess, his mind busy with FIRST GRADE STEAM COAL FROM THE Harris, set so cunningly and tan- the evening ahead. Again the Horse lorries and motor vans She had reached the north shore, ulizingly in the warmth of his whistles screamed ashore; and the "BOREHOLE" SEAM, NEWCASTLE (N.S.W.). clattered and bumped down the and lay alongside with one paddle -vam-laden windows, while their busy winches aboard resumed rat­ granite causeway to the ferry pounding slowly as it held her Apply to: i bserver had the very marrow of tling the cargo in. George and landing, and little knots of pedes­ against the swift running tide. his bones nipped by the cold out- Uhlin took up their task once trians hurried down the footpaths. J. & A. BROWN & ABERMAIN SE AH AM ,-ide. Never, surely, were sausages Aboard the "Hermes," George more on the lower bridge. The newsagent's was open; and so richly brown; onions so deli­ changed regretfully to his work­ the tobacconist's; and nose-tickling cately curled. But always George ing dungarees in a cold, cheerless As anticipation strengthened, COLLIERIES LIMITED aromas drifted from the open was in a hurry on his way to the Halfdeck. Before he folded his the hours lengthened. To George, doorway of Mr. Sammy Harris's the hated deckhead with its in­ Head Office: Shipping Office: ship, or eager to get home to shore clothes and stowed them in establishment. his locker, he first drew from a numerable nuts round which grime SYDNEY. NS.W. NEWCASTLE. v here his mother had a tea wait­ George could never—unless the ing for him. Always he had to pocket of the coat the two tickets clung with an amazing tenacity, ferry was just ready to leave the have the lure of The Free Ferry for the New Cross Empire. Just seemed to extend for miles, arid landing and he had to run for it Dining Rooms with his watering to look at them was a delight. He each hour spent on it in dreadful —walk straight past Mr. Harris's. mouth unappeased. read them proudly. "Fauteuils. monotony was a day. There were MORT'S DOCK Always it cried "Welcome and Row D. 13.14." still four of those hours to pass &. ENGINEERING CO. LTD. tarry." But never so loudly as on And now, as usual, the musical before knock-off time, a fact that SHIPBUILDERS these dark winter mornings, or clop-clop-clop" of the gangway Their purchase had made a size­ impressed itself on George with MARINE & GENERAL ENGINEERS cold winter nights. balance weights sliding up their able hole in his weekly "working no enthusiastic appreciation on his by" wage of fifteen shillings. But IRON & BRASS FOUNDERS The battered and remaining columns as the gangway was low­ part. But he was to have a respite. Margery was worthy of all he BOILERMAKERS 8C BLACKSMITHS china letters glued by some van­ ered, warned him that the ferry could give,' and more. He replaced At three o'clock the Mate sent Established 1854 ished hand to its steamy windows was alongside. He would have to hurry or he would miss it. Re­ them careful!^ in the breast poc­ for him, to introduce him to a HEAD OFFICE « WORKS: announ'ed to Woolwich that it somewhat overpowering and over- housed the luctantly he tore himself away. ket of the coat, and locked "it away. gracious lady, accompanied by two MORT'S BAY, BALMAIN FR E ERRY D NIN On the ferry, romance came to eagerly smiling girls a year or two ROO S. him again. There was something SYDNEY, NAW. The job .for the day was to older than George. He gathered, GOO PULL UP OR of the sea in the brooding river 'Phone: WB 1991—6 lines. .wash the deckhead of the lower in a confused sort of way, for he CAR EN. rolling between its wide-0ung bridge. Standing on a stool, and became suddenly conscious of the -TW Na*r L •lamury, 1949 >': dirty dungarees and old jersey he ing from high thoughts of Mar­ Through the long day's interm­ he Free Ferry Dining Rooms, he- was wearing, that they were the gery into the dreamless sleep that inable hours he had looked for* mi whose steamy mistiness the mother and sisters of a new ap­ early and long hours demanded of ward ... for this. By now they .usages and onions sizzled and should have had tea together. . . . prentice who was joining the ship. him. ubbled seductively, wafting their JOHNSON'S TYNE FOUNDRY Be on their way to the Empire. Motherly and sisterly concern de­ For a few moments, when he ragnttice through the open dix>r. ... As one, in sweet thoughts and manded that they should see how awake, he wondered where he • rom inside came the cheerful PTY. LTD. gentle understanding. Claude—for that was apparently was. Then he remembered, and latter of crockery and cutlery, the the new boy's name—was to live the unnatural and appalling Oh! Blast! Blast!! Blast!!! . iud hum of voices, inviting in the "Hermes." The Mate was silenie of everything gave him a He ran all the way to the ferry, .irmth. only too glad to pass them over sudden sick feeling in the pit of arriving breathless and hot to find to George to show round. the stomach. the ferry still in midstream. He It was Strange how, even at a had a long wait, which gave him crisis like this. Life, the heedless, As a guide, he was scarcely a Hurriedly he unlocked the half- time to cool off before she reached laughing, chattering life of other success. The mother was obviously deck door. Before him, the fore the landing. people, went on, regardless of a surprisedly disgusted with all she well deck, blotched with bright She was delayed, too, in getting fellow being's suffering. saw, and the smiles of the girls moonlight and dark shadow, MFG. ENGINEERS, SHIP BUILDERS, SHIP REPAIRERS, Etc. away. There were several vehicles gave way to little screams of hor­ swam in a silent haze; cargo run­ It was t late to hope to sec for this crossing, which took some ror that unnerved him. They re­ ners hanging lifelessly from the Margery. And he was not ex­ time to get on board. And when Cnr. LORIMER SC TYNE STS., garded the halfdeclc, George felt, derrick heads; hatches covered; pected home vet. Usually he she was at last ready to go, a big with only slightly more disfavour deserted. It was a scene of peace would have had tea long since: he SOUTH MELBOURNE. steamer coming down from the than they regarded him. that struck panic into his soul. had not eaten for over eight hours Surrey Commercial Docks held 'Phone: MX 2189. Margery! . . and sausages and onions . . . "But," said the mother, when her up still longer. The time! he had always wanted . . . George had explained its junction, When she at last got under "surely Claude won't have to live Hurriedly he ran across the weigh, George saw, with a heart For a few moments noble sor­ here." Her tone expressed the ut­ well deck, along the promenade that cnuld scarce sink lower, that row fought an uneven battle. ter absurdity of such a proposal, deck to the gangway, and the old her engine-room clock showed and the two girls uttered sounds night watchman, nodding on one Two months later, George stood The first line of defence for the family nine-fifteen, and the utter hope­ on the well deck of the "Hermes" of horror. df the seats, started at the sight is undoubtedly a Life Assurance Policy, and the Policy lessness of his quest came home to staring over the blue, sparkling "It looks better when we all of him. him. water of Sydney Harbour. From contracts issued by The Colonial Mutual Life Assurance get settled," apologised George, "Gorblime! You gave me a It would be after ten before he Millers Point, where the "Hermes'" are designed to provide the strongest possible defence for but Claude's mother was unim­ turn. Wha's'marrer? What you reached New Cross, and the ab lay alongside, Goat Island swam pressed. "And all these rough bin a doin' aboard 'ere at this the family. surdity of expecting to find Mar­ in .t haze of golden sunlight. The men. . . ." hour? You ought . . ." gery still there was manifest. Life, They may be obtained by payment of instalments, weekly, Reference to the hour con­ white sails of yachts splashed the She offered George half-a he knew, held nothing more for monthly, quarterly, half-yearly, or yearly. firmed George's worst suspicions. water. The air trembled in the crown when he saw them down him. In the depths of self pity he -uinmer heat of a perfect day. the gangway, an acknowledgment "What's the time?" he inter­ leaned over the ferry's rail and Write for booklet to . . . he refused with what he nattered rupted breathlessly, his whole hap­ flir'.ed with the idea of seeking It was Saturday afternoon, and himself was a quiet dignity. But piness hanging on the old gentle­ consolation in the bubbling water tieorge was going ashore. He was the whole affair embittered him. man's reply. that foamed from under her •earing his shore clothes, and an­ The Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society And it was still only a quarter With maddening deliberation sponson. ticipation beat high in his bosom. to four. Another hour and a the watchman pulted a fat watch Sailing the day after to-morrow! Searching through his pockets quarter of that beastly deckhead. from his pocket. "Time?" he Of what use to explain to her lo make certain that he had his Limited But a sudden thought struck him. asked, regarding George gravely. money and cigarettes, his hand en- what had happened. And after 1 Why go back to the deckhead? "Time you was off this 'ere ship, all his thoughts and hopes. She wintered a slip of paper. Won* 516 COLLINS STREET, MELBOURNE, C.l. Old Uhlin only knew that the you ought ter know that." He would never understand. i'Hr.gly he withdrew it, and as Mate had sent him on some other looked at the watch. "Ar' pars lie looked at it, a slow, almost holy He landed at length at South job, and the Mate would have eight, it is. That's what the time mile played tenderly round his Woolwich in a state of impene­ gone home by now. Why not is. Ar' pars eight exackly, an' . . . nsitive lips. Meal into the halfdeck, lock the 'Ere! Perishin' young rip. Usin' trable gloom; a gloom that the door, and, until five o'clock, give langwidge like that. Oughter be bright lights of the shops on the "New Cross Empire." he read. K. L BALLANTYNE PTY. LTD. himself up in delicious solitude to ashamed of 'isself. These appren­ causeway, the crowds of cheerful Second House. Fauteuils. Row D, 13 and 14." thoughts of Margery. tices . . ." But there was nobody shoppers, the noise and bustle, 295-299 Grant Street, South Melbourne, Victoria, only served to accentuate. Uhlin wouldn't know. Let him there to hear him. V\ hat sweet memories were go on washing the beastly deck- Back in the halfdeck, almost These people were happy. Let ere. But, alas, only memories. head on his own if he wanted to. sobbing with disappointed rage, them laugh and talk. What con­ Slowly he tore the tickets Up FOOD CANNERS, WHOLESALE GROCERS, After all, was a chap . . . ? George furiously changed into his cern of theirs was his sorrow, his •id dropped th.*m overside, and EXPORTERS. Five minutes later, in the dark- shore clothes, a vague, panicky blighted life and ruined hopes? i the pieces of pink paper flut- new of the halfdeck, for he had idea of rushing post haste to New With lagging feet he walked up 1 red and danced to the water he towards the tram. covered the port so that his de­ Cross in the hope of finding Mar­ low, he murmured, a distant rap Telephone MX 4657 (13 lines). fection would be undetected from gery still waiting for him filling Through force of habit he l?ure in his eye, "Ah! Those saus­ outside, George was rapidly drift­ his seething mind. stopped outside the windows of ages and onions were gram1."

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"Orcedes" 12 Seamen in Point Either Peterson 14 "Georgic" Brings Migrants to Australia J. A. Stewert 16 Full Cergo of Golden Grain Captain Brett Hilder 20 When I Was a New Entry Steve Hewkes, E.R.N. and R.A.N. 23 "Nairane" Norman Allen (Rocky Darby) 36

Covin Clfltnd grouping of PERSONALITIES •nd ma* ie th* kay.note of the duftintuuhad Captein H. G. Buchanen, D.S.A., R.A.N 20 I of the caw Orient lintr "Ofcwfaa." Comm.nd.r E. A. Foldt, O.B.E. R.A.N. (Rtd) 54 Heroism of N.S.W. Ratings SB \ G. H. GILL, OVERSEAS NEWS.

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• . 7 ' at the added sense of security—a sense based on experience—which this accession to our naval SHIPPING TRADE m NAVY strength brings. For to a maritime people, de­ pendent for its existence upon the freedom to Australia's MarrUse Jwrial use the great ocean routes/a strong Navy is an HE faith of the overseas shipowners in the LYKE-NU DRY instrument of defence, not of aggression. Free­ FEBRUARY. 1949 T future of the Australian shipping trade was dom of the seas, and freedom of trade, have made manifest last month with the arrival in these always been greater factors in the cause of peace waters of the new Orient liner "Orcades." Her CLEANING A FLEET AGAIN than incentives to war, as instanced by the long cost of some £4 million (Australian) would have period of immunity from world war from the days seemed fantastic a few years ago, and the fact of Napoleon to those of Kaiser Wilhelm, during that such large sums can be expended, and great CO. PTY. LTD. which the British Navy was able to police the seas. CROM the 1st. of J.muary this year, as an interest charges incurred on capital—apart from Our ability to contribute towards a deterrent to the high running costs of such vessels—is an in­ nounced by the Minister for the Navy (Mr war is thus not only a contribution to our own de­ dication of the growing importance of the Aus­ Riordan) the title ol" the seagoing force of the fence, but is in the interests of the peace of the tralian trade. world generally. Royal Australian Navy was changed from tha: The "Orcades" is not a lone newcomer in her of His Majesty's Australian Naval Squadron CO class. The Orient Line has another similar vessel that of His Majesty's Australian Fleet. As from coming along, and the Peninsular and Oriental the same date, the title of the Flag Officer Com TRADITION AND EXPERIENCE Line's "Himalaya," launched in England last October and now completing, will at 31,000 gross minding became Flag Officer Commanding Hi? Over 70 Suburban Branches tons be nearly 3,000 tons larger than the Orient Majesty's Australian Fleet. ¥N discussing the advance of our seagoing ships and, with a speed of 22) knots, is expected and Depots •* forces to the status of a Fleet, the Minister for to make the run from Britain to Melbourne in The increased status is due to the incorpora 28 days. In addition to these new vessels, Messrs. tion in the force of the new aircraft carrier, the Navy said that the new designation should 878 77 PARRAMATTA ROAD, increase the pride of the Australian people in Shaw Savill's reconditioned flagship, the "Domin­ H.M.A.S. "Sydney'' which, with her arrival in their senior service which had established such ion Monarch," is back in service in the first class Australian waters shortly before the middle Ol high traditions and won such glowing tributes in passenger trade, her reconversion having been a LEICHHARDT the year, will take her place at the head of her two great world wars. We arc fortunate in that large-scale shipbuilding undertaking the expense of which approximated to her original total cost. fellows as Flagship of the Fleet. the roots of our naval tradition lie deep with those of the Royal Navy, from which we have derived With these and other additions to her overseas PHONE: LM4724 Australia's contribution to the naval defence; much of the strength and experience that have communications along the seaways, Australia ranks of the British Commonwealth thus regains th. enabled us to stand now upon our own naval high in her sea-borne passenger and freight ser­ achievements. vices. This is all to our great benefit. But it must Importance it held when the first Fleet of the be borne in mind that the prosperity of the ships R.A.N, arrived here in 191 J, as a balanced urn: For tradition and experience are not lightly to and of the companies operating them reflects our capable of undertaking major, operations. Then he put aside. In writing of this in his book "The own condition, and vice versa. It is we here in Three Corners of the World" reviewed in this 'he "Fleet Unit" designed as part of a power Australia who have to make the ships pay.'and in issue of "The Navy" Paul McGuirc, comment­ so doing benefit ourselves. - MENTM0RE AVENUE ROSEBERY ful "Pacific Fleet'' consisted of one battle cruiser, ing upon the British naval victories in the Med­ three light cruisers. si\ destroyers, and two sub­ iterranean during the 1939-45 War, remarks that: For the provision of services is not in itself marines. Today, with the emergence of the air "Cunningham had behind him the accumulated enough. Not only must we produce the cargoes PHONE: MU247I craft carrier as the >pcarhead of a force as th-. and organized experience of centuries of naval to fill the vessels* holds, we must also see that it gets into those holds with the greatest despatch result of the experience of the second World War, war. Those who laugh off tradition miss the and at the least unnecessary cost. The spectacle a modern carrier has taken the place of the battle value of a corpus of knowledge. The past may lie too heavily on the present and old routines of wool ships leaving Sydney recently with un­ cruiser. drag at the heels of enterprise. But great and filled cargo space while hundreds of bales of our main revenue-producing product remained on the Since the disposal of the first H.M.A.S. "Aus enduring institutions and services form and in­ wharves because of an unnecessary industrial dis­ tralia" in April, 1924, in accordance with . the struct and sustain the men who serve them. The pute, is not a pointer to prosperity. terms of the Washington Treaty, the Royal Aus Admiralty and the Foreign Office arc repositories tralian Navy has lacked the spearhead of a pow­ of experience and knowledge earned in Britain's erful striking force capable of operating as a self adventure in the world. In craft and temper, LYKE-NU DRY contained unit. This lack is now corrected, and Cunningham's command obviously drew on the ,the post war Na\y is emerging as a complete experience of Nelson five generations earlier: and Fleet. This year, as the Minister has stated, the on the sifted and organized experience of gencra- 'The Navy* CLEANING active units of the Fleet will consist of one air­ nons of seamen." craft carrier, one eight-inch gun cruiser, five de­ We are indeed fortunate that we have been is Your Guide stroyers, three frigates, two landing ships tank, able to draw upon that "sifted and organized CO. PTY. LTD. two survey ships, and a tug. There are other experience of generations." That we have done vessels in reserve. so with benefit is shown by the fact that in two to Naval Affair* World Wars we have been equipped to contribute We here in Australia can feel some satisfaction our own quota to the generations to come.

Ite Many ' . •. complete installation of \"Grin- nell" sprinklers, and much of the woodwork in the passenger ac­ commodation is coated with fire- resisting paint. The three forward holds and 'tween decks are insulated for the «*• carnage of refrigerated ' cargo. The three after holds, and No. Six 'tween decks, are for the stowage of general cargo. Cargo —<*r-~ "^Tff -!*Sm& handling gear consists of derricks served by five-ton winches, with in addition two I0*ton and two **\ "T ^ 20-ton derricks. * i Mooring gear is electric -an V-^~ - -"-" xS3 ^^^ [ r; electric windlass, with two cap­ •ji^i^V- 1: Y stan heads and extended ends * for warping, and electric warp­ ing capstans aft. Steering gear is THE TOURIST B CLASS CAFE of the electro-hydraulic type, with telemotor control from the bridge. and six-berth cabins in the Tour­ tilators is a feature of her ap­ The "Orcades" is propelled by ist Class. There are unusually pearance. In profile she has a twin screws, each driven by a fine general rooms, and excellent raked stem, a single tripod mast set of geared turbines of Parsons deck space, with special provision on the bridge, and a cruiser stern. THE FIRST-CLASS LOUNGE.—iMwn by w«ll-known British .rfiiti an • hater* of th. Interior type, designed for a maximum for games, the Gaines Arena just The massed grouping of bridge, decorations. It is fully * if-conditioned. shaft horsepower of 42,^00. Pro­ forward of the bridge being par­ mast and funnel, gives her a most pellers are four-hladed, with boss ticularly fine. The ship is fitted distinctive appearance. She is the and blades cast solid of mangan with a large tiled swimming pool. third "Orcades" of the Orient esc bronre. Steam is supplied by Line, and takes her name from two large and two small water- "Orcades" is unusual in profile, that given by the Romans to the THE NEW ORCADES tube boilers arranged to give a the boiler casing surrounding the Orkney Islands. She carries her superheat control from 850 de­ base of the funnel being built up name on the bows, and also in grees Fahrenheit down to 600 sheer for several feet, and con­ large lettering on the boiler cas­ LATEST ADDITION TO THE ORIENT LINE FLEET IS AN IMPRESSIVE VESSEL AND degrees when manoeuvring, the taining the louvres through ing, together with her badge, the steam pressure at the superheater which ventilation is provided. symbolic harp of the Orcadean A GREAT ACQUISITION TO THE ENGLAND-AUSTRAUA PASSENGER TRADE outlet being 52^ lbs. per square The absence of the old type ven­ Sagas. inch. Boilers are arranged to burn oil fuel under the balanced R.M.S. "Orcades," the latest (. )n her ma iden vt «yage • >ut lacking on those of but a few- system of forced draught. addition to the Orient Line Fleet. fmm the United Kingdom, the years ago. Navigational aids in­ All auxiliary machinery is is a notable newcomer to the "Orcades" broke the London- clude gyroscopic compass, auto­ electrically driven with the ex­ England • Australia passenger Fremantle passenger record, com­ matic helmsman, smoke detector, ception of main and auxiliary trade, and her arrival in this pleting 9,881 sea miles in slight echo-sounder, wireless direction feed pumps, which are turbine country last month created wide ly under 22 days, at an average finder, w.iterttght-door indicat­ driven. The electric generating interest in each of her ports o( speed of just over 20 knots. ors, range finder, and clear view- machinery consists of four main call. windscreens, in addition to the Costing £4 millions (Austra­ turbo-driven dynamoes. each of A twin-screw, turbine-driven usual steering wheel and engine lian) to build, the new ship is the 850 kilowatts at 22<> volts D.C.. vessel built by Messrs. Vickers- room telegraphs. The navigator last word in passenger comfort and two diesel-dnven generators Armstrongs Ltd at Barrow in- is assisted by a radar set which and in safety. She is well sub­ of 100 kilowatts at 22'i volts Furness, she is 708 feet eight presents him with a continuous divided, with twelve transverse DC. inches .in overall length by 9? picture of an area of about JOT watertight bulkheads; a contin­ feet "i overall breadth, with a miles radius of the ship under all There is evidence of great care uous double bottom from the draft of 51 feet and of .32,200 conditions of visibility. and thought in the passenger ac­ collision bulkhead to the after tons displacement, her gross commodation, both First Class end of the shaft tunnels: and a register tonnage being 28,164. and Tounst. Cabins are large, complete double skin from the "Orcades" is equipped with Carrying 773 First Class Passeng­ roomy, and well-furnished, with forward cross bunker to the after lifeboats capable of accommodat­ ers and 772 Tourist Class, she single-berth inter-communicating end of the engine room up to ing the whole ship's company if has a crew of 617. Shaft horse­ necessary, and the complement rooms with private bathroom, the waterline. and two- and three-berth cabins, power is 42,TOO, and speed 22 of boats includes two motor THE FIRST CLASS LIBRARY—A tenter* t* tt» d.cor.tiv. K.nging known M "TW in the First Class; and two-, four-. knots. The bridge has many features boats. Fire precautions include a Thro* Kings" dniignnd by Justico O'lrinn.

Hbnwry. 1949 II July, 1666. "Thence with Sir W. and cocked hat, on his return If ever there were such a picture, Pen home, calling at Lilly's, to from a voyage, threading his way what a find it would be! Abbott's have a time appointed when to over the cobble stones to Mr. portrait is good, but one by such be drawn among the other Com­ Webber's studio. The undaunted a master as Romney would be a manders of Flags the last year's Captain no doubt feeling a little priceless jewel. fight. And so full of work Lilly self conscious and nervous at his Nelson was painted early in his is, that he was fain to take his first sitting, although he had fac­ career. "From an early age," table-book out to see how his ed all the perils of the deep. Yet says David Mathew in "British time is appointed, and appointed perhaps I am picturing wrongly. Seamen," "he moved in the midst six days hence for him to come For Webber accompanied Cook of high naval affairs in war time. between seven and eight in the in his last voyage to the Pacific, His dash and that blade-like fra­ morning." and the portrait may have been gility made an appeal to the wives Before the age of photography painted in the "Resolution." of the admirals on his station, to the portrait painters were the Sometimes an Admiral has Lady Parker and Lady Hughes. Boswells, so to speak, of all fa- , gained immortality by reason of His first portrait, that by John mous people of their time, and the artist. We have in the Mel­ Francis Rigaud, was painted in these naturally included the sea­ bourne National Gallery a fine 1781 when he was 23: Nelson men. Lely, Lawrence. Kneller, was never an obscure young of­ Reynolds, Raeburn, Gains­ ficer." borough, Copley—they are among Benjamin West, the artist who the galaxy of famous names of painted the picture "The Death artists who painted the equally of Nelson," told a story of Nel­ famous naval officers of their son, which is recounted by times, and shared honours with William T Whitley in "Artists them. Lcly. for instance, is and Their Friends in England, through his portraits for ever as­ 1700-1799." Just before he went sociated with the great Sea Cap­ to 'sea for the last time, West sat tains of the Dutch Wars. Others next to Nelson at a public dinner, among the artists whose names in the course of which Nelson ex­ come to mind as being associated pressed his regret that he had not V. A. C. Crutchlay, V.C.. D-S.C. Raer Admiral Commending the Australian Squadron. 1942-44. From a portrait painted by the author. with individual Admirals are acquired a taste for art in his Michael Dahl, who painted Sir youth, and some powers of dis­ George Rooke and Sir Clow crimination. " 'But.' said he, disley Shovell: Reynolds, whose turning to West, 'there is one pic­ SEAMEN IN PAINT sitters included Lord Robert ture whose power I do feel. I Manners, Lord Anson. Sir never pass a printshop where THE AUTHOR OF THIS ARTICLE. HERSELF AN ARTIST, STIMULATED BY NEWS OF William James, and Boscawen: your 'Death of Wolfe" is in the THE GREENWICH PORTRAIT COLLECTION, WRITES OF SEAMEN IN PAINT, AND Romney with Sir Hyde Parker: Captain James Cook, from the por­ window without being stopped Kneller with Edmund Halley: trait by John Webber R.A., in the by it." West made his acknow­ National Portrait Gallery. PLEADS FOR A MARITIME MUSEUM IN AUSTRAUA. by EtHer Peterson Copley wi'.h Howe: Hoppner ledgments and Nelson went on to with Sir Samuel Hood: Dance portrait of one Admiral Deans. Continued on page S3 was recently announced from much for the Navy as Lord High the Prince's, Sir G. Askue's, Sir with James Cook: and Abbott Of the Admiral there is nothing the Department of the Chief Admiral, with Pcpys as Secre­ Thomas Tcddiman's, Sir Christo­ with Nelson. r recorded—but he lives through of Naval Information, Admiralty. tary to the Navy Office, commis­ pher Mings, Sir Joseph Jordan, that a collection of portraits of sioned Sir Peter Lcly to paint the Sir William Barkeley, Sir Thomas The Dance portrait is that of Raeburn, who painted the por­ British Admirals of World War portraits of 13 Flag Officers. Allen, and Captain Harman's, as Cook with which we are most trait. II. is now hung at the Royal Twelve of these portraits are now also the Duke of Albemarle's; familiar, but personally I much Edmund Halley, whom Kneller Naval College, Greenwich. This in the National Maritime Mus­ and will be my Lord Sandwich's, prefer the lesser-known one by painted, was not an Admiral, but collection consists of one portrait eum. Sir W. Pen's, and Sir Jeremy John Webber, R.A., which is in he made a noteworthy voyage and the National Portrait Gallery. It contributed largely to the science of His Majesty, as the head of Pcpys makes mention of these Smith's. 1 was very well satisfied is the Cook I have myself vis­ of navigation—besides, of course, the Royal Navy, and 17 portraits portraits in his Diary. On the with this sight, and other good ualised in imagining the charac­ giving his name to a comet. His of ether Admirals, all painted hy 18th. April, 1666, he records how pictures hanging in the house." ter of that great seaman. Here artist, Sir Godfrey Kneller, was Captain Oswold Birley, M.C he went "To Mr. Lilly's, the "Lilly" was a very busy man is no bewigged dandy of so many a German who settled in Eng­ painter's: and there saw the in those days, and, says Pepys, A specially commissioned col­ other portraits, but a rugged sail­ land, a previous pupil of Rem­ heads, some finished, and all be­ "a mighty proud man he is, and lection such as this—it is point­ or, with decency, fearlessness, brandt's. gun, of the flagmen in the late full of state." Pepys accompan­ ed out—has not. been made since and a Yorkshire determination in great right with the Duke of York ied Sir W. Pen when the Ad­ I have mentioned Romney's 1665, when Charles II. was on every feature. You will notice against the Dutch. The Duke of miral went to the artist's studio portrait of Sir Hyde Parker. He the throne. In that year, after his own brown hair, carelessly York hath them done to hang in to arrange about sittings for his also, of course, painted the fa­ the successful conclusion of the tied. Dutch Wars, the Duke of York his chamber, and very finely portrait for the Duke of York's mous portraits of Emma Hamilton. —later James II.— who had done they are done indeed. Here are collection. That was on the 18th. I like to picture him in his It is surprising that there is no Earl* Howe, from a portrait by J. S. sober blue coat and knee breeches known portrait of Nelson by him. Copley, R.A., 1794. TW Navy I* February, !••? - « out two days later, the ship was weather having improved great' Two days later the tug "Pauline GEORGIC a twisted and fire-blackened hulk. ly it was now possible to get an­ Moller" and merchant vessel The damage was beyond descrip­ other tow line to the "City of "Haresfield" arrived to take over tion. Rivets had been squeezed Sydney" and the tow suited the tow, and after a trip devoid Brings Migrants to Australia out of the deck plates and bulk­ again. There was another delay of further incident—during heads by the intense heat, while however. The pounding of the which the average speed was four FORMER LUXURY ATLANTIC FERRY HAD ASSOCIATIONS WITH R.A.N. WHEN the deck fittings were twisted and sea had jammed the rudder of knots — the . three ships arrived "HOBARV HELPED IN RESCUE OF PASSENGERS AND CREW WHEN "GEORGIC" warped into fantastic shapes like the "Gcorgic", and this had now at Karachi one month later. BOMBED BY GERMANS AT SUEZ. by Janet A. Stewort half melted candles. Below decks, to be freed. While this was be­ The long and difficult salvage the interior accommodation was ing done, other pumps were job was immediately put in hand HE latest ship tu he made had arrived at Suez and discharg­ in its hellishly scientific presenta­ completely gutted: started and the list reduced to a tion, was wrought on the com­ under the able supervision of the T available for the carriage of ed a lull complement of troops When the remains of the ship negligible extent. chief engineer of the "Georgic", British migrants to Australia is when she was caught in a trap paratively defenceless ship. The were inspected by a high army attack was all the more savage in Owing to the leaking state of Mr. D. Horsburgh. His staff the former Cunard White Star laid for her newer companions of .'theer, the damage seemed so consisted of 28 engineers who had luxury liner "Gcorgic," which ar- the Line "Queen Mary" and its intensity when the Nazis dis­ the "Georgic" it was decided to hopeless that he suggested using call at Port Soudan to strengthen been sent out from England. rives here this month carrying "Queen Elizabeth." The Nazis covered they had been cheated the hulk as a pier at Ataka. of their larger prey. the patches before continuing the They were aided by a further 2,(1(1(1 newcomers. At the time had been informed by their spies However, ships were so desper-. 400 men engaged locally. Due she was hutlt in lu?2 .it a eost that the two giant transports had journey to India. The slow pro­ Every known type of bomb was ately needed at that time when cession reached Port Soudan to the large staff working on the of 1:2.0110.111111, "Gcorgic" was left Australia lor Suez and were used in the attack. Then, when the U boat campaign was at its job and to the austere accommo­ Britain's largest motor ship. She now ncaring the port. They had twelve days after leaving Suez. the ship was on lire and sinking, height, that it was decided to Once the "Georgic" was safely dation to be built, the job did has a gross tonnage of 27,759. long boasted of sinking the two a plane laden with high explosive bring a party of salvage experts not occupy as long as it would ships, and now- they were de­ moored, the two merchantmen The ship was employed on the bombs crashed on to her. the from England to examine the have done under normal condi­ termined to Jo so, and a heavy departed. After spending several Atlantic ferry between Liverpool resulting explosion completely de­ wreck and decide whether it was tions. The ajrepairs were com­ force of bombers was ordered to weeks in port the "Georgic" wal and New York until I9J9, when stroying the plane and its occu­ possible to rebuild it. pleted in nine months, and early stand by to attack the ships on ready to commence the final stage she was requisitioned as a troop pants and adding the finishing in 194? the "Gcorgic" sailed from their arrival. Fortunately, how­ The experts arrived in due of the journey. ship. On her peacetime trips touches to the picture of devasta­ course, and after carefully exam­ Bombay bound for Liverpool with ever, the British naval author This time she was towed by "Gcorgic" earned over 1,500 tion of what was once a proud ining the ship expressed the opin­ a cargo of 5,000 tons of pig iron. ities had been intormed of the the tug "Saint Sampson" and the passengers, in addition to 12,

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f^-r^T- • NAVAL PERSONALITY OF THE MONTH r t >:.* i CAPTAIN H. J. BUCHANAN, D.S.O., IJLN. i /"•APTAIN Herbert James Buchanan, D.S.O., as the result of a bombing attack, off the Flanders ^* R.A.N., who recently proceded overseas to coast in May, 1940. attend the Imperial Defence College after a period * G>mmander Buchanan took part in the Dun , as Commanding Officer of H.M.A.S.. "Australia" kirk evacuation operations, being awarded a Men­ and Chief Staff Officer to the Flag Officer Com tion in Despatches for "Good service in the with­ manding the Australian Fleet, was born on the drawal of the Allied Armies from Dunkirk," the 10th. March, 1902, .it Melbourne, the son of Mr i Award being announced in August, 1940, being H. J. Buchanan followed later in the same month by the Award 1" Gaining hi-; early education at Scotch College. of the D.S.O. "for good service in the operations i , Melbourne, the young H. J. Buchanan entered off the Dutch, Belgian, and French Coasts." Sub sequent to the loss of "Valentine." he was ap the Royal Australian Naval College at Jervis Bay pointed in command of H.M.S. "Vanity." as a Cadet Midshipman in 1916. During his tern' at the College he won the Grand Aggregate In April. 1941, Commander Buchanan returned ! • Mathematics prizes, and was First in Physics ana t'» Australia as Assistant Director of Plans at Chemist, v- and euu.il First in French. He passed Navy Office, Melbourne. Following his term at f out of ant College as Midshipman in 1920, hi> Navy Office, he was appointed to the destroyer first sea appointment being to the battle cruiser H.M.A.S. "Norman" in command in June. 1945, ' H.M.A.S. "Australia." He was later appointed and in November of the following year was ap - to H.M.S. "Renown, and served in her at th. pointed in command of H.M.A.S "Napier" as time of the tour of H R.H. the Prince of Wale- Captain (D) 7th Destroyer Flotilla. Eastern Fleet, in 1921. being promoted Captain in December. 1944. While with the Eastern Fleet he took part in the Optra * 1 Promoted Acting Sub-Lieutenant in May, 1922. tions against the Japanese in Burma. - and Sub-Lieutenant the following November, lie reached the rank of Lieutenant in February. Subsequently the 7th. Flotilla was with the 1924. In 192S he qualified in gunnery in H.MS British Pacific Fleet, and took part in the opera "Excellent," and the following year took the AJ tions off the Japanese coast June-August. 194s". vanced Gunnery C)urse at the Royal Naval Col Captain Buchanan commanded the British Land­ lege, Greenwich, gaining first place and being ing Force at the occupation of Yokosuka Dock awarded a prize of £20. yard, 50th. August. 194' Returning to Australia, he was appointed Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff Receiving his half-stnpe in due course in 1952, at Navy Office. Melbourne. In November, 194r>, i Lieut.-Commander Buchanan was appointed Co he was appointed to the command of the H.M H.M.A.S. "Canberra" as Squadron Gunnery Oi' A.S. "Shropshire" and as C.S.O. to Commodore v ficcr, 1937-1938, being promoted Commander in J. A. Collins, C.B.. commanding H.M.A. Squad­ June of the last-named year. ron, and later to Rear Admiral H. B. Farncomb, CAPTAIN H. J. BUCHANAN, D.S.O., R.A.N. C.B.. D.S.O., M.V.O.. in "Shropshire," and in From • portrait slietcri in oils. He proceeded overseas and took technical and Australia" on the transfer of the Flag. Captain staff courses, and on the outbreak of war in 1959 Buchanan relinquished command of "Australia" was Executive Officer, H.M.S. "Diomede," being m October last year. appointed in command of the destroyer H.M.S. "Valenti|e" in February, 1940. With the Ger­ In March, 1952, he married Florence Knarhoi, man invasion of the Low Countries, "Valentine" daughter of the late Mr., and Mrs. Ellis, and has was engaged in operations there, and was sunk two sons.

Tk« Navy F.br Mry. I* mm ; vj*£ ••• • » ' ccntage of iron-ore, both in from shifting to the low side of there is no need for the shifting weight and nuisance value, as the the hold, the hold is divided fore boards any longer. * ore dust fills every inaccessible and aft by a wooden partition Let us picture the scene when corner, and clings to every detail of "shifting boards." They have loading wheat in bulk. of the ship's anatomy. Besides to be strongly supported and The silo at Bunbury holds the iron-ore, our recent cargoes shored off from the ship's sides. 8,(KKI tons of wheat, and the had included limestone lor the These shifting boards and the "River Hunter" is at the far end Newcastle steelworks, and pig- feeders cost about £2000 to be of the jetty loading a full cargo iron and steel products from fitted, which includes the cost of of 7400 tons ... It is a mile from there to Brisbane. both labour and materials. the silo to the ship, because of It took nearly a week to clean Another danger /which has to the shallow water in the bay, and the ship to carry wheat without be guarded against from grain is the wheat is filled into special contamination, but at the same that it may get into the bilges and trucks for the trip out along the time the holds had to be prepar­ block the pipe lines to the jetty. At the end of the jetty ed in other ways to fulfil - the pumps. Any water which leaks stand two long-legged loading stringent regulations which cover into the hold seeps into the bilges gantries, astride the railway the carriage of grain by sea. through the limber boards, and tracks, so that two of the ship's These rules arc not for the safety can then be pumped out. Should holds can be loaded at once. The or comfort of the wheat, but the hold be flooded by a bad grain is poured out of the trucks purely for the safety of the ship. leak or by the hatches being down through gratings in the In days gone by, many ships stove-in by heavy seas, it is very jetty into hoppers underneath. were lost by capsizing when important that the bilges and The loading gantry has an end­ carrying grain cargoes. This was pumping arrangements be kept less belt like a bucket-dredge to FULL CARGO OF GOLDEN GRAIN caused by the grain settling down free to work. Grain is kept out dig the grain out of the hoppers after the first few weeks of shak- of the bilges by seeing that the and take it aloft to the conveyor NOT ALL WHEAT SHIPPED IN AUSTRALIA GOES OVERSEAS. IN TIME OF mg-down at sea,, leaving slack limbers fit tightly together, and belt leading nut to the ship. SHORTAGE IN ONE STATE COASTAL SHIPMENTS IN BULK MAY BE MADE FROM space and hence a free surface in then covering them with tarred Here it runs down the feed-pipe the hold. The danger in this paper, secured with batons. Once into the hold at the rate of 70 OTHERS. THIS ARTICLE DESCRIBES A "FULL CARGO OF WHEAT IN BULK" FROM arose when the ship took a heavy the hold was flooded, however, to 100 tons an hoar. That com­ WA. TO NS.W. list to one side, as sailing ships the wheat would swell, and if the pares very favourably with the by Captain Brett Hilder arc wont to do, in a strong wind, excess pressure were not releas­ rate of manual loading of bagged and this might cause the loose ed up through the feeders there wheat, which is about 20 tons would be a danger of the ship an hour. "•yO-DAY the port of Sydney week or more, apart from the From the hoppers it is fed into wheat to shift to the low side, throwing the ship on to her beam- straining the side-plating off the •* is filled with ships taking fewer men required. Each port trucks, which take it to the silo frames. the wheat harvest away over­ has its -one of wheatfields, and at the port of export, or, if the ends or capsizing her altogether. These machinations are not achieved without some noise and seas, but two years ago the short­ for Bunbury this extends to the silo is full, into the huge "bulk­ The risk of the cargo shifting This is hard to believe, unless age of wheat was so great chat railhead of Newdigate, 200 miles heads" which hold 100,000 tons dust, and the air becomes full of at sea is met in two ways; firstly you have seen a pair of shoes the husks which blow through about 30,000 tons of it had to be inland. More distant wheat from each. The value of the wheat is by endeavouring to ensure that being stretched by the same pro­ imported from Western Austra­ the Lakes district is trucked up rather in doubt, with a world the rigging like snowflakes, and a free surface of grain cannot cess, until they burst at the gather in drifts around the lia. This is a matter of 10 million to 50 miles to the railway. price of about 16/- a bushel, form in the hold, and secondly, seams! decks, having no better employ­ bushels, or 40 ship-loads during It is remarkable to sec the against the fixed price in Aus­ in case it does form, by prevent­ The three main safety require­ ment. The wholemeal dust, the season from January to Sep­ countless individual grains of tralia of 4/11 J a bushel. To the ing it from getting from one side ments, shifting boards, feeders, tember. One of the 'last of these wheat arriving at the ship, and ship the full cargo is worth of the hold to the other. which may be so full of vitamins, shipments fell to the "River to think that they have been £22,000. based upon the freight and the grain-tight bilges, are is trampled into a fine gruel on Hunter," one of the Common­ combed from the wide wheat- of £3 a ton. Wheat is such a liquid cargo surveyed by an officer of the the deck after each rain squall, wealth-owned freighters, in be­ fields, poured and ladled, tran­ We were in Fremantle dis­ that it stows very compactly in Navigation Department, and also while the whole grains of wheat tween trips with coal and iron- sported and shunted, elevated charging coal from Newcastle, the holds, and the ship is gen­ by a surveyor of the Underwrit­ which conscientiously object to ore, and it was in this ship that into silos, drawn and trucked and when we got orders to prepare erally weighed down to her Plim- ers' Association on behalf of the being put down the hold become I met my first full cargoes of loaded, still loose in bulk, into the ship for wheat in bulk, and sol Mark long before she is com­ insurance companies. "poorman's porridge" by the wheat from the wheat ports of the holds of a ship without being a few days later we heard that pletely filled. This leaves room The Grain Regulations were same process. Western Australia. packed or cased in any way. The our loading port was to be Bun­ above the lower hold to build a really intended for shipments of -The noise of the loading is "feeder" in the 'tween decks, a The golden harvest of This whole process of bulk handling bury. When the coalies had tak­ grain going to the United King­ mostly the whirling of the eftc- large trunkway filled with grain state is drawn to the western sea­ seems more like the work of irri­ en their last grabful of coal, and dom or Europe, and are there­ tric motors and the swishing of which feeds into the lower hold board, to the three ports which gation than of transport. Instead what they could sweep up, the fore relaxed a little for short .the grain, which also makes a should any space be formed there are equipped to handle wheat in of the harvester throwing out ship's innards had to be cleaned coastal voyages, at the discretion pitter-patter as it turns a corner sewn bags of wheat as it is dri­ by the settling of the grain. The bulk for export: Geraldton in not only of the coal fragments of the surveyors. With the in its hurried route. Altogether ven along, the wheat is kept in feeder must contain 24% of the the north, Fremantle in the and dust, but also of the traces mechanical methods of feeding not much different to the natural open bags, or fed into bins wheat in the hold, and this has centre, and Bunbury in the south. of our previous cargoes. The the grain tightly into the furthest orchestration of wind and rain in which are conveyed to the rail­ been found to be ample for the corners of the hold, there is prac­ The mechanical loaders at these said "traces" were a tough job the trees. way siding and fed into theiiop- ship's safety. tically no subsidence at all, so ports enable ships to be loaded to remove, and amounted to over The different picture down pers. that with the required feeders in three or four days, instead of a 10 tons! They had a large per- To prevent the loose grain Continue) e* p«*< M

f MMfy, ITW I Board sent the following message of good wishes to H.MAS. WHEN I WAS A NEW ENTRY "Sydney": "To the Captain, Officers and Ship's Company of IT IS FIFTY-FOUR YEARS AGO SINCE THE AUTHOR OF THIS ARTICLE JOINED H.M.A.S. 'Sydney' the Naval Board send their best wishes and H.M.S. ST. VINCENT" AS A BOY IN THE ROYAL NAVY. AND HERE HE TELLS express every confidence th„t the SOMETHING OF HIS EXPERIENCES. first Aircraft Carrier included in the R.A.N., will uphold the •y Steve Howkej, E« R.N. and ILA.N. honour and prestige of her earlier namesakes and the highest tr.idi IS Majesty's Ship "St. Vin­ handy to any rating joining a new eat. they ran me to the canteen, tions of naval aviation." H cent," training ship for boys ship. But a training ship! Ye and in about two minutes I was of the Royal tyavy, lay there on Gods! The "St. Vincent," at the minus my 3/2, but very popular the Gosport side of Portsmouth-- time I joined her, had a comple­ for the time being. Among the notable guests pres "Pompey"— Harbour, only a few- ment of 1,020 budding warriors, I was still in my civil clobber, ent at the Ceremony and at the cables' length from "The Vic­ aged from 14$ years to a trifle and was longing to get into the official luncheon following, were tory," Nelson's old flagship, which over, who appeared anxious to rig of my shipmates, so on in­ Viscount Hall of Cynon .Valley she somewhat resembled, having make my acquaintance. quiring 1 was taken to the Purser's (The First Lord of the Admir­ the three rows of gun ports and They came at me from all store and, Oh Boy! I was loaded alty), Vice Admiral G. E. Creasey the three tall, square-rigged masts. angles, and, unlike public school with more clothes than I ever had (Fifth Sea Lord and Deputy On a bitterly cold January day in boys on the look out for a new in my life. Two of this, three of Chief of Naval Staff (Air), and The Whit* Ensign being hoisted for the first time on H.M.A.S. "Sydney" 1894, I went alongside and board­ fag, they all wanted to fag me. that, flannel shirts, check shirts, Rear Admiral P. B. R. W. Wil she became a unit of Australia's Naval Forces. ed what was to be my home from After getting away from the police duck suits, serge suits, caps, socks, iam-Powlett (Naval Secretary) home for the next sixteen months. office with a card giving my ship boots and shoes, jerseys and com­ representing the Admiralty; the number, number of mess, station forter, bag and hammock, etc., and Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth. Arriving on the quarter deck, aloft, and many other details, I told I would get a sea kit later. Admiral Sir R. L. Burnett and 1 was taken all aback with the Naming of H.M.A.S. Sydney was escorted to my mess deck by Lady Burnett; Mr. J A. Beasley. spacious white deck, and the masts Some of my messmates helped a crowd who piloted me to Mess the Australian High Commis­ with their topgallant- and royal me along and got my gear stowed No. 19. My messmates all gath­ Colourful And Inspiring Ceremony Marked the Entry sioner, and Mrs. and Miss Beas­ yards crossed, and the neatly away, but on checking up they ered around me, and I was struck Of Australia's New Aircraft Carrier Into the Navy's ley: Admiral Sir Louis Hamilton, furled sails. Looking aft, I was found I was minus sheets and con­ by the thought of how soon formerly First Naval Member ui impressed by a scroll running densed milk, and advised me to go Fleet youngsters leam to be hospitable. the Australian Commonwealth athwart the poop rail, on which at once and collect from the was painted—"Fear God and RAN., the Ship's Company Naval Board; Lady Gowrie, wife Now, you who may have trav­ Dusty boy, who would see me TIRRING scenes marked the Honour The King." elled previous to the advent of right. He appeared to be waiting S Naming Ceremony of H.M. gave three cheers. of the former Governor-General of the Commonwealth; and Sen Boylikc, I was wanting to look wireless know how keen you were for me, very politely invited me A.S. "Sydney" at Devonport On the notable occasion, the when making port to hear the into his den, gave me my first ator D. M. Tangney. into other things, but was pulled Naval Dockyard on the 16th. De­ Australian Commonwealth Naval latest news from the pilot when naval hiding, and booted me out, cember, 1948. With the inclu­ up with a round turn by a keen- eyed Marine Corporal and a red- he climbed aboard. Well, you requesting me not to come pulling sion of the new aircraft carrier would think these boys had been his leg again. in its seagoing organization, the bearded quartermaster, who or­ dered me to attention and, salut­ at sea for years without news, and I have never seen a sheet yet, Royal Australian Navy again I was the pilot just boarded. possesses a Fleet in place of the ing a tweringed Lieutenant, re­ condensed milk either, unless pur­ Squadron its main units have ported me as "a new entry come Where did I hail from? chased from the canteen. These comprised since the disposal of aboard. Sir." The Lieutenant, Chelsea, I told them. navy boys will have their little the battle-cruiser "Australia." whom I took for an Admiral, was, How was London, still in the joke, and I think they get worse like the majority of Naval officers same place? How many sisters as they grow older. I know I do, The ceremony was carried out —most kindly, and after a ques­ and brothers (especially sisters) and at 67 can still turn the tables in fine weather and English win­ tion or two turned me over to a had I? And was my dad a good on anyone trying to put one over ter sunshine which flung long big man who was waiting in the sort? How much pocket money me. shadows on the carrier's flight offing, and who proved to be had he come to light with? Now I will give you a detailed, deck. The actual ceremony was Master at Arms—"Jaunty"—with performed by Mrs. Bcaslcy, wife This last seemed to be a pretty routine of the "Old Saint," as she the remark: "Let him sling his leading question, and as I was was affectionately called, for rou­ of*thc Australian High Commis hammock for to-day," meaning I sioncr in London, who unveiled wanting to ask a few questions tine there must be, then as now, was free to have the remainder of myself, I deemed it wise to come in any one of H.M. ships. the Plaque bearing the ship's the day to get used to my new to light with my holdings, which You get it first in the training name and crest. At the same home. time the White Ensign was hoist turned out to be 3/2. I found out ship, and carry it on until you ed for the first time on the ship, Now I have since found that later that we boys received only leave the Navy, by which time together with the Australian Flag this hammock slinging is a jolly 6d. per week, but at the time I you have got it that thick and on the jackstaff. Then, led • by good custom of the Navy. It gives could not understand why I was strong that you want to routine you a chance to shake down and hailed as a millionaire. As I was the tradesmen, who must not be the ship's Commanding Officer, Captain Dowling calls for fhraa cnoors from mambars of tha Ship's Company get your bearings, and comes in hungry, and asked when did we adrift a few minutes', the publican. Captain R. R. Dowling, D.S.O., whan H.M.A.S. "Sydney" wai namad.

Taa Mann >L < • ' . • who is expected to know your topsail sheet men, stand by," and to make pies, schooner on a rock, drink. That's O.K., but when it after an interval of a few seconds: and various other dishes unknown comes to writing out a routine for "Away aloft." Lower yard men to most shore folk. Not all of this SEAS, SHIPS AND SAILORS your wife and family, well, if they were then sent aloft, gaskets cast business was routine. are docile and navy-minded, you adrift, and at the order, "Let fall," The brighter side came along at will carry on that routine until the sails were sheeted home and 11 a.m. "Stand easy" was piped, the very end, when the under­ hoisted from the deck, each of the and you rushed down to your tv4EAD taker won't stand for it. But three mast crews vying with each mess and found a tray of 2-inch ^o* *-°^ wives are not always docile, and other to be the smartest and first squares of bread, and if you ob­ Y^^ FROM THE EARLIEST GAYS OF during your absence over ,1 period to fini-li tained one you were lucky: it de­ SAIL DOWN TO "iOtlSACSAiO of years have made a routine of FICUCEHEADS V£2F. THE PRIDE From the shore it must have pended on fleetness of foot. And OF ALL SAllOQMEN . MANY HAVE. their own, so look out for squalls been a pleasing picture to see the weren't those squares of bread de BEEN FAMOUS — MANY DECIDEDLY if yours clashes with theirs. They old ship decked out on all three licious! Remember, we were hun Qoeee. FOR INSTANCE —•• will humour you for a few weeks, THE PRIVATEER' 7E,RRIBLE"\Q>S*T masts with courses, topsails, top­ gry, growing kids, always raven­ DEATH] HAD A SKELETON ON nee pretending you are wonderful, gallants and royals, and head sails. ous, and the air aloft made us Bow THE CLIPPER "S7YX"HAD A which they really think you are, rfSHOCOLATE-COLORED De.VlL,VlTH But we weren't ashore, and being more so. HOOVES dMO* HORNS COMPLETE but you'll find you'll have to cut new to the game just had to hang "TUE 'NIGHT/NGaie ~HAD A FIGURE out quite a lot of Navy routine. At 12 noon came our big meal OFJENNY LlWDjWe'SwECHSH on with our eyelids, with one hand NJlCMTiMGALE", \V\£,"DQN4LDMACKAr As I have gone so far about this for the King and one for self, for the day, which had already HAD A FINELY CARVED FIGURE. Of routine business I feel I must give been laid out for us by the cooks A HIGHLANDER, IN THF. MACICAY often two for the King. We must "TARTAN i«?/X/ THE FAMOUS XJABSHIP a brief account of ours aboard the have hung on well, for there was of messes. We made short work OF 163*7 "SoVESE/GA/ OF WE S&tS HAD "Old Saint." Here it is: not one fall from aloft during my of our beef and spuds, or what IONS EDGAR TRAMPLING ON *7 KJNGS ever else was going. 5.JO a.m.: All hands lash up training in the "St. Vincent" anJ and stow, show a leg -which her seagoing brig, H.M.S. "St. From 1 p.m. the afternoon was meant you had to turn out, Martin." taken up in instruction again, the * HONEYMOON OF M©. dPO* MpS IAMBS lash your hammock with the watches changing from the fore­ BEGAN WHEN THEY LEFT tlMMH IN TH6.40-FOOT When everything aloft was downhaul." evening meal. The remainder of BY C7 HCJUBS . ANO WAS TOTALLY WRECKED work, etc. the day was ours, and we found IN THE HAURAK.I GULF.KJ 7. WHILE BN ROUTE Then a stamping and hauling, TO BRISBANE CN MARCH 9. 1*332 8 a.m.: Breakfast cocoa, bread plenty to do looking after our kit furling sails, hauling taut and coil and keeping it up to the mark. (dry) and sometimes small ing down ropes, and squaring Two evenings a week we could —y- portion of cold pork. yards, would complete the evolu­ scrub and wash clothes, and that tion. Some days we would send 8.30 a.m.: Dress for the day, was a bit of a job till you knew E. US.MAVYS clear up decks. down or cross upper yards or even how. At S p.m. we could get into nasi '^JACK-WAS 9 a.m.: Divisions, rounds, pray­ house topgallant masts or strike our hammock if we wished, but HOtSTED EVY JOHKJ topmasts. Lk out for your fin­ ers, etc. After prayers. Port had to at 9.30 p.m., then pipe RAUL JONES OKI the watch to school. Starboard ger tips these days. down. Dec.3 1775. [T SHOWED watch to seamanship and gun­ The foregoing was all part of Comes last of all the dirty work A RATTLESNAKE AND nery. Seamanship comprised the daily routine work, and there's — punishments. Should a boy A SLOGAN ON 13 RED instructions in bag and ham­ ANO WHITE BARS // quite a lot more I could tell you second class be caught having a mock, bends and hitches, of routine in the old "Saint." quiet draw n( half a cigarette in knotting and splicing, com­ There was the cold bath, a.m. the heads (Lav.) he was due for pass and helm, lead line, sail winter and summer, where it was trouble. There was 'many a one ing and boat pulling amj sail- Cjfcj* JN '6©l ^AMERICAN SAIL IMG not believed you knew how to got caught by the Marine sentry, J*^ VESSEL"f£iE/Y>?£/sr//V"FOUNDADECELCT making, signals, etc. Gun­ SCHOONER IN OTHERWISE PERFECT CONDITION bath yourself, so you came, naked and many who did not. Those that nery classes were instructed as you were born, and revolved d CQ6\V >*AS PLACED ONBOARD i BOTH did got hauled up and awarded •SHIPS THEN SAILED IN COMPANY FOR AN in company drill, machine yourself before a sharp eyed Petty six of the best, after the tucking AMERICAN PORT A"BL.OW\VAS MET gun, small arms, cutlass and WITH AKJD PARTED THE SHIPS WHEN Officer, who carried a wet towel, had been pulled out of the back foR MORIS THAN EIGHTV pistol, etc. with which he could flick and hit THEY MET AGAIN THE; SCHOOMEF? >MAS YEARS "OIUD TOM" A of their pants. These canings had OMCB MOBE DESERTE.D,WITH NO TRACE PLAINLY IDENTIFIABLE. any dirty part you may have WHATEVER ON THE SECOMD CR.EAV At any time during the fore­ to be witnessed by all hands. Both K IL.I X• I• ' - WHALE " REGULARXX missed. fT WAS ONLY BY PROMISES OF VISITED TWOFOLD DAY. MSV. noon, clear lower deck for sail whacked and watchers after dis­ A BIG SHAIte OF SALVAGE MON&Y THAT YGA*R AFTER YEAR? RJCHT evolution would be piped. We Over the masthead, look out for missal took the first chance to ANOTHER PARTY COULD »&E INDUCEX> DOWM TO SePTEtMBEJEt, ONBOARD, BUT FROM THE T1MB THEY I930,WBN HIS CARCASS would fly on deck to our stations, the last six down, was another snatch another quiet draw, and •SAJLED NEWER THEY A/OR THE SCHOONER WAS WASMaD UP ON ME BEACH and orders would be given some­ little morning stunt to keep you looked fonjvard to when they WERE El/ER $E£A/ OR HEARO OT*G

February, 1949

" • ' I Solo Artists were Mr. Arthur Sydney All Services Choir Strachan, the Choir Pianist (Brahms "Rhapsody in G A Well-Chosen, Balanced Programme For The Invita­ Minor," and Mozart's "Turkish Rondo"), Miss Sylvia Mac- tion Christmas Concert Makes The Editor Regret His Donald, the First Soprano (Mis­ THE AUTOCRAT OF erere, from "II Trovatore," Quil- Melbourne Domicile For The Nonce ter's "Love's Philosophy" and By The Editor Greig's "A Dream"); Mr. Walter THE BREAKFAST Carter, First Bass ("Holy City," "Lord's Prayer," "Goodbye" presentation to the public of tiE Editor'?, thanks .ire due to from "White Horse Inn," and members having outstanding tal­ TABLE T Mr. C J. Mcscn^cr, Honor­ "The Road to Mandalay"): Mr. ent or possibilities in the musical ary Secretary of the Sydney All- Clifford Smith, Choir Conductor, world: to offer and render as­ Services Choir, for sending along ("The Indian Love Call," from sistance at Service and ex-Service a copy of the Programme of the "Rose Marie"); and Mr. Fred. commemorative functions: to Invitation Christmas Concert, Wright, with a Humorous Mus­ work with and for Legacy and presented by the Choir at the ical Monologue. The Compere other charitable causes that arc C.E.N.E.F. Auditorium, Castle was Mr. H. L. Berryman, Vice- considered to be worthy of sup­ reagh Street, Sydney, on the President of the Air Force Asso­ port: to assist ex-Service organis­ 22nd. December last, to serving ciation. The Choir President is ations in their rehabilitation ef­ and ex-Service Personnel of the Mr. William Coles. Royal Australian Navy ; Austra­ forts and to help to attain a lian Military Forces, Eastern strong bond of comradeship in all Service and ex-Scrvicc organisa­ The Editor was most interest­ Command, Headquarters; East­ tions to the good of us all. ed to receive a copy of the Pro ern Area R.A.A.F : the State gramme, which interest he feels Executives of Ex Service Organ­ will be shared by readers oi isations: and Members from two The idea of the formation of "The Navy." The Sydney All- hundred Sub-Branches scattered such a Choir was an excellent Services Choir, from all appear­ through the Metropolitan Area of one. The list of aims of the ances, is something of very real Sydney. Choir is first class. It is no won­ value, and "The Navy" takes this der that the Press described the opportunity of wishing it every formation oi the Choir as "The The Sydney All-Services Choir success, and that it can realise Shade of Admiral Craswall (with acknowledgement* to Sir Henry Newbolt): "Now the Fleet's a Float again." (As from •was founded in June, 1947, and brightest thought' of ex-Service its hopes of repeating, in De­ tha lit January last, with the acquisition of tha now aircraft carrier H.M.A.S. "Sydney," the Australian saagoing fore* H is sponsored by the N.S.W. organisations since the war." cember of 1949, its Invitation dasignatad "Fleet" instaad of "Squadron").' State Councils of the R.S.S. 6? Reading the programme—unfor­ Christmas Concert, and in a larg­ A.I.L.A., the Air Force Associa­ tunately "The Navy'' is edited in er auditorium and to a wider TT is an intriguing thought that all roads from matter a little more closely you will find that even tion, and the Ex-Naval Men's As Melbourne, so that the Editor audience. •">• the Australian farm—be that farm a small af­ those which run from Birregurr.i to Woolloom- sociation of Australia. Members could not attend the Concert, a fair of two acres and a cow or that larger .estab­ ooloo along unmistakable Australian country roads of the Choir, masculine and fact that the Programme has lishment which measures its area in hundreds or by motor truck, hear the call of the sea. For the made him regret exceedingly — feminine, arc all cx-Scrvice Per­ thousands of square miles and numbers its stock sea, for Australia, is the Autocrat of the Break' one realises that the Press cer­ sonnel, and membership is open in mobs of sheep or herds of beef cattle roaming fast table—and the luncheon tabic and dinner to all ex-Scrvicc men and women tainly had reason for its assess­ far and wide over the landscape—lead to the ment. table also. who have been honourably dis­ breakfast table, and to the luncheon and dinner It might be, of course, that your owner of a charged from the Fighting Ser­ table also. breakfast table in Wool loom oo loo is dependent vices of the Commonwealth, the The programme given on the They lead by a variety of routes. Via whole­ upon the sea for his cash ability to buy the Binre' corresponding forces of Great 22nd. December was well balanc­ Hold on to sale market and retail shop; by wool auction gurra butter. He might work on the wharves, Britain and her Empire Coun­ ed, and of commendable taste in rooms and metal foundries and picture theatres or be employed on a tug boat, and but for the tries, America and other United selection. The Choir opened with WAR SAVINGS and shipbuilding yards; by butchers' and bakers* sea and the ships that sail upon it would be out Nations" forces. Serving per­ "O Valiant Hearts" - which was CERTIFICATES. and candlestick makers' and the assembly lines sonnel are also eligible for mem­ dedicated to those who were kill­ of a job. in motor car works; by spinning mills in Brad­ bership. ed or died on Service—while On the other hand, he might be the projector other Choir items were "In This ford, the works of fellmongcrs in Mazamet, and mechanic at the local picture show. And even the steelworks at Newcastle, New South \y,tle<. so he, as much as the wharf or tugboat employee, Amongst the aims of the Hour of Softened Splendour," "Deep River," "Old Mother By anywhere, in fact, where Australian food is or the manager of the butter factory or the dairy Choir are: the promotion and eaten, wool and hides and skins are worn, or the farmer whose cows produce the cream, will find encouragement of choral singing Hubbard," "The Holly and the Ivy," "Good King Wenceslas," money with which they are paid for is earned. that in the ultimate the sea is the Autocrat of and musical attainment of ex- Some of the roads run more or less direct. his Breakfast Table. Service men and women; the "I Saw Three Ships," "Song of the Vikings," "Soldiers' Chorus," Those which lead, for instance, from a butter fac­ For we live by the sale of our produce over' lending of assistance .in the mus­ tory at Birregurra to a breakfast table in Wool- seas—just as much as does the London suburban ical rehabilitation and/or educa­ "Goin" Home," "Goodnight, Goodnight, Beloved," and "Silent loomooloo or South Yarra or Tooting Bee or at Tooting Bee who eats Australian lamb or bi tion of members; the presenta­ Night, Holy Night." Wigan. At least, on the surface they appear to or cheese or wheat, and who not only eats it- tion of choral concerts and the run more or less direct. But if you look into the Continued on

TIM Navy February, 19 ~~~— W "t "g"* she was able to clear the port be­ stationed at New Quay\ on the tor oil tankers of 1,000 gross tons fore the end came." coast of Cardiganshire, ended her and upwards under construction Thames Radar Service career in December last. She is in the world amounted to 129 A radar station has been estab­ replaced by a powered boat, the vessels, mainly in the United MARITIME NEWS OF Tl lished by the London Midland "St. Albans," a gift to the Life­ States and Britain. Region of British Railways to pro­ boat Institution from the people Britain's Lead vide an improved ferry service of thr Hertfordshire city and Great Britain and Northern between Tilbury and Gravesend market town of that name. Ireland are sti!l building more during foggy weather. The ser­ Master Mariners' Floating than half the world's shipping, vice carries 3,000,000 passengers Home although the total of United and 150,000 vehicles yearly, and The Honourable Company of Kingdom shipping under con* on occasion fog has stopped it Master Mariners now possesses a struction on the 31st. December altogether. During fog the radar floating hall in the shape of the last was- at 2,114,730 tons— station will be manned, and from former Royal Navy sloop "Wel­ 48,252 tons less than that being the time each ferry sails until it lington," of 990 tons, which is built on the 31st. December, is berthed at the other side the moored in the Thames in King's 1947. The 194S British total in­ master will receive over a radio Reach alongside Temple Stairs, cluded, however, the only two telephone broadcasting through between Captain Scott's "Discov­ vessels in the world's building loud speakers on his bridge a de­ ery" and H.M. Ships "Chrysan­ total exceeding 25,000 tons each. tailed commentary on his pro­ themum" and "President." The gress and the movement of all "Wellington," which will serve IN other traffic in.the river as seen as headquarters and offices of the on the radar screen. The radar Company, ^is a meeting place for operators arc recruited from the shipping conferences, and as a masters and mates of the ferries rendezvous for Master Mariners and arc, therefore, fully appreci­ of all nations, was purchased by ative of the problems of river subscription by the Company of navigation. Master Manners after the war. Her conversion to the livery hall spondenfj in LONDON and NEW YORK Car Shipments of a City Company was carried One of the largest, if not the out at Chatham, with generous largest, single shipments of Brit­ help from shipowners and associ­ ish motor-cars ever made to ated interests. The former en­ Australia-U.K. Passenger and living standards to drive Nearly Lost In Malaya North America, was carried re­ gine-room has become the court TATTERSALL'S Traffic other ships from their proper par­ cently from the United Kingdom room. ticipation in Pacific trade. On her third trooping voyage in the "Stanroyal," an ex-German ITH more good first-class "Dominion Monarch" Returns during the war—in 1942—the cargo liner, when she carried Malta Seamen's Hospital £10,000 (1st PRIZE) W passenger liners on the To Trade "Dominion Monarch" might eas­ 500 Ford cars for United States The people of Scotland gave England-Australia run, this season After seven years away from ily have lost the number of her Pacific ports and Vancouver, £125,000 to the rebuilding fund CASH CONSULTATIONS is the first in post-war years to trade—five years as a wartime mess while in Singapore, when British Columbia. The value of of the King George V Merchant provide any degree of certainty transport and two years under the Japanese were advancing from the cargo was put at approxi­ Seamen's Memorial Hospital, are a weekly affair. for people wishing to travel Government requisition post-war the North and the situation was mately .£500,000. Malta, which was bombed during abroad from Australia. There is the Shaw Savill Line's flagship, becoming serious. The story is Hitler's Yacht the fierce German-Italian attacks WELL AND WIDELY still, however, difficulty in getting the 26,500 ton motor vessel told in the Shaw Savill book New York newspapers during on the island in 1942. The re­ KNOWN passages back to Australia from "Dominion Monarch" is back in "The Flag of the Southern December carried an advertise­ built hospital was officially re­ Great Britain, and no return pas­ trade, and arrived in Australia in Cross, 1939-1945," of how, while ment offering for sale Hitler's opened towards the end of last THE TICKET 5/-. sages are guaranteed. Shipping the middle of last month on her in Singapore, "she was ordered 2,500-ton yacht, "Grille," which year by Lady Mountbatten. companies have a pool in London first post'war voyage. Built in to dry dock ar.d to overhaul her during the war was used as a World's Shipbuilding Postage for ticket and result, and priority is given to return­ 1939 to accommodate 517 first engines, and while she was thus commerce raider and base ship The world's total tonnage of 5d. ing Australians. class passengers, her conversion helpless and partially dismantled for submarines. The advertiser, shipping under construction on U.S. Opposes Japanese Shipping to a troopship in 1940, with a the air raids were intensified, the the 31 st. December, 1948, was "TO WIN YOU MUST the American and Overseas BE IN." In a statement outlining the carrying capacity which eventu­ native dockyard labour which had Chartering Corporation, asked 4,140,816 gross tons, according to American shipping industry's ob­ ally reached nearly 4,00Q a voy­ not already bolted for safety was £400,000 for the yacht, but stat­ Lloyds Register of shipbuilding You can write from any ship jectives for the year, the National age, necessitated the alteration or withdrawn for naval jobs, and ed that it would be willing to returns. The ships being built in­ or any port. Federation of American Shipping removal of most of her luxurious the position of the fortress was "try the best offer." cluded 99 steamers and 177 mo- fittings. The lengthy reconver­ , obviously precarious. Chief En­ said that the Japanese merchant torships, the ships ranging in size The address— marine should not be allowed to sion work to fit her for the first gineer A. T- Gibson and the Sailing Life-boats Go from 6,000 to 30,000 tons. A expand beyond the reasonable re­ class passenger trade again was ship's crew did a magnificent job Britain's Royal National Life­ large proportion of these vessels GEO. ADAMS quirements of Japan's own do­ carried out in the Wallsend-on- in face of the greatest difficulties, boat Institution's fleet has seen —50 steamers and 61 motorships (TATTERSALL) mestic and foreign commerce. Tyne shipyards of her builders, when most people regarded her tts last sailing lifeboat. Built in —are being built in the 10,000 to "Japan/* the statement said, Swan, Hunter and Wigham case as hopeless and the ship al­ 1907, the "William Cantrell 20,000-ton class. Steam and mo­ HOBART "should not be allowed through Richardson Ltd., and she spent ready doomed, and contrived to Ashley," which for 41 years was economic forces and low wages fifteen months on the job. get her engines running so that F.bru.ry, 19* TW N«vy . . peak numbers of naval, marine, • and air forces raised by their Gov­ "MAIN" COALS ernments during the war. Mr. FROM THE MAITLAND (N.S.W.) COALFIELD News of the Worlds Navies John Dugdale, Parliamentary PBLAW MAIN—RICHMOND MAIN Secretary to the Admiralty, stat­ ABERMAIN—STANFORD MAIN ed that shares will be in the de­ for Gas, Railways, Manufacturers and Householders. ANCHOR TRIALS ficer to assume this position is Executive or Engin e e r i n g gree of ten for an Admiral and HE Admiralty has been con­ Rear Admiral D. H. Everett, Branches indicates that all those one for an ordinary seaman. On STOCKRINGTON COALS ducting a series of trials to whose previous appointment was concerned with aviation within a rough calculation—according T unsurpassed for Bunkers. improve the design of anchors that of Commanding Officer of the Fleet are an integral part of to the Admiralty News Summary for various classes of ships. An­ H.M.S. "Duke of York," Flag­ the Navy. It also signals the dis­ —it looks as though an ordinary FIRST GRADE STEAM COAL FROM THE chors were buried in the fore­ ship of the Home Fleet. In his appearance of the letter "A" seaman might get between £5 "BOREHOLE" SEAM, NEWCASTLE (N.S.W.). shore at East Fleet, Weymouth, new appointment. Rear Admiral from inside the gold lace curl of and £6, a Captain between £20 Apply ID: and then subjected to hauling Everett will be responsible for so many Naval Officers concern­ and £24, and an Admiral of the pressure through a gantry and by supervising the training of ed with aviation. Fleet between £50 and £60. means of purchases secured by a ground personnel employed in New Scheme Widens UA. BROWN & ABERMAIN SEAHAM spider's web of chain cable to Naval Aviation, and will be ad­ Opportunities Drawings For Model Makers concrete blocks buried in the ministrative authority for air sta­ shingle. tions and establishments. Today approximately one third For the use of model makers, a COLLIERIES LIMITED of the personnel of the Royal series of simplified drawings of a Head Office: Concrete Wins Arctic Warfare Shipping Office: Navy is directly or indirectly number of ships of the Royal SYDNEY. N.S.W. NEWCASTLE. This method of conducting Although the Canadian Navy, concerned with aviation, but Navy have been prepared by the trials means a tug of war in after exercises in sub-Arctic those officers in the "A" category Admiralty. The drawings, which which the concrete always wins, waters, decided that "warfare in were not on equal terms with the are outline drawings, are to a but the pressure at which the the Arctic is almost impossible," general Executive Branch as re­ scale of 1/50" to the foot.- They anchor begins to drag is measur­ the Royal Navy is carrying out gards future executive command. show profile, plan and sections as MORT'S DOCK ed by dynamometers, some of further investigations in Arctic Under the new scheme they may required for the construction of & ENGINEERING CO. LTD. which resemble, in principle, the waters, according to a report in qualify to rise to the highest waterline models. The price—-in SHIPBUILDERS spring balance on which letters the Melbourne "Herald." Last ranks in the Navy, but it is re­ Sterling—to be charged to pri­ MARINE &. GENERAL ENGINEERS are weighed. Some experi­ month the aircraft carrier H.M.S. cognised that some who will in vate model makers is:—battle­ IRON & BRASS FOUNDERS ments were carried out while "Vengeance," two destroyers, a future be borne on the general ships 5/-: cruisers 4/-; destroy­ BOILERMAKERS ft BLACKSMITHS the foreshore was dry, but others submarine and an anti-submarine lists of the Executive and Engin­ ers and monitors 2/6d. Applica­ Established 1854 while the tide hid the anchor. frigate, set out for a six weeks eering Branches may not be qual­ tions for the drawings should be HEAD OFFICE IC WORKS: In this last case, submersible in­ cruise of the North Atlantic and ified through past lack of sea­ accompanied by a remittance struments were used, and read Arctic to test the effects of great man like experience for the full made payable to the Director of by personnel operating in boats. cold upon men, ships and weap­ MORT'S BAY, BALMAIN range of appointments open to Navy Accounts, Admiralty, and SYDNEY, N.S.W. U.S. Underwater Fleet ons. the executive officer. Details of should be addressed to The Sec­ 'Phone: WB 1991—6 noes. According to a report in the Scientists With The Ships the qualification necessary in retary of the Admiralty, (P. New York Star, the United The experimental cruise is be­ order to be eligible for all ap­ Branch I), Bath, Somerset, Eng­ States Navy is building an under­ ing led by H.M.S. "Vengeance" pointments will be announced. land. water fleet that includes tran­ with a specially-selected air sports, cargo-earners, radar ships, group, including jet aircraft. Prize Money Mediterranean Exercises and special craft to detect and de­ Psychologists, civilian scientists, The war of 1939-1945 is the stroy enemy submarines. This and members of the Naval Scien­ last in which the time honoured In the first of its kind since BUCHANAN & BROCK programme is a development of tific Service are with the ships, custom of the award of Prize British battleships left the Medit­ PTY. LTD. erranean two years ago, the Royal the "balanced fleet" idea, and the which are lined with materials Money will be observed, for the ENGINEERS, BOILER MAKERS, PORTABLE Navy is carrying out large-scale Star quoted Rear Admiral for insulations against the cold. British Bill providing for the ELECTRIC ARC AND OXY-ACETYLENE exercises in the "Middle Sea" Charles Momsen, U.S. Assistant The men are equipped with new payment and distribution of prize WELDERS. Chief of Naval Operations, as lightweight Arctic suits, compris­ money from the sale of captured this month. Two battleships, the saying that the" United States ing six layers of clothing from enemy vessels and cargo during "Vanguard" and the "Duke of building programme does not string vests to outer overalls of that war also provides for the York," five aircraft carriers, mean that the whole Navy is waterproof cloth. A special abolition of prize money and prize eight cruisers, J 2 destroyers, 12 preparing to go under water, Arctic diet prepared includes bounty "in respect of any war in frigates, escort vessels, and two neither does it mean that the chicken, steak, pork, bacon, which His Majesty may become submarine flotillas, are taking TAR DISTILLING PLANTS. FACTORY REPAIRS. U.S. Navy regards the threat of tongue, eggs, and fruit juices. engaged after the commencement part. The Commander-in-Chief SHIP REPAIRS. the atomic bomb as "equivalent of this Act." of the Home Fleet (Admiral Sir R.N. Abolishes "A" Branch Rhoderick McGrigor) and the to the necessity to dive." An Admiralty announcement Dominions To Participate Ground Training Commander-in-Chief Mediterran­ LORIMER STREET, SOUTH MELBOURNE, S.C.5. of the intention to abolish the Under the Bill, the Dominion ean (Admiral Sir Arthur Power), Last month the Admiralty an­ "A" Branch in the Royal Navy countries, including India, Pakis­ have planned joint exercises de­ Telephones: MX 2281-2-3. nounced a new appointment— and that officers now serving in tan, and Ceylon, will receive their veloping into a full-scale fleet •HI: T. 1 I -•- — ] J. aVadt—U«*7. that of Flag Officer-in-Charge of the "A" Branch shall be trans­ share of the total prize money al­ "battle." Ground Training. The first of­ ferred as appropriate to the located in proportions based on Fsfcnar* IMf Tfct) Nainr »» ' dent of the Maritime Services "Stone Frigate" which is a ship fer. . indeed but for the fact that, al­ Board, was in the Official Party. though on and surrounded by The weather was fine, a light water, it does not float. When, wind tempering the heat of a on the 20th. November last bright sun, and the day was one Snapper Island celebrated its to remember, the ceremony be­ 20th. birthday, all those connect­ ing an outstanding success, and ed with it—and especially its everything reflecting the greatest Honorary Commanding Officer— credit on the Honorary Com­ could look back with pride and manding Officer and his Officers, satisfaction over twenty years of and on the' Cadets and Cadettcs unceasing labour and untiring de­ of the Depot. votion to an ideal, and could sur­ vey that ideal in its realised state The historic occasion was of an excellent training ship for made more memorable by the Sea Cadets. fact that a real ship was moored alongside the "Stone Frigate"— The occasion was one for an the ex-Royal Australian -Naval interesting and imposing cere' Fleet Auxiliary "Ripple," made mony, the unveiling of Ensigns available on loan to the Sea "Sydney" Training Depot. Snapper Island, taken from the port side. and Plaques commemorating the Cadet Council by the Australian R.A.N.F.A. "ftippta," lanr to tha Council of tha Navy League in Australia, and commiuionod and itationad at Snappar Island a« tha Steam Training Ship services rendered by the Training Commonwealth Naval Board. "Rippla." Ship to the Armed Forces during the 1939-45 War. SNAPPER ISLAND THE ARISTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST TABLE so long as we have peace, freedom of the seas, Continued from paga 27 Four Ensigns and Plaques and freedom of trade. Sea Cadet Training Establishment Celebrates Birthday were unveiled: the U.S.A. En­ and pays for it—but gets the money to pay for It's worth thinking about occasionally, for it sign and Plaque (Ship and Gun In Colourful And Picturesque Unveiling of Ensigns it because we earn enough by selling it to him touches us all nearly. It is why we need a Navy, Crew No. 1 Command August to help to keep him in his job in London by buy­ to play its part in maintaining world peace and 5th., 1942-April 12th., 1943) by ing what his firm produces and ships out here to ensuring that freedom of the seas for the free •TWENTY years ago the sythe, S.S.D., on an ambitious Mr. Knowlton V. Hicks, Consul Australia. interchange of trade which keeps the Autocrat of •*• "Sydney" Training Depot venture of which rieh fruits were for the United States of America; It is, you see. a circle. But not a vicious circle the Breakfast Table under control. (Voluntary Sea Training Estab­ reaped in November of last year. the Union Flag and Plaque (Mar­ lishment) formed for the purpose In 1928, the members of the itime Royal Artillery—No. 2 In­ of training members of the Sea Depot set about the task of trans­ dependent Troop, 19th. January, Cadet Corps, N.S.W.. embarked forming Snapper Island, Sydney 194422nd. January, 1946) by under the cnthusiastie and inspir­ Harbour--until then a deserted, Rear Admiral C. T. M. Pi;ey, "DULUX" The durable finish ing leadership of its Honorary barren pinnaele of rock—into a C.B., D.S.O., Head of the Unit­ Commander. Leonard E. For- modern, well-equipped Depot, a ed Kingdom Services Liaison Staff in Australia, representing the for all types of marine craft United Kingdom High Commis­ sioner) ; the White Ensign and Plaque (Naval Guard. Western "Dulux" is the long wearing and durable •*'.'.,. - tits Harbour Area August 25th., synthetic finish, particularly suitable for all •'• wf^ 1939-May 3rd., 1940) by Rear Admiral G. D. Moore, C.B.E.. wood and metal surfaces. The extra durability 1 • IF and toughness of "Dulux" are largely due to - *»8 m Q W ^ Flag Officcr-in-Charge, N.S.W., representing the Royal Australian the "Dulux" film. This gives extra wear and A J k»0Pf Navy: and the Australian Ensign resistance to damage, "Dulux" will not flake or • 1 wm\ and Plaque (Australian Imperial chip and is highly resistant to •moisture. Force LHQ, SME "B" Wing Water Transport, October 11th., "Dulux" does not brittle like ordinary finishes, 1943-January 18th., 1944) by flows on easily, dries quickly and is easy to Brigadier B. W. Pulver, C.B.E., keep clean. eVfl D.S.O., representing the G.O.C. Gommand. It is regretted that "Dulux" is in short supply at present due to vital raw materials being At the request of the Honor­ I ary Commanding Officer, Alder­ unobtainable. y- i m man R. J. Bartley, the Lord DUluX Mayor of Sydney, presided at A Product of British Australian Lead Manufac­ Eniiqni and Plaguai a* "Sydnay" Training Dapoi. Tha large plaugua baan tha the Unveiling Ceremony. Cap­ THE SfNTHETIC FINISH inscription: "To commamorata tha »arvica randarad by tha "Sydnay" Training S*Jpenede* Enamr!i & Varnishes turers Pty Ltd., Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide. D.pot to Mw Armad Foreai, 1939-19*6. tain G. 'A. Whitton, Vice-Presi-

»-~ TIM Navy • . - • • • . • name. Lloyd's Register for 1919- feet beam by 21.1 feet deep. complete, which would make the The difference between the NAUTICAL 20 shews the change. The orig­ While bound from Bunbury, approximate dates December, 3,300 tons announced as the inal "Manica" was of 4,120 tons W.A., to Durban, on 13th. May, 1948, for "Tobruk" and August, tonnage of the Australian Battle gross, built in 1900 by Sir J. 1892, she was wrecked about six 1949, for "Anzac." Enquiries class ships and the 2,320 tons Laing and Sons, at Sunderland*, miles south of the Umgababa made have not disclosed the ex­ for the British ships of the same QUESTION BOX tor the same owners, her dimen­ River, South Africa. pected dates, but it is known class would seem to be explained in that ours is the full or deep CONDUCTED BY sions being 360.5 feet long by W. J. (Kyneton): "Marl­ that "Tobruk" has not begun her 47.0 feet beam by 28.3 feet depth borough Hill" was an iron four trials, as yet. displacement, and the British the Coptola R. C. C. D-aa. A.I.N.A.. Loadoa by 25.2 feet draught, three island, masted barque of 2,363 tons nett Details of these ships are dis­ normal displacement of 2,320 ere invited to tend in any queries en nautical matters, and we poop 36 feet long, bridge deck 96 register, built for Messrs. W. 6? placement 2,315 tons, normal and tons, though a difference of 980 endeavour to enewor theet in ttioia columns. feet long and forecastle 40 feet R. Price by W. H. Potter and 3,300 tons deep load, 379 ft. long tons for ammunition, oil fuel, long. Builders' number 580 and sig­ Co., Liverpool, in 1885. Her di­ overall, 40J feet beam and 12J torpedoes, stores, etc., might seem "Baraiong" (Hobart) asks if German submarine U27 (Kapitan nal numbers SDGP. Lloyd's Regis­ mensions were 300.5 feet long by feet draught. Armament, five a little high. It will be seen that that name revives any memories Leutnant Wegener) shelling her. ter 1919-20 gives all the details 42.2 feet beam by 24.7 feet deep. 4.5" dual purpose guns in turrets these ships almost come into the and asks for information about The submarine was hidden by the of the "Baraiong" under the She carried royal and skysail power. operated, eight 40 milli­ category of light cruisers. name of "Manica," while the that steamer. He lost track of "Nicosian's" hull and as she came yards on her fore, main and miz- metre AA guns, and ten 21 inch D. W. M., of Sirius Cove her in Lloyd's Register, but clear, "Baraiong," which had in builder's list in the same issue zen masts. She was sold in 1911 torpedo tubes in quintuple gives the number 580 as being a Road, Sydney, says that the Syd- ' knows she was not sunk. the meantime hoisted her White to R. Mattson, Mariehamn, and mountings. They will be driven steamer named "Huntball" and ney ferries "Kalang," "Koondoo-- Yes, the name certainly revives Ensign and cleared her guns for after retaining her original name by Parsons twin-screw geared having all details exactly as the loo" and "Koompartoo" werti action, opened fire, sinking the all through her career, she was turbines of 50,000 horsepower at memories and here arc some de­ original "Manica," though there taken up by the Navy and fitted submarine. Some survivors from scrapped in 1925. a speed of 34 knots designed, and tails. "Baraiong" was a steel is no reference again to any pre­ out as floating workshops. They screw steamer of 4,192 gross tons her, including Wegener, swam have three boilers. The original served in various theatres of war vious name. The "Huntball" is R. A. S„ of Hobart Road, programme was for two Battle built in 1901 by Armstrong, to "Nicosian" and clambered shewn as owned by Ellerman and Murrumbeena, asks for informa­ and "Kalang" and "Koondooloo" Whitworth and Co., Ltd., New- aboard. As she was carrying class and four Daring class, and have since returned to their Bucknall. tion regarding the new Battle this appears to be the intention castle-on-Tyne, for the Ellcrman horses, (tended by American class destroyers now building in peacetime work on Sydney Har­ and Bucknall Line, being one of muleteers) as well as other valu­ Lloyd's Register 1923-24 shews still, although the Minister said bour. He asks for information Australia, also the Daring and G at the time of the earlier launch­ several sister ships such as "Man- able cargo, "Baraiong" was laid "Baraiong" under the name of classes under construction when of these ships and also as to ica" and "Barotsc." Her dimen­ alongside her and a boarding "Kyokuto Maru No. 2," still with­ ings that two further Battle class where the "Koompartoo" is. the war ended. would be built. sions were 360.0 feet long by party of Marines sent away. As out any reference to that pre­ There is little information These three ferries were all 47.0 feet beam by 28.5 feet deep the German survivors refused to vious name, and she was later re­ about the G class destroyers Known details of the Daring built of steel, the "Kalang" at by 25.2 feet draught, being three surrender, they were all hunted named "Shinsci Maru No. 2." building in Britain in 1945, and class are 2,610 tons normal dis­ Chester, England, in 1926. She island, poop 36 feet, bridge deck down by the Marines and shot. In this same issue of Lloyd's, the later cancelled. They were to placement, 390 feet long overall, was of 525 tons gross, 187.0 feet 96 feet, and forecastle 42 feet. The American .muleteers, on original "Manica" is shewn to have been named "Gael" and 43 feet beam and 12J feet long, 35.6 feet beam and 13.1 Builders' number 711 and signal their return to America, gave have been converted to an oil "Gallant" (building by Yarrow's draught. Armament is to be six feet deep. "Koondooloo" is 524 numbers SWMN. Speed, 12 some very lurid accounts of what tanker under the name of "Phor- 4.5 dual purpose guns in power of Scotstoun), "Gauntlet," tons gross, 191.7 feet long, 35.7 knots. occurred, and there was an out­ us" and owned by the Anglo operated turrets, ten 40 milli­ "Gift," "Grafton," "Greyhound," feet beam and 14.8 feet deep, She was taken up by the Royal burst in the Gentian press about Saxon Petroleum Co. also with metre AA guns and ten 21 inch "Guernsey" and "Guinivere," built in 1924 at Leith, Scotland. Navy as a submarine decoy ship the inhumanity shewn their men. no reference to her first name of torpedo tubes, in quintuple "Manica." Both these ships went builders unknown. Ir. appearance "Koompartoo" is 448 tons gross, early in 1915, and placed under However, the same day, German mountings. Parsons geared tur­ to the shipbreakers during the and general dimensions, they are 182.6 feet long, 36.1 feet beam the command'of Lieut. Command­ destroyers went within a mile of bines on twin are specified, but nineteen-thirties. believed to have resembled the C and 13.9 feet deep, built in 1922 er Godfrey Herbert, R.N., the the coast of the Danish island of no horsepower or speed has yet class. Some had been launched, at Newcastle. ship being manned by both R.N. Saltholm, to shell the stranded A. J. (Kew): The steamer been announced. The British others were only in the framing As mentioned, "Kalang" and • and R.N.V.R. She was already British submarine' £13, killing "Kapunda" 3,383 tons, was own­ Darings are to be named "Dia­ stage when construction ceased, "Koondooloo" have been refitted cruising off the southern coast of fifteen of her crew of thirty, in ed by the Melbourne Steamship mond" (building by John Brown, and they were finally scrapped. ajid returned by the Navy to their Ireland when the "Lusitania" was spite of the protests of a Danish Co., and with the well known Clydebank); "Disdain" (Fair­ "Dimboola," maintained passeng­ The Battle class destroyers field S.B. Co.); "Dogstar" (Fair­ owners, Sydney Ferries, Ltd., sunk, arriving in Quee'nstown af­ torpedo boat. but "Koompartoo" was removed ter many of the drowned had About a month later "Bara­ er services on the Australian building in Australia are "To- field S.B. Co.); "Daring" (Swan coast until 1916, when she was bruk" at Cockatoo Dockyard, Hunter); "Duchess" (Thorny- from the Australian Shipping been brought ashore on to the iong" sank U41 in almost similar Register in 1945, when she was wharf there.' circumstances. As regards the sold to H. E. Moss and Co., Lon­ Sydney, and "Anzac," at Wil- croft): "Dainty" (J. Samuel don. Her end came on 12th. liamstown Dockyard, Victoria. White); and "Druid" and apparently purchased outright by On 19th. August, 1915, the final disposal of "Baraiong." This the Royal Australian Navy. She White Star liner "Arabic," 15,801 was a rather strange business. November, 1916, when she was They were both ordered in "Dragon" (both by Yarrow). torpedoed and sunk by a German March. 1946,,, the "Tobruk" be­ is now lying in reserve in Darwin tons, was torpedoed and sunk Apparently as a sop to the Ger­ with a care and ' maintenance' with a loss of 44 lives. "Bara­ mans' feeelings, (though why, is submarine, 205 miles ESE from ing laid down on 5th. August, The Minister did in December, Malta, there being no loss of 1946, and launched on 20th. De-. 1947, state that two Darings party. The prospect of her re­ iong" received her radio SOS and hard to understand, for Wegener turn to Sydney services would life. ccmber, 1947. "Anzac" was laid would be constructed at Cocka­ set off for the spot, but on reach­ was simply out-manoeuvred by a appear to be very remote. ing the given position, could find more astute mind), the British H. L. (South Melbourne): down on 23rd. September, 1946, too and two at Williamstown! no trace of her. Away on the owners decided to wipe out the The full rigged ship "Nebo," and launched on 20th. August, and this programme has not been These ships were very similar skyline could be seen shell-bursts, name "Baraiong" and it was done 1,383 tons, was built in 1877 by 1948. At the launchings, the altered, but so far no announce­ and have given good service to. so the ship set off to investigate. by transferring the name of her Dobie and Co., Glasgow, for J. Minister of the Navy; Mr. Rior- ment has been made of the lay­ the thousands of people who She found the steamer "Nico- sister ship "Manica" to her with­ Smith, of London, her dimensions dan, stated that they would take ing of the keels of any of them have travelled in them. "Kalang" sian" lying stopped with the out any reference to a change of being 246.3 feet long by 37.1 about another twelve months to at either dockyard. Continued on pege 4* February, It4* . .-. .: . ' .

She is one of the last links with the old times, the days when one could look from Queen's ENGINEERING Bridge over the "Pool" of Mel­ bourne and see ships all the way PRODUCTS down to the Spencer Street ferry. PTY. LTD. The names come to mind now: "Edina," "Courier," , "Wainui," 426-436 Burnley St. "Nairana" or "Loongana"—pos­ sibly with Huddart Parker's FOSTERS BURNLEY lighter "Marjorie" alongside VICTORIA "Paloona," "Rotomahana" or "Oonah," on the north side; and • on the south side "Sphene," Specialised "NAIRANA" "Eumcralla.'' "Casino," "Wy- Manufacturers rullah." "Mana'watu." "Moonah", in all types of .tnd "Reliance." For many Years A Familiar Figure On The Bass Strait Petrol. Oil and other When "Taroona" was called up LAGER Storage and Dispensing Ferry Run to Tasmania, She Saw Service In Both The for service in the 19J9-45 War. Equipment. World Wars. . "Nairana" successfully carried on • the Tasmanian run alone, al­ Written and Illustrated by Norman Allen though it was a lot to expect of Telephone!: any single vessel. On one pas­ JA5251 (Rocky Darby) sage from Launccston to Mel­ JA5252 bourne she caused quite a stir. • N the 7th. of last month, Sea for the summer of 19IS and The Navy received a report that The first line of defence for the family O the well-known old Bass 1919. In August, 1918, she .md she had been sighted off the Tas- is undoubtedly a Life Assurance Policy, and the Policy Telegrams: manian coast, steaming at high Eppcol, Melbourne Strait steamer "Nairana" was a light cruiser attacked a Bol­ contracts issued by The Colonial Mutual Life Assurance shevik island fort at the entrance speed, and tiring her gun at some towed from her berth at South are designed to provide the strongest possible defence for Wharf in the River Yarra, Mel­ to Archangel. The cruiser sus­ object astern. H.M.A.S. "Adel­ bourne, to an anchorage in Hob- tained light casualties, while aide" was at Port Melbourne, and the family. "Nairana's" seaplanes bombed although "Nairana" had made no son's Bay, where she lies awaiting They may be obtained by payment of instalments, weekly, disposal. For very many years the fort out of action, she her­ signal indicating any enemy ac­ tion, it was decided to recall monthly, quarterly, half-yearly, or yearly. she has been a familiar figure in self suffering no damage. Event­ "Adelaide's" crew from leave. THE Melbourne, and in Launccston, as ually, her naval service complet­ Write for booklet to . . . The police gave great ass.stancc, one of the Victoria-Tasmania ed, she was reconverted at Dev- onport Naval Dockyard to her and the cruiser's men were soon* • ferries, and hundreds of thous­ r FLEET-FORGE original design, and returned to streaming back on board ! om ands of passengers have made the the pictures and other relaxation. voyage across the Straits in her. her owners, Messrs. Huddart The Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society PTY. LTD. Parker Ltd., in December, 1920. It subsequently transpired, how­ She has been idle for a con­ ever, that "Nairana" had merely siderable period now, but it was been carrying out gun practice. Limited 9-13 LORIMER ST. strange to see her doing nothing An attractive and well-kept vessel, she at first had Huddart over Christmas and the New When hostilities ceased, "Nair­ 316 COLLINS STREET, MELBOURNE, C.l. STH. MELBOURNE Parker's buff funnel, but this was Year after all her busy holiday ana" continued to run to Tas­ later changed to the black, red voyages of past years. mania along with "Taroona" un­ VICTORIA and yellow markings of Tasman- til she was recently withdrawn ian Steamers Pty. Ltd. She ran In 1915 "Nairana" was being from the trade. Before leaving on the Tasmania service with ENGINEERS built by Denny of Dumbarton, her river berth for the bay an­ "Loongana," "Rotomahana," and when practically all work on chorage to lay up, some of her STRUCTURAL "Oonah," and when these vessels illuiailili merchant tonnage in British treasured fittings were removed. were finished she continued on MECHANICAL yards was stopped for the time Among them was a photograph with "Taroona." ' being in favour of naval work. of her as a seaplane carrier. An­ MARINE In 1917 the Admiralty took the KINNEAR'S BRAND The run across Bass Straits can other relic was the brass tablet EMU ship over, and converted her into Quotation* given for all try out a vessel's seagoing quali­ which was presented to her, giv­ a seaplane carrier, she being at­ ROPE, CORDAGE, TWINE and LINEN THREADS classes of work. ties. "Nairana" proved herself a ing the following brief account tached to the Battle-Cruiser of her 1914-18 War service: Squadron based in the Firth of very comfortable ship, although Manufactured by Geo. Kinnear & Sons Pty. Ltd., 114 Kiaa St., Melbourne TELEPHONE: Forth. on one occasion, near Port Phillip "H.M.S. 'Nairana,' flying the MXS2 3 1 (6 lints) Heads, she took aboard a freak Flag of Rear Admiral T W. Following service in the North wave which killed one person and Kemp, CLE., was instrumental •a ^ ^ ^ ^ a a a a a M Sea, she was sent to the White injured others. in the capture of Archangel in

February. I?49 - _ August, 1918, engaging six-inch batteries at the mouth of the CONVOY CAPERS river with her guns and seaplanes, and off the city, destroying the By Bob BtpttMnting — +LASK YOUR GROCER Bolshevik forts. By means of bombs and gunfire directed from LF.MOVtNTON I OQ. a seaplane sent up from her deck, T DONT think I laughed much knot convoy the could make five * in the days of convoys, but knots with a following sea. • SMORGONS she destroyed an armed vessel now I can look back and smile at in which the Bolshevik Chan­ the brighter side. I remember the cellor of the Exchequer was es­ The Old Man would come on • Mistrial Oils many times I have stood on to the bridge as the dismal greying CANNED MEATS caping with the Bolshevik treas­ the foc'sle watching the convoy ury on board. Until October, light of dawn displayed our Your Grocer stocks and recommends SMORGONS CANNED struggle out of harbour and form scrubby beards and tired eyes MEATS. Prepared in a most up-to-date factory and supplied 1918, H.M.S. "Nairana' controll­ up into station—gaunt liberty while we kicked the dirty coffee from SMORGONS own Abattoirs. ed the northern coast*of Russia, ships and low, wallowing tankers, mugs out of sight and tried to look engaging the enemy with her and perhaps an odd merchantman NORMAN SMORGON 8c SONS PTY. LTD. awake in his presence. He would guns and seaplanes, and landing or two; a sad looking lot in the grunt at the officer of the watch * Htal Trtitmtut SOMMERVILLE ROAD, BROOKLYN, VIC armed bluejackets wherever ne­ gathering dusk. I have stood there and say: "Old jughandle missing cessary." watching the spray shoot off the again?" Often 'old jughandle' was rollers, and thinking of another a miserable little coaster, and we Melbourne residents who re­ seven days of pitching, tossing, would feel sorry for him while wc rolling and corkscrewing our way swore at him. PAYKELBROS. member the river before the to the Persian Gulf, where we had building of the Spencer Street a short respite in a temperature of (Autt.) PTY. LTD. Bridge, will recall the "Nairana" 120 degrees, and pulled out again HUMOUR and pathos played 38 MISSENDEN ROAD tag in some of the grim moments. For the best Spf t Drinks lying at her berth near the Cus­ with another mob of tankers and NEWTOWN. N&W. mercantile tortoises. I remember leaving port with a toms House, above where the little coaster the Old Man called a LA 5039 Always say . . . bridge now stands. You could set "black-belching b " as soon as AND AT MELBOURNE. Down to Aden and back to your watch by her sailing. There Bombay by the same route in a he saw it. We lost him by morn­ would be the last of the hurry­ month's time. We cursed our sea­ ing, and we later learnt that he MARCHANT'S ing passengers, the last of the had gone back home. He was with sick souls, the war, and the mon­ us again, and the same thing oc cargo gear waiting to swing the soons. And most of us cursed the PLEASE! curred when we left the same port mails on board; and, as the final convoys! Long gruelling days in which nothing ever happened or twelve days later. Third time is bags of mail lifted from the perhaps an attack once in three lucky, they say, and he stayed with wharf, her bell would ring, us this time for two days, until the THE weeks: but never a kill, unless an convoy commodore was fished. A finishing with the final three unoffending whale turned its belly second fish failed to explode in the single strokes and the gangway towards the stars. next-in-line, and our organised would come away. Then her panic commenced. Like terriers, CARLTON lines would be let go, and very But, in retrospect, there was we were darting about with our quietly and smoothly she would something spectacular and awe­ charges, and the convoy was dis­ some in the line of grey hulls persing when a streak of black HOTEL leave her berth, swing, and pro­ shadowed against the evening smoke shot through the middle of ceed down stream on the start clouds. the mess. The rotten little scrub­ of her run across Bass Straits to ber beat us into the next port by 56 CASTLEREAGH ST., the island State. They seemed to draw your gaze fifteen hours. and, count them as many times as SYDNBY, N.S.W. Now she lies out in the Bay, you wished, you got a different Sometimes convoys were called close to the mouth of the river, score each time. There was always circuses by the cynics. One of our just off the track she trod so a tub hidden by the old girl on her convoys was officially known as THE many times. Her going is the beam: and there was always the 'the circus' on inter-ship radio tele­ lazy last, the straggler who was snapping of another link with phone communication. The con­ forever not with us—the sort of ference had pre-arranged the call- the past, and she will be missed creaking old hulk laid down in '13 signs, and the merchantmen were CARLTON —but fondly remembered—by for 12 knots and considered, at the "boards," while the Navy ships * the port of Melbourne, as well as convoy conference, capable of were "floorboards". On the star­ by the folk on the other side of making eight. As she dropped board side of the convoy two of steadily behind "over the hill," it HOTEL the water in Tasmania. die escorts were "Plannigan" and was painfully evident that in a six- "Allen", and the Commodore was

. • cated a Norwegian tanker which was a donkey-man on the Com­ very irate at having been stopped. "Daddy", while everybody listen­ Jerry had chased and holed, the modore and had jumped straight A certain convoy, proceeding to ed in to 'Circus.' The same wit of explosion having broken her back. overboard oh hearing the first ex­ land troops on a Jap-occupied a commodore who suggested these During the afternoon the crews of plosion. Fools rush in where an­ island, was a funny, if not fear' call-signs made the sarcastic signal: A. BAGLEY & SON the three ships were sorted out gels wouldn't go with triple tur­ some, sight. The warships consisted. DALE & SONS "As the war ends at noon on Sat­ and counted, including those col­ rets. We delivered him to his ship of seven fierce-looking corvettes 211-213 BEAMISH ST., urday in Bombay I suggest we lected by our sister ship. The men three days later. and two motor launches, and the PTY. LTD. CAMPSIE. alter course to in order to ar­ missing, believed to have gone three Dutch troopers belched black N.S.W. rive before this event." down with their ships, were re­ STRANGE things happen at smoke for, miles behind the inev­ I was spared the misery of Rus­ corded, and everything tallied ex­ sea, and beside locating a drifting itable sUraggler, a small Naval store The largest and most sian and North Altantic convoys, cept for one Mahommed Lahl. No buoy miles away at sea and chas­ ship, wnose slowness dictated the up-to-date Shoe Store hut I have heard many of the tales body knew him; he hadn't been on ing whales, reported by the RAF. speed of the convoy at four knots. in the district was that have drifted back. I think one of the torpedoed vessels. Who one unhappy Christmay Day as six There was one other ship; a top­ one of them is worth repeating. was he? From where had he come? submarines, there was the occasion sail schooner which, because of the TANNERS, established by us in When the "Queen Mary" cleared when the escorting vessel pulled good prevailing wind and her in­ LEATHER MERCHANTS 1920. her port in the homeland on her A lifeboat from the Yank tank­ away from the convoy to investi­ ability to shorten sail any further, runs to America, a gallant little es­ er picked him out of the drink gate a suspicious-looking, dirty sailed right round the convoy cort, often an old destroyer, await­ .tlong with her own fellows. Even Arab dhow. Imagine the surprise about once an hour in order to go ed her outside. To the "Queen's" tually our engineer, who spoke of the Old Man to find in com­ slow enough to keep up with us! REPAIRS? YES! imperious "What is your maxi­ Hindustani, found time to ques­ mand of it a Commander in the There is still a lot to be said for CRANBROOK ST., mum speed?" she would reply, tion him, and it turned out that he Royal Naval Intelligence branch, sail. BOTANY, N.S.W. Best of leather and "Twenty-two knots, sir," or what­ ever it happened to be. In the Yes, like our school days, which workmanship manner of a policeman waving on are not the best of our lives but the best to look back on, the very guaranteed. some slow traffic would come the NAUTICAL QUIZ signal: "We will steam at 22 grim days give humorous mem­ knots." And for two days the ories * in later years. Man owes For all enquiries, game little escort would struggle (1) On Boxing Day, 1943, H.M.A. Ships "Australia," much of his sanity to his natural "Shropshire," "Arunta," and "Warramunga" took part ability to remember the good 'Phone: MU 1447. 'PHONE: LF3183. on before giving up the ghost and returning to port, while the in U.S. landings at Cape Gloucester, New Britain. Who things long after the bad have "Queen Mary" increased speed to named the Cape and the Island? been forgotten. 30 knots and scarped for the land (2) In reading of the Indian and Eastern trades, we often of chewing gum and film stars. find references to "country ships." What were they? (3) In the year 1580 a ship, returning from a long voyage, The pride of the Navy rose entered Plymouth Sound, and hailed a passing fisher­ NETTLEF0LDS MALCOLM MOORE again, however, when the 'Mary' man with the question "Is the Queen alive?" What was made her usual signal to an un­ the ship, and the urgency of the question? SCREWS JAMES usual looking escort. (4) When and how did the term "capital ship" originate? (Mi.W.) PTY. LTD. MUNRO "To Officer commanding es­ (5) In numbers of her wars Britain has suffered from the cort, what is your maximum "guerre de course." What is it? ARE PTY. LTD. speed?" (6) The former merchant clipper "Sobraon" became the USED 1 Bent St., Sydney "Forty-five knots, sir. So what!" R.A.N. Training Ship "Tingira." The process was re­ e I can imagine the gleam in the versed when the former line-of-battle ship H.M.S. .IN Engineers Old Man's eye as he dictated that "Nile" became a training ship for officers of the British EVERY reply. Merchant Service. Do you know the training ship? WOOD BENDERS I can vouch for the truth of the (7) In the summer of 1940, the sea off the French coast near e following incident. There were 23 Gravelines was the scene of an epic event in British BRITISH ships in the convoy, with a cor­ history. What was the former event in which the sea SHIP vette astern and the other cor­ there figured importantly for Britain? Specialists in vette, ourselves, doing a long criss­ (8) Dassen Island, off the S.W. coast of Africa, is so-called cross sweep in the van. In the because it is the home of small animals known as HANDLING, LIFTING 172-194 WALKER ST. blackness at-3.30 a.m., Jerry aimed "dassies." Do you know why Rpttncst Island, off the REDFERN for the Commodore, missed, and S.W. coast of Australia, is so named? and fished the second and fifth in the (9) The Australian author Malcolm Urcn has written, in NETTLEFOLDS centre line. We commenced chas­ "Sailormen's Ghosts," a story df a visit to the Abrolhos CONVEYING MACHINERY ing unsuccessfully, the convoy dis­ Islands. Where are they, and whence the name PTY. LTD. Phone: MX 1458 persed and two skyscrapers of Abrolhos? (2 Lies) flame emphasised the darkness. (10) Many of the early ships of Japan's modern navy were SUNSHINE 'Phone: BW 1488 At 6.30 a.m. we commenced built by the Britisji. Do you know of the first occasion picking up representatives of all of British shipbuilding for the Japanese? VICTORIA nations, except, I think, the Es- Aniwan on p.?. 53 kimoes, and by midday we had lo-

T». Navy Fjbrj.ry. \X If Britain and the Commonwealth ganization developed from the the Sovereign Polity of the na­ seven thousand prisoners of war, Continued from poo* 35 MARINE are dying, they are an uncon­ working model of that Society of tions within it. "It is in the shape from Singapore to Thailand— was used, prior to requisitioning, SERVICE scionable long time about it." Nations which has worked which of things promised, in the energy eight hundred miles through the as a show boat for evening and tropics packed like sardines in STATION The author of this book does the British Commonwealth has which strove through the British Sunday trips on the harbour. It airless steel railway trucks, and not think their demise is on the presented to the world. It would System to make sense in the larg­ is believed that "Koompartoo" a two hundred mile march of horizon. He reviews the factors be an organization of many cen­ er world. It is in the strange was at some time stationed at horror on starvation rations, which make for and against co­ tres of local power, with consul­ power of the British to create in the island of Guadalcanal, scene racked with fever and beaten CHURCH POINT hesion in the British System. He tative machinery in each capital the teeth of their own national­ of the first attack of the Ameri­ with sticks. "Nothing could stop quotes Emerson's observation of of the Commonwealth of Nations isms a larger unity which\ for a can Marines against the Japan­ PITTWATER to cover the whole range of century embraced peoples ot the march; it moved on, death­ a little over a hundred years ago ese. Marina Engineers. when Britain was going through common themes. ' every colour and creed. This is the phenomena which America Slipping, an earlier crisis: '*So I feel in "We need not be afraid of should study: for it has clues regard to this aged England . . . complexity. Organic life is com­ Painting. to the supra-national society that pressed upon by transitions of plex and grows by the constant Moorings. is now the one alternative to M. FITZGERALD trade and . . . competing popula­ multiplication of its cells. We chaos." pT,^ ^ etc. tions—I see her not dispirited, must abandon the idea of the Na­ Boiler Scaler and Cleaner. not weak, but well remembering tional States as fixed and' static Mr. McGuire writes with k?M PwJft that she has seen dark days he> forms. A World Order is not deep sincerity and with an in­ T^li Wfe> • JMi-'i IFTT Lime and Cement Washing. fore; —indeed with a kind of to be built like a wall of separate formed mind. This is no super­ **'< f For all enquiries, 'phono instinct that she sees a little bricks. It must grow in the terms ficial survey of ^n undeveloped All kitid s of Engine Rxoaift S Mkchold Work done. better in a cloudy day, and that, of organic life. This has been theory, but an earnest exposition Oil or in storm of battle and calamity, Water! anks. the lesson of the British System, into which, it is clear, has gone XW9O07 she has a secret vigour and a pulse and >t stands in the sharpest con­ much observation, thought, and 210 MOI>I T AGUE ST. STH. MELBOURNE, VIC. like a cannon." trast to set-pieces like the League study of cause and effect. It is 'Phone—Day < * Night MX 9680. It is to the sources of this and the United Nations." a convincing and stimulating

ilia Ma*r . . ..- . . , • • • WHAT THE NAVY IS DOING . ... at Sea and Ashore

•TPHE big change in the Royal Australian Navy since these notes were will later accompany the Flagship Dockyard in May, being due there During December and January she R.A.N.) departed Sydney on the •*• last written is that in the designation 6i the seagoing organization. to Western Australia. She will re­ on the 6th of that month, and will transported 230 Tasmanian Boy 7th of last month to carry out a As announced by the Minister for the Navy (Mr. Riordan) the title main with Australia until the 4th then be at 50 days' availability for Scouts from the Island State to survey at the eastern end of Baa was changed, as from the 1st of January, from that of His Majesty's May, and subsequently will be in leave and urgent defects. It is an­ Melbourne to attend the Pan- Strait. A first degree triangulation Royal Australian Naval Squadron to His Majesty's Royal Australian company with H.M.A.S. Sydney ticipated that she will sail from Pacific Jamboree, and later re­ connecting the mainland to Tas­ Fleet. As from the same date, the title of the Flag Officer Commanding on that ship's arrival on the Sta­ Sydney about the 10th August to turned them to Tasmania. Tdra- mania via various islands in Bass became Flag Officer Commanding His Majesty's Australian Fleet. tion. relieve Bataan in Japanese waters. \an was made available for this Strait, will be undertaken first. duty by the Royal Australian The result will form part of the When announcing the change, Mr. Riordan said that a fleet is H.M.A.S. Bataan (Commander H.M.A.S. Condamin* (Lieut.- Navy at the request of the Tas­ National Geodetic Survey of Aus­ defined as an organization consisting of various types of ships and A. S. Storey, DSC, R.A.N.) is Commander J. H. Dowson, manian Premier (Mr. Cosgrove). tralia. Representatives of the Direc­ naval aircraft capable of undertaking major operations, and the acquisi­ in Sydney completing her period R.A.N.) is in Williamstown Naval Tarakan has forward commitments tor of Naval Mapping will co­ tion by the Royal Australian Navy of HJM.A.S. Sydney, the first of of availability for leave and refit. Dockyard, completing availability to ship stockpile of materials and operate with H.M.A.S. Warrego two aircraft carriers to be added to the R.A.N., qualified the combined It is anticipated that she will sail for leave and urgent defects. Sheis equipment for the construction of in this important triangulation. On Australian warships for that designation. The Minister added that the from Sydney on the 22 nd of this expected to sail on the 7th of this the advanced Naval Base at the 15th of January, Warrego new designation would indicate the growing importance of the Royal month and will accompany the month to join the Flagship in Tas­ Manus, and will also be used for visited Launceston in connection Australian Navy, and should increase the pride of the Australian.peoplc Flagship on the Tasmanian cruise. manian waters, remaining in com­ the transfer of men and stores from with the Regatta there. • in their senior service which had established such high traditions and Late in March she should depart pany with the Flag until her return the Royal Australian Navy's base won such glowing tributes in two great world wars. from Hobart for Wcsternport, to Williamstown on the 6th May. at Dreger Harbour, New Guinea, H.M.A.S. Barcoo (Lieut.-Com- This year, the active vessels of the Australian Fleet will consist where it is anticipated she will ar­ She will then commence 50 days' to Manus, when the latter base is mander' D'A. T. Gale, D.S.C., of one aircraft carrier, one eight-inch gun cruiser, five destroyers, three rive on the 23rd of the month, be­ availability for leave and 45 days ready for occupation. R.A.N.) sailed from Sydney on frigates, two landing ships tank, two survey ships, and a tug, with ing in Melbourne from the 26th for refit, previous to her departure H.M.A.S. Labuan (Lieut-Com­ the 11th January and is carrying other vessels in reserve. March to the 4th April, and re­ for New Guinea waters about the out a triangulation survey of In­ turning to Sydney on the 6th. middle of July. mander G. M. Dixon, D.S.C., R.A.N.V.R.) is en route from vestigator Strait and Spencer and Subsequently, following a period St. Vincent Gulfs, the result of H.M.A.S. Shoalhavcn (Lieut. - Melbourne, via Fremantle, to FLEET DISPOSITIONS in Jervis Bay, she departs Sydney which will be included in the Commander Keith Tapp, R.A.N.) Heard Island to relieve members on the 4th May for Japan via National Geodetic Survey of Aus- departed from Sydney on the 21st of the Australian Antarctic Re­ The Aircraft Carrier: Cairns, Darwin, Tarakan and tralia. On the completion of this ney on the 10th June. Shr is then of last month for Japanese waters search Expedition on that island. H.M.A.S. Sydney (Captain R. Hong Kong. work, Barcoo will carry out a sur­ due to commence t availability for to relieve H.M.A.S. Warramunga She will then return to Melbourne, R. Dowling, D.S.6., R.A.N.) is leave and refit, and to depart on a vey of the approaches to the Outer H.M.A.S. ^uiberon (Com­ for duty with the British Com­ and subsequently proceed to Mac- in United Kingdom waters, where cruise early in August. Harbour, Port Adelaide, and the mander J. L. Bath, R.A.N.) is in monwealth Occupation Forces. quarie Island to relieve members she is carrying out training and ports of Whyalla and Port Pine. Sydney undergoing refit, which Shoalhavcn was at Cairns on the of the Expedition there, returning exercising, and undergoing a 10th. Destroyer Flotilla: The last charts of these approaches she should complete about the end 26th January, at Dreger on the to Melbourne about mid-April. "shake-down" period On comple­ H.M.A.S. Warramunga (Cap­ were made from surveys carried of this month. 29th, and is due at Kure on the tion, she will sail for Australia via tain (D) 10, Captain W. H. Har­ out over 70 years ago. H.M.A.S. ^uic^match (Lieut.- 9th 6f this month. She will be Landing Ship Infantry: the Sue; Canal. rington, D.S.O., R.A.N.) is due Commander R. R. Brown, relieved in Japan by H.M.A.S. back in Sydney from Japan on the H.M.A.S. Kanimbla is in Syd­ H.M.A.S. Jabiru left Sydney on R.A.N.) is in Sydney, where she Bataan early in June, and will call The Cruiser: 28th of this month, after being re­ ney, reverted to the administrative 6th January, as tender to H.M.A.S. will commence refit about the be­ at Hong Kong on her passage south H.M.A.S. Aus. Im (Captain lieved of her duties with the British control of the Frag Officer-in- Warrego. with which ship she is ginning of April. to Williamstown Naval Dockyard, H. M. Burrell, R.A.N.) wearing Commonwealth Occupation Forces Charge, New South Wales, for engaged on the Bass Strait survey. where it is anticipated that she the Flag of Rear-Admiral H. B. by H.M.A.S. Shoalhaven. She 1st. Frigate Flotilla: reconversion to trade and return will commence 50 days' availability Farncomb. C.B., D.S.O., M.V.O., will be granted 50 days' availability to her owners. H.M.A.S. Culgoa, Senior Offi­ for leave and 45 for refit early in Flag Officer Commanding His for leave and urgent defects on cer (Commander J Plunkett-Cole, July. Australian Minesweepers: GENERAL Majesty's Australian Fleet, arrived arrival. Her present programme R.A.N.) departed from Sydney on in Sydney from Jervis Bay on .the entails her departing from Sydney H.M.A.S. MuTchuon (Lieut- the 7th of last month for New These two vessels, which arc "Shoalhaven" Wins Gloucester 21st of last month, departing from for Jervis Bay on the 20th April, Commander W. F. Cook, R.A.N.) based on Flinders Naval Depot, Guinea waters via Cairns, and Cup Sydney on the 2nd of thi6 month and accompanying the Flagship on reached Dreger. Harbour on the is carrying out training exercises comprise the Training Flotilla: for a cruise of some six or seven the cruise to Western Australia 15^1 of January. She will remain under the control of the Flag AdjudgiJ .is being the ship in H.M.A.S. Gladstone (Lieut- Hi* Maicsty's Australian Fleet weeks in Tasmanian waters, re­ during May and June, on the 10th in New Guinea waters—under the Officer-in-Charge, N.S.W. Mur- Commander H. A. E. Cooper, 1 foremost in general efficiency, turning to Sydney via Western- of which last-named month she is operational Commind of the Naval chison will commence 45 days re­ R.A.N.). port and Melbourne early in April. expected back in Sydney. She Officer-in-Charge, New Guinea— fit on the 7th June. cleanliness, seimanship. and tech' It is anticipated that she will sail should again sail from Sydney on until the end of March, when she H.M.A.S. Lotrobe ^Lieut. M. nical training during the year * 10th. L.S.T. Flotilla: from Sydney on the 20th of that a cruise late in June. returns to Australia via the British G. Pechy, DSC. R.A.N.). 1948, the frigate H.M.A.S. month for Jervis Bay, and depart H.M.A.S. Tarakan - Lieut.- "Shoalhavcn" was awarded Hit H.M.A.S. Arunta (Commander Solomon Islands and the New Survey Ships: thence on the 4th May for Fre- F. N. Cook, D.S.C-, R.A.N.) is Hebrides, being due bock in Syd­ Commander H. K. D w y c r, Royal Highness the Duke of mantle, returning to the East via in company with H.M.A.S. Aus­ ney on the 5th April. Culgoa R.A.N.R.- is employed in dump­ H.M.A.S. Warrego (Com­ Gloucester Cup for the year. Adelaide and arriving back in Syd­ tralia on the Tasmanian cruise, and proceeds to Williamstown Naval ing ammunition at Melbourne. mander G. D Tancred, DSC. Rear Admiral H. B. Farncomb

p'.MV.fy, ITW - • - * often having been mistaken for Full List of Boys ;-i a sail. The full list of boys to whon INDIVIDUAL KM.A.S. "Sydney's" &e Cadetships were awarded is Education Record Special Cadetships: WILHELMSEN LINE MODEL GOWNS ' Ninety-three men of the Aus- Campbell, James Brian, North (Norwegian Australian tralian Fleet's new aircraft car- Melbourne, Vic. 6+ ricr recently sat for their Educa- Reece, John Davidson, Prospect Line) • tiona! Test Part I. This is an S.A. all-time record entry for a sea- Ordinary Cadetships: Regular Services jioing ship. Bathgate, Ian Fyfe, Bellevue Hill maintained with *'** Concert Party N.S.W. "Sydney's" ship's company put Bearlin, Raymond Campbell, Cas fast motor vessels. on a Christmas Party for the tlemaine, Vic. children in the Prince of Wales Berger, Howard Paul, Neutra For further particulars X Hospital in Devonport, and the Bay, N.S.W. apply: * St ITE 411. ST. JAMES' BUILDING ship's Concert Party staged a var- Brook, Philip Graham, Franks icty concert .it the Royal Naval ton, Vic. 10710 9 ELIZABETH ST.. SYDNEY Barracks, Devonport, to raise the Chandler, Robert Thomai WILH. WILHELMSEN TELEPHONE: MA 5350 necessary funds. Two days after Mitchell, Crawley, W.A. * Japan*** .tone lantern at th* Royal the concert was announced, the Collins, James Barrington, New. AGEHCY PTY. LTD. Au. ;a[lan Naval Collage, Flinders theatre was booked out. The per- Farm, Q Id. Naval Depot. Th* Plaqu* bears the formance lustified the enthusiasm. Cook, Harry Dene, Ayr, Q'ld. intcription: "JAPANESE STONE LAN­ 63 PITT ST., TERN presented to th* Royal Aus­ one officer remarking: "I've put Dowling, Anthony Russell tralian Naval College by the Aus­ on a number of Naval Concerts Toorak, Vic. SYDNEY tralian Military Component of B.C.O.F., myself, but that's the best one Earlam, Michael Ernest Harold K. L BALLANTYNE PTY. LTD. Japan. This Lantern was originally owned by vessels of the Asano Family I've seen." A second perform- Panama, N.S.W. 51 WILLIAM ST., ancc was put on in the W.R.N.S. Ferris, Alan George, Kedron 295 •299 Grant Street, South Mel Journe, Victoria, and later stood for 80 years in th* MELBOURNE City Park at Hiroshima, where it with­ section of the Barracks, and re- Q'ld. stood the first Atom Bomb Raid of quests for repeat performances Findlay, Haieburton Charles 6th August, 1945. FOI 3D CANNERS, WHOLESA LE GR OCERS, streamed in. The organisers hop- Hawthorn, Vic. EXPORTERS. « presented the Cup to the ship fifty pounds on the 34 cots in the nong, Vic. during her recent period in Prince of Wales Hospital. The Gatacre, Reginald Galfrey Or E. A. HARPER Sydney. reception of the concert was so mond, Caulfield North, Vic. Telephone MX 4657 (13 lines). good, that the Concert Party Hawke, William Edward Roger & SONS PTY. LTD. Bass Strait Survey hopes to be able to put a show Balaklava, S.A. HARBER ST., ALEXANDRIA The Survey of Bass Strait be­ on at most ports of call, and to Hocker, Peter John, Hawthorne ing carried out by H.M.A.S. give the proceeds to some deserv- Q Id. • ' Warrego" presents some prob­ ;ng cause. Jackson, Malcolm Douglas, Ked lems, among which is that of the NEW COLLEGE ron- Q''d, ... erection of stations on various of CADETSHIPS Kcay Michael John Stanley Manufacturart of all description, _ . , , . South Yarra, Vic. of articlat in Shnof M.t.h, Sl.in. AT . . . the islands, many of which arc 1 difficult to land oil by reason of Twenty-eight boys were select- Keane Edwin Trenchard j^, Inu Staal. Copp.-, Brats an* VIC. TRUMAN'S their precipitous cliffs and the ,cd for entry into the Koyal Aus- burn NSW Munfx Matal, Hospital Equipment. normal weather conditions. One tralian Naval College this year, Kenne(j ' Geoffrey Thomas Loelan, Starilnan, Tanb, ate You will find comfort and ease in our perfectly of the most formidable of these the same number as were select- Newtown Vir STAINLESS STEEL SINKS AND ed for 1948 entry. The newcom- j; , fitting uniforms and working clothes. islands is the Pyramid, which lies Morte dward A fred Mark DRAINING BOARDS crs to the Navy entered the Col- Thursday IsUnd Q-ld And enjoy your leave when you choose your South a quarter West. 19$ miles A SPECIALITY. attire from our specially selected stock of civvies. from Deal Island. A bare, lege at the end of last month as od, H Franci ^ We can now offer you an excellent naval blazer. square-topped mass of granite. Cadet Midshipmen. Two of borough Vic. the Pyramid is 243 feet high and, them have been awarded the Pennock p^ John Rex Govarnment Contractor,—Stata FOR TRUE VALUE. so far as is known, has never Special Cadetships reserved for M Brjd s A and Fadoral. been climbed previously. It has boys who are sons of parents Unwm Malcolm Stewarti Yer deep water close to its western who have been on active service onffa O'ld • VIC. TRUMAN PTY. LTD. abroad in the R.A.N. or in an ,,,,.'., ., ... side, and from 11 to 20 fathoms W tts NAVAL AND CIVILIAN OUTFITTERS for about half a mile from its Expeditionary Force raised under i ' g*» Hamilton. Alben eastern side, and is usually sur­ the provisions of the Common- ranc, Vic. P.O. I« 33, AWnsitaW wealth Defence Act, including Wilson, Brian Hoard, Strath- 35 PITT STREET, SYDNEY, N.S.W. rounded by tide rips except when HMMW: LA SMI (4 ImsL there is no wind. Its precipitous forces sent by the respective field, N.S.W 'Phone: BW 6680. appearance is responsible for its States of the Commonwealth tc Wishart, Terence Edwin Kevin the South African War. Rainbow, Vic.

fabraary 1949 4* . Writers was held in Devonport, The Family Tradition having first joined the Royal Aus­ tralian Navy in 1919, his first the man in question—Commis­ Three officers of the Royal sea-going ship—in 1920—being sioned Warrant Officer A. (Bert) Australian Navy see, in this H.M.A.S. "Sydney" of the four Burley, of Sans Souci, N.S.W.— If it's from . . . year's list of Naval College en­ funnels and "Emden" fame. was accorded the unique honour trants, the family tradition being When, recently, the 61st. An­ of being the first Australian to at­ rS2 carried on, and their sons follow­ nual Dinner ^i Royal Navy tend. ing in their wake in entering the MOHAN WM * &"r Navy. They are Captain Rov '\M ** 0* Russell Dowling, D.S.O., R.A.N.. AND the Commanding Officer of H.M. Naval Appointments, Etc. AS. "Sydney"; Captain G. G. O. Gatacre, DSC. RAN., Dep­ NAVAL FORCES OF THE from the Retired List, dated 3rd CATO'S uty Chief of the Nav.il Staff; and COMMONWEALTH. November, 1948. Lieut.-Commander Albert Brook, His Excellency the Governor- Promotion — Lieutenant-Com­ R.N., Director of RaJio Equip­ 1 MEGGITTS ' icneral in Council has approved mander Colin Goyder Little, ment. Navy Office. Melbourne. D.S.C., is promoted to the rank IT MUST BE ROOD of the following changes being J PURE LINSEED of Commander, with seniority in MES&in LTD. made:— rank of 12th June, 1946, dated PERSONAL PERMANENT NAVAL FORCES H.ad Office: 67 York Stmt 1st October, 1948. OF THE COMMONWEALTH Boi 1555, G.P.O.. Sydney OILS Captain R. K. Dickson, D.S.O., Transfer to Retired List.—En­ Works: Parrainafra, Malb.. Adelaid* R.N., who visited Australia in (SEA-GOING FORCES). gineer Captain Douglass Phillips 1947 as Commanding Officer of Appointments Lieutenant (L) Herbert is transferred to the Re­ 3 the Royal Navy's Light Fleet Air­ Harry Arthur Leslie Eddowes is tired List and reappointed for •S craft Carrier. H.M.S. "Theseus " appointed on loan from the temporary service in the rank of has been promoted Rear Admiral Royal Navy, with seniority in Engineer Commander, dated 11th Rear Admiral Dickson was for a rank of 7th September, 1946, November, 1948. • period from November. 1944. Jated 20th September, 1948. Termination of Appointment— Chief of Naval Information at lames William McClure is ap­ DELA IRCO The appointment of Lieutenant- Admiralty, and. while there. pointed Sub-Lieutenant (L) (on Commander Colin Goyder Little. made a series of War Comment­ probation), dated 24th Septemb­ DSC, for temporary service is aries and Naval Broadcasts which er. 1948. The Reverend Fred­ terminated, dated 30th Septemb­ have since been published in erick George Kyte, Temporary er, 1948. ELECTRICAL (_ £_ ;A " ELECTRICAL book form under the title "Naval Chaplain «(on probation), is ap­ v Broadcasts." pointed to the Permanent List, CITIZEN NAVAL FORCES SHIP HOtf L-. !'' , MARINE with seniority of 17th February, OF THE COMMONWEALTH. FOR SERVICE. '2S&& vm ••' Before the aircraft carrier 1947, dated 9th November, 1948. ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVAL RESERVE. QUALITY AND REPAIRS -zJr^-*- f • '/& SURVEY "Sydney" was commissioned as Termination of Appointment— one of H.M.A Ships, her Aus Promotion. - William Jesse The appointment of Harold Gra­ ECONOMY . . . tralian Ship's Company served in Dow, Chief Petty Officer Cook ham Charles Delano Fowles as the carrier H.M.S. "Glory" un­ (O), Official Number 20259, is Lieutenant is terminated, dated der the command of the "Syd­ promoted to the rank of Warrant 16th September, 1948. SHOP AT 99 SUSSEX ST., SYDNEY, N.S.W ney's" present Commanding Of­ Catering Officer (Acting), dated I ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVAL .'•1st October. 1948. VOLUNTEER RESERVE. ficer, Captain R. R Dowling, Appointments.— Lewis Arthur EDWARD ARNOLD 'Phones: BX 2287-1314 : After hours: XM 2380 D.S.O., R.A.N. At Christmas, Confirmation in Rank - -Acting Jones is appointed Lieutenant, the men of the two carriers gave Lieutenant Brian Henry Francis with seniority in rank ot 28th I—— . a dance, at which approximately Wall is confirmed in the rank of April, 1941, dated 6th March, LM. 1,000 danced in a most success­ Lieutenant, with seniority in rank 1946. Lionel Walter Lansdell is ful party. The organising Com­ of 16th March. 1948, dated 3rd appointed Lieutenant, with sen­ mittee on this most happy occa­ October, 1948. Francis Albert iority in rank of 30th June, 1941. General Clothiers. sion consisted of C.P.O. (SM) Pascoc, Gunner (T.A.S.) (Act­ MAKE A POINT OF dated 13th March, 1946. Noel McDonald of the Royal Navy; ing), is confirmed in the rank of Frederick Spicer is appointed Drapers and CALLING IN TO THE Petty Officer "Chicka" Avery of Gunner (T.A.S). with seniority Lieutenant, with seniority in rank Furnishers Hamilton, Newcastle, N.S.W.; in rank of 12th February, 1947. of 19th April, 1944, dated 28th Leading Stoker Mechanic "Bluey" Transfer to Emergency List.— February, 1946. Michael Roger 113 OXFORD ST., FIRST & LAST HOTEL Colville of Chelsea. Vic; and Lieutenant (E) Desmond William Edmonds is appointed Sub-Lieu­ (LATE CUTTY SARK) Leading Stoker Mechanic Knuckey Vagg is transferred to tenant (S), with seniority in rank SYDNEY "Darby" Barr of South Mel­ the Emergency List, dated 4th of 4th December, 1945, dated CIRCULAR QUAY bourne, Vic. November; 1948 18th July, 1946— (Ex. Min. No. • H.M.A.S. "Sydney" has as one EMERGENCY LIST. 79—Approved 21st December, of her Ship's Company a man Appointment.- -Reginald Sel- 1948.) CONVENIENT, CENTRALLY SITUATED 'Phone: M 2121 who has served in all three of wyn Booth. Commissioned Com­ W. J. F. RIORDAN, H.M.A. Ships of that name, he munication Officer, is appointed Minister for the Navy.

February. 1949 Tba. Navy JRlRl should I shall certainly avail my Answers to Nautical Quiz self of it.' 'Will you?' said Nel­ EX-NAVAL MEN'S son, pouring out bumpers, and (1) William Dampier. He re­ (7) The event in 1940 was the touching his glass violently cords how, discovering on transportation of a British against West's, 'Will you, Mr. Association of Australia the 26th. March, 1700, that army from Dunkirk to West? Then I hope I shall die this land "does not join to Britain. The former event in the next battle.' He sailed a was that of 1588, the denial few days afterwards, and his next Wm-h-Cllil Hit Mo/eify Tile Xf»g New-Guinea; therefore I name it Nova-Britannia. of the transportation of a battle was Trafalgar." Spanish army from the The North-West Cape, 1 Nelson was painted in 1799 by Federal Council of Brisbane Sub-Section, passed aboard one of the Japanese whal­ Continent to Britain; the called Cape Gloccster." the English artist Charles Grig- through Sydney on leave which Spanish Armada being bat­ •"•"•HE Federal President and ing ships. nion at Palermo, in Sicily. Grig- she intended spending in Tas­ (2) Country ships were local tered at the Battle of Grave- •*• Council have received many Mr. J. Saunders has been elect­ nion was at the time anxious to mania. Miss Chns. V. McLeod, vessels, chiefly owned by lines, and then scattered New Year greetings from our ed State Secretary of Western get the famous landscapes known Asiatic merchants. After and destroyed by stress of Patrons, Vice-Patrons, States' and a former W.R.E.N, who returned as the Altieri Claudes, to Eng- ' Australia, replacing* Mr. C. J. the restoration of Charles weather. their Sub-Sections" Presidents, to Australia to take up teaching McMullin who resigned office ow­ II. in 1660 the East India land, and when dining with Nel­ and also from Secretaries oi other in Whyalla, South Australia, ing to ill-health. ' Mr. W. W. Company was reorganized. (8) Rottnest is the Anglicised son at the table of Sir William ex-Service organisations. Amongst spent an enjoyable leave in Jan­ Wayman has succeeded Mr. R, From then on it did not en­ version of a Dutch name Hamilton, he mentioned this these messages were two from uary, visiting former friends she Roberts as Hon. Secretary of gage in port-to-port trade in given to an island so over­ anxiety, and the value and artistic the U.K., one being from the made in Sydney whilst on the Fremantle Sub-Section. Mr. C. the East, but confined itself run with small vermin that interest of the pictures, to Nelson. White Ensign Club, Ipswich, staff of F.O.N.A.S. Still another B. Law was recently elected Hon. to the monopoly of ship­ the explorer, de Vlamingh, "This," said Nelson, "is a nation­ Suffolk, and the other from the visitor was former P.O. Secretary of Sandnngham Sub- ping cargoes to England. called it "Rat's Nest." al concern," and he immediately Royal Naval and Royal Marine W.R.E.N Pike, who was also at­ Section, replacing Mr. Bromley. Its factories were fed by (9) The Abrolhos Islands lie wrote a letter to the Governor of Fellowship, Porchester, Hants. tached to Admiral's staff in Mr. A. Fraser, oi Essendon Sub- the local shipping, known about 40 miles west bf Gibraltar requesting him to give Sydney. Section has replaced Mr. Leggc as t!ie country ships. Geraldton, itself some 300 a convoy to the "Tigre," a small Now that the R.N.B. Trust miles north of Perth, West­ armed vessel in which the own­ are again publishing their pre- in office of Hon. "Secretary. Mr. (3) The ship was the "Golden N. Huggins is the new Hon. Sec ern Australia. "Abrohles" ers of the pictures had arranged World War 2 regular Quarterly Mr. Ken Coonan, member of Hind," returning from the is an appellative name for to send them to England. rctary of Geclong. • Review for issue to ex-Naval As­ Western Australia, is again in voyage of circumnavigation. shoals, Dampier tells us. sociations, wc can expect our the Antarctic, serving as observer G.W.S. She was loaded down with The Portuguese "abrolhos" Sir Joshua Reynolds, in his Association's information to be the King of Spain's gold, adopted by the Dutch and studio at Leicester Fields, must circulated throughout the Em­ and Drake was uneasy lest English, and meaning have had a long procession of pire, and we hope to receive a the Queen were dead and "Open your eyes," or "Look princes, actors, admirals, and aris­ measure of liaison with the var­ a prince friendly to Spain out!" tocracy to paint. He recalled ious R.N. and R.M. Associations on the throne. how "When I was a very young (10) William Adams, the first in the United Kingdom. man I met with success in paint­ (4) The term "capital ship" Englishman to arrive in was first used officially in ing small portraits at a guinea a Federal Council has noted the HOTEL PLAZA Japan, reached there in piece. During some warlike the Washington Treaty of 1600 as "Pilot Major" of Admiralty's proposal with regard 1922. Recent naval treaties preparations which were going to a national name for all ex* the Dutch ship "Liefde," on, I went down to paint naval have defined capital ships and he obtained favour R.N. organisations in the British ac being surface vessels of officers at Portsmouth. I had a Isles, with the suggested name of WYNYARb STATION. from the Japanese as a ship­ partner at the time who used to war, other than aircraft builder. He was unable to "ROYAL NAVAL ASSOCIA­ GEORGE STREET, SYDNEY, carriers, mounting guns of rub in the draperies, and he and TION." This information is con­ obtain permission to leave I contrived to make great de­ a calibre exceeding eight Japan, and died there in tained in the Admiralty News N.S.W. inches and displacing more spatch and pocketed money pretty Summary, No. 26. March, 1620. ("The Back­ fast." than 10,000 tons. The term ground of Eastern Sea apparently grew out of the Power," by F. B. Eldridge.) I have mentioned Sir Joshua's Interstate visitors who arc of­ development of the battle ficials and members of our Asso­ portrait of Admiral Sir William cruiser, which was distinct James. Another William James ciation have called on the.Fed­ DRINKS AVAILABLE WITH MEALS. from the battleship but eral President and Secretary dur­ SEAMEN IN PAINT was painted as a boy by Sir John merited a rank comparable Continued from pagt 15 Millais. The picture portrays a ing the past few weeks, convey­ to it. ing good wishes from the officers ask why he had painted no more lovely child in green velvet with and members in their own Sub- (5) "Guerre de course" (war of pictures of a similar nature? a lace collar, sitting holding a Sections. Recent arrivals were the chase), is the name for 'Because, my lord, there are no bowl and bubble pipe. Who Messrs. Chas. Hall and Bett the technique of commerce more subjects." among us does not know the pic­ Oaten of Victoria, the first-nam­ raiding. 'D it,' said the Admiral, ture "Bubbles"? Today, the sub­ ed being present at the January (6) The "Conway," the Me ch­ 'I didn't think of that,' and asked ject of this picture is Admiral meeting of Federal Council. ant Service training ship him to take a glass of champagne. Si-- William James, G.C.B., but Messrs. N. Kearsley and Kevin HOTEL PLAZA moored in the River Mer­ 'But, my lord, I fear that your the nickname "Bubbles" is still Smith, both of Canberra, were sey, was originally the lihe- intrepidity may yet furnish me his, and according to a friend of alio visitors. Miss Edna Park, of-battle ship "Nile." with such another scene, and if it mine who saw him recently in

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i i ' London, the Millais child is obvi­ ^JOT all Decorations are awarded for outstanding services FULL CARGO OF GOLDEN GRAIN ously the father of the present Continued from p«j« 21 man. *• ' in the heat of action. Some are for work of value carried It is good to know that the out over long periods, often under arduous conditions. Such the hold, compared with the up­ present collection of World War a one is the O.g.E. that was awarded to Commander Eric per decks, is a change from II. Admirals has been got to­ Augustus Feldt, R.A.N., for his work in connection with the Breugel to Rembrandt. The light gether at Greenwich. I would Coastwatching Service that operated in the South Pacific from the small opening in the top like to see some public spirited and South West Pacific during the recent war. hatches is pouring down mixed citizens found a Maritime Mus­ The Coastwatchcrs functioned, often under extreme diffi­ with the golden grain, which is eum here. Australia was born culty, often at sustained and deadly risk to individuals—many itself little more than concentrat­ and lives by the sea, and such a of whom remained as lone wolves in Japanese-occupied terri­ ed warmth and sunshine; both Museum should be one of our tory, communicating with Naval Intelligence by teleradio and the light and the grain diffuse as first considerations in recording passing out information of incalculable value—in an organ­ they fall, and both are confined our story. In it could be housed ization the work of which played a large part in securing by the walls of the feeder and portraits, charts, and other histor­ Allied successes against the enemy. the shifting-boards. The pale WHEN IT'S AN ical notes for our future genera­ Of the work of those Coastwatchers who remained in gold of the grain is warmer than tions. Bougainville after the Japanese had over-run that island, and the golden Sydney beaches, just Copies of portraits of such men who telcradioed information regarding Japanese ship move­ a few more carats. The grain has ments and impending air attacks on our own ships and land a living warmth, and its move­ Hxibt ^% as Phillip and Cook, of our great navigators such as Flinders forces during the Guadalcanal campaign, the U.S. Admiral ments are lively like quicksilver. and Bass, could be obtained; and "Bull" Halsey, then commanding in the South Pacific, said: YOU START The liquid stream pours down we should build up a collection "The Coastwatchcrs saved Guadalcanal, and Guadalcanal pulsating with energy, and the of portraits of those who have saved the South Pacific." pulses appear as waves when it built the Royal Australian Navy. The Naval Intelligence Division of the Royal Australian sprays out from the beams in its It would, for instance, be splendid Navy established and built up the Coastwatching Organisation way. When the stream hits the if a really good likeness of Ad­ in the first place, and by 1939 had-an efficient organization in surface of wheat in the hold it EVERY THURSDAY miral Creswell could be painted being on the Australian mainland and in the Island screen to changes into a gently heaving BOXING for posterity. Australia owes its the north of the continent. It was Eric Feldt who, mobilised mass of living grain that has no NIGHT very being to the seafaring men, from the Emergency List when war broke out, strengthened landslides, but only undulations and a Maritime Museum would the Island screen part of the show; used his local knowledge like the muscular movements of be a fitting tribute to their of men and scene to select and place key Coastwatchers; dis­ abdominal breathing. memory. tributed telcradios; organised the communications system— then the weak link in the chain—and generally, as the man on The surface of wheat in the LEICHHARDT STADIUM "GEORSIC" the spot, built the Organisation up to its high pitch of operat­ hold is surprisingly loose to walk Continued from paga 17 ing efficiency. on, in spite of its close packing, Eric Feldt had both the Naval and the Islands experience. for the legs sink a couple of the Australian Government for EVERY SATURDAY He entered the R.A.N. College as a Cadet Midshipman in the feet into thi grain at every step. use as an emigrant ship. Orig­ WRESTLING first term in 1912, and served subsequently, with the R.N. and This looseness must be due to the NIQHT inally it was intended to use the the R.A.N., as Midshipman, Sub-Lieutenant, and-Lieutenant; rounded and-friction less shape of ship in her stripped-bare troop­ retiring during the 1920's, when the Navy had entered the the grains compared with sand ing condition, but it was realised Disarmament Doldrums. He went to New Guinea, first as a grains, which are more angular the accommodation would not be Patrol Officer, then a District Officer, and, when war broke and irregular, and so more bind­ suitable for family groups. In ing in bulk. out, he was Mining Warden at Wau. view of this it was decided to Mobilised then, he was the right man for the D.N.I.— convert the ship into a tourist When the hold is filled to Commander R. B. M. Long, an old First Term R.A.N. Col- class passenger vessel. This work within six feet of the deck beams, ledge shipmate—who wanted a Johnny-on-the-Spot in the was carried out by Palmers Heb- it is time to get the trimming North. So Eric Feldt was appointed to build up the Coast­ burn Co. Ltd. at their yard on machines into action. These watching Service in the Islands, based on Port Moresby. His the Tyne (England). Two new take the stream of wheat and job was to have the Islands Service efficient when—and if dining saloons, extra galleys and change it into a horizontal jet, —Japan came into the war. And he did the job thoroughly. lounges, and a large nursery be­ which travels at such speed that As Acting Commander he was eventually Supervising ing specially installed, with six it can reach to a distance of 120 Intelligence Officer for the North Eastern Area, in whom and ten berth cabins. feet. The farthest corners can rested the faith of those courageous and lonely souls working With the "Gcorgic" entering be tightly packed by the "trim­ behind the Japanese lines. He was tireless on the job; inde­ the migrant trade there are now mer," which is electrically driven, fatigable in the support of his Coastwatchers; unsparing eight all-migrant ships on the and can handle sixty tons an in his devotion to the Coastwatching Organisation. You can England-Australia run. "Georgic" hour. The machine has to be read that between the lines in his book "The Coastwatchers," is able to carry 2,000 passengers controlled by men in the hold, in which he tells the story of that service. on each voyage, which is the like a gun's crew training and ele­ Demobilised in 1945, Commander Feldt is now a resident greatest number yet carried by vating the jet, and they have to of Brisbane. any single ship on this route. wear masks to avoid the dust produced.

TW N«tY < r 9vnMrya I T^T In Sydney, the wheat is dis­ charged by grabs and fed into railway trucks. Some has even ASSOCIATED DOMINIONS ASSURANCE been shipped into N.S.W. by rail from Victoria, as well as by ship SOCIETY PTY. LTD. from Geelong. Queensland was Lower Premiums, Liberal Bonuses, Hospital Fees. also short of wheat last year, and bought shipments of wheat in bags from South Australian ports, ASSOCIATED DOMINIONS ASSURANCE where bulk handling is not in use. Most sailormen will think SOCIETY PTY. LTD. of the Spencer Gulf ports as the wheat-loading points for the old- Twyford House, 17 Castlereagh St., Sydney, N.S.W. time sailing ships. But to those of us who served in the River class ships, the word "wheat" means a "full cargo of wheat in bulk."

WHEN I WAS A NEW ENTRY Continued from page 24 ordinary seamen and could smoke without fear of whackings. Having passed through all in­ structions, one hundred boys would be drafted to H.M.S. "Martin," a ten-gun sailing brig, SHIP REPAIRS, MARINE ENGINEERS, BOILERMAKERS for six weeks cruising in the AND WELDERS. English channel, and if you were OWN FOUNDRY AND LABORATORY. not a sailor when you left her, you never would be. Works: 70-80 STEPHEN ST., YARRAVILLE, VIC. 'Phone: MW 2255. Then to H.M.S. "Minotaur" for heavy gun drill. There we had CABLES 8c TELEGRAMS: "EBELING," MELBOURNE. not to walk or run, but to fly. Reg. Office: 1 CASTLEMAINE ST., YARRAVILLE, W.13, Having passed through gunnery, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA. we were fit for sea. In my own case I was drafted to the Channel Fleet, H.M.S. "Mersey." Whilst serving in "Mersey" we were one of the escorting ships to the Royal yacht when the late King George V AUSTRAL SILK & COTTON MILLS and Queen Mary (then Duke and Duchess of York) visited Ireland PTY. LTD. and Scotland. There followed foreign service Manufacturers of . . . —served three years and seven months in H.M.S. "Flora" on the South American station, visiting Cotton Yarns and Fabrics. all Brazilian. Uraguayan, and "AUSTRELLA" Superfine Wool and Cotton Argentine ports, Montevideo be­ ing our base. On arrival at the Fabric. Falkland Isles we received news of the death of Queen Victoria — Head Office: January, 1901. Home again, six weeks' leave, 414 COLLINS STREET, MELBOURNE, VIC. then gunnery school and a spell in destroyers. Phone: MU 7748. And that finished my ten years, boy and man, in the Royal Navy.

Tfe* Navy HEROISM OF N.S.W. RATINGS. They Won Their Decorations In The Sloops In Which ALLEN TAYLOR They Were Eventually Lost. WO Sloops of the Royal Australian Navy were lost in the T war of 1939-45—H.M.A. Ships "Parramatta" and "Yarra." & CO. LTD. With them went, in each case, the majority of their Ships' Companies, and, in each case, all of their officers. Each of the ships was in action on a number of occasions before her TIMBER loss, and a number of those whose final account was marked Paid" together with that of their ship, had been awarded decorations for their services against the enemy. This small MERCHANTS account tells of two of those men: Able Seaman Christopher Goldic, of H.M.A.S. "Parramatta," and Petty Officer Steward Robert Joseph Hoskins, of "Yarra." "Christopher Goldic, a native of Sydney, joined the R.A.N, as an ordinary Seaman in June, 1933, being promoted Able Seaman in February, 1935. At the outbreak of war in 1939 he was in "Moresby", being transferred to "Adelaide" shortly afterwards, and in March, 1940, leaving the cruiser COMMERCIAL ROAD and going to "Parramatta" in June, 1940. The Sloop had plenty of work in the Mediterranean, and saw considerable action while on the Tobruk Ferry run, where she was eventually lost in November, 1941. It was on ROZELLE, N.S.W. that run that Christopher Goldie earned his Mention in Despatches, during a long-drawn out and fiercely fought ac­ "Phone: WB208I tion against large numbers of German aircraft in June, 1941. "Parramatta," in company with the British destroyer "Auck­ land," was escorting a petrol carrier to Tobruk, "Auckland" being sunk in the attack. "Parramata's" Commanding Officer told the story of Goldie's action. "A.B. Christopher Goldie, H.M.A.S. "Parramatta," was in charge aft of depth charges during the first five actions W. KOPSEN against enemy aircraft on 24th. June, 1941, in the Mediterran­ ean. After the depth charges had been jettisoned and before the ft CO. PTY. LTD. last air attack, on his own initiative he manned and took away a skiff to the rescue of the survivors of H.M.S. 'Auck Ship Chandlers land' although he knew the boats would be bombed and ma chine gunned, which in fact occurred. His work in the I-oats was reported to me as being most inspiring." Able Seaman Goldic was lost in "Parramatta" when she was torpedoed by a German submarine five months later. P.O. Steward Hoskins entered the Navy in July, 1923. Suppliers of all classes of as A/Officer Steward 4th. Class, being promoted P.O. MARINE EQUIPMENT Steward in September, 1936. He was awarded the D.S.M. "For distinguished services in operations in the Persian Gulf." and The Recommendation for the Award tells the story GENERAL STORES "P.O. Steward R. J. Hoskins, R.A.N., of H.M.A.S. 'Yarra.' This rating was the leader of one of the boarding parties which boarded and captured Persian gunboats in the Karun River. These parties attained a high standard of physi­ cal fitness and the thoroughness of the leaders inspired the operation which was carried out under fire during the approach 376-382 KENT STREET, of the 'Yarra'." SYDNEY Petty Officer Hoskins, who was a native of Manly, N.S.W., was lost with the "Yarra" when she was sunk in 'Phone: MA 6336 (9 lines) action with Japanese cruisers and destroyers south of Java on the 4th. March, 1942.

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