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my • .-V ^% Hk ^^^k^^l v^f ^H t^^^^^^P ^ fe£& -# \ * • 4 *S5** *^' -^. i - ;i»» ..... CONTENTS "KEMBLA II JULY. 1953. COPPER, BRASS AND EDITORIAL: M.V. '•IXJNTROON"— 10.500 ion. OTHER NON-FERROUS British Admiralty's New Test Houie For Gat Turbine Engines * Liaison Between Royal and Merchant Navies 5 MELBOURNE WIRE CABLES & TUBES Oil and Our Destiny . 5 STEAMSHIP Centenary c: R.N. Continuous Service Engagement S CO. LTD. METAL MANUFACTURES LTD. ARTICLES: Hud Office: 31 KING ST.. MELBOURNE PORT KEMBLA. N.S.W. Aircraft Carriers are Indispemible • 6 Searchers of the Sea Depths 8 SELLING AGENTS The Coronation Naval Review . II fwitll DiMffhufPrj in ill Suin New Base in U.K. for Minesweepers and Patrol Boats 13 MANAGING AGENTS FOR Boyd Trophy Presentation Ceremony 13 HOBSONS BAY DOCK AND TVBbS X BRASS WIRl VntE a. CABLES Completion of Shaw Savill M.V. "Cymric'' 23 ENGINEERING CO. PTY. LTD. KNOX SCHLAPP PTY. LTD. BRITISH INSULATED Combined Indian Ocean Exercises 27 Works: Williamstown, Victoria CALLENDER'S CABLES Cadets Visit Nelon s Dockyard . .. 27 and Coronation Carrier Returning Home , ... 29 Collins House, Melbourne LTD. HODGE ENGINEERING CO. 84 William St., Melbourne PTY. LTD. Kembla Building, Sydney 44 Margaret St., Sydney. FEATURES: Works: Sussex St., Sydney. News of the World's Navies IB SHIP REPAIRERS. ETC. Maritime News of the World 19 J — Personal Paragraphs 22 Sea Oddities 24 Speaking of Ships 26 Book Reviews . - 28 ZINC ASSOCIATIONS. CLUBS: ~it is a Si-Navel Men's Association of Australia 30 Without this essential metal there would be pleasure NO GALVANIZED PRODUCTS and Published bv The Navy League, Royal Exchange Building. S4a Pitt Street, Sydney. N.S.W. Telephone: BU 5808. to smoke NO BRASS. Subscription Rate: 12 issues uost free in the British Empire, 18/-. ZINC is al'.o used extensively »n lead-free PAINTS end in DIE CASTING and is a basic require CAPSTAN ment for many industries. Copies of 'Herald photographs used may be obtained direct from Photo Sales Sydney Morning Herald. Hunter Street. Sydney. cigarettes High-grade ZINC is produced in Australia using zinc concentrate from Broken Hill, N S.W.. and from Rosebery, Tasmania, and electric power generated by tiie Hydro-Bectric Commifiion of Tasmania. For the Best Soft Drinks Sole Australian producers Always say . ELECTROLYTIC ZINC COY. of AUSTRALASIA Ltd. MARCHANTS TIME Head Office — 360 COLLINS STREET, MELBOURNE FOR A PLEASE ! CAPSTAN Works — RISDON. TASMANIA Office SC Factory: M YORK ST., RICHMOND, VICTORIA M 'Phone: JA 5151. THEY'RE BLENDED BETTER. July. I«l. , . , - THE NAVY LEAGUE T OF AUSTRALIA FEDEIAL COUNCIL. STRENGTH THE UNITED SHIP SERVICES Commander (S) J, D Bales. V.R D , 5 : J R A.N.VR. AND PTY. LTD. Co I imandcr R A.'Nettlefold, DSC, V.R.D.. R.A.N.R. ENERGY •R. Neil Walford. Esq. For Growing Children Lieut.Cdr (S)' J ™H""H. Paterson, M.B.E , R.A.K.R. For orowina youngsters tatste •> nothing better dun Comwell * New South Wales Division it -appUe. —tta. body-build- um pnstaJns, prtjsrjaas tfa. Hit Excellency The Governor of New Iiurmrlra. eraergv of UliaMU South \V.,)c-. childhood and the vitatnins _ to Commander (S) J. D. Bates, V.R.D., strengthen the «•>"""" ' R.A.NV.R. against infection and Somtary: E. T. Lenthall. Hon. Tmfgmi: NATURES TONIC FOOD »OI YOUNG AND OLD DA M Shelley. Eaq. Commander Winn L .Reilly. ALL CUSSES OF SHIP REPAIRS AND FITTINGS Victorian Division CORNWELLS Patron: His Excellency The Governor UNDERTAKEN of Victoria Prtaukni: •JdfooLatvfi- 88-102 NORMANBY RD., STH. MELBOURNE, VIC. Commander R A. Nmlcfold. D.S.C., V.R.D.. R.AN.R. Telephones: MX 5231 (6 line*). Sacratary: R. Neil Walford. Esq. Hon. Trtaiiirtr: Commander C. T. Coode. R.A.N.R. South Australian Division Patron: His Excellency The Governor of Smith Australia. Lieutenant Cdr. C C. Shinkficld. t SHIPS - FACTORIES - COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS R.A.N.R. (retd). Hon. Stcratary: Lieut. Commander IS) L. T Evven.. R.A.NV.R FOR ALL ('LASSES OF ELECTRICAL Tasmanian Division INSTALLATIONS ANP REPAIRS. Vice-Admiral Sir Guv \\ v.itt. K BE . MOTOR AND GENERATOR BINDING. C.B.. R.N. (retd'.). RADAR INSTALLATION S. ETC The Risht Hon Mr. A. R Park. M.H.A Hon. SfCTttary: P F Morn.. E-s We offer our services AUSTRALIAN SEA CADET COUNCIL Ranmaantativca ol tha Naval Board: Director of Naval Reserves, Captain A. S. Rosenthal. D.S.O.. R.A,N. (Chairman). | ELECTRICAL INSTALLATIONS PTY. LTD. Commander F. R. James, R.A.N. fiannaantativni ol Tha Nary UaBna: l Tel. BX53I1 181 CLARENCE ST.. SYDNEY Tel. BX5311 Commander R. A. Ncttlefold. D.S8.C. , V.R.D.. RAN V.R. and at L. G. Pearson. Esq, / Tel. B U12 302 HUNTER ST. WEST. NEWCASTLE Tel. B 3412 L. Forsvthc, Esq.. Lieut. (S) F. G.' Evan.. RAN V.R ( R. Neil Walford. 2 !•• M.vy July. 1953 JPV^'JW^'' '• Two fields were opened up — one known a* LIAISON BETWEEN ROYAL Klamona and the other known as the Wasian Field. AND MERCHANT NAVIES. Oil was obtained in barrels and taken away by barge for refining elsewhere. A BCfteme, sponsored by the British Admiralty. To-day the oil industry is developing, and a num that hat the wholehearted support of everyone her of associated companies have a headquarters in concerned, is that which has been inaugurated to the Vogel Kop settlement of Sorong. It is possible maintain and improve liaison between the Rnyal that oil that they find will be refined in the huge and Merchant Navies of Britain. Regarded a? new refineries now being built at Kwinana, in West serving a most useful purpose in cementing the Australia, and Altona and Geelong, Victoria. close friendship engendered between the two Ser In our own interests, we Australians should watch vices during the late war years, the scheme cannot developments in Vogel Kop carefully. In unfriend be to.-t highly commended. ly hands, the peninsula could be a menace to us. To date, some thirty-five Royal Naval officers. of Lieutenant'Commander and Lieutenant rank. nave taken part in the scheme. CENTENARY OF R.N. CONTINUOUS The officers have been attached as Liaison Officer* SERVICE ENGAGEMENT. for short periods to a variety of Merchant Ship- ranging from one thousand to ten thousand tons. April 1st this year was the centenary of the in During the period of their attachment, the Naval troduction of the continuous service form of en Officers sign on as supernumerary Deck Officers for gagement in the Royal Navy, a turning-point in a nominal sum, and in all respects become member* the history of Naval recruiting. The scheme, estab of the ship's company. They thus have the oppor lished by an Order in Council, was devised by a' tumty to see at first hand the day-to-day life of Senior Admiralty Clerk, Charles Pennell, who was their Merchant Navy opposite numbers and to later knighted for his services. study their problems Under the original scheme, a rating over the age That the scheme has, as anticipated, already of 1R might join the Navy tor 10 years. Hitherto. proved most popular and instructive in practice Naval recruiting had been haphazard. A volun must, .inquest ionably, be of immense and mutual teer, attracted to a particular warship by lustily- some form or another. "I am noc suggesting." he benefit, either in peace or war, to our two great worded recruiting posters, promising bounties and was careful to remark, "that capital ships will have (Baritone services, and both the Board of Admiralty an abundance of prkemoney, grog and battle, or complete gas turbine propulsion during my time in and the shipping industry' are to be congratulated by the fighting reputations of individual captains, BRITISH ADMIRALTY'S NEW TEST HOUSE on the conception and success of this, in very truth, joined nominally for five years, but in practice for FOR GAS TURBINE ENGINES. the Royal Navy, but I am suggesting that a number of application* of gas turbines will be in use afloat nationally-valuable innovation. a single commission of three or four years. Large in the Royal Navy during my lifetime." numbers of seamen were impressed into service,, Considerable significance is attached to the an- OIL AND OUR DESTINY. particularly before 1815, either rounded up by nouacement by the British Admiralty on March Is "Ship? will certainly have power generating sets roving press gangs in seaports or taken off merchant in the very near future. Smaller ship? will un that a new test house for Naval ga? turbines ha* A little-known corner ai the world with a queer vessels by Naval boarding parties. Ships' com doubtedly have gas turbine propulsion, and gas tur been completed at the National Gas Turbine Estab Dutch r.ame may have an important effect on the panies were reinforced by drafts of convicts for bine* may well be fitted in aircraft-carriers. cruisers. lishment at Farnhorough, in Hampshire. destiny of Australia. It is a place at the western many years after the Napoleonic wars. destroyer* and frigates as rxxtst sets for use when the The significance of the new building in relation end o: Dutch New Guinea, and is a peninsula full power for which the ship i* designed is re When warships paid off, many seamen avoided to Britain"? lead in marine gas turbine development known as Vogel Kop, which means Bird's Head. •quired, other form? of power propulsion providing re-enlistment in the Royal Navy and joined foreign can best be stated in the word? ci the Third Sea on account of its geographical shape. navies, among them that of the United States, which Lord and Controller of the Navy.