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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. Admiral Sir for the range <>f speed below the top fifth of power Thi* application would enable steam turbine de­ There are three reasons why Vogel Kop is im­ recruited many of the most experienced seamen in Michael M Denny, K.C.B.. C BE.. D.S.O.. when portant for Australia. One is that it is practically this way. The idea of a continuous service en­ he made hi* first visit to the Test House. signer? to produce more efficient and economical steam turbine*, also of paramount importance." on the direct route between Australia and the gagement was so slow to gain popularity that in "Important decisions concerning the future of the Eastern nations of the Philippines. Japan and 1854 a Naval force commanded by Sir Charles gas turbine in the Royal Navy have been made." Sir Michael concluded: "As you will appreciate. China Another i? that it is potentially a big source Napier could be,manned only after an intensive said Sir Michael. "As a result of these decisions. the work carried out in this Test House, as part of of oil The third i* that it is a focal point of the recruiting campaign lasting nearly three months. I feel quite sure that the Merchant Navy, and the the development of ga« turbines for marine use. will clash between Dutch and Indonesian interests. Even then some ships sailed for the Baltic 30 per rest of the world, will be quick to follow the lead be of the very greatest importance to the Royal Dutch New Guinea could easily become one of the cent, short of their complement, manned largely by of the Royal Navy." Navy, and indeed in the long term to the whole- world's trouble spot?, and Vogel Kop is perhaps the dockyard riggers and coastguards. "The consequence of these decision* throughout national effort." critical part of Dutch New Guinea. In 1853 there was no official uniform for ratings, the marine world," continued Sir Michael, "will be The test house in question is situated in a large Gcolc-gically, Vogel Kop is different from the although most of them wore wide trousers, short far-reaching, and the impact may well prove as steel-framed concrete building incorporating a 100- other parts of New Guinea, but bears a striking jackets and straw hats. Sometimes individual cap revolutionary as the partial suppression of the steam foot-long test bay. The width is 40 feet, approxi­ resemblance to the oil'bearing areas in Borneo and. rains' whims resulted in the designing of unofficial reciprocating engine, at the turn o\ the century, mately the beam of a frigate. In it. engines for other territories further west. Before the 1939-45 uniforms; a Commander Eardley Wilmot, com­ by the steam turbine." Her Majesty's ships and coastal craft, up to 10,000 war the Dutch Government permitted oil interest* manding H.M.S. "Harlequin," dressed his gig's He went on to say that "in the near future, gas shaft horsepower, may be given triaU in conditions to search for oil, and, if they found it, to exploit crew as harlequins. A standard uniform was not turbine? wiii be found in all classes of vessels in closely resembling those to be found at sea. the fields under licence. made compulsory until 1857.

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•-...... • -,.- ... to suppose that in a future war hat the Weatland Wyvern, a aircraft which are parked at the AIRCRAFT CARRIERS ARE INDISPENSIBLE there may be many such military single-seat propeller'jet aircraft for-ard end of the deck. The operations which require air sup­ which is capable of carrying a tor­ damage in that event is usually Two brilliant British inventions—the Ream catapult and the angled cases it would 'presumably ncces- ' port beyond the scope of the pedo, bombs, rockets and mines. very considerable. deck—have recently focusstd attention sharply on naval aviation and sitate the shore-based fighters being RAF. So much for the roles of the air­ Thus the angled deck virtually its particular instrument of warfare—the aircraft carrier. Despite the taken off their own primary role Critics of the aircraft carrier craft carrier and the aircraft which does away with barrier crashes— fact that a carrier of the Royal Navy has been operating for two years of escorting allied bombers or sup* (notably Major Alexander de she carries. This article began saving aircraft and also inspiring off Korea, people are still liable to ask: "What exactly is the use of an porting ground forces. Seversk\) have pointed out that with a reference to two British in­ greater confidence in inexperienced aircraft carrier in modern warfare?" and other people are still liable to The Royal Navy has three high­ to attempt to use a task force of ventions (both of which have been pilots Also, as the illustration give them a nonsensical answer. For one thing the use of a carrier off speed interceptor fighters for air carriers for strategic roles such as adopted by the Americans) and it shows, it provides greater parking Korea is misleading. Support of ground forces by tactical bombing .defence. They are the Hawker the direct assault on a heavily air- is essential to consider than if an space for aircraft. and strafing, and bombardment spotting is a minor role for a carrier. Sea Hawk, the IV Havilland Sea overall picture of naval aviation is defended enemy coastline would The steam catapult is, roughly Venom (day - and - night tighter to be obtained. Firstly, the angled be suicidal. They are perfectly speaking, a complementary inven­ equipped with radar) and the deck. This is simply the marking- right. No one with half an ounce tion to the angled deck. Whereas Vickers - Supermarine Attacker. off on an ordinary flight deck of a The primary role of aircraft car protect a convoy If the convoy of commonsensc would think of the latter enables aircraft to be All these aircraft are jet-powered landing area at some 8° to the ricrs in the Royal Navy is to act were attacked in mid-Atlantic it operating carriers under those cir­ landed on quicker and more safe­ and are capable of climbing to centre-line. Aircraft thus have to as submarine-killers. Lot there hc would be bound to take vital time cumstances. The long-range shore- ly, the former ..enables them to be above 50,000 feet in a matter of approach and touch-down from little doubt where an enemy would to call up reserve aircraft. If the based bomber is the obvious an­ shot of the carrier more quickly minutes. To ensure, however, that slightly to starboard of the round strike in any future war. His -ub- submarines should haul off from swer. But it is as well to keep a and at greater weights. marines would attack the convoys the attack for two or three hours high-speed bombers cannot ap­ clear and distinctive view of the down; but should they fail to catch that must bring the food and mate­ the reserves of protecting aircraft proach the fleet without sufficient separate roles of carriers and long- an arrestor wire they can take off With previous catapults it was rials on which the United King­ would be unable to patrol inter­ warning, carriers are now equip­ range bombers; it has been thought again over the port side of the usually necessary to have the air­ dom would depend for survival. minably around the convoy and ped with Skyraider aircraft. These by some people (from goodness flight deck. On a conventional craft carrier at sea and actually Furthermore, he would launch his would return to base. If the shore- American aircraft are virtually only knows what deductions) that flight deck ah aircraft which fails steaming into the wind. So power­ attack at once and on a devastat- bases should be iced-up or fog­ flying radar-sets. They have very the long - range bomber could to catch an arrestor wire flies into ful is the new catapult that air­ ing scale. Hitler waited a year bo bound no aircraft would be able considerable range, and patrol the supersede the aircraft carrier. the crash barrier doing consider­ craft can now be boosted off the fore he gave the word for his all- to take off and the convoy would area round the fleet or convoy and This is about as intelligent as say­ able damage to the aircraft (al­ carrier at anchor, and aircraft with out U-boat campaign (at the be without anti-submarine aircraft are thus able to detect an ap­ ing that the tank could supersede though hardly ever to the pilot); in heavier bomb loads can thus be height of which he was sinking entirely. proaching force of enemy bombers the submarine. extreme cases it may even leap the boosted when the ship is under at a far greater distance than could crash barrier and land among the way. one allied merchant ship every Similarly, in the hunter-killer four hours). Next time we would the ships' own radar sets. It is extremely probable that in technique of offensively searching a future war carrier-borne aircraft expect no such year's grace in for and destroying submarines (as The interceptor lighters would which to take counter-measures. would carry out a considerable opposed to the purely defensive thus be given ample time to climb amount of tactical bombing -e- as Submarines, hunting in packs of role of convoy protection) a carrier to 40,000 feet and attack the indeed they are doing in Korea to­ 40 or 50 would attempt to anni­ force is far more effective than bombers before they reached the day. The element of surprise is of hilate our convoys. Only one any number of long-range shore- fleet. The Sea Venom would li­ considerable importance in this re­ weapon could prevent them—the based aircraft. The carrier air­ able to carry out such intercep­ spect. Whereas the enemy knows carrier' borne anti - submarine air­ craft would be on the spot from tions both by day and night and fairly accurately the locations of craft. The Royal Navy- has the start to finish, whereas the long- in bad weather. An observer is airfields from which bombers can Fairey Gannet (now in super- range aircraft have always to be carried in this aircraft to operate operate, he cannot be at all sure priority production) which carries considering the navigational and the radar- (without diverting numerous search its own radar detection devices as fuel problems of their return to A subsidiary, but possibly vital, aircraft) where the carriers arc well as the means of destroying base after they have found the role for naval fighter aircraft operating. Such use of a "floating submarines; it also possesses a new submarines. would be that of maintaining local airfield" would enable naval propeller-turbine engine which per­ The laying of mines by carrier- air supremacy to cover tnwp land­ fighter-bombers to mount a surprise mits great range and endurance. borne aircraft is another task which ings outside the immediate range attack on an enemy key-point Single Gannets would patrol the the long-range shore-based aircraft of shore-based fighters. Salerno situated near the coast but welt area around the convoys, dropping cannot always manage. A carrier was the best example of this in behind the front - line. R.A.F. their detecting devices beneath the force can approach to within 100 the last war. The Allied forces fighter-bombers on a similar mis­ water so that the approach of any miles of a remote enemy estuary had no fighters with enough range sion would be detected immediate­ submarine would be shown on the and fly off a night strike of mine- to operate decisively over the ly by enemy radar as soon as they radar sets in the aircraft. The laying aircraft. Such a port might troop-landing area. The Germans crossed the front-line. position of the submarine would be 1000 miles (of enemy-controlled had several nearby airfields from be plotted and an attack made territory) from the nearest friend­ which to operate both bombers and The last role of carriers is to with depth - charges. Should a ly shore-base. fighters. It was, therefore, decided provide aircraft for strikes against large-scale submarine attack de­ The second role of the aircraft to use escort carriers equipped with enemy shipping. The further de­ velop then more Gannets could be carrier is to provide air defence Seafires as the only possible air velopment of this role depends flown off the carrier. The modified fliqnr-decr, toctteii ot the. Aircraft Carrier U.S.S. "AnKefem" which for fleets or convoys. In some defence. Without air defence the largely on the consideration of the naval strength of a potential was recently luceewfnHy totted end ihowcd a wusimaw lately factor far pUoti and It is out of the question to sup­ cases this could be done by shore- landing could not have been car­ flight-dad personnel, greater operational efficiency end economy, and increased pose that shore-based aircraft could based aircraft—but even in such ried nut. Nor is it unreasonable enemy. At the moment the Navy fttjhtlnej potential.

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SEARCHERS OF THE SEA DEPTHS There is, for instance. Captain pulled out by his friends. His zine "A.M." said; "The sum total Jacques-Yves Cousteau of the Un­ spine was bent backwards and he of Cousteau's experience (gained, dersea Research Group of the was unconscious. Not until dur­ by the way, in the Mediterranean) TELLING HOW MODERN EXPLORERS —HISTORIANS, WRECK- French Navy, as well as the little ing the war and after he had won was that the groper swam quiver­ HUNTERS, NAVAL DIVERS, PHOTOGRAPHERS—ARE REVEALING TO less - known Frederic Dumas. the collaboration of Emil Gag nan, ing with fear from their rocky hideouts when disturbed, giant I HE WORLD THE VAST UNDERWATER SECRETS OF THE SEAS. Philippe Tailliez, Guy Moran- the eminent French engineer, did diere, and Maurice Fargues of the Cousteau perfect what is now the pelagic Ash surveyed them with same group. The exploits of these standard equipment of the Aqua­ somnolent incuriosity, the moray Wreck-hunters searching the sea venture, not without it? dangers. self-contained unit, with complete underwater developmental re­ lung. Since then, deep-sea diving eels slithered away on the ap­ bed for treasure . . . marine life But to-day. .it comparatively low- freedom to explore th-.- depths or search divers are already legend­ has never looked back. The new proach of man, the manta rays eamcr.i nun filming the teeming cost and with little risk, any ro­ to carry out his tasks underwater ary, seem scarcely credible, sound world of colour and movement, fled, flapping their great, wing- denizens of the watery under­ bust •swimmer, with ordinary care, without having to bother about to us somewhat like a Jules Verne submerged as he was in it for up like fins in panic, and the shark, worlds . . . that frogman-lik-: rig can dive among the enchanting his air supply while doing so. novel must have sounded to our to an hour, proved wholly irre­ once the divers had descended be­ ure swimming about the ocean wonders of the deep. And en­ Thus, with no breathing worries, forefathers of eighty years ago. sistible. Once, Cousteau dived to low the surface, swam around floor is a diver! That goes with chanting and wonderful it all is, the diver can make his dive last Yet, to-day, they are little more 297 feet. And one man, Maurice them indolently or speedily swam out saying. But what kind < •! as those who have been "down longer, go deeper. Harnessed, he than routine incidents of daily oc­ Fargues, dived to 396 feet, but away from them." However, diver? And how is it that at any under" well know. looks like some kind of two-leg­ currence-thank to the Aqua- he never came up alive; under Hastings emphasises that "there thing between 22fl and 300 feet ged, water-living, antelope, horns lung. the influence of the dreaded ni­ is nothing in the Mediterranean down he can still be alive and ac SELF-CONTAINED DIVER and all. with the over-the-should- trogen narcosis or "rapture of the which equals in ferocity the white tive? The fact is. the 3iver we The Aqua-lung, it can be s,.:d er air tubes leading to his mouth, COUSTEAU—SUPER DIVER depths" he had thrown away his pointer shark found in Bass are visualising in that seeming with safety, meets all the require the glass-fronted face mask, and mouthpiece and paid the penalty Strait." He says that the divers deadly game of sea-bed explora with the air cylinders slung on his Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau have become quite convinced that ments tor ideal underwater move­ beL'.in his experimental diving in death. tion belongs to a type that is the ment. Its design is the result of back. no shark will attack under water, world's newest and most adven­ and research work as early as but will immediately and savage­ years of experimentation by div­ Since its invention and before 1936. He was then a young gun­ TORPEDO WATCHING turous. He is a member of that ing specialists in the many and it to some extent with older meth­ ly attack anything on, or close to, fascinating and growing band nery officer in the French Fleet- - Meantime, however, under pro­ the surface water. An interest­ varied diving problems associated ods historiancc have left their a man of sharp observation and per restraint, but with unabated known as Aqualung Divers. He with underwater photography, libraries, biologists their labora­ ing observation, especially to Aus­ is the world's nearest approach in insatiable curiosity, especially for daring, the achievements of the tralians habitually devoted to their and deep-sea research and explor­ tories, and photographers their the little-known world of the Aqua-lung divers mounted in human form to th.' naval suhmar- ation. In operation, the pressure studios, to don frogman suits and m surfing beaches. Other divers, ex­ inc. deeps. In a "skin" dive, with number, and in general utility emplifying the general utility of of the air supply in the Aqua­ masks and carry i-ut methodical nothing but goggles to protect and purpose. Cousteau has watch­ No, the term "growing hand " lung equipment is automatically underwater work in practically Aqua-lung diving, have raised the eyes and to enable him to sec ed the firing of torpedoes from the bodies of airmen, from the has not been emphasised lightly. adjusted to the pressure of water every one of the Seven Seas. For underwater, the deepest he could a submarine and has reported on It is right enough. Until the in at all levels, the air supply being some years, too, navies- partic­ wreckage of crashed planes 100 go was 60 feet, at which depth the behaviour of the Katymines feet and more down on the sea- vention of the Aqua-lung, onh adjusted to the normal breathing ularly the navy of France--have he felt the expected and painful being laid by the Navy and the highly trained specialists could ex­ rhythm. No hoses or lines to trained and called into operation floor. Incidentally, where Cous­ sensation of air shrinkage in the reaction of deep-sea monsters to teau and his few disciples dived plore the under-water world ot the surface encumber or hamper men-fish of this type to perform lungs under increasing pressure. his diving evolutions among them. the seas. It was an expensive the diver. He is an independent. specialised underwater tasks. eight years ago, followers of He then began experimenting Peter Hastings, writing of this in Aqua-lung now dive in their hun­ with his earliest form of equip­ a fascinating article in a recent dreds. ment, but at 4* feet he had to be number of the Australian maga-

DIVERS PROMINENT IN THE FIELD OF SCIENCE

A» for work done by divert the fifth century before Christ. ers aboard a Greco-Roman ship in the field of science, readers of Another instance, was the work which wink off the southern coast "The Navy** will perhaps recall done by a team of divers led by of Prance in the third century an article published in its issue Father Poidcbard which, follow­ B.C. The ship, (which is being of November, 1951, in which ref ing the exploration of the waters raised) and its cargo, is assessed erence wu made to the work of Tyre and Sidon, was able to by scientists as one of the rarest done in the new science of un­ trace accurately the plan of these archaeological finds ever made. derwater archaeology of the ancient and historical porta. This Divers have brought to the sur­ shores of the Mediterranean. equipment does, indeed, offer a face no fewer than 1,000 large There was, for instance, the dis­ very great potential in many amphoras. These are pottery ves­ covery of the famous bronze fields. sels in which the ancient Mediter­ statue of' Zeus of Artemiston, Similarly, the National Geo ranean merchants transported the T'i- "Froqman" of th* i«tt W«r had all-ovar rubber tuitl for protection, fioi for **tr* jpeed. and wore the which, thanks to the Greet Gov­ graphic Society announced in liquid cargoes of their days. Some convention*! tvo* of mail. Aqu*-lungi were not uitd beceui* of th« talMal* bubbles of eihe'ed air. For ernment, was brought up from Washington on February 28, that of these vessels, still corked, con­ long-distance t«ilt(, when th*y would b* swimming dot* to th* surface, thai* men wore closed-circuit oiy- tain wine that, if somewhat vine­ gen regenerative equipment. E*ch m«n also h*d, around hit neck, a plaitic tlat* on which hydrographic the seabed off the coast of a cargo of wine more than 2,100 info-metion could b* noted with *n ordinary pencil. Greece, where it has lain since years oil had been found by dtv gary, is still drinkable.

Th* Navy Mr, It*). t AQUA-LUNG DIVER us many special features is that it confused with somewhat similar THE CORONATION NAVAL REVIEW HAS SAFETY uses compressed air and operates equipment using oxygen and cer­ on the open circuit" principle, tain chemicals. This latter type A MIGHTY AND MAGNIFICIENT SPECTACLE OF SEA-POWER. The A^I.I lung has been used i.e., the air is breathed in from of equipment operates on what is .t cylinder and exhaled into the known as the "closed circuit" now f>>r over seven years with Her Majesty The Queen on C-V.O.). Also on board in at­ where the "Surprise" came to water, in the form of bubbles. principle. Oxygen from a cylin­ >ui casualty (with the one ex­ June 15th reviewed the mightiest tendance upon The Queen were anchor. The pageantry of the Fly­ This tenure, though placing as it der on the back is breathed in, ception mentioned previously): assembly of sea power since the the First Lord of the Admiralty past of 300 Naval aircraft then docs a limitation on the universal and the exhaled gases arc absorb­ Ic is standard equipment in historic Normandy invasion of and First Sea Lord and the Com­ took place over the Fleet. This use of the equipment in wartime ed by a purifying device contain­ the French, British and United 1Q44. mander-in-Chief. Portsmouth (Ad­ was led by Rear-Admiral W. T. \n that the Aqua-lung diver may ing caustic soda. Use of oxygen States Navies, *t several Ameri­ miral Sir John Edelsten. G.C.B.. Couchman, D.S.O., O.B.E., Flag be traced by means of the bub­ limits diving to 33 feet, as this More than 200 warships and can Universities, and is aba used C.B.E.), with whom, in conjunc Officer, Flying Training. From bles, is still a great inventive step gas is extremely dangerous under other craft from 22 nations lined by mmv scientific and education tion with the Commander - in about 10.50 p.m. until midnight forward and. outside the limits great pressures and has caused up off Spithead for the great ,il ofganisations throughout the Chief, Home Fleet (Admiral Sir the ships of the Review Fleet were defined, of greet advantage. No many deaths. Should the chemi­ Coronation Naval Review. world George Creasy, K.C.B.. C BE.. brilliantly illuminated, and at chemicals arc involved. The cals become moistened, the div- H.M. Ships in the Review were The Aqua lung is indeed D.S.O. M.V.O.), rested the or 10.50 gave a firework display, the mccham«m controlling the air er's lungs would be burned. No representative of every class now unique It represents the greatest gam sat ion of the Review- Admiral myriad illuminations and massed supply is completely automatic. such limitations or dangers are in service in the Royal Navy and advance to date in underwater Sir George Creasy, flying his flat falling brilliances of the rocket^ The Aqu.t lung must never be associated with the Aqua lung. were drawn from the Home, exploration equipment. Among Mediterranean and Reserve Fleets, in H.M.S. "Vanguard," command and star shells creating a magnifi­ and from the Home Commands of ed the Review Fleet. cent scene. FOR USE IN AUSTRALIA. Portsmouth, Plymouth and The In accordance with tradition, Her Majesty The Queen, with Nore and Scotland. The Navies the "Surprise" was led out of har­ the Duke of Edinburgh, received of Australia, Canada, India, New bour by the Trinity House vessel more than 60 senior officers at a A member of The Navy record the unbelievable colour of becomes a fish and is accepted AS Zealand, Pakistan and Ceylon League. Barry Keen, has recently the fish and coral foundations of such by the marine inhabitants. "Patricia," commanded by Captain luncheon party aboard the "Sur­ were represented. There were alto J. R. Meyrick. with the Elder prise." imported the first two Aqua-lungs the worlds greatest reef have And so it is possible that, for foreign warships from many coun into the country from America been confined to what could be the first time, we may be able to Brethren of Trinity House em The Queen spoke through an tries. Royal Fleet Auxiliaries and barked. These are to be used, in conjunc­ obtaiiK'd from glass-bottomed sec what was described by Hans representative ships of the British interpreter to the commander of tion with underwater still and boats, conventional, heavy diving Haas, a Director of the Undersea The "Surprise" was followed by the Russian cruiser "Sverdlov," Merchant Navy and Fishing H.M.S. "Rcdpole," wearing the movie equipment, to make docu­ gear, or home made diving bells. Institute at Vaduz, Lkchcnstcin, Fleets. Captain Rudakov. mentary colour films of the Bar­ N< me of these methods c« im recently on a short visit to Cairns, British Admiralty flag, indicating The vast assembly, which in that the Board of Admiralty were Her Majesty stood on a special rier Reef, and also, possibly, for bines the flexibility, range and as the most colourful of all reef saluting platform built on a gun hydrngraphic experiments in that economy made possible by the regions in the world. And he eluded aircraft carriers, cruisers, embarked. destroyers, frigates, submarines. emplacement ahead of the bridge area. Hitherto most attempts to Aqua-lung. With it, the diver should know! As the "Surprise" reached Spit­ of the "Surprise" during the tour and the battleship "Vanguard," head all saluting ships of the Re stretched west from the harbour of the Fleet. This wooden framed view Fleet fired a Royal Salute of saluting point had glass windows in nine lines each seven miles 21 guns. The Royal procession, long--with the head of the lines on all sides and a glass roof, with joined by various ships carrying a curved front to deflect the wind. at Spithead and the rear just to the official guests, then proceeded the East of Cowes—and spread on its appointed function -— Her Around the Review Fleet's an­ over 5? square miles of sea. Majesty's Review of the Review chorage were great liners, mer­ Aboard them were 50.000 officers Fleet. The procession passed chant ships, and 1500 privately- and men. through the lines from East to owned yachts. , Among the warships were the West and returned to a position Never before in 180 years of aircraft • carrier "Sydney," repre­ abreast of H.M.S. "Vanguard," Spithead Naval Reviews have so senting Australia, and the cruiser the flagship of the Review Fleet. many ships been assembled- "Black Prince," representing New Zealand. Her Majesty The Queen and WSM ships •# »h* N«nry Admiral of the Fleet His Royal "SMV* fe" Mkb rop« Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, hoMs fasti KG.. left the South Railway Jetty, H.M. Dockyard, Portsmouth, in H.M.S. "Surprise" — the Royal Yacht for the occasion — and pro- cceded down each line in turn. The "Surprise" (Commander R. A. M. Hennessy, D.S.C., R.N.) was under the orders of the Flag Th»w u»d«r-w«Ur CAMS for ctmarat and •qu>pm*nt «r« ferry ««•„, wMrinf an I, fim and mask, pr»p«r«> M«d« of ttarnlats itaal with monal matal control*. TKay ara for a "diva." TKa aqi waifhs «pproiim«tary 42 Officer Royal Yachts (Vice- for a mo.it camara. • ftifl-camara and aapOMra matar. powndi. but has peaitiva ncy whan it it mbmargad. Ad miral Abel Smith. C.B.,

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NEW BASE IN U.K. FOR into reserve on completion of their from which the units operated in MINESWEEPERS AND trials, and their maintenance, while the Far East. PATROL BOATS. laid up, will form a major part of Th • official citation stated, as the work of the organisation- A given in full in the May issue of H.M.S. "Diligence" (Captain I. co-ordinated programme of slip­ this Journal, that the offensive YOU HEED J. E. Farnol, D.S.C., R.N.), a ping and unslipping will be ne­ spirit, fine airmanship and courage new base in the United Kingdom cessary and will necessitate teams shown by the pilots resulted in an within the command of the Fl.u working constantly at the trots outstanding performance and much Officer Commanding the British and bertha and on those craft damage to the enemy. In one Reserve Fleet, wu commissioned which ha v.* been dried out. period of 79 days' flying, the nn March 3rd. The acceptance and storage of squadrons averaged a daily sortie The base, which is on the site numbers of wooden craft to be rate of 76.3, 123 sorties being the of the former B.O-A.C. flying-boat ready for emergency has presented highest for onv day's operations. base on the Western shore of a new problem, and the centralisa­ The trophy was handed by Southampton Water, is to provide tion of the ferrying and main­ Admiral Scott-Moncrieff, who was for the equipping, commissioning, tenance role emerges as a new Flag Officer, 5th Cruiser Squad­ trials and maintenance of coastal feature. ron, and Second-in-Command, Far and inshore minesweepers and will H.M.S. "Hornet" (Captain W. Eastern Station, until September serve as a reserve base for fast G. Parry, 'R.N.), the existing of Ia«t year, to Commander C. K. patrol boats. Coastal Forces Base at Gosport, Roberts, R.N.. formerly Com­ There is a slipway Capable o( will also act as a commissioning manding Officer of 825 Squadron slipping both inshore minesweeper- base for small craft. and the senior of the ex-Command •^ If You Wont on Efficient Insulation Job and fast patrol boats and a second ing Officers of the two units. By slipway will be built to take Kith BOYD TROPHY Commander Roberts, it was pass­ ~fc Using the Best of Materials coastal minesweepers and inshore PRESENTATION ed to Lieutenant-Commander R. minesweepers. The "hard stand­ CEREMONY. P. Keogh, R.N, who now com­ ing" of this second slipway will The Boyd Trophy, awarded an­ mands 825 Squadron and is the •^ Carried Out in the Shortest Possible Time be roofed over to provide covered nually for the most outstanding senior Commanding Officer. No. stowage for a number of mine­ feat of aviation in the Royal 802 Squadron is commanded by •4^ At the Lowest Price — Ring sweepers. Navy, was presented to 802 and Lieutenant « Commander D. M. Steer, R.N. Two large hangars, which have 825 Squadrons for their opera­ been taken over, will house work­ tional achievements in the Korean The Fifth Sea Lord. Vice- shops and stores and will provide war zone by Rear-Admiral A. K. Admiral E. W. Anstice, C.B., was UM-"VERSIL" INSULATING CO. PTY. LTD. stowage for a number of land- Scott - Moncrieff, C.B., C.B.E., present at the ceremony and 17 MACQUARIf PLACE. SYDNEY I W 2 3 7 3-4 cradled ' fast patrol boats. There D.S.O. at the Royal Naval Air among the guests were Captain 321 FLINDERS ST.. MELBOURNE M I I 4 * I is a pier which will provide along­ Station, Lee-on-Solent, on March Q G. L. Evans, P.S.O., DSC, ST. GEORGES TERRACE. PERTH side berths for nine minesweepers 11th. It was held by H.M.S. R.N.. of H.M.S. "Ocean" for the and a crane capable of dealing "Ocean," the light fleet carrier, period covered by the award. with ancillary equipment likely to be handled. Trots of buoys are being laid out to take a large num­ ber of craft and these will he ex­ DAVIES KENT PTY. LTD. Bardsley's tended as necessary. Accommoda­ Formerly Are You a tion for personnel is to be provided in a hutted encampment. D.S.K. PTY. LTD. SHAVING Subscriber to The British Navy Estimate.-, Manufacturing Engineers and Agents CREAM 1953-54, show that 47 coastal minerweepers an- in course <>f eon for George Kent Ltd., London struction. H.M.S. "Diligence" will For a quicker The \tMv$f provide the organisation for ac­ cepting them as they are com­ and pleted. Steaming crews will be INSTRUMENTS FOR MEASURING AND more comfortable Order Your sent to the builders' yards who i CONTROLLING ALL FLUIDS AND GASES they arc ready and will steam them to the base where they will be Copy Now equipped and stored. SHAVE H.M.S. "Diligence" will also 46 GARDENERS ROAD, MASCOT carry out trials of the vessels. MU1378 Many of them will, however, go

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BRITISH NAVY IN ACTION IN TWO HEMISPHERES NEWS OF THE WORLDS NAVIES On to the Editor's desk in one week come pictures of the British Navy in action in very different parts of the world, all on very dif­ ALL-WAY UNDERWATER plement also included 16 officers, outstanding support which they, ferent missions. Battleships, cruisers, air­ CROSSING OF THE 30 petty officers and 86 ratings through their Shipping Compan­ craft carriers, destroyers and other units of ATLANTIC. under the command of Captain ies, have given to the Royal Naval the Royal Navy, whether in action against a The British submarine "An­ Vcdat Burak. Reserve in the post-war years: common enemy; on exercises with her G>m* Mr. F. E. Harmer, C.M.G., Chair­ monweakh partners and her allies: or paying drew" (1,600 tons) shabby and encrusted with barnacles, on June DESTROYER "WHELP" man, New Zealand Shipping COUltesy visits to foreign ports, are always TRANSFERRED TO Company; Mr. F. H. Dawson. in the news. 15 arrived at Portland (U.K.) af­ ter crossing the Atlantic under­ SOUTH AFRICA. C.B.E., M.C., General Manager. At Brest, in France, recently, the battle­ water. The "Andrew" sailed H.M. destroyer "Whelp" was The Cunard Steamship Company: ship H.M.S. "Vanguard." the flagship carry­ from Bermuda on a voyage to test recently formally handed over in Mr D. F. Anderson, P. & O. ing Admiral Sir George Creasy, the Com- the new "snort," which was de­ South Africa to the Government Steam Navigation Company. m.ind*rrin-Chief, Home Fleet, paid a courtesy veloped following the discovery of the Union of South Africa visit to Britain's NATO allies, the French. of defects in that carried by the and re-named S.A.S. "Simon Van "MEET |THE ROYAL NAVY" This was the first of a series of official visits submarine "Affray," which sank Der Stel." The S.A. Minister of A further seventeen cities and by ships of the Home Fleet to foreign ports. with a loss of all 75 persons Transport. Mr. Sauer, deputising towns are in course of being visit­ Meanwhile, in Malaya, the helicopters of aboard in the English Channel in for-the Minister of Defence, stat­ ed this (English) summer in No. 848 Naval Air Squadron are operating April, 1951. It was the first ed that the South African Gov­ Britain by,the mobile Exhibition in the jungle against the Communist terror' known underwater crossing of the ernment was giving its attention "Meet the- Royal Navy," which idts. They were being used to assist ground Atlantic. The commander of the to the acquisition of additional was last year transported for more operations and as spotter and rescue aircraft. "Andrew," Lieutenant-Command­ craft, and appealed for recruits than 2,500 miles in a small con­ And m Korea, where British naval units er William Davis Steward Scott, for the South African Navy and voy of heavily-laden lorries. The were engaged with the United Nations fleet 32, said that he had been aston­ the South African Marines: The Exhibition will take to inland areas in operations on land and sea. Naval air ished by the submarine's depth- British High Commissioner was many of the attractions of "Navy squadrons operating from aircraft carriers keeping qualities in heavy seas. present at this ceremony. Day*" Except for one brief per­ struck the enemy frequently and vigorously. "All we were told was, "you are iod in June, it will be continu­ going to snort back', so we snort­ SINGAPORE DOCK. ously on the move with its staff of ed," he said. Appropriately forty Royal Naval and Royal Ma­ Tugs recently began towing' a ine ratings. The itinerary will enough, the "Andrew" arrived in 9,000-ton section of the Singa­ CORDIAL... the United Kingdom a few hours range between Stirling and Dun­ . . . the greeting given by the pore Naval Base's floating dock to dee in the North, Hastings in Commdindir - in - Chief, Home before the Coronation Naval Re­ a British shipyard. Travelling at Fleet, Admiral Sir Gaorga view. the South, with Llandudno as the a speed of four knots they hope Westerly limit. Housed in an Cr«*»y to the French Vi<«- to complete the voyage via Suez Admiral A. R. M. Robert, TURKISH SHIP VISITS UK. eighty-foot marquee are exhibits C.I.E.. when the b.HUiKip in three months. The massive illustrating every branch of the "Vanguard" visited Irest, on a The Turkish training ship dock, which has been raised from cMirtaty call. Service, while outside features in­ 'Savarona" visited the United the sea bed, will be scrapped. clude displays by Royal Marine Kingdom towards the end of Work is still in progress on the frogmen and Judo experts, in ad­ LESS April. This was the first time other section of the dock, which dition to fly-pasts by Naval air­ CORDIAL . . . that a training ship of the Turk­ twice has been at the bottom of' craft. . . . were the Gurfcha troops ish Navy had visited Britain since the sea. In 1942 British Naval being transferred by this naval engineers sank the dock before halicoptar to a new position Turkey was declared a Republic in the iunqla during the fight in 1923. The vessel herself was the Japanese occupied Singapore. UtlS. "CHIVALROUS" •gainst torrorists. TK» hali­ acquired as a yacht by the Re­ The Japanese raised the dock and RETURNS TO UK. coptar belongs to No. 84* public during the illness of the used it until 1946, when Ameri­ Naval Air Squadron. H.M.S. "Chivalrous" (Com­ first President. Kcmal Ataturk. can aircraft bombed and sank it. mander M. A. Hcmaos, D.S.C. After the death of the President and Bar, R.N.), has returned to EVEN LESS the ship was converted into a ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE the United Kingdom after serving CORDIAL ... training ship for Midshipmen. . . . was this devastation of a HONORARY COMMISSIONS. several commissions with the group of North Korean amy The "Savarona" visited Dover Their Lords Commissioners of British Mediterranean Fleet.. buildings caused by Sea Fury and Dartmouth and during the the Admiralty recently approved aircraft of the carrier H.M.S. time she was in British waters her the award of the honorary rank "Glory" during a bombing RUSSIAN CRUISER I Cadets toured Royal Naval Col­ of Captain R.N.R to the under­ SALUTE sortie. A total of over 7.500 leges at Greenwich and Dart­ sorties against the enemy have mentioned high administrative The visiting Russian Heavy mouth. There were 71 midship­ been carried out from the executives of the British Merch­ cruiser "Svcrdlov" fired a 21-fun flight-deck of the "Glory." men on board and the ship's com­ ant Marine in recognition of the salute as' she steamed up Spit-

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head on luii-. 10 to attend th. a reception held at Admiralty master, A. R. Bird, joined the ALLIED OFFICERS IN of submarines- Submarines fitted launch from the "Sydney" sped Coronation Naval Review on House, Sydney, on the afternoon "Vengeance" prior to departure, MEDITERRANEAN CONFER. with Schnorkel breathing appara­ alongside and hauled the three June 15 i»i British and foreign of June 10. to undergo their annual training. The Allied Commanders-in- tus could remain underwater for men aboard. Lawton was placed ships. NAVY HONOURS DUKE'S LABUAN CROSS OF Chief in the Mediterranean met in several weeks without surfacing in the "Sydney's" sick bay, BIRTHDAY. SACRIFICE UNVEILED. conference in the Naval Head­ and could travel great distances at where he recovered. ADMIRAL SHOWERS high speeds while doing so. The Naval ships in Sydney Harbour As announced by the Minister quarters at Lascaris, Malta, at the COST OF FIRST U.K. ATTENDS GOVERNOR. lor the Navy (the Hon. William invitation of Admiral The Earl possession of a strong ami - sub­ on June 10 were 'dressed over­ ATOMIC BOMB. GENERALS RECEPTION all" in honour of the birthday ot MeMahon). officers and men Mountbatten of Burma. K.G.. marine force by the R.A.N, would The Governor-General Hi- L^ the Duke of Edinburgh. K<;. It from H.M.A.S. "Tobruk," to­ etc., Commander-in-Chief. Allied be essential if Australian sea com­ The first British atomic bomb, cellcncy Field Marshall S:, was the Duke's ?-2nd birthday. gether with Commodore J. C. Forces, Mediterranean, on April munications were to be kept open exploded on October 3 last, at William Slim, attended by mem Army gunners honoured the day Morrow. D.S.O.. D.S.C.. R.A.N.. 24. They discussed matters of in war time. The conversion of the Monte Bello Islands, off the hers ut his personal statf, receiv by finny a 21*gun salute from were present at the unveiling on common interest. these former destroyers to fast coast of north-west Australia, cd th: Flag Officer-in-Charge, Milson's Point at noon. June 10 of a Cross of Sacrifice at anti-submarine vessels would help cost £100 million. The test, which ITALIAN C.-IN-C. VISITS to build up this force. was "highly successful," was to Rear Admiral H. A. Shower*, at Lahuan, Brunei Bay, North Bor­ MALTA. NEW SWEDISH neo. The Cross is in memory of determine the effects of an atomic DESTROYER. Australian servicemen who lost The Commander-in-Chief Ital­ DRAMATIC RESCUE AT explosion in a harbour and the Sweden recently launched the their lives in the Brunei Bay as­ ian Naval Forces. Admiral Di CORONATION NAVAL bomb was placed in the frigate new destroyer "Smaland" at ship sault in June, 1945. The "To­ Squadra G. Manfredi, flying his REVIEW. "Plym," anchored off shore. The yards in Gothenburg- The "Sma- bruk" -it the time of the unveil­ flag in the cruiser "Garibaldi." A dramatic rescue was enact­ explosion was the culmination of iand" and the "Halland" will be ing was en route to Korea to re­ with the destroyers "Libra," ed during the Coronation Naval two years' planning. imposing-looking vessels with lieve H.M.A.S. "Anzac." "Clio." and "Cassiopea" in com­ Review at Spithcad on June 15— their two sets of ouad tubes FLEET AIR ARM TO pany, paid a formal visit to Malta an incident which might have PLANE ON FIRE OVER mounted high on -t lone central REPLACE "NAVAL in April. Admiral Manfredi was marred the Review through loss ATLANTIC. superstructure. returning a visit of the Command­ AVIATION." of life. Mechanic Ronald Law- A message from New York said er-in-Chief. Mediterranean. A ton, 18, of Dorset. England, who BIRTH ON CARRIER The Australian Naval Board that a fire broke out on June 24 "EAGLE" AT CORONATION programme of entertainments recently joined the R.A.N, on has decided to introduce the title was arranged hy British host ships in an American airliner while fly­ NAVAL REVIEW. loan, fell, apparently unobserved, ing over the Atlantic with 37 "Fleet Air Arm" into the Royal tor the Italian Squadron. from the deck of the "Sydney." The wife of a bosun on the Australian Navy. It will replace R.A.N. DESTROYER people on board. The plane, be­ British aircraft-carrier "Eagle" A "Sec the Fleet" party- on board longing to Eastern Airlines, and the term "Naval Aviation." This CONVERTED TO ESCORT a tug saw Lawton floating in the gave birth to a daughter in the was announced on June 9 by the FRIGATE. which was flying to San Juan. "Eagle's" sickbay at the height of water and raised the alarm. Chief Puerto Rico, developed a short Minister for the Navy (the Hon. Petty Officer Thomas Code, 32, the Coronation Naval Review at William MeMahon). Th; Minis­ "Quadrant," a former "Q" class cruise along the coasts of Princess Spithcad on June 15. An urgent destroyer, which has been convert­ of Melbourne, and Petty Officer about 400 miles out of New- ter said that the term "Fleet Air John Gibbons, 24, of Casino, call went out over.thc ship's loud­ Arm" with its heroic wartime as­ ed to « fast anti-submarine escort York. Smoke poured out and the speaker for the principal medical frigate at the Williamstown Naval N.S.W., plunged into the sea insulation burned off. _ The pilot sociations, had a strong popular from the quarter-deck of the EMBROIDERED officer. Surgeon Commander appeal. It had everything to re­ Dockyard, Melbourne, would be brought the airliner back to New- Curd jell, and the ship sent a sig­ commissioned on 1st July. This "Sydney" and supported the by York after a tense two hours and commend it. Carrier flying began now unconscious man until a BADGES OF RANK nal ashore for a hospital launch. in the R.A.N, in 1949 when its was announced on June 8th by the 25 minutes. (SOLD OR REO IRAIDI A few minutes later Mrs. Joy first carrier, H.M.A.S. "Sydney", Minister for the Navy (the Hon. McCracken, one of the ship's arrived in Australia. Since then, William MeMahon). Any Badge Made to Order guests of the day, gave birth to a H.M.A.S. "Vengeance" had been "Quadrant" was one of the five VESSELS BUILT, SLIPPED AND SERVICED. RANK BRAID girl. The birth was premature added tc the Australian Fleet. destroyers presented to Australia and was not expected for another H.M.A.S. "Sydney" had distin­ by the British Government in DIESEL, MARINE AND GENERAL ENGINEERING. BUTTONS month. guished herself in her first tour 1950. The other destroyers were RIGGERS AND SHIPWRIGHTS. H.M.A.S. "VENGEANCE" of duty in Korea in 1951 when "Quality," "Qtriberon," "Quick- All rl asses of repairs and conversion work carried out. MINIATURE MEDALS match" and "Queenborough." CARRIES OUT EXERCISES. her pilots established a record, for MARINE INSTALLATIONS. MODERN SUPWAY AVAILABLE CAMPAIGN RIBBONS a carrier of her class, for the num­ Three of these are also being con­ FOR ALL TYPES OF CRAFT. The aircraft-carrier H.M.A.S. ber of sorties flown in one day. verted to fast anti-submarine es­ "Vengeance," after exercising in This record has since been brok­ cort frigates at the Cockatoo Jervis Bay, returned to Sydney on en by an R.N. carrier. H.M.A.S. Island and Williamstown Dock- June 20, and left again on June "Sydney" would leave for Korea .yards. "Quadrant's" commanding A. A W. Engineering 2 J for Hcrvey Bay, Queensland, for her second tour of duty in officer would be Captain S. H. to carry out deck landing train­ October, the Minister said. Beattie, V.C., R.N., who would & Ship Repmlr Co. ing with aitcraft from H.M.A.S. also be the Senior Officer of the " Albatross ". H.M.A.S. " Ba- "CENTAUR" ON TRIALS. First Frigate Squadron. taan," destroyer, accompanied the The new British aircraft-carrier Ptg. MAM. 568 Gtorga Sr. SydiMy Mr. MeMahon said that the aircraft-earner. Fifty members of "Centaur" recently left the yards naval authorities had emphasised CAREENING COVE. MILSON'S POINT (Op*. T«m H.ll| the Royal Australian Naval Re­ of Messrs. Harland and Wolff, that the submarine menace in any Telephone.: XB 167! and XB 4)87. At N II Tr.m Stop serve, including the band under Belfast, where she has been built, future war would he particularly the baton of Commissioned Band­ for preliminary trials. acute because of the development After Hours: XJ32U. ? ras) Navy Mt. IHJ. • • " •

AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC play in competition for a silver ™ EXPEDITION. cup which has been presented by Mrs. R. W. Baker, of Hobart. The Australian expedition to It will be called "The Navy Cup" BIRT ft COMPANY the Antarctic Continent will and will be played for annually at leave Melbourne about January 9 Hobart between officers of the next year. In announcing this in ships of the Fleet. Mrs. Baker Canberra on June 24, the Minis' is the wife of Mr. Baker, Cap­ (PTY.) LIMITfD ter for External Affairs, Mr. R. tain of the Royal Tennis Club. G. Casey, said that the expedi­ Hobart. WORLD tion would be led by Mr. Philip From our Correspondent* in G. Law, director of the Antarctic 4 Brldg. Stmt, Division of the Department. A JETS WILL CARRY LONDON and NEW YORK Danish motor vessel, the "Kista 130 PASSENGERS. By P.O. Box 544, World War I. ace, recently AIR MAIL Petersen, has been specially char­ predicted that within 10 years jet (15 lines) tered tor the expedition. It transport planes would fly from IN DOCK FOR OVERHAUL. liner design. Combining for the down while the ship was about to would tirst call at Heard Island the United States to any point on 6rst time a number of construc­ enter Sydney Harbour on June Sydney, M.S.W. to put ashore the Australians to The 400-ton 'Maria Del Mar," the earth in a day. And they the old sailing ship which was tion features already well tested 17. The South Head Signal Sta­ Abo at man the station there during 1954, each would carry 100 to 150 pas­ individually the new 20,000 gross tion received a message to the ef­ and then continue south and converted not long ago to a mo­ 64 EAGLE STREET, sengers. He also predicted that tor vessel and which sprang a leak ton liner may succeed in setting fect that a pilot had boarded the cruise along the coasts of Princess helicopters, carrying as many as entirely new standards of passeng­ ship and that there was no im­ Elizabeth Land and Macrohert- near Noumea in April, arrived in 40 passengers, would fly at 200 Sydney for repairs on May 22. er comfort and accommodation. mediate danger. The ship was son Land. Ten men would make m.p.h. between cities up to 300 In designing the new Shaw Savill brought safely into harbour. studies in meteorology, geology, She went into dock at Chap­ BRISBANE. miles apart. He added that 10 man's Slip, Balmain, for a gen­ Liner provision has been made for surveying, geophysics, and biol­ years hence airliners would carry the incorporation of a most effi­ INTERSTATE LINER ogy. After landing the party and eral overhaul. The "Maria Del 60.million passengers a year, com­ Mar" left Nqumea on May 1? in cient and up-to-date system of air RETURNS TO SERVICE. its equipment on the mainland pared with 27-million in 1952. conditioning which will ensure After undergoing repairs since base, Mr. Law would return to convoy with the "Estrella Del Musgrave Cold Stores: Mar" and the "Polyncsien." Her maximum comfort for passengers February this year, the Adelaide Australia via Heard Island, pick­ in all climates. Every cabin in Steamship Company's interstate STANLEY STREET, ing up the scientific party after captain - owner. Captain Emile Savoie, said he was forced to the vessel will be air-conditioned liner 'Manunda" went back into SOUTH BRISBANE it had completed a 12 months' and to meet individual require­ service on Saturday, June 20, tour of duty there. battle against huge seas during his nine day voyage. At times, ments it wilt he possible for pas­ when she sailed from Sydney for ALEX H. MACRIE he had to reduce speed to two sengers to regulate the condition Melbourne, where she embarked in their own cabins. In addition NEW SHARK ATTACK knots. He also said that when passengers for North Queensland ENGINEER the two dining saloons, hospitals, ports. SHIPPING TEST. the 'Maria Del Mar" sprang a leak in April about 200 tons of cinema, shop, hair dressing sa­ loons, crew's quarters and recrea­ "AORANGI" SAILS ON HER and A Sydney medico. Dr. Lyle 9-ll-J THERRY ST.. water flooded the entire aft d.-ck Buchanan, is conducting experi­ and the engine-room. "Fortunate­ tion rooms will be fully air-con­ LAST VOYAGE—TO THE MELBOURNE. VICTORIA ditioned. AIRWAYS AGENTS. ments on treatment to reduce ly, the nickel ship 'Taiho,* picked SHOPBREAKERS. deaths from shark attacks on Aus­ up our radio call and towed us The former transpacific liner tralian beaches. Dr. Buchanan into Noumea," he added. U.S. TANKER IN DISTRESS. "Aorangi" (17,491 tons) left for conducted his initial tests at the A message from Hong Kong on the United Kingdom on June 18, Life Saving Society's Easter train­ "ARKABA" TOWED TO June 3 said that the Chinese Com­ bound for the shipbreakers. The CARGO AND PASSENGER ing camp at Broken Bay. north PORT ADELAIDE. munist shore station at Swatow veteran liner arrived in Sydney of Sydney. He said that one-- METAL STAMPINGS SERVICES TO UNITED The 2,500-ton freighter "Ark- had relayed a distress signal from on June 9 on her last voyage third of all shark attack victims OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS the United States tanker "Camp across the Pacific. Built in 1924, died from loss of blood before be­ aba," which ran on a re.-t at Port KINGDOM. CONTINENT. lor u» Lincoln some 16 months ago, was Namanu" (10,488 tons) drifting she was designed to carry nearly ing brought into the beach. "We MOTOR AND AIRPLANE with fuel pump failure slightly 1,000 passengers and arrived in AMERICA AND THE towed to Port Adelaide on June hope to save these people by ap­ INDUSTRIES. north of Luzon, Philippine Is­ Sydney from the United King­ plying tourniquets and treating 13. She will probably be docked EAST. and repaired. lands. In the absence of any dom on her maiden voyage in them while they are still in the further adverse word from Hong February, 1925. The "Aorangi" *ater," he said. NEW SHAW SAVILL Kong in regard to her, i. is pre­ has now been sold for scrap and PASSENGER LINER. sumed that the tanker's distress is returning to be broken up FULL PARTICULARS CUP PRESENTED TO R.A.N. The new passenger vessel now signal has been answered and where she was built—Glasgow. FURNISHED ON FOR ROYAL TENNIS under construction for Shaw that she is safe. ' ' As the liner backed from her For al< i berth on her last voyage the APPLICATION. . COMPETITIONS. Savill 6? Albion Co. Ltd., Lon­ F1M29. don, at Harland and Wolffs ship­ TANKER IN TROUBLE. Orient RMS 'Otranto," at an Royal t.'nms players in the Roy­ yards at Belfast represents a rev­ The engines of the oil tanker adjoining wharf, flew a signal of al Australian Navy will in future olutionary concept in passenger "Ctstula" (8,097 toni]T broke farewell, and all the way down II n> *•»» '

th*.- harbour liner, freighters, ter­ and manager of the company to QUESTION OF PRATIQUE. ries and tug boats, -minded a last which the «hip belonged. The Queen's Bench* Division BIGGER HARBOURS FOR AFRICA goodbye on their sirens and whis in the United Kingdom) recent ties. The Royal Australian Navy HUGE DOCK FIRE IN EXPANSION SCHEMES BRING INCREASED TRADE ALASKA. ly dismissed the appeal against sent the fallowing mc-sage from the acquittal of two Humber H.M.A.S. "Australia": "We are Th*. largest United States dock- lightermen who had hoarded .< Throughout the territories of British East .ind the help of Bridal l civil engineers and technicians. sorry to lose .in old friend of Mi:: .md warehouse installations in ship before she received pratique \Vcst Africa vast engineering projects, made ne- C nc of the mos t recent of these projects to be many years standing in. these Alaska were destroyed by a multi- on the ground that the quaran essary hy the rapid development of the termor- com pleted is the i 5,000,000 extensions to Takoradi waters. Captain, officers, and million tire on June 19. The mes­ tine (lag was not flown at the 1e s and their ever-increasing demands of trade. Har Sour in the 1 jold Coast, which was officially ship's company wish yuu luck on sage reporting the disaster made masthead, but only just above the ire Seing undertaken Hy the African peoples with ope tied last mont l by the Governor. Sir Charles your last voyage." no mention nf what had caused bridge rail where it was not eas­ Arden-Cl »rke. Similar work in pr igwai the fire ily visible. ..»... "* 'W at East A frica's ma)or port Mombasa - "UNSEAT OR THV." SAYS 4 * :$fcj BRITISH FREIGHTER where th C number of deep water berths BELFAST MARINE COURT. : M COMPAGNIE GENERAL •it Kilindi ni docks are being increased, will A Belfast Court of Inquiry SHELLED IN FORMOSA * ' * i '• "^MsSL- '•* •••**»• STRAIT. TRANSATLANTIC **"-• t/ _»,. • - l*-*&mWh'• - - .jr"""-*^ greatly it crease the port's handling cap* found on June 11 that the British -:".j.-^w-: ''S Tl •^ft^^MM "Al flfY t acity. K lindini is the hncst deep water terry steamer "Princess Victoria' A :;;i?»a^c from Hone Kong on It i? reported that the Com anchorage on the East African coast, and sank in the Irish Sea with i loss June 22 reported the shelling in pagm.- dner.de Transatlantic has M ships can enter at all stages of the tide. of 133 lives on January ;I be­ the Formosa Strait by an uniden r^ '^^^^^^aW\*w\\r^^^^M \* provisionally decided on the type •?"•••• •'••wssa&aws&'-jafcjj Extension 5 are als<» being carried out on cause she was unsc.iworthy. A titied lunk oi the British freighter • >t >hip which will be most effi­ the depot s. wharves and storage facilities. tribunal of four found in a unan­ '"Willi! San*;." Six shells hit the cient and economic when the HEi^^pr^Hfcfi.^^^SSS^BgW?^''^* : %, • and to th e railway yards. imous decision that the loss was freighter, which, however, escap­ "Liberte" and "lie de France" M.llion i of cubic yards of foil have caused by default • t the owners ed, and there were no casualties have been replaced. The type ot been exca vated to make room for the new ships eventually planned will • SlBPJliHP?- *m •• •' ~* m.trshallin g yards. When this work is probably be between 50,000 and ^••^p^m-'r ••' ^r~.' ' '"^tM completed the turn-round of ships* .it If ,000 tons gross, 27 to 30 knots EraliK^fll - — MAKE A POINT OF SawsT ^T'Ai'ioi 1 ^H Mombasa will be speded up still further. speed, carrying 2,000 passenger- and freij ht for up-country destinations CALLING IN TO THE each. tw ^^Vf)> <• t„." ~t" m ™ - _li will spen i less time awaiting trucks on 7 4J\ \MC jFr" A. ^1 ^P^ the quays de. FIRST & LAST HOTEL NO ATOMIC-POWERED Momha sa stands at the seaward end of BRITISH SHIPS—YET I^^AflC^j3Pr^^^^^^^^&^ (1ATB CUTTY SABJC) East Afr ca*s "lifeline"—the main track AWHILE. of the E ast African Railway's system, 'Above) The deep water berths at Mombasa can accommodate CIRCULAR QUAY The British Minister of Sup ships with a draught of up to 32 ft. There is also room for many which let ds not, only all of Kenya and ply. in the House of Commons. more shios in the orotected anchoraaes seen in the background. Northern Tanganyika hut the whole of stated that there was no intention Uganda, tlus the adjacent fringes of the CONVENIENT, CENTRALLY STfUATED of considering atomic power for Belgian Cong o and the Sudan. ''Below) Excavations in progress at Kilinatnt Harbour where the *vnen the expansions of propelling ships until much more new marshalling yards serving the port will be sited. experience had been gained in the Mombasa's trading facilities : development of stationary plants ' • m ••^^m^x:- '^PVPMppsi^M^flP" " "••*"' ^ have been completed the ash< ire. Ww t#* port will be more adequate­ JAMES PATRICK & CO. PTY. LTD. M | &-* ^^S^HllW F \ J ly equipped to play her full SHIPOWNERS — AGENTS - CONTRACT EGYPT SUES BRITAIN. ^^••MflAiBHH^teHHHHI^^^^^^^^^J mt^^^aA^^ role in the development oi ^m^^g^ mmuuurMM ^^^*^^^i East and West Africa, AS STEVEDORES The Egyptian Government on fcfiJMfcM^B y_#l * SMtumr^^ will other ports and har­ ? CHARTERS AND BUNKERS ARRANGED June 20 sued Britain for £37,92 bours where .xtensions are sterling damages for the destrue being carried out. tion of the village of Salal Malak REGULAR INTERSTATE & OVERSEAS CARGO & PASSENGER SERVICES in the Sue: Canal Zone on May 26 last. The writ was issued on • the application of an anonymous Agents for . . . Egyptian citizen against the Brit The Indian

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ADMIRAL SIR MAURICE Mediterranean. In this he took PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS J. MANSERGH, K.C.B., C.B.E. part in the closing .stages of the fetttflttiM tf Shaw Swill M.V. 'tynbrlt" Admiral Mansergh, recently pro­ campaign in Italy and the occupa­ Messrs. Harland £r Wolff Ltd. tralia, New Zealand and Africa. ASSISTANT CHIEF OF tralia, died at Marnckville Dis­ tion of Trieste. Later that year STAFF. MEDITERRANEAN. trict Hospital, Sydney, on May moted Admiral in H-M. Fleet and have completed at their Belfast This vessel, which is a sister ship the present Commander-in-Chief, he served for a short period in the Yard the "Cymric," a new motor to the "Cedric," has a gross ton­ The appointment has been an* 2? at the age of 98. For years. dual appointments of Commodore nounced in the rank ot Captain Mr Figg had been a prominent Plymouth, has had a colourful driven refrigerated cargo liner for nage of 10,800 tons and is 512 career. Born in 1896, he entered Commanding 15th Cruiser Squad­ Shaw Savill f> Albion Co. Ltd., feet in length, 69 feet in breadth C. F. J. Lloyd Davies. DSC, ricurc among veterans taking part ron and Commodore Levant and R.N.. to the Staff of the Com­ in Ansae Day . nd Empire Day the Roval Navy as a Cadet in and the vessel has been handed and 41 feet 6 inches in depth. 1909. Eastern Mediterranean. On re­ over after the successful comple­ She will have a very large refrig­ mander in Chief Allied Naval ceremonies. This year was the linquishing the latter responabili- Forces Mediterranean as Assist- first time he had missed the Ansae Promoted Commander in 1930, tion of her trials. The "Cymric" erated capacity and the most mod­ ties, he became Senior Naval which was launched in May last ern cargo handling equipment. i-it Chief of Staff. Day ceremony. he served at the British Admiralty, Officer at Haifa. at the Staff College, on the Staff year by Lady White, O.B.E., The latest design of Harland B. He became the Naval Secretary wife of His Excellency The High H W. opposed piston Diesel en­ RETIREMENT OF NAVAL AIDE-DE-CAMP TO nf the ('''mmander-m-Chicf, Medi­ to the First Lord of the Admiralty Commissioner for Australia, will gines burning boiler oil will give ADMIRAL PACKER HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN. terranean, and as Executive Officer in April, 1946, and was promoted operate between England, Aus­ the "Cymric" a speed of 17 knots. A recent change in the Royal The British Admiralty has an­ of the "Rodney," from which ship he was promoted Captain in 1937. to Rear-Admiral in July, 1946. Navy Flag List, as announced nounced that Her Majesty The In July, 1948, he was given the by the British Admiralty, was Queen has been graciously pleas­ After completing a course at the Command of the Aircraft Carrier that of Admiral Sir Herbert A. ed to approve the appointment of Imperial Defence College in 1938, Squadron which was forming for Packer, K.C.B.. C.B.E.. who has Admiral Sir John H. Edelstcn, he served at the Admiralty as service in the Home Fleet; in the been placed on the Retired List. G.C.B., C.B.E.. as First and Prin­ Director of the Trade Division Autumn of that year took bit THOMAS ROBINSON & SON PTY. LTD. cipal Naval Aide de-Camp to from 1938-1951, being responsible Squadron, augmented by four de­ NEW COMMODORE OF Her Majesty in succession to Ad­ for the final preparation of the stroyers, on a goodwill visit to FLOUR MILL AND WOOD-WORKING P. & O. miral of the Fleet Sir Rhoderick Merchant Navy for war and for South Africa. ENGINEERS. A spokesman for the P. 6? O. McGngor. G.CB, D.S.O., the the defence of Merchant Ship­ Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. an­ appointment to take effect irom ping and the Convoy system In September, 1949, he was pro­ nounced in Sydney on June 9 that May 1. when war started. For his'ser­ moted to Vice-Admiral and in 160 SUSSEX STREET, SYDNEY Captain D. G. H. B.nllie had been vices as Director of the Trade Di­ October of that year returned to appointed Commodore of the vision he received the C.B.E. the Admiralty as Fifth Sea Lord N.S.W. company's fleet Captain Baillie DIRECTOR OF BOOM and Deputy Chief of Naval Staff He afterwards commanded the was formerly commander of R.M. DEFENCE AND MARINE (Air). As such, he was the Mem­ cruiser "Gambia" in the Eastern S. Himalaya." and has succeeded SALVAGE, R.N. ber of the British Board of Ad­ Fleet, during which he took part Captain S. W. S. Dickson, who re­ The.appointment has been an­ miralty responsible for the co­ in the second attack on Madagas­ tired on June ?. nounced in the rank of Captain ordination of Naval air policy. (R.N.) of Captain D. G. F. W. car and escorted the 7th Australian Admiral Sir Maurice J. NEW LORD COMMISSION. Macintyre, D.S.O. and 2 Bars. Division returning from the Middle Mansergh became Commander-in- ER, BRITISH ADMIRALTY. DSC. to Admiralty as Director East to Fremantle in Western Chief, Plymouth, on 30th October, Australia. The British Admiralty has an­ of Bt>om Defence and Marine Sal­ 1951. nounced that Her Majesty The vage. In the middle of 1943 he joined NEW FLAG OFFICER, Queen has been graciously pleas­ the Staff of the late Admiral ed to approve the appointment of PROMOTION TO VICE- Ramsay. Allied Naval Comman­ BRITISH HOME FLEET Admiral the Honourable S r Guy ADMIRAL. der, Expeditionary Force, as TRAINING SQUADRON. H E. Russell, K.C.B., C.B.E., The promotion of Rear-Admir­ Deputy Chief of Staff and Head The British Admiralty has an­ D.S.O., as a Lord Commissioner al 1 M. R. Campbell. C.B., D.S. Naval Planner planning the in­ nounced the appointment of Rear- of the Admiralty, Second Sea O., RN., to Vice Admiral in Her vasion of North - West Europe. Admiral W. L. G. Adams, O.B. U.rd and Chief of Naval Person­ Majesty's Fleet, has been an­ Three weeks after D-Day he be­ E., as Flag Officer, Home Fleet nel in succession to Admiral Sir nounced by the British Admiralty. came Chief of Staff, as Com­ Training Squadron, in succession Alexander G. G Madden, K.C. modore, First Class, in succession to Vice-Admiral J. F. Stevens, B. C.B.E., the appointment to CHANGE IN THE FLAG to Admiral Creasy, and went to C.B., C.B.E., the appointment to take effect later this year. The LIST. France when the Naval Head­ take effect in August, 1953. appointment of Vice-Admiral'F. A recent change in the Flag quarters were set up outside Paris. R Parham, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., List, as announced by the British For his services on Allied Naval NEW DEPUTY is Second Sea Lord, is cancelled Admiralty, is the appointment of Commander Expeditionary Force's CONTROLLER, R.N. on the grounds of ill health. Rear-Admiral W. W. Davis, C.B., Staff he was mentioned in dis­ The appointment of Rear-Ad­ D.S.O., as Flag Officer (Air) patches and was awarded the C.B., miral L. F. Durnford-Slater as VICTUU IITIEI DEATH OF AGED WAR Mediterranean and Flag Officer the Legion of Honour and Croix Deputy Controller, R.N., in suc­ VETERAN. Second in Command, Mediterran­ de Guerre and the American cession to Rear-Admiral J. W. nfUHUE una Mr. Harry Figg, a former Roy­ ean Station, and who will be Act Legion of Merit. Cuthbcrt, C. B. C.B.E., has been FISTEI'S 1MB al Navy petty officer and the sole i n g „ Vice-Admiral in Her In March, 1945, he was appoint­ announced by the British Ad­ survivor, it is believed, of the Majesty's Fleet'while holding the ed as Commodore in command of miralty. The appointment took AIIITS Mill Zulu War of 1873 living in Aus­ appointment. the 15th Cruiser Squadron in the effect in June. t n tW Navy IMl. . . . SEA-ODDITIES In some features the North* takable terms By the time they rate at least seven times greater West coast at West Australia i« have captured their prey their th»n that of other types of mam as interesting zoologically a.* the boat has often been carried so far maltan muscle Proportionately North Queensland1 coast and the out that the lugger has to go to the power used by a whale forc­ 5HINID Barrier Reef. The waters of some their assistance and pick them up ing its huge bulk through the of the nver estuaries and inlets water is almost incredible. Esti BRASS ami SILVER Walcott Inlet, for instance are A whaling story with a differ mates made on the propulsive Liquid Polish power of a blue whale in the act as alive with fish and other var eiuc about the whales that were For Brass, a richer glow — a new icties of marine life as anywhere tracked down with the aid ot of i'ruining along at 10 knots an on the Australian coasts. Turtle* scientific means was told in hour show it to be about 50 beauty. loggerheads and greenbacks London recently. "Hie man who horsepower: when, therefore, the For Silver, protection and a perfect told it was Commander R. CJ. C. whale accelerates to 2? knots the dugongs, sharks, sail fish, white polish. fish, sting-rays, sea snakes, croco Haines, who has been visiting the energy it develops must be any­ thing between 400 and 500 horse diles, starfish, clams, cuttlefish, Antarctic whaling expeditions in Shinio will not harm the most trochud. crabs, trepan*: or heehe- South Georgia to investigate the power. Frank W. Lane in his delicate surface of Silver de-mer are almost everywhere success or otherwise of .1 nvw fascinating book "Nature Parade," abundant. In fact, many of these electronic device tor tracking says that: "During the Scott Ant­ Plate, Nickel or Chrome. lifeforms are pro.bably more patn down whales, much as the Navy arctic Expedition some of the tiful on the North West than on tracked down U boats tn the last sleigh dogs were standing on an Shinio dispenses with the the North East coast. Particular war. He told of how, during the ice floe. Two killer whales at­ necessity for separate polishes for first ten days of the season in tacked them. The killers dived ly does this apply to the dugoog Beau and Silvrr. Shinio is the best The crew boys on the luggers and January, using the Kelvin Hughes deep beneath the ice and then schooners often spear the dugong echo whalefinder. the expedition swam swiftly upward. They for BOTH. for food. In undertaking this took more blue whales than dur­ struck the ice -floe with such force work they go out in .1 small boat ing the whole of the previous that the ice. which was 2 J feet m SHBRATON FURNITURE POLISH which has to be handled as noise­ season. As an instance of the effi­ thick, was splintered into frag­ it a companion product of Shinio. lessly as possible so the boy man cacy of the new device, he said ments, and the dogs just escaped ipulating the sculling oar at the that .1 whaling ship not yet fitted A member of the fJMt Pe*ry Ex stern of the boat encases the row with the revolutionary new gear pedition has recorded that he saw lock in a piece of hanging. He had been chasing a blue whale for ice, at least 4 inches thick, brok­ follows the movements of one of most of the day with the whale en by a walrus butting its nose these sea cows with wonderful on the winning side. At last the against it." The tunny fish is also dexterity, and when the pursued ship signalled "Over to you" extremely powerful, and so is the creature comes to the surface to and passed OB the chase to the monstrous devil fish, or manta. breathe the boy in the bow with Commander's whale finder-fitted "Commander T. B. Thompson, of STOREY & KEERS the harpoon, to which is attached vessel. Within ninety minutes the the United States Navy, has re­ ten or twelve fathoms of strong elusive blue whale had been track­ corded how he was in a heavy line, thrusts the spear into the ed down and killed. Incidentally, 26-foot whaleboat contai n i n g Ml SHELLEY STREET, SYDREY victim, at the same time jumping the average blue whale, the hard­ seven men when a manta was har completely overboard so as to add est o fall whales to catch, is pooned. With alternate beats of his entire weight to the Wow. For worth anything up to £3,000. its great flippers the brute a the hide of the dugong is about devil-fish weighs 3 or 4 tons half an inch thick and hard to towed the boat for over an hour Sea animals whales, dolphins, penetrate. When the harpoon is at a speed which varied between walrus, etc. are unquestionably thus well driven "home," the boy 8 and 12 knots. How much long­ the highest-powered creatures in scrambles back into the boat, and er the manta would have contin­ the world. Scientific investigation MARINE & GENERAL BOILERMAKERS Si ENGINEERS. the dugong rushes away, towing ued to haul the whaleboat is not has proved that their muscles are the boat at a great pace until it known, for after twelve 45 bul much more efficient than those of becomes exhausted. If there is lets had been fired into its body All Classes of Ship Repairs. land animals. Dr. J. Gray, after any further trouble the boy the fish sank and the harpoon a scries of experiments on the jumps overboard again and blocks pulled out." propulsive power of the dolphin, Flcad Office: Shipyard: » Woodwork Sactioo: the dugongs nostrils with his came to the conclusion that: "If SHELLEY STREET. LOUISA ROAD. LOUISA ROAD. clasped hands to stop it breathing. the resistance of an actively swim SYDNEY. BALMAIN BALMAIN The hunt is soon over then. The ming dolphin is equal to that of a WB2151 WB 1066 boys take great delight in this "Some Australian industries BUM rigid model towed at the same BX1925 WB2I66 WB262I form of hunting and never fail have standards 25 years behind speed, the muscles must be cap­ to express their pleasure in unmis­ those in other countries." able of generating energy at a —Dr. H. V. Evatt.

M IW Navy July. IttJ. " •• •SWW^" SPEAKING OF SHIPS As a result of large-scale indus­ On desolate Ellesmere Island, "Kn 18,'»«i-t. ,n tanker «i> Units of the Navies of the Com­ trial development at Kw-inana. on on the northern coast of Amer­ assembled at Admiralty House, launched for Arapol Petroleum monwealth countries in the Indian its foreshores. Cockburn Sound ica, an American and Canadian Tnncomalee. after the exercises, L:J it Ncwcistle-on-Tync. Eng­ Ocean and of the Royal Navy as­ will soon become one of the best expedition is seeking the source sent greetings to the First Sea land, on June 11. Thv tanker is sembled at Trincomalce from April harbours on the Australian coast­ of the great floating ice islands of Lord and reported the successful th. William (;. Walklcy" and is 10th to April 25th for combined CO. m. LTD. line, and rank among Australia's the Arctic. One of the northern­ conclusion of this, the third an­ :h. l.rccst vessel of its typo ever training and exercise- built • •' .tn Australian nil com busiest ports. most land masses in the Arctic, nual training period of its kind Ellesmere Island has seemed the The First Sea Lord replied: 'I The rxrrrises are held annually Ceetracten I* ... The Ellerman v Bucknall Line. probable primary- source. and form an important put of am very pleased to hear of the In. Japanese- Gotrrnnirnt on which has compkted the passeng­ each Navy's training programme. success of your annual Joint Exer­ H.M. AUSTRAIIAN MAW. May 29 announced a ban which er ship "City of Port Elizabeth." The Neu South Wales Minis­ They ensure that in times of cises, which are of such value to Ship-builoWt, ter of Local Government, Mr. J. us all." proh.ihh will prevent Japanese expects t-' get delivery of her sis­ emergency Commonwealth Navies Marine firms importing Persian oil. The ter ships, "City • f Exeter." in B. Rcnshaw. Mid on June * that can work together to protect vital His Government would pay a sea communiscations in the Indian and Angjo-Iranian Oil Company main­ June. 19*S. "City ot York" in the CADETS VISIT NELSON'S Newcastle (NSW.) lirm £47,194 Ocean. General Engineer! tains that, pending a settlement loll..wing October, and City of DOCKYARD. of its oil dispute with Persia, it Durban" in December this year in the next three years to eater lnquirifM InvHtxJ sharks. The rirm, Messrs. N. P. In addition to harbour drills, owns all the oil stored at Abadan • r January. 1W4. Nelson's historic dockyard at Gorshenin and Son, has netted tactical rxercisrs at sea were car­ when the industry was nationalis­ English Harbour. Antigua, has 949 sharks, including 60f> man- ried out by the combined Squad­ ed bv the Persian Government in been visited by H.M.S. "Devon­ Owing to increased unemploy­ eaters, off beaches at Sydney, rons under the Commander-in- MM. shire" (Captain W. G. Crawford, ment, the National Dock Labour Newcastle, and the South Coast Chief, East Indies Station. Vice- COCKATOO ISLAND Board (United Kingdom) has put D.S.C., R.N.) in the last three years. Mr. Ren* Admiral Sir Will-am Slaytcr, SYDNEY The British Ambassador in up the shipowners' payments on shaw said. K.C.B., DS.O., DSC, A Squad­ The visit, made during the ship's Wishmcton. Sir Roger Makins. the gross wages of workers to 22$ ron of Shackleton aircraft from spring cruise as Cadet Training per cent, on daily workers other RAF Coastal Command, station­ WB I Ml said n May 29 that en all the A young meteorologist was cruiser, enabled 207 Naval Cadets than coastal. 15 per cent, on daily ed in Ceylon, during the period, evidence no ship under the Brit­ sent to Cronamhurjt Observatory, on board, representing the Royal H0I-—1 workers on coastal ships, and 7 exercised with the ships and target ish flag and subject to British Queensland, early in May to in­ Navy, the Royal Australian Navy, per cent, on weekly workers. towing aircraft were available for law had carried Chinese Com­ vestigate, on behalf of the Aus­ the Royal Pakistan Navy, the anti-aircraft firing. munist troops. The ships that tralian Government, the methods Royal Ceylon Navy, the Royal had carried them were under the A number of neu- British dicsel- of long range forecaster Mr. Inigo The Royal Naval Squadron New Zealand Navy, the Indian Panamanian flag, and their regis- engmed ships, while not having Jones. Mr. fonts claims he can Navy and the Irish Naval Service tratH n had since Keen cancelled. taking part consisted of th their engines adapted for heavy forecast the weather m any part cruisers "Newfoundland" and to see this West Jndian Harbour oil. are having their designs ar­ of the world seasons m advance. Ceylon." The Indian Squadron and to assist in the work of re­ T. ft. •OVIt The u-tll'\noum Australian ship' ranged so that the installation of comprised the cruiser "Delhi." the storing buildings. pmg man. Mr. F. W. Jackson, re­ heavy oil can be arranged without A society limited by guarantee destroyers "Ranjit" and "Rana" for A message received in Ldhdon tired from the position of joint any difficulty. has been registered to repair and and the frigates "Jumna," "Kist- said that during the visit of the manager of Shaw . Savill and preserve the clipper "Cutty Sark" na" and "Cauvery." The Pakis­ • WEBBING. cruiser last year the careening Albion Company Ltd., at the end and a considerable sum of money- tan Squadron consisted of three Professor K. E. Bullen. of the capstans were rebuilt and during of Ms) after 25 years with the has already been given anony­ destroyers, the "Tughrcll." "Tippu • LANYARDS. Department of Applied Mathe­ this year's visit the Admiral's company. mously. Bat more money is need­ Satan" and "Tariq." matics. University- of Sydney, says House was repainted. The visit • BAND REGALIA. ed. Contributions to the fund that the earthquake at Rabaul on coincided with a yacht rally or­ can be sent to the "Cutty Sark" Unfortunately no unit of the • DRESSING GOWN Determined to show their loy­ April 24 appears to have been ganised by the Society of Friends Preservation Society. 40 West­ Royal Ceylon Navy participated alty -n June 2. three lighthouse nut a volcanic earthquake but a of English Harbour For an hour GIRDLES. minster Palace Gardens, Artillery this year owing to the absence o,' families on lonely, windswept tectonic earthquake one caused the White Ensign flew over the Row, London, S.W., England. H.M.Cy.S "Vijaya" in the United Gab Island on the south-east by the sudden release of clastic dockyard, perhaps for the first • CORDS, Etc. cast t Australia, hung out their strain that would have been slow­ Kingdom in ci-nncctiou with the Coronation, but a large number time for 60 years. It was hauled Coronation decoration -a line of ly accumulating for a long time The Fawley Oil Refinery (U. down at sunset when the Royal Red dresses. White nappies, and beforehand. of officers and men of the Royal K.) is threatened with legal ac­ Ceylon Navy were embarked. Marine band from H.M.S. SMALLWtAR WEAVING Blue vcralls. Maritime regula­ tion by local residents for "bad "Devonshire" beat retreat before a tions :'• rhid flags and hunting be- The shipping facilities at Port smells, noise and pollution." At the conclusion of the exer­ large crowd. • SCANNING MILLS inc. jisplaycd in case ships mis­ Krmbla. south of Sydney, are in­ cises messages were exchanged be­ •uTJLU-im Cktssststsi AssttsssmaxsU take them for signals. adequate to cope with all the steel The Port of London Authority tween senior officers of the forces After dark four cutters maimed being shipped overseas and inter­ increased the surcharge on basic participating and the First Sea by. officers, cadets and members of The opening of Cockburn state, a spokesman for Australian rates for discharging vessels in all Lord (Admiral Sir Rnodcrick the ship's company sailed indepen­ Sound, near Frctnantle, West Iron and Steel Company said on docks by five points owing to the McGrigor, G.C.B., DS.O). The dently to Basseterre, St. Kins, 63 •Hie-.: UA M7I p bat) Australia, as a big commercial June 5. It it said that the conges­ increased contributions demanded nag and commanding officers of miles away, and on the following harbour, has revived the question tion of the pott has been constant by the National Dock Labour the Naval forces and the Air morning they rejoined the "Devon­ ot establishing a naval base there. since August of last year. Board in the United Kingdom. Officer Commanding, Ceylon, who shire" on her arrival at St. Kftts u Ike Nsnm M- '•*»• ..,: •:

part, no invention at all. He had 1 wntten hi- adventures in so artistic a form that it drew doubt as to Arrives in Sydney August II. their authenticity. As Collis says: The R.A.N. aircraft - carrier in H.M.C S. "Quebec." Manocu "He did not set {his book] down H M.A S. "Sydney," carrying the vrea and flying exercises would be in any one of the manners gene­ Australian Services and the New carried out during the voyage rally u-ed for conveying informa­ Zealand Army and Air Force The ships would arrive at Halifax "The Grand Peregrination," hy ever be accorded a high place nt the sort, that of the reporter or Coronation Contingents, left on the 25th June. The carrier Maurice Collis. I*uhli-hcd hy among the historical influences the historian His temperament Portsmouth (England) on June would leave Halifax on 29th June Fiber and Faher, 14 Russell which led to the opening up to dictated to him a different manner 17th on her return voyage to and would arrive at Baltimore Squire, London. Western civilisation of the lands and he threw- his total impression- Australia. (U.S.A.) on the 2nd July for a *Mf> and seas of the Orient and the into [a form] which has no clear The carrier will call at Canadian, four-day stay and then she would This is QQC of the mot ta-cinat sail for Pearl Harbour via the ing books of us type and venue northern co.istl.ind ot Eastern definition, but which pleased him. American and New Zealand ports Africa. satisfied hi- sense of what was fit­ en-passage. She wdl arrive in Panama Canal, calling at Colon, MOMUSONt that thw reviewer h.i- read for a which is at the northern end of long *.nw. The author, basing his -torv on ting, had a certain roundness and Sydney on August 15th. The car­ documentary evidence a weil a- uniformity allied with the baroque, rier will then dock for a refit and the Canal, on July 11th. "Sydney" SINCLAIt A> the author point- can in his (and largely) upon the great and which he alone knew how to be made ready to go to Korea in would reach Pearl Harbour on the | PTY. LTD. ojv:ur.t chapter, the object "I thi- traveller's own classic. "Peregrina­ manage with success. He had no October as planned. This was an­ 26th July and leave on July 29th W.K-K :.- to present Pcrnau Mende* tion." which he wrote on his re­ master, and he has had no dis­ nounced recently by the Minister for Auckland, arriving there on Pir.i more or les- in full perspec­ turn to Portugal after hi- long and ciple-: no hook composed like the for the Navy (the Hon. William the 10th August. She would sail • tive t. the English -peaking puhlic expansive wandering-, -hows Pinto "Peregrination' was written before McMahon). for Sydney next day. tor :'-.. "ir-t time He ha- succeed leaving Lisbon to tace the dangers him. nor ha- any been written H.M.A.S. "Sydney" would sail, cd admirably. Mr. McMahon said that the and privation- ol a voyage to ( MM, since ... it is a masterpiece " he said, from Portsmouth for Hali visit of H.MA.S. "Sydney" to ^IT^S"^1«B|B"^BV"SJB"JJ1»^"T"*»*» 9 r*csrite the faet that Pinto is. there to seek and make hi- fortune. fax (Canada) in company with Canada and America would be re­ Collis's story of this great man LONGNOSE POINT and hi- been tor a lone time, re He show- him arriving in India and of the book he wrote is also of ships of the Royal Canadian Navy garded as the returning of visits garde.i among the learned geog and on his journey to Ahy-winia. great merit. It is beautifully illus­ and would be under the opera­ paid by warships of the Royal SYDNEY rapher? and historian* a- the miM Extended vi»it- to Malacca and trated, too. and very finely pro­ tional control of the Canadian Canadian Navy and the United extr:..rJinary of all Portuguc-e ad- Sumatra follow: and the storv of duced Flag Officer, Rear Admiral R. E. States Navy since die end of the '•bom: Wt IfSI (2 RIMS) vcnt,.r-.T- of the sixteenth century, the pursuit of the pirate Koj.i To all tho-c interested in Eastern S. Bt'dwell. who would fly his flag and mat he predated by a genera Aehem is told. Up across thc life and history, this book can be tiori ,.) "Ur great Elizabethan navi C!hina Sea he goes, and we see him thon .ughlv rco immended. gatcr-. ratting, among other-. next arriving in Ningpo; see him, AR COUntr.es of A-ia and the Eastern too. on his expedition to the Royal Archipelago later incorporated in Tombs at Peking Subsequently. thi British Empire, the greatne-- we arc with him. successively, in FIRST SPACESHIP TO of his life, voyae.es and adventure- Tartary. in Japan, in Burma, in had remained, owing to In- never Java, in Sum, and again (twice) MOON IN 197CS. having been translated rati roust in Japan Wc see him in the At the present rate of develop­ other languages, largely unknown clash of battle, in hairbreath cs ment, exploration of the planets and therefore little appreciated by capes, as an honoured guest at the will be in full swing by the end the -jv-rld outside his own nation. Courts of King-, in the company of this century, a British scientist But r.- '•«• here in this hook we haw of St. Francis Xavicr. in Chinese said recently. He is Mr. Arthur a fuIMcngth portrait of the man prisons; as beggar, a- merchant, as Clarke, Chairman of the Inter­ — "; man portrayed with all ambassador, a? slave, as pirate, in planetary' Society, and he made his embellishment-, tailing- nisi fruitful venture and in disaster. his forecast in a Unesco publica­ failure- as well as in hi- far more But always his grand peregrination tion. It might be some time in considerable aehievement-. -pinti'- givs on. undaunted, unflinchingly the late l°70"s, he said, when the Travel Shaw Savill ahtv:-. md successes. And apart from spiritual re­ first true spaceship would land ward, what does he gain" Born on the moon and return to earth. Thi essential thing about Inm i- Crossing of space," he added, thiT Uthough bora in a period ot in 1509, he died, little known and hut tardily officially recognised, in "may do much to turn men's extreme rcligiou- bigotry, he wa­ minds outwards and away from ne. Kc't: indeed, considering the 158?. But he had left his great impression on the Eastern world. their present tribal squabbles. In cruel tnd narrow views of hi- day-. this sense the rocket, far from de­ he "**.-' of liberal mind, kind and As for his own great descrip­ stroying civilisation, may provide consult rate, deeply observant and tive work of his travels, this, des­ the safety-valve needed to pre­ .*£ innately humble Without in any tined to lie wasted and for many serve it." Atomic power might v» way imint'shing the stature ot years unpublished, was long re­ well mean that the whole solar Drat; ind Raleigh, the twenty six garded as no more than a worth­ system would be accessible to vears' rercgrination of thi- brave less document of cleverly-invented man. Clarke said. ar.1 -r.riring Portuguese must now lies: actually, it contained, on his

thm Navy July. IW. n Queen's Coronation Honours List EX-NAVAL MENS on June 1. Forty-eight awards have now now been granted to officers and POOLE & STEEL LTD. ratings of the R.A.N, since the Association of Australia Korean war began in 1950. They are as follows: - Distinguished Service Order 43 STEPHEN ST.. BAI MAIN, Patron-in-Chief Her Majesty The Queen. Captain G. G. O. Gatacre. DSC. and Bar. RAN., of Mel N.S.W. (FEDERAL COUNCIL) suitable representation at the Ser­ Port Adelaide, 13; Northern bourne. Victoria. Commanding vice. Suburbs, 4; Port Lincoln, 5; South Officer H.M.A.S. "Ansae" from Advice has been received from Australian Headquarters, 7; Pie- February. 19J2, to April, lv'.v the Prime Minister* Department During the past month the fol­ mantle, 4: Victoria Park, 2: Member of the Order of the informing Federal Council that two lowing members were given trans ACT,. 6; Queensland, 8, and General Engineers, Boilermakers, Shipbuilders, Dredge Builders British Empire of its officers, the Federal President fers from Sub-Sections: Messrs. Papua-New Guinea, }; this makes Commissioned Engineer Officer and Honorary Federal Secretary, W. J. Storer and G. G. Baker a total of 186 applicants for the Plans, Specifications and Estimates prepared J. B. Carter, RAN., of Manly. haw been honoured by Her from Sydney, the former to Mel­ new quarter of the present year. New South Wales, Engineer for Mining Dredges and Plant of all kinds. Majesty with the award of the bourne and the latter to Ryde; C. State Councils have advised the Officer of H.MA.S. "Condaminc.' Electric Welding and Oxy-Acetylene Work. Queen's Coronation Medal. A. Brown. L R. Ponton and G. E. Fancy from Perth, the former Hon. Federal Secretary of the pass- Mention in Despatches to Fremantle and the remainder to mi: away of the following mem­ Federal Council ha< written to Yeoman of Signals W. A. Jones, Victoria Park; N. W. Gordon- bers: Messrs. Albert Hickling. the Acting Prime Minister and ha» of Bankstown, New South Wales, Cooke from Canterbury - Banks- Bernard Kusktc. Robert Ritchie protested strongly about the non H.MA.S "Condamine." Telegrams: representation of the ex-Naval town to Sydney. and .lack White of A.C.T. Sec­ Men's Association at the recent tion: William H. George of Ade­ The respective citation to each award is given below. "POOLSTEEL," BALMALN, N.S.W. unveiling and Dedication i >f the Notiticatum of new members for laide Sub-Section: John Critchlcy of Headquarters Sub - Section: War Memorial at the Lahuan. the first three months of this year Captain Gatacre Robert W. Thompson, Edward Borneo, War Cemetery, The A- have, -o far, been received by ' Leadership and determination Sanders and William S. Forrest of social ion considers that it should Federal Council; numbers entered of a high order and notable ser­ Port Adelaide Sub-Section: Albert have been given the courtesy < •( by Sub-Sections are: Melbourne, vices to the United Nations Forces Hilton of Melbourne Sub-Section: being invited to send one irf it? 26; Ft.xjtscray. 4; Sandringham, .*: engaged in the Korean War. He Ronald Baker of Footscray Sub- official* to the Dedication, especial­ Geelong, 6; Heidelberg, 9; Mil- has displayed qualities of courage Section and August O. Seidel of ly as there are Australian Naval dura, 7: Ararat, 17; Sydney, 5: and imagination in handling the Sydney Sub-Section. NICOL BIOS. PTY. LTD. personnel buried at Lahuan, and Newcastle. 2: Canterbury - Banks- international forces under him and ; no other ex-Naval ttrganisation was town. . : St. George, 1; Parramatta, Members of the Federal Execu-~ aggressive intelligence towards the INCORPORATING given the opportunity of having 10; Manly Warringah. 2; N.S.W. tive were present at the June enemy." General Meeting of the Sydney Commissioned Engineer Sub-Section. After the presenta­ Officer Carter PENGUIN HEAVY UFTIIN PTY. LTD. tion of the Charter the guests were TATTERSALL'S 3 POINT entertained by a screening of films "The devotion to duty and ex­ in the Air Force Association Club. ample of hard work set by this PROGRAMME r-jn George St.. Sydney. This ad­ officer during nine months' Korean PENGUIN PTY. LTD. Service has been reflected through­ dress will be the future meeting ALL CLASSES OF STEAM DIESEL The 5 . Cash Consultation — £10,000 place of the Sub-Section. out the Engine Room Department First Prirr. Drawn every few week*. of the ship Mr. Carter has work­ AND GENERAL ENGINEERING —G.W.S. ed tirelessly at sea and in harbour BOILERMAKERS, OXY-ACETYLENE The 10/- Cash Consultation — £21,000 in a most efficient manner. No AND ELECTRIC WELDERS \ TASMANIA J First Prize. Drawn every few weeks. major breakdowns of main or auxiliary machinery have occurred, PLUMBING AND ELECTRICAL WORK The 1953. £1 Melbourne Cup although steam has been off the FLOATING CRANE AVAILABLE AT ALL TIMES Consultation MORE AWARDS FOR main engines on sixty days out of (20 TON CAPACITY) £50.000 First Priae. KOREAN SERVICE FOR two hundred and sixty-seven. This is largely due to this officer's ef­ ALL CLASSES OF MARINE EQUIPMENT FOR SALE RA.N. forts and his insistence on good POSTAGE ON TICKETS AND RESULTS TO BE ADDED Three further awards have been maintenance." 10-20 WESTON ST., i ALMA IN EAST The Addict . . . made to officers and men of the Yeoman of Signals Jones Phones: WB $121 — 3 fates Royal Australian Navy for opera­ "Petty Officer Jones, during the 6E0. ADAMS (TATTEISALL) H0BAIT tional service in Korean waters. whole nine months in Korean After hours: >UM 94S\ WM 322}, FM $708. These were announced in the Waters, has performed his duties

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.. - .-• in .tn outstanding manner. Hi> Lieutenant-Commander Savage often worked nights and days on example of hard work and cheer­ This officer has shown excellent end repairing defects. It has been fulness of manner have Jone much c< x loess and judgment in action, largely due to the untiring efforts to make the coBammkatkmi mainly when hi- -hip has Keen a oi this able, hard-working rating FOR HOffft" efficient in all respects. He li.i- L'mt Commander of Allied ships that the Fire Control System in aver.nied eighteen hour- a day at in :!k H.ieju area off the enemy- H.M.A.S. "Anzac" has worked FOil FUN tea and in harhour in the bridge heJd west coast of Korea. In sue with efficiency in the operational superstructure and has been re- rfo CCSsfully dispersing by gunfire area •poruible f. »r the V S department World's Best i Demy tr< - >ps massed for attacks Lieutenant (iolder and cryptography and ha* also Outboard un friendly islands on two 000/ For skill, fortitude and very BRITISH^ \fi Ull taken I wery keen interest in the sii.n-, he showed very commend' Motor Wireless Onjani-atioii. " marked attention to duty as Execu­ able initiative and presence of tive Officer of H.M.A.S. "Bataan" In addition to the foregoing, THE »l-4 H.P. MODEL THE MODEL 40 PLUS mind and received the commenda­ during arduous Korean War the Minister fur the Navy, an­ tion of the United States Com­ Tor sturdincss. reliability and endur­ (illustrated) ; Patrols. 1951-52. ance, the 40 lb. weight. *}-4 HP. S-.-nds 12 footers scooting across th • nounced on June 1. that six tur mander f the island forces. ther awai(h had Ken made to Acting Chief Petty Officer Seagull o uboard is unbeatable. Op­ wale . Light, it weighs onlv 28 If--. erating >» Mill water or on the seas, there's nothing to match this Seagull officers and men ot the Royal Lirutenaont Robertson Errington thin Scagu'l moves loads of 4 and "' for compacted power and ruggedncss. Australian Navy for operational Lieutenant Andrew John For cheerfulness, skill, example, tons. Available as a standard model Ocsigned for continuous running at service in Korean \v.iters, which Robertson. R.A.N., has shown loyalty and very marked attention or with a clutch for complete man- full throttle, th- model 40 plus sti'l brings the awards now granted to m\ urabilitv it turns the large 10 in. OP -rates smoothly at low rc.s. The outstanding zeal, energy and de­ to duty as Coxswain of H.M.A.S. proprllor .it 1.500 R.P.M. without long drive shaft gives 16 in. free­ officers and ratini!* ot the R.A.N. votion to duty in the training oi "Bataan" during Korean War anv wpjfd churning of water, yet board, no wasti-d powrr frothing the since the Korean war begin in the gunnery team in H.M.A.S. Patrons, 1952. has power to spare. surfit • of the w,iter. 1950 to fifty-tour. "Anzac" and maintaining the Electrician (E) Cannon Distributed by; The Minister -aid that all Aus complicated fire control equip­ For skill and marked attention tralians would he proud that the ment fitted in the ship. In the to duty in maintaining the elec­ services given N i skilfully and matter of maintenance of the DANGAR, GEDYE & MALLOCH LTD. trical equipment in H.M.A.S. courageously by these members of armament and fire control equip­ 1014 YOUNG STREET, SYDNEY "Bataan" under arduous condi­ the RAN had been recognised. ment his expert knowledge and tions during Korean War Patrol*. (i.l'.O. Box MW. Cables- Dangon. As in the earlier instances, they understanding of its proper func­ 1952. would K* delighted CO extend their tioning have been invaluable and BRANCHES: MELIIOURNE. NEWCASTLE. USMORE. WAGGA, HAY. congratulations to those who had he has on many occasions worked received award* in the latest list. exceedingly long hours with the The list is as follows: mamtamer*. regardless of day or { ORDER FORM j night, in remedying defects and in Distinguished Service Cross getting the whole equipment into I To "THE NAVY," J Lieutenant - Ciflmander R. C. efficient operation. Savage, R.A.N.. f Sydney, New I ROYAL EXCHANGE 1 The efficiency and constant de­ South W.Ues, Commanding Officer I BUILDING, < votion to duty of this officer have I BRIDGE ST., SYDNEY. 1 of H.M.A S. "Condamine." been very large factors in ensur­ Lieutenant A J Robertson. ing general operational efficiency R.A.N.. of Fremantle. Western in H.M.A.S. "Anzac." Please register my subscrip­ Australia, Ounnery Officer of His calmness and disregard of tion to "The Navy." The H.M.A.S. "Aniac'" from March. personal danger when most effec­ rate is 18/ per 12 issues 1951. to January. 195?. tively controlling the rmament in post free in the British British Empire Medal • relatively prolong:d action Empire. I send Postal Note/ (Military Division) against an enemy coast battery of > Cheque/Money Order for four guns which hotly and accu­ i[ issues. Electrical Artificer James Baxter. rately engaged H.M.A S. "Ansae" of Claremont. Western Australia, * (Add exchange where on 16th November. 1952, was H.M.A.S. "Anzac." applicable) most notable. Mention in Despatches Commencing from: Lieutenant J. W Colder. Electrical Artificer Baxter R.A.N., of Melbourne. Victoria, James Baxter, E.A., 3rd Class, H.M.A.S. '"Bataan " R.A.N., has been outstanding in Name Acting Chief Petty Officer R. his devotion to duty, diligence and C. Errington, of Frankston, Vic­ unstinting efforts in maintaining Address toria, H.M.A.S. "Bataan." the complicated Fire Control Sys­ Electrician (E) H. G. Cannon, tem in H.M.A.S. "Anzac." Cheer- ' «. of Casino. New South Wales, fully, and without complaint or Date..™ I HM.A.S "Bataan." regard to his own health, he has

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R. Nell WiUord. Aul«a». ltd. •^i.i^te^.^^ • t rtt'iifi.-irfri-rtmA.Taowm.H the British Admiralty into purely Naval and novel problems of launching and controlling these weap­ Burma. It means, rather, that Eastern Hemisphere ons from ships, and the Ministry of Supply and affairs will be our specialty as a senior partner in the Admiralty were working closely together to Commonwealth affairs, just as Britain herself will ensure that the production of ships and shipping be the senior partner in European and Atlantic Australia's Marltlm JwrtaJ , affairs. equipment kept in step with the development of the weapons. Air-to-air guided weapons were be­ We cannot afford to rely on the aid or protec­ ing developed by the Ministry of Supply to meet &.+• -.i. tion of the United States. Indeed, we should not the requirements for both Naval and R.A.F. air­ do so. Apart from the fact that whether the craft, he said. Americans should concentrate on Europe or Asia is a matter of political controversy in U.S.A. it­ JS~# ;- It had been hinted that the Royal Navy had self, we are members of the Commonwealth of not been given a big enough share in the defence Nations and have a duty toward that Common­ estimates. The Navy Estimates in 1953-54 had wealth. not increased while those for the Army and Air Forres had. This must not be taken as an indica­ Consequently, what arc our first tasks in regard tion of a decline in the importance of the Navy or to the Enstern Hemisphere? The very first one is to JMHSPWW'wMill^^^ «jji^

Au9urt, Iff!. " • . SNORT SUBMARINE'S ATLANHC CROSSING Insulating the arteries First Everest, now the first un­ done—and the longest for most Stoker Les Parker, of Stratford. derwater crossing of the Atlantic! men in the ship. East London, was the winner of industry. . . One was a Coronation present, As officer of the watch I spent On our broadcasting system ."•' the other was the Navy's news my time in the control room amid­ heard the B.B.C Overseas Ser­ for the Queen as she set out to ships, looking through the peri­ vice commentaries on the Coron­ review the Fleet recently. scope. It was worse at night ation, the Turpin-Humej fight and and we did have some .dark nights. the Test Match. Ashore ! The conquering submarine is the "Andrew," commanded by Visibility was good on the We also heard the news of the State Electricity Commiition, conquest of Everest. And. of Imperial Chamical Industrie! A.N.Z. Lieut.-Commander William Scott. whole, but wc felt the strain ad­ Australian Gas Light Co. It surfaced in the Channel after justing our eyes to the darkness course, we heard about the Derby. Australian Iron and Staal Ltd. its voyage of 3,236 miles (prob- and getting them focussed on the Some of the crew missed their Stewart* and Lloydt, .ibly lasting 14 days) from Ber­ horizon. The control nx)m was sleep to listen to the Coronation. Thompsons (Cattlamaina). The day after the Abbey service Department of Railways. muda. The latest Snort apparatus kept darkened with only here and Watarside Cold Stores. kept its ftj men breathing. Here is there the odd dim red light. we spliced the mainbrace. Straeti let Cream. the full story told exclusively to In certain compartments we We saw quite a lot of surface Nuffield (Auit.) Ltd. the News Chronicle by Lieut. were allowed to smoke. This was ships, merchantmen of various Vacuum Oil Coy. Michael Frend. R.N.V.R., of H. a great help nationalities. And we carried out M.S. "Andrew," in an interview Diet sometimes. was monoton­ successful dummy "attacks" on (with acknowledgments to the ous. For breakfast we would have four of them. Afloat! London "News Chronicle"): cereals, eggs and bacon, home­ A few sea birds used the Snort Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Co. made bread with butter and fruit Adelaide Staam Ship Co. as a resting-place and two or juice. Portland, June 15, 1S>53. Jamat Patrick and Co. Pty. Ltd. three dolphins followed us for a Lunch—the Navy calls it din­ Mclrwraith McEacharn Ltd. We were the first British sub­ while. I could see them bowling ner—always began with tomato, Kudd.rt Patkar Ltd. marine ever to cross the Atlantic along beside us. P. and O. Staam Navigation Co. chicken noodle or vegetable soup. Dopartmant of the Navy. without surfacing. It didn't really After the third day the main We followed with dishes such as City Una W. G. Dauchar and Co. Ltd. mean much—it was so easy. But periscope went out of action, but roast mutton, roast potatoes and A.U.S.N. Co. Ltd. I never knew fresh air smelted we managed to repair it. tinned beans. Nawcattla and Hunter River so good. Staamtnip Co. Ltd. Early in the passage we had to When we surfaced in the ap­ AND HUNDREDS OF OTHERS. Today I felt it unadulterated in go down to 80 feet for eight proaches to the Channel we look­ my nostrils for the first time since hours, to attend to trouble in the ed just about the dirtiest vessel PHONE BW2373 AND WE WILL SEND AN EXPERT ENGINEER TO "^ H.M.A.S. " Arunta " on her we left Bermuda, 3,23ft miles* main diesel engines. afloat in this part of the world. INSPECT AND ADVISE YOU ON YOUR INSULATING PROBLEMS. recent trials after the steer" tvvay. pipes end boilers had beer This engine broke down later There were barnacles all over NOTHING IS TOO HOT OR TOO COLD FOR UNI-'VERSIL" TO INSULATE. insulated by Urti-'Versil". Not until ten days before sail­ and we had to travel on one mo­ the place and the sea had worn WE ARE SPECIALISTS IN THERMAL INSULATION. AND OUR TECH­ ing diu we know we were to at­ NICIANS ARE EXPERIENCED IN WORKING WITH EVERY TYPE OF tor for two and a half days. But away so much of our paint that INSULATING MATERIAL tempt the whole crossing under we repaired it before reaching we showed our yellow undercoat- water. port. ing. UII l-"V ERSIL" INSULATING COMPANY PTY. LTD There were no special prepara­ Twice we had to dive deeply Wc got to Portland at three tion?. Stores, including food, HEAD OFFICE: 17 MACOUARIE PLACE. SYDNEY suddenly to avoid colliding with o'clock this morning. No recep­ alio at MELBOURNE. HOBART. ADELAIDE and PERTH vere just what we would have had merchant ships. This was at tion committee awaited us—just "'»r a normal trip- no special vit­ night when we were about half c handful of seamen, to secure us amin tablets were provided and way across. alongside the jetty. iir fresh vegetables ran out af- Our navigator did exceptionally Flag Officer Submarines sent us r a few days. well The bulk of his calcula­ a signal- "Well done!" Bi;t we had refrigeration and tions were on "dead reckoning" HALLIDAY ate meat and fish throughout navigation, and we surfaced where Comments by other members Keep a Good he voyage. We are all as fit to- we expected. of the crew. lay as when we left. BROS. To relieve the monotony we The captain, Lieut.-Command­ Before diving we did more than e Lookout ran competitions. The most pop­ er W. D. S. Scott: Everyone be­ day's surface steaming to get Engine Works: ular was a moustache-growing haved magnificently. Wc had 'car of local shipping. contest. JO ERSKINE STREET, FOR THE NEXT ISSUE OF two lots of really bad weather. SYDNBY,'N.S.W. I was one of the three officers This really broke Queen's rcg- • On the third day out we encoun­ t the watch. Wc did two hours ulations which state that you 'Phone: BX 1700. tered a gale which lasted for 20 The Smy? n and four hours off--normal must grow a full set, beard and hours and we had only two days 'irking times in submarines. all, but we laid it down that all of flat calm during the whole trip, MARINE 8C GENERAL ENGINEERING REPAIRS It was certainly the longest un- contestants must shave off their The navigating officer, 22- Jer-sea watch keeping I have ever moustaches before going ashore. Contjnuad on paqa •

A»Jg«», Iff]. L' BaWateatffffkili-i i^f— ' "' <.«*•*£ .<«.„<.-* : 'l MERCHANT NAVY OFFICERS LOOK BACK AND FORWARD GREAT PROGRESS IN SEAFARERS' AFFAIRS. By Captain W. H. Coombs, C.B.E. (President, The Officers' (M.N.) Federation)

The British peoples have endur Merchant Navy affairs since was not definitely established! cd more than their share of sacri­ 1928, it is not to he expected that There was then little, if any, fice and affort during the last the rising generation oi officers thought given to the training of twenty years or more- trihula- can he fully aware of the strenu­ apprentices—apart from the ex­ tions and efforts in which the ous efforts that were necessary to cellent work of "Conway" and Royal House has assuredly shared persuade the shipowners of those "Worcester." Welfare activities with all who owe allegiance to days of the need for a complete were confined to "The Missions." the Throne. S'ircly as a nation overhaul of conditions of service. The Seafarers' Education Service we have earned the hlcssing of with its excellent ships' libraries peace and prosperity which we One of the greatest problems, was not established until 1919. I all hope will, under God's Provi­ which then scem-ed almost insolu­ do not suggest that everything is dence, be our lot under the long ble, was to find a way in which now perfect or that continuous and happy reign of Her Majesty to compose the rivalries existing endeavour and constant vigilance Queen Elizabeth II. between competitive organisa­ is no longer necessary, but I do tions. The essential purpose of assert that in no profession or In the "domestic affairs" of the the Officers' Federation was to Merchant Navy offices, 195 J will employment ashore have there provide a means by which the been improvements comparable also be a year of jubilation as it various organisations could- marks the 25th anniversary of the to those achieved for seafaring whilc retaining their own individ­ officers dunng the last 25 years. incorporation of the Officers' uality and control of their own (Merchant Navy) Federation on affairs—work in harmony and The whole outlook of the ship­ 14th May, 1928. joint endeavour in the task of se­ owners and of the "'Board of Although, as I learned with curing for Merchant Navy officers Trade" and indeed of the Royal much pleasure during a recent the recognition they deserved. Navy towards merchant ship per­ sonnel seems to have completely voyage, the more senior masters Few endeavours of the kind and officers of all departments are changed for the better, and in have met with such good success consequence, old bitternesses are very much aware of the changes in such an apparently hopeless which have been wrought in passing rapidly and rightly so, and difficult task, and in such a and arc giving place to mutual re­ relatively short time. Each and spect and understanding of "the Continued from paoa 7 all of the federated organisations other fellow's" problems. can be justly proud of the results year'old Lieutenant McMullen, Our New Elizabethan Age of Shaftesbury, Dorset: We got of their own individual and joint efforts Those results can be seen opens with British ships and occasional glimpses of the sun shipping in good heart but the through the periscope and could at sea today—good and improv­ ing standards of accommodation, new spirit of goodwill and co-op­ do a certain amount of radio nav­ 1 eration in the shipping world igation, but this was all rather un­ leave as a right, a Pension Fund with over £10,000,000 invested, must be fostered and nourished satisfactory from my point of Our forebears charted the seas, lends and relatives erowdad the fitting out -h.rf at Garden Island as the d..(,„—, M U a c "A •• view. and salary scales undreamt of by -k. "Ansae" ha. jest complete ^moenV ac«„ JZ "iLV. t. V££. leftf" tVwC- Tt* "Z£. the past generation of officers. opened the trade routes, develop­ Dennis Court, of Betteshanger, ed the techniques of ships' busi Kent: My biggest thrill was be­ Important though these mater­ ness, and our shipbuilders and ing awakened one morning by a ial improvements are, I believe marine engineers and electronic GAY BOMBARDIER" ACCEPTED BY ROYAL NAVY fanfare of trumpets. I couldn't there are other improvements pioneers still lead the world. But Her Majesty's Fast Patrol make out what it was at first and two 21-inch torpedo tubes and boat represents a development of which have a deeper meaning to old and respected foreign ensign- Boat "Gay Bombardier," first of then I realised we were hearing one small gun. the types of short M.T.B.'s pro­ seagoing officers and indeed to arc to be seen in increasing num 'he "Gay" class, was accepted by the Coronation broadcast from duced during the war. They are the nation. The Merchant Navy hers on the high seas today, and •he Royal Navy early in April Messrs. Vosper Ltd. were select­ the Abbey. powered with Packard engines is now a recognised and properly strange and unfamiliar ensigns are from the builders, Messrs. Vospcr ed by the British Admiralty to act and are of wooden construction. Leading Seaman Bill Leesc: I respected service. In the old days significant. ' td., of Portsmouth, following as "parent" firm for this class of The "Gay Bombardier" is the first was able to cable birthday greet­ wc respected each other—having All this is a challenge- a whole her acceptance trials. Fast Patrol Boat, in which cap­ of this class of boat to be com­ ings to my son David on his first knowledge of the sea's demands some challenge — to everyone These boats, designed by the acity they arc responsible for pro­ birthday during the trip. Two upon man and of the services ashore and afloat who is concern ducing the necessary working pleted under the emergency pro­ "ritish Admiralty, can be armed gramme. She was ordered a little other members of the crew also rendered—but one had to be al­ ed with the well-being of British • ither as Gun Boats or Torpedo drawings for issue to a number sent cables. most apologetic ashore for one's shipping and thus with the wel of "daughter" firms who build more than two years ago. The Boats. In the Gun Boat role they peacetime complement of the * Actual distance from Bermuda to membership of "the Mercantile fare of Britain itself and of the will mount a 4.5-inch gun and one from these drawings. Ushant it 2.807 nautical miles. The Marine," the "Merchant Marine": Queen's Dominions, Colonies and boat will consist of two officers distance covered by the "Andrew" smaller gun, while in the Torpedo With a length of 75 feet and the very "name" of our service subjects the world over. and ten or eleven ratings accord­ in English statute miles was 3,236. Boat role they will be armed with a beam of 20 feet, this class of ing to the function of the boat. T»a> ««WY *«*«•. Itn. Kl>. * ^™ •^•^•"••••••••i matically transmit distress signals steam catapult for aircraft-carriers. Scientific Achievement* tf the Rayal Navy New anti - submarine frigates, A great deal of research is being ILN. Ofcaarvari Trail In Canada fast vessels armed with an im­ By Lieut.-Crd. NOWELL HALL, DAC, R.N.V.R, devoted to counter - measures in The Royal Canadian Navy is mensely effective new British mine warfare. Undoubtedly, one ti-submarine aircraft, and it is ex­ weapon. The weapon is a land of now training a group of Royal pected that almost 200 hours of the main threats the allies must Navy Officers for duty as Naval Not long ago I visited a famous bers, Britain is concentrating on multi - barrelled mortar equipped be prepared to face in any future flying time will be logged by each British shipyard to watch the quality and is putting her utmost with an electronic "brain" which Observers at the Observer School student. Several long-range cross­ conflict at sea will come, from the at H.M.C.S. "Shearwater," the launching of H.M.S. "Hermes,' efforts into scientific research. It automatically sets the range and mine. Knowing this, Britain is country exercises will take the one of the five aircraft-carriers is significant that of £329} million fires a pattern of underwater R.C.N. Air Station near Dart­ midshipmen to various Canadian now building a large number of mouth, Nova Scotia. The school now being built as part of the she proposes to spend on the Navy bombs at the hunted submarine small vessels for coastal and in­ and United States centres. Final Royal Navy's big construction pro­ dUnng the present year, nearly It is among the deadliest weapons was opened last October to ab­ anti-submarine practical instruc­ shore "sweeping," and is packing sorb an overflow from the Royal gramme. As the great ship took half will be for production and known to naval science. them with a great variety of new tion is continued in the United the water, to the accompaniment research. In the previous financial Navy, resulting from increased Kingdom, at Eglington, in North­ Cold-weather clothing and other minesweeping equipment. In both training requirements of N.A. of much cheering and Mowing of year she spent about £188 million, types of vessels aluminium, wood ern Ireland. sirens from other ships, one felt for the same purpose. Enormous "survival" equipment which i- T.O. countries. being tested in the Arctic. and other non-magnetic materials The Officer in charge of the that she symbolised the beginning sums have been devoted in the last It is ''ntended to train 32 ob­ Canadian School is Lieutenant- These are a few of the Navy's arc being used extensively. The of a new chapter in the develop­ few years to achievements helpful Admiralty describes the 109-feet servers a year in th-; Canadian Commander (O) John A. Stokes, ment of Britain's sea power. to all Western allies. recent scientific achievements. school. At present there are more R.C.N., of Victoria and Halifax. But over-shadowing them all are long inshore vessels as a mine­ When the "Hermes" is com­ The results are impressive. sweeper of an entirely new type. than a dozen young officers of The Royal Navy has provided the results of atomic research. the Royal Navy taking the course, three observer instructors, three pleted, possibly next year, she will Among recent British naval de­ Most of this is, of course, secret, undoubtedly be the most modern vices several of which have already FIRST AUSTRAUAN-BUILT which lasts for nine months. pilots, and two Chief Aircrew- hut the few facts released by the The first three months of the men to assist in the instructional carrier afloat. She will be the first been adopted by other navies are: Admiralty, from rime to time, re­ JET HANDED OVER. to embody several new features, The Steam Catapult. This The Australian Minister for course are devoted to academic task. Two in particular have had vealed the progress being made in subjects, particularly mathematics a rich and varied experience in and will be a triumph of British much increases the operational this tremendous field. Defence Production (the Hon. naval scientific achievements. efficiency of carriers, and is so Eric Harrison) said in Canberra and physics, and a grounding in Naval aviation. The senior in­ Three of these innovations, each powerful that it should be able to One of the Navy's old cruisers, on July 8 that the first Canberra air communications. The second structor is Lieutenant-Commander and all of which enormously in­ launch the heaviest naval aircraft H.M.S. "Arethusa," was anchored Jet bomber built in Australia had three months cover basic naviga­ A. James McCulloch, R.C.N., of crease her fighting efficiency, are likely to be in service in the fore­ in a prohibited area of Portsmouth been handed over by the Govern­ tion and maritime warfare, and Liverpool, England, who served the British-invented steam catapult, seeable future. Aircraft have even Harbour for some weeks, while ment aircraft factories to the R.A. the final phase is mainly advanced in the Royal Navy for 27 years. enabling bigger and more power­ been launched while the ship is parts of her hull were bombarded A.F. for operational use, less than air navigation and allied subjects. He started his aviation duties 20 ful naval aircraft to be put into stationary. It will obviate the with gamma rays from an atomic one month after its initial test Meteorology, photography, arma­ years ago as a telegraphist air the air at sea; the British "angle- need for carriers having to leave pile. These secret tests provided (light. Mr. Harrison said the ments, and aircraft recognition, gunner. Another old hand is deck" device, allowing aircraft to the fleet to steam into the wind to naval scientists with much new R.A.A.F. would fly the Austra­ are some of the other subjects Senior Commissioned Observer land on with greater ease and fly off aircraft, and may thus lead data bearing on the resistance of lian-built Canberra Jet in the which help make an observer. Cyril Wallington', of Brighton, safety, and the side-lift, facilitat­ to a radical alteration in fleet tac­ waiahips to this form of attack England-New Zealand Air Tlace Flying experience is gained England, who joined the Royal ing the servicing of aircraft during tics. The whole world heard of the in October. throughout the course in the Roy­ Navy in 192' and made his first flight s;x years later. operations. The "Angled Deck," an innova­ awe - inspiring demonstration at al Canadian Navy's Avenger, an­ tion complementary to the steam Monte Bello Islands off the north­ BRITISH GIANT ATOM The first two have been adopted west coast of Australia. For the PLANT UNDER TEST. by the United States Navy for use catapult. The Gas turbine engine, a field trials of Britain's new atomic Professor P. B. Moon, Profes­ in its own ships. weapons, the Navy sent a special The side-lift, long a feature of of development in which Britain sor of Physics at Birmingham C. EBELING & SONS PTY. LTD. has a big lead. It promises, by squadron which included the air University, announced in the American carriers, is new to British craft-carrier "Campania" and the ships of this type. Carriers of the saving of weight, ease of main­ United Kingdom on July 7 that tenance and sustained high per­ frigate "Plym." When one of the the largest atom-splitting machine two navies have certain fundamen­ weapons was exploded within her tal differences in structural design. formance to revolutionise marine n Europe and the second largest The inclusion of a side-lift in the propulsion methods. hull the "Plym" was 'vapourised'. tn the world is under test at "Hermes" — and probably in the Underwater television. With It was not essentially a test by Birmingham University. Austra- three other ships of the "Hermes" the aid of new British equipment, naval scientists, but the Royal lian-born Professor Marcus Oli- class which are nearly completed naval experts on shore have been Navy made it possible. The M6nte nhant (now Director of Physical — is a triumph for British war­ able to see a diver working on the Bello experiments were the resul: Science Research at the Austra- ship designers. sea bed sixteen miles off Ports­ of team-work in which the Navy ian National University) began played a leading part. SHIP REPAIRS, MARlrfE ENGINEERS. BOILERMAKERS These are but three of the Royal mouth. construction of the machine in AND WELDERS. A new submarine rescue buoy The scope of the Navy's pro­ Navy*a many recent scientific and l°46. Several members of the re OWN FOUNDRY AND LABORATORY construction achievements. For is now being fitted in all British gress in research can only be search team are Australians. Pro­ this progress it is indebted in some boats. This buoy, designed to be touched on here. It ranges from cessor Moon said that the machine Works: 7mb. The results will be avail­ fog. Office: I CAS TLEMAINE ST., YARRAVILLE, W.I J. powerful light and eventually will propellers while a ship is under ing at present the money to build ing to all. Cost of construction VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA. the bigger warships in large num­ have a radio set which will auto­ way. ID such major items as the if the plant was £250.000.

...... Aj>^>Mj^lSSWMla^^-^..v-. '*..*».:„ ±«*--..*m.;u*U -, .•^•...J^-^-.:..j.^.. ijiMsflrhyi Tili J ..-*L±MI...... -••-•^-^-•-••''^•^rtiiiiifiiit-lfMs^Air-'irflilii if liilisfiiiTiiisI T" '••••,- • " .'• "1 RUSSIAN CRUISER the Far East. About 400 relatives the Women's Hospital in Mel- NAVY COLLEGE ATTRACTS RECORD NUMBER "SVERDLOV AMAZES and friends of the men on board bourne. In addition, the crew' NAVAL CIRCLES. awaited the ship at the wharf. has bought about £60 worth of OF APPLICANTS toys in Japan, to be presented to Those who were selected from The Russian heavy cruiser In an interview given to the ALEX H. MACKIE 1304 Australian boys want to Press, the captain of the "Anzac," the Frankston Orthopaedic An­ enter the Royal Australian Naval the 13-year-old entry would '"Sverdlov" and her personnel nexe to the Children's Hospital spend four years at the College, caused considerable interest and Captain J. S. Mesley, was very ENGINEER College next year as cadet-mid­ modest in regard to the service in Melbourne. The crew mem­ shipmen to begin their training to followed by sea-training with thc comment during their visit to the bers said that equivalent toys pur­ Royal Australian Navy or the United Kingdom as representa­ duties and performances of his iMl-J THHRRY ST., make them the future naval offi­ ship. chased in Australia would have cers of the Royal Australian Royal Navy. After that they tives of the Soviet Union at the cost more than £200. Captain Mesley explained that MELBOURNE, VICTORIA Navy. 877 have applied for the would undergo advanced acad­ Coronation Naval Review at Spit- the ship had been fired on only H.M.A.S. "Anzac" left for normal 13-year-old entry and 427 emic and technical training at head on June 15. Melbourne on July 6. shor.' establishments in the Unit­ "I want my men to see all they once—when she was anchored off for the fifteen-year or better UJC. COAL TUNNEL ed Kingdom. Those who were can of England," the Captain of the island of Chodo. The "An­ known as the "Intermediate" UNDER NORTH SEA. selected from the 15-year-old en the "Sverdlov" (Captain first zac" immediately raised anchor entry. The number of applica­ British miners have dug a 2J- try would do similar training ex­ rank Olimpey I. Rudakov) told a and as it made for the open sea, tions is a record for each entry. mile-long tunnel for test purposes cept they would only spend twi Royal Navy officer on the cruis­ bombarded the enemy gun em­ METAL STAMPINGS They were received from each under the North Sea in an at' years at the College. er's arrival in British waters. placement. "The gun was silenc­ OP ALL DESCRIPTIONS State as follows: , ed," he said. tempt to up a rich coal deposit fat tfc. Mr. McMahon said that the The British officer told Captain 1 J-Year 15-Year After ammunition loading and estimated at 200 million tons. MOTOR AND AIRPLANE New South Wale. 323 186 record number of applications re Rudakov that he would like 30 The experiment is being made ratings from the "Sverdlov" to be other work was completed. Cap­ INDUSTRIES. Victoria 263 101 ceived this year was very grati­ from Lynemouth in Northumber­ Queensland 126 49 tain Mesley said, the ship's com­ fying to the Naval Board. It the Royal Navy's guests on a bus land, England's most northerly South Australia 52 29 showed that both parents and tour. plement would go on leave for Western Australia 88 38 coal pit and one of the most mod- boys recognised the great advant Captain Rudakov replied: "Not varying periods. Men who had Tasmania 25 24 been in Korean waters for the •ernly equipped mines in the coal­ ages that the Royal Australian enough. I would like at least 150 mining industry. 877 427 Navy could offer. Every boy to go." full 10 months would g-et 49 days' This was announced on July 9 who entered the Naval College re Commenting on the cruiser, the leave. TYPHOON SWEEPS CHINA Far al. by the Minister for the Navy. ceived the whole of his educa London "Daily Mail" said: "The Captain Mesley took command COAST. FI*62». The Minister said that the edu­ tion, books, clothing, victualling 'Sverdlov' is steered by remote of the "Anzac" in April this A typhoon swept over the cational examinations for candi­ and lodging free of cost and, at control and is the first push-but­ year with the rank of acting Cap­ China Coast on July 4 after dates would be held throughout the end of his training there, set ton ship to anchor in Britain." tain and also took charge of the crossing the northern areas of Australia on 1st and 2nd Sep­ out on his career as a permanent Captain Rudakov, wearing kid 10th Destroyer Squadron. He Formosa. The Taepeh (Formosa) tember and would be followed naval officer. He began a life gloves, amazed a Royal Navy of­ received word that his promotion Weather Bureau reported that the later by medical examinations. that could hardly be more varied ficer by his side when he brought to Captain had been confirmed on storm, with centre winds sweep­ Boys who passed both examina­ and interesting and in which the cruiser into Spithead without the Tuesday (30th June) prior to ing at 140 miles per hour, strut k KNIGHT HEATON tions would be interviewed by a there was ample opportunities for issuing a verbal order or looking the Anzac's arrival at Garden Is­ the China mainland just north of selection committee. promotion. at a chart. land. Foochow, Capital of Fukien Pro­ He declined the offer of a tug, The "Anzac's" company did vince. It took heavy toll of crops I CO. LTD. Mood with his hands behind his more than active service duty in and property, with an unknown NAVY N.S. CALL-UP OF JULY 13 Hack and looked straight ahead Korean waters: it contributed number of casualties, as it cut a Six hundred National Service sea in warships and 56 day- vhile he worked a set of levers nearly £500 to charity. swathe across the northern end trainees joined the Royal Austra­ further shore training. After ehind him that transmitted his The crew members have given of Formosa, the Chinese Nation completing the period of recruit alist island. CUSTOMS AND lian Navy on July 13 to carry out • rdcrs to the depths of the ship. £400 which will be presented to their initial training of 154 days training, the trainees will then re He did not even look behind FORWARDING AGENTS This call-up is known as the "Har- ceive intensive technical instruc iim as he twiddled the levers, and graves" entry. tion in the branch of the R.A.N there was no shouting down THROUGHOUT Of the 600 trainees, 175 came for which they had been selected speaking-tubes or ringing engine- N.S.W. and VICTORIA from New South Wales, 141 Trainees of the "Hargraves" room telegraphs. from Victoria, 110 from Western call-up have been selected for Australia, 85 from Queensland, training in the seamen, engine H.M.A.S. "ANZAC" 60 from South Australia and 29 room, supply, communication.', RETURNS FROM KOREA. from Tasmania. electrical, medical and dental, ami A waving, cheering crowd said 17 PITT STREET, Two-hundred-and-eighty-six en­ Fleet air arm branches. I i be the biggest ever to greet tered Flinders Naval Depot (Vic­ This branch training will be • ny ship returning from a tour toria) ; H. M. A. S. "Penguin" done in ships at sea and in short of duty in Korean waters, we 1 com LAYFAIR'S SYDNEY (Sydney) took 214; and 100 are establishments. >J the destroyer H.M.A.S. "An- MEAT * SMAU.GOOOS PROVWORS being trained at H.M.A.S. "Leeu- The sea training will be done «ae" (Captain ' J. S. Mesley, •Phone BW 1939 win" (Fremantle). in H.M.A.S. "Australia" and a l>.S.C), when she returned to FOR ALL BNQUIRIBS. The 154 days initial training frigate for men in Eastern States, Harden Island dock in Sydney on THOMAS PLA/FAIR Pty. Ltd.. ARGYLE St. SfOHBT will be divided broadly into 42 and the minesweepers "Mildura July 3, after 10 months service in days recruit training, 56 day* at and "Fremantle" in W.A. Avawt. IttJ. L NEWS OF THE WORLD'S NAVIES

154 DAYS TO BE INITIAL twin-engined ' patrol flying-boat refit at Devonport Dockyard NAVAL N.S. TRAINING. with 12 men aboard crashed on which began in April. The fu­ July 3 in the Bering Sea near ture of H.M.S. "Devonshire" is In future. Naval National Ser­ Adak, in the Aleutian Islands. under consideration. LateS vice trainees would carry out 154 Search planes sighted only an oil INDIAN NAVY. initial training would be divided was in British home waters her took JO flying days an dinvolved 800,000 miles broadly into 42 days recruit train­ Cadets toured Royal Naval Col­ H.M.S. Bedale" and H.M.S. of flying the equivalent of *0 daily journeys ing, 54 days at sea in warships, leges at Greenich and Dartmouth. "Lamerton" were officially trans­ across the Atlantic and back. and 56 days further shore irain- There were 71 midshipmen on ferred on loan to the Indian Navy It is the established policy of most British ing. Mr. McMahon said that the board and the complement also at a ceremony at Trafalgar Branch firms that satisfactory maintenance in service training cruiser H.M.A.S. "Aus­ included 16 officers, 30 petty of­ Dock,( Liverpool, on April 27, at­ ranks equally in importance with sound design tralia," and one frigate, would be ficers and 86 ratings under the tended by the High Commission­ and quality of manufacture. At Hatfield, for command of Captain Vedat used for seagoing training for Na­ er for India (Mr. B. G. Kher) instance, de Havillands have a servicing school Burak. tional Servicemen in Eastern and the Commander - in • Chief, specialising in technical instruction for engin­ States, and the minesweepers eers and pilots. Already the school has proved CARRIER TO REPLACE Plvmouth (Admiral Sir Maurice "Mildura" and "Frcmantlc" in J. Mansergh, K.C.B., C.B.E.). The its value by training more than 650 people. Western Australia. Shore train­ H.M.S. "DEVONSHIRE" This year, with the widening vista of Comet AS CADET TRAINING Board of- Admiralty was • repre­ ing would be carried out at Flind­ sented by the Vice- Controller sales a greater number of pupils is expected. ers Naval Depot. Victoria: H.M. «HIP. and Director of Naval Equipment, AS. "Penguin", and the Naval It has been decided that H.M. Rear-Admiral G. V. Gladstone. Above: A general view of the Comet demonstration hall Air Stations near Sydney, and S. "Triumph," the British light at the da Hevilland Servicing School et Hatfield, Britain. H.M.A.S. "Lceuwin" in Fre- Fleet Carrier, should relieve H.M. The wife of the High Commis­ The Comet air-conditioning »nd pretiuritation demon* mantle. S. "Devonshire," cruiser, as the sioner, Mrs. Kher. gave the names ttration panel, sectioned Ghoit entne, and flexible Bag "Godavari' 'and "Gomati" to the tank are in the background. naval cadets' training ship towards the end of this year. Certain ac­ "Bedale" and "Lamerton" foe Centre: The cockpit of the Comet tutelage, mock-up US. NAVY FLYING-BOAT commodation modifications to their service wit,h the Indian from which e jet *ngine can be operated. CRASHES. teft: The prenuritation and eir-condrtiioning lyitem ii H.M.S. "Triumph" arc required Navy. It was announced in Oc- portrayed by an illuminated panel in which bubbles A message from New York on to fit her for this duty, and will tober of last year that these two travelling in a network of glau tubet represent the flow July 4 said that a United States b: undertaken during the ship's ships, both frigates, then refitting of eir. in commercial shipyards on Mer­ it . 1^-,-^M^Ca. seyside at the expense of the "BATTLE" TYPE US. "ESSEX" CARRIERS Prahran, Melbourne The Queen supporting steam catapults in the last year, for laying up ships of Government of India, and also DESTROYER PREFERRED AND BATTLECRUISER saw the "Andrew" off Ports­ new 36,000-ton aircraft-carrier the Reserve Fleet in commercial H.M.S. "Chiddingford," were to ABROAD. "HAWAII". mouth Harbour. "Ark Royal." This type of cata­ harbours has now been extended be made available to the Indian A picture in "Jane's Fighting In the United States section of pult imposes very heavy forces to include three additional ports. R.N. MINEWATCHERS on its supporting structure when They are Great Harbour, Green' Navy. The "Chiddingtord" will Ships, 1952-53" of the new Ven- "Jane's Fighting Ships, 1952-53," RECEIVE UNIFORMS. be handed over to the Indian czuelen destroyer of the "Aragua" published recently, a plan and an aircraft is launched from it, ock, where sixteen L.S.T.'s will Distinctive uniforms have been Navy at a later date. type class is interesting, as show­ photos of the altered "Essex" car­ and without the new testing be laid up, Lisahally, County ing that the "Battle" type of de­ riers give a good idea of the im­ issued to members of the Royal frame it would be necessary to al­ Derry, and Llanelly, Carmarthen' Naval Minewatching Service. It JAPAN BUILDS WARSHIPS. stroyer has found favour abroad provements made in these ships low more generous safety factors. shire. At the Northern Ireland rather than the British "Daring" with their curious funnel-mast consists of a navy-blue battledress The "nutcracker" test will avoid port thirteen frigates, and a limit­ (with skirts for women) and A recent message from Tukio type. Of 2,600 tons (the same combination. Space is also given unnecessary weight being worked ed number of trawlers will be beret with badge, shoulder flashes said that the Japanese Defence as the "Daring ") the Ven;suelan to the battlecruiser "Hawaii." into the structure of the ship. placed in reserve, while at the and badges of rank. The badge Ministry is planning the construc­ destroyer carries a similar arma­ This ship has at long last been Welsh port there will be twenty- consists of a silver splash on a tion of 17 small warship during ment with a knot more speed and taken in hand for completion, and BRITAIN'S RESERVE FLEET one Reserve Fleet landing ships. blue ground, with two silver Japan's current fiscal year. Some only three 21-inch tubes. The is to be made into a large Tactical IN COMMERCIAL It is intended that all these ves­ waves below, the whole encircled are for Japanese use and others 4.1-inch guns are in roomy gun- Command ship. Laid up when 82 HARBOURS. sels, which will be in alongside by gold rope with the ends cross­ for sale to South-East Asian na­ houses, and there is a single lat­ per cent, complete, she was to berths, should be dehumidified by ed at the foot. At the top are tions. tice mast and one large funnel. have been given rocket projectors The British Admiralty's commercial firms and largely main­ or made into a guided missile the letters N.N.M.W.S., and the scheme, announced in August of tained by local civilian labour. ship. Now she is being loaded badge is surmounted by a Naval with radar and special equipment crown in gold. for acting as command ship with a carrier task force or similar large N.S. NAVY EXPERIMENTS fleet, and armed with a few 5-inch WITH "WINGED" BOATS. guns only. The United States Navy is re­ ported to be experimenting with NEW ONE-MAN PEDAL boats equipped with "underwater SUBMARINE. wings". Technically the so-call­ A message from America on ed wings are known as "hydro­ May 19 said that underwater dem­ foils." They have surfaces similar olition teams may soon be using to an aeroplane wing. They are a new one-man submarine pro­ attached to the bottom of small pelled by pedal or a small battery. craft; when sufficient speed is at­ Its reported that its makers claim tained they provide a "lift" that it can manoeuvre like an air- which raises the hull out of the craft. water. When the boat is entirely *0*010m**0*0*^^**^^f^f*0*0l0l0q0l0mj^0*0*0*0l0m0*f^*^*'*~" supported by the hydrofoils, the U.S. REPRESENTATIVE result is less water friction and AT CORONATION NAVAL more speed. Hydrofoils are said REVIEW. to be applicable to practically all The heavy cruiser "Baltimore," small craft. A Swedish ferry VESSELS BUILT, SLIPPED AND SERVICED. 13,600 tons, 9.8-inch guns, repre­ equipped with hydrofoils is said sented the United State's at the to attain a speed of 35 knots, or DIESEL, MARINE AND GENERAL ENGINEERING. Coronation Naval Review at Spit- 42 m.p.h. An experimental Ger­ RIGGERS AND SHIPWRIGHTS. head on June 15. She wore the man hydrofoil boat built during All classes of repairs and conversion work carried out. flag of Vicc-Admiral Jerauld World War II. attained speeds up Wright, Commander - in - Chief to about 60 miles per hour. MARINE INSTALLATIONS. MODERN SLIPWAY AVAILABLE North East Atlantic, and Med­ FOR ALL TYPBS OF CRAFT. iterranean, who has his headquart­ "NUTCRACKER" TEST FOR ers in London. WARSHIPS. AUSTRALIAN IN A report from London on July it. & W. Engineering "ANDREWS" CREW. 4 said that a machine working like The submarine " Andrew" a giant pair of nutcrackers has •ft Ship Impair Co. which on June 15 ended its epic been built for the British Admir­ and historic 2,500-mile underwater alty for research into the question Pig. Lid. crossing of the Atlantic from Ber­ of how much battering ships can muda to the English Channel, take in heavy seas. The device CAREENING COVE, MILSON'S POINT . carried an Australian among its Navy «'' ""Mori modo a lart minuta chock on a BHitol Sycamore helicopter aboard is said to be the only one of its Telephones: XB 1673 and XB 43S7. galiant crew of 60. He is Sea­ kind in the world. Its first job •ho aircraft-carrier. H M.A.S "Vanga*nc«," which tailed from Sydney on oaerciiet After Hoars: XJ 3213. on S>k July. man N. Jones, of Mount Street, will be to test the bow structure

i* It* Navf .„«^,.±4i***trti.: l^-.^.^^^^^-.JKtffe MAIITIME NEWS OF THE WORLD From our Correspondents in LONDON and NEW YORK By AIR MAIL P. dc O. CONVERTING TWO displacement and had a speed of a water hose before any serious "STRATH" LINERS TO 12 knots. It was of heavy welded damage was done. The "Melport" ONE-CLASS TOURIST steel, with strengthened bows, and was towing a flat-top oil lighter SHIPS. with propeller and rudder protect­ down the harbour when its fun­ Two of the well - known ed against ice damage. It has pas­ nel caught fire and flames leaped "Strath" liners on the England- senger accommodation for 24 per­ several feet in the air. A relief sons. The expedition will search tug took over the tow, and the Australia run are to be converted - to one-class tourist ships, the P. for uranium and other minerals, "Melport" returned to its an­ cV O. Company announced on set up a meteorological station, chorage in Blackwattlc Bay. June 26. The liners are the and carry out research generally. "Strathnavcr" and the "Strath­ TEN GRIMSBY TRAWLER aird." The company's other SHIP'S CAPTAIN FINED MEN MISSING AFTER "Strath" liners arc the "Strath FOR HARBOUR COLLISION IN FOG. eden" and the "Strathmore," and POLLUTION. all four are of 22,500 tons; paint­ Ten men are missing following ed white the "Straths" are known A Sydney stipendiary magis­ a collision in dense fog off Flam- as the Great White Sisters. Af­ trate on June 25 fined a ship's borough Head, Yorkshire, be­ ter conversion the "Strathnaver" captain £100 for having allowed tween the Grimsby trawler "Riv­ and "Strathaird" will each carry oil from his ship to overflow into iere" (226 tons) and the British 1,200 passengers instead of their Sydney Harbour. Captain Walter collier "Firelight." The missing NurM M. W«rmoll taka* a blood ip«cim«n from the fingar of Naval Airmin R. P. Murrall at tha Blood Bank whan 40 sailor* present passenger capacity of Connis Muir, master of the ship men are from the crew of the from H.M.A.S. "Nirimb*." at Schofioldi. answarad an appaal by tho Bank. Watching ara (from left to right): Naval Airman 1,000. "Strathaird" will make her "Wearing," pleaded guilty to the "Riviere," which sank almost im­ 0. F. Charlton. W. J. Gault. W. Brady, and B. R. Hipkin. first sailing from London to Aus­ offence. At the time the oil escap­ mediately. tralia as a tourist ship OK April ed the vessel was refuelling at 8 next year, the "Srrathnavci" in Blue's Point prior to sailing to INCREASE IN PAKISTAN the following July. Colombo. The magistrate said SHIPPING TONNAGE. MORE R.A.N. SHIPS FOR KOREA there was no excuse for the of­ fence as masters of ships had been The merchant shipping tonnage From October, I95J, to July, reached Australia on August 15. May 26. Mr. McMahon said that AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC continually warned and the Press of Pakistan has increased by 1954, it is at present planned that The carrier would then, he said, the "Arunta" had been re-com­ SHIP ESPECIALLY had given much publicity to the 20,000 tons during the current four Royal Australian Navy war­ he refitted and give her ship's missioned in November, 1952, af­ DESIGNED. pollution of Sydney Harbour. year. Pakistan's shipping now ship? would leave Australia for company leave and depart for ter undergoing a modernisation re­ totals 208,028 tons. To encourage The Australian Government has Korean waters. They would K-: Korea in October. fit. merchant shipping, the Pakistan chartered a modern Danish motor the aircraft carrier "Sydney", the H.M.A.S. "Murchison" will re­ The Minister said that ships of TUG ON FIRE IN Government advanced some three vessel especially designed for nav­ modernised Tribal class destroyer lieve the frigate "Culgoa" in No­ the R.A.N, had been on service HARBOUR TOW. million rupees last year to com­ igation in ice to carry the Aus "Arunta," and the frigates "Mur vember, 195 J. The "Culgoa" with the United Nations Forces panies for the purchase of ships. chison" and "Shoalhaven." This went to Korea last March. The in Korean waters since the out­ tralian Antarctic Expedition to The 70-foot Sydney tug, "Mel- break of the war in 1950. Every Heard Island and Princess Eli: port," owned by the Harbour was announced on June 29 by the "Murchison" will be relieved by LE HAVRE BLAST KILLS Australian warship which had aheth Land and Macrobertson Lighterage and Showboat Ltd., Minister for the Navy (the Hon another frigate, H.M.A.S. "Shoal­ FIVE DIVERS. William McMahon). Mr. Mc haven" in July, 1954. served there had won high praise Lind in January next year. The caught fire early on the night of Mahon said the "Sydney," which In February, 1954, "Arunta" from Knur British and American Minister for External Affairs, Mr. June 18 near Hunter's Hill ferry A dynamite explosion in the at the time of the announcement would go to Korea to relieve officers. Fifty-four decorations R. G. Casey, in announcing this wharf, Sydney Harbour. The French harbour of Le Havre on was on her way back to Australia H.M.A.S. "Tobruk." The "To- had been awarded to R.A.N, offi­ on June 19 said that the ship, the tug's crew of three men put out April 4 killed five divers. The with the Coronation Contingent, bruk" left Sydney for Korea on cers and men for service in Korea. "Kista Dan," was oi l,5(X) tons the fire with foam equip"— •»! >nd were preparing to blast a chanq

I HI. Hi iMfm^-JMk^iui.^... . , . ji^jJi, at^yHBHBBnaV leading to the docks. Four of which left ljmuiden, Holland, on went to her assistance, promptly them were in a lighter a. d the July 2 with 1,440 migrants for lost hers too. Australia and New Zealand, put fifth had just surfaced after a dive SHIP'S STEWARD GETS back to port on July J for repairs to receive the dynamite, when it COMPENSATION FOR to her refrigerator plant. exploded and blew up the lighter KICK. and the five men. JAPAN PLANS INCREASED A ship's steward, Francis Ed­ ONE HUNDRED WHALES TRADE, SHIPPING. ward Nantes, of Belmore Street, IN 20 DAYS. The Japanese Government is Sydney, whose jaw was broken •A message from Carnarvon, on planning a drive to capture the when he was kicked by a fireman the West Australian coast, said on trad.1 of South-East Asia and in­ while assistant steward on the •^^-Mai »^^.'; June 27 that the shooting of a 41- crease her shipping tonnage to freighter "River Norman" receiv­ foot male humpback whale by the 1,200,000 gross tons, according ed £4 a week compensation for whale chaser "Carnarvon" that to a Government five-year plan two months in the Sydney Work­ morning brought the number of published on July ?. The plan ers' Compensation Court on June whales killed by the Australian proposes a drive to increase ex­ 29. Nantes, who claimed com­ Whaling Commission to UK) for ports from £A526 million in 1952 pensation from the Australian the season. The season began on to CA650 million. Shipping Board, said in August June 8. Thus the average of last year he was hauled out of whales killed was about five per SWEDISH SHIP STRIKES his bunk while half asleep and he •day, a rate that exceeds that of WHARF. heard someone say: "Cop this." the same period for the two pre­ The Swedish motor-ship "Bool- The Judge of the Court ruled vious seasons. The commission ongena" (5,069 tons) crashed into that Nantes' injuries arose in the is on a quota of 600 whales for a Victoria Dock berth in the port course of his employment and the season. nt Melbourne on July 4, when a awarded him £4 a week for eight ~ ^5S—* tow- rope from one of two tugs weeks, plus hospital and medical LOVE ME, SAIIX)R! snapped. The wharf was splin­ expenses. An American sailor, Donald tered and buckled by the ship's Mares, 26, of Indianopolis, won stern. NEW PACIFIC STEAM Sag*. •'•** a divorce in America recently af­ NAVIGATION SHIP. ter he had told the judge that his UNUSUAL ACCIDENT The Pacific Steam Navigation wife gave away three wedding AT SEA. Company has ordered from Har- rings to other sailors while he was A most unusual accident oc­ land 6? Wolff, of Belfast, a new away at sea. curred in the Western Atlantic twin-screw passenger ship. It is H.M. Submarine "Telemacnui" roturawd to Sydney lait mooHl after a yaer'i Mrvioa at Singapore and Hong Kong. •Tala- MIGRANT SHIP, AUSTRALIA recently when the Canadian Paci­ to be of about 19,320 tons gross, was five hours lata arriving at Balmoral Naval Bate. BOUND, PUTS BACK. fic cargo liner "Beaverbrae" lost accommodating 787 passengers her rudder and the salvage tug The Dutch migrant ship, and driven by double-reduction land. The team, which compris­ tal of £250 on two summonses of "Foundation Frances," which plans to build a raft measuring 60 "J o h a n Van Oldcnbrncvelt," geared turbines. ed Leopoldo Abad and Gregorio overloading his vessel. The mast­ feet by 30 of pine logs lashed to­ Andal, members of th-.s Govern­ er of the ship. Captain Ugo Fari- COLLISION OFF NEW YORK gether with rope. He says that ment Commission on Vulcanol- done, was called to answer, first he would have the raft towed to HARBOUR: 28 MISSING. an JAMES PATRICK & CO. PTY. LTD. °gy. d Ensign P. Aguilar, re­ a summons by the Navigation sea about the end of August and Twenty-eight crew members of ported no sign of life on the now Department of overloading the leave it to sea currents and winds SHIPOWNERS — AGENTS — CONTRACT the Brazilian freighter "Loide 833-foot high rock-ar.d-sand is­ I'Vulcano" at Port Kembla on to take it to Australia. The crew STEVEDORES Brasil" (6,000 tons) are missing land. "The volcano seems like May 26: and, second, a sum­ would live on dehydrated food, CHARTERS AND BUNKERS ARRANGED after a collision with the United the smouldering embers of a house mons by the department of hav­ fish, and four k-egs of water on States tanker "Gulf Trade". The burnt down," they reported. Not ing the ship overloaded in Sydney the voyage, which he estimates collision occurred on 28th June 35 REGULAR INTERSTATE 8: OVERSEAS CARGO « a single plant was found. Th-ere Harbour on the same day. Cap­ would take six months. miles off New York Harbour. PASSENGER SERVICES were only boulders and rock all tain Faridone pleaded guilty. The ITALIAN LINER WITH. Twenty-one survivors were pick­ around, reminiscent of a, geologic Magistrate fined Faridone £100 DRAWN. ed up, also one dead body. age long past. Abad says the vol­ Agents for . . . on the first charge, and £150 on The Italian liner "Sydney," cano is 3,640 feet long. A Phil­ FLOTTA I.AURO (Italian Line)—Cargo and paaaenger service, the second. owned by the Flotta Lauro Line, EXPLORING DIDICAS ippine Navy ship anchored two Australia to Mediterranean porta, via Singapore. VOLCANO. RAFT VOYAGE TO is to be temporarily withdrawn miles off shore, and landed the AUSTRAUA PROJECTED. from the Italy to Australia run. TASMAN STEAMSHIP CO. LTD.—Refrigerated cargo, Auatralia A Philippine Government sur­ exploring party in a launch. A message from London on A spokesman for James Patrick, to New Zealand, vey t-.-am on July 2 landed on OVERLOADED SHIP: July 8 said that a 25-year-old Australian agents for the Line an-, ERIE RAILROAD (USA.)—Aoatralaaian Agent.. Didicas Volcano, which on March CAPTAIN FINED. South African is trying to recruit nouneed this on June 17. The Head Office: 19 BRIDGE STREET, SYDNEY 19 of last year erupted and push­ At the Special Court at Syd­ five men to join him in a 5,000* "Sydney" will do two summer Phone: BW 4181. ed a mass of rock 250 feet above ney on May 27, the Stipendiary mile raft voyage across the Indian cruises in the Mediterranean, thus ALSO AT MELBOURNI AND BRISBANE the surface of the Pacific Ocean, Magistrate fined the captain of Ocean to Fremantle. He is Mr. missing one round 12-week trip WITH AGENTS AT ALL MAIN PORTS IN AUSTRALIA. off the north coast of Luzon Is- the Italian ship "Vulcano," a to­ O. E. Clark, of Capetown, who on the Italy-Australia run. Aofoat; ltd. » training, exhibited the most gentle-' lives in Lobb Crescent, Kogarah. manlike bearing and good in- - PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS a suburb of Sydney, -first met his fluence among the cadet-midship­ bride at a dance on H.M.S. WAILES DOVE IITHMISTIC PRODUCTS men." In the Second World War NEW C.-IN-C, THE NORE. Savill liner "Athenic" to fulfill 'Theseus" while he was training the appointment of his company s he saw service at sea in the Pacific, BITUROS SOLUTION ft HARD ENAMEL Her Majesty the Queen has with the Royal Navy. Inspector of New Tonnage. Cap­ Atlantic, Mediterranean and Nor­ been graciously pleased to approve THE WORLD'S BEST PROTECTION tain H. C. Smith has transferred wegian waters. the appointment of Admiral Sir NEW PRESIDENT, for from the "Esperance Bay" to the For his services in command of Geoffrey N. Oliver, K.C.B.. MERCANTILE MARINE FRESH WATER DRINKING TANKS. "Athenic." H.M.A.S. "Hobart" he was award­ D.S.O.. as Commander-in-Chief, SERVICE ASSOCIATION. ed the D.S.O. "for outstanding The Nore, in succession to Ad­ R.A.N. OFFICER AWARDED At a recent meeting of the courage, skill, initiative, when his miral the Honourable Sir Cyril M.B.E. Council of the Mercantile Marine ship for seven months covered J. WILDRIDGE & SINCLAIR PTY. LTD. E. Douglas-Pennant, K.C.B., C.B. Service Association (of Great Acting Lieutenant Commander the bombardments of Tarakan, E„ D.S.O.. D.S.C.. the appoint­ Britain), Captain W. Dennitts 97 PITT STREET, SYDNEY (S) Austin L. Miller. R.A.N., of Wewak, Labuan, Balikpapan, and ment taking effect in May, 1953, was elected President to serve for Moorabbin, Victoria, had been attacks on Lingayen Gulf, Aitape MELBOURNE BRISBANE Admiral Douglas-Pennant has re­ the unexpired period of the late awarded the M.B.E. for non-op­ and Wewak." He received the linquished this appointment on Captain Cooper's term of office AGENTS: erational services in Japan, in C.B.E. in the New Year's Honour* the grounds of ill health. He was and Captain J. Quayle was elect­ ADELAIDE . . . GIBBS BRIGHT « CO. connection with operations in List in 1953. admitted to the Royal Naval Hos­ ed Vice-President for the same PERTH ... FLOWER DAVDB * JOHNSON. Korea. This was announced on In 1948 he was appointed Com­ pital, Chatham, towards the end period. June 1" by the Minister for the manding Officer of H.M.A.S. HOBART . . . R. L. MHJJGAN. of March following a heart at­ Navy (the Hon. William Mc- "Sydney," Australia's first aircraft tack. DUKE APPOINTED Malum). Lieutenant-Commander carrier, and brought her out to Millers citation read as follows: PRINCIPAL KNIGHT, Australia from.England. During NEW FLAG OFFICER O.B.E. (FLOTILLAS) BRITISH "This officer was selected for duty his command of this ship, 3000 HOME FLEET. as the Base Supply Officer, Kure Her Majesty The Queen on deck landings were made on "Syd­ FOR Ail... (H.M.A.S. "Commonwealth") in May 19 appointed the Duke of ney's" flight deck without serious The British Admiralty has an­ September, 1950, and was report­ Edinburgh Grand Master and the mishap. •OAT * YACHT «.EA R nounced the appointment of ed as having performed these ar­ First—or Principal-Knight of the Rear-Admiral J. W. Cuthbert, duous duties in a most cheerful Order o» the British Empire. C.B., C.B.E., as Flag Officer (Flo­ and commendable manner, hav­ "DARING" CLASS SHIPS. BROOMFIELDS LTD. tillas) British Home Fleet in suc­ ing - Without any officer to assist R.A.N. OFFICER'PROMOTED Warships of the "Daring" AH Quotations sHinhd to k IWuaktlaAiWsHnWMlHIWIWy cession to Rear-Admiral W. G. A. him -worked long and irregular . TO FLAG RANK. class are to be re-classified and Robson, C.B., D.S.O.. DSC, the hours and been a tower- of will no longer be referred to as Phone: BX 3801 appointment to date from July, Captain Dowling Made strength to the establishment and A Rear-Admiral. destroyers. Henceforth they will 1953. The appointment of Rear- visiting ships. Faced with many BRO<3MFIELD S LTD.. IS2 SUSSEX ST. |M•r IO119 St.L SYDNEY i Cptain Roy Russell Dowling, be known officially in the Royal Admiral J. P. L. Reid, C.B., to unusual problems he solved them C.B.E., D.S.O., R.A.N., "has been Navy as "Daring" class ships, or relieve Rear-Admiral W. G. A. with balanced judgment and abil­ promoted to the rank of Rear- simply "Darings." These ships, Rohson, C.B.. D.S.O., D.S.C., ity and he always co-operated and Admiral. His seniority as a Rear- which were built as large fleet which was announced on 27th was successful in his liaison with Admiral dates from the 8th July, destroyers, are now used tactically January last, is cancelled. It is the many other Service depart 1953. This was announced on as light cruisers. They are equally understood that Rear-Admiral ments with whom he had deal­ July 7 by the Minister for the effective in the roles of destroy­ Reid is required for another ap­ ings. Lieutenant-C ommander Navy (the Hon. William ers, anti-submarine frigates, or Bordsfey's pointment ' Miller volunteered for an extra McMahon). anti-aircraft ships. Of eight ves­ period of 12 months' duty in the sels in the class, six are already PROMOTION TO REAR- Rear-Admiral Dowling is at : appointment, returning to duty in completed, and four of these SHAVING ADMIRAL (E). present in the United Kingdom, Australia, in March, 1953." ships took part in the Coronation W-^ ' 1 where he is attending the Imperial Captain (E) J. G. C. Given, Review at Spithead on June 15. CREAM Defence College course in London C.B.E., R.N., has been promoted Warships rarely give their names WEDDING ARCH OF From 1950 to 1952 he was Second Rear-Admiral (E) and appointed to a whole class of ship, although ,: SWORDS. Naval Member of the Australian For a quicker Rear-Admiral (E) on the Staff of the battleship " Dreadnought " H* Naval Board. Mr. McMahon said the Commander-in-Chief, The Brother officers from the Aus­ gave her name, semiofficially, to and that Rear-Admiral Dowling was Nore, the British Admiralty an tralian aircraft-carrier "Sydney" vessels of her type, earlier battle­ •B^^^^v the third officer who had graduated more comfortable nounced recently. The appoint (which represented the Australian ships in her day being known as > from the Royal Australian Naval B* - '• S raent took effect in April. Navy at the Coronation Naval "pre-Dreadnoughts." Reyiew at Spithead on June 15) College to reach Flag rank. He SHAW SAVILL CAPTAIN formed an arch of swords at the was born at Condong, Tweed "Australia, in co-operation with RELINQUISHES SEA wedding in London recently of River, New South Wales, in 1901. SHAVE Britain, could establish atomic COMMAND FOR SHORE Lieutenant George Crago, 23, of and entered the College in 1915. energy power stations in a few Sydney, and Miss Helen Joy where he wa$ awarded the King'.- mL * - JOB. years. Cornell, 24, of Dulwich Village, Gold Medal as "the cadet-midship­ Captain J. Tierney has relin- —Professor Marcus Oliphant. uished his command of the Shaw London. Lieutenant Crago, who man who, during hij period of

- •• AWARDS FOR SEA-ODDITIES GALLANTRY. * Wfcm ifetes of rftw Hmwf The posthumous award of the "fe»ov« fe" this rep* A floating ice island, manned like end. The oar-fish are edible, (tortoise) whose only relatives Albert Medal to Charles William by 8 United States Air Force but their flesh is soft and some­ were now found in the Galapagos Greenwood, aged 32, of Osborne tefc^ holds tatt'. technicians, is making a slow pas­ times spongy. This is partly due Islands, off the coast of South Road, Tweedmount, Berwick-on- sage around the top of the world. to the fact that they live in ex­ America. The shell of the fossil­ Tweed, U.K.., and the awards of Latest report! indicate that treme ocean depths under great ised turtle is nearly three feet long three Queen's Commendations for "Fletcher's Ice Island," as it is pressure. When forced towards and about two feet thick. Charles brave conduct to Walter Green, called, has moved from the area the surface of the ocean the Darwin, the famous British nat­ aged 34, of Henderson Street, of the U.S. Alaskan Air Com­ change of piessure is inclined to uralist, records in his "Voyage of Glasgow, John McComiskey, aged mand into the area of the North- rupture their internal make-up, a Naturalist" that the Vice-Gov­ 43, also of Henderson Street, East Air Command, which in­ and the general belief among ernor of the Galapagos told him Glasgow, and Lieutenant-Com­ ANCHOR HAND cludes Greenland. The ice "ship," scientists is that in these condi­ that "he had seen several (testudo mander (E) William Frederick four miles wide and nine miks tions they are doomed to die. The tortoise) so large, that it had re­ Galletly, R.N., of Setham. Mid- long, has drifted at the rate of 2\ most favoured explanation of quired six or eight men to lift hurst, Sussex, were recently an­ miles a day in a gentle arc, since their appearance on these coasts them from the ground." He con­ nounced in the London "Gazette." 19*2. The "crew," whose main is that, heavy weather sweeping sidered that the broad and well- The awards are in connection job is to gather weather informa­ up from the Antarctic is stirring beaten paths made by the tortoises with an attempt to save the life tion and communications data, is up these fish from their deep-sea travelling into water, led to the of a Naval rating who had been supplied by air from Thule, haunts. Certainly, when they do Spaniards first discovering the overcome by fumes in an empty Greenland. Reports say that the appear her; it is usually as an af­ springs and watering- places on ballast tank in H.M.S. "Mull of ice island has swung to a position termath of winter oceanic storms. the islands, where water still is Galloway," while she was under­ "less than .>00 miles from the such a rare commodity. going a refit at the yard of Messrs. No th Pole, hut, at one time, the Fresh sea fish were found Harland and Wolff, Belfast, on distance was only 100 miles." In among the branches of trees and It was Ferdinand Magellan, a October 2 last. time, it may drift on to the Rus in bushes in the hills at La Cor- Portuguese navigator in the pay Greenwood found the Naval sun side of the Pole. Thus, the era, in Spain, after a violent hur­ of Spain, who first demonstrated island seems to be swinging from rating (Chief Petty Officer Stok­ ricane had swept across the region that a wide ocean lay to the west er Mechanic Albert Knowles) ly­ the Western Hemisphere to the from the coast nearly five miles ot North and South America. He WHEN IT'S AN Eastern Hemisphere. The waters ing unconscious at the bottom of away. Holiday-makers among was seeking a westward route to the tank. Without thought for of the Arctic Sea around the the hills cooked them for lunch. the Moluccas or Spice Islands, North Pole are international, so his personal safety he immediate­ But this, of course, is not the claimed by Spain to lie within her ly went to Knowles, at the same no complications should arise it first time some such occurrence Eastern hemisphere. Five ships the island changes hemispheres. time calling for help from another has been reported. The phen­ were under his command, and af­ workmate. A rope was lowered omenon is not unknown in Aus ter the passage of the famous for Greenwood to secure Knowles, YOU START That strange deep-sea denizen, traha. and one was reported not Strait which now bears his name, but before this could be done the oar-fish, which is rarely seen so many years ago in the Murray three of these ships, mere cockle­ Greenwood himself was overcome in Australian waters, made its ap­ River Valley. It is "thought that shells of 110, 90, and 8? tons re­ by fumes and collapsed. the fish are caught up from the spectively, entered the Pacific pearance in record numbers along McComiskey then entered the water by some fierce whirlwind Ocean on November 28, 1520. ALBERT'S the New South Wales coast this tank to assist the two unconscious and later dropped over the land Prior to that only the native year. Several were landed on the men. He was thrown a rope as the force of the wind abates. peoples of its islands and littorals far South Coast, some around which he passed round the legs of BOOMERANG SONGSTER Ns. 59 Sydney, and more again on the had sailed the waters of the Paci­ CONTAINS WORDS OF THE GREATEST fic Ocean. But with the entry of Greenwood, but he had to leave COLLECTION OT WORLD-WIDE HIT SONGS North Coast. One, caught by a A museum party from the Uni­ the tank before he could knot the EVBt r fisherman early in July near The versity of California recently Magellan into its vast seas, there began for the Pacific what now rope, as he felt himself being i: lailiaj; FaU> C— Spit in Sydney Harbour, measur­ found the almost complete re­ overcome by fumes. Green then Yaa'ta Maai Tm Yaam amounts to 433 years of history Tab Mr Han Th. II n II; KEah Naaa; Rock Of ed about nine feet long. Two mains, in fossil form, of a giant attempted to reach the two men, Gliirim, Thai'. Th. Clan Yaa Taka: Ym, Sr. others were captured off Coogec turtle which is believed to have that is about as varied, as roman­ TkaPa Mr Bate: W«W Mr R-b, ki Ho«.; tic, and as fateful as any like per­ but he was unable to tighten the Yaw Yaa Wan Maa* For M.. Sail SWa S— and Maroubra at about the same died one million years ago. The rope before he became dizzy and Till «••• Alaaj Th. Wan Sbo-U I; 1 .7*1 time. These fish are known to leader of the party. Dr. Donald iod of tinie in all the annals ot BH 'N Dill I, Ha* la Mr Ham Sh. laaa man. In a real sense the develop­ had to be hauled out by a lifeline. s M. « You; Al Of Ma; Dar Ol JaMla: Rett. grow up to 20 feet long, and are Savage, said the specimen was re­ A further attempt to rescue W0RD Haunt Wkaa Yaa'aa aWttwiWafth' To •Sgi sometimes called ribboh'fish be­ ment of the Pacific was now to re­ F~< Up; ru Foto Yaa: Good II ill, Mt. Echo; covered from the side of a cliff in Knowles and Greenwood was I W,~. To Yaar Waiaaaj; Etc.. Etc. cause of their unusual thinness, the Palo Duro Canyon, Texas. ceive its greatest impetus from the early navigators of the Great made by Lieutenant-Commander from side to side, in comparison He said that the turtle was con­ Galletly, but without result, and !/- with their length. The name oar- sidered a "real find" in the scien­ Age of Maritime Discovery, which had its beginnings in the finally Greenwood and Stoker fish derives from the strange, tific world because it was almost lev 99 irJU few MM to ymm •***». efforts of the Portuguese, and its Mechanic Knowles were brought lengthy appendages that hang completely preserved. Only the out by an ambulance squad with J. ALBERT ft SON PTY. LTD. from the underside of the fish. head was missing. The turtle was extension in famous voyages from Britain. Holland, and Spain. oxygen masks, and were found 1J7-1J9 KING STREET; SYDNEY. These appendages have an oar­ of the testudo type of land turtle to be dead.

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• fiitf^W^feri;ii^.itl-.& A***, • AIR POWER AT SEA SPEAKING OF SHIPS The recent launching of Britain's newes"t " aircraft carrier, H.M.S. "Hermes" is a point­ The new P. cr O. liner of the er oil in diesel engines British Byrd in New York on May 26 an­ er to the steadily increasing carrier strength "Himalaya" type is to be called owners of motorships are paying nounced plans for another expe­ of the Royal Navy. very much more attention to dition (his fifth) to the South 'Iperia" after the first ship Ships now being built are the "Ark jhrome-hard;ned cylinder linings Polar regions as soon as the Kor­ specially built for the company Royal," "Albion," "Centaur" and "Bulwark." as the wear is considerably in­ ean war ends. in IS37. There are also the "Powerful" for Canada creased in 2-stroke engines. ;ind "Melbourne" for Australia. When these The Standard Oil Company hi Two Egyptians trying to cut a are completed Britain, Canada, and Austr­ The International Union of America is "very interested" in water pipeline in the Suez Canal ia will have 25 carriers. Geodesy is attempting to get all an area of Dutch New Guinea rone on May 26 were wounded The "Hermes" is an improvement on earl­ the nations to establish a unified close to the border of the Austra­ when fired on by British troops. ier ships of her class. Displacing !8,fX)0 tons. geodetic grid for use with Pecca, lian territory, the Netherlands Three others were ta\en prisoner. she incorporates the latest equipment and Gee, Loran and other instruments. Minister for Oversea Parts of the The sabotage attempt failed. new features, and is the first carrier of the Realm, Professor W. J. A. Kern- R.N. to be fitted with an angled flight deck. kamp, said on his arrival in Syd­ The Corporation and members Previous carriers, now operating with the ney on July $. of Lloyds gave a first contribution Japanese Embassy officials said Royal Navy, including H.M.S. "Eagle," have of £30,000 and a second of in Canberra on July 8 that the straight flight decks, but with the new ar­ Australian Government had not A big section of .i Russian £25,000 to the King George VI rangement on the "Hermes", powerful jet yet replied to a diplomatic Note floating dock under tow from Rational Memorial Fund. aircraft of naval air squadrons, including sent from Japan warning that Odessa to Vladivostok arrived in "Attackers" and "Sea Venoms" will be able Japan would have to cut down on Singapore on May Iv The discharge of sugar in bulk to operate with much greater safety, both on has taken a step further at Liver­ its wool purchases unless Austra* take off and on landing lia imported more Japanese goods. Diplomatic sowecs in London pool, U.K., where a pneumatic Another device which will make stud on May 15 that japan had in­ grain elevator was used, apparent­ mm for greater safety in naval aviation formed Britain that foreign ex­ ly with pronounced success. The (U.K.) Court of Inquiry jjlljii is the steam catapult, to he fitted :n change would not he allocated m on the stranding of the British carriers of the future, and which h is future for the purchase of Persian Indian shipowning companies steamer "Radnar" off the Hook fSj been installed experimentally in the oil by Japanese firms. Events will have published such good reports of Holland on the 12th January "Perseus". Tests carried out with be awaited with interest. recently that the authorities are last year, came to the conclusion latest test types of naval jet aircraft, doubtful about the necessity for that serious mistakes were made and the new catapult have proved The Coadjutor Bishop of Syd­ the generous State aid which is by the Master and suspended his to be most successful. ney, the Right Rev. C. V. Pil being demanded. Master's Certificate for one year. chcr. announced on May 27 that The Court recommended that the the Rev. Colin Craven -Sands, a Many Japanese shipping com­ Master should receive a First former chaplain in the Australian panies appear to have tried to ex­ Mate's certificate during the per­ aircraft carrier "Sydney," would pand too rapidly since the war iod of» suspension. be the new chaplain of the Syd­ and arc now said to be suffering ney Mission to Seamen. from caution on the part of the As a consequence of the 1948 banks with r.g.ird to advances. International Convention on Safe­ A new shipyard has been con­ ty of Life at Sea, new regulations structed at Warncmundc in Ger­ The Department of Scientific to govern life at sea have been many under Russian control de­ and Industrial Research (United formulated. The new regulations signed to produce standardised Kingdom) is investigating the pos­ come into effect on the 1st Jan­ 9,000'fthips on a new "conveyor sibilities of using pulverised coa! uary, 1954. belt" system. tor gas turbines. "op: Tha 36,100 ton Aircraft carrier Although the advantages of The great increase in the tour­ An interesting feature of the H.M.S. "Eagla" at saa Huring * North diesel propulsion are admitted be­ ist traffic to Gibraltar is suspected 1948 International Convention on Atlantic Treaty naval axarcisa. low about 5,000 I.H.P., recent im­ by th: British Treasury and Cus­ Safety of Life at Sea, is th* revi­ provements in steam machinery Above: An "Attackar" ja* naval fig Mar toms to be a method of evading sion of the regulations for the pre­ • ntred and connactad to tha plana have, it seems, given the latter an the currency regulations. The ob­ vention of collisions at sea. One catapu't on board tha "Eag'e," advantage above that power even ject of it, thev think, is the chang­ of the new regulations is the ex­ in the Scandinavian countries ing of unlimited amounts in tra­ tending of the lower limit of Right: An "Attackar" bacomai airborna which have favoured the diesel vellers' cheques in Gibraltar and coasters in which radio telephony iftar baing firad from tha ship's cata­ pult. Sha U saan juit dropping tha engine ever since the First World taking the proceeds into Spain. is to be fitted. Vessels down to strop as sha taavas tha flight dack. War. 500 tons gross will from the 1st The veteran American polar January, 1954, be required to With the increased use of boil­ explorer Rear-Admiral Richard carry such installations. mam ^ugwtl, ins. ..*•;•." '.'.','.' i ,' '., 'HWl^PHW which Spain and Holland were in- - this they also determined east and • • terested, and in which, fortunate­ west. We also know that the ly for us, England later became Phoenicians used the Pole Star interested, in the sixteenth and and the Lesser Bear to guide If it's from . . seventeenth centuries." To this them. It is also recorded that the I 00. PTY. LTD. theme, of course, Magellan's dis­ famous Greek astronomer, Py- covery and passage of the Pacific theas, sailed on a Phoenician ship MOHAN Exploration and Discovery, by H are the voyages of the Portuguese is an essential prelude. to Britain. It was Pytheas who J. Wood. B.SC, Ph D. IHiblish- Vasco Da Gama to India via the some time about 326 B.C. ascer­ SHIPPING Dr. Woods ranks De Quiros AND cJ by Hutchinson's University Cape of Good Hope in 1498, of tained with an amazing degree of and Tasman as the leading ex­ TONTRACTORS Library. London, W.I. John Cabot westward from Bris­ accuracy the latitude of Marseil­ tol in 1497, and of Amerigo Ves­ plorers of the Pacific. Prior to les, where he was living. He used WHOLESALE & RETAIL CATO»S This is a compact little book pucci. 'In 1519, the amazing Ma­ these Mendana and Gamboa, and a gnomon—a tall one and by GROCERS covering the mam facets in the gellan appears, discovers and en­ later, Prads and Torres, also made measuring its shadow along a hor­ history of world exploration and ters, in 1520, the Pacific, and significant discoveries in their re­ izontal surface, he found the dis­ MARKET GARDENERS discovery. Designed to* give the spective quests for the Great tance from the equator. The tiiough the great leader is him­ FRUIT MERCHANTS IT MUST BE GOOD reader a general impression of self doomed to meet his death in South Land. But "not until late length of the shadow varied with the figures by whom and the the Philippines, one of his ships, in the eighteenth century did vig­ the distance from the equator." PRODUCE MERCHANTS mean* by which Western know the "Victoria," completes the first orous searching take place, al­ IMPORTERS though William Dampier, an ledge of the world was extended, navigation of the globe, by re­ However, though so slow as to EXPORTERS it achieves its object with a clar­ turning to Spain, via the Indian early exemplar of the [Humboldt] cover centuries of time, advances ity and a minimum of words that Ocean and the Cape, in 1522. scientific spirit of enquiry, was in seafaring aids and methods combine to make the work both At and about this time came also one of several who kept alive ac­ were being made. Thus, "al­ helpful and fascinating. Its the expeditions, on the African tive interest in Pacific problems in though progress in navigation dur­ HEAD OFFICE: ^ author, Dr. Wd, is Lecturer in coasts, of Bartholomew Dias, and the gap between the efforts of ing these centuries [the centuries 19 LACKEY STREET, Geography in the University of it is interesting to note that Dr. Tasman and the momentous voy­ of the Dark Ages] has gone unre­ Londqn. Wood quotes the historian Prest- ages of James Cook in 1768-71 corded, it was sometimes during HAYMARKET. and 1772-75," the former of Though, rightly, emphasis in age as saying that he (Prestage) this period that improper naviga­ Phone MA 2383. ranked the achievements of Dias which led, as we all know, to the tion [navigation without instru­ the book is on modern times, all discovery of eastern Australia, the earlier developments in ex­ higher than those of Columbus. ments] was replaced on the high and the bringing into knowledge, seas by proper navigation [navi­ ploration and discovery are cover­ Meantime, in Elizabethan Eng­ beyond doubt, of the existesce of ed with sufficient detail to draw gation by chart and compass]. land, the great spirit that made it a Great South Land. And Cook During these centuries, probably the complete picture—a picture so famous, had come into flower, was not only a great discoverer; in which the historical enterprise in the ninth, the chart and the and the English horizon was wid­ he was also a great navigator and compass came into use. The earl­ of man is seen in all its romantic, ened, particularly" in the Americas a roost able chart-maker. It was dramatic, and, often enough, iest literary record of their use BEER is good and in the exploration of the Cook who applied the lunar meth­ trapc intrepidity. by seamen is in a late thirteenth- North-West Passage, with the od of ascertaining longitudes with century text "—a folio dated 1295 The limits of the world as voyages of Frobisher, Cavendish, unprecedentedly accurate results. by Raymond Lull entitled "Arbor known to the ancients are shown, Raleigh, Humphrey Gilbert and Scicnttiae," now in the British for you and a consideration of the early Hudson, and with Drake's cir­ Two further chapters of the Museum. Greek and Roman geographers, cumnavigation and his defeat of book cover, respectively, the ex­ particularly Straho and Ptolomy, the Spanish Armada. Indeed, as ploration of interior Africa and Thus were the Western meth­ are then used as a basis for a sur­ Dr. Wood says, "in discovery the Polar exploration and, finally, ods of trade, conquest and colon­ vey leading from ancient days English became pioneers in the there is a most interesting ap­ isation extended, bit by bit, into down through, successively, the search for a northern passage to pendix devoted to the history of the farthest corners of the globe. Medieval Ages and the Great Age eastern Asia. The Dutch, too, navigation, by E. M. Campbell. This process varied in pace in in­ of Maritime Discovery, to practi­ vigorous competitors also of the It is a fascinating section, both in tellectual, artistic, economic, re­ cally the present time. Spanish and Portuguese, were ac­ the theme and the manner adopt­ ligious and political fields of ac­ tive in seeking a route by the After following Ibn Battatu, ed by the writer in covering it. tivity, and in various countries. north-east: the north-west route But this led, no matter at what the Tangier-born Arab, in Africa, was almost exclusively the sphere "It is impossible to say to what pace it was carried, to an altera­ and Marco Polo, the Venetian, in of English enterprise." China and the East, we pass into extent astronomical methods were tion in world outlook, in the for­ the Great Age of Maritime Dis­ To the Australian reader, the used by early mariners [in the an­ tunes of nations, to wider and covery. And what an incredible chapter devoted to Terra Aus- cient world] to determine direc­ more intimate intercourse among age it was! Its best known land­ tralis is perhaps, of greatest inter­ tion at sea. Shipmasters would peoples, as well as to an extension mark, of course, is the first voyage est. From a very large field of have been familiar with the meth­ of geographical knowledge and a of Christopher Columbus, west­ study Dr. Wood selects as his od of finding north and south profound change in geographical CAMION AM* ward across the Atlantic, in 1492. main theme the quest for a great from the south-north line drawn ideas; in short, to the world as . lrl«tl to' AI Outstanding also in these days unknown southern continent, in by the noon-tide shadow. From we know it today. A.R.

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• * EaaiAeaataBBBi AaaBBBBBBBsaaiaBkAlaBBBBBn aaal aaaJhasaasl BaftaBaaaa^BaftaaaaftaaaaaaaaaSaa EX-NAVAL MEN'S Hfyll JUHITSilMI afary rTMMIralll The following Navy promo­ Noble Park, Victoria. AAROMS tions to date 30th June, 1953, Arthur Stanley Wilkinson, of Association ,*f\ of Australia have been announced by the Min­ Caulficld, Victoria. EXCHANGE ister for the Navy (th-; Hon. Robert Thorn Gamble, of Deni- HOTEL William McMahoh). stone, N.S.W. Allan George Farley, of Con­ Patron-ia-Chief: Her Majesty The Queen. ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY cord, N.S.W. I GRESHAM STREET Lieutenant (Special Branch) Commander to Captain: SYDNEY (FEDERAL COUNCIL) mainder of the day to sporting fix­ the Esscndon Sub-Section's An- • to Lieutenant-Commander Jack Sutton Mesley. D.S.C. tures and other forms of enter­ nual Dance. (Special Branch): The Association's Hon. Feder­ (Acting Captain) of Sydney, tainment, and that any proceeds Mr. A. Peterkin, of Melbourne Bruce Lempriere Westbrook, of al Organising Secretary (Mr. NSW. from such activities be distributed Sub-Section, visited over 200 pa­ Glen Iris, Victoria. Wm, J. Greenwood) represented Lieutenant-Commander. to amongst ex-Servicemen's widows, tients during the past ? months at Crmond Victor Dimmitt, of Only the Bast Brands the Federal President at the offi­ Commander; r \ etc. the R.G.H., Heidelberg; the local Darling. Victoria. cial opening of the 6th Annual Roland Henry Ha-ia -(Acting Stocked. State Council of Victoria has Sub-Section acts in conjunction Keith Hamilton Wade, of State Conference of Victoria, Commander) of'Nowra, N.S.W. Dining Room sent its congratulations to the with the State Council in provid­ Clarence Park, S.A. held at Victoria Hall, Russell St., David Charles Wells, of Syd­ President and members of the Mil- ing funds to purchase small gifts Unsurpassed. Melbourne, on Saturday, 1st Aug ney. N.S.W. dura Sub-Section upon its holding for patients at Heidelberg. The ROYAL AUSTRALIAN ust. During the period of the Allen Nelson Dollard, D.S.C. t very successful Coronation Ball. Association knows that these NAVAL VOLUNTEER Conference which wras attended (Acting Commander), of Mel­ Mr. Duff and Miss Shirley Goeu amenities are greatly appreciated RESERVE. by delegates from all Sub-Sec­ bourne. Victoria. ' ' •• have been having a very busy by the recipients on account of Lieutenant to Lieutenant- tions within the State, a motion Lieutenant-Commander (L) ' AARONLS time helping to arrange a series of the number of letters of thanks Commander: was submitted by Geclong Sub- to Commander (L): Square Dances for the benefit of received from time to time. Charles William Blunt (Acting EXCHANGE Section, requesting that a ballot the Sandringham Sub-Section. A Jack Robertson McMu r r a y Federal Council is pleased to Lieutenant-C ommander), of HOTEL be taken from members, for an Trafalgar Day Ball is being organ­ (Acting Commander) of Sydney, note that the A.C.T. Section join­ Nundah, Qld. opinion on the future method of ised by the State Social Commit­ N.S.W. ed up nine new applicants for Lieutenant (Sp. Br.) to observance of Anjac Day. It is tee of Victoria and all Sub-Sec­ Surgeon Commander to June last; some of the new mem­ Lieutenant-Commander (Sp. Br.): the intention of the members of tions are expected to take part Surgeon Captain: bers had service in the Royal Franc's John Anneslcy Whit- the proposing Sub-Section to therein. The Ladies' Auxiliary of James Martin Flattery, O.B.E., Navy prior to their arrival in taker, of Hawthorn, Victoria. bring the State of Victoria into Footscray Sub-Section were re­ of Sydney, N.S.W. Australia. Recent transfers of line with other Australian States, cently assisted by members to run Commander (S) to Captain (S): Always ask for . . . members arc: — Messrs. R. L. FOR INFORMATION. by resolving to hold the Remem­ a grocery stall at the Auxiliary's John EdVvard Hehir, O.B.E. Miller and J. G. Grant from Captain Wesley is Commanding brance Service and March of ex- Bazaar. The Social Committee (Acting Captain) of Sydney, Perth Sub-Section, the former to Officer of H.M.A.S. "Ansae" and Servicemen and women in the have not as yet finally decided N.S.W." Fremantle and latter to Leeder- Captain (D) of th* R.A.N. 10th forenoon, and to devote the re­ upon the date on which to hold ville-Wembley; Francis O. Blox- ROYAL AUSTRALIAN Destroyer Flotilla. "Anzac" ar­ SHELLEY'S ham from Melbourne to Sydney; NAVAL RESERVE. rived in Sydney on July 3 from Theodore E. Walhert to Heidel­ Lieutenant-Commander Korea. Captain Wesley was FAMOUS DUNKS TATTERSALL'S 3 POINT berg from Essendon; Raymond to Commander: awarded the D.S.C. in 1945 "for J. Lupton from Sydney to Mel­ Bertrand Lucien Dechaiiveux, courage, skill and initiative whilst serving in the Far East." He was PROGRAMME bourne, and Allan L. Hope to of Newtown, Tasmania. Obtainable from leading Papua- New Guinea from Sydney Lieutenant to Lieutenant- born in Brunswick, Victoria, and The 5/- Cash Consultation — £10,000 Sub-Section. Commander: later lived at Leongatha (Victor­ shops and saloons. First Prize. Drawn every few day*. Kenneth Horton James Robin, ia) before entering the R.A.N. Mr. Kevin Smith (Hon. Secre­ of Strathficld. N.S.W. College. The 10/ Cuh tary of Sydney) is organising a \ TASMANIA I '" Conmtartion — £25.000 Lieutenant (E) to Commander Haiti's present ap­ SNELLEYtSONS > «******»** J First Prize. Drawn every few weeks. Theatre Night for members and Lieutenant-Commander (E): pointment is Commander (Air) their families to see South Pacific, Richard Taylor, of Manning at the R.A.N. Air Station at CORDIAL FACT0HY The 195), £1 Melbourne Cup which will be staged at the Em­ Park, W.A. Nowra, N.S.W. He came to Aus­ pire Theatre, Railway Square. Consultation Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander tralia on loan service from the PIT. LTD. News of the official opening of £50,000 First Prize. to Surgeon Commander: Royal Navy in 1948 and in 1952 the joint Air Force and ex-Naval Sidney Arnold Sewell, of South transferred to the R.A.N. He- MURRAY STREET, Club for Canterbury-Bankstown Yarra, Victoria. was born in England. POSTAGE ON TICKETS AND RESULTS TO BE ADDED is soon to be announced. All MARRICKVILLE, Lieutenant (S) to Lieutenant- Commander Wells who recent­ members of the latter Sub-Sec­ Nf.W. The Address . . . Commander (S): ly returned from England after 2 tion, provided they are financial, Duncan John MacDonald years' duty on exchange with the may apply to become members of 'Phones: LA 24)1, LA 2659 ttEO. ADAMS (TATTEUAU) HOBAIT Wyles, of Kew, Victoria. Royal Navy is now serving in the the new club. G.W.S. Sydney Austin Bafnbridge, of aircraft carrier H.M.A.S. "Ven- i • i; ' r *' v js in

_ •:»*,-. KM'***. , ^sV^M^i^^siiaBd £eance." He was wounded at other United Nations warship Leyte by the first "kamikaze" to had spent in the river. Command' hit H.M.A.S. "Australia." Hfie er Dollard was awarded the was born at Inv^rell, N.S.W., annd D.S.C. for his steadiness and im- was educated at St. Peter's Colol­- perturhahility when his ship was lege, Adelaide, before entering thhe under fire at often point blank R.A.N. College in 1933. range and for his great skill in or an Commander Dullard -it presen:nt manoeuvring "Murchison" in the o< Deputy Director of Manning annd Han River. Commander Dollard Inspector of Naval Recruiting at was born at Prospect, South Aus- Navy Office, Melbourne. He wa^as tralia. previously in command of H.MM. Commander McMurray is at A.S. "Murchison" which had 8$j present serving as Fleet Electrical months service in Korea. Thihis Officer in H.M.A.S. "Australia." ship, under his command, spen;nt In the Second World War he 60 days on patrol in the Han THE WONDERFUL LAMP an served in H.M.A. Ships "Hobart," M«dt in Anlritli for :-.« Gtn«r«l EJactnc Co Ltd. of England River. A longer period than anny "Napier" and "Swan." He was born at Moonee Ponds, Victoria. • Surgeon Captain Flattery— Tha futur. of rteam f*r marina purpoin. present appointment is Deputy • mot by th. letett la be act develop- manti, which, in turn, *r« backed by Director Naval Medical Services ever 10 year,' tee eaperienc*. At •••, at Navy Office, Melbourne. He M on land, time has proved tha tervice joined the R.A.N, in 1923. al labcock Boil.r Plant - Captain Hehir is at present BABCOCK & WILCOX g serving at Flinders Naval Depot Or AUSTRALIA PTY. LIM1TSO | (Victoria). He joined the R.A. aNGiHaana AND CONTRACTOR* I N. in 1912. •aid Mia t Rtrtt. I«ntt Part, «.s.». •reach «,, and Agendo! In all Jfetea. | NEW R.A.N. | APPOINTMENTS. I Commander W. S. Bracegirdle, D.S.C. and two Bars, of Sydney, CHINA JAPAN at present in command of H.M. MANILA, Ship "Bataan," would be appoint­ PHIUPPINE ISLANDS, ed Director of Training and Staff HONG KONG, Requirements at Navy Office, Mel­ JAPAN PORTS. bourne. Regular sailings from Commander G. L. Fo wle, Sydney by modem Luxury D.S.C. of Neutral Bay, Sydney, Linen, First Class accom­ at present Director of Manning at modation in Single and Navy Office, Melbourne, would Double Rooms with pri­ become Commanding Officer of vate bath available, H.M.A.S. "Bataan." u "CHANGTB" MOftCO burnt - *• M , riwtw» •' ciwiry Commander I. K. Purvis, of m.-. CHANGSHA• MM ttwm HM ricfc Sydney, at present serving in .». "TArprNG" NMA CNM •« N.SW. H.M.A.S. "Rushcutter," Sydney, mm "TAIWAN" HOftCO H • mmm» — would be the new Director of W CNfMNt fk^-l Manning. Full detail* from

IMM Mfh M P-HK Commander (£) /. F. Bell, of Australian Oriental NfN« '•* tmmrm »*»•• Sydney, would be appointed to half • t**tury Navy Office, Melbourne, as Direc­ Line Ltd. tor of Naval Construction. He is China Kavigaiion So. at present Engineer Officer of H.M.A.S. "Sydney." Limited Lieut.-Commander (P) A. J. JOINT SERVICE W Q REPRESENTING THE GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. LTD OF ENGLAND Gould, of Bardon, Brisbane, would G. S. YULLL AND CO. PTY. LTD. HOMO be appointed Commanding Officer Sydney Newcastle Melbourne Adelaide eriibane Perth Hobart Laanceitoa Townivill. " of the Fleet Air Arm 805. Sea Managing Agents S Fury Squadron. * BRIDGE ST. BW 2731-2-3.

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fl» Navy S«p**mb«r, 1953. Insulating the art e r i es H.M.A.S, "SYDNEY'S" CORONATION VOYAGE By CAPTAIN B. J. BUCHANAN, C.B.E., D.S.O., A.D.C., R.A.N. 1 of industry... We have just completed a Camp and the ship settled down Admirals. I saw no suggestion of . .-• i cruise of 30,000 miles. Like that to the task of preparing for the a cricket match between them, chronicled by Jules Verne, it was Review. but perhaps the presence of the Australian Test Team distracted • indeed "Around the World in 80 At the Coronation, as I have Ashore! i Days." As for our Army and Air the honour to be an A.D.C. to public attention from this inter State Electricity Commiiiion. I Force passengers, if they did not Her Majesty. I had a place in the csting possibility. Imperial Chemical Industries A.N.Z. ^s_ believe it before, they now know Queen's procession and also a Talking of cricket, 1 found time Australian Gat Light Co. l ^^r • • that the surface of the globe is seat in the Abbey. It was a great to visit the Oval on the last day Australian Iron and Steel Ltd. ~ *T"^F"-^ 709f water. occasion but m.tny of you will Stewarts and Lloyds. H I of the match against Surrey, and Thompsons (Castlemeine). Apart from the Coronation it­ have seen more than I did in the saw Hole make a brilliant catch Department of Railways. HT self, highlights of the cruise were excellent films that haw been a few inches off the ground, send­ Waterside Cold Stores. Hh J^m the ceremony at Tobruk, exercises produced. ing Londoners home to an early Streets Ice Cream. B^_ Nuffield (Aust.) Ltd. KSP at sea with the Mediterranean The next great event was the tea wondering what had happen­ Vacuum Oil Coy. Fleet and the Royal Canadian Naval Review for which ships be ed to their champion county. This • w> Navy, the Naval Review, Dinner gan to assemble at Spithead on was the only note of gloom I r with Her Majesty the Queen on the 9th of June. By the end of found during the whole of my Afloat l aM -* board H.M.S. "Vanguard." the the week there were at Spithead time in England. A marked visit to Baltimore over Independ­ 213 ships flying the White En­ change from the time of my pre­ Cockatoo Docki and Engineering Co. .^1 Adelaide Steam Ship Co. Ww [ , ence Day. the passage of the Pan­ sign, In foreign warships and vious visit in 1949. h- -TIT f^-J ama Canal and the visit to Pearl numerous Fleet Auxiliaries, mer Jam.* Patrick and Co. Pty. Ltd. i' i The day of the Review was h IL" T O INSULAT E. pipes and boi'.rs nad beer our women folk: naturally enough interest, with vessels of all kinds led by the Trinity House Vessel, WE ARE SPECIALISTS IN THERMAL INSULATION *ND OUR TEC H- insulated by U-'-" fm*\ we entirely agreed with him. plying to and fro, both with sight­ NICIANS ARE EXPERIENCED IN WORKING WITH EVES Y TYPE C )F "Patricia." passed down the line. INSULATING MATERIAL We had three days at sea with seers and engaged in their norm­ the Commander-in-Chief who al business. Later in the day we received a UNI-"VERSIL" INSUL AT 11. G COM IPANY PT Y. LTD. wore his flag in the large Fleet The arrival of foreign warships visit from the Duke and Duchess Carrier H.M.S. "Indomitable," to­ was an occasion for parading cer­ of Gloucester accompanied by HEAD OFFICE: 17 MA COU ».RIE PLAC E. SYDNEY young Prince Michael of Kent. alio at MELBOURNE. HO BART gether with other vessels forming emonial guards and bands and the ADELAIDE and PERTH a Task Force of fourteen ships. playing of the various National who assured me, incidentally, that During these exercises, attacks Anthems. he intends to follow his father's were made by submarine and air­ The most spectacular of the footsteps by joining the Navy. craft. We were proud of the foreign visitors was the Italian The Prime Minister and Mrs. performance of our aircrew who sail training ship "Amerieo Ves­ Menzies also came on board at maJe the only submarine sight­ pucci," called after the navigator this time. WARD'S BAKERIES Keep a Good ings recorded in an interesting ex­ whose name was given to the The Review itself was follow­ ercise and brought them to a suc­ American Contin:nt, an action re­ ed by a Fly Past of J00 Naval 30-38 VICTORIA STREET. PADDINGTON. cessful conclusion. We found garded by some as an injustice to Aircraft in which "Sydney's" own Lookout that the training at our own Joint Christophere Colombus, whose Firefly Squadron was included. Proprietors of: Anti-Submarine School at Nowra track we followed for a time on To round off a memorable day stood us in good stead. our return journey through the COOK'S BAKERY, KING'S BAKERY. & HAMBURGER BUN CO. FOR THE NEXT ISSUE OF and to mark the third occasion of We arrived .it Portsmouth on Caribbean Sea. meeting the Queen on that day. 'Phont: FA 3998. a lovely Spring day in early May. Bugle calls heralded the com - I was bidden, together with the The Navy Unfortunately this weather did ings and goings of Flag Officers. Flag and Commanding Officers of WHOLESALE SUPPLIES ONLY. not hold for the Coronation. The of whom there were apart from Her Majesty's fleets, to dinner on Contingent was landed for its the Board of Admiralty, no less board H.M.S. "Vanguard" in the period of working up at Pirbright than \y British and 11 foreign presence of the Queen and the

Til. Novy . September, 1953 Duke of Edinburgh, She was at- dor Current from the North. Canal. This great engineering tended bv the Lady Alio; Egerton However, in the end, we were work is a model of efficiency and who, w.th Dame Mary Lloyd, a only a few hours late in arriving. has now operated continuously charming lady who is the Head Our welcome at Halifax was for 40 years without any major Wran, wvre the only other ladies overwhelming. To quote Ad­ modification in design. Unfortu in an assembly of $7 Admirals miral Bidwell on the occasion of nately the locks are too narrow and 74 Captains. his visit at Spithead before our for the largest modern ships and It was a unique experience tn departure, "it is twenty-five years even by removing portion of our drink the health of the Queen since an Australian ship paid us projecting sponsons we had only while she stood with us and rais­ a visit and a welcome has been a few feet of clearance. ed her hand in a pretty gesture wanning up for you ever since." Unlike Sue;, where ships pass .'I acknowledgment. He recalled also that he had serv­ through under their own power, After dinner we watched the il­ ed as a junior midshipman in the ships are handled by means lumination of the Fleet and the H.M.S. "Canada" in the Grand of wires secured to electric loco­ fireworks. Any Captain whose Flet in World War I. with the motives running along the dock ship made the slightest error in first batch of Australian Midship­ side. We had no less than ten tuning was unfailingly informed men trained at Jervis Bay. includ­ of these, three on each side for ot it by his watchful colleagues. ing the Chief of the Australian ward and two aft. Their move­ An impromptu turn by the new Naval Staff. Vice Admiral Sir ments were directed by five pil­ lleet carrier "Eagle" next m line John Collins. ots, a senior pilot in charge on to "Vanguard" gave us all except Everyone on board to whom 1 the bridge with telephone com­ perhaps her captain an added have spoken has said that of all munication rigged for the occa­ pleasure. His ship was further the interesting places visited he sion to one on either how and one distinguished on this occasion by i'elt more at home at Halifax than on either quarter. the delivery of a baby on board anywhere. It could be compared For the passage of the Culehra during the afternoon by the wife for size and geographical situa­ Cut, a narrow channel 7 miles oi the gunner. tion and in many other ways to long cut through a ridge of hills We sailed from Spithead twit Hobart. the highest point of which is days after the Review with the At Baltimore on 4th July, arm­ 660 feet above sea level, aecur Canadian Squadron comprising ed companies from the Contin­ ate positioning on leading marks "Magnificent" a carrier of the gents and Ship's Company were is essential, and a special wood same class as ourselves the cruis­ united to take part in the local en bridge was built out from ers "Quebec" and "Ontario."' the Independence Day parades. They the compass platform to enable destroyer "Sioux" and two frig­ returned with a trophy given for the pilot to stand on the centre A fightar •irer«ft being catapulUd from tha flight dock of H.M.A.S. "Vangaanca" during aiarciio off tho Quaaniland COM*. ates. The Task Force was under the smartest unit on parade, which line of the ship with a clear view Plana* wara catapwltad at interval* of 55 tacondt, and raaehad a ipaad of 15 milai par hour in 140 faat. Thii photograph wat tafcan from ona of Hia Carriar's holicoptars. the command of Rear Admiral I can only describe as an "Oscar**. fore and aft. Roger Rid well with his flag in Naturally we were delighted and Not quite the same as stout "Quebec." It was interesting to inly trust that Bob Hope will not Cortcz, who as you may remem­ And of the 37 Admirals and 74 hamas and following his track to wind belt using a calabash for a work with a carrier of similar be jealous. ber is recorded by the poet as Captains with whom I dined on Jamaica to enter Port Royal. This sextant and a chart made of palm design to our own but with dif­ I found myself receiving the standing "silent upon a peak in board H.M.S. "Vanguard" I now derelict port was used by leaves; and finally to New Zea­ ference aircraft. Avengers and Sea salute at the Graduation Parade Larien," but with much the same knew at least one half of them such famous and differing types land and Australia, both of them Furies as opposed to our Fireflies. at the main U.S. Navy training view over the wide Pacific. personally, mostly by their of sea captains as Nelson and charted by Captain Cook. Two days before arriving at centre on the East Coast at Bain- On one side of the cutting is Christian names. It was a pleasure Henry Morgan, the pirate who Perhaps the outstanding feature Halifax we ran into a storm which bndge. Maryland. I took the op­ i hronie plaque paying tribute to to renew these friendships and later became Governor of the col­ of the cruise has been the co-op­ was unique in my experience tor portunity of reminding them that the workers who with pick and they did much to facilitate the ar­ ony; overland with Drake to the eration between officers and men the suddenness of its onset and it was significant that a British shovii driven only by their ach­ rangements for our visit. Pacific Ocean, not on foot as he of three Services from two Dom­ the steepness of htc seas. With­ Officer should have the honour of ing muscles carried out this great And so ended a most enjoyable did to sack a Spanish town but inions in the confined quarters of in l'i minutes from comparative' Handing in this position on that work. ind interesting voyage following afloat, drawn through the locks a warship. Three of the five ly moderate seas of 10 to 1? feet particular day. On the personal side I found the paths of many famous navi­ by electric locomotives; in the months of the voyage were spent were plunging into great waves All hands had a warm-hearted a class mate from a course at the gators—of the ancient Arabian track of Commodore Anson who at sea, mostly in the tropics. It rising steeply and breaking over welcome from the American Imperial Defence College in Lon­ shipmasters to a landfall off that lost more than half his men from speaks well for all concerned that the flight deck JO feet above the people both on the mainland and don sitting at a desk at the Pen­ the steepness of the seas. With- scurvy in a voyage across the we parted the best of friends and watertine. at Pearl Harbour, and many ref­ tagon in Washington, an Admir­ curious rocky promontory resemb­ North Pacific in 1742 but yet was I am confident that many of them The storm blew- itself out dur­ erences were made to the high al under whom I served for a ling an elephant at the entrance to able to capture the Spanish treas­ are wishing even now that they ing the day, but as we pressed on opinion held of Australia by those period in Japanese waters in com­ the Gulf of Aden; past the Pillars ure ship off the Philippines in the were back on board leading that to make up time we ran into thick •if them who had paid us a visit mand at Panama, and another Ad­ of Hercules to enter the Atlantic following year; later in the track timeless, unhurried existence that fog off the Newfoundland Banks during the war. miral whom I had met in West­ Ocean; making the same point of the Polynesians who directed is characteristic of a long sea voy­ where the warm waters of the It is not often that British war­ ern Australia in 194? in command of land as Colombia off the Ba­ their large canoes in the trade age. Gulf Stream meet the cold Labra­ ships pass through the Panama of the base at Pearl Harbour. Saptambor, 1913. Tk« N««y THE STORY OF THE SUBMARINE and, when alongside an enemy, and financial difficulties. The poise," though reverting back, so screw to her side a magazine con­ smaller of the two boats sank off far as size is concerned, to the I he history of the submarine boat covers a very wide area in the to any casual visitor. taining 150 lbs. of powder, start Kiel in 1851, but Bauer and his smaller type of vessel, was, for many fields of Naval development. It is also one of the most interest­ Marriotte. the French physicist, a clockwork mechanism arranged crew of two succeeded in escap­ its date, an excellent and success­ ing and important. How wide this Arid is, and how greatly important, about 174V. also drew up a de­ to explode after a short interval, ing: incidentally, this boat was ful design. Built at Birkenhead, may be gathered by running through the section devoted to it in sign ol a Craft which he claimed and make a rapid getaway." The raised in 1887, and is now exhib­ England, submersion was by ver­ that monumental volume by I>r. Sir Robert A. Davis, Kt., Hon. "would rest, like a fish, in the amazing thing is that he thought ited in Kiel dockyard. The other, tical screws at bow and stern, D.Se., F.R.S.A.. entitled "Deep I>iving and Submarine Operations.*** middle depth of the water, or sink he could ever get there, thought built at St. Petersburg in the and the motive power was elec­ It presents an amazing, and, of course, authoritative, composite picture to the bottom, or rise up to the that, having got there, he could Czar's regime in 1855, was, for its tricity, supplied from accumula­ of the various aspects of research and experimental work relating to surface, either way as it shall he ever get away, or. in the glorious time, quite a large craft, being 55 tors and driving a 7 h.p. motor. marine development. desired." The design appears, interim, could ever fail to blow feet long and about 12 feet in di­ Thus, stage by stage, urged on however, to have been element­ himself to smithereens before he ameter. The details of the Rus­ and prospered by the untiring in­ ary in the extreme, and there is had any need to get away at all. sian-built boat's trials were kept ventive genius of man, the poten­ Although some thought h,ir tilth part, of atmospheric air leading up to higher atainments, ern States against the Northern the submarine proved its value— Englishman, in hlfl book 'linen (about the fifth part of bulk, and were gradually taking shape in in the American Civil War. One and its destructiveness. The de­ tions and Devices," the rirst boat rather mor. than the titth part by concrete development, and em­ of the "Davids" deserves a niche velopment that began its great of submarine type definitely weight), and it was not officially ployment of the submersible craft. in history as being the first sub­ impetus with official recognition known to have been constructed discovered until long alter Dreb* To an American named David marine to sink an enemy vessel. still goes on—will still go on. bel's time; in short, in 1774. by was in or about the year 1620, Bushnell, who graduated from This was the Northern frigate Meantime, we have as an index the gre.it English-born chemist, The inventor was a Dutchman, Yale University in 177f, belongs "Houstanic," which she attacked to future events the snorting feat Joseph Priestley, who discovered Cornelius van Drebbel. who built the distinction of having built and sank off Charleston, blowing of the "Andrew." The recent all it from mercuric oxide, etc. two such boats of different si;> and navigated the first submarine a hole in her. The "Houstanic" way underwater voyage of the for use on the Thames. "The Following Drebbel by some employed in warlike operations. sank immediately, and the sub­ "Andrew" across the Atlantic larger was propelled by 12 oars thirty years came an invention, in I'nluckily it was to be directed marine went with her. She must from Bermuda to the United entering the hull through water 16* J, by the Frenchman De Son, against Britain. During the War cither have been sunk by the Kingdom, to surface off Spithead, tight leather joints. The hull was A description written at the time of American Independence. Ser­ A Confederal 'David" (1141) shock of her own torpedo or appropriately enough, a few hours of wood, covered with greased stated that this craft . . . "can go geant Lee made several brave but dragged down by the stricken before the Coronation Naval Re­ leather and strengthened with iron from Rotterdam to London and unsuccessful attempts to blow up Robert Fulton, the celebrated vessel. new on June 15, serves as an bands. The boat seems to have back againe in one day, and in 6 varn>us British men-of-war, in >t American inventor, with his But development was going on exemplification of what the mod­ been able to submerge dynami Weeks to goc to the East Indiens, ably H.M.S. "Eagk*" while oper­ "Nautilus," came next. She was apace now. During the Ameri­ ern submarine can achieve. But cally to a depth of a tew feet or and to run as Swift as a bird can ating in American waters, with i small vessel, ellipsoidal in shape, can Civil War also, the first pow­ it is not to be taken as an exem­ so, but probably did not keep an fly. No tire, nor Storme. or Bul­ Bushncll's craft, the "Turtle." As 21 feet long and 7 feet in diam­ er-driven submarine was built in plification of the zenith of what even depth-line." lets, can hinder her, unless it a fact, she might, with more ap- eter, and carried a full crew of France. It was the invention of a the submarine will in future please God. Although the Ships propriativencss, have been call­ three. Like Bushncll's "Turtle," achieve. It marks no more than a That Drebbel was no mere Naval officer. Captain Bourgeois mcanc to bee safe in their hauens ed the "Turtle's Egg." Built of she was designed to attack vessels step towards that zenith. We 'freak inventor." but was in his assisted by an engineer named (havens), it is in vaine, for shee wood* egg-shaped, with a con- by securing a magazine to them know now that there is scarcely way, well ahead of his time, may Brun. The vessel was named "Lc shall come to them in any place ning-towcr at th-: top. she was and exploding it. Fulton submit­ a limit to the attainment of man be judged by th-.- fact that he was Rongeur," and was no less than ..." The boat was of wood, propelled by a primitive form of ted his invention to the French in the field of submarine construc­ apparently able to restore the air 140 feet long, with a displace­ losses, turned his boat into a screw-propeller. "Submersion was Government but. although the tion, employment, and voyaging. in the boat by means of 1 vessel ment of 420 tons. The day of the strengthened by iron girders, and effected by a similar propeller trials of the "Nautilus" were, all containing a fluid termed the larger, more modern type of sub­ was 72 feet long by 8 feet beam. mounted vertically, the boat hav­ things considered, remarkably mersible had begun. •For information gained from thai uint'cssence of air." a few drops However, the boat proved a com­ ing first been trimmed awash by successful, the inventor failed to volume, "The Navy" acknowledges There followed the Garrctt- with appreciation the courtesy extend­ ? which would make it perfectly plete fai lure on flmdtng a tank. The operator, impress the French authorities Nordenfcldt submarines (1878- ed to it bv Siebe. Gorman 6? Co., trial. An amusing who was at once her captain, sufficiently to induce them to Ltd., of London, the »orld-recognit*d 87) and, in 1886, J. F. Wadding- aftermath to this navigator and crew, could not agree to his terms of employ­ experts on deep diving sahrate. ana ton's "Porpoise." The "Por­ invention is provid­ complain of inaction, for in ad­ ment. kindred marine work.—Ed. ed in the fact that dition to working both propellers Bauer, Wilhelm Bauer, a Bav­ the inventor, in de­ by means of hand-cranks, he had arian artillerytnaii. in 1850 and ciding to cut his to steer with a tiller under his 1856 was the next to come for­ losses, turned his arm. work the inlet-valve and ex­ ward with a submarine invention. boat in a "side­ pulsion pump of the tank with his From his designs he built two f show" and exhibit­ feet, keep a lookout through the boats with which he obtained a ]j-7jnr^- "' ed it for a trifle windows of the conning tower. considerable measure of success Marriott*'! Submtr * VMMI (I74f| in the face of official indifference 1 TurtU (177*)

Stp*«mb#«\ 190. Rtyal Ofesarvatsry ami Rayal Yacht ExhlMttoM cently launched by Her Majesty AUSTRALIAN FLEET PROGRAMME ANNOUNCED The Queen, and Her Majesty's own model of "Bluebottle," the An R.A.N, -hip would be boav 'lull" for some months to com ships that would carry Oceanography quoted by the ments (i.e.. fragments of one of to August 17. British Admiralty on June 7 re­ the cementing materials of eon vealed that in its present torm the solidated sand, or sandstone, eon " Vengeance," " Aust r a 11 a". apparatus is regarJed as cumber sistmg of carbonite of time. "Aiiiae." would he in Sydney some, and its scope is limited by The equipment used was de­ for the Trafalgar Day Displav on the weight ot the camera in its veloped by the British Admiralty October 24. steel casing, which makes it un­ for use in the Royal Research Anti-submarine exercises would safe to oat except in calm water, Ship "Discovery II." It is lighter be held otf th; East Gust of Aus and by the difficulty of lowering and more easily handled than the tralia in September. it to any great depth. However, equipment used for salvage work " Vengeance," " Aust rail a," both these difficulties are likely to in H.M.S. "Reclaim." The tele­ "Aniac" in November would take be reduced in due course. vision camera has been fitted with part in joint anti-submarine exer­ So far the television has been a stereoscopic attachment, but cises off the East Australian coast most successful in views of the little experience has been obtain­ after they had made a visit to sea floor. Shoals of fish have been ed with this technique. Melbourne. seen on several occasions. Plank­ The camera, which weighs 7 In February " Vengeance." ton cao be seen, mostly as spots cwt., was installed in the "Dis­ "Australia," " Anzac," " Quad of light, though occasionally the covery II." late in the (English) rant," "Shoalhawn, Conda- type of organism can be identi­ summer of last year. It was de­ mine," would visit Hor/art. fied. signed for use down to 1,000 Fremantlc would be visited by MAY WE WORK Observation on the sea fliwr feet. The camera was equipped "Vengeance," "Anzac" and "Ba were made in about 5? fathoms with a 2\ inch t','1.9 and 1) inch taan" in March. WITH YOU ON YOUR off Falmouth. England, in 60 f/2 lenses, either of which could From October, 1953, to July. fathoms near the mouth of the be selected underwater by the 19*4, it is at present planned for STEEL I TOOL PROBLEMS? English Channel, and in about 80 remotely controlled turret. An "Sydney," " Arunta," "Murchi - EAGLE & GLOBE fathoms near the edge of the auxiliary lens system was used to son" and "Shoalhaven" to leave continental slope. Further obser­ achieve about the same angle ot Australia for Korean waters. 23-37 BUCKLAND ST., BROADWAY, N.S.W. vations were made on the contin­ view in water as would normally "Condamine" would be in Ad­ Telephone: MA6421 be obtained in air with these STEEL C0.LTD ental shelf off Portugal, on the elaide in September and again in Braackat Throughout Australia* Capital Crtias. Gettysburg Bank, on the rocky lenses. October. Auaciatad Company: ARTHUR BALFOUR B COMPANY LTD.. ShaffiaM. BJWJ.

S«pt»»b«r, l»fJ. H.M.A.S, "QUADRANT" NOW IN SYDNEY NEWS OF THE WORLDS NAVIES H MAS. "Quadrant," which fast anti-submarine frigate. The Minister tor the Navy, Mr. arrive J in Sydney on July 2S. The ships conversion took IS S.V.. McMahon. who inspected the will he open in the public during months at the Williamstown "Quadrant" on her arrival, said the Trafalgar Day display at Naval Dockyard. and cost that- last year two similarly con­ US. ATOM SUBMARINES were planned and made in Aus­ military uniform were laid against Garden bland. £500,000. It is the first of four verted British ships gave a three "TWICE AS FAST." tralia and incorporated in these the girl in a Civil Court. The "Quadrant," which was a destroyers tu undergo the change' months' speed and action demon­ two vessels, which have given A message from Washington outstanding service in Korean R.A.N. RESUMES BIG *_;>11 destroyer from th.- Royal over to the most modern submar- stration to American Navy offi­ on July 18 said that United me hunters afloat. cials, to show their suitability for waters. Much of the credit for WOOLLOOMOOLOO AREA. Navy has been converted to a States Navy experts have told achieving the modified design, the use against submarines. Congressmen that projected U.S. The Minister for the Navy, the ANSWER TO FAST SUBMARINES. Minister stated, went to Engineer Hon. William McMahon, on July atomic submarines will cruise Rear Admiral A. B. Doyle, C.B. Mr. McMahon said the "Quad­ more than twice as fast under 5 announced that the R.A.N, had E., formerly Third Naval Mem­ resumed a large area of land at rant" and others of her type were water as World War II. conven­ ber and Chief of Construction of the answer to fast submarines, and tional types. The Chief of the the Australian Naval Board and W< lolloomooloo to build Naval thetr role as chasers would be Bureau of Ships, Rear-Admiral his successor Engineer-Rear Ad­ storehouses. He said that the vital in keening the sea lanes to Homer Wallis, U.S.N., and the miral J. W. Wishart, C.B.E. He main area was bounded by Forbes, Australia open in time of war. Director of the Ship Design Di­ wished to congratulate those of­ Pring, Dowling, and Cathedral Streets. Some existing buildings The "Quadrant" is equipped vision, Captain Philip Snyder, ficers and the staff and men at made the statement m reporting had been taken over, but it was to make it an almost exact coun Cockatoo Dockyard on an out­ to a Senate military appropriation not contemplated that any action terpart of the Royal Navy ships standing job. It was another il­ sub-committee. Their estimony. would be taken to obtain posses­ "Rocket" and "Relentless," com lustration of the fact that in given recently, was made public sion of further premises "in the plcted just over a year ago. quality of work Australians could on July 17. They also said that compete with the best. foreseeable future." When all She has Kttt the conventional the U.S. Navy was studying a the property concerned was event­ bridge and Can he controlled com­ larger atomic submarine with ually taken over, land and build­ pletely from an enclosed opera "much higher speed." Incident­ LAUNCH OF BRITISH ings in better areas at present oc­ turns room. ally, World War II. submarines ADMIRALTY TUG cupied by the Navy would be The captain and crew can go were reported to make better "SAMSON*. handed back for civil use. under cover if they enter an area than 10 knots under water. New The British Admiralty tug "Homes in the resumed area are of atomic radiation and see Snorkel attack models arc report­ definitely sub-standard and are through batteries of electronic ed to have a speed higher than 19 "Samson" was launched recently at the Aberdeen yard of Messrs. not a credit to Sydney," he said. "eyes. knots. Admiral Wallis said *'Many owners are only too ready further that the atomic submar­ Alexander Hall and Co. Ltd., There are now six frigate con which firm will also be respon­ to sell." versions, including the above ines now under construction m the United States were about sible for her main machinery. mentioned three, in commission The naming ceremony was per­ N.A.T.O. JET FIGHTER with the Royal Navy. twice the size and about twice the cost of the conventional submar­ formed by Mrs. W. Watt Hep­ CRASHES. AUTOMATICALLY-FIRED 'SQUIDS." ine. burn, wife of the Chairman of An Italian jet fighter taking The "Quadrant" also carries a the building company. The part in N.A.T.O. air exercises in triple-barrelled mortar-type weap "Samson" is a vessel of 180 feet the North Atlantic crashed on in length and 57 feet beam. on for tiring M't. projectiles at a BRITISH ADMIRALTY MAY July 23 killing a woman and two submarine. These tinned "squids" ADOPT R.A.N. DESIGNS. men working on a farm in France. are tired automatically. They arc GIRL STOWAWAY ON The pilot was also killed. linked with asdic sets through an The Minister for the Navy VS. WARSHIP. electronic lire-control system, and (Mr. McMahon) said on July 31 The U.S. Navy Office announc­ MODERN NAVAL BASE the charges are automatically set that Australians would be proud ed on July 15 that disciplinary FOR DARWIN. CO explode at a required depth. to learn that the British Admir­ action against sailors would follow The Minister for the Navy The "Quadrant's" commanding alty had asked for the design of the finding of a blue-eyed brunette (the Hon. William McMahon) officer is Captain S. H. Beat tie. the Australian Battle class de­ on a battle cruiser after it had announced in Canberra on Aug­ V.C., who won his decoration in stroyers, with a view to its adop­ gone to sea for gunnery 'practice. ust J that an R.A.N, ship would the St. NsJSftire raid in 1942. tion in the Royal Navy. The Joan Harrison, 18, an unemploy­ be based at Darwin or Manus Minister recalled that the Austra­ ed waitress, clipped her black Island for patrol work in North lian Battle class destroyers "An- hair, pulled on a Navy uniform, Australian and New Guinea wat­ "Without faith all moral stand zac" and "Tobruk" were built in and boarded the U.S.S. "Los An­ ers for the next twelve months. ards would disappear and words Australian Dockyards by Austra­ geles" in reply to a challenge she The G>mmonwealth .Government like "honour* and 'duty* would lian workmen. Whilst wc were had made to do it. When she is also preparing plans to make case to have meaning without indebted to the Admiralty for the was discovered the cruiser re­ Darwin a powerful modern naval faith, man would return to the H.M.A.S. "Quadrant," IK* R.A.N'i most up-to-dat» ship, photographed ai ihe basic design, many modifications, turned to port immediately. base and air base when the cur­ arivad in Sydney from Malbourn* racontly. Th» public will be able to sae jungle age." some of considerable importance. Charges of illegally wearing a rent developmental programme at "Quadrant" at tka forthcoming Trafalgar Day display. - Sir Edmund Herrinu.

Soptombw, 1951. II 14 Ttw Itavy Manus Ireland base approaches •Ocean" (Captain B. E. W. Lo­ VS. ADMIRAL'S GIFT mid'July. The "Devonshire" took of its foundation, its first patients cixnpletion. Darwin dcfcnc e gan, R.N.). H.M.S. "Perseus" TO COAST WATCHERS* part in the Coronation Naval Re­ being admitted on October 10, plans will he accelerated to meet (Captain P. C. S. T. Carey, FUND. view at Spithead. On her return 1753. To mark the occasion, a the new strategic position created R.N.), who has recently been en­ Fleet Admiral Halsey, wartime from Norway she was due to go bronze Memorial Plaque was un­ in North Australia by the discov­ gaged on trials with the new- Commander-in-Chief ot the Link­ to Invcrgordon and later to Tor­ veiled at the Hospital by the BIRT & COMPANY ery and exploitation ot some ot steam catapult, is at present em­ ed States South Pacific Fleet, has quay and Plymouth. The cruis­ First Lord of the British Admir­ the richest uranium fields in the ployed on aircraft ferrying duties; contributed 100 dollars to the er was commanded by Captain alty, the Rt. Hon. J. P. L. (PTY.) LIMITED world. These fields have made while the "Pioneer** is in the Australia n-sponsored Coast W. G. Crawford. D.S.C, R.N. Thomas, M.P. The ceremony took the Northern Territory the most United Kingdom in reserve. Watchers' Memorial Fund, of In addition to the cadets she place on June 2r> and was follow­ valuable single strategic prize in which details were given in the carried a complement of 49 offi­ ed by a ga rden pa rt y in t h e the Pacific region. Ministers are SUGGESTED U.S. NAVY June issue of this journal. The cers and 560 ship's company. The grounds of the hospital. I Bridge Street, coming to accept that the com VISIT DURING ROYAL chairman of the Fund committee. cadets included several represent­ haunts able to exploit North TOUR. Captain J. Plunkett-Cole, said on atives of Commonwealth Navies, ROYAL YACHT READY Australia's uranium will hold the August 1 that the fund then NEXT MAY. P.O. Box 544, G.I'.O. The new United States Naval R.N. HELICOPTERS ACTIVE dominating and perhaps the deci­ Attache in Australia, Captain R. stood at more than £1,000. It is IN MALAYA. The new Royal Yacht. "Brit­ Telephone: BO 329 sive advantage it another war A MacPherson, said in Mel hoped to raise enough to erect a annia." now being completed on should com:. bourne on August 9 that he memorial in the Papua-New Reports received by the British the Clyde, is to be used by Her (15 lines) THREE R.N. AIRCRAFT would ask his Government to I luinea area. One proposal is Admiralty indicate that No. H4R Majesty The Queen next May on CARRIERS RENAMED send an American fleet to Aus that it should take the form of a Squadron of Royal Helicopter? the last stages of her return jour­ SydHey« N.S.W. •FERRY CARRIERS." traha on a goodwill visit during coast navigation light to be nam­ (Lieutenant-Commander S. H. ney from her Commonwealth Abo al Her Kfafesty's Ships "Unicorn." the Royal tour to Australia and ed "The Coast Watchers" Light " Suthers. .S.C., R.N.), have been tour. On June 22 it was an­ New Zealand next year. "'It engaged in an extreme tour of 64 EAGLE STREET, "Perseus" and "Pioneer" have SOVIET PROTEST nounced from Buckingham Palace would he a splendid goodwill ges­ duty in Malaya. During the per­ been redesignated "Ferry («ir AGAINST WARSHIPS that the Queen and the Duke o\ ture to have American ships in iod between February 2 and ners." Their function will be to VISIT TO TURKEY. Edinburgh, on their way home. Australian ports during the Roy April 3 the Squadron carried out transport air squadrons, including The Russian Government on will leave the liner "Gothic", men and aircraft, to and from op al tour." he said. Captain Mac a total of 911 flying hours, of 15,900 tons, at Aden. They will BRISBANE. Pherson, who arrived in Mel July 2<> said in a Note to Turkey which 614 hours were on opera­ erattonal aircraft carriers. H.M. that the projected visit of 32 fly from Aden to Entebbe, and S "I'nicorn" (Captain R R. S. bourne on August 9, said that the tional duty. then to El Aden, and will embark I'.S. Navy might be able to spare British and American warships to Pennefathcr. R.N.) is at present Istambul in August could be re R.N. MAY EXCHANGE in the "Britannia" at Tobruk on serving in the Far E.i*t .is sup- ships tor a few weeks because ot May 1. The Royal Yacht will ar­ Musgrave Cold Scores: th..* Korean armistice. garded as some sort ol military DESTROYERS FOR CHILEAN porting earner to H.M.S demonstration. The Note asked NITRATE. rive at Malta on May 3 and will STANLEY STREET, leave the island four days later. Turkey for additional information It has been reported that two SOUTH BRISBANE on frequent visits of foreign war She will call at Gibraltar on May or more destroyers may be hand­ 10 and reach London on May 15. POOLE & STEEL LTD. ships to Turkish waters. {Greek. ed over by the Royal Navy to the Italian, American and Turkish Chilian Navy in exchange for ni­ R.N. RESERVE FLEET ships attached to the North At­ trate under a trade agreement to COMMAND. lantic Organisation have been be signed by the two governments SHIPPING conducting joint manoeuvres in concerned. Vice-Admiral Sir Henry W. U. Greek waters. British ships have MeCall, K.B.E., C.B., D.S.O., re­ and 4i STEPHEN ST., BALMAIN, been taking part in mine laying VS. NAVY TO ADOPT linquished bis command of the AIRWAYS AGENTS. N.S.W. and sweeping exercises west of MIDGET MINESWEEPERS. British Reserve Fleet on June IS the Gulf of Corinth. Seven Unit­ It has been announced in when his flag in H.M.S. "Dido" ed States warships and three Brit­ Washington that the United was struck at sunset. By his per­ ish submarines recently paid a States Navy has decided that mid­ sonality the Admiral has instilled visit to Smyrna, Turkey, and three get minesweepers drawing 4 feet into all officers and men under CARGO AND PASSENGER Indian warships visited Istambul. his command the immense im­ General Engineers, Boilermakers, Shipbuilders, Dredge Builder* with a crew of six are to be Ed.] carried by mother ships when re­ portance of the Reserve Fleet and SERVICES TO UNITED the necessity to uphold the tradi­ H.M.S. "DEVONSHIRE" quired for sweeping minefields KINGDOM, CONTINENT. Plans, Specifications and Estimates prepared which would be dangerous to tion of the Service in these ships. for Mining Dredges and Plant of all kinds. TAKES LAST TRAINING Admiral MeCall is succeeded as CRUISE. larger vessels. Fifty of these craft AMERICA AND THE Electric Welding and OxyAcetylene Work. Flag Officer Commanding Re­ On her last cruise as British are being built with an eye to clearing a coastline in prepara­ serve Fleet, by Vice-Admiral I. EAST. Cadet Training Ship, before be­ M. R. Campbell, C.B.. D.S.O. ing relieved by the light fleet car­ tion, if and when necessary, for an amphibious landing. rier "Triumph," the cruiser "Dcv GLORY'S" KOREAN TASK. Telegrams: onshire" v:sited Norway. She BICENTENARY OF NAVAL RILL PARTICULARS had 222 cadets on board and call­ The British light Beet carrier HOSPITAL. H.M.S. "Glory" (Captain E. D. FURNISHED ON "POOLSTEEL," BALMAIN, N.S.W. ed at Knstiansand, and went later APPLICATION. to Flaam (Sognc Fjord). She re­ The Royal Naval Hospital at G. Lewin. D.S.O., D.S.C, R.N.) turned to the United Kingdom in Haslar, Gosport, England, this recently completed the longest year celebrates the Bicentenary period of Naval air operations by

Tfc* Nervy S.p'.mb.r, 1953. any British Commonwealth air­ Mediterranean Sea. Prior to that on August 12. A Rugby football craft carrier in the Korean cam­ the record had been held by the match was played at Nowra Nav­ MARITIME NEWS OF THE paign. Since leaving the United American Otis Barton, who de­ al Air Station and also matches Kingdom in January, 1951, the scended to 4,500 feet off the Call- were played in Sydney against •ihip has spent 530 days at sea h irnian coast in 1949. The Christian Brothers College, H.M. and steamed l?7,000 miles. Dur­ French Navy said th.it the sec- A.S. "Penguin" and Petersham ing this period she has completed mid record dive made by Houot Junior Rugby Union Club. t* months war service and spent and Willm lasted 2 hours 34 min­ "Gladstone" left Sydney on the 3J6 days .a sea in Korean waters. utes. 17th August and arrived back in ()l a total .if 13,700 flights from FOG BLANKET OVER Wet-t.'rnport on August 19. WORLD the carrier's deck more than 9.50() SYDNEY HARBOUR. have been wper.ituin.il sorties over LAUNCH OF NEW AIR From our Correspondents in Northern Korea. On her last day Early on the morning of July DIRECTION FRIGATE. in Korean waters before return 14 Sydney was blanketed by one LONDON and NEW YORK iif the thickest fogs for many tng to the United Kingdom the H MS "Salisbury." the first By ship held i memorial service for -ears. Visibility in parts was re­ ot the new type ot air direction 12 members of th; "Glory**" air­ duced to a few yards, causing frigates, was launched at Devon- AIR MAIL crew who flew on missions from harbour traffic to crawl or to port Dockyard, England, on NEW BRITISH TANKERS temporarily suspend. Air, water. Thursday. June 2v Lady Man FIRST AUSTRALIAN- for 600 tons of frozen fish and which they did not return. OWNED TANKER ARRIVES. accommodation for a crew of 82, LAUNCHED. RECORD BATHYSCOPE and land transport operations sergh, wife of Admiral Sir were badly affected. Maurice J. Mansergh, K.C.B.. The first Australian - owned including 19 officers and techni­ Two new tankers were launch­ DIVE. C.B.E., Commander-in-Chief. Ply tanker, the "Harold Sleigh." ar­ cians. Propelling machinery is a ed on Monday, June 29, at two The deepest ever bathyscope MIDSHIPMEN RECEIVE rived in Botany Bay on July 25. four-cylinder opposed'piston oil different English shipyards. These TRAINING AT SEA. mouth, particulars of whose career dive was made on August 15 by appeared in the July issue of tht.- The new vessel brought a cargo engine developing 1,900 b.h.p. at new additions to Britain's tanker two French naval officers. The Twenty-eight cadet mid ship' iournal, performed the naming (if four million gallons of fuel to 135 r.p.m. An official of the build­ fleet arc "British Envoy" of dive, which attained a record men from the Royal Australian ceremony. Australia. She is expected to ers, Messrs. J. Lewis and Son Ltd., 16,000 tons d.w., the first of four depth of 6,889 feet, was made in Naval College received training hrin*: about 70,000 tons of pet­ placed the cost of the ship at similar ships ordered from Wil­ the Mediterranean off Toulon. .it sea during a cruise from Wes- The frigate is of 340 feet in "many hundreds of thousands of liam Doxford and Sons of Sun­ extreme length and has a beam roleum fuels annually to Austra­ The two officers. Captain Houot ternport (Victoria) to Sydney. lia from overseas refineries. The pounds." derland, by the British Tanker and Engineer Willm, used an im­ The crura was made in the ocean of 4(i feet. She will be powered Company, and the 18,000-ton by British Admiralty Standard ship is equipped with the latest proved version of the bathyscope minesweeper H.M.A.S. "Glad­ navigational aids, including radar, "FOREMOST 17" ENDS "Haustrum" built by R. and W. invented by the Belgian Professor stone." 'Gladstone" left Wcs- Range Diesel Engines, and her SUCCESSFUL GOLD Hawthorn Leslie and Company main armament will consist of echo sounding equipment, radio Auguste Piccard, the world-fa­ ternport on Sunday, August 9 direction finder, and gyroscopic SALVAGE JOB. of Hcbburn, for the Anglo-Sax­ mous balloonist and deep diver. .md called at Jervis Bay on Aug­ two 4.5 inch guns and two small­ on Petroleum Company. At the er guns. compass. The "Harold Sleigh" The British salvage ship "Fore­ The two French officers had on ust 11 where the midshipmen saw discharged her cargo at Botany launching of the latter tanker Mr. Introducing the Navy Estimates most 17" recovered 30 of the 35 August 12 reached a record depth over the Naval Air Station at Bay to the new near-to-Sydney gold bars from the wreck of the J. W. Piatt, managing director of of 4,900 feet off Cape Cepet. N'owra. They arrived in Sydney for 1952-53, the First Lord of the bulk oil terminal now nearing the owners, predicted that world British Admiralty (the Rt. Hon. "Niagara," which was sunk by a completion. The owning com­ German mine in 1940 off the demand for oil would settle down J. P. L. Thomas. M.P.). stated pany has constructed 2 J miles to an expansion rate averaging that new frigates arc of four North Auckland coast of New of 8-inch tanker discharge pipe­ Zealand near Whangarei. Sal­ about 5 per cent, a year. This types- two types for anti-subma­ line from the terminal to the tank­ would call for an annual addition rine work, a third for anti-air vage operations were then discon­ PAUL & GRAY PTY. LTD. er moorings at Botany Bay. The tinued. It will be remembered of tanker capacity of 90 fast ves­ craft, and a fourth for aircraft di total capital cost of the terminal sels like the "Haustrum." An in­ rection. that 35 bars of gold remained in 82 SUSSEX STREET, SYDNEY project is expected to exceed the wreck after an Australian sal­ dication of the magnitude of tank­ TEL. BX2121 "Honourable members." the £2*0,000. vage expedition 12 years ago had er building activities in U.K. was First Lord continued, "may won­ recovered nearly 10 tons of gold given by a spokesman of the Hcb­ der why it has not been pos­ bars, then valued at £2,397,600. burn shipyard when he disclos­ sible to produce an all-purpose FLOATING FISH FACTORY ed that "Haustrum" is the first vessel. The answer is that mod LAUNCHED. of five 18,000-ton tankers being era equipment is now so great Claimed to be the biggest ship of FREIGHTER SINKS AFTER built by the firm. In addition they that it will not go into a vessel its kind in the world and one that COLUSION. had orders for two tankers of of a reasonable size. No one ship, promises to revolutionise the fish­ The freighter "Jacob Lucken- 31,000 tons each. therefore, can carry all. but at ing industry of the United King­ bach" (7,869 tons) sank 11 miles the same time each type can d( dom, the 280-foot, 2.500-ton off San Francisco early on the some of the work of the other trawler "Fairtry," a veritable morning of July 14, after it and ROUND THE WORLD IN type*." Halting fish factory, was launched the ship "Hawaiian Pilot" (8,449 A CIGAR-SHAPED BOAT. early in July at Aberdeen, Scot­ tons) collided. A heavy fog. re­ A Swiss mechanic, Hcinrich SHIP CHANDLERS, SAILMAKERS & IMPORTERS land. She will have the power ducing visibility to 500 yards, lay Maag aged 56 of Zurich, and a YACHT REQUISITES OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS "He will never have true and fuel capacity to fish in any outside San Francisco harbour at crew of three are to sail shortly RIGGING AND SPLICING A SPECIALITY friends who is afraid of making part of the world and may even the time. All the crew members on a world voyage in a cigar- enemies." invade areas never fished before were rescued and no serious in­ shaped boat. Maag built the boat —William Hazlctt. She will have a storage capacity juries were reported. himself, taking two years to com- Ik* Na«T $eet«mb«r, 1983. tf plcte the job. It i< 75 feet long her by a strong wind, badly dam­ has been fitted with the most with a beam of only 27 inches. A aging her bow. The collision modern equipment for the handl­ motor capable of 31 miles per ripped a jagged hole about 20 ing of her large general and re­ hour drives it, .inJ the boat has feet long and two feet deep in frigerated cargo. Captain G. a range of 1S7* miles. Incident' the halt-inch plate of the "Koom­ Campbell is in command. .illy, it will be a matter of up and ilya" high up on the starboard down, not round the deck walks, bow. The "Wanafca" hove to af- SHAW SAVILL'S SERVICE lor Maag and his merry crew­ t.T the collision, but continued on TO N. OLD. men. her way t>» Sydney later. Three Mr. Horace C. Sims, Freight seamen sleeping in the forecastle Manager in London of the Shaw AORANCil" NOT TO BE of "Koomilya" had narrow es­ Savill Line to Australia, sailed REPLACED. capes from injury or death. from Sydney for England late in The managing director of the July by the 'Moreton Bay" after Union Steamship Company in DOLLAR EARNING CRUISE a two month's tour of the Austra­ Sydney. Mr. M B. Miller.' said BY "BRITANNIC." lian ports. He has been particu­ "ti July J| that the Canadian larly interested m seeing North Australasian Line hid no plans to More dollar.-, for the sterling Queensland in view of the Shaw replace the liner "Aorangf" on ,ir:a will be c.rned by the 27. that the *°--day voyage ings would he available on each will begin on January 2l>. Some A 51,000-ton d.w. oil tanker is freighter for trans Pacific travel­ 21 ports will be visited and the to he huilt by VickersArm lers. vessel will cover I2,n00 miles be­ strongs, Barrow-in-Furness, for fore arrival .a Southampton the Eagle Tanker Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of the FREIGHTERS COLLIDE IN where the cruise terminates on NEWCASTLE HARBOUR. March 29, Minimum tare will be Canadian Eagle Oil Company. 1,275 dollars. Another similar vessel has been The 2*297*ton freighter "Wan ordered tor the same owners from aka" came into collision with an* Cammel Laird. Birkenhead. other freighter, the 2,856-ton M.V. "CYMRIC." "Koomilya," in Newcastle Har­ The "Cymric", which is a sister NEARLY 100 SHIPS IN bour on the night >-t August 4. ship to the "Cednc," arrived in FIVE MONTHS. The "Koomilya" was tied up at Australia recently on her maiden Nearly one hundred merchant No. ? lee wharf when the "Wan v< »yage. This I' 1,800-ti in motor ships were completed in United aka." which was pulling out from vessel of the Shaw Savill Line has Kingdom yards during the first th; next berth, was blown against a service speed of 17 knots and five months of this year. The month of May saw the comple­ Members of the crew of H.M. Submarine "Tactician" loading a torpedo into one of tfie tub.* of the submarine at Balmoral tion of 22, totalling 114,675 tons N.v.1 Bate, prior to the "Tactician's" departure for New Zealand recently for one month's exercises with the Royal New JAMES PATRICK & CO. PTY. LTD. gross, making the year's aggre­ Zealand Air Force and the Royal New Zealand Navy. gate to the end of that month "8 SHIPOWNERS — AGENTS — CONTRACT vessels of 126,903 tons. The May STEVEDORES total was the KCond highest this was confiscated. After being re­ 6,765-ton freighter "Culrain," in which had been going on for leased the "Admiral Hardy" re­ CHARTERS AND BUNKERS ARRANGED year, being second only to March the Straits of Gibraltar. The days, a specially chartered A.N.A. when 27 ships of 151,80.* tons turned to Hong Kong. British destroyer "Daring," which plane located the derelict freight­ were completed. RESCUE AFTER SEVEN rushed from Gibraltar to the REGULAR INTERSTATE &. OVERSEAS CARGO & er "Arkaba" at 5.55 p.m. on Aug­ HOURS IN WATER. scene of the collision, picked up PASSENGER SERVICES all 24 crew members of the ust 8 following a two hours' BRITISH FREIGHTER An elderly man, Ernest Mullins, sweep of the Great Australian • RELEASED. fell overboard from the liner "Ducro" and her sole passenger. The "Culrain," registered at Bight. The tugs "Allegiance" Agents for . . . The British master of the "Amsterdam" in the North Sea FLOTTA [ Al.'RO (Italian Line)—Cargo and paasens-er service, on Aug. 11 and was picked up Leith, Scotland, and owned by and "Yuna" were then directed 1,929-ton freighter "Admiral the South Georgia Company, Auatralia to Mediterranean porta, via Singapore. Hardy," Captain W. B. Hosk- by a trawler seven hours later. by radio to the "Arkaba"s" posi­ TASMAN STEAMSHIP CO. LTD.—Refrigerated cargo, Auatralia He had .swum and floated the was sailing from Middleshorough, tion. As the weather was moder­ to New Zealand. mgs, reported by radio on Aug­ whole time. Yorkshire, to Bona, Algeria. The ate the "Allegiance" took the ERIE RAILROAD (U.S.A.)—Aualralaeian Agent.. ust 4 that his vessel had been re­ "Ducro" was a Spanish coastal leased by the gunboat [presum­ SPANISH SHIP SINKS vessel, owned by the Compania "Arkaba" in tow to resume the Head Office: 19 BRIDGE STREET, SYDNEY ably Nationalist China] which passage to Honk Kong. The tow Phone: BW 4181. AFTER COLLISION. Maritima Frutcra, of Cadiz. had detained her in the Formosa The Spanish ship "Duero" is, we understand, on this occa­ ALSO AT MELBOURNE AND BRISBANL Strait six days before. The "Ad­ (1,420 tons) sank on July 26 af­ "ARKABA" TOW RESUMED. sion bring made by the eastern WITH AGENTS AT ALL MAIN PORTS IN AUSTRALIA. miral Hardy's" cargo of timber ter a collision with the British After an air and sea search Australian route.

Tie Nar*y S»p.«mb»r, 1953. 21 PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS vidson McGlashan, D.S.O.. Com­ modore Arthur Ian Robertson, ROYAL RECEPTION TO ment that a United States fleet R.D., R.N.R., Rear Admiral Rob- BRITISH ADMIRALS. be sent to Australia on a good­ ert St. Vincent Sherbrooke, V.C., will visit during the Royal tou. D.S.O., Commodore Courtenay Admiral Sir John Edelsten. next year. Alexander Rives Shillington, V.R. CC.B., C.B.E.. had the honour D. R N V.R. r bemg received by Her Majesty G.B.E.: Admiral The Honour The Queen upon his appointment CORONATION HONOURS. able Sir Guy Herbrand Edward is First and Principal Naval Aide Among the Coronation Hon Russell, K.C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O. Je Camp to Her Maiesty, when ours awarded to Naval personal­ K.B.E.: Vice-Admiral Charles The Queen invested him with the ities were the following: Thomas Mark Pizcy, C.B., D.S. Insignia ot a Knight Grand Cross O., and Vice-Admiral Albert of the Most Honourable Order of G.C.VO. Admiral Sir John Lawrence Poland, C.B.. D.S.O.. the Bath (Military Division): Here ward Edelsten G.C.B.. D.S.C. C.B.E. Admiral the Hon. Sir Guy C.B.E.: Rear-Admiral (E) Russell. K.C.B.. C.B.E.. D.S.O., G.C.B.: Admiral Sir George Robert Cobb, O.B.E., Miss had the honour oi heme recciv Elvcy Creasy. K.C.B.. QBE. Jeannie Kathl-jen Gillan ders, ed by Her Maiesty upon relin­ D.S.O.. M.V.O. R.R.C., Matron in Chief. Queer. quishing hi* .ippointment as K.C.B : Vice Admiral Edmund Alexandra's Royal Naval Nurs (V»mmander in Chief. British Far Walter Ansticc. C.B., and Vice ing Service. E;i*t Station. Admiral Peveril Barton Rcihy Wallop William Powlett. C.B., R.A.N. OFFICERS AWARDED C.R.E., D.S.O. CORONATION HONOURS. NBW VS. NAVAL ATTACHE IN AUSTRALIA. C.B.: Rear Admiral Geoffrey In the Coronation Honours Barnard. C.B.E.. D.S.O.. The the following officers of the Roy­ Ciptam R. A, Mael'herson. Venerable Archdeacon Frank al Australian Navy received I.S.N.. arrived in Melbourne on Noel Chamhcrbin. O.B.E., Chap­ Awards: August 9 to till the post of Unit lain of the Fleet, Major-( General C.B.E.. Captain Herbert ed Slates Naval Attache in Aus­ Richard Frank Cornwall. C.B.E . fames Buchanan. D.S.O., A.D.C., tralia on a two year term of of­ Royal Marines, Rear - Admiral R.A.N., who was Captain in Captain H. J. Buchanan was givon a traditional farowoll by officers of H.M.A.S. "Sydnoy" whan ho ralinqutihod command to fice. Captain MacPherson. who Norman Vincent Dickinson, D.S. command of H.M.A.S. "Sydney", bocoma Sacond Naval Mombar in Molbourm. Normally tho Captain is rowod asboro by his officore wbon ho gi*a» up com­ has spent 2<> years in the U.S. O.. D.S.C.. Rear-Admiral John the light fleet carrier who repre­ mand, but m this coso a joop was usod. Navy, will fly his own plane Willson Musgrave Eaton, D.S.O.. sented Australia at the Coron­ while on official duty in Austra D.S.C, Rear - Admiral Arthur ation Naval Review at Spithead aker returned to Australia in Petty Officer Sorlick, on being lu One of his first official acts Gordon Voulcs Huhback, C.B.E.. on June 15, ADMIRAL TORLESSE 1950 and became deputy chair­ told what was happening, organ­ wa? to suggest to his Govern­ Rear Admiral (E) Alexander Da RECEIVES NEW O.B.E.: Commander (E) Allan APPOINTMENT. man of the Overseas Shipping ised a party of five ratings and, Dregborn Cairns, R.A.N., Com­ The British Admiralty has an­ representatives' Association until securing a dinghy, which was mander John Midford Litttle. nounced that Rear-Adimral A. the end of 1952. Mr. Whitaker drifting nearby, boarded the ship. R.D.. R.A.N.R.(S). r~ VESSELS BUILT, SLIPPED AND SERVICED. D. Torlesse, C.B., D.S.O.. has le.ives a wife, one son and one The party had already seen an­ M. B.E.: Lieutenant-Command succeeded Rear-Admiral C. R. L. daughter. other ship, H.M.S. "Berkeley Cas­ DIESEL, MARINE AND GENERAL ENGINEERING. er (S) Keith Clarence Cameron, Parry, C.B., D.S.O., as Flag Oi PETTY OFFICER'S tle," a frigate, capsize, but, in RIGGERS AND SHIPWRIGHTS. R.A.N., Commissioned Band mast fleer Ground Training. GALLANTRY. spite of this, and fully aware of All classes of repairs and conversion work carried out. er Charles Gordon McLean, D.S. WELL-KNOWN The London Gazette has an­ the risk th:y ran, Petty Officer M.. Royal Marines (on loan to AUSTRALIAN SHIPPING nounced the award of the British Horlick led the party below by MARINE INSTALLATIONS. MODERN SLIPWAY AVAILABLE the Royal Australian Navy). MAN DIES. Empire Medal (Military Division) the aid of candle lanterns He FOR ALL TYPES OF CRAFT, found where the water was flood­ WITH ROYAL PARTY Mr. C. E. Whitaker, a Conner to Petty Officer Samuel John Hor- managing director of W. G. Deo* lick, C/JX 15485$, of H.M.S. ing into the engine room and, FOR TOUR OF AUSTRALIA. working tor nearly an hour in Buckingham Palace OD August char and Company, died in Syd­ "Barsound," a boom defence ves­ ney late in July. Mr. Whitaker sel, for gallantry during the flood semi-darkn:ss, the party succeed­ A. & W. Engineering 5, in announcing the personal ed in making the ship reasonably staff for the Queen and the Duke was well-known in the shipping Jisaster in February last. industry in Australia and also watertight and probably prevent­ & Ship Repair Co. of Edinburgh during their tour When H.M. Dockyard. Shecr- ed her capsizing. of Australia and New' Zealand abroad. * He was managing di­ ness, was flooded on the night of Ptg. Ltd. next year, said that Lieutenant- rector of W. G. Deuehar and February 1, the salvage ship Petty Officer Horlick set a Commander Michael Parker, Company from 1920 to 1947. Af­ "Uplifter," in dry dock, was in splendid example of courage and CAREENING COVE. MILSON'S POINT R.N.. th-.* 33-year-old Australian ter 1947 he went to London and danger of capsizing owing to the ing initiative and knowledge of Telephones: XB 1675 and XB 4387. born in Melbourne, would be took up duties as a director of flood waters pouring into her en­ what to do to ensure the safety the Ellerman and Bucknall gine room, and all hands were or­ leadership and showed out stand - After Hours: XJ 3213. Private Secretary to the Duke, a post he has held since 1948. Steamship Co. Ltd. Mr. Whit­ dered ashore. of one of H.M. ships.

22 T-a Uajvy Soptombor. iW. 21 SEA-ODDITIES Likt. most ocean birds, this great nine inches across, and is of a blue pinks, blues, yellows and reus: sea rover flies low over the water so brilliant that one can hardly and in fact almost every colour is A school i >t pla> lul whales. in the holds ot the sunken vessel. SftOte hold, and becoming dissolv­ when hunting his rood. He seems believe it to he natural. And represented. Some of them have ahi'ut .i round dotes in number. "(Oregon,™ had come from Aus ed in the sea-water had mixed to rise and fall with the rollers, close beside it may lie a whole as many as six arms, some have invaded Sydney Harbour on the tralia He believes that the wool, with the contents of the loosely- now swooping down into the deep family of tiny red ones a coral' only three: indeed, there is no mitrnsng of July 14 The whales. locked in watertight compart corked bottle. trough ot a wave, and now reap­ red almost as brilliant as that of end to the colours and shapes of ranging from on (Vet in length to ments, can be salvaged after more pearing, skimming and th.n soar* the blue of their big cousin. Sane star-fish. valves |u feet bog, were first than .right years under water The preceding story is taken inn f no ink The "Oregon" was rammed and ating book "Deep Diving and And the splendour of his [0-foot lia. Her." they may be found creased by 7d per cent, in the watching them frum the shores sunk by the U.S. battleship outspread wings is there any­ measuring as much as fifteen last 12 years. Australian produc­ Wowing water 2<> feet high and "New Mexico" tome wher e Submarine Operations." as also is the following. It concerns a thing in bird flight finer than inches across and eight inches tion is up only Id per cent- -porting on the surface, the East of Nantucket Island and 17 diver and a telegraph boy. Many this? As the frigate bird is the thick. They look really beautiful Mr. R. G. Casey, External shales slowly moved inshore un­ of her crew went down with the years ago, very early on a sum­ solitary wander-r of the warm with their incredible shades of Affairs Minister. til they were lc*s than *<> yards ship Rear Admiral Curtis be mer's morning. long before the Central Pacific sporades, so the al­ • ff Fairhght Be.uh. Later they luv.s the "Oregon" lies in about milkman had commenced his batross is the monarch of the cruised about JOO yards off shor 20 fathoms: about 2(1 mile* from rounds. Sir Robert's old friend wild wastes of the Southern md then iMRK HI closer again, the Nantucket Light>hip. Ocean. The albatross will follow- v.iusinc high waves if they broke and co-worker, Mr. Henry A. in a ship's wake for days on end, water ne.tr the hcach. After Flcuss, the inventor of the first intently scanning the waters ever ranking; a spurtinjg "promenade " practicable self-contained divine Incidentally, many a strange on the lookout for food. He cap* alone the length ot Fairhght dress, and author of many other st«try is wry tUTCS his rood in his stout hook­ Beach, they headed out into the inventions, was expenm.ntinc DRIBARM ot deep diving and salvage work. ed beak, which, covered as it is Harbour, and presumably back alone with his apparatus in the Tragic was the ease of ,i diver with a number of horny plates, through the Heads again. Thames at -tn up-river resort He who found a bottle of whisky in had walked on the river-bed is specially adapted for snapping a wreck When a corked hottl' from the Middlesex side to the up small cuttle fish and other "Dribarm" it a special form of Compressed Yeast, is lowered into a few fathoms ot Surr.y shore [in diving dress, of dainty snacks from the surface of Nova So >tia fishermen, said a dried under scientific conditions and carefully com- water, the cork, being eompres course] and was approaching the the ocean. message from Halifax on July 2", punded with a suitable yeast food. Specially suitable Bible, becomes loose and allows bank on his return journey when. think they have ended the reign when not accessible to, or supplied by bakers. the sea tu mix with the contents. lust at the moment that his head of terror recently enjoyed by a During th." w.ir. a torpedoed ship A mysterious type of jelly-fish Obtainable from: Merchants, Store, Grocers, monster shark which they had c< »vered with a mask which was brought up and beached in with a sting deadlier than those or direct from the Proprietors: named "The Rammer." They be looked remarkably like a death's Lough Swilly for patching. One of snakes is believed by a Bris­ licve a tVKj-lh shark they har head appeared above wat.'r a of the divers engaged tn cutting bane research scientist. Dr. H. pooned inside Louishurg harbour telegraph boy happened to be MAURI MOTHERS I THOMSON LIMITED off the Mgged edges of the frac­ Fleck.T. to have caused the death is one that has made ferocious at­ walking along the towp.ith. The Th* Comprttmd Ytatt Co., ture to make a fair surface, pass of people in North Queensland. tacks on their coastal fishing craft. hoy, seeing what he took to be ed through the hole into th He said the death of James Ern­ BOX il, P.O. WATERLOO, N.S.W. "The Rammer" began his ram some supernatural monst.T emerg­ ship's hold, where he found a est Lane. 33, near Townsville mer like attacks early in the ing from the water, stood with case of whisky. He brought a early :n May was caused by a month, and in one of them sank wide-open mouth and staring Kittle up with him and, after "stinger" of which little is known. a lobster-boat, drowning a man. eyes, transfixed to the spot like being undressed from his diving Death from the mystery stinger one petrified. Fleuss it once took suit, went below to his berth, is Mid to have taken place within poured out three mugs-full for in the humour of th.* situation, What comes off the sheep's half an hour and was attended by himself and his two mates, and and stood still for a few moments. hack is treasure trove today. Cer­ severe pain, paralysis, and mouth drank his own right off at a He then moved slowly forward WINNS tr. .thing. But Miss Elizabeth tainly it's stuff that should not toward the bank. but. before he single draught- Pope, assistant-curator of inverte­ be left at the bottom of the sea had gone a couple of yards, the It was a veritable draught of brates at the Australian Museum, 'THE 0/G FRIENDLY STORES" if it can be raised. That, at any boy *et up an unearthly yell, and. death. Almost immediately there in College Street, Sydney, claim­ rate, is the belief of a four-man running a* though "Old Nick" was a change in his appearance ed that the mystery stinger was no expedition which put out from wvr.* at his very heels, was lost so striking that his horrified com mystery really. She said that the Gloucester. Massachusetts, on to ^ght in a few seconds. But panions paused with their mugs offenders were euhomedusa. a Courtesy ft Service give a pleasant glow to July 4 in an attempt to locate a can you imagine the talc he told halfway to their lips, and then group of jellyfish common to the ship that went down off Cape over the next few- weeks. In Business, and WINNS like to do Business for the first time they noticed a seas around the Philippines, Cod during the late war with five fact, he's probably tellintf it yet. that way. In that Spirit they are happy strong odour like crushed laurel which occasionally travel south­ million dollars* worth of greasy leaves. The diver died in a very ward to the Queensland coast. to serve you. wool on board. The leader of the short time, and at the inquest it expedition. United States Rear* was established that th-.* whisky From diver lore to bird lore. One of the most interesting Admiral Lebbeus Curtis (retir­ was full of cyanides which had As all seafarers know, there are lit.-forms of the seas is the shell- ed), said before he sailed that formed part of the cargo in the few sights more fascinating at sea covered starfish, which is of many Oxford St., Sydney 4 Branch** •one of the 14,0* H i bales of wool than that of an albatross in flight. shapes, sizes and hues. One var­ WINNS iety on the Barrier Reef measures 24 SepttmW. i*53. SPEAKING OF SHIPS H.M.A.S, "SHROPSHIRE" TO BE SOLD The Pacific Steam Navigation hole 10,000 feet deep in search Two >hips engineers. Robert Th. twenty'five-year-old now Admiralty advised the Naval group at tingayen. Aircraft sui­ ('• inp.mv h.is ordered from H.ir lor oil in North-West Australia Holhrook and Robert Scharfstein. obsolete cruiser H.M.A.S. Board that no further require­ cide attacks were prevalent and UnJ and Wolff ..t Belfast, a new would be 000,000. Or. Raggatt, were scalded. Holhrook seriously, "Shropshire," would be dismantl­ ments could be seen for the ship "Shropshire" had her share of twin-.-rew pa^emjer ship of the secretary of the Department when they were hit by a blast of ed and the hulk would be offered by the Royal Navy and that they near misses, but they did not stop iK ut I9,32n tons grata, aejconv of National Development said steam from a hotter on the J,282* tor sale. This was announced on had no objection to her disposal her from being in the bombard­ m« dating 787 passengers and be this m th*. course of giving evi­ ton interstate freighter "Swan August 7 by the Minister for the by sale. ment of Corregidor Island which int driven hy JnuMe-ncducttnn dence on an oil-drilling pl.int. River," at Cockatoo Island, Syd­ Navy (the Hon. William Me- "Shropshire" served through­ resulted in a successful para troop £% ared turbine* valued .it £319,000 which the de ney, on the night of June 17, Mahon). out the war. first as an R.N. ship attaack on the stronghold. Her part men t Knight but which i- The Minister said that the pos­ and later in the R.A.N. The final assaults of the war was at Labuan Island. "Shropshire" was The Japaiirst- Parliament on now lying idle in Melbourne. Iceland is to sell half its an­ sibility of modernising such an cruiser arrived in Australia in in Tokyo Bay for the signing of luK 30 iinanimoiLslv agreed to re­ nual herring production and a • •Id ship had been carefully inves­ 1943 under the command of Vice the surrender and in 1946 took open trade with Communist Or Dennis Rebbccfc. of Harland third of its frozen fish production tigated by the Naval Board but Admiral Sir John Collins, then the Australian Victory Contin­ China. and Wolff'*, has prophesied thdt o Russia under a two-year trade tru Board had decided that it Captain Collins. She was soon gent to England. The cruiser was the present tendency to pressure pact signed in Moscow on Aug- would be uneconomical to refit in action in the South West placed in the Reserve Fleet in German scientists have been charge large two-cycie opposed .ist 1. a message from Reykjavik, and modernise "Shropshire*". Pacific supporting Allied landings 1949. Mr. McMahon said that itudying the possibilities of copy­ piston dtesels will lead to the oil Iceland, said on August 1. even for a limited wartime role. at Arawe, Cape Gloucester and ing sea animals instead o{ fishes engines havmg on advantage orrr H.M.A.S. "Shropshire" was the Admiralty Islands. In mid- it WJS not intended at present to 1944, "Shropshire" was again in obtain another cruiser as a re­ to increase thr -peed of ships. steam again. A (),(K)(i,niMi DAKAR, GEDYE I& MALLOCN LTD. The Australian Joint Parlia­ nage in the hope that it will make the "Salvator." a 579-ton ship . 10-14 YOUNG S rREET. SYDNEY mentary Committee of Public Ac­ them order ships from the Vira- built in 1948 and one of the most Cablrs- Dangars. count.* was tnid in Canberra on gapatam shipyard in which it has up-to-date salvage vessels afloat, G.P.O. Box 509. July « that the ;

Sapt.mb.r. 1553 TM Navy Menfish, Rapture of the Deep, our time was limited. We went watched by other swimmers and THE SILENT WORLD the recording lens of a camera. by J. V. Cousteau Sunken Ships, Undersea Re­ away with amphoras, specimens search Group, Cave Diving, of wood, and the knowledge of a Thus- the aqua-lung means the "T • t create*) livinu autfiurttv on Treasure Below, The Drowned unique hydro-archaeological site end of many a superstition. Of .iirr-ea divine, whii invented the long - dreaded Moray ecl, : i 'anion* ".igti.i lunu . writes a Museum. Fifty Fathoms Down. which awaits relatively simple ex­ j*.i> alie «torv el undersea adven- The Submarine Dirigible. Sea cavation. Wc believe the hull is Cousteau says: I -i .md dwover* Almost HM• Companions, Monsters We Have preserved and could be raised in "Morays will not attack men in r • " graph*. -4»IHI m colour Met, Shark Close-Ups, Beyond one piece. What things that the sea. They presented them­ 22 6 (POM I I) The Silent World. By Captain Chapter One. entitled "Mentish." the Barrier, Where Blood Flows wreck might tell of the shipbuild­ selves to us with only the head J. Y. Cousteau with Frederic we read: Green. There is also a short Ep­ ing and international commerce of and neck emerging from the hole. Dumas. "One morning in June, 1943, ONE OF OUR ilogue If you know of a contents the distant past!" They looked quite fearsome . . . Published by Hamish Hamilton, I went to the railway station at SUBMARINES page that opens up a more fas­ A naked man swimming in the Alas, it is as prosiac as you and 1 London. Kandol on the French Riviera ti* by Edward Young cinating vision of adventure, high sea depths mingles with and ob­ and the cat. It wishes to be un­ "Sarmannei are thrillinc beasts, At last there is nu mistake collect a wooden case expressed and daring enterprise, oceanogra- serves life around and may be molested in the routine of life. ar.. Edward Young tell* ..t torn about it: man has ]ust about eon* from Paris. In it was a new and phic research, and treasure trow, Vear*' adventures in them in .i qucrcd the heights, depths, lati premising device, the result of then I shall be glad to hear of it. e .: -tout huok with ocitement rudes and longitudes of this years of struggle and dreams: an .•• (\trv pane He write* beau- world. From all this, you will rightly ft! : :. economically and with automatic compressed-air diving Mffcm ships of tftw r- . ur " ("Sunday Time*" re And by "conquered" I dc not lung conceived by Emile Cagnan ludge that page after page of The Silent World" gives evi­ "km to" Mis .« I 22 A (port 1 I.) lUSl mean mere physical conquer­ [the eminent French engineer] hold* fact! • ing, hut mastery by a eombination and myself. 1 rushed to Villa dence of exploits and adventures Barry where my diving comrades, of the most extraordinary kind. \ ALIANI OCCASIONS of bodily strength, willpower, And what they have experienced h\ | E. Macdonnell and invention, Tin-' asturuahing Philippe Tailliez and Frederic A - ;.i! .md authuntatiw record volume by Captain Cousteau in Dumas, were waiting. No child­ and gained, Cousteau thinks, is .-' rWal Navv and Riwal Aw collar*'ration with his inseparable ren ever opened a Christmai not to be compared with what tr., ..n Navv action-, in World .ontrere Frederic Duma-, amply present with more excitement awaits. Many are the fine treas­ W - II rc'crcatinu event* of justifies our statement and re than we did when we unpacked ures, he says, waiting within area: historic Mifiuacance .»nd ranee of the aqua-lung diver. In det ..• <-f courage, determination, moves all doubt. the first 'aqualung'. It it work this regard, he stresses the Med­ tntutive and skill. Foreword bv With M pages of the most re ed. diving wi iiild he re\ • >luti« m Admiral SH f..hn Collin* iterranean. markaHe photograph* (16 m full lied." ANC IS 9 (PM 9d.) colour) ever taken under water It did work. The new era ,»t" The Mediterranean, he writes. and tome Ms pages of modestly .(qua-lung diving had begun. "is the mother of civilisation, the PROUD ECHO ATitten but vividly presented text. From that day to this, with hut sea girt with the oldest cultures, by Ronald McKie Captain Cousteau tells the story one fatality, it has gone on from a museum in sun and spray. The T-. m'rfinfl and dramatic tc of modern deep-sea diving, re success to success. With the grandest of undersea discoveries, <• irt pieced together front veals to us the world of the sea iqua-lung equipment harnessed to to our taste, are the wrecks of th< description! ol individual survivor* of rhe Australian floors in a way that sounds more the back, a watertight glass mask pre Christian ships on the floor. licht cruiser "PerthY* last great like a Jules Verne novel of eighty •ver the eyes and nose, and rub Twice we have visited classic BUR is food .tC'.i :i lllu.tr.itcd bv Frank years ago than a living testimony Ser foot fins, m.-n-fish are today wrecks and recovered riches be­ Norton. 17'6 (post 7d.) of well established fact. making unencumbered flights m yond gold, the art and artifacts of • For Captain Cousteau is not the depths of practically every ancient times. We have located for pi COVER OF DARKNESS only the greatest living authority one of the Seven Seas. Incident­ three more such vessels which bv Roderick Chisholm on modern dccp;sea diving: he ally, the first to operate it in Aus await salvage." Working to see Ir foreword Air Ch'iel Mar-'hal it was. as pointed nut in a special traha. Barry Keen, a memb.r of what they could find with a pow­ SH William Elliui describe* feature article in the July issue ol the Navy League, is already at erful suction hose they "tunnel­ "C -cr ot Darkness" a> e-en- work in the waters of the Barrier led down to find a ship. A hun­ ti.:<5'. a book •bout the air bv an this journal, who made modern air- m." It is a record of the Jeep-sea diving possible and in­ Reel*. Using the aqualung equip dred amphoras (graceful two- lif< of a pilot from the he- vented the aqua-lung. Never be­ ment in conjunction with under handled earthenware jars used cir.mng of training through the fore save in the circumscribed water still and movie cameras. IK- for wine, oil, water, and grain) battle in the air al night over IS makiiu: documentary colour came out of the shaft, most of E-^'.ind. and later, over Get* limits of a diving bell had the ianv II 6 t equipped 66-66 Elizabeth St.. MeaSourne words. Opening the book at md set in the following order: to carry out full-scale salvage and

The Navy September, ltd. n It is a confirmed hame*lover. 'l out his air pipe or mouth grip as equipment includes the new Cous­ will therefore inflict ,1 bite on .in 1 sublime girt. The process is teau - Otrardot submarine cine­ intruder. Dumas WM once reach* Complex and still an issue among camera, a jeep, a helicopter, and EX-NAVAL MENS rag into the reef for lobsters un* diving physiologists ... It is a an oceanographic device known Jer Machad<> Light, when a mor­ i-aseous attack on the central ner­ as a hathothcrmic bomb. ay hit his finger , . . The puncture vous system. Recent laboratory Association ^f% of Australia was unimportant and healed over­ studies attribute 'rapture of the Nor is the expedition's work to night . . . Dumas >aid. 'The moray depths' to residual carbon dioxide be confined to deep-sea diving and did not attack me. It warned my retained in the viscosity of nerve marine photography. There is a great economic vision among its hand to get out and stay out." if tissues." Cousteau himself is "per­ Patron -in-Chief: Her Majesty The Queen. I put aside the scasnake," Cous­ sonally quite receptive to the 'rap­ projects and investigations. Writ' teau continues, "the vilbans tii ture of the depths". I like it," he ing in his Epilogue, Captain underwater myth are sharks, oo writes, "and fear it like doom." Cousteau says: (FEDERAL COUNCIL) cil and, it is hoped, will be one of President): I. McDonald (Hon. topi, moray s, stingrays, mantas, Nor is h: alone in this respect. "Obviously man has to .nter the objects of the new body that Treasurer): N. Cresser (Hon. The Prime Minister's Depart­ Secretary); J. Chatfield, W. >quids and barracudas. We have Maurice Fargucs, a KK»II compan­ the sea. There is no choice in ment recently advised the Associ- will be elected from amongst the met all but the giant squid, which ion who became almost as famous the matter. The human popula Victorian members at the Confer­ Frame, V. Landsdnwne, W. uion's Federal Council that the Smart, W. Hurren, and S. Coles lives beyond our depth range. Save as his great leader, was very re­ tion is increasing so rapidly and Imperial War Graves Commission ence in Melbourne next year. for the shark, about which we ceptive to it. It was while under land resources are being deplet­ Victoria. as Committeemen. Mr. L. C. has no knowledge whatsoever of Rachel was the Returning Officer. ire still puzzled, the monsters we the influence of depth drunk- ed at such a rate, that vvc must any Royal Australian Navy per­ The following officers were ha\e met seem a thoroughly eness that Maurice Fargues. at a take sustenance from the great sonnel being buried in the Labuan elected at the 6th Annual State The Papua -N.G. Section will harmless l«»t. Some are indiffer­ record depth of W feet, threw cornucopea. The flesh and vege­ War Cemetery. Conference, held at Melbourne again hold its Annual Trafalgar ent to men: others are curious away his mouthpiece and paid for tables of the sea are vital. The last month:—Messrs. E. M. Day Dinner at Port Moresby in ihout us. Most of them are it with death. necessity of obtaining mineral The Minister for the Navy has Smith (State President); C. L. October. The Section does not frightened when we approach and chemical resources from the intimated that there will K: no Leggo and J. J. Hartley (State expect to have any members on closely." Capitainc De Corvette Jacques sea is also widely recognised, as R.A.N. Ships available in the Vice-Presidents): E. J. Fennell leave in Melbourne during the Yves Cousteau, a gunnery officer is plainly indicated by the intense main ports or Tasmania during the (Hon. Treasurer): H. McEwan Federal Conference and regrets Far mure dangerous than the of the French Navy, founded the political and economic interest be­ proposed Navy Week which is (Hon. Asst. Secretary); with being unable to be represented by monsters of the sea to the aqua French Navy's Undersea Re­ ing shown (and by no means only being organised by the State W. H. Sullivan (Hon. State Sec­ its own Delegates. luni* diver i> the dreaded nitrogen search CIroup in 1SW1 and com­ in Texas and California) in tidal Executive in conjunction with retary), E. M. Smith and W. H. South Australia. narcosis, or "rapture of the manded its research ship, the oilfields ..." the Hobart Branch members. Taylor as Federal Conference depths." In all deep-sea diving "Elie Monnicr," on a number of The State Executive is endeav­ Federal Council has received to Delegates. ouring to make headway on the this is an e\er-prescnt hazard and uccanographic expeditions. He is There can be little doubt that date two nominations for the Papua-New Guinea. the diver must constantly he on now in command of the research Captain Coustcau's present early inauguration of a new Sub- award of the Association's high­ Section, to be situated at Mount the alert to resist it. "The first *hip "Calypso," on a four year round - the - world oceanographic est honour, the Gold Badge of A change of officers of the As­ stage is a mild anaesthesia, after round - the - world oceanographic voyage has been projected tin sociation in the Territory took Gambier. Port Adelaide Sub Life Membership. The granting Section lost one of its newest which the dner becomes a god. expedition, sponsored by the some such vision, encompasses the of such awards can only be done place at the August Annual Elec­ If a posting fish seems to require French Navy and privately organ­ research into and the furtherance tion; results were as follows:— members, Mr. Harry Waite, ex- by the assembled delegates at a Royal Navy, who met with acci­ or. the crazed diver may teat ised by himself. The expedition's of some such vast undertaking. Federal Conference. South Aus­ Messrs. Frank C. Hill (Presi­ dent); G. A. Hawley (Vice- dental death at Woomcra quite Nor in his present great under­ tralia has put forward the name taking is he without his constant of its current State President, Mr. associate. Accompanying him m George Angas McKee, whilst TATTERSAIX'S 3 POINT the "Calypso" as his chief diver Queensland has chosen Mr. Gor­ is Frederic Dumas, who has made don W. Scott, the present Honor- PROGRAMME more than 2,500 descents—the in- Federal Secretary, who has, most experienced aqua-lung diver during the past twenty-two years, •orcbtey's The }/• Cash Consultation — £10,000 continually held various Executive ••• First Priie. Drawn every few days. in the world. Their co-exploits in searching for the submerged office.'. SHAVIH6 ruins of ancient Carthage, salvag­ \ TASMANIA I The 10/' C**h Consultation — £25. .000 As a means of giving interested • .Hi \ J First Prize. Drawn every few weeeeksk . ing Greek and Phoenician re­ members an insight on the inner CtEAM mains from Mcdite r r a n c a n workings of the Federal body of 1 ™l wrecks, swimming through for­ the Association, the Executive The 19*3, £1 Melbourne Cup For a quicker Consultation ests of precipitous coral and tak­ has. from time to time, invited As­ • "0.000 First Prize. ing part in the Piccard bathy­ sociation members from New and ^jl* scaphe expedition to the Gulf of South Wales, and also members MP^^^I (iuinea. will no doubt find as fine of other States who have beed aaaalr ' ^H more comfortable POSTAGE ON TICKETS AND RESULTS TO BE ADDED a matching in their new spheres visiting Sydney, giving them the The Address . . . as in the old. If they yield an­ opportunity of being present at other such book as "The Silent the regular meetings of the Feder­ GEO. ADAMS (TATTERSALU H0BART World," we shall anticipate it al Council. This policy will be SHAVE with great relish.- A.R. carried out during the remainder of the term of the existing Coun­ TW N«r p«Er $«ptt-nb*r, 1953. recently. Port Pine Sub-Section from Adelaide to Melbourne, has welcomed the following new Northern Suburbs (S.A.) Port members: Messrs. Let* L. Byrne, Lincoln, Port Adelaide and Port ll II Erie L. Edwards, George A. (-low- Pirie respectively. .m. Dennis E. Kershaw, L. Lenim, Deceased Members. KEMBLA Erie T. Smith, J. Whelm, Ernest For the year ended 31st De­ W. Wilton and Stanley J, Zuh cember, 1952, there were record­ nnieh Applications for mem ed 44 members of the Associa­ COPPER, BRASS AND Krship have been dealt with by tion who had passed away, whilst the Port Lincoln Sub-Section and the previous period had $8 known OTHER NON-FERROUS the undermentioned have now members died, or killed, been entered on the rolls ot the G.WS. WIRE CABLES & TUBES fTABCOCK — Association: Messrs. Edwin N. Ane.ir, Lindsay K. Bates, Fred­ -MARINE - erick tl Cadd, Bryan J. Clift, BOILER George M. Mayne, Joseph M US, PLANS TO ARM METAL MANUFACTURES LTD. Rodriguez and Neville Wanke. JAPAN. PORT KEMBLA. N.S.1 Queensland. The United States Secretary of Tho fwhira of t*—m for marina purooto* SELLINC AGENTS (with DtarifcuMn m all StMMl *• mot by tho Uloit labcock da.alop This State's elected Delegates State, Mr. John Foster Dulles, wionH, which, in turn, oro bacbod by tor the Melbourne Conference are said in Washington on July 13 ovor SO yoon' >•• oiporionco At too, Messrs, Erie L. Clifford. William that the United States planned an TUBES H BBASS HIE HIE C CABLES at on lond. timo hat provod th» torvico M. Maedonald and William J. army of 10 divisions (350,000 KNOX SCHLAPP PTY. LTD: BRITISH INSULATED of labcock loilar Plant Pearee. The Section is gradually men) for Japan. "We have pro­ . CALLENDER'S CABLES BABCOCK A WILCOX nbtaininn publicity for funds to­ vided the Japanese with assist­ Coltini House, Melbourne LTD Or 4U1TM I I I 1' I 1 1 M 1 1 11> ward* the creation of the Queens ance in developing that force and 84 William St., Melbourne [NCIN1L as A *D .OKI* AC on- land Naval War Memorial House. are proposing to Congress to con* KemW. Building, Sydney 44 Margaret St.. Sydney. HMD Office & Hnrt 1 «*!• •••. r ... HSU. The Association commends the tinu.- that assistance through the ••one h Offlcvi • «d OfjWCJM la •ii statu good work being done by the mutual security programme." he Dolphin Sea Cadet Corps'1 which added. is under an efficient C'-eneral •i..... •:. Council presided over by Com ;-*•* *T g=». mander N. S. Pttley. R.A.N.R. (Rid.) another worthy member ORDER FORM COCKATOO DOCKS oi our Association. Practical as­ * INOINIKRINO sistance from interested persons To "THE NAVY," i would be welcomed and grate - ROYAL EXCHANGE j ' CO. PTY. 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