THE AUSTRALIAN NAVAL ARCHITECT Volume 3 Number 4 November 1999 Need a fast ferry design? Call us! phone +61 2 9488 9877 fax +61 2 9488 8144 Email: [email protected] www.amd.com.au THE AUSTRALIAN NAVAL ARCHITECT Journal of The Royal Institution of Naval Architects (Australian Division) Volume 3 Number 4 November 1999 Cover Photo: The RAN’s first wavepiercing catamaran, CONTENTS HMAS Jervis Bay alongside the replenish- ment ship HMAS Success at anchor off Dili, 4 A Note from the Division President East Timor (RAN Photograph). 4 From the Chief Executive 5 Editorial The Australian Naval Architect is published 6 News from the Sections four times per year. All correspondence and 10 Coming Events advertising should be sent to: 11 General News The Editor 27 Education News The Australian Naval Architect 29 Professional Notes c/o RINA 31 Progress in the Prediction of Squat PO Box No. 976 for Ships with a Transom Stern — EPPING, NSW 2121 AUSTRALIA L J Doctors email: [email protected] 35 Typographical corrections for three recently published Regression Based The deadline for the next edition of The Resistance Prediction Methods — Australian Naval Architect (Vol. 4 No. 1, D Peacock, W F Smith and P K Pal February 2000) is Friday 21 January 2000. 40 Industry News Opinions expressed in this journal are not 42 Some marine casualties – Exercises in necessarily those of the Institution. Forensic Naval Architecture (Part 4) — R J Herd The Australian Naval Architect 45 Naval Architects on the Move ISSN 1441-0125 47 From the Archives © Royal Institution of Naval Architects 1999 Editor in Chief: John Jeremy Technical Editor: Phil Helmore RINA Australian Division on the Print Post Approved PP 606811/00009 World Wide Web Printed by B E E Printmail Telephone (02) 9437 6917 www.rina.org.uk/au 3 FROM THE FROM DIVISION PRESIDENT THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE At the last Division Council meeting the position of May I take this opportunity to thank all those mem- President of the Australian Division was discussed and bers of the Division who helped to organise my re- resolved with a new President being appointed to cent visit to the Division and who once again made complete the current term of office. This came about me feel so welcome. because Mr Bryan Chapman believed that he could I recently wrote in RINA Affairs (which I am sure is no longer adequately perform the duties of President read as avidly as the ANA) that if the Institution is to due to overseas business commitments. The immediate succeed as a modern international professional insti- past Vice-president, Mr John Colquhoun, has been tution, responsive to the changing needs of its mem- appointed to the position of President and Mr bers, it must seek their views to find out what those Chapman is appointed as Vice-president. needs are. In this shrinking world of faxes and emails, To those of you who don’t know me, I reside in I believe that there is still no substitute for that per- Canberra and am currently the Mine Hunter Coastal sonal contact which I gain from meeting and talking Platform [i.e. Ship – Ed.] Systems Engineering to members. Manager for the Department of Defence. I have I came away with a number of suggestions which I worked in Defence for the past nineteen years and have will take up where possible, and the firm impression been a member of RINA at one level or another since of a Division in good heart. The formation of a new 1985. Section in Queensland and the efforts to increase the As you would all know, a number of important issues number of members was evidence of this. are currently being considered by the Division I was able to update members on recent and planned Council, including the formalisation of our position developments such as making all Transactions papers with regard to IEAust and the awarding of prizes in freely available to members (all Transactions papers Australia. These activities will be continuing and will can now be downloaded from the RINA Website). I be reported to the members as and when necessary hope I was able to convince those who needed con- either through the ANA or at local meetings. Members vincing that the RINA of today is an international pro- are reminded that they all have a direct line to Division fessional institution which just happens to have its Council meetings through their local committees who headquarters in London, reflecting the global nature each have a member representative on the Division of the maritime industry. Council. I also reported that the Institution continues to give Members may be pleased to note that the Division emphasis to meeting the needs of its younger mem- Council has recently received word from London that bers. In that context, it was a particular pleasure to additional funding of 30% has been approved for the meet up with the students at UNSW and the AMC. It Australian Division with effect from 1 July 1999. In was also a pleasure to present the first Australian addition recent correspondence from the Chief RINA-Marconi Marine Student Naval Architect Executive put forward the proposal that a joint Award (of A$500) for the best presentation of a final Australian and New Zealand Division be formed. This year project to Michael Andrewatha at UNSW. I hope proposal was further discussed with the Chief that Student and Graduate Members in the Division Executive during his visit last month particularly with will play a full part in the new Internet-based Young regard to additional funds being made available to Members Group. cover the costs of running such a Division. The proposal will be further discussed at the next Council My congratulations to the new President of the Divi- meeting on 10 December. sion on his election. I look forward to meeting him at his first RINA Council meeting in London. The Coun- In closing I would like to remind members that they cil has agreed that he may be represented by any mem- will get out of RINA only what they are prepared to ber of the Division Council, and invite any member put in, so you should all consider going along to local of the Division Council who might be in UK at the technical meetings whenever possible. Additionally time to attend Council meetings. And of course, I all members should promote RINA amongst their peers still live in hope of seeing an Australian member and recommend membership where this is appropriate. elected to the RINA Council in his, or her, own right! John Colquhoun 4 Once again, my thanks to all those members who made that the cost of the hull and its systems is the least my visit so enjoyable and, for me at least, worthwhile. cost of a warship acquisition, and we should be pre- I look forward to Sea Australia 2000 which promises pared to throw them out when the payload technol- to be a very successful conference. ogy expires. Realistically, the parliament and the pub- lic see things rather differently, a habit not confined Trevor Blakeley to Australia. It is easier to get approval to buy a new combat system for an old ship than a new ship each time the computer needs to be replaced. EDITORIAL The lesson is always to buy a larger and more capable ship than is needed at the outset to support the initial In the corporate world, it is well known that the best payload. This does not mean adopting a ‘fit for but time to issue a press release containing bad news that not with’ philosophy, which is now widely regarded just has to be made public is late on Friday night. The as a false economy, but providing a wide margin for specialist reporters have probably gone home for the future growth, and plenty of space to permit upgrades weekend, and it is too late for the Saturday papers. of the payload to be carried out without major ship Over the weekend the public is more interested in sport surgery and the consequent eye-watering cost. As an than more serious pursuits, and by Monday the bad example, just look at the US Navy DD 963 destroyer news will have been overlooked. design, and its evolution to the Kidd class DDG and finally the Ticonderoga class (CG 47) Aegis cruiser. Surely it is a coincidence that the Defence press re- They all have the same basic hull and machinery, de- lease DPAO 328/99 hit the email at 2010 on Friday signed in the late 1960s, yet over the twenty-year pro- 29 October 1999. It had a positive header — Defence duction programme, the combat system capability was to upgrade the ANZAC fleet’s anti-ship missile de- vastly improved. fence capabilities — but the news was essentially bad. It had been decided that the Warfighting Improve- A big adaptable hull presents far fewer problems for ment Programme for the ANZAC frigates was not progressive payload upgrade during a multiple-ship achievable within acceptable costs and risks… (see construction programme. It also has the enormous side the report on page 11). benefit of producing a commodious and comfortable hull that can accommodate crews with changing ex- Perhaps the capabilities sought for the class were too pectations throughout the life of the ship, and moreo- ambitious. They were originally intended to fulfil a ver one that is more easily maintained. And, in the reasonably modest role in the RAN, and not to be Australian context, can successfully operate in our replacements for the guided missile destroyers now huge area of maritime responsibility from northern going out of service.