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M Wl' the Journal of the Aviation Historical Society of Australia Inc l«3»i■ li. p’ m■ m 81Wl' I; »■ iiSg li B Pi p' The Journal of the Aviation Historical Society of Australia Inc. A0033653P Volume 28 Number 4 September 1997 J mm Civil Flying Boat Operations-Hamilton Reach & Redland Bay 1946-74 Sorties by F/O T.E.M. Smith & Crew Paddy Heffernan - Part 2 /aviation heritage I______I I____ I The Journal of the Aviation Historical Society of Australia Inc. aoo336S3p Volume 28 Number 4 September 1997 Editorial EDITORS, DESIGN & PRODUCTION Bill and Judith Baker With this issue we conclude Volume 28, and I must say thank you to Address all correspondence to; all those who have sent me letters of encouragement - feedback is most important . We have also achieved another page record - 44 The Editor, pages. However this could not have been possible if it were not for AHSA, all those contributors who have supplied such interesting material, I P.O. Box 2007, thank you - don’t stop. South Melbourne 3205 Victoria, Australia. Of course being the end of the volume, it means that you will have to Subscription Rates; renew your membership - the subscription remains unchanged. We Australia A$40. have simplified the procedure this time, with the enclosed renewal Rest of World A$50. Surface Mail card and a stamped addressed envelope - just make sure the A$65. Surface Airlifted details are correct, attach your cheque, pop it in the envelope and A$85. Air Mail slip it into the nearest post-box. Your co-operation in prompt Overseas payment to be in Australian payment will make it so much easier at this end. currency by International Money Order or Bank Draft. Overseas personal Quite a mix of articles in this issue including, the largest one that I cheques cannot be accepted. have published since I took over the chair - about the flying boat era Articles for Publication; in Brisbane. Bob Fawkes has produced the record of his 30 Are to be on an Australian theme. Lancaster sorties in 1944-45. What brave young men they were! The Editor reserves the right to edit any Plus another chapter of the Paddy Heffernan series -1 hope you are article accepted for publication. enjoying these as much as I am. Payment is not made for articles. Please include sufficient postage for the The Editor’s wish list; return of originals if that is required. Australian Airlines, Vietnam, Korea, D.H.A. Drover, G.A.F. Nomad, anything! A - H and the Computer; Contributions for the Journal are most welcome in any Cover form, but if you have a computer, Ansett Flying Boat Services Sandringham IV VH-BRF shortly after exported on a yi" disc in ASSCII take off from the Redland Bay flying Boat Base on 25 October format (plain text), or WIN 6, would be 1971. Photo: J. Wilson just great! (Include hard copy also). Disclaimer; 1. Whilst every effort is Contents; made to check the authenticity of the material and advertising printed, the 107 Civil Flying Boat Operations - John Wilson Publishers, Editors, and the Aviation 132 Sorties by F/O. T.E.M. Smith Crew - Bob Fawkes Historical Society of Australia and its 141 Looking Back At Vietnam - Bob Livingstone Office Bearers cannot accept 144 So You Don’t Want To Be A Flying Instructor - responsibility for any non-performance. Paddy Heffernan 2. The views expressed in ‘Aviation 148 Talkback Heritage’ are not necessarily those of the AHSA or its Editors. AVIATION HERITAGE Meetings of the AHSA - ISSN 0815-4392 Print Post Approved PP320418/00017 Melbourne Branch: The fourth Wednesday in every month 7.30 © 1997 By the Publishers; at the Airforce Association, Cromwell Street, South Yarra. AVIATION HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF Further information - Keith Meggs 9580 0140 AUSTRALIA INC., A0033653P The NSW Branch: The first Wednesday in every month 7.45 at P.O. BOX 2007 Studio 1 at The Powerhouse Museum, enter from the Macarthur SOUTH MELBOURNE 3205, Street end.. Further information - Gordon Lasslett 9416 7603 VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA 106 AHSA Aviation Herit^e CIVIL FLYING BOAT OPERATIONS Hamilton Reach & Redland Bay 1946 -1974 by John Wilson Qantas Sandringham VH-EBV, “Pacific Warhol about to alight eariy morning at Redland Bay 1953 on the Port Moresby service. Photo; Courier Mail This chronology attempts to describe a sequenced list of events involving airline aircraft and operation of the two flying boat bases established in Brisbane on the Brisbane River and Redland Bay from the end of World War II until 1974. Focus has been placed on Barrier Reef Airways, Trans Oceanic Airways, Ansett Airways and Qantas' operations through Brisbane as well as the development of the two bases. HAMILTON REACH (Brisbane River) The flying boat engineering base at Colmsiie was situated on land administered as an Army (previously Naval) Reserve. It was located on the southern bank of the Brisbane River between the Cairncross Dry Dock and the Vacuum Oil Depot (now Mobil Oil). Access to the area was from Lytton Road, then via a narrow road passing through the reserve towards the river. Most of the facilities at Colmsiie, including slipways, tarmac and maintenance buildings, had been built by Pan American 1942-43 at an approximate cost of £200 000 as a refuelling depot for the U.S. Naval Air Transport Service for which Pan American operated Martin PBM Mariner and Consolidated PB2Y Coronado flying boats. The RAAF also used the mooring buoys for its own Martin Mariners as well as Catalinas. By the end of 1945 there were 8 mooring buoys in use: Nos 1,4,5 and 6 were for civil aircraft and Nos. 2, 3, 7 and 8 were Pan American buoys. The area passed to the Australian Navy as HMAS Moreton (Colmsiie) and employed civilian workers until it was closed down in 1948 and naval activities reverted to HMAS Moreton (New Farm). It appeared the reserve was then to be sold to industry but because of the international situation at the time and the extensive recruiting and training campaign being carried out by the military, control of the reserve passed to the Army on 28 September 1948 when the Brisbane City Council granted them a five year lease. From the end of 1946, part of the base became an engineering facility for civil flying boat operations until June 1953 when the Hamilton Reach was closed to further flying boat activity and all operations transferred to Redland Bay. The Ansett lease on the Colmsiie site ceased on 6 November 1953 and the Army handed the base back to the Navy on 28 April 1954. The site contained several long huts as well as other more permanent larger buildings. From late 1946 Barrier Reef Airways used part of the hardstand area and two Quonset huts were purchased and erected as workshops as any buildings belonging to the Army were not for use by the airline and were fenced off. This workshop was 20 metres x 25 metres and contained a bond and quarantine store as well as a tool store at one end but most maintenance carried out by engineers had to be completed in the open air. Other parts of the area were fenced off limits. The hardstand area stretched from the river bank back approximately 90 metres until it met rising ground behind the base and could accommodate several Catalinas and Sandringhams. Three Catalinas being broken up for spares were stored on grassy areas off the hardstand after engines had been removed. A slipway constructed during World War II was used to beach and launch the flying boats. Three mooring buoys remained on the southern side of the river from No.3 in front of the base upstream to No.1 near the Cairncross Dry Dock. Most aircraft operations used the Hamilton Reach and Quarries Reach although there were another three alighting areas further downstream. Control of air traffic on the Brisbane River was managed from the control tower at Eagle Farm aerodrome nearby. Passengers were brought by road from the city to the Hamilton Flying Boat Base on the northern bank situated between the Hamilton wharves and the BHP wharf. These buildings were owned by DCA and were leased to Qantas but as Barrier Reef operated more frequent flights from the river, Qantas eventually gave control of the building as well as the jetty and pontoon to Barrier Reef who then became the main handling agents for all flying boat operators. The RAAF also used the base and a military jetty occupied the eastern end of the site. Today this site no longer exists. -------------------------------------------------------------- 107 ------------------------------------------------------------- AHSA Aviation Heritage / f^^^^oochie Mudio I. 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