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TW Ha July, 1951. 2 the two rival Powers of East and West—Soviet [British] islands. We are now to a very large Russia and the U.S.A.—has swelled into titanic extent a part.of the Continent; conscription is a proportions. Two great world wars in which recognition of the fact, and air power is there to she took the harder blows and burdens in the remind us if we are ever likely to forget it. Australia's cause of human freedom have taken a grievous "The whole of the North Atlantic Treaty Or- toll of Britain's material resources. No longer, in ganisation is a recognition of this changed strat- terms of naval strength, for instance, is she first egy . . . The contribution which we are to put among the great naval powers of the world. In the into the North Atlantic Treaty will be a powerful North Atlantic Treaty Organisation it is the one and a significant one, but it is to be doubled United Suites that holds the premier placc in the by the other allies . . . whose total contribution formulation of Western policies, and in military will be twice our own." and naval strength and strategy. The pattern The emphasis on particular tasks will, clearly, of Allied sea power has changcd. In presenting also change from time to time. "The major em- the British Navy Estimates for 1951-52, Mr. L. J. phasis at the moment," Mr. Callaghan pointed Callaghan, Parliamentary Secretary to the Admir- out, "must be on anti-submarine and anti-aircraft. alty, when dealing particularly with Britain's posi- Wc must be flexible in our approach, and recog- tion in the wars in relation to sea power, with a nise our twin task of making our contribution to frankness and propriety common to the British the North Atlantic Treaty and maintaining a bal- mind, made this clear. Nor can the facts and anced Navy in addition. I still regard our own figures he presented be in any way disputed. Navy, although second in size as first in seaman- Mr. Callaghan pointed out that when wc start- ship and first in the quality of our ships. I have ed the last war the American Fleet and our own no doubt at all about that; I mean no offence to were roughly equal in manpower and in ships, anyone else when I say it. After all, we are a na- but as a result of the war the position changed. tion of seafarers, and there is no need for us to When the U.S.A. came into the war—following feel overwhelmed by anyone else. We have the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour—the Amer- watched many navies come and go—the Spanish, icans embarked on the biggest ship-building pro- the Dutch, the French, the German and the Jap- gramme the world had ever seen. Britain finished anese. We have lived with them all; we have the war with 17 aircraft carriers; the U.S.A. seen them on the seas, and we have seen them finished with 98, having started it with five. Both disappear from the seas. Now we have a large which the public can climb: a complete replica nations also started about level in destroyers and and friendly ally who has out-built us, partially of an engine room platform of a modern destroyer frigates but the United States finished with a through our own decision and partially through Vol. 15. JULY. 1951. No. 7. and also an actual jet engine and the rctractablc fleet of destroyers and frigates twice as large as the immense resources which she herself pos- undercarriagc of a Naval aircraft. Britain's. By 1945 the Royal Navy had a per- sesses"; but he thought that we could afford to The following cities and towns are to be visited: sonnel of about 850,000, including W.R.N.S. The r.'gard that with comparative equanimity. Perth, Edinburgh, Hawick, Liverpool, York, Hull, American Navy numbered over four million. To- He did not, however, take the view, presented ROYAL NAVY EXHIBITION. day Britain has 140,000 to 150,000 men in the Peterborough, Hartlepool, Shrewsbury, Worcester, by some of the British people, that "wc ought Royal Navy. The Americans would this year Leicester, Wolverhampton, Oxford, Exeter, Guild- now to put ourselves in a position in which our A distance of more than 2,500 miles is to he have 850,000 in their naval forces. Navy must, by virtue of sheer size, be as large as Covered this summer in Britain by a small convoy ford, Littlchampton, Tunbridgc Wells, and Col- chester. It is clear that the balance of sea power has that of our friendly ally. That seems an impossible of heavily laden lorries transporting the popular tilted away from us very dramatically during the and ridiculous position. So far from being over- "Meet the Navy Exhibition", seen last year by last 10 years," said Mr. Callaghan. It surely has— whelmed by what is happening or [by the] feel- more than a million people, to eighteen cities and THE CHANGING PATTERN OF SEA- but not through any lack or waning of national ing that the Royal Navy is taking a second place, towns in England and Scotland. The travelling POWER AND STRATEGY: effort and spirit. When Britain was withstanding I am confident," said Mr. Callaghan, "that in our exhibition has been described as a succession of Its Realities And Inevitabilities. alone the Fascist forces in the Mediterranean, nv;n, ships, history and fighting qualities our "Navy Days on Wheels" as it takes to men, wo- when she and this our Commonwealth were al- Navy, which has stood for many hundreds of men, and children living in inland, and some The friends of Britain across the seas, the most defeated in the Pacific, when we were all years, will go on, will continue in the paths ft has coastal areas long distances from Naval bases, nations that still hope through her that peace and desperately fighting the Battle of the Atlantic, set itself ... a safeguard and a shield for our coun- many of the attractions of the "Navy Days" held justice shall prevail in a disordered world, will wish Britain and the British people had no time to try." at the south coasts ports and Rosyth cach year. her self-sacrificial rearmament programme well. It think of rivalry and a thousand years of naval tra- In the White Paper on "The System .of Com- Housed in an eighty-foot marquee will be ex- is a symbol of the British peoples' enduring great- dition, exccpt in terms of how best they could mand Within The North Atlantic Treaty Organ- hibits illustrating every branch of the Naval Ser- ness that, although their domestic economy must preserve the safety of their merchantmen and isation," published by H.M. Stationery Office on vice, while outside features will include displays of necessity in the process be yet further restrict- maintain the Will to Win that Britons never have April 17, the command system as at present de- by Royal Marine frogmen and Judo experts in ed, they are still ready undauntedly to pour forth failed to maintain. veloped was summarised Among other import- addition to demonstrations by Royal Marine Com- their blood and treasure in defence of the greater "It is," said Mr. Callaghan, "during this last ant statements, it makes it clear that: mando Assault units and flights of Naval aircraft. cause of liberal democracy. period that, for the first time, certainly, in many Among the many other attractions will be a "It was unanimously agreed that the Supreme hundreds of years, our Fleet has been out-num- specially-built ten-foot scale model of H.M.S. That is, it is generally accepted, just as it should Commander should be an American and that his hercd and out-paced by a friendly ally. While "Implacable" with part of the deck flight and be. Yet has it not its pathos as well as its great- Deputy should be British", but that such command this has been going on there has been, simultan- hull cut-away in order that the "below deck" ness? "excludes British and European coastal waters and eously, a profound changc in the strategy of these hangars and workshops can be seen; a life size For it can never be forgotten that, while Brit- the English Channel." section of an X-craft (midget submarine) into ain's own material strength has declined, that of July, 1951. S TIM Navy 4 APPEASEMENT DOESNT PAY C. GILES By the Director-General of Recruiting, Sir Edmund Herring.

SHAVING & SONS "THE LESSON IS CLEAR —YOU CAN'T MAINTAIN PEACE BY CREAM BURYING YOUR HEAD IN THE SAND AND PRETENDING YOU CAN'T SEE WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE WORLD" For a quicker • SACK Between the two World Wars To earn our place in the team way of life, we must be prepared and the peace-loving nations tried ap- we must build up our armed to put Australia before ourselves peasement as a means of maintain- forces and strengthen our morale. and our sectional interests, and to more comfortable AND ing peacc. We let Japan, then The Communists and their fellow work not only for what we can • PRODUCE Mussolini and Hitler get away travellers arc doing all they can get out of life, but for what we MERCHANTS, with one act of aggression after to hinder the building up of our can give to others. Only by hard SHAVE another. Finally, Hitler thought forces and to lower our morale by work from everybody will we be he could get away with anything stopping production, fostering able to develop our country and and we were plunged into World class hatred and decrying all those produce goods for one another and War II quite unprepared. Wc things like religion and loyalty pass on to our children a worthy consequently suffered disaster on example and a rich heritage. 341 MALVERN RD„ that should unite us as a decent- disaster and only narrowly avoid- thinking people. If we give way to selfishness SOUTH YARRA, ed total eclipse. MELBOURNE, and greed, if we lower production, VICTORIA. Since 1945 International Com- if wc waste our time finding fault munism has maintained gigantic with other well-meaning Aus- forces, while we all disarmed. It tralians, we play the Communist 'PHONBS-. BJ 3255-6. has launched one aggression after game. Wc destroy our unity and another—Berlin, Greece, Malaya, our morale goes down. Indo China and Korea. To pre- The Communist plan provides vent these local aggressions leading for us to be incorporated in the to World War III the Democ- Greater Asia Co-Prosperity racies must make it clear to Stalin Sphere. This means that should BRYANT that they are united in their de- we fall under Communist domina- termination and ate strong enough tion, Australia will be given as a & to stand up to him. This they can prize to the Asiatics and those of only do if they work together as us who are left will be enslaved a team and all do their utmost to under foreign commissars. make the largest possible contribu- Twice before in this century wc MAY'S tion to the united effort. have had to fight for our freedom Sir Edmund H.rring. SAFETY MATCHES. It is as a member of the peace and all we hold dear. I believe lovers' team that Australia must that if we exert ourselves now and play her part, along with Great The average Australian has no show that we are prepared to make • New Improved Blue Britain, the United States and all room for class hatred in his heart. sacrifices and to stand four-square the other peace-loving countries. I believe we all want to be honest, beside the other countries who Head! None of them can do the job hard-working people. If, how- want peace, we may yet avert the alone, but as a member of the team ever, we arc to continue as a free, war we all dread, and save our In this land of ours—in this Australia of kindliness, of friendship, • Improved, Steady-burn- each may well play a decisive part. civilisation. of good humoured tolerance . . . perhaps no beverage is more at united people, living a Christian home than good Australian beer. For beer is a drink Australians ing Wood! like. It is a part of pleasant living, of good fellowship, of sensible moderation. Aud our right to enjoy it . . . this too is a part of • Longer-wearing Strik- our Australian heritage of personal freedom. WE NEED YOUR HELP TO MAKE AUSTRALIA STRONG ing Surfaces! Never was the need so great for experienced men in the Navy, Army and Air Force. Beer is Good For You Thousands of young, enthusiastic, but untrained men are answering Australia's call • Uniform High Quality. for rapid expansion of our defence forces. They need your help to make them Enjoy it! efficient sailors, soldiers and airmen. 1st FOR VALUE. NEW PAY RATES, NEW CONDITIONS. MAKE SERVICE LIFE TODAY REALLY CARLTON Be UNITED BREWERIES LTD ATTRACTIVE BREWING IN AUSTRALIA FOR 9S YEARS.

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AT THE JUBILEE OPENING OF PARLIAMENT CEREMONY AT CANBERRA, ON JUNE 12 LAST, THE PARADING OF THE NAVAL KING'S COLOUR, WITH ALL THE HONOURS AND PAGEANTRY ATTACHED TO SUCH AN OCCASION, PROVIDED A COLOURFUL AND IMPRESSIVE FEATURE OF THE HISTORIC PROCEEDINGS. By A Special Correspondent

It was a brilliantly impressive was sent from Flinders Naval new King's Colour which was pre- ccrcmony and lent added dignity Depot to the R.A.N, air station at sented by Princess Elizabeth. Two to the historic proceedings in Nowra, near Jervis Bay (New- thousand five hundred men, in- which nearly 4,000 members of South Wales), and from there was cluding Royal Marines, were on the services marched past His taken to Canberra. parade. Excellency the Governor-General Made of silk, the King's Colour After Her Royal Highness had (the Right Hon W J. McKell). is of handsome design. It is a inspected the guard of honour the Because the King's Colour is a White Ensign, secured to an ash massed bands of the Royal treasured possession it is paraded staff by a blue and gold cord with Marines of the Station marched only rarely, and, when it is, it is tassels. The staff is surmounted by past and the old Colour was troop- accorded the very highest honours. a gilt badge consisting of an ed and marched off to the playing It is guarded by a Colour party Admiralty pattern anchor on a of "Auld Lang Syne." The new consisting of a sub-lientenant or three-faced shield, with a Crown Colour, which had been conse- lieutenant wearing a sword, a superimposed. crated some days before, was then chief petty officer, armed with a In the centre of the Colour placed upon a pile of drums in the drawn cutlass, and two petty th?re is a crimson circle, bearing centre of the parade ground. officers, or leading seamen, carry- the Royal Cypher and surrounded The Princess, having taken the ing rifles with bayonets fixed. by the Garter, which is ensigned Colour in her hand, presented it Neither the Royal Navy nor the with the Imperial Crown. to a kneeling officer and said: Royal Australian Navy, nor any It is never paraded on board "Throughout history, in peace and of the other Dominion Navies ship or on foreign territory, and war, the Colours have been the owned a King's Colour until after is paraded on shore only on cer- most cherished possession of the the First World War, when the tain special ccremonial occasions. regiments of the Army. Although late King (George V decided to In the Royal Navy it may he the Navy has sailed under the present Colours to the Home paraded by guards of honour White Ensign for 100 years, it was .. . HMAS "Au.tr.li." cho.-.d th. d..«»V I " -»>•» dtoSydn.y. Ports and to commands afloat and mounted for the King or other not until more recently that a r.Hn,. on tho bow of H.M.A.5. Au.Tr.l,. _Court.ly Sydne, Mc-'-q Hor, d abroad, as well as to the Royal members of the Royal family, or King's Colour was introduced so Australian Navy, the Royal New for the heads of foreign States, that, when ashore, you would be Zealand Navy and the Royal at reviews held to celebrate the able to carry with pride the Cross Canadian Navy. The Royal Aus King's birthday; and on important of St. George under which you EirrHUSiASTic HOME COMING FOR H.MJ\.S. BATAAN tralian Navy received two of them, ceremonial occasions abroad as serve at sea. one of which was kept in the flag- ordered by the Admiralty or by "It is also right and proper that Commanders-in-Chief. Bataan' on her return to the Aus- ship of the then Australian Squad- the people should see the White leave party from the destroyer A delighted, vocifcrous crowd tralian station and desires to ex- ron and the other at Flinders In the Royal Australian Navy Ensign under which the Royal was pushing its way through the of 400 relatives and friends of the press its appreciation of the dis- Naval Depot at Crib Point, Vic. it may be paraded in celebration Navy has policed the seas and pro- excited crowd. It temporarily of the King's' birthday and at crew, with "welcomc home" ban- tinguished servicc given by the After King George V's death. tected the freedom of the Com- prevented Fleet Flag Officer, other important ccremonial occa- ners flying, greeted H.M.A.S. captain, officers and ship's com- King George VI presented new- monwealth and Empire for so RAN., Rear - Admiral J. A sions at which the Governor- "Bataan" when she berthed at pany during the past year under Colours, and the old Colours were long. Ecdes, C.B.E., and Rear-Admiral General is present. Among those Garden Island, Sydney, on June extremely arduous and difficult laid up. One of those in posses- "I leave this Colour in your H. A. Showers, C.B., who were occasions in Australia is the com- 14 after eleven months' servicc in conditions. sion of the Royal Australian Navy keeping in the confident assurance officially awaiting 'Bataan's" ar- memoration of Trafalgar Day Korean waters. "The Naval Board also desires was placed in the chapel of the that it will be sustained with rival, from boarding the destroyer. flagship and the other in the chapel every year in front of Parliament honour and respect bv the Medi- "Bataan" came up the harbour to wish the ship's company a On her way back to Australia at the Naval Depot. House, Melbourne. terranean Fleet." flying the United Nations flag. happy reunion with their families for shore leave and refit, the Aus- One of the present King's When the King's Colour is re- The Royal Navy is proud of its The Australian destroyer had and a pleasant and well-deserved tralian Naval Board sent a mes- Colours is kept in H.M.A.S. ceived or surrendered by the King's Colours and so is the Royal steamed 70,000 miles since it left leave " sage of appreciation and good "Sydney," flagship of the Aus- Colour party it is given a Royal Australian Navy of the Colours Sydney 12 months ago in the ser- Forty of "Bataan's" crew have wishes to the officers and men of tralian Fleet, and the other in the salute. which it owns. The people of vice of that organisation volunteered to go back to Korean Within two minutes of the first "Bataan." The Naval Board's v.ardroom of the Depot In Malta, on April 5 last, the Australia should be proud of them, message was as follows: waters with the ship after it has The Colour used on June 12 Mediterranean Station received a too. line being thrown ashore, the completed a two-month refit. gangplank was down and the first "The Naval Board welcomes Tb« Hoy July, IWI. I service from the new Fairey STATE AN0 NEEDS OF NAVAL AVIATION "G.R.I7," which is in fact the first naval aircraft designed exclusively In Which The Fifth Sea Lord, Vice-Admiral M. J. Mansergh, to fight submarines. We are also C.B, C.B.E, Gives His Official Views On Thf Air Arm Of The exploring very carefully the pos- Royal Navy. sibility of employing naval heli- AIRCRAFT copters for the defence of con- The Fifth Lord ot the Ad- was detached at short notice from voys. miralty, who is the Air Arm mem- the Home Fleet, and yet she has Question.—Have you got all CARRIERS ber of the B-xirJ, when replying achieved an outstanding and pos- the pilots you need? to several vital questions concern- sibly unsurpassed scale of opera- Answer.—No. This is the most ing Naval Aviation recently, em- tions. At the same time she has important problem we have to EQUIPMENT phasised two particular factors: the lowest number of aircraft fa^e. Even to-day we are able to first, the primary need for more accidents on record (1,300 con- meet our commitments only by pilots; and, second, the high state secutive deck landings without mis- stretching ourselves almost to DAMAGED of efficiency the Air Arm of the hap) — no mean feat in the bad breaking point. In view of our Royal Navy has attained. The weather in which they have been expansion programme, we urgent- questions which led to his Lord- working. ly need a greater flow of volun- ship's statements were put to him teers, both for Regular Service during an interview which he Question.—Some people cling to the idea that the Royal Navy and for our five R.N.V.R. Squad- granted the "News of the World" rons, but they must be of the right and the questions and answers is old-fashioned and reluctant to embrace new ideas. Is* this true of type. It is my persona] belief were published originally in that that in no other profession, or newspaper on March 18th, as its approach to the use of air power? occupation, arc such high qualities follows: of skill, courage and determina- -Courtesy Sydney Mominq Herald. Arouier.—No, quite untrue. I tion required as in Naval Avia- Question The public would should like to remind you of three tion. I ask young men to come Above: H.M.A.S. Sydney" in the Captain Cook graving dock liltc to be reassured that the Royal things that people arc apt to over- forward for the inspiring task of being refitted for active service in Korean waters. Navy is still in the highest state look: First, the Navy in World forming the spearhead and corps of efficiency, and has kept well War I, with its Royal Naval Air d'elitc of the Royal Navy. I Left: Radar equipment, shown here on the 'Sydney, is essential abreast of modern invention. As Service, was among the pioneers have little doubt that had Nelson to give warning of approaching aircratt. Fifth Sei Lord you are particular- of aviation; second, it was barely been starting his career to-day he ly interested in the Air Arm of 12 years ago—just before World would have become a naval the Service Are you satisfied with War II—that the Navy was given aviator. its strength and quality? full control of its own flying; On 26th June, the Acting Minister for the Navy. Mr. third, the present-day Navy de- Question.—Would you like to Anm'er. - -Admirals arc never Josiah Francis, announced that one of the radar sets in votes nearly a quarter of its say something about pay and pros- satisfied that they have got all they the aircraft-carrier "Sydnoy" had been deliberately man-power and approaching one- pects? damaged. require. At present, we have good third of its budget directly or in- When making this announcement. Mr. Francis said: aircraft, but some of them are of directly to aviation. Answer.—As one illustration of "This will show Ihe Australian people how close our rather old design. We have been pay, the rate for a married enemy is to us. although we may think he is far away." living on our war-time fat de- Question.—C o u 1 d you say Lieutenant, aged 25, on fully fly- This is the second time that an attempt to sabotage ing duties is £985 a year, while the "Sydney's" equipment has been detected. liberately. with the intention of something about the use of the When she was nearing completion at Devonport Royal 'Icvoting our limited resources to Air Arm against submarines for short-service officers who do Oockyard, England, in 1948, six steel bolts were found development .ind preparation to which our enemies might use not remain on, there is a large in the gearbox of the main engine. They stripped cog- take a big step forward at the against us? gratuity on leaving. The way is wheels and damaged a pinion when the engine was turned right time. That time is now. also open at the top and I might over as the vessel began her trials. Answer.—The submarine threat point out that to-day there are When the engine sump was inspected the bolts, each Aircraft are now coming into ser- is a very real and dangerous one. several flying admirals on the List measuring 4} inches, were found. They could not have vice of a very high quality. These However, I do not suppose the of Flag Officers. A career in naval been left in the sump accidentally. include the "Sea Hawk," the public have forgotten the success aviation offers splendid prospects H.M.A.S. "Sydney" was built as H.M.S. "Terrible. ' newest jet fighter of all to come and on completion was re-named by the wife of the then of naval aircraft against U-boat for any young man who wants a nff the production line in this Australian High Commissioner to Britain, Mrs. J. A. packs in the last war, and we have life of adventure, and is prepared Beasley, in December, 1948. country, which was designed speci- come a long way since then. We to go out into the world and get it. The "Sydney," which cost £4.375.000. is a 14.000-ton fically for the Royal Navy from its have been keeping our scientists displacement carrier of the Majestic class. She has a conception. If you want an ex- busy in developing the means of fliqht deck 630 feet long and M2 feet wide. ample of our readiness, noticc the The "Svdney" arrived in Australia in May, 1949. A countering such developments in sister-ship. H.M.A.S. "Melbourne." now under construc- work done by H.M.S. "Theseus" submarines as the "snort" and tion, is expected to be commissioned in 1952. and her Air Group off Korea. higher submerged speeds that have This carrier and her company been introduced since 1940. For was not handpicked when she our part, we expect to get good

Tta Nn J«ly. Ml. H would be coming forward in 1952. ANTI-SUBMARINE DEVELOPMENTS Experiments had been conducted in flying helicopters off the deck of a fleet auxiliary, and it was PAUL & GRAY PTY. LTD. The vital need to he prepared which the experts considered as class light fleet carriers, which hoped that helicopters and the to deal effectively with the high significant as the ^development of would be able to operate the latest "G.R.17" would be able to make «2 SUSSEX STREET, SYDNEY speed warfare of the future, if the water-tube boilers in the early types of aircraft. Six of the eight great use of the Sono-buoy. The war should come, has very natural- part of the twentieth century; "Daring" class destroyers would Sono-huoy was dropped from a ly and very splendidly brought and a development of the Asdic be undergoing sea trials this year. hclicoptcr or other aircraft; it forth a response inherently charac- equipment for locating submarines, The Admiralty was not proposing listened to the submarines that teristic of British naval science. which detected, located, aimed, to resume the "Tiger" class could not be seen and relayed Discussing the technical needs and fired in one equipment. That cruisers until certain research work what it had heard to the aircraft. of the Navy, Mr. L. J. Callaghan, equipment, now undergoing tests in connection with fire control Its usefulness to any omvoy which Parliamentary Secretary of the at sea, was remarkable and en- and gunnery had been completed. was following is clearly apparent. Admiralty, emphasised recently couraging evidence of the develop- As to new construction, the The common accusation against the fact that the major problem ment of anti-submarine weapons programme of vessels to be laid the Fighting Services that they confronting naval circles centred since the last war." down during the next three years fight a war on the last war's on the predicted increased speed Dealing with the effect of re- totalled 232 ships, including six methods will scarcely hold in the of attack. That factor was car- armament on the Navy, and there aircraft - carriers, eight destroyers, SHIP CHANDLERS, SAILMAKERS & IMPORTERS next war, if such there be. dinal in all our needs, and fore, in a general way, with its 24 frigates (17 of which had "dominated," he said "the whole effect on combating the submarine already been ordered), and nearly YACHT REQUISITES OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS • ORPHAN ISLAND" NOW of the research and development threat, Mr. Callaghan said there 200 minesweepers, patrol boats, A SANCTUARY. RIGGING AND SPLICING A SPECIALITY of the Admiralty scientists' work was already a plan for the Fleet; and the like small craft. Forty- at the present time. Increased thus the Navy was able quickly to one minesweepers had already The island of Chaya ku Ko, speed of attack meant that they say what it needed and in what been ordered, together with 28 off the West coast of Korea, about had to be able to detect at a greater order. The immediate cffect had patrol boats of various descrip- which an interesting story was distance .and that made it more been to bring a further 60 ships tions. It was hoped that most of told in our April issue, has now important to measure range and forward from reserve into com- the new ships would be completed been taken under the "wing" of ROYLYN DRY CLEAHERS height earlier. A faster shell was mission with the active Fleet. at the latest by the end of 1955. the United Nations Forces. DEPOTS THROUGHOUT SYDNEY AND also wanted. All those things were Other ships in the reserve Fleet When the programme was com- It was here, it will be remem- METROPOLITAN AREAS resulting in equipment and were now being stored, and in pleted the Royal Navy would bcred.that 20 orphaned children, weapons that were becoming much stocks and stores the Navy would have 18 fleet and light fleet air- found naked and starving in bit- NAVAL AND MERCANTILE WORK more complex and bigger in size." be in a healthy position when the craft-carriers, plus three in the terly cold weather, were adopted ON SHORT NOTICE In fact, the "Navy was now be- programme was completed. Commonwealth Navies, making a by the British cruiscr H.M.S. coming the scientists' dream." Long-term proposals include the total of 21, compared with the "Ceylon" (Captain C. F. J. Lloyd Head Office and Works: For one thing, equipment was conversion of 45 destroyers to war-time peak number of 11 such Davies. D.S.C., R.N.). The ship's li BEATTIE STREET, BALMAIN becoming too big and weighty. anti-submarine frigates, which will vessels. company of the "Ceylon" fed and clothcd the children, chopped "Research was concentrated," have the double advantage of pro- As for Aviation, a series of Telephone: WB 2660. firewood, and left sufficient sup- Mr. Callaghan continued, "on re- viding very fast ships and saving tailor - made aircraft was now- plies for the winter. ducing size of equipment and get- a great deal of money, because a coming along for the Royal Navy ting lighter materials, and on find- single conversion would cost about — aircraft which could search, Now a black circle rings Chaya JAMES PATRICK & CO. PTY. LTD. ing the answer to increased speed. £500,000, whereas an entirely strike, and fight. The "Sea ku Wo on all the war maps of the In that connection radar was new frigate would cost about Hawk" jet fighter, which would United Nations Naval and Air SHIPOWNERS — AGENTS — CONTRACT Forces, indicating that a bomb coming to the forefront even more £1,333,000. A new destroyer he coming along in th'is financial STEVEDORES than during the last war as the costs about £1,750,000, more than year, had a performance that line had been established and that CHARTERS AND BUNKERS ARRANGED servant of our arms and equip- the cost of a battleship before would rival that of any land air- no bombs or shells were to be ment." Primarily, too. British World War I. craft. In addition, there was the dropped within its area. REGULAR INTERSTATE ft OVERSEAS CARGO 6c scientists were being kept busy in A plan was also under way to "Wyvern" turbo-prop strike air- War might rage all round PASSENGER SERVICES devising the means of countering modernise during the next two or craft, and the Navy was attaching Chaya ku Ko, hut the island it- such developments as the 'Snort' three years a large number of great importance to the "G.R.I7," self is a sanctuary in which its and the higher submerged speeds destroyers (without conversion) a specially designed anti-submarine only inhabitants the 20 children Agents for . . . than have hitherto been known. and a number of cruisers. aircraft. and a woman guardian -live in "Significant developments in The position with regard to air- Meanwhile, the Navy had the peace. They lie within the shelt- er of the guns of British and ship machinery are also taking craft-carriers was also in course of "Attacker," really an interim air- TAgMANCT^MtHIP CO. LTO.-Rrfri*™* c^o, Au-Ji. American warships, under the place, and these include a new considerable improvement. The craft, which would be coming into "motherly" eye of H.M.S. "Cey- ERIE RAILROAD (USA.)—AianUlu *„,„. steam turbine for frigates which "Eagle," Britain's latest and operation this year. The aircraft lon." Head Office: 19 BRIDGE S1REET , SYDNEY worked at a higher pressure and largest ship of this type, was now they were relying on were the Phone: BW4181. at higher temperatures than ever undergoing sea trials, and ship- "Sea Hawk" and the Fairey "Fire- Thus, in the midst of war, is a MELBOURNE AND BRISBANE before; a Diesel engine of large yards were pushing ahead-with the fly." The "Venom," a night mission of mercy consummated WITH AGENTS AT ALL MAIN PORTS OSIAUCTVALIA. horse-power for smaller craft. "Ark Royal" and four "Hermes" fighter for operation from carriers. and welded into history. M* IHI. t « ttv Nsvy Nations Naval Forces continued COMMANDO MISSION to maintain a tight blockade of MARITIME NEWS OF THE sea communications, the force in- Telling Of An Incident In The War In Korea, In Which A cluding the Netherlands destroyer "EvcrL-.cn," the Royal Navy de- Small British Commando Force Blew Up A Communist-Held stroyer "Cockade" and frigate Section Of A Mainline Coastal Railway. "Black Swan," the New Zealand frigate "Tutira," and numerous A raiding force of 250 Royal fence perimeter and planted their Republics of Korea patrol craft. The United Nations" Fleet operat- WORLD Marine Commandos stormed demolition charges. From our Correspondents in ashore on April 7th eight miles Although a captured civilian ing in Korean waters now includes ships from Denmark, Australia. south of Songjin and demolished a reported strong anti-invasion forces LONDON and NEW YORK Canada, New Zealand, Republic section of the mainline of the to the North of Songjin, the raid- of Korea, Thailand, United King- By coastal railway. ing party encountered only token dom, Netherlands, and United AIR MAIL The Commandos, led by Lieut • resistance and small arms fire dur States. Colonel D. B. Drysdalc, M.B.E., ing the seven hours required to Royal Marines, and operating as The history of the British Com complete the task. So complete BATTLE WITH HURRICANE. JAPAN TO RESUME PACIFIC part of a Combined Task Force was the surprise of the landing mandos in Korea is a history of made, it said, to charter ships, but With sails badly torn, port- SHIPPING TRADE. under the overall command of and so effective was the curtain of high distinction. In the operations there was little hope that such Rear-Admiral Roscoe H. Hillen- at Chosin Reservoir, for instance, holes smashed and bulwarks stove Allied headquarters in Tokyo charters could be effected. Naval gunfire in denying the in the 22-ton schooner "Ornant" koettcr, U.S.N., succeeded in enemy access to the area of opera- their conduct was outstandingly on June 12 authorised the rcsump blowing up more than 100 yards gallant and distinguished. Awards reached Auckland, New Zealand, tion of Japanese shipping on the COLLISION IN NEWCASTLE tions that no casualties were suf- on May 12 Her passage from of railway track and left a crater fered by the raiding forcc. to members of 41 Independent Japan to North America trade- HARBOUR. 16 feet deep. It was an example Commando, Royal Marines, an- Suva, h.r last port of call, had routes. Ships—the first to run of good operational methods, sur- Vice-Admiral C. Turner Joy, nounced in the "London Gazette" taken 22 days She had weather- on these routes for 10 years- Two ships, the overseas vessel prise tactics, and effective gunnery, Commander of the United Nations on May 18th, arc notably indica- ed 12 days of almost continuous will probably begin to sail in July. "Risaldar" and the inter-State both by big calibre and small arms Naval Forces, said afterwards "the tive of that. hurricane, which her skipper. Four Japanese shipping groups freighter "River Murchison," col-- Captain Donald MacLeod, de- Royal Marines are to be congratu- "The awards," says the "Ad- wjll each contribute five ships. lided in Newcastle Harbour (New The mission was accomplished scribed as the worst weather he lated on another typically fine per- miralty News Summary," "were Japanese shipping circles expect South Wales) on June 14 The under cover of naval aircraft and had encountered in 47 years. The formance." for exceptional services and great an average net profit of £A37,500 "Risaldar" was on its way to sea a bombardment force including the "Ornant" was manned by the While this raid was in progress, gallantry during the withdrawal of on •••ach voyage. Major ports of when it is said to have swung U.S. heavy cruiser "Saint Paul." skipper, his 20-ycar-old son Ken- elsewhere up and down 250 miles the Commando from the Chosin call will be Manila, San Fran heavily on to the " River Murchi- A fire control party from the neth. and three young first-trip Reservoir (Northern Korea) last cisco, Los Angeles. New York. son." tied up at Dyke End. Both "Saint Paul" accompanied the of the East Coast of North Korea deckhands. They arrived wearing November to the Hungnam bridge- Cristobal, Boston, Philadelphia, vessels were damaged, but not, Royal Marines ashore and Naval air and surface units main shins improvised from blankets, head shortly after the intervention and Baltimore. it is thought, to any great extent. throughout the operations directed tained a relentless disruption of the only dry material aboard. supporting Naval gunfire while transportation lines. of Chinese forces in the cam the Commandos maintained a de- On the West Coast, United paign." AMAZING RESCUE. S.S. "MILDURA" SOLD TO WARTIME POOI. OF SHIPS. The Commanding Officer. When the assistant purser of JAPAN. Major (Acting Lieut. - Colonel) Press reports from London on the "Monowai", Mr. John L. Vir- Douglas Burns Drysdale, of Hasle- May 27 s.ud that the nations tue, fell overboard five hours af- The A.U.S.N, steamer •Mil- mere, Surrey, was made a Com- bound by the North Atlantic ter the ship left Sydney for Auck- dura," so long known to Austra- panion of the Distinguished Ser- Treaty have agreed to place all land on March 15, he was res- lian inter-State trade, has been vice Order, and the Military Cross their ocean-going -hipping into cued two hours later. A lighted sold to Japanese shipbreakcrs for one central pool m the event of scrap iron. The "Mildura" is 1foJ((fovcuitt was awarded to Captain (local buoy was dropped and a boat low- Major) Dennis Leolin Samuel St. war. An international defencc ered. Eventually when the ship more than 30 years old, and was Maur Aldridge, Captain Leslie ^hipping authority, to be known was under way again cries were due for a Lloyd's survey which ROBBIALAC George Marsh, and Captain Pat- as the Treaty Planning Board heard and a boat was again low- would cost ahouf £175,000- more rick John Ovens. tor Ocean Shipping, will control ered. Virtue was found swim- than the ship's value. Built in m tC fmidl/ the pool. The Board woulJ have 1920 for the Commonwealth The Military Medal was award- ming. but exhausted and woultj full and world-wide allocation. Government, the Mildura", ed to Colour Sergeant (acting not have remained afloat much longer. (3,498 tons) was formerly the Quartermaster Sergeant) James "Enoggera." and was launched by SHIPMASTER TO RETIRE. Baines, Marine George Bramble. the Prince of Wales, now the Corporal Ernest Cruse, Marinc Captain Sir Henry Gordon, COAL FROM INDIA. Duke of Windsor, when he tour- Arthur Alexander Henry Harpur, master of the "Dominion Mon A message from New Delhi on ed Australia. It is officially stated Marine Malcolm Hine, Sergeant irch," (27.155 tons) since 1943, May 51 said that India has ship- that, in the disposal of the ship Reginald William David James, will retire from the Shaw Savill ped only 194,000 tons of 650,000 to Japanese buyers, suitable safe- A JENSON & NICHOLSON QUALITY PRODUCT Corporal Henry Langton, Cor- Lin-* Scrvicc when the vessel tons of coal she contracted to guards have been taken to enstire poral Gersham Maindonald, and completes its present round voy- supply Australia by June this that it does not fall into enemy Marine Richard Twigg. age from England to Australia. year. Every effort was being hands.

Tto Navy July, 1951. GIANT JAPANESE SHIP- "QUEEN ELIZABETH" TO KOREAN NAVY CITED Korea's coasts and the naval BUILDING PROGRAMME. THE RESCUE. blockade to maintain U.N. con- A high American official pre- trol of the seas. The mammoth liner "Queen The Courage And Devotion To Duty Of The Officers And G. J. COOMBE dicted on June 17 that Japan will Elizabeth" altered course in mid- At the Chinhac ceremonies, Men Of The Republic Of Korea Navy Was Recently The he allowed to increase her ocean- Atlantic recently to go to the aid Rear-Admiral Smith represented going merchant fleet by a million of the Norwegian freighter "Hal- Subject Of A High Citation By The American Commander Of U.S: Vice-Admiral C. T. Joy, tons shortly. A delegation of Commander Naval Forces, Far Manufacturer of lindal," adrift after a boiler-room The United Nations' Forces In The Korean Campaign. Japan's shipping, shipbuilding, explosion. The freighter report- East Lieutenant-General John B. and fishery executives are going ed, however, that she was in no Coulter, \ Deputy Commander of to Washington in July to confer The "will to fight" of officers to your leaders, and to each of the U.S. Eighth Army, and mili- danger of sinking. and men of the Republic of MEN'S SHORT with America's policy-makers. A you in the Republic of Korea tary and civilian representatives of Korea's Navy was praised by Navy." giant shipbuilding programme has US.A. LAUNCHES ITS Denmark, Sweden, Thailand, been drawn up designed to swx;ll United States Navy officials dur Philippines, Greece, and Union of TROUSERS BIGGEST LINER. ing ceremonies here at the R.O.K. Following the presentation of Japan's merchant fleet to 1,700,- awards, President Rhee said: "I South Africa also were present. 000 tons. The North American The largest and fastest passeng- Naval Academy, which is modelled and er ship ever built in America, the upon that of the United States at am happy to have this opportunity Newspaper Alliance, one of the to express Korea's thanks to the most powerful news groups in "United States," 51,500 tons, was Annapolis, Maryland, U.S.A. SHORTS. launched at Newport News, Vir- people of the United States for all U.S.A., is reported to have said President Syngman Rhec, of the ginia, on June 25. At full cap- the help that they have given us that "This is part of a long-range Korean Republic, John J. Muccio, acity she will carry 2,000 pas- in the hour of our need." plan to make Japan the chief in- U.S. Ambassador to the Republic, sengers, a crew of 1,000 and dustrial bulwark .in the Orient." and United States Senator War- President Rhce also presented 148,000 cubic feet of cargo. She ROMAN GALLEY REBUILT. ren G. Magnuson, of fhe State of to Admiral Smith the Republic of can be converted speedily to carry Washington, who has been study- Korea Medal in recognition of his A message from Naples, Italy, 14,000 soldiers on her 12 decks. ing conditions in the Far East, services as Commander of the says that a shipyard there has re- By the time she makes her maid- 245 CASTLEREAGH ST., were present at the ccrcmonies. United Nations Blockading and built an ancient Roman galley. It en voyage . from New York to Escort Force. He cited Admiral SYDNEY was damaged during the last war England and Francc next year, Rear-Admiral Allan E. Smith, Smith for his co-ordination of the when the retreating Germans the liner will have cost 70 million U.S. Navy commander of a PHONE: MA 7846 naval gunfire interdiction along blew up a museum. The galley dollars (£A31 million). Morc United Nations blockading and has been restored as a museum than a third of her cost is going cscort force of which the R.O.K. exhibition piece more or less to into troopship features. She is Navy is a part, presented U.S. its former place. designed to travel at more than Silver Star and Bronze Star SHIPPING INQUIRY URGED. 50 knots per hour. Although medals to officers and sailors of the Korean Navy, in recognition The Premier of Tasmania, Mr. three feet longer than the "Queen of their courage and devotion to Cosgrove, said on May 50 that he Elizabeth", she will rank in ton- duty He cited the "will to fight" would ask the Federal Govern- nage only as the world's third of R.O.K. Navy personnel, and ment to appoint a Royal Commis- largest liner, behind the "Queen expressed confidence in their de- sion to inquire into shipping ser- Elizabeth" and "Queen Mary." termination to continue resisting vices in Australian waters. He The extensive use of aluminium aggression. would ask that the inquiry should in her construction is said to be cover turn round of ships, the one reason for her lessened ton- nage. "Korea is an old and respected high cost of freights, and inade- nation," he said in presenting the quate port facilities and wharf medals in the name of President storage. He said all other State PROTEST ON SUEZ. Truman, "and you men of Korea Premiers had agreed that the time The Australian Government have chosen to accept the chal- had arrived when such an in- has formally protested to the lenge of Communism, in order to quiry was necessary in order to Egyptian Government against remain free men. In accepting bring shipping into effective oper- Suez Canal shipping restrictions. this, war was brought down upon ation. Unrestricted passage through the you, and in it your President and U.K.-AUSTRALIA SHIPPING Canal, it was stressed, remains an Admiral Sohn (Chief of Staff of SERVICES SUPPLEMENTED important Australian interest. the R.O.K. Navy) created a Navy. Since hostilities between Israel According to an Australian As- "Neither my Navy nor your and the Arab States began in sociated Press message from Lon- Navy has all the ships and equip- 1948 the Egyptian Government don on May 50, shipping lines op- ment it could use, but one thing crating between Britain and Aus- had imposed restrictions on the use of the Canal. Australia has you men of the Navy of the tralia have secured six more ships Republic of Korea do possess is to supplement their present sail- now joined the United Kingdom. the will to fight. Retingi aboard the Pakistan frigate "Sind" testing the ship's compel! for their ings. These ship.s arc in addition South Africa, the United States, "That is the reason I am here departure for Pakistan. The "Sind" came to Australia oerly this yeer for the to three cargo vessels chartered Norway and other countries in combined Commonwoetth fleet Jubilee o'lerciset. While she was undergoing reflt tuiiii • co "r. iro.. iroNir earlier in May. protesting. to-day. I am here to do honours in Sydney her retings grew some luxurious beerds.

Tk» Navy July, IWI. I* 1 RAJS. COLLEGE PERPETUATES MEMORY OF HEROIC CAPTAINS. NEWS OF THE WORLD'S NAVIES MAYFAIR DISTRIBUTORS The Minister for the Navy (the Hon. P. A. Me Bride) announced on May 17 that the Naval Board MERCY MISSION. can only be described as the work H.MS. "GLORY'S" PETROL had decided to perpetuate the H.M. submarine "Telemachus" of irresponsible, yet vandalistic. RESERVES CONTAMINATED PTY. LTD. memory of four captains <•: the and a R.A.A.F. Lincoln bomber barbarians. Of British blood? The aircraft-carrier H.M.S. Royal Australian Navy who had were used recently in an unavail- We'd hate to think so. "Glory" returned to Sascho Nav- lost their lives in action ir. the ing search for a 20ft. launch with al Base in Japan from Korean SUBMARINE TELEGRAMS. waters on June 13, following con- Distributors of the Second World War hy r.i--ning two men aboard from Lord Howe On Saturday afternoon. May entries of intermediate cadc: mid- Island. The two men set out on tamination, it is said, of her air- 19, the submarine "Telemachus" craft petrol reserves. Press re- shipmen to the Royal Australian June 16 on a fishing trip to the lying at Balmoral Naval Depot, Naval College after them. Roys Admiralty Islands but were not ports from Tokyo at the time in- "MAYFAIR" Canned Hams and Sydney, became an extra suburb- dicated, however, that a R.N. pre- in the intermediate entry ^cre seen again. It is assumed their an post-office, but only for the aged between 15 and 16 years. boat foundered during the heavy liminary investigation had ruled period of the afternoon. The un- out any possibility of sabotage. ether Perk Preduets Mr. McBridc said that the cap storms that swept Australia's east- derwater "post-office" sent out tains whose memories were to be ern coasts at that period. The telegrams to all parts of Australia, MORE SHIPS FOR ROYAL honoured were Captain J. Bur- search was abandoned on June 19 Office: at threepence a word. Its opera- CANADIAN NAVY. nett, of H.M.A.S. "Sydney," after * petrol bottle from the tions were part of a special car- A message from Quebec on which was sunk with her ship's launch had been found on the nival which the Balmoral Naval June 5 announced that the Can- 18 MARTIN PLACE, SYDNEY. N.S.W. company in the Indian Ocean in Lord Howe Island coast. Depot arranged to raise funds for adian Navy is to be strengthened November. 1941, in an er.r«fie- relatives of the British naval men by the building of 12 more ships, ment with the German raider NEW COMMAND FOR who lost their lives in the submar- including seven destroyer escorts. Abattoirs: "Kormoran," which was also AMERICAN. ine "Affray," when it met with These arc additional to the Homebtish. N.S.W.. and Bendigo. Victoria sunk; Captain H. M L \V,-.llcr, General Dwight D. Eisenhow- disaster in the English Channel twenty-seven ships already under of H.M.A.S. "Perth", whose er, as Supreme Commander of the recently. construction. name was among the missing Allied Forces in West Europe, has when "Perth" was sunk ir. the appointed the American Admiral FAMOUS ADMIRAL DIES. W.R.A.N.S. 10th BIRTHDAY Java Sea in March. 1942; Cap- Robert Carney to be Commander- Admiral of the Fleet, Sir The 10th anniversary of the tain F. E. Getting, of H.M A S. in-Chief of Allied Forces in Reginald Tyrwhitt, commander formation of the Women's Royal "Canberra," who died of wounds South Europe. However, the of the "Harwich Force" during Australian Naval Service was cel- after his ship had been sun',; off British Mediterranean Fleet does World War I., died on May 31. ebrated at Flinders Naval Depot, Savo Island in the Solomor.s in not come under the new com- He was 81. Victoria, on April 27. There PROTECT August. 1942; and Captain E F. mand. Under Admiral Carney are were two W.R.A.N. officers and V Dechaineux, of H.M A S. the Italian General Castiglioni, as NAVAL SLOOP AND UNER 31 ratings at the Depot. Twenty- "Australia." who died of \v. unds commander of land forces and the COLLIDE. one of them have been stationed YOUR in the Battle of Leyte after .i Jap- American Major-General Schlat- The P. and O. liner "Strath- there since April 9 and the other anese "kamikaze" pilot had crash- ter, as commander of the air more," 'outward bound for Aus- ten, who are West Australians, ed his aircraft against "Austra- forces. Doubtless Admiral Carney tralia, and the Pakistan Govern- since April 20. The Director of CHILDREN lia's" bridge. will isk for a British contribution ment's naval sloop "Zulfiquar" W.R.A.N.S, First Officer Blair Mr. McBridc explained that, which, according to an Admiralty collided in Colombo harbour on Bowdcn, inspected them at 1.45 under the ordinary annual entry spokesman, will be provided. June 26. Both vessels were dam- p.m., and then addressed them. for 13-year-old boys, cade:1 at aged. Afterwards she attended an «f- ternoon tea party at which the the College were formed :nto NELSON'S "PLUME OF FRENCH SHIPS AT MALTA. principal feature was a decorated groups according to the year m TRIUMPH" STOLEN. The French corvettes "Kabyle" which they joined. As boys -.vho cake with ten candles. At 3.15 Cornwcll's Extract of Malt the economical tonic food provides Ir. our last issue we had occa- and "Hova" and the submarine p.m. the W.R.A.N.S. took part in essential body building and energy creating \itamins which entered at 13 remained there for sion to deplore the stealing of "Bouan" arrived at Malta early lour years there were four such a march past of the ship's com- fortify growing children against sickness and build them Britannia's Trident—the nation's in April to take part in anti-sub- pany of the Depot at which Com- t strongly for future years. groups, named Jcrvis, Phillip. traditional emblem of British sea marinc exercises with the British Cook and Flinders respectively. modore Superintendent of Train- mastery—from the marble figure Mediterranean Fleet More ing, Commodore H. J. Buchanan, Boys who joined the G>l!cge at the foot of Queen Anne's French warships arrived later in D.S.O, R A N, took the salute. COBHWELL'S under the intermediate entry, be- statue outside St. Paul's, London. the month for similar exercises. tween the ages of 15 and Now comes news of the disap- The British frigates "Loch Lo- WHO MEETS LEE and remained only for two years pearance from the National Mari- mond" and "Loch Scaviag," the Two Chinese laundrymen, S&actofr were entered twice a year, in time Museum at Greenich, of submarines "Tobard" and "Tere- brothers from Hong Kong, and March and July. Their groups Lord Nelson's "Plume of Tri- do" and destroyers of the 1st De- serving in different ships of the were to be named after the four umph" head-dress, one of the na- stroyer Flotilla co-operated with British Commonwealth Fleets NATUBl'S lodreroe^SI YOUNG AMD OLD. R.A.N, captains. tion's prioeless relics. Such thefts the French ships. had an unexpected union in the Mr. 1*1. Yellow Sea. Tao Chen I.ee is cd Kingdom. She arrived in Mel- Second Naval Member of the laundryman in H.M.S. "Comus." bourne on March 5 and assumed Naval Board and Director of One night, Tao was flung against duty almost immediately after- Supply and Branch Personnel, a bulkhead and lay on deck with wards. and Commander N. D. Pixley, a badly fractured leg for half an M.B.E., V.R.D., R.A.N.R. Mr. "TOBRUK" TO HAVE NEW hour before being discovered. It McBride said that the only officer was a difficult compound fracture COMMANDING OFFICER. of the Royal Australian Navy and the "Comus" decided to trans- The Acting Minister for the previously appointed an aide-de- fer Tao to the light fleet carrier. Navy (the Hon. Jos. Francis) an- camp to the King was the late H.M.S. "Theseus". Tao, fasten- nounced on June 22 that Com- Admiral Sir Francis Hyde, form- ed to a stretcher, was transferred mander W S. Bracegirdlc, erly First Naval Member of the D.S.C., R.A.N., who is at pres- at sea by iackstay and the first Naval Board. No officer of the ' -V person to greet him when he ar- ent attending a staff course at the Royal Australian Naval Reserve rived on board the carrier was Royal Naval College, Greenwich, had been so appointed before. Tao Chen Who, his brother, who had been appointed Commanding is laundryman in "Theseus " Officer of the Australian Battle NEW APPOINTMENTS IN class destroyer "Tobruk." He ROYAL AUSTRALIAN • R.A.N.V.R. AIR SQUADRONS would leave England in the liner NAVY. TO BE FORMED. ' "Strathedcn" on August 9 and The Minister for the Navy assume his command on Septem- The Minister for the Navy an- (the Hon. P A. McBride) an- ber 24 Before Commander Brace- nounced on June 16 that Com- nounced on 18th May that the girdle left Australia for England mander W. B. M. Marks, Royal Australian Navy was mak- in February, 1948, he was Officer R.A.N.. had been appointed Com- ing plans for the formation of a in-Chargc of the gunnery school mander, Royal Australian Naval reserve air squadron of multi-scat at Flinders Naval Depot. He College, at Crib Point, Victoria. aircraft in late 1952, followed sub- was awarded the Distinguished Commander Marks is at pres- sequently by a single-seater Service Cross in 1942 after he, ent Commanding Officer of H.M. squadron. He said that these with another officer, had, in a A S. "Bataan", which returned to dinghy, towed an ammunition Sydney on June 14 from Korean J"®0"'0" l!n,r "0r0n"»" "d'd «°V«9« <•<"" England .> ,h. mov.d .lowly up Sydn.y Harbour to would Jv based at Schofields, bertk Tke m< t lighter away from a blazing am- waters, where she has been serv- " "»P«""« iK.p i. .n air- conditioned flat, which co.ti £1.042 for two par,on, on th. N.S.W.. which at present is a London-Sydn.y Trip. R.A.A.F. Station, but arrange- munition ship in Piraeus Har- ing since the outbreak of hostili- ments had been made for a R.A. bour, Greece. He was awarded a ties in June, 1950. He was re- N. Air Station to be established bar to his D.S.C. for skill, deter- cently mentioned in despatches for side by side with the R.A.A.F. mination and courage while serv- his work in the Korean area. Personnel requirements arc still ing in H.M.A.S. "Shropshire" in Commander J. M. Adams, under consideration, but in the the Lcytc Gulf operations. On O.B.E.. R.A.N., the present Com- P. ROWE PTY. case of officer aircrew, it is likely two other occasions he was men- mander, Royal Australian Naval that a first call will be made upon tioned in despatches. On gradu- College, has been appointed Staff LIMITED those with earlier service avia- ating at the Royal Australian Officer (Operations and Intelli- tion training now in civilian life, Naval College, he was awarded gence) to the Flag Officcr Com- ESTABLISHED 1911 who arc still young and keen to the King's Medal, which is given manding the Australian Fleet resume flying as members of the to the cadet-midshipman who, (Rear Admiral J. A. S. Ecdes, • DISTRIBUTORS FOR : R.A.N.V.R. There will also be during his period of training, has C.B.E.). opportunities for others to join in exhibited the most gentlemanlike Commander J. A. Walsh, certain ground capacities. hearing and good influence among O.B.E., A.D.C., R.A.N., at pres- General Merchants and Importers. his fellow cadet-midshipmen. ent Assistant Director of Man- Manufacturers' Agents. . DIRECTOR OF W.R.A.N.S. ning at Navy Office, Melbourne, BALM. PAINTS PROMOTED. THREE AUSTRALIAN has been appointed Naval Officer The Minister for the Navy an- NAVAL A.D.C.'s TO KING. in Charge. New Guinea. He will • nounced on Juno 16 that First Of The Minister for the Navy (the be relieved by Commander G. L. ficer Blair Bovvden, Director of Hon. P. A. McBride) announc- Fowle, D.S.C.. R.A.N., at present 'HUGO" LACQUERS j the Women's Royal Australian ed on 8th June that two officers Staff Officer (Operations and In- 297-299 CASTLEREAGH STREET, SYDNEY i Naval Service, had been promot- of the Royal Australian Navy and telligence) to the Flag Officer Near Gouibum Street ed to the rank of Chief Officer. an officer of the Royal Australian Commanding the Australian Fleet. M 2967 (6 lines) "DULUX" ENAMELS Chief Officer Bowden, who was a Naval Reserve had been appoint- Captain R. V. Wheatlcy, ed aides-dc-camp to the King. First Officer in the W.R.A.N.S. O.B.E., R.A.N., now Naval Offi- AND AT in the Second World War, was They wvrc Captain H. L. How- cer in Charge, New Guinea, has appointed to her present post last den. C.B.E., R A N., Naval Offi- been appointed Commanding Of- NEWCASTLE. 160 KING STREET. B2115. "PERSPEX" January, shordy after it had been cer-in-Charge, Fremantle, Captain ficer of H.M.A.S. "Penguin," the ; decided to reconstitute the W.R. (S) J. B. Foley, C.B.E., R.A.N., R.A.N, shore establishment at A.N.S. She was then in the Unit- Administrative Assistant to the Balmoral, near Sydney.

JO Tk* Navy July, IHI. v i difficult conditions in completing NAVAL DIVERS' ACHIEVEMENT his task, and throughout gave TANKER SERVICE clear instructions about what was A remarkable diving operation ment lent by the "Mataco." Air required to help him." IN THIS ARTICLE THE AUTHOR SEEKS TO EXPAND A BRIEF REFERENCE MADE IN THE by a leading seaman, which enabl- temperatures had fallen from 21 In his first dive Flook remain- degrees Fahrenheit to 17 degrees. EDITORIAL OF THIS JOURNAL FOR MAY, 1951—THE URGENT NEED FOR SPECIAL ed the British cruiser, H.M.S. ed down for 45 minutes and then was 40 de- AGREEMENTS FOR THE WORLD'S TANKER FLEETS, BASED ON THE POTENTIAL "Kenya," to resume a patrol in Water temperature surfaced to allow the propellor grees and, with mud and a strong Korean waters after she had been shaft to be turned: five turns of HAZARDS AND UNNATURAL CONDITIONS PERTAINING TO THE TANKER SERVICE. crippled by a fouled propellor, tidal stream hindering him, work wire were hauled off. He return- has been commcndcd by the ship's was extremely difficult. ed to the job at 9.15 p.m. but Seamen are proverbially tough "(1) Compulsory system of re- "(4) Full day's leave for all commanding officcr, Captain P. With the assistance of hands was forced to surface 55 minutes W. Brock. R.N. The cruiser's working inboard on the wire, and good-tempered, but how long liefs in home ports. Two Sundays away from the late/ when his inlet valve fouled can the human constitution and deck officers and two en- U.K. Failing this, 60 port outer screw was fouled by a Leading Seaman Flook cleared the and his air supplv was cut off. He 4j inch berthing wire after she propellor after spending two temperament withstand the un- gineer officers to take over days' leave to be taken in was considerably distressed for natural conditions—the hermit-like duties of discharging and two parts annually for the had been refuelled from a tanker. hours in a diving dress and lj want of air but recovered quicks- Experts from the U.S. salvage- hours under water without relief. existence, the unavoidable yet rigid ballasting whilst ship's of- health of all concerned. and after four minutes insisted self-discipline imposed, the general tug " Mataco " unsuccessfully Captain Brock said: "By using ficers go on short leave. "(5) Free travelling concessions on descending alone again, refus- frustrations and disappointments, A system was tentatively worked from dawn to dark to free the inter-communication system it ing offers of relief. for wife and family at the propellor Then Captain was soon obvious that Leading the lack of recreation facilities and carried out by some oil "It was clear," says Captain least once a year. Brock decided that his own div- Seaman Flook understood the sit- proper amenities and healthy en- companies during war Brock, "that he understood exact- "(6) Compulsory retirement at ers would continue operations. uation and was confident of clear- vironment—that pertain to life years with beneficial and ly what had to be done and how- 55 years of age to stimu- At 8 p.m. that night Leading Sea- ing the wire without cutting . . . and work aboard a tanker? successful results. A suit- to do it. By hauling and veering late a healthy flow of pro- man A. H. Flook, of Chingford, he displayed great fortitude and If they were automatic robots able system could be de- the bights, the wire was complete- vised to meet with the motion. An optional re- Essex, dived using diving equip- endurance in extremely cold and or machines, devoid of all emotion ly cleared and secured inboard by working requirements of tirement at the age of 50 10.10 p.m. and finer feelings—and God for- leading tanker concerns, years onwards. This bid they should ever he that— VESSELS.BUILT, SLIPPED AND SERVICED. Said Flook "It was the sort of thus instilling a healthier means that the average iob one man could do quicker on these officers and men of the state of affairs in this im- Master and Chief En- DIESEL. MARINE AND GENERAL ENGINEERING. his own. I was lucky to have such tanker service could not more ex- portant section of the sea- gineer will have put in 35 RIGGERS AND SHIPWRIGHTS. an understanding team working cellently serve the world's per- going profession. years' sea servicc, the most petual demand for oil. All classes of repairs and conversion work carried out. with me on board." precious portion, in a very Yet to personnel shackled to a "For Masters and Chief exacting profession. Tak- MARINE INSTALLATIONS. MODERN SLIPWAY AVAILABLE Engineer Officers this sys- FOR ALL TYPES OF CRAFT. freighting tanker—what increased ing into consideration the • Always ask for . . . benefits in the past have they en- tem of short leave would severe strain imposed loyed? Practically none at all. not be practicable, but upon this Service during This is an enlightened world sup- compensation could be war years and comparing A. & W. Engineering posedly moving towards a better meted out with extra half- it with similar Services, deal for all mankind! yearly leave, temporary this is a very logical re- SHELLEY'S shore appointments, etc. & Ship Repair Co. Certainly one or two well- quest." known tanker companies have re- "(2) Holidays to be taken at In conclusion, it is very evident Pty. Ltd. FAMOUS DRINKS cently moved to improve the con- periods not cxcccding six that Mr. Douglas S. Tcnnant, ditions of their tanker personnel. months or on a vessel re- General Secretary of the Naviga- CAREENING COVE, MILSON'S POINT But the trend towards ameliorisa- turning to the U.K. after tors" and Engineer Officers' Union, Telephones: XB 1675 and XB 4387. Obtainable from leading tion is still insufficiently universal a lapse of six months. To thinks strongly on this matter. In After Hours: XJ 3213. shops and saloons. to cscapc a continued general enforce keeping to this his address to the Annual General criticism of the Servicc. Mean- time limit, a system of Meeting of his Union last year, while, all too many olficers and penalty rates could be im- he said: men continue to break under the posed. Payment in lieu "There must, I believe, be en- PARDY PROVIDORES SHELLEY * SONS mental and physical strain of of holidays under no cir- tirely separate Agreements for CORDIAL FACTORY tanker service conditions The cumstances to be accepted. tankers, based on the particular WHOLESALE FRUIT AND VEGETABLE SUPPLIERS Navigators' and Engineer Officers' "(5) Senior Officers' wives to circumstances of the service in PTY. LTD. Union has not been idle in thi' Cnr. PIER & LACKEY STREETS, HAYMARKET. MA3163. have option of one sea ifhich tankers are operating. matter, and last year in its official voyage per year if de- "There are now 5j million tons Suppliers of Ships' Stores MURRAY STREET, organ, the "Merchant Navy Jour- sired. of tanker to\inage on the British FRUIT AND VEGETABLES POULTRY FISH MARRICKVILLE, nal," gave considerable spacc to it Register, and in my view there The following brief recommenda- "Masters and ChicT En- should be an entirely separate sec- DRIED STORES, Etc. N.S.W. tions were then put forth, as a gineer Officers to have tion of the Rational Maritime Contractors to: 'Phones: LA 2431, I.A 2659 suitable basis for new improve- offer of taking wife and Board to deal with these questions HOSPITALS : HOTELS : RESTAURANTS : ments to be imposed by legislation also family above a fixed and separate Agreements entered NAVY : ARMY : AIR FORCE. or agreement with tanker owners: age. into." a Kw Navy July, IWI. a JET FLYING-BOAT AT SEA-ODDITIES FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN Further aviation history was Diving for trochus shell .one near Cape Cleveland. spawn, and there, for the rest of t made when on June 17 the only day in October. 1946, near Tay- The others had died and been their lives, which is probably let-propelled flying-boat in the lor's Reef, North Queensland, a cast into the sea, where they were not very long, they remain. world landed on the River pearl fisher, Demas Morclas, of at once torn to bits and eaten by But not so the young eels, or Thames, London. It was later Innisfail, was seized by an octo- the sharks in the presence of elvers, as they are called. These, towed to the Festival of Britain pus. those on the raft. These, mad when about a year old, having Fair where it was one of the main Morclas was operating in four with hunger, cut off the leg of a by this time passed through the attractions of the Festival's gas fathoms of water, and had gath dead man, lashed it to the point intermediate stage of being "glass turbine week. In landing, the ered about half a bag of shell, of an oar with a running noose, eels", quit the depths of the flying-boat, a fighter machine, when he came to a large hole in and caught one of the monsters, ocean and make their way to the touched down at 100 mph. the rocks. which they ate in a raw state. freshwaters of rivers, lagoons, WILLIAM COOK PTY. LTD. Suddenly a long black tentacle Another shark, caught with the swamps, and even distant inland NEW FIRST SEA LORD. flashed o\it from the hole and same bait, was eaten in the same waterholes—thus often travelling After serving as First Sea Lord fastened its suckers onto his chest. fashion. A few sea birds were by land—of the eastern Austra-

24 Tkt Navy My. mi. Buries Markes Limited, of Lon- AUSTRALIA TAKES OVER SPEAKING OF SHIPS don, have ordered another 14$ COCOS ISLANDS. knot cargo motorship of 9,600 Australia is to take over the A Place te nMMMbtT • Tyne shipyards launched a Opportunity was token of the tons d.w., similar in principles to Cocos Islands, in the Indian » the imposing MJL.C building, Mu- greater tonnage in 1950 than in annual refit of the "Queen Mary", those which made such a stir some Ocean, 1,300 miles from the Nor- and in Sydney's central Merlin Piece «nd on the corner of Ce*leree«h Street. any year since the war and have employing about 1,500 men for years ago. West Australian coast, and de- The M.L.C. provide, a lite eaarance secured orders for over twice the five weeks, to give the cabin class velop a former R.A.F. airstrip tonnage of 1949. a new cocktail bar and a larger Doxfords, of Sunderland, have for civil aviation. Cocos was the of policies designed to meet all die "*«d» end emergencies of your future. nursery. sufficient orders in hand to keep first stop of the Australia-South The Company'. history extend, over In consequence of the new their yard fully employed for Africa air route surveyed by Cap- *«y yean, end it provides life eMur- tain P. G. Taylor in 1939. The ence protection Co holder, of over e Swedish manning laws for ships Included in the programme for nearly three years. Minister for External Affairs, Mr. million policies. of over 500 tons gross the Kal- the Festival of Britain is an inter- R. G. Casey, announced the trans- mar Yard has designed a motor- national conference of naval ar- The fire in the liner "Oron- fer of control from the United ship with a gross tonnage of 494, chitects and marine engineers to say" was officially attributed to Kingdom to Australia on June 22. carrying a crew of 13 against 18 last two weeks. the accidental ignition of cork in a vessel of 500 tons. during welding operations, which Commonwealth officials cxpect The did not reveal itself for some the direct air service from Aus- Britain has agreed to buy from hours. tralia to South Africa to be es- The advertising campaign for Russia 300,000 tons of maize. tablished as rapidly as possible. out-of-season American tourists 425,000 tons of barley and 75,000 The British authorities in Ger- Cocos Islands have been ruled MLC to Europe had very successful re- tons of oats, about 200,000 torn many have described the German over by the Clunies-Ross family sults last year and considerable less than under the last agree- press reports that the Blohm and since 1827, who hold them on a numbers crossed the Atlantic at ment. Voss Yards are to be allowed to 999-year lease, and the transfer The MUTUAL LIFE an4 CITIZENS' the end of the year. rebuild for ship construction as will not impair the Clunies-Ross The Royal Merchant Navy "out of the question." title and successorship to the Assuranaa Ca. Ltd. With so much Scotch whisky School reports that ever since the leasehold. Head Office: being shipped to the United end of the Second World War it Very successful results, in spite Corner of Catdereagh Street and Martin Place, SYDNEY States, quantities of Danish has had an annual deficit, which of the plant not being complete, JET-PROPELLED whisky are being imported, the must eventually lead to the clos- were obtained with small Rover- HELICOPTER Mefcourae, Bri*»., Adelaide. Penh. Hobart, Wrlknctoe. NJE. greater part of it being marketed ing of the school unless an appeal type gas turbines in the launch It is reported from Washington in Scotland. to the public for funds is suc- "Torquil" on the Thames. that the United States Army has cessful. ordered a jet-propelled helicopter Trials have been in progress for which can be dismanded by two The shipment of pre fabricated The South American Passeng- some time to ascertain whether men and stowed away in a jeep. houses to Australia has become er Conference has discussed the it is not possible for small fast- Its two tiny jet engines will be at- quite a major feature of the question of fares in relation to running Diesel engines to run on tached to each rotor. Army British export trade and large fluctuations of exchange, but de- heavy oil as well as the bigger authorities say it will be used as numbers are fcemg td^en out by cided on only very minor adjust- types. a scout observation plane in the the liners. early phases of air-borne opera- LOWNDES ments until the next meeting in May, 1951, when the matter was The Cunard Line revived its tions. A Nigerian sentenced for stow- to be reconsidered. service from Southampton to ing away in a British ship was Quebec via Havre early in May EAGLE CRASHES INTO said to have been discovered in Mr. Basil Sanderson has re- and the London-Canadian service PLANE'S WINDSCREEN. a lifeboat and living on the em- signed from the chairmanship of was to be discontinued in March. A wedge-tailed eagle, one of ergency rations. the Shipping Federation after the world's biggest predatory RUM holding it for sixteen years and The Royal Research Ship "Wil- birds, crashed through the wind- has been succeeded by Mr. D. liam Scoresby" has completed a screen of a civil aircraft in The Lamport and Holt liner Queensland recently. The plane, RENOWNED THROUGHOUT THE WORLD F. Anderson. ten- months' Oceanogra p h i c a I a "Defoe" has had her passenger cruise and is to be put into the re- TAA DC3, was taking off from accommodation reduced from 24 the Hughenden airport and was The American oil companies serve in Devonport Dockyard un- to 12 and entirely rebuilt on quite travelling at more than 100 mph have been making inquiries for til plans are completed concern- luxurious standards. when the incident occurred. The Agents: European tanker tonnage complet- ing her next voyage. bird was killed instantly and land- ing as far ahead as 1955 on up ed in the lap of co-pilot Jim Tilse, to ten years' time charter. It is believed that air smug- A Cambridge University lec- who was cut on the forehead. HARBOTTLE BROWN & CO. glers into Britain arc using black turer has revived the old theory The plane returned to the air- silk parachutes with containers of very valuable treasure in the Warnings have again been is- port, where a one-foot hole in the PTY. LTD. for the contraband specially pro- French fleet sunk at the Battle of sued that marriages by the Mast- windscreen was temporarily patch- tected against shock, adapting the Nile, but admits the difficulty ers of British ships outside terri- ed to permit of the plane resum- SYDNEY. surplus R.A.F. stores sold after of recovering it with so many torial waters have not been legal ing its journey. , claimants. in Britain for 150 years. the war.

24 TW Navy •Mr. iwi. the point of view, not of the news- BOOK REVIEW naval chief never departed. Lord paper correspondent, but of the Cunningham writes: commander of the naval forces as By A.R. "The main policy for the Tattersall's £l0,000(tst Prize) much responsible for the success- Japanese war was now settled so "A SAILOR'S ODYSSEY": The Autobiography of Admiral ful consummation of ultimate ob- far as the Navy was concerned; of the Fleet Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, K.T.— jectives as the generals of the land but it was a very different master CASH CONSULTATIONS Hutchinson, London. forces. to get that policy implemented. are a weekly affair. If you want to step into the a European Continent united un- As First Sea Lord, which post To begin with, wc had against us atmosphere of the invincible der the iron heel of aggression; he took over in October, 1943, the intense feeling of Admiral —Well and Widely Known— British Navy, to catch the spirit each had to keep his fleet at sea Lord Cunningham was responsible King and the Navy Department of courage and loyalty of its com- and maintain long lines of com- for the operational policy of the in Washington that the British THE TICKET 5/-. manders who, together with their munications without proper repair British Navy in all the seas dur- Fleet was not wanted in the brave seamen, never fail to evolve supplies and facilities; each had to ing the later stages of the war. In Pacific, and that in that area we a gesture of defiance in times of cry to the Admiralty for more and that capacity he attended the his- must depend entirely upon our Postage for ticket and result, 5d. crisis unparalleled in world his- more ships, Nelson largely for toric conferences at Casablanca, own efforts. We could expect no "To Win You Must Be In." tory, you should not miss these frigates, Cunningham largely for Teheran, Quebec, and Yalta; and help from the American organisa- Odyssian memoirs of one of destroyers; each had to cope with the glimpses he gives of Churchill, tion." Nor, apparently, did Cun- You can write from any ship or any port. Britain's greatest naval comman- the collapse and defection of allies Roosevelt, and Stalin, as well as ningham ever receive from the ders. The Address . . . and the closing of former friendly other famous leaders of the Ad- Americans the co-operation he so For let it be said at oncc that harbours; each had preoccupations ministrative Offices and Fighting much desired. In the end, the British Fleet was based wholly on "A Sailor's Odyssey" is more than in Egypt and Turkey; each had to Services ,are Kith intimate and re- GEO. ADAMS (TATTERSALL) HOBART Australia, and even "the Aus- a book of naval operations and keep a watchful eye on a more or vealing. events; it is a dignified yet undid less hostile Spain; each did the tralians," we read, "were not too interpretation, not only of ships greater part of his lighting in the As a man of exceptionally forthcoming at first. . . . Never- and battles, but of commanders, Atlantic and the Mediterranean. strong character and great theless, when our fleet did arrive policies, and statesmen. It is also One of Admiral Cunningham's efficiency, Cunningham never fail- nothing could have exceeded the You Look So Weli in a very human story, humourous, first problems was how best to ed to use his pen or voice against generous assistance that was self-revealing, and well written— deal with the French Fleet at what were, in his opinion, unwise given." a consummation due at least in tactics or wrong decisions. He Alexandria, following the invasion Yet, as all the world knows, the part no doubt to the collaboration even crossed swords with the re- and collapse of France. He shows war was won; and with Cunning- of Captain Taprell Dorling, the doubtable Mr. Churchill. His com- how this was successfully solved ham's retirement in June, 1945, well-known "TafFrail," writer of plaint, quite justified by the fact with dignity, tact, and understand- full of honours from a grateful sea stories and Neptunian lore. that it emanated from the "man ing, despite the almost devastating country, the book concludes on a Probably no better contribution to on the job," was that he bitterness which had been caused note characteristic of the gallant, Second World War naval annals (Churchill) did not understand in French naval circles by the effective, heart of oak that wrote COATS, FROCKS, SKIRTS, SUITS. MATERNITY will ever be written, and for a the problems of the Mediterranean British attack on the French squad- it: "I have no profound philosophy mammoth volume of more than WEAR and FASHIONABLE RAINWEAR ron at Oran. Cunningham, in Fleet, and he (Cunningham) of life to propound. As perhaps 700 pages its power to hold the fact, strongly opposed the taking frankly criticises the "prodding" I have shown, I have always been reader from the first page to the of that drastic messages the Prime Minister was inclined to rebel and to speak out last is indicative of its dramatic act; it was a de- apt to send to his field comman- against decisions that I felt to be and compelling interest. cision, he says, "almost inept in its unwisdom." ders as "ungracious and hasty" wrong. Otherwise, I think I have Beginning with his boyhood in The narrative continues with a and which did "positive harm." usually taken things as I found Dublin and Edinburgh, his early dramatic and revealing account of Cunningham also broke friendly them, and tried to make the best naval career as, a midshipman in th? Battle of Calabria, in June, lances with the American naval of them." the Naval Brigade serving in the 1940, when a materially superior chief. 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2fl Tto Navy July, 1*11. It Section, has been made an proposition to send along repre- EX-NAVAL MEN'S Honorary Aide to His Majesty sentatives to the Federal Con- The King. Mr. Pixley returned to ference at Brisbane next February; NETTLEFOLDS Queensland early this year after a the next Executive meeting will be iengthy sojourn in Western Aus- held next month. Reports to the SCREWS Association of Australia tralia, where he was actively asso- Federal Council for the 15 months ciated on the Services Canteens ended 31st March, 1951, show Truit Fund Committee. ARE Patroi-li-CkM His Maj.fty The Xing that the various Tasmani.in branches have entered the follow- USED PAPUA, N.G. ing numbers of new members: FEDERAL COUNCIL. pand the Canterbury Bankstown SOUTH AUSTRALIA. Mr Frank C. Hill, of tlie Hobart, 46; Launccston, 25; IN It is with pleasure that Council Sub-Section. Federal Council re Education Department, Port Devonport, 7; and Burnie, 17; EVERY The Federal Executive • >f the grets the loss of so able an officer learns of the return to duty of Moresby, has been elected Hon. thus making a total of 95 new Association desires to remind e\ •nd will later call for nominations Mr W. A Palmer, the State Secretary of the Papua Scction, applicants for this period. R.A.N, personnel who are en to fill the vacant position. Secretary, who was recently grant- filling the vacancy caused by the BRITISH ed leave of absence owing to ill- G.W.S. titled to receive Prize Money, for resignation of Mr. J. H. Gillman. SHIP World War 11, that special appli- VICTORIA. ness. Mr. Palmer is again busily The Scction is arranging to enter- cation forms arc now available: The State Council and all Sub engaged in managing the Naval tain 250 guests at the forthcoming U.S.A. SERVICE PLANES these forms have to be completed Sections have nominated and elect- Memorial House, situated i". 2? Ball being organised by the Asso- CRASH. and returned by the claimants, to ed their representatives for a Peel St.. Adelaide Member; and ciation at Port Moresby. Mr. N. A United States Navy plane, the Director of Navy Accounts, Social Committee being tormed to prospective members .ire anxiously C. Plant, State President, is being a four-engine patrol Privateer, Department of the Navy, St. organise various forms of social awaiting information concerning ably assisted by his Executive and crashed on June 21 in Pugct NETTLEFOLDS Kdda Road, Melbourne. Members entertainment in the State of Vic- the proposed Port Pirie Sub- Committee. Sound, on the West Coast of of the Association who are eligible toria. Footscray Sub-Section re- Section formation. America, killing five of the ten PTY. LTD. to claim a share, which amounts cently participated in a Carnival TASMANIA. men aboard. On the same day a WESTERN AUSTRAUA. Progress of the Association in United States Air Force Super- to £8/6/- each, irrespective of held locally, and gained the sum SUNSHINE rank or rating, can obtain Prize of £509, which has now been Mi

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1 Ik* Navy rati. aircraft, it is claimed, will provide the Navy with nounced the same day in the British Parliament. a fighter defence which should be capable of deal- That some such scheme was needed had be- ing with any enemy. come all too apparent. Indeed, the Royal Navy's The Sea Venom, which has a twin boom fus- shortage of air crew personnel is a serious one, elage and partially swept-back wings, is equipped "the most acute," said Lord Pakenham, "of our with radar and carries a crew of two—a pilot and problems." a navigator-radar operator, who sit side by side in "We arc not getting the aircrews and we simply a pressurised cabin. The wing-tip tanks, to in- cannot allow things to drift," his Lordship stat- crease range, are so designed that they do not ed. "At present we get our aircrews in two ways— affect manoeuvrability or speed. The engine is a first from permanent officers who specialise in fly- de Haviland Ghost turbo-jet, at present rated at ing, and secondly, from the eight-year short ser- 5,000-lb. static thrust, which is 66 per cent, more vice commission scheme which we introduced in powerful than the Goblin turbo-jet used in the 1948. But neither of these schemes is giving us R.A.F. Vampire. the results we had hoped for and require. On Of particular interest to us here in Australia the one hand, not enough regular officers are vol- is the recent announcement by the Minister for unteering for flying, and what is still more ser- the Navy (Hon. W. McMahon) that the Sea ious, we have fallen seriously short in our require- Venom has also been ordered for use in Australia. ments on the eight years short service scheme. It This type of aircraft, he said, is to re-equip is in the light of these two facts, and particularly R.A.N, squadrons and be operated from all car- the second one, that we are introducing the new riers of similar class to H.M.A.S. "Sydney." Am- scheme." plifying details of the new aircraft, Mr. McMahon That the Royal Navy will get the aircrew per- said that the Sea Venom has a wing span of 41 sonnel it needs, we may be well sure. Particularly feet 9 inches and a length of 31 feet 5 inches. It do we stress observation in relation to the highly has also a faster rate of climb and a much higher authoritative statement made by the Parliament- ceiling than the Vampire; in fact, the Sea Venom ary Secretary to the Admiralty, Mr. L. J. Cal- is a naval adaptation of the Venom—adapted in laghan. Speaking at the same Press conference turn from the Vampire—in a more developed Mr. Callaghan was able to supply a further in- form. The Sea Venom is being built at the Bris- ducement to service potentially greater than any tol Aeroplane Company's works at Filton, Glou- service in Australia. Gauge needles on the con- offering based on pecuniary gain. cestershire, where a staff of 18,000 are employed. Vol. 15 AUGUST. 1951. No. 8. trol panel indicated a maximum power capacity of "In the past," he said, "the Navy's aircraft Other ships into which the new aircraft will go this gas turbine at 1,400 shaft horsepower and have not tempted a lot of men to enter the Navy arc the aircraft carriers H.M.S. "Eagle," which 3,000 pounds thrust. Four of these pencil-like for a flying career. The Navy had now passed that lias done its sea trials, and H.M.S. "Ark Royal," engines—less than 40 inches in diameter—power phase and the 'planes coming into service could which will be completed towards the end of the Vickers Viscount. hold their heads high in any company. For the SOME ASPECTS OF AERONAUTICAL 1952. DEVELOPMENT IN THE UNITED As a result of the overall test—against artifi- first time the Navy could say 'you can have the It is also reported from Britain that a contract best of two worlds, you can fly and you can go to KINGDOM. cial sandstorms, rain showers, severe climatic in llucnces, etc.—the Dart will go into operational lias been placed by the Admiralty with Boulton sea, and it will be real flying in the sort of 'planes service good for 500 hours of running between Paul Aircraft, Wolverhampton, for a considerable you want to fly in'." number of the new advanced training aircraft to British Aviation development in all depart- major overhauls, which is twice the period stipu- The advantages accruing from the use of these He known as the Sea Balliol, for use by the Royal ments, both in the Civil sphere and the Fighting lated for many comparable types of piston engines latest "front line" aircraft will, we feel, shortly Navy. This trainer craft is a development of the Services, except for some air crew personnel at a similar state of development. be reflected not only in the Naval Air Arm itself, Balliol T2, which is already in large-scale produc- shortages, goes on apace. The trend is for yet but also in the air crew personnel who seek so There can be little wrong with aircraft engine tion for the Royal Air Force. more speed, fighting power, range, manoeuvrabil development in British aviation quarters in the splendidly to man it. In a direct way they will ity, climhing capacity, ceiling and endurance. add greatly to Naval effectiveness; indirectly their heartening light of these disclosures, to say noth- ATTACKER JET FIGHTERS ALSO Late in July a staff correspondent of the "Syd- ing of even greater possibilities potentially inher- use may well be the main determining factor in ney Morning Herald" in London saw the latest ent in the still-secret Avon jet. FOR NEW CARRIERS. overcoming present personnel shortages. Rolls Royce gas turbines in production and in In short, such aircraft cannot come into service course of development at the company's 26-acrc Supermarinc Attacker jet fighters now coming too soon. factory area at Derby. Those he saw included the NEW AIRCRAFT FOR THE R.N. AND into front line service will, it is officially stated, still-secret Avon jet, which carried the Canberra R.A.N. he included in the Air Group of H.M.S. "Eagle." medium bdmb.-r across the Atlantic in the record the new aircraft carrier expected to join the active time of 4 hours, 57 minutes. He also saw the As for naval aviation needs, according to the Fleet early next year. In announcing this at a Dart propeller jet. aeronautical correspondent of the London 1'ress Conference on June 20th, Lord Pakcnham, 'The IVavy' "Little can be said at present," he wrote, "about ' Times", the de Haviland Sea Venom, a carrier 'lie First Lord of the Admiralty, also elucidated the Avon, but I can describe something of the borne all-weather jet fighter for use by day and tlie scheme under which National Service men be- is Your Guide gruelling endurance test carried on a production night, is now in quantity production for the Royal ing trained as officcr pilots and observers may Dart," which forms the propelling power of the Navy. It will go into squadron service alongside volunteer for two years' extra service and thus Vickers Viscount airliner, a number of which the Hawker Sea Hawk and the Supermarinc At- qualify to receive a gratuity of about £525. TTiis to Naval Affairs Trans-Australia Airlines hopes soon to place in tacker, both single-scat jet fighters. These three scheme, with its generous inducements, was an-

Tkm Navy Augwt. 1951. 4 MARINE ENGINES-THE PROBLEM OF 1951 ALEX H. MACKIE By A. C. HARDY, B.Sc., M.I.NA (With acknowledgments to Lloyd's List Annual Review, 1950.) ENGINEER

9-11-3 THERRY ST., The year 1951 marks the opening of the second half of the 20th Century turbines and water-tube boilers em' and one is naturally tempted in a Review of this kind to speculate on ployed, but also single-acting oil en* MELBOURNE. VICTORIA gines, and here, as with all reciprocal' \su what changes are likely to take place within the next fifty years. Those ing machines as far as direct drive ia • which have occurred in the first half are startling enough, but the speed concerned, the limiting factor is not a In thia land of ours—in thia Australia of kindlincaa. of friendship, of current technical progress, the arrival of new materials and methods question of reliability so much a* one of good humoured tolerance . . . perhaps no beverage ia more at of the physical dimensions of the home than good Australian beer. For beer is a drink Australians of construction, the demands of a rapidly-changing wrold for new prime movers. This concerns engine like. It is a part of pleasant living, of good fellowship, of sensible standards of sea transport, new requirements in crew comfort and new height and throw of crank necessary moderation. Aud our right to enjoy it ... this too is a part of combinations of cargo, as well as the arrival of entirely fresh cargoes, to obtain the relatively low number of METAL STAMPINGS revolutions per minute for the large' makes the task of prophesy almost impossible. The first half of the our Australian heritage of personal freedom. OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS diameter, direct-coupled screw pro- century witnessed the elimination of the sailing ship, the metamorphosis for the peller. of the steam-driven ship, and the arrival of the oil-engined ship with its Beer is Good For You MOTOR AND AIRPLANE The Modern Steam Engine. vast effect upon sea transport, and the year 1950 brought us to the INDUSTRIES. In writing of reciprocating engines, Enjoy It! Hates of gas-turbine propulsion with the vista of atomic propulsion, attention should be drawn to the fact though still largely theoretical, rather more clearly defined than has that the 6team engine is by no means CARLTON Si UNITED BREWERIES LTD. been the case before. dead. In fact, in its newest form it BREWING IN AUSTRALIA FOR 98 YEARS. has borowed many of the tricks of construction, valve lay-out and control In all the years since the end of the sel for the Gothenburg-Tilbury service from internal-combustion engine prac' war, production has been the keynote, of the Swedish Lloyd, a ship powered tice. New suggestions for bringing For all enquiries pleaae and provided that shipowners could by geared turbines taking steam from the steam reciprocating engine more make good their wartime losses as water-tube boilers and of slightly over into line with modern requiremnts as Phone FJ 3629. rapidly as possible, even with ships 8,000 h.p. on a single screw. This regards site and weight continue to mainly built to pre-war specifications, was in contrast to her predecessor, come from Germany, where there has they were- content. The great short- which had four singlcacting, two- always been an appreciation of the KINNEAK'S BRAND ace of everything inevitable at the cycle diescl engines geared to a single possibilities of fitting high-speed steam EMU conclusion of a world war, constituted shaft. A contemporary development engines and gearing them singly or in i driving force towards this acceptance was the action of three companies co- pairs to a single shaft. German in' of solutions to new tonnage problem? operating in the services between ventions have a habit of being very ROPE, CORDAGE, TWISE and LINEN THREADS which, while not perhaps ideal, were Scandinavia and Finland in ordering right on paper, though sometimes suf' AARONS at least expedient. That period having new fast overnight packet ships, to he fcring from the impact of too much passed, shipowners have time to put fitted with turbo-compound steam en- theory in actual practice. It is not EXCHANGE their brains in steep and, in consul- gines taking steam from oil-fired water- surprising, therefore, to find that the tation with their advisers, try to de- tube boilers. While it cannot be said firm of Hugo Lents Co. has been HOTEL termine exactly what they require for that these examples point to any attempting to take a stage further some & £ £ a a i I j| a a jg the future, bearing in mind that the major swing-over the powering of this of the proposals put forward with con' life of an average *ship is still with kind of tonnage, the incidence of fidence before the war. They stress I SRESHAM STREET nood luck upward) of a quarter of a modern steam in a field previously the fact that high-speed reciprocators ccntury. Designers and builders of largely the preserve of the diesel en- are especially suitable as marine C. EBELING & SONS PTY. LTD. SYONEY hulls, machinery and electrical equip- gine is to be noted. propulsion plant, presumably—though ment for their part now have the op- It is. difficult to ascribe to the year this is not stated—in conjunction with • portunity to turn round and see how 1950 any spectacular developments, oil-fired water-tube boilers. best they can adapt to the needs of but more easy to report the mainten- The modest space requirements of what is still conventional shipownings ance of steady progress along the h'nes high-speed plant, as compared with the many and great improvements with which we have become familiar in that needed by low-speed steam en' Only th* Best Brands v-hich science now offers. For these previous years. The ordering and con- gines of triple-expansion type, are ex- reasons, I think we are correct in the Stocks- struction of monster tankers—a phase emplified in the latest developments assumption that the next few years at of the last year or so—has proceeded in what is known as the "Hamburg" Dining Room any rate will see some big, rather re- apace, arid in this class of tonnage it engine which is double compound. markable developments in marine en- Unsurpassed. is gratifying to" note that shipowners Engines of f*"* type are available for gineering. Perhaps we have been able arc now relying on the diescl engine powers from 520 i.h.p. upwards, with t > sec the shadow of these things to SHIP REPAIRS, MARINE ENGINEERS, BOILERMAKERS to such an extent that they are pre- a speed ran^e of from 420 to 250 come in what ha* taken place in the pared to entrust 12,000 h.p. to a single r.p.m. according ro the siie. A section AND WELDERS. past year. screw. Even with steam-reciprocating through one of the latest engines OWN FOUNDRY AND LABORATORY. In general, then, steam continues to engine propulsion this would have shows a cylinder with four valves, two been considered a daring project, sup- Works: 70-80 STEPHEN ST., YARRAVILLE, VIC. AARONS improve its performance with a lower- at the top and two at the bottom, in' ing in fuel consumption and an in- posing that space and weight con- clined at angles of about 45 degrees 'Phone: MW 2255. EXCHANGE crease in compactness for the power a siderations would1 have permitted it, to the vertical in order to achieve CABLES 8C TELEGRAMS: "EBELING," MELBOURNE. HOTEL "nit delivers. Towards the end of the twenty years ago. To-day, the highest minimum clearance. These respective- year there was launched frotj the powers op a single screw are accepted ly are inlet and exhaust valves with Reg. Office:' 1 CASTLEMAINE ST., YARRAVILLE, W.13, Wallsend shipyard of Swan, Hunter & and the machinery placed at the after camshafts fore and aft at mid'cylinderv VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA. Wig ham Richardson Ltd., a new ve* end of a ship. Not only are geared height controlling push rods and

At!***, Ml. 7 the navigating bridge merely by ad- rocker arms to operate the spring' reduction gear-box for a 9,000-s.h.p. the rules for the measurement of net boilers of a turbo-electric ship. ed in units of, say. under 1,000 hone loaded valves. The cut-off is cam- motorship ordered by the New justing the <*tch of the propeller from tonnage are revised. The Hansa Line Mention of the direct - coupled Zealand Shipping Co. Ltd. from a control stand on the bridge. power, is not greedy in sixc and can controlled, the camshaft, as in the case of Bremen, now that Germany has opposed-piston two-cycle engine re* oe neatly tucked away at the fore end of many diesel engine designs, being Alexander Stephen 6? Sons Ltd., Direct Control. been allowed to return to the comity calls that during 1950 the "Lammer Govan. This vessel, which is now of the shipbuilding and shipowning of the engine, where it operates efi' axially movable. This gives a sym- This tendency to vest the control of muir,** the first trawler to be propelled ciently and reasonably without noise. metrical cylinder on the top and bot- under construction, will have two the ship directly in the bridge rather nations, has recently ordered a ship of by a three-cylinder "small" engine of 4.500-horse-power, 225-r.p.m. two- 7,200 tons gross with a deadweight of On the auxiliary side there is little of tom side of the piston which is rough- than by transmitted order to the this type, was completed, thereby ful- development .to report during the year. ly egg-shaped in vertical cross-section cycle oil. engines, and the propeller engine-room appears to be on the in' about 10,150 tons. This ship, the filling the desire of a large number of speed will be 100 r.p.m. The electro- speed of which is presumably limited Electricity continues to be popular and with a thick parallel structure between, crease, and in certain ships built for trawler men for an oil engine which almost universal for driving pumps in which the rings are fitted The magnetic couplings, which are being the fishing industry and in a cargo ship to 12 knots, has all her machinery aft could simulate as far as possible the supplied by the British Thomson- and a comprehensive range of four even in ships the main propelling cylinder and cylinder gear arc mounted with trawler characteristics laid down characteristics of the steam reciprocat- machinery of which is steam. Control on the top of a box-shaped crank- Houston Co. Ltd.. are the largest yet in 1950 to operate in the Greenland pairs of derrick posts and two pairs ing engine to which in the main they to be built in Great Britain. They of goalpost masts. The navigating gear for auxiliary motors has not made case unit containing the guides. The ice, not only the engine speed but are still wedded. The opposed-piston any noteworthy progress as regards engine is built for operating pressure- will have a fabricated gear-box with also the direction of motion of the bridge is well forward of amidships, engine is direct'reversing and direct- the two pinions on opposite sides of but most of the accommodation* in- compactness, but this is governed to of 35 atmospheres with a steam tem- ship is controlled from a specially pro- coupled, but the price to be paid is some extent by the fact that the de* perature of 400 degrees C. the main wheel and with the centre tected and equipped crow's nest on cluding cabins for eight passengers, is one of height within the engine-room. lines of all three wheels lying in the aft. Among larger ships, tankers are mand still exceeds the supply and that Engines of this kind have been the foremast. On the other hand, in It was a Doxford unit developing deliveries are not as rapid as ship- erioa of post-war busyness may culty in obtaining the right type of very little increase or decrease in the inevitable electric winch. The developments in connection with which a single • acting pressure- son draw to a close, and that we are operative to deal with the highly scien- «peed. The "Sir Thomas Brockle- completion of this ship has so far not mechanical stoking or pulverised fuel charged four-cycle airless-injection en- arriving at the start of an era in which tific power plants now being pro- bank," incidentally, is a clear indica- brought forth any further orders of a seem to have ceased: anyhow, there gine is to be fitted, direct'reversing the race will be to the technically posed. and also" because the space re- tion of the fact that diesel-electric similar nature, either in the trawler wa« no activity in th:s direction during and direct-coupled to the screw. This swift and competent and not to those quired for the crew in a modern ship drive will continue to attract attention field or for coastwise and short-sea the year under review. Double com- has heartened the considerable body who are concerned merely with repe- in proportion to the total space avail- for many specific duties, and nearly traders, so it would be incorrect to- pound engines arc already proving of opinion which still believes that the tition. In this respect some of the able has become so large that on all harbour craft comc within the suggest that the manufacturers of popular for the propulsion of whale tour-cycle engine was consigned pre- papers which have been read before occasion it can be an embarrassment sphere of its possible application. smaller units of reversing type, some catchers and this "Hamburg" engine maturely to the scrap-heap in the face technical institutions during the year to the real raison d'etre of the ship. of which would require a reduction or an equivalent might be a logical In respect of progress in this direc- of the arrival of the two-cycle unit. radiate an atmosphere of confidence next step. The question as to whether ships tion, the year 1950 saw the comple- gear between the engine and the which indicates that our technicians tion of the first trawler to be fitted The year has seen an increasing s*rew, or the builders of four-cycle are fully alive not only to the speed It has been noted during 1950 that to-day should have direct or indirect '-cndency to burn boiler oil in the propulsion is one of the problems of with electric propulsion. Several non-reversing types who depend upon of developments but also to their steam continues to be used for the cylinders in many types of oil engine, a reduction/reverse gear are exhibit- propulsion of ships on the Great 1951, and there is no doubt that the schemes for dicfel-electric trawlers quality and of the peculiar require* have been put forward in recent years :hough so far it cannot be said that ing any signs of disturbance. ments of their application to ships Lakes, and that, in particular the adherents of the latter system are :hc use of this fuel has brought about growing. Their opinion will be at the request of British fishing-vessel Auxiliaries. which can in very truth be termed Skinner Unaflow unit generally on a revolution in diesel propulsion at the Pressure charging is now fully estab- twin screws, continues to demand at- strengthened by improvements in the owners, but they have not matured t "ships of the future." In Great chiefly, it is thought, because of high expense of the geared turbine and lished as an essential part of the Britain especially, the official research tention. In spite of some progress, reliability of the variablcpitch pro- water-tube boiler. Little more has peller. and will be encouraged to use first coit. The "Freiburg* 'is one of a operation of four-cycle engines and organisations, connected both with the use of high-speed geared steam Heen heard of the steam side of the both the underpiston system, particu- reciprocating plant for marine propul- engine-rooms of minimum dimensions trio, two of which are to be diesel- naval architecture and marine en' electrically propelled, while the third Anglo-Saxon experiment, as a start to larly in the larger sixes, and the ex- gineering, have continued to supply sion still remains a dream of the by a revision of the present anomalous vhich a coarser grade of boiler oil, methods of assessing net tonnage. In will have direct diesel drive. The haust gas'turbine system continue to those concerned with practical aopli' future. The same remarks are true of i e., cracked asphalt, was used in the be popular. The latter when employ- geared'diesel propulsion only in so far the year under review the controllable owners will thus be able to determine cations with much valuable data. as larger power plants are concerned. propeller showed no signs of any for their own and possibly for other Although there is one ship afloat general adoption as far as ocean-going people's satisfaction, the practicability having eight engines, producing ships were concerned, though it has or otherwise of electric drive for this 30,000 horsepower, driving two screws been fitted in some coastwise' colliers kind of ship, in which the auxiliaries through mechanical reduction gearing as well as in some coastwise cargo are so important. WE NEED YOUR HELP TO MAKE AUSTRALIA STROM and electro-magnetic slip couplings, ships on the Norwegian coast. It is There is another reason for satisfac- the geared oil engine of high power is claimed for this type of propeller that tion on the part of those who believe still the exception rather than the rule. it improves manoeuvrability, cuts down in indirect drive: that is a growing In smaller ships the geared propulsion the time spent in stopping and starting tendency on the part of owners of Never »callcd a Diamond Nelson family. In 1930 it was •utbreak of war in 1939. Return- honour of conveying His Majesty announced on 24th July that the Aigrette and "Plums of Triumph", ing home in 1940, he took com- had occasion to comment in no offered again for sale and was pre King Haakon, Her Royal Highness Australian Commonwealth Naval and was commonly awarded by mand of H.M.S. "Renown," flag- uncertain condemnatory terms of sentcd to the Nation through the the Crown Princess and her chil- Board fiad ordered a number of the Sultan in recognition of great ship of the late Admiral of the the despicable thicvine. from its bravery by Mahommedan war- National Art Collections Fund for dren back to Oslo in H.M.S. Sea Venom jet fighter aircraft case in the National Maritime Fleet Sir James Somerville, then "Norfolk" at the end of the war from the De Havilland Aircraft riors. According to tradition it the National Maritime Museum, Flag Officer Commanding, Force Museum at Greenwich, of Lord was plucked from the Sultan's which was then being formed in Europe. In September, 1945, Co. Ltd., of Hatfield, England, for H, and took part in the, "Bis- rc-equipping the fighter squad- Nelson's "Plume of Triumph," own turban and handed to Nel- Th.- purchase price was £1,500, he became Vice Chief of Naval the Chelcngk or Diamond Aig son after the battle, this being the marck" action, the bombardment Staff, and in January, 1948, took rons of the Royal Australian although the market value of the I , of Genoa and many Malta con- Navy. rettc worn by the famous admiral first occasion on which it had ever diamonds was less than £150. up appointment as Commander- been presented to a Christian. voys. in-Chief, Home Fleet. He was Mr. McMahon said that Sea in his cocked hat. A reward of The Chelcngk is a plums of Promoted to Rear-Admiral in promoted to Admiral in Septem- Venoms were at present being £250 has sincc been offered for Nelson was very proud of the triumph made of diamonds. It information leading to the arrest decoration, which he is shown July, 1941, he was appointed to ber, 1948, and became Comman- produced in quantity for Royal consists of a central rose or flow- the Admiralty as Assistant Chief der-in-Chief, Plymouth, in March, Navy fighter squadrons and of the thief or thieves and the re- wearing affixed to his cocked hat er of 16 petals with leaves and in a number of portraits. of Naval .Staff (Weapons); 1950. would be operated from carriers covery of the Chelcngk A de- buds on either side, it incorpor- He made special provision for eighteen months later he became The First Sea Lord designatc of similar class to H.M.A.S. scription of this priceless National ates seven rays, which vibrate as p.'lic was given recently by the the Chelcngk in his Will and as- Force commander for the plan- has the reputation in the service of "Sydney." They were two- sociated it as far as possible with the wearer moves. Originally ning and execution of the assaults being a strong exponent of Naval seater day and night all-weather "Admiralty News Summary." and the central rose revolved by clock- aircraft, of high speed and high is as follows: the Dukedom of Bronte, confer- on Pantellaria and Sicily. After air power and has the interests of red on him by the King of work but the clockwork has sine* the assault on Sicily he became the Naval aviation keenly at heart. rate of climb. The Chelcngk was presented been removed. to Nelson after the Battle of the Naples. It therefore passed into Nile, 1798, by the Sultan of Tur- Tto H.fl **as». Ml. I!

10 t Europe, Vice-Admiral R. Jaujard, THE NEW FIFTH SEA NATO EXERCISES and conducted by the Commander- LORD. in-Chief, Netherlands Home Sta- Rear-Admiral E. W. Anstice, Illustrating The Fine Bond Of Unity And Mutual Spirit tion, Rear-Admiral C. W. Slot. C.B., who will succeed Vice-Ad- Of Co-operation Existing Among The Allied Navies The Netherlands light cruiser miral M. J. Mansergh, C.B., C.B.E., in September, is an offi- In The North Adantic. "Tromp," two British destroyers (the "Opportune" and the "Bleas- cer of wide experience, particu- dale"), two Netherlands frigates larly in matters of Naval Avia- The Navies of the European Dutch coast. Minesweepers from tion, having served in several air- and a number of British and nations united under the North Belgium, France, Netherlands, craft carriers and in important Atlantic Treaty Organisation are Norway and the United Kingdom, Netherlands M T.B's, landing craft aviation shore appointments dur- taking part in a further series of numbering about 50 in all, will and motor launches, co-operated ing the Second World War. The combined exercises during the pre- take part. This force, which will with Netherlands military forces announcement of his appointment sent European summer in the be larger than a similar force em- in bombardment and amphibious as a Lord Commissioner of the North Atlantic. ployed in mineswecping exercises operations, and Netherlands air- Admiralty, Fifth Sea Lord and A number of exercises were last year, will be under Dutch craft engaged in attack and sup- Deputy Chief of Naval Staff planned calling for co-operation operational control, the Officer in port sorties. The exercise was de- (Air), was made on May 7. He on an increasing scale in the use charge being Rear-Admiral C. W signed to provide valuable experi- is fifty-two years of age. of a unified system of communica- Slot. ence in inter-service and interna- tional co-operation, and to try out Admiral Anstice entered the tions and a common tactical doc- British minelayers and minelay- Navy in 1912 and at the outbreak trine. In all about 100 ships, in- ing aircraft will lay dummy mines systems of command and communi- cations. of World War I. was a Midship- cluding a large minesweeping for these exercises and ships pro- man. He served in the old bat- force, representing six nations bor- ceeding to Netherlands waters will Replying to questions in the tleship "Renown," H.M.S. "Lon- dering on the European North take part in a two-day convoy House of Commons recently, Mr. don", H.M.S. "Achates", and Atlantic seaboard, arc or will be exercise while on passage. These Callaghan, Parliamentary Secre- other ships during that war and assembled. two prior phases will be under tary to the Admiralty, said that was Sub-Lieutenant when the The nations taking part are Bel- British control, conducted by the considerable progress in standard- Armistice vpas signed. isation had been made by the gium, Denmark, France, Nether- Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth, As a Lieutenant he gained ex- Royal Navy, the Royal Canadian lands, Norway, and the United Admiral Sir Arthur J. Power. perience in the operational rou- Kingdom, and the ships comprise North Atlantic Treaty Organ- Navy and the United States Navy tine of aircraft carriers, in an aircraft carrier, 4 cruisers, 12 isation Exercises are also taking —the three navies which would be H.M.S. "Furious," and H.M.S. destroyers, 11 frigates, 12 sub- place in the Mediterranean this contributing most to the North "Courageous," in the 1920s and marines, about 50 minesweepers, summer. Representatives of Atlantic Treaty Organisation. qualified as a Fleet Air Arm pilot and some coastal craft. N.A.T.O. countries with Naval One piece of standardisation was following training with the Royal A measure of the bond of unity units in the Mediterranean, which a common specification for the Air Force. fuel used by all ships to enable and the spirit of co-operation exist- include Great Britain, United He was given his first com- Th« Australian Battle dan destroyer H M A

» TW Navy S«H. Iff I. K « BRITISH HOME FLEET MARITIME NEWS OF THE FESTIVAL VISITS. TATTERSAIX'S 3 POINT The British Home Fleet visited PROGRAMME more than fifty ports and water- side resorts in the United King- The 5/- Cash Consultations — £10,000 dom during the months of June First Prize. Drawn every few day*- and July of this year. It formed the largest "Showing the Flag" WORLD Tte 10/- Cash Cosultations — £25,000 programme in British Home From our Correspondents in First Prize. Drawn every few weeks. Waters since before World War LONDON and NEW YORK II. The No. 1 £1 JUBILEE By Many of the visits were in con- Melbourne Cup Comuluuon nection with the Festival of AIR MAIL £50,000 First Priie. Britain, and most of the ships were thrown . open by their Command- Postage on rickets and results to be added. ing Officers to large numbers of NEW LONDON HOTEL cost. Full details of the proced- being the subject of negotiations visitors, including organised parties FOR M.N. ure to be followed in making ap- which, if successful, would lead The Address - • • of adults and school children. The Merchant Navy Welfare plication to the local Education to her use as a floating hostel for Many of the ships were floodlit at Board have announced that their Authority can be obtained from students at the Gothenburg nav- GEO. ADAMS (TATTERSALD HOBART night when anchored off shore or new London Hotel for Merchant the individual nautical training igation schools. The cost of the transaction has been stated to be in harbour. The spectacular effect Navy seafarers has been opened establishments in Hull. some £18,000. of this display of naval efficiency at 19-21 Lancaster Gate, W.2. SEAFARERS' MEMORIAL and pageantry was most impres- This hotel, where restaurant, CHAPEL. LONDON BRIDGE. sive. lounges, and full bar facilities are When skips of "ovy A chapel to commemorate the The visits were made during the available, is most modern in ser- The old nursery rhyme. "Lon- " Ikvi to" this ropo men of Lincolnshire (England) Home Fleet cruise when ships of vice equipment, and provides don Bridge is Falling," seemed who died at sea during the Sec- holds fast! the Fleet are not engaged on exer- single and double rooms all with on the way to coming true late ond World War was dedicated cises and other training manoeu- hot and cold water, and with in June last. A strong Thames at Lincoln Cathedral on June 2 vres or drills. The ships were dis- radio-rediffusion installed in each current swept a pontoon carrying last by the Bishop of Willesden, persed over a wide area between bedroom. Charges are moderate. a large crane against the bridge, a former naval chaplain, and Wick and Storneway in the and the crane's lifting hook SWEDISH "SEA BUSES". opened by Admiral Lord Tovey. caught in the stonework. As the North, Pemance and the Sallies hook swung back it dragged mas- in the West, and Southwold and A new Swedish firm interested AWARD TO SHIP'S OFFICER. in the passenger traffic between onry with it, shattering the balus- Margate on the East Coast. Seve- Mr. Alexander Smith, Chief trade for ?0 ft. or more. ral popular resorts on the South Copenhagen and Malmo has or- ANCHOR BRAND dered a new type of "sea bus" Officer of the S.S. "Dcedon," has Coast of England, including been presented with the Royal DENNY-BROWN Bournemouth, Brighton and Hast carrying 65 passengers at a speed of 30 knots Humane Society's testimonial on STABILISER. ings, were also visited, together parchment for his rescue of a boy with ports in Wales, Northern The liner "Chusan", which re- SMUGGLING RACKET from Whitehall Harbour, Stron- cently completed her maiden voy- Ireland and the Isle of Man. ALBERT'S BROKEN. say, in July, 1950. The present.! age to the Far East and on which The visiting ships included the It is now claimed that the Brit- tion was made by the Mayor of i Denny-Brown stabiliser is fitted, BOOMERANG SONGSTER No. 56 alrcraft-carrier"Indomitable," flail- ish Customs Department has brok- South Shields on January 19. and reports very successful resuds in S^TSTjAST * ship of Sir Philip L Vian, K.C.B.. en the back of the smuggling is the second award received by damping out rolling with die aid Mr. Smith who was also concern- CONTENTS INCLUDE: K.B.E., D.S.O. (the Commander rackct into the United Kingdom. of that equipment. Homeward- Silvw Doll«, On Ol A CW Bio, Sly. A in-Chief, Home Fleet), the light ed in a rescue at Yarmouth dur bound, the "Chusan" had to con- StS-SK Worid. M«h T£ The number of seizures have been ing the war. fleet carrier "Vengeance," flagship doubled in * the last three years tend with fairly heavy weather HI G.I Br, Gofw R*in\ II I H«I You On of Rear-Admiral C. John (the and their value multiplied sev- conditions, including a strong »D« ll-l. I t~. Tt- G„r. LAST OF THE WIND- North-East monsoon in the Th. Window. CH Huvm *»" Admiral commanding the Third eral times. WORDS Co™ D««. Wi,h M., L«Vr. Lodjy. Lu£> Aircraft Carrier Squadron), and JAMMERS. China Seas, as well as gales in or mi I HULL (U.K.) EDUCATION the Mediterranean, the Bay of O. U, J AR«AM.T~ the battleship "Vanguard," flag- The four-masted barques "Pam LATEST ; ship of Rear-Admiral St. J. A. GRANTS. ir" and "Passat." which have Biscay and the English Channel, iji. GREATEST Micklcthwait, D.S.O. (the Flag Candidates undergoing a course been laid up in the United King- but. said one of the officers, the > /POPULAR SONGS/ , Officer Training Squadron Other of study in the Hull area for Ex- dom sincc October. 1949. have passengers suffered no discomfort JST A™ YOU LOU— E«.. Eu. •it all when the stabiliser was used. B YOU WANT PRICE, 9i. visiting ships were the aircraft tra Master or Extra First Class Ivcn sold to a Belgian firm The Ministry of Transport certificates barque "Viking", which has been It is understood that at least one rj TO SINO or 1/- i. ««*« —J li-ts carrier "Indefatigable," the cruisers No. M M Ha •« L—• "Sheffield" and "Swiftsure," and of competency can now make ap- lying at Rotterdam since June. major liner company is very in- Sou.—. t* I terested in the success of the ex- J. ALBERT ft SON Pty. Li and many destroyers, frigates and plication for e rants towards the 19*0, was recently reported as _ other vessels. A^urt, IMI. business acumen, it is certainly HELICOPTER AIR-SEA RESCUE DEMONSTRATION. periment. Incidentally, a descrip- supplied steam to produce gas for tion of this apparatus and an es- more than 60,000 homes on the surprising that shipowners them- The helicopter as an air-sea timate of its efficacy, were con- North Shore. In this way full selves do not insist on telephonic room for McPherson, Photograph- rescue craft has not been long in tained in a special article publish- gas pressure was maintained to facilities for their ships in port. er King volunteered to jump into demonstrating realistically its ef- BIRT ft COMPANY ed in the May issue of this journ- resident of that area over a per- the sea wearing his Mae West iod of days. NEW ZEALAND LAW ficacy on the job. On the day and there he supported the half al. Able Seaman J. McPherson, of FOR DESERTERS. drowned man. OVERLOADED TANKER. Strood, Kent, fell into the Yellow (PTY.) LIMITED TELEPHONES FOR Under the New Zealand Ship- Sea from H.M.S. "Glory," it was King put a sling round the The captain of an American MERCHANT SHIPS ping and Seaman Act deserters a lucky thing for him that official man's body and McPherson was oil tanker was recently lined £100 IN PORT. convicted in New Zealand ports naval photographer Naval Air- hauled up. McPherson. was with anadditiunal penalty of now remain in custody until a man E. J. King was in the air in such an exhausted condition 4 Bridge Street, £2,400, by the Swansea magis- It would be ridiciulous in these ship is available for their deport- taking photographs from just such that he could not be hauled into trates. He had pleaded guilty to modern times to attempt to run the cabin of the helicopter. So ation. a craft. P.O. Box 544, G.P.O. a charge of having overloaded his an office or factory without the with his head inside the aircraft vessel by 1,591 tons on a voyage aid of a telephone, yet how many The "Glory" and the Austra- and the rest of his body hanging Telephone: BO 529 from the Persian Gulf, during ships that come into port have a "DOLABELLA" REACHES lian destroyer "Bataan" were re- out, and the crew holding on to which fuel oil and 40 tons of telephone placed on board as an FREMANTLE. plenishing from the Royal Fleet him, the helicopter flew back to ' (15 lines). fresh water were taken on board aid to the shipmaster and his of- The British tanker "Dolabella," Auxiliary "Wave Premier." Mc- the carrier. Sydney, N.S.W. at Gibraltar. Measurements tak- ficers in their port work? A which slipped out of Abadan, Pherson's leg was caught ;n a en at Swansea showed an over- very small number indeed. Yet, Persia, late in June, reached Frc- bight of rope and he was pitched Naval Photographer King, Also at as the "Merchant Navy Journal" mantle on July 15. A few min- overboard wearing oilskins and whose home is at Pinner, Middle- load of 23j inches, and a marine 64 EAGLE STREET, surveyor, in evidence, stated that points out, in the little port of utes after she berthed work be- heavy sea boots. sex, England, was picked up some if the ship had been struck by- East London, South Africa, as gan unloading her 11,000 tons The pilot of the helicopter, minutes later by a boat from the bad weather the structure might far back as 1910, this public and 700 drums of oil—the last Lieutenant H. R. Gordinicr, Unit- Canadian destroyer H.M.C.S. have failed altogether and the amenity was fitted on board as oil cargo to leave Abadan. Her ed States Navy, noticed that "Huron." "It was quite fun," he lives of the crcw might have been soon as the ship tied up. If this master. Captain Norman Clarke, everyone on the British carrier said. "If only I had had a water- BRISBANE. lost. could be done forty years ago a 38-year-old Yorkshireman, said: was running aft. He sensed some- proof camera I could have got a why has the system not been "Wc were perhaps lucky to get thing was wrong and flew over good shot of the helicopter rescue adopted more universally? If away, but I think there has been her. Photographer King, who ... a sort of fish's eye view." FERRIES USED TO SUPPLY Musgrave Cold Stores: GAS. wv use a wide generalisation and much ado about nothing." He was taking newsreel shots of the When he returned to the "Glory" say that in the great ports of the slid he saw no Persian war enft, replenishment operation, saw a he was sent to the sick bay for a STANLEY STREET, After a gasworks boiler had United Kingdom a megaphone is nor did he receive a message line of lifebuoys stretching out few hours. In the next bed was broken down at the North still the only means of oral com- from the Persian authorities re- from the carrier and noticed Mc- McPherson. He grinned a wel- SOUTH BRISBANE Shore Gas Company's wharf at munication, it will be near enough calling the tanker. He expected Pherson struggling in the water. come to his rescuer. "Thanks a Oyster Bay. Sydney Harbour, the correct, and for men who pride M procced to Sourabaya, Indon- The helicoptcr swooped over lot," he said, "it was pretty lone- Manly ferry "Dec Why." and themselves on their efficiency and esia, after leaving Frcmantlc. ly swimming there." subsequently the "Balgowlah" the struggling seaman. To make SHIPPING and • IET UMBER BREAKS RECORDS GENERAL AGENTS. Australia's first jet bomber, the En- glish Electric Company's Canberra protographed on its arrival in Aus- tralia efter a record-breaking flight CARGO AND from England. Although the pilot of the plane, Wing-Commander SERVICES TO UNITED Derek Cuming stated, before leaving England, that the plane would not KINGDOM, CONTINENT, be trying to break records on the run, the Canberra took only 21 flying AMERICA AND THE hours and travelled the 10.200 miles at an average speed of nearly 489 miles an hour, or about 8 mites a minute. Wing-Commander Cuming, who is chief R.A.A.F. pilot, said "I have flown practically every aircraft in Australia, and this jet beats the lot." The plana was met on its arrival at Canberra by the Minister for Navy and Air, The Hon. WtHiem McMahon. —Courtesy. "S.M.H." Post-war building had resulted COST OF NEW SHIPS in a different orientation of types, In the House of LorJs re Viscount Rundman, in turn, he said in effect. Passenger and eently, Lord Teynham opened a stated that nearly one-quarter of cargo liners were now 8,600,00*"' HEWS OF THE WORLD'S NAVIES debate on the cost and con- the British Jry tonnage was more tons as against 9,500,000 tons in than 20 years old, and one-seventh 1939, but the ships were more dition of British shipping. He "DIVINA-V'TRUCULENT" was already more thin 25 years efficient, faster and tarried more the Admiralty, marked on the ial Dedication Service, Command- drew attention to the difficulties COURT ACTION. docket that it was more suited to encountered in the replacement >•! old. Costs of ship-building had passengers, which tended to offset er R. W. Courage, D.S.O. and the decrease in tonnage. We had The High Court action brought Japanese temperament than our bar, D'.S.C. and bar, R.N. (Retd.) old tonnage due, he claimed, to the heen rising steadily since 1946 at rhe rate of one per cent a month, less tonnage in medium- and smal by the Admiralty against the own. The idea was again reject- who commanded the "Havock fact that shipowners were unable ed in 1924, and it was until 1940 and there was no sign of an casing sue tramps 600,000 tons against Swedish ship "Divina", which when she first went into action in to build up sufficient depreciation 1,900,000 tons before the war was in collision with the British that the first "chariot" was con- April, 1940, in support of H.M.S. funds owing to a "penal taxation off. structed. Lord Lucas, Parliamentary Sec- tramps of larger tonnage had in submarine Truculent", has been "Renown" in her encounter with which represented a capital levy the hattleships "Scharnhorst" retary, Ministry of Transport, re- creased, and at 4.500,000 tons the settled out of court. The action on an important industry that pro was settled on the basis of the "HAVOCK'S" BATTLE and "Gneisenau", and subsequent- plying for the Government to the total exceeded 4,300,000 tons be- vided about one hundred million fore the war. There was plenty "Divina" being 25 per cent, in ENSIGN RESTS AT ly at Narvik, presented the ensign pounds a year in invisible exports. debate, s.ud that the shipping in- fault and the "Truculent" 75 per CHATHAM. to the Senior Chaplain at Cath- dustry had been responsible for of employment for that tramp ton The cost of replacement of a ship cent, in fault. The Battle Ensign of H.M.S. ham; and also a commemorative one of the greatest achievements nage. The bulk of it now had was now approximately three times "Havock," one of the most fa- tablet was unveiled. in our developments since 1945. speeds more than ten knots, and what it was before the war, and KMi. "OCEAN" TO ACTIVE mous destroyers of the Royal To-day, the total tonnage ex- 60 per cent, of the cargo and pas NEARLY 600 BOYS APPLY the depreciation allowed by the sengcr lines now exceeded I4J FLEET. Navy in World War II., has been Inland Revenue (under taxation) ceeds 17 millions against our pre- found a final resting place in St. TO ENTER R.A.N. COLLEGE. war tonnage of 16.9 millions," he knots. Ships under construction Aircraft carrier H.M.S. "Ocean" The Acting Minister for the was only on the original cost of George's Church in the Royal continued. "Our new building is or on order for United Kingdom is now being refitted at Rosyth, Navy (the Hon. Jos. Francis) an- the ship. He urged the abolition owners to-day totalled 1,800.000 to join the active Fleet on com- Naval Barracks at Chatham. It steadily being and is reducing the will he placed in the position it nounced on July 10 that 590 ap- of the "balancing charge" which, tons, and the total order book was pletion of her trials. plications had been received up amount of tonnage ui the very old will occupy in the nave of the introduced in 1945, had the effect about 3.400,000 tons. We had in to June 15, the closing date, from •39." perhaps well into 1953. Admiral Sir Rhoderick Me- College to be trained as future Grigor, K.C.B., D.S.O., unveil- Battle in which Captain B. A. W. officers of the Royal Australian ed at Devonport a plaque in mem- Warburton-Lee, who commanded Navy. Mr. Francis said that this ory of Polish naval officers and the destroyer flotilla employed, was the highest number of appli- FOR "BETTER SERVICE" men who fell in the Second World was fatally wounded and posthu- cations since 1942, when 612 boys War. The ceremony, which was mously awarded the first Victoria applied for entry. The boys held at the principal Polish war- Cross by a Naval Officer in would sit for an educational ex- LAYTON PLATING time base, was attended by senior World War II., the "Havock" amination in their respective officers of the Polish Navy, in- was in action again when the Ger- States in September and those Company Ply. Ltd. cluding its war-time Commander- man attack on the Low Countries who passed would be medically • in-Chief, Admiral Swtrski. occurred. In the Mediterranean, examined. If they were physically H.M.S. "Havock" was employed fit they would be interviewed by ' TWO YEARS SURVEY in the Cape Spada engagement a selection committee of senior 48 Mallet Street WORK. and saw-action off Taranto, Trip- naval officers. Those who were Camperdown H.M. Surveying Ship "Dal- oli, Greece, Crete, Benghazi, To- finally selected would join the rymple" (Lieutenant-Commander bruk and Malta before she ran College as cadet-midshipmen early Telephone: MA 3168. J. C. Grattan, DSC. and Bar, aground on the enemy occupied in 1952 and would remain there • R.N.) returned to Plymouth on coast near Tunis and had to be for four years before going to March 20, on completion of two abandoned. Her battle ensign was England to join the Royal Navy years of hydrographic surveying flown at the foremast on all of training cruiser. Twenty-eight Specialise in All Q*»es work in the Persian Gulf and the these occasions and was taken boys were chosen last year out of Electroplating. Mediterranean. ashore into an internment camp 434 who applied. by the survivors who left the ^ For p..c. ot mind secure A.C.A. Houseown.rs and Nothing Too Large—Nothing MIDGET SUBMARINE. "Havock" after orders had been BRITISH ALL-WEATHER Householder, protections on your home end its contents. Too Small. Admiral Sir Max Horton, given that she should be set on AIR GROUP. The cost is surprisingly smell. G.C.B., D.S.O., speaking at a re- fire and destroyed. A month or Recently the first all-weather Contractors to H.M. Naval union meeting of the 12th Sub- two ago it was received by the Naval air group embarked in marine Flotilla Association in Australasian Catholic Assurance Co. Ltd. Dockyard., Garden Maud. Commodore of Chatham Barracks H.M.S. "Vengeance." Two squad- Man'. Dock, and Cockatoo London, said that when the idea from Lieut.-Commander G. R. G. rons—809 Squadron with Sea Incorporated in N.S.W. Branches throughout the Commonwealth. of a midget submarine loaded with Dock. Watkins, D.S.O., D.S.C., R.N. Hornets, and 814 Squadron with Head Office: 44 KINS STREET. SYDNEY—Telephone: BX 2145. explosives was first put to the Ad- (Retd), the last commanding of- Fireflies—composed the group, miralty in 1913 it was rejected. ficer of the ship, who is now liv- which will work up in advanced Mr. Churchill, then First Lord of ing in South Africa. At the spec- night flying technique.

At**, NSI. W classrooms. When released from FLAGSHIP, BRITAIN'S the surgeon operated saved his TRIBUTE TO MERCHANT NAVY danger of the two arms of the HOME FLEET. life. This is the second serious the Service as fully operational sea power drifting apart. "I sug- pilots, they will join the perman- The aircraft carrier H.M.S. operation performed by Surgeon gest," he concluded, "that the ent R.N.V.R. for five years for Speaking at the annual reunion ficulties inseparable from such a "Indomitable" (Captain M L. Lieutenant Crawford in the past initiative for keeping them to- scrvice in one of the five R.N. of the Western Approaches Com- drastic reorganisation of its usual Power, C.B.E., D.S.O., R.N.) few weeks. When H.M.S. gether lies with the Royal Navy, V.R. Air Squadrons. mand, 1939-45, Admiral Sir routine, difficulties which the na- with an operational air group cm- "Glory" returned to her base, Martin Dunbar-Nasmith, V.C., for the Merchant Navy do not Martin was taken off and he is val officer sometimes might not barked, remains Flagship of Brit- MOTOR MINESWEEPER'S R.N., referred to the loyal manner fully appreciate. It was well to get much leisure while in port." ain's Home Fleet, wearing the now in a U.S. Army Hospital FRENCH CRUISE. in which the Merchant Navy as Admiral of the Fleet Lord ashore. remember that while the Merch- flag of Admiral Sir Philip L. H.M.S. "Venturer," a motor a whole had accepted the wartime ant Navy had been strenuously Fraser (First Sea Lord) and Vian, K.C.B., K.B.E., D.S.O. CHIANG KAI SHEK'S minesweeper attached to the restrictions placed on it by the endeavouring to accommodate it- Commodore Sir David Bone re- ATTACKS ON BRITISH Severn R.N.V.R. Division, which Royal Navy. self to those new conditions, it spectively replied to the cement- "ANZAC" SAILS FOR ing toast of 'The Royal Navy SHIPPING. has its headquarters at Bristol, The Royal Navy, in taking had been necessary to relieve a KOREAN WATERS. sailed from Portland for a week- over the control of the operation- large number of the most exper- and the Merchant Navy." H.M.A.S. "Anac", Australia's On December 5, 1950, Mr. end visit to the French port of al side of that great service, had ienced masters, officers and men Incidentally, we cannot have newest destroyer, sailed for Kor- John Rankin, Socialist M P. for Ouistrehan in May. The "Ven- to bear in mind that the efficiency, . who belonged to the Royal Naval too many of such memory-stirring ean waters on July 30 to join Tradeston, Glasgow, asked the turer," manned by four officers seamanlikc qualities and splendid Reserve and were required for gatherings in which the men of United Nations' naval forces. Foreign Secretary in the House and nineteen R.N.V.R. ratings, is powers of endurance of the mast- duty in the expanding Navy. the two great sea services can She will relieve H.M.A.S. "War- of Commons how many British commanded by Commander A. T. ers, officers and men of the Mer- What an achievement on the part meet and mingle with mutual ramunga", which has been in the ships had been attacked or inter- Wilson, V.R D., R.N.V.R. chant Navy were the product of of those who remained and kept welding sympathy and under- Korean war zone since last Sep- cepted by Chiang Kai Shek's Na- a system of independent sailing the life-blood of the country and standing. tember, and which will return to tionalist Government of Formosa NAVAL RECORDS. and the acceptance of full respon- the Empire flowing in the splend- Australia in August, probably be- since June ofthat year, and what An exhibition of original naval sibility by the masters for their id way they did. The courage fore this issue of "The Navy" is had happened to the S.S. "Car- records has recently been show- course, speed, and all appertain- of the men of the Merchant Navy was beyond all praise. published. Mounted on "An- duceus", her master, and her ing at the Public Records Office, ing to their ships. crew. M. Ernest Davies, Foreign Chancery Lane, London. The old- sae's" mainmast is a Digger's He' said he had been greatly In war, the two services were Under-Secretary, replied that slouch hat, which a Williamstown est document on show relates to impressed by the loyal manner in automatically drawn together: in dockyard worker, who helped to four British ships had been inter- the disposal in the year 1212 of which the Merchant Navy as a time of peace, which he hoped build the destroyer, beat out of cepted by the Chinese National- thirteen Norman ships, taken in whole accepted the change and they might one day be able to en- ists since June and three attacked. prize by King John's galleys, and a sheet of copper. Needless to - strove to overcome the many dif- joy again, there was always a say, "Anac" will maintain to the After protests to th-. Provincial although the majority of the ex- full the tradition represented in Authorities by H.M. Consul at hibits relate to the work of the that emblematic and beloved old Kansui, all had been released. Royal Navy the exhibition con object. On 18th September, the "Cardu- tains much of interest to the ceus" had been released, together Merchant Navy also. with her British master, officer BRITISH SURGEON SAVES EXPERIMENTAL NAVAL U.S. SAILOR'S LIFE. and crew, with the exception of 12 Chinese, who were tried and AIR FLIGHT. Robert Charles Martin, elec- convicted of offences against the A flight of naval aircraft re- trician's mate in the U.S. Navy, cently arrived back at the Royal ARMGO law in forcc in Formosa. a native of Salt Lake City and Naval Air Station at Lee-on-Sol- whose home is at Boise, Idaho, N.S. PILOTS GET THEIR ent from Gibraltar after carrying (AUSTRALIA) PTY. LTD. owes his life to the skill of a WINGS. out anti-submarine experimental British surgeon and the co-opera- trials with new equipment, in co- w tion of two Navies. Martin was Three R.N.V.R. Midshipmen operation with the Royal Air KEMBLA BUILDING taken ill in his ship, the Ameri- who qualified as officer pilots dur- Forcc. The flight, which return- can destroyer "Agerholm," which ing their two-year period of Na- ed via Madrid and Paris, consist- 58 MARGARET STREET, SYDNEY was part of the screen for H.M.S. tional Service under the scheme ed of two Fireflies and one An- "Glory," who was flying off introduced by the Admiralty son. It was led by Lieutenant M. strikes against targets on the West about nineteen months ago re- F. A. Regan, R.N. MANUFACTURERS OF: Coast of Korea. Acute append- ceived their wings from the Fifth Sea Lord, Vice-Admiral M. J. TRAINING CRUISE. PRE-FABRICATED DRAINAGE PRODUCTS icitis was diagnosed and it was de- PRES-STEEL BUILDINGS cided to transfer Martin to the Mansergh, C.B., C.B.E.. on May With nearly 250 Naval Cadets Multiple pipes and arches; corrugated "Glory," where there was better 4. The second group of "Nation- aboard, including about fifty from Available in 20ft., 30ft., 40ft., and nestable culverts; full circle corrugated operating facilities. He was trans- al Service" pilots to receive their the Australian, New Zealand, 60ft. span, framework only. Haysheds nestable pipe; perforated pipe. ferred to the carrier by jackstay wings at Sycrston, they commenc- Pakistan, Ceylonese and Burmese available in 30ft. span. ed their pre-flight training at Navies and the Irish Naval Ser- and an operation was performed STEEL-SHEETS STAINLESS STEEL by Surgeon Lieutenant I. B. R.N.A.S. Donibristte, and were vice, the cruiser "Devonshire" Crawford, R.N., of Mill Hill, afterwards moved to their pres- (Captain R. G. Onslow, D.S.O., Electrical; deep drawing; black: bright Sheet; bar (hexagon, flats, squares, London. It was found that Mar- ent station, where half of their R.N.) sailed from Plymouth on . steel strip; aluminised. rounds); wire; tubing. tin had a perforated stomach ul- working days have been spent in May 11 for her summer training cer. Only the speed with which the ai? and the other half in the cruise. mi. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS PROMOTIONS. as Commander (E) in H.M.A.S. low cadet midshipmen. Comman- COMMANDER (L) KNOX, Royal Australian Navy. "Hobart" at the end of hostilities. der Synnot was born at Eskdalc at present Fleet Electrical Officer From 1946 to 1949 Captain Bull Station, Corfield (Q ), in January, RECENT APPOINTMENTS. of the Australian Fleet, saw ser- Commander to Captain: Rod- was serving at Navy Office, Mel- 1916. vice in the last war in the North ney Rhoades, D.S.C., R-A.N. bourne. Captain Bull was born at COMMANDER CRABB, who Sea, the Atlantic, the Arctic One of the fifty volunteer manly-like hearing and good influ- Commander (E) to Captain Corowa (N.S.W.) in December, was born in London in July, ence among other cadet-midship- Patrol, the Red Sea, and the R.N.V.R. officers who have heen (E): John William Newell Bull, 1905. 1917, is at present Fleet Gunnery- Pacific. He commanded t h e recalled to the Service in the pres- men. RAN. COMMANDER SYNNOT, at Officer and is serving in H M.A.S H.M A S. "Quiheron" from 1945 ent emergency, Lieutenant-Com He was awarded the Distin- Lieutenant-Commander to Com- present Gunnery Officer at Flin- Australia." Until he received to the end of hostilities. Com- mander Rodney James M V. guished Service Cross in the Sec- mander : Timothy Monckton ders Naval Depot, served during that appointment he was Gunnery ond World War for distinguished mander Knox was born at Sydney Eden, has heen appointed to the Synnot, D.S.C., R.A.N.; Gordon the Second World War in Officer at Flinders Naval Depot command of H.M.S. "Cocka- scrvice and gallantry during the in August, 1913. John Branstone Crabb, D.S.C., H.M.A.S. Hobart," H.M.A.S. He was serving in H.M.A.S. trice," one of the Algerine class invasion of the south of France LIEUT.-COM. BATTERHAM RAN. "Arunta," H.M.S. "Dido," and "Sydney" when she sank the crack is at present in the United King- of fleet minesweepers, the latest and was mentioned in despatches Lieutenant-Commander (L) to H.M.S. "Excellent." He was for good service in the withdraw- Italian cruiser "Bartolomeo Col- dom. In the Second World War and most efficient vessels of their Commander (L): George Frede awarded the Distinguished Service kind in the Royal Navy. Lieut al from British Somaliland. leoni" off Crete in the Second he was the Operational Com- rick Edmund Knox, R.A.N. Cross for distinguished scrvice and Commander Eden, who gained World War. Later he served in manding Officer of a party of Before he went to Flinders gallantry in the invasion of the wide experience of mine-sweep- Royal Australian Naval the destroyers "Arunta" and "human minesweepers" who took Naval Depot as gunnery officer south of France and was men- ing during World War II., will Volunteer Reserve. "Napier." He was awarded the part in underwater clearances of in August, 1949, he was gunnery tioned in despatches for good ser- he the first R.N.V.R. officer to Lieutenant (Sp.) to Lieutenant- Distinguished Service Cross in mines, bombs .md booby traps officer of H.M.A.S. "Australia" vice in the withdrawal from British command a ship in the mine- and fleet gunnery officer on the Commander (Sp.): Maurice 1946 On graduating from the along the coasts and in the canals Somaliland. sweeping flotilla ot which the Admiral's staff. Samuel Batterham, R A.N.V.R.; Royal Australian Naval College in ,ind docks of France, Belgium, "Cockatrice" will form a part. Colin Neil Jolliffe, R.A.N.V.R. In 1934, wh^n he graduated 1935 he was awarded the King's Holland and Germany. Lieu- Another recalled officer, Lieuten- from the Royal Australian Naval Medal, which is presented annual- tenant-Commander Batterham was ant-Commander E. R. Baker- CAPTAIN RHOADES is at College, he was awarded the ly to the cadet midshipman who, born at Williamstown, Victoria, Commander W. B. M. Marks King's Medal for having, during during his period of training, has Smith, of Putney, has heen ap- has been appointed Commander present on exchange duty with the in 1906. pointed to command H.MS. his period of training, exhibited exhibited the most gentlemanlv- Royal Australian Naval College, Royal Navy and is serving as LIEUT. COM. JOLLIFFE, of "Lysander", also an Algerine Commander (D) of the Norc the most gentlemanlike hearing likc bearing and good influence Elwood. is at present serving at Class minesweeper. at Crib Point, Victoria. Com- and good influence among his fel- among his fellow cadcts. mander Marks is at present Com- Destroyer Flotilla. Before receiv- Navy Office, Melbourne. manding Officer of H.M.A.S. ing that appointment last year he "Bataan", which returned to was Executive Officer of H.M.A.S. Commander J. M. Adams, Sydney recently from Korean "Albatross," the R.A.N. Air O.B.E., R.A.N., the present waters, where she has been serv- Station at Nowra (N.S.W.). He Commander. Royal Australian ing since the outbreak of hostil- commanded the destroyer Naval College, has been appoint ities last June. He was recently H.M.A.S. "Vendetta" on the ed Staff Officer (Operations and mentioned in despatches for his Tobruk ferry run in the Second Intelligence) to the Flag Officer work in the Korean area. World War, and was awarded the Commanding the Australian Fleet Distinguished Service Cros6 in (Rear-Admiral J. A S. Eccles, December, 1941, for good service C.B.E.). Commander J. A. Walsh, in the Mediterranean. This in- O.B.E., A.D.C., R.A.N., at pres cluded not only the Tobruk ferry ent Assistant Director of Manning run but also the evacuation of at Navy Office, Melbourne, has Greece and Crete and other opera- The Acting Minister for the tions. Captain Rhoades was born Navy (the Hon Jos. Francis) an- been appointed Naval Officer in Charge, New Guinea. He will be at Double Bay, Sydney, in April, nounced on July 9 that Com 1909. mander T. M Synnot, D.S.C., relieved by Commander G. L. R.A.N., had been appointed Com- Fowle, D.S.C., R.A.N., at present manding Office of H.M.A.S Staff Officer (Operations and In- CAPTAIN BULL is at present "Shoalhaven" and Senior Officer telligence) to the Flag Officer Principal Naval Overseer, Cocka- of the First Frigate Flotilla. Commanding the Australian too Island, Sydney. At the begin- Commander Synnot, who is a Fleet. ning of the Second World War graduate of the Royal Australian he was serving in H.M.A.S. Naval College, is at present Gun- "Australia" 'and later was trans- ney Officer at Flinders Naval Captain R. V. Whcatley, ferred to H.M.A.S. "Adelaide." Depot. He passed out of the Col- O.B.E., R.A.N., now Naval Of- In January, 1942, he was appoint- lege in 1934 and was awarded the ficer in Charge, New Guinea, has ed Principal Naval Overseer at King's Medal which is presented been appointed Commanding Of- Mort's Dockyard, Sydney. He was annually to the cadet-midship- ficer of H.M.A.S. "Penguin", the afterwards on the staff of tty; Third Naval Member 4s Director man who, during his period of R.A.N, shore establishment at T1» Rnt Naval M.mb.r, Vicj-Admir.! Sir John CoMm, chatty .Ml r.cruit K. Mclvor. of Sydn.,, .« Flind„. N.v.l Oapot of Shipbuilding. He was serving training, exhibits the most gentle- Balmoral, near Sydney. MalbcHjrna. V,c.-Adm,ral Collcn. vh*.d Mi. d.pol >o m.at N.Km.I S.rvie. Ir.inm wfco ml lata camp r.c.1,%

22 Tto Navy mi. NEW ZEALAND FRIGATE SEA-ODDITIES RETURNS HOME. The New Zealand frigate "Tu- AUSTRALIAN JOCKEY CLUB One of the deepest mysteries gent, and perfectly harmless they were often sent to sea leak- tira", which recently returned to of the sea centres around the dis- mammal, which loves .lazily to ing like lobster pots. Yet these her homeland, shared with the SPRING MEETING appearance of the S.S. "Anglo- browse and wallow on the sea were the ships . that brought other frigates of the United Na- Australian," a British freighter. grass common to the shallow wat- most of the pioneer men and wo- tions' naval forces the dull rou- RAND WICK RACECOURSE She clcared Cardiff, South ers of the tropics. It is, of course, men to these shores, to lay the tine of escort and blockade patrol Wales, early in March. 1938, quite common on the north and foundations of what Australia is duties during her 10 months ser- SATURDAY, 29th SEPTEMBER. hound for Vancouver, Bntish cast coasts of Australia as far today. Fever, fire, and shipwreck vice in Korean waters. Once she MONDAY, 1st OCTOBER. Columbia, by way of the Panama south as Moreton Bay. The ab- loom large in the annals of the was continuously at sea for 46 WEDNESDAY, 3.J OCTOBER. Canal. On March 14 she re- origines capture the dugong by old windjammers of the emigrant days. During this time she was SATURDAY, 6th OCTOBER ported she was off Azores, and means of long, heavy harpoon- trade. For instance, there was anchored for only six days refuel- Secretary, W. N. PARRY-OKEDEN. since no comment was made to like spears, either from a canoe the tragic wreck of the "Catar- ling and rcvictualling at sea. On the contrary, presumably all was or a staging erected above a patch aqui". As C. Bcdc Maxwell says other occasions she controlled well on the vessel. The "Anglo- of "dugong grass" where it hab- in that fascinating book, "Wood- and "mothered" Republic of Australian" did not reach the itually feeds. Dugong flesh is en Hookers." Korea minesweepers who were Panama Canal. Nor from the very palatable, perhaps resembl- sweeping a large area for suspect- ing pork more than any other "Only nine persons lived day of her message to this has through the shattering [wreck] ed mines off the coast of Korea. LESLIE'S anything ever been heard of her. meat, and is esteemed by both Among the signals she will treas- whites and blacks. of the "Cataraqui", though her She just disappeared, leaving no passengers and crew numbered, ure was one from Rear-Admiral Complete Home Furnishers sign, message, nor even the small- together, just four hundred and Smith, U.S. Commander of the 305 PITT STREET, SYDNEY est piccc of wreckage that might twenty-three . . . One emigrant United Nations Blockading Force. give a clue to the fate which had Numberless islands and reefs alone survived of . . . the three It read: "To Lieutcnant-Com- (next door to Esquire Theatre) overtaken her. The "Anglo- in the Pacific have been evolved hundred and sixty-nine all told mander Hoare, his officers and "Phone: M 3267. Australian" was a sturdy well- by coral-building animals. These . . . the rest were broken upon crew of 'Tutira'. Your hard • founded ship of 5,500 tons, not animals look like sea anemones, the rocks, scattered along five fighting ship has performed its easily sunk in so short a time many duties in a highly efficient differing from them in the fact miles of lonely beach . . . limp A comprehensive and complete range of Quality that the wireless operator would that they secrete lime under the manner. It has been a pleasure corpses where the force of the Furniture in Bedroom Suites, Dining Room be unable to tap out an S.O.S. base and round the sides of the tremendous waves had tossed to have had you under my com- Yet, whatever disaster befel her, body, thus forming the coral. mand. Goodbye and a pleasant Suites, Lounge Suites and Kitchen Settings is them for the benefit of the available for your selection. it must have been sudden. This coral is therefore the skelet- crows and the sea-eagles!" journey home. Well done." al remains of the myriad builders that have died; and the living As for the fever ships, the "Lady McNaughton" was only ADMIRAL HAULS DOWN CASH OR EASY TERMS CAN BE ARRANGED animal is called the polyp. Most IF REQUIRED. of these animals live in large col- one of such ocean hells to arrive HIS FLAG. The mermaid has existed in onics, with their bodies connect- in Sydney. During her voyage, The flag of Admiral Sir Reg- man's fancy ever since he first ed to one another. Beneath them "while helpless relatives looked inald Portal, K.C.B., D.S.O., the went down to the sea in ships, Our aim is Courtesy and Attention to your needs arc the stony remains of their an- on, more than fifty emigrants Flag Officer Air (Home), was at all times. and nearly every country has its cestors extending downwards died, adults and children. Noth- hauied down at his headquarters own legends concerning it. What hundreds of feet. Untold ages ing could bq done. There were at Lee-on-Solent on March 8. He first suggested its possible exist- have gone by in the building up no medicines to administer. Suf- has been succeeded by Vice-Ad- ence to man? Some say it must of that great depth of coral rock. ferers must" get better unaided— miral Charles E. Lambc, C.B., LESLIE'S have besti the dugong. Even in At Funafuti in the Ellice Group or die." C.V.O. The First Lord of the science the recognition of the these coral remains extend to a Admiralty (Viscount Hall) sent fanciful resemblance of the du- depth of more than 1,000 feet. a personal message to Admiral gong, seen in a tropical sea on a Portal expressing deep apprecia- moonlight night, to the mythical tion .of his outstanding contribu- JAMES MeKEOWN, SONS PTY. LTD. mermaid has been perpetuated by The Pacific is the largest of the tion to Naval Aviation. the name "sirenia" being given What a transformation has tak- world's oceans. The distance to the dugong and its relative the en place in emigrant transporta- across the Pacific at its widest MANUFACTURERS OF THE FAMOUS manatee of the east coasts of tion over the past century or so! part is about 11,000 miles, or half CHIEF OF STAFF, tropical America and west coast Compare the conditions and ships the way round the earth; it has NORTHERN EUROPE. of Africa. provided the migrant of today an average depth of nearly three Captain H. Dalrymple-Smith, DaUy^M" Football Boots However, although the dugong with the conditions and ships miles, and in one spot near Min- (Retd.), has been appointed for may have appeared like a lovely most of our forefathers knew. danao Island, in the Philippines, duty with the Ministry of De- siren to the more romantic sailor- Those old wooden hookers— it is 6$ miles deep. In this place fence as Chief of Staff to the AND men of ancient days, disillusion- what brave and terrible Chapters the highest mountain on earth, Commander - in - Chief, Northern ment follows when it is met face of sea history they made! Patch- Mt. Everest, would lie with its Europe, and granted the acting to face under the harsh light of ed aiyi stuck together after they peak more than a mile below the rank of Rear-Admiral while hold- Bon Br adman Cricket Boots day: It is a sluggish, unintelli- had long become unserviceable, surface of the sea. ing the appointment. ,

M Au*at. 1*1. At the new Royal National (the Iaqer based at Bramcote, near SPEAKING OF SHIPS Lifeboat Institution [Great Brit- VOLUNTEER INVASION EXERGUES IN UX Nuneaton, Warwickshire) also ain] lifeboat* are being built Illustrating The Manner In Which London Royal Naval Volunteer operated in support of the assault The new oil refinery at Shell After having converted two with au mature galleys so that the Reservists Promote Efficiency And Preparedness And Add To General forces, who had about 50 aircraft rescued can be given something to call on. Haven on the Lower Thames has or three "Liberty" steamers into Training Knowledge. started work six weeks ahead of motorjhips. with increased speed, hot to eat and drink. Three of the Squadrons were schedule time, and will eventu- the Italians are now talking of re- operated from the Royal Naval ally have an output of over placing them altogether with faster A second bridge is proposed "Invasion" exercises calculated equipment of the 56 (London) Air Station, Yeovilton, which, for 2,000,000 tons a year. and more modem ships. over the Middle Harbour and Spit to promote efficiency within the Armoured Division, Territorial the purpose of the exercise, was at Sydney, New South Wales, to operating personel themselves and Army, and a Royal Marine Forces known as H.M.S. "Unobtainable," take five years to complete and to provide additional training Volunteer Reserve Commando an assault aircraft carrier. Some In Germany and the United Further bitter complaints have to have a lifting section for ship- knowledge for both the British Troop. ' Seafire aircraft of No. 1833 Squad- States there is a considerable been made concerning the pas- ping. and Commonwealth active and The ships proceeded during the ron and Firefly aircraft of No. movement advocating the use of senger facilities to the West In- volunteer Military and Naval-Air night to take up positions for a 1840 R.N.V.R. Squadron (the fast-running reciprocating steam dies under the British flag, a long Forces in general, took place re- davrti landing on a front of about newly-formed Squadron at present engines on modern systems in- waiting list being reported. The Mcssageries Maritimcs cently in Britain. one and a half miles. The troops based on Culham) were operated stead of diesels. Company (of France) is reviving The exercise, known as Exercise went ashore from landing craft un- by the defenders to attack the air- Mr. W. Lambie, the American the names "Pierre Loti," "Jean La horde", and "Caledonien", go- "Red Dagger," was planned by the der cover of a simulated Naval craft of the assault forces and to With the successful use of marine engineer, has secured val- Reserve Forces commanders in bombardment, for which the de- strike at their fleet and troops. boiler oil m diesels, engineers are uable information in experiments ing back a good many years, H.M.S. "President," headquarters stroyer H.M.S. "Finisterre" was "Red Dagger" was planned un- now planning new types of rug- which made a sharp distinction among the ships it has now on ship of the London Division bombarding ship. der the direction of the Com- ged strength and of greater power between "singing" and "whistl- order. R.N.V.R., and the Task Force An air umbrella was provided manding Officer of the London than hitherto regarded as advan- ing" propellers. consisted of 22 landing ships and by Seafire aircraft of No. 1831 Messrs. H. Hogarth and Sons, Division of the Royal Naval tageous for tankers. craft, operating with air power, R.N.V.R. Squadron, Lased on the Glasgow, arc the latest tramping Volunteer Reserve, the Officer The American Bureau of Ship- and carrying about 1,000 men Royal Naval Air Station at Stret- concern to go in for tankers and Commanding Royal Marine Forces ping has appointed surveyors to almost all of whom were London ton, Warrington, Lancashire, and A French company has been have ordered one of 16,500 tons Volunteer Reserve, London Divi- supervise the building of the Reservists or London Territorials. No. 1832 R.N.V.R. Squadron, established to exploit a new form deadweight from the Caledon sion, and the General Officer giant tankers recently ordered It was the first combined amphi- based at Culham, near Ahington, of stabilising ships by means of Yard. Commanding the 56 (London) jets of water which has proved from British yards. bious exercisc organised by Per- Berks. Harvard aircraft of Nos. Armoured Division Territorial effective in experiments with a manent Volunteer Reserves and 1831, 1832, and 1833 Squadrons It is believed that the Indian Army. 33ft. launch. the largest and most advanced Re- Messrs. Swan, Hunter and Government's law to reserve serve Forces operation to take Wig ham Richardson, the Tyne- coastal shipping for Indian own- place in the South of England. In order to overcome the strong side shipbuilders, are reorganising ers may have to be delayed on objection of many shipping com- a section of their yard to cope with the ground that the assurance that The landing was made on a WARD'S BAKERIES panies and others to cargo pack- the increased size of tan\ers lively they have plenty of tonnage to stretch of coastline four miles east ed in fibreboard, the British in the near future. serve merchants is unduly optim- of Lulworth Cove, its purpose 30-38 VICTORIA STREET, PADDINGTON. Standards Institution has estab- istic. being to establish a beach-head in lished standards for satisfactory Messrs. Wm. Doxford and Worbarrow Bay, link up with' an Proprietors of s drums made of that material. Sons, of Sunderland, have been As a result of the surteys car- Infantry Division cut off by a experimenting with running their ried out by the "William Scores- strong "enemy" force, and later to COOK'S BAKERY, ICING'S BAKERY. & HAMBURGER BUN CO. The Board of Trade has great- by" it is suggested that the sul- advance to the Dorchester-Ware- opposed-piston diesels on heavier 'Phone: FA 3998. ly simplified the formalities ne- oil than has ever been used be- phuretted hydrogen in the mud at ham Road to deny lines of com- munication and use of ports to the cessary for the import of goods fore. Walms Bay and elsewhere on the WHOLESALE SUPPLIES ONLY. for re-export, but those import- South-West African coast is con- "enemy." ed from a number of countries The old anchor which has nected nith submarine oil deposits. The terrain on this part of arc outside the concessions. been preserved in Haiti as hav- England's South Coast, which is ing belonged to the "Santa Irish Shipping Limited changed ideally suited for training pur- There has been discussion Maria," flagship of Christopher a deficit of £49,345 in 1948/49 to poses, presented considerable ob- among marine engineers as to Columbus, on very flimsy evi- a working profit of £118,334 in stacles to the assault forces. Cliffs PEACOCK A SMITH rising to several hundred feet were whether the gas turbine cannot dence, is on loan to the author- 1949/50, £92,600 of which was MARINE ENGINEERS, COPPERSMITHS ft PLUMBERS be developed for merchant ships ities at Genoa, Italy, for a year. transferred to the Tonnage Re- scaled by some of the attacking DIESEL ENGINE SPECIALISTS, WELDING EXPERTS, to work in conjunction with a re- placement Reserve. trops and the shingle beach offer- ciprocating diesel engine. The Portsmouth Dockyard En- ed little cover during the landing. MACHINISTS AND MARINE PLUMBERS. gineering Department is experi- The Dover Lifeboat Station has Ships and craft of the "inva- CONTRACTORS TO ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY. Cargo has been salved and land- menting with an "airborne" bear- received the 51-ft. motor lifeboat sion" fleet were manned largely by men of the R.N.V.R. and ed at Liverpool from the wreck ing in which the shaft runs on a "Southern Africa", one of the 814 HINDERS STREET, MCUOiRRE of the P.S.N, liner "Oronsa" tor- cushion of compressed air 3/300ths three presented to the Royal Na- R.M.F.V.R. They sailed from pedoed off Bardsey Island in of an inch thic^ supplied through tional Lifeboat Institute [of Great Portsmouth and called at Portland •Hamm M 1634. 1918. numerous nozzles all round it. Britain] by South Africa. to embark troops and military

Anfs*. IWI. » V Knox attended Canberra. coming along well and it is hoped and Country Magazine Pro- AUSTRALIAN SEA CADET CORPS T.S. "Beany" (WoUongong). to form further companies in gramme. No news from "Beatty." Cadet Launceston and Ulverstone within These two new companies are SEA CADET NEWS. Leading Seaman Magee, Cadet the next twelve months. very keen indeed, and it is hoped A.B.s Malady, Keene, Phair and The Hobart Company are for- that, when uniforms have been re- NEW SOUTH WALES Gunnery Instructor attached to the spection of the Island, with its Sheppard attended Canberra. tunate in being able to carry out ceived, they will be able to par- DIVISION. Sea Cadet Unit also congratulated - many training facilities to gladden T.S. "Perth". their training at the Naval Re- ticipate in ceremonial functions in the Cadets on the Drill and the heart of a Sea Cadet. After- Cadets from T.S. "Perth" had serve Depot. The Burnie Com- connection with the arrival of Sir Two very important events have Marching. Thanks is due to Petty noon tea was organised by Miss practical experience aboard pany by arrangement with the Ronald Cross, Governor-Elect of taken place within the Corps Officer Rose for his patience and Richardson and served by mem- launches of the Pittwatec Club.* National Fitness Council of Tas- Tasmania. recently. The first was the Cere- efficient instruction in drill. The bers of the Girls Nautical Train- They took turns at the wheel and mania are using the National Fit- monial Opening of Parliament at Cadets reacted to the Naval Drill ing Corps, who had volunteered gained valuable experience in sea- ness Council's Hall for training FAMOUS ADMIRAL Canberra on 12 th June. One manship and boat handling. On and Discipline very well and to do so. Commander Winn L. purposes. BURIED AT SEA. Officer and thirty-two Cadets Reilly, R.A.N. (Rtd.), Acting Empire Day the Unit's Honorary proved that the training they re- So far uniforms have not ar- The ashes of Admiral of the from the N.S.W. Division pro- ceive in the Sea Cadets Corps Chairman of the N.S.W. Sea Chaplain conducted an Empire rived from the mainland, but are ceeded to the Naval Camp at Fair- Cadet Committee, outlined the Service on the Quarterdeck. Fleet Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt Bart, forms a sound basis for their expected shortly. C.C.B., D.S.O., D.C.L., who died hairn, Canberra, on Saturday, 9th future. workings of the Sea Cadet Com- Cadets Bagnall, Austin, Alexander Opportunities are being taken June, where they were joined by mittee and thanked the Ladies' ind Saunders attended Canberra. on May 30, were scattered at sea The second important event for to inspcct ships in port, and the off Harwich, an area with which two Officers and thirty-one Cadets the N.S.W. Division was the An- Auxiliary for visiting the Head- Burnie Company has already spent from the Victorian Division. he will always be associated, as, nual Church Parade held at the quarters on such a wet afternoon. TASMANIAN DIVISION. a day at sea in H.M.A.S. the Camp life during World War I., he was After settling into Dockyard Chapel, Garden Island, Mrs. Showers, the President of the On 2nd June, 1951, qnits of "Cowra." the Cadets were taken over by- Ladies' Committee, replied and Commander of the Harwich Na- on Sunday, 24th June. A large the Australian Sea Cadet Corps On 9th June, 1951, a short talk val Forces. The ceremony was Petty Officer Rose, R A N., Gun- number of Cadets from Sydney- thanked Commander Forsythe for were formed in Burnie and nery Instructor. on the Aims and Functions of the performed from the. destroyer Area Training Units attended the the invitation to inspect the Island Hobart. Lieutenant H. M. Australian Sea Cadet Corps, by On Sunday, 10th, a full dress and stated that the Committee "Opportune" in the presence of Parade, which assembled and Nicholls, R.A.N.V.R., assumed Mr. J. Hamilton-Smith, First Captain St. J. R. J. Tyrwhitt, rehearsal was held. The Cadets were impressed and were even now nmmand of the Burnie Company marched from the Mitchell Lib Lieutenant of the Hobart Com D.S.O., D.S.C., son of the deceas- were provided with white belts and more eager than ever to help the and Mr. Dav'd Milner of the rary, led by the R.A N.R Band pany, was broadcast over the ed. A memorial service was held gaiters and both Divisions were Sea Cadet Corps. Hobart Company. Recruiting is On arrival at the Dockyard the A.B.C. programme in the Town in Westminster Abbey. fallen in together and sized as one Church Party was inspected by Rear-Admiral Showers, Com- Unit. Monday forenoon was spent Rear-Admiral Showers, R.A.N., mander Tancred, R.A.N., Lieu- in strenuous and rigid drill, which who was pleased with the number tenant - Commander Cooper, moulded the Cadets into a satis- of Cadets on Parade. The Church R.A.N., and Lieutenant-Comman- factory Unit. Tuesday morning Parade was commanded by Sea der Dixon, R.A.N.V.R. (Naval looked dismal and it was thought Cadet Lieutenant J. Chidley of Liaison Officer for Sea Cadets), that the rain would spoil the T.S. "Perth," assisted by the with their wives and other mem- Review and March. Fortunately, Executive Officer. N.S.W. Divi- bers of the Commitcc, accom- by 11.30 a.m. it cleared and the sion. An inspiring Service was panied Mrs. Showers. "Parade" assembled and marched given by the Chaplain of H.M.A.S. T.S. "Australia". Marine Engines to the review ground. "Penguin," the Rev. Swain, who Cadets from T.S. "Australia" For Naval, Commercial and Pleasure Craft It was a grand sight to sec the is also Honorary Chaplain to T.S with Cadets from T.S. "Perth" Navy, Army, and Air Force form- "Australia." The R.A.N.R. enjoyed an interesting visit to ed up on the Reserve opposite Band played the hymns. It was R.M.S. "Strathnaver" under the In units 20, 25/40, 40/65, 60 90 and 95/145 H.P., these modern Diesels fully cover the Parliament House. It was a proud the most successful Church Parade efficient guidance of Lieutenant- 20-145 H.P. range. Good delivery is offered, and the latest descriptive literature is avail- moment for the Sea Cadets, this held since the re-organisation of Commander Page, R.A.N.V.R. able on request being the first big "occasion" in the Sea Cadet Corps, but the im- Repairs and alternations are fast which the Cadets had taken part. portance of ALL Cadets attending turning T.S. "Australia" into an THE STUART Marine Engines are also available covering the low power range in As the time for the march past such Parades canot he over em- efficient Unit. units l}-4 and 8 H.P. drew near, it became overcast, and phasised; next year it is hoped Cadet Petty Officer Fisher, it was feared that the march would that every Sea Cadet will attend Cadet A.B.s Jardine, Donoghue, STUART DIESEL Generating Sets 500-1500 watts. he a wash out. At 4 p.m. the and make the Parade an cv;n Michollety and Wendon attended Write, call or phone for further particulars to— Guards of Honour moved off, fol- greater success. Canberra. lowed by the Naval Battalion, the Sea Cadets being the last Unit of UNIT NEWS. T.S. "Warrego". the Naval Battalion. On comple- T.S. "Sydney" (Snapper Island). No . news from "Warrego." tion of the Parade the Battalion The Ladies' Auxiliary Commit- Cadets Edwards, Grimely and THORNYCROFT (Aust) PTY. LTD. 2nd in Command, Commander tee to the Navy League; N.S.W., Harvey attended Canberra. 6/10 WATTLE STREET, PYRMONT, N.S.W. ' Robinson, R.A.N., addressed the enjoyed the privilege of inspecting T.S. "Sirius". Cadets and expressed satisfaction the Sea Cadet Headquarters at No news from j'Sirius." Cadet Phone: MW 2711-2. with their performance. "B" Snapper Island on Saturday, 24th Leading Seaman Sutton, Cadet Company Commander and the June. They enjoyed a tour of in- A.B.s Switzer, Sirtimonds and Ik* Navy Au9f»fy Ttm U>« happy gatherings to come. Due to our State President's (Mr. FEDERAL COUNCIL. Victoria. Scction a lecture on "The Ad- Arber) drive, some excellent vancement of Aviation in Aus- speakers have addressed us, in- Notification has been received The State Executive has been cluding Dr. Love, who spoke on requested to notify its Heidel- tralia." The Committee has or- by the Federal Executive concern ganised a social evening for 6th Medicine in the Forces," and ing the successful Inauguration of berg Sub-Section that the Feder Mr. D. Locke. Queensland Man- al Council has awarded the As- August, so as to entertain coun- the Port I';rie Sub-Section on try members arriving in Brisbane ager of the Ajax Insurance Co.. Monday. 4t'n June. The State sociation's Diploma of Merit to whose subject was "Insurance Mr. J. W. Kidd. for his very for Show Week. A family night President of South Australia. has also been arranged for Fri- and It's Methods." Mr Arber (Mr P Burini;) and State See worthy efforts in helping the As himself spoke on "Quick Frozen -oci.r.ion and ex-Naval personnel. day, 7th September. A series of retary, (Mr. W A. Palmer) rep Talkie Films will be shown, Foods," so our knowledge has resented their Council and State through the courtesy of the Post- been widened a little from these Executive and supervised the in New South Wales. master General, during the even- -.a Iks. stall.it!i n of officers. Mr Max A. ing. Mr. Alee C. Nichols has Allchurch >,vas elected as the first The Annual State Conference Films have also been shown at ,vas held on Saturday. 2Sth July: been elected as Queensland's Fed- general meetings and coupled President and Mr F D Bassani eral Councillor, filling the posi- as Hon. Secretary of the Sub Sec- the presiding officer being Mr. with games of "Tombola", and on Aubrey Hodgson. Delegates from tion held for some years by Mr. >nc hilarious occasion a debate on tion. New members are now com- Clive Lambourne. ing forward and old members al- five Sub-Sections within the State :hc question "Is Compulsory ready residing in the district who pass-.'d several items to be includ- Naval Training Essential for the have been recorded on the Head- ed as motions for the Brisbane Defence of Australia." which was inter-State Conference. Papua-New Guinea. .von by the Affirmative side quarter's ledger have since been transferred by the State Secre- This Scction is endeavouring to There are two items exciting CLARK Tracks give greater all-round tary. Items for the Federal Con- South Australia. have a Regional Committee of the >ur interest at the present time, r.amely, the erection of a Naval ference Acenda are being com- The Association's Band which Services Canteens Trust Fund es- efficiency in Materials Handling. piled by all State Councils and tablished :n the Territory. The Memorial Honour Board for recently gave a splendid perform- Queensland, and the forthcoming Sections: the respective Secretar- Trustees will give the matter of Clerk's long ond notable success in developing methods and ance at Tanunda is bringing add- ! 1th. Federal Conference to be ies will, in turn, forward the ma representation further considera- mochines to bring materia Is-hand'rng costs down from the ed publicity to the State Council held in Brisbane next February', ridiculous to the sublime, has earned it the position of tenal to the Federal Secretary tion The Section has advised by the first week in September. and its Sub-Sections in South at which a full attendance is ex- LEADER in its field. In this capacity, it is equipped to Australia. During the past two the Federal Secretary that it anti- pected and plans are well in hand solve yoar materiols-hondling problems — to help y«y When the full agenda is complet- cipates being able to send two ochieve a satisfactory break-even point. This it has done ed, the Executive will promulgate years the bandsmen have played to show our Southern and, we time after time in practically every field of industrial and in several country towns and the Delegates from Port Moresby to hope. Western visitors, some of commercial enterprise. Clark Boosts Profits by Cutting same back to the States for distri- attend the forthcoming Federal Costs — and the "operation" is painless! bution to their Sub-Sections Dur- residents have been pleased the well-known Queensland-hos- Conference, being held at Bris ing the past month eighteen intra- enough as to request further per- tality and sunshine. formances. banc next February. The Section • Feotures: state and two inter-State trans- W. Macdonald. fers of members have been ef- is making a small presentation to fected. Western Australia. Mrs. Trower as a mark of appre- Hon. State Sec. * rt,TOugh CLARK'5 P-voted Steering ciation for her services and for Venue of the Annual State providing an excellent supper at • Hydraulic Brakes for smooth positive stops. A.C.T. Conference, to be opened on the recent Naval Ball held at Port During the Canberra celebra- Friday, 7th September, will be Moresby. At the time of going tions for the Commonwealth Ju- the Navy Club at Fremantle. to press there were three candi- The President, officers and mem- bilee the Section organised free dates for the position of Section EQUIPMENT FOR NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT entertainment for visiting Naval bers of this Club often entertain President, namely, Messrs. Plant. personnel A donation of CO visiting members of the Associa- Triggs and McDonald. The in- was made to the Section by the tion from other States. coming Committee will arrange Federal Council to assist it to de for a Fancy Dress Ball, to be helc frav expenses. Mr Kevin C. Queensland. at some future date, to augment 7utt- &Hf£Uit~ Smith has left Canberra and is At the July General Meeting the Secvtion's funds to provide AdeUld.. Iridsene. Metbo.me. Northern Temh^y. now residing in Sydney. Mr. entertainment for personnel of night Mr. McSweenyn, Queens- Perlti, Sydney, Townsyille. Ivor Campbel Ihas been carrying land Manager of Trans Australia visiting Naval ships. out the duties of State Secretary Airlines, gave members of the G.W.S. SERVICE CENTRES THROUGHOUT AUSTRALIA -l Ite Miry WW. II THERE'S FUN COCKATOO DOCKS FOR EVERYONE! INDUSTRIAL ft ENGINEERING ROYAL AUSTRALIAN FLEET RESERVE at CO. PTY. LTD. STEELS LTD. "LOTS 0 - FUN" LIDCOMBE, N.S.W. R. A. F. R. Corner of Contractor! to . . . PITT ST. and PARK ST.. Ex-Naval men of the Permanent Naval Forces H.M. 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S.ptemb.r, 1951. one week, and it is hoped that officers will take the tent by the memories of what happened in 1914. course in one piece. If, however, that is not pos- In thewe carefree times the prospect of war was not sible, the sessions may be taken separately and in taken very seriously, and when war did come not any order at any centre, always providing that an officer or man would have failed to give his courses 1 and 2 are taken first and sessions 8, 9, and 10 consecutively. "soul case" for a clear lead on Merchant Navy de- fence. Part 2 comprises gunnery (general), gunnery But alas—yet also fortunately—the present-day (surface, two sessions), A.B.C. defence, A.A. con- Merchant Navy officer is more familiar with the trol (two sessions), gun instruction (three sessions), stern realities of war-time conditions and duties and recognition. The gunnery subjects in Part 1 than his predecessors probably ever were. The must be taken before the gunnery subjects in Part portents of the times unfortunately demand the re- 2. and certain sessions must be taken consecutively. lnstitution of this scheme for the defence of our The defence training coursc for men comprises Merchant Shipping, for if it be driven from the 20 three-hour sessions from Monday to Friday, seas we lose. spread over two consecutive weeks, or if this is not It is therefore certain that every officer and possible, over two separate weeks. In this, ten seaman who is able to take these defence training sessions (5 days) arc spent on gun instruction and courses will do so. six sessions (3 days) on practical aiming. The rc In a nutshell, the success of the British Merchant maining four sessions are recognition, ammunition, Navy depends, as it always has depended, on the A B.C. defence, and damage control and fire-fight- character and ability of those who take its ships to ing Courses at each centre are normally restricted sea. Those who take its ships to sea have never in numbers to 20 officers and 20 men. failed it yet and mill not fail it now. All masters and officers, including cadets or apprentices, whether employed at present or not, are eligible for the Officers' courses, and all men FIRST LORD'S TRIBUTE TO between the ages of 18 and 50, whether employed ADMIRAL SHERMAN. or not, are eligible for the men's course. There is no living-in during the courses. Daily News of the sudden death in Naples recently of return travelling expenses up to a distance of 50 Admiral Sherman, American Chief of Naval broke out that the measures in question have been miles from the place of instruction are refunded on Operations, was received in London with pro- Vol. 15 SEPTEMBER. 1951. No. 9. adopted. Naturally, too, officers and men with application. Masters, chief officers, chief and found regret. Two days before he died Admiral war time experience will, by attending the courses, second engineer officers arc allowed first-class travel. Sherman met the British Chiefs of Staff in London he able to refresh their mind on these matters and Personnel from a greater distance than 50 miles are and discussed naval matters of mutual interest with ADEQUATE DEFENCE OF OUR bring themselves up-to-date. MERCHANT SHIPPING. refunded full return fare to cover the period of the the First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff Four M.N. defence training centres .each with a course undertaken. For meals, officers are allowed (Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fraser of North Cape). Lieutenant-Commander of the Royal Navy as in- 6s. per day and men 5s. per day. On hearing of Admiral Sherman's death the In the solution of the tremendous problems which structor officer, have been set up in the United While attending courses, personnel receive, in First Lord of the Admiralty (Lord Pakenham) inevitably confront the British Commonwealth in Kingdom. They have been established at: H.M.S. addition to appropriate travelling and meal allow- sent the following message to the United States time of war, the British Merchant Navy has its "President," King's Reach, Victoria Embankment, ances, payments as follows: Navy Department in Washington: "I am most colossal and traditional part to play as an essential London, E C.4; H.M.S. "Eaglet." Salthouse Dock, (a) Personnel on articles.—Normal appropriate deeply distressed to learn of the sudden death of element of transport. The solution of these problems Liverpool, 3; 130 Whitcfield Road, Govan, Glas- pay from their employers. Admiral Sherman, following so soon on the pleas- In part rests, obviously, on the basis of the Merchant gow, S.W.I; and H.M.S. "Calliope," Vickers- (b) Company service employees not on articles. ure of my meeting with him. I wish to express on Navy being prepared adequately to play that part. Armstrong Ltd., Elswick, Edgeware Road, New- An Admiralty training allowance equal to the behalf of myself and of my colleagues on the That the Lords of Admiralty are well aware of the castle-on-Tyne, 4. All four centres are local head- amount they would have received in unemployment Board of Admiralty our profound sympathy at the need for that preparedness under threat of war can quarters of the R.N.V.R. benefit (the balance of pay between voyages is paid loss of this distinguished officer." be very safely assumed. The defence courses prepared for the Merchant by the employers). The First Sea Lord said in London that the At the beginning of this year, defence courses Navy are similar to those held before and during (c) General service employees and unestablished death of his "old friend" had been a great shock. for Merchant Navy masters, officers, and men were the second world war, with, of coursc, the intro- seafarers not on articles.—An Admiralty training "He was a man just as much respected by our prepared and recommenced by the Admiralty, with duction into them of the lessons learned during allowance equal to the amount they would have Navy as by the American Navy, particularly by the concurrence and collaboration of the British and since the war, including the knowledge gained received in unemployment benefit. In addition, those men who knew him in the Pacific." Ministry of Transport and the various essential of the atomic bomb. general service employees receive establishment representative bodies of shipowners, officers, and The complete defence course for officers consists benefit. men. of Parts 1 and 2, each comprising ten three-hour On completion of the whole course or of a part The institution of these precautionary measures sessions, Monday to Friday inclusive. Part 1 covers thereof, those who attend are given a certificate of 'The Navy' cannot be too highly commended. Many officers trade protection, convoy work, communications, attendance signed by the instructor officer. This and men of the Merchant Navy were not at sea radar, defence against submarines, defence against certificate is made to fit inside the discharge book, during the last war, and it is with the aim of mines, damage control and fire-fighting, and gun- where it should be kept. is Your Guide familiarising these officers and men with the special nery (general, surface, and anti-aircraft). In commending these defence measures for our duties and conditions that would be theirs if war The instruction period for the complete course is mercantile marine, we are prompted to a great ex- to Naval Affairs

n> Nary S«pHmb*r, 1951. 4 S "WELL DONE, 'THESEUS'" NETTLEFOLDS "IF YOU WANT AN EXAMPLE OF OUR READINESS, NOTICE THE WORK DONE BY H.M.S. SCREWS 'THESEUS' AND HER AIR GROUP OFF KOREA," SAID VICE-ADMIRAL M. J. MANSERGH, FIFTH SEA LORD RECENTLY. READ WHAT FOLLOWS. • ARE FORK USED After operating in Korean wat- Thing," a name endorsed by of North Cape, G.C.B., K.B.E.) who presented the Boyd Trophy LIFT S IN ers since last October, steaming Lieutenant H R. Gordinier, of more than 36,000 miles and ex- Des Moines, Iowa, the officer in to Lieutenant-Commander M. P. TRUCKS EVERY pending more than half a million charge. On its. side was painted Gordon-Smith, D.S.C., R.N., the rounds of cannon shell and ma- a Union Jack and the name Commander of No. 17 Carrier BRITISH chine gun bullets, 6,617 rockets "Theseus." Air Group. An article descrip- 6000 lbs. and 1,590 500-lb. bombs against During earlier operations, two tive of the winning of this covet- SHIP enemy targets, the light fleet car- rescues of "Theseus" pilots, who ed award was, it will be recalled, Capacity rier "Theseus." commanded by had been shot down, were made published in the March, 1951, is- Captain A. S. Bolt, D.S.C., by a helicopter from the United sue of this journal. R.N., is now back in the United States ship "Manchester" while The Boyd Trophy, a silver Kingdom from the Far East. she was bombarding Wonsan model of a Swordfish aircraft, NETTLEFOLDS In their last sorties in the war from close inshore, and a plaque was presented for competition in area, aircraft from the "Theseus" was presented to the U.S.S. the Royal Navy in commemora- PTY. LTD. struck at Chinese Communist " Manchester " commemorating tion of work for Naval Aviation forces from the cast and west these "two very gallant rescues." carried out by Admiral Sir Denis coasts of Korea. A long scries of Boyd, K.C.B., C.B.E., D.S.C., SUNSHINE The helicopter from the "The- intensive operations saw the seus" and one from the U.S.S. while he was serving as Flag Of- VICTORIA "Theseus" working with the Unit- (carrier) "Bataan" were also en- ficer Air (Home). The period ed States aircraft carrier "Bat- gaged on air-sea rescue work. ol operations for which the CLARK Trucks give greater all-round aan." A keen, yet friendly, sense Before she left Korean waters Trophy is this year awarded was of rivalry- existed between the farewell messages were received during the months October, No- two ships and as they turned into from Admiral A. W. Radford, vember, and December last when efficiency in Materials Handling. the wind together races took place U.S.N., Commander-in-Chief Pa- the No. 17 Carrier Air Group on to fly off aircraft on fresh patrols board the "Theseus" flew 2,491 Clark's long and notable success in developing methods and cific Fleet, and Vice-Admiral C. mochines to bring materials-handling costs down from the and land on others returning from T. Joy, U.S.N., Commander Naval hours in 1,144 sorties during three ridiculous to the sublime, has earned it the position of earlier sorties in the shortest pos- Forces, Far East. The tatter said: operational periods, all sorties be- LEADER in its field. In this capacity, it is equipped to sible time. "It was as much as a "The Theseus' and embarked ing carried out without accident solve your materials-handling problems — to help you Batsman's life was worth to wave and with an average serviceability achieve a satisfactory breok-even point. This it has done airmen have set high standards for time after time in practically every field of industrial and off an incoming plane," it is re- all aircraft carriers during their for the Group of more than 90 commercial enterprise. Clark Boosts Profits by Cutting ported from the ship. most effective tour of duty with per cent. This fine achievement Costs — and the "operation" is painless! In 86 flying days, aircraft from the United Nations Naval Forces. was subsequently continued until the "Theseus" flew 4,446 sorties, We have admired your quiet and March of this year, when the Feotures: while her reconnaissance planes confident way of always doing "Theseus" left the operational covered an area of more than 23 more than the schedule called area. More than 3,000 operation- • Stability and Safety through CLARK'S pivoted Steering al sorties and 4,000 deck landings Axle Assembly. million square miies. She claims for. It has been a privilege to to have totally destroyed 93 had then been made. • Hydraulic Brakes for smooth positive stops. have such a fine unit share this junks, 152 railway trucks, 17 campaign with us. Well done! • Ease of Operation. Automotive steering and controls warehouses, 33 gun positions, 16 Good Luck! God speed on your keep fatigue down. road bridges, 3 railway stations, homeward voyage!" 19 factories and 5 power stations H.M.S. 'Theseus" has been re- EQUIPMENT FOR NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT. Tha futura of staam for marina purpotai as well as railway engines, tanks, placed in Korean operational wat- is mat by tha latest Babcock davalop- command posts, railway sheds, ers by her sister ship, H.M.S. mants, which, in turn, ara backad by jetties, cars, buses, road blocks, "Glory." ovar 50 years' 10a aipariance At iaa. barrack buildings and steam rol- as on land, tima has proved tha sarvica On her return to Portsmouth, of Babcock Boilar Plant lers. Many other targets were H.M.S. "Theseus" was given a also damaged. warm welcome. Several Flag Of- Adelaide, Brlibana. Melbourne. Northern Territory, BABCOCK & WILCOX For the first time, the "Theseus" ficers were among those who P.rth, Sydney Towni*ille. OF AUSTRALIA PTY. LIMITED carried her own helicopter, loan- came to welcome her, among ENGINLERa ANO CONTRACTORS ed and manned by the Americans. whom were the First Sea Lord SERVICE CENTRES THROUGHOUT AUSTRALIA. Head Office I Works. Resents Park. M.S.*. It was quickly dubbed "The (Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fraser Branch OfRcat and Agancias in all Statas.

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Dealing With Some Aspects Of The New Agreements with universal concurrence we feel to be both justified and true. With Shipowners As They Affect Officers, And With The long list of improvements in Special Problems Relating To Service In The British conditions speaks for itself and could never have been obtained Mercantile Marine. but for the efforts of the N.E.O.U But Mr Tennant is not satisfied In reccnt issues of the "Mcr quickly as possible by his Union with at least one aspect of the re- chant Navy Journal," details were in two special pamphlets and wide- sult, or lack of result—a position given by Mr. Douglas S. Tennant, ly distributed in ships both at home which indirectly affects us all jj- General Secretary of the Naviga- and abroad. He hoped, therefore, and with good reason makes it tors' and Engineer Officers' Union, that by now they had been well clear that: of an approach which it was in- studied; but one or two points "Despite the achievements re- tended should be made to the ship- arising out of the agreements, he corded, however, the fact remains, owners on behalf of officers, de- thought, should be commented on, and has become increasingly evi- signed primarily to secure in- both from the point of view of the dent during recent years, that the creased rates of pay and a revised events leading up to them and Merchant Navy was apparently salary structure: also that the Chief some of their consequences He falling to offer a satisfactory and Engineer's position be dealt with then writes; attractive career to certificated separately, and that special prob- "Since the N.E.O U. was found- officers 111 both departments. So lems relating to servicc in tankers ed in 1936, striking improvements many had left the sea since 1945 be dealt with directly with the in Merchant Navy officers' condi- that last year only a little over tanker owners tions of servic have been realised. 16,000 certificated navigating and "Meetings of the National Mari- One which comes immediately to engineer officers were serving in time Board at which these and mind is, of course, the introduc- the British Merchant Navy. In other matters were discussed," tion of an officer's pension fund— consequence, I felt impelled, in Th. d.ltroy.r H.M.A.S. "B.ta.n" Ulinchin, . torp.do during r.cnt ...rci,., off th. co..t, Th. "».»..»" .tt.mptinq writes Mr. Tennant in the latest a scheme long derided as being im- addressing the N.E O.U.'s Annual •o torpedo ' th. boom d.f.nc. ship, H.M.A.S "K.nq.roo." issue of the "Merchant Navy possible, but one which was finally General Meeting in October last, to draw attention to this problem salary structure: and the provision Journal," "were subsequently ar- accepted by the industry very interests of the individual officers habilitated. a fully manned and and to put forward my views on tnr a full day's leave, or pay in ranged and held on 8th December, largely as the result of the strenu- are inescapably bound up with the highly efficient, British Merchant the action which, in my opinion, lieu, for every Sunday spent at 1950, and on 16th, 17th and 24th ous personal efforts of those asso- fortunes of the whole. It also Navy? Obviously, for national was necessary to stem the 'drift sea. . . . January, 1951. A separate meet- ciated with the development of the serves to emphasise the vital neces- reasons as well as for the well- from the sea.' ing was held with the tanker own- N E.O.U. Other improvements in "Much has been done," con- sity for all to play their part in being of the shipping industry it- ers on 2nd February conditions of servicc recorded in- "The approval of these views cludes Mr Tennant, "on behalf of supporting the work of the self, the "drift from the sea" must "At the last of these meetings," clude a steady increase in the rates later expressed by those present •fficers, but much remains to be N.E.O.U. in furthering and pro be stemmed. If that "drift" can continues Mr. Tennant, "agree- of wages: compensation for loss of was emphasised by the unanimous done by way of maintaining the tecting the interests of navigating only be stemmed by making the ments were finally negotiated, af- effects: payment when landed adoption by the meeting of certai.i nropress made .Hid ensuring that and engineer officers." profession of the seafarer eminent- fecting all grades of officers, which abroad sick or injured; the intro- resolutions dealing with pay, week- vhat has been secured in the past ly attractive then eminently attrac- came into effect on 1st March It duction of entitlements to regular ends at sea, etc. On 10th Novem is safeguarded in the future. The Is it not possible, indeed highly tive it should be made. For the is the sincere hope of those who leave, including paid study leave: ber, the newly-elected council of present occasion is perhaps one probable, that in Mr. Tcnnant's national welfare, if not for the in- took part in the negotiations, on the regulation of hours; provision the N.E.O.U. endorsed the gencril which, more clearly than ever he- approach to the subject lie the dividual welfare of the seafarer, both sides of the industry, that the of bedding; and increased payment lines of the suggested policy, and lore, illustrates the way that the answers to the problem of a re- we must cheerfully pay the piper. results achieved will ultimately for cadets and apprentices while it was in direct consequence of prove to have gane a long way serving their time." As he had the developments outlined that the towards making a career as a stated before, "it is rather too approach was made to the Merchant Navy officer one in much to believe that all these re- National Maritime Board on be- WE NEED YOUR HELP TO MAKE AUSTRALIA STRONG which increasing material benefit forms in officers' affairs are coin- half of our members, which has is obtained as higher qualifications cidence, and are not a direct result resulted in the agreements now and seniority arc acquired." of the inauguration nearly 15 years operative. Briefly summarised, Never was the need so great for experienced men in the Navy, Army and Air Force. Mr. Tennant goes on to explain ago of an officers' organisation these include increased recognition Thousands of young, enthusiastic, but untrained men are answering Australia's call that full details of the new agree- equipped with the necessary staff of qualifications and seniority; the for rapid expansion of our defence forces. They need your help to make them ments as they affect the individual and machinery and imbued with establishment of a minimum", in- efficient sailors, soldiers and airmen. officer ranks would occupy too the necessary drive and progres- stead of standard rates for chief much space to permit of their re- sive policy to advance the interests engineers, to be published sepa- NEW PAY RATES, NEW CONDITIONS, MAKE SERVICE LIFE TODAY REALLY of its membership." rately in the N.M.B. Year Book: production in his journal; they ATTRACTIVE were accordingly published as That this contention will meet a drastic overhaul of the general

Til* Navy Wrt.mUr. ltd. GAS TURBINE CRAFT FOR R.A.N. SEA-GOING SCIENTIFIC DEALING WITH THE NEW ROYAL NAVY GAS OFFICER APPOINTED. TURBINE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PRO- We have had occasion to place GRAMME ANNOUNCED RECENTLY. emphasis recently in this journal Work is now complete on the is ideally suited to the object of on the work achieved by British installation of the power unit in the research. Because the engines naval science in its efforts to solve the Royal Navy's second gas tur- of coastal craft, ships' boats, and effectively the major problems bine craft. A "pocket sized" unit, harbour launches have a very confronting the Admiralty, partic- operating at about 100 horse large number of component parts ularly in relation to the predicted- power, has been installed in the they have always presented a increased speed of attack. Now 52 ft. Dockyard Harbour Launch major maintenance problem. comes an official announcement 3964. It is a Rover Gas Turbine While in their present state of to the effect that the first sea-go- weighing 600 lb. in place of a development small gas turbines ing scientific adviser to the staff tons diesel engine. use more fuel than reciprocating of a Commander-in-Chief in the This craft and Motor Torpedo diesel engines, they have less Royal Navy has been appointed. Boat 5559 (formerly M.G.B. parts. Only by trial in routine He is Mr. R. J. Gossage, a 2009), the first craft powered by conditions can the reliability and Principal Scientific Officer in the a gas turbine unit to go to sea, maintenance abilities be assessed. Royal Naval Scientific Service. made a series of demonstration Harbour Launch 3964 will now His appointment to the Director runs in the Thames during the go into service at Portsmouth to of Operational Research and as Fes'-val of Britain Gas Turbine assist in this assessment. While Fleet Scientific Officer" to the Week (June 18-23). It was an- this research proceeds the Rover Commander - in - Chief, Home nounced during the week in ques- Company is developing an addi- Fleet, dates from May 21, 1951. tion that the Admiralty will tional component (a heat ex- The appointment is significant shortly launch the first two patrol changer) which it is hoped will in that it reflects the Admiralty's boats powered by gas turbine en- turn into useful energy, heat wast- determination to strengthen the gines. The development marks ed in the present engine. link between the scientist and the a new phase of the Navy's re- A disadvantage of the gas tur- sailor: and to ensure that sciencc search in this important new field bine unit at its present stage of plays its full part in operational of marine propulsion. Hitherto development, is the high rate of planning. fuel consumption. Among its the policy has been to instal gas Mr Gossage is by training a C-Hirw.r S M. Herald turbines in place of other engines advantages are quick and smooth physicist. He joined the Adnnr in naval craft up to frigate size. acceleration, its promise of more alty scientific staff in 1939, and NATIVES RECRUITED FOR PAPUA and NEW GUINEA DIVISION OF R.A.N. Among the distinguished guests power for less space in ships, became one of a team of Naval who made trips up and down the long life, simplicity of design, and Officers and Scientists who were The Minister for the Navy (the "Gascoync" in the survey work by the medical officer. The med- Thames in the two vessels were ease of maintenance. seeking to minimise the threat of Hon. William McMahon) an- for the initial landings at Leyte ical officer would subsequently Lord Pakenham, who recently Incidentally, it is of interest to the magnetic mine. He later nounced in Canberra on August 3 Gulf and on Luzon. He was nav- also decide whether, on comple succeeded Viscount Hall as First know that the Admiralty has set served at the Admiralty Research that recruiting for the Papua and igator of H.M.A.S. "Labuan" on tion of their terms of engage- Lord of the Admiralty, Mr. L. up a Committee to consider both Laboratory where he took part in New Guinea Division of the Roy her voyage to and from Heard ment, recruits were suitable for J. Callaghan, Parliamentary Sec- present and future fuel and other a series of studies of the magnetic •il Australian Navy had been be- Island earlier this year. oil quality problems, affecting or re-engagement. He would decide, retary to the Admiralty, and Sir and electromagnetic phenomena gun among the natives. Mr. McMahon added that re- Frank Whittle, the jet pioneer. likely to affect the Royal Navy. associated with ships. too, when they had reached the He said that the division would cruiting would be conducted in age at which they should be dis- These craft are examples of the It is under the Chairmanship of He has recently passed success- consist of 50 native ratings com- the islands through the Depart charged. Admiralty's gas turbine research the Hon. R. C. Gcddes, who is fully through the Royal Naval manded by Lieutenant-Command- mcnt of District Services and Na- Ratings would serve under a and development programme, now engaged in the British ship- Staff Coursc at the R.N. College, er D. Nicholls, R.A.N., assisted tive Affairs. The initial period disciplinary code based on that which include larger and more ad- ping industry and is particularly Greenwich, and the Joint Services by Chief Petty Officer C. C. Bet of engagement would be three vanced arrangements, such as a conccrned with tankers and the Staff Course, and has acquired a which applied to the native con- tens and Petty Officer E. L. Gra- years. At the end of the first six stabulary. , specially designed unit for a frig- transport of oil supplies. Invita- background of knowledge of ham, all of whom had completed months recruits would be promot- ate and another for the former tions to serve on this Committee Naval operations and staff duties. courses at the Australian School ed ordinary seamen, and, 18 Mr. McMahon said that the na- steam gunboat "Grey Goose." have been accepted by represent- His last appointment, which he of Pacific Administration so that months afterwards, able seamen. tive peoples of the Papuan and The Harbour Launch 3964 is atives of the British Ministry of held for two years, was in the they would be provided with Later, able seamen would become New Guinea area had a long- the Royal Navy's first craft to Fuel and Power, together with Department of Research Pro- background knowledge of the life eligible for promotion to the rat- standing reputation as seafarer. rely entirely upon gas turbine Professor F. H. Garner, O.B.E. gramme and Planning at the Ad- and customs of the native tribes. ings of leading seamen, petty of- "Their, services to the Allied cause in the Second World War, power. A faster and more spect- (Birmingham University), Dr. miralty. In this time he has gain- Lieutenant • Commander Nich- ficer and chief petty officer re- their knowledge of hazardous acular result could have been C. M. Cawley, O.B.E. (Depart- ed a wide knoweledge of the olls, who served in H.M.A.S. spectively. coastal and river waterways, and achieved had the engine been in- ment of Scientific and Industrial broad policy governing Naval re- "Canberra" and later in destroy- There would be no age limits their ability to, negotiate them, stalled in a smaller specially de- Research, Britain), and by repre- search and development and an ers in the Second World War, for recruits, whose eligibility for amply justifies their proposed en- signed hull, but the present boat sentatives from the Oil Industry. insight into future plans. also took part in H.M.A.S. enlistment would be determined listment in the new division.

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long time, and is a prerequisite MERCHANT SHIPS' NAVIGATIONAL AIDS of the testing of compasses at the PENICILLIN FOR MERCHANT SEAMEN Admiralty Compass Observatory. A Working Party was consti- to all the interests affected, a The specification will be adopted NOTHING SHOULD BE LEFT UNDONE TO REDUCE THE HAZARDS AND BETTER THE tuted by the British Ministry of code which leaves ample room —if it has not already been CONDITIONS OF UFE AT SEA IN THE MERCHANT NAVY. Transport in 194ft to review the for progress in design, for com- adopted—as a British standard by arrangements then existing con- petitive variety, and for improved the British Standards Institution. cerning ships' aids to navigation methods. The Working Party also sets out During the unopposed passage this Bill would cover it." treating most abstruse illnesses other than those of a radio na- One of the proposed notices the conditions governing the is- of the Penicillin (Merchant Mr. J. S. Maclay (N.-L. U. with great effect, and one of their ture. In such circumstances it sets out the minimum standards sue of certificates to compass Ships) Bill through the House of Member for Renfrew, West), said best weapons has been the bottle was imperative to make the re- to which the provision and main- adjusters, together with the syl- Commons, Mr. A. Blenkinsop, he thought it would be a pity if of purely medicinal port which view as wide and as thorough as tenance of compasses in seagoing labus of examination for compass Parliamentary Secretary to the the opportunity was allowed td*" always goes into the medicine possible. Representatives of the ships should conform. These adjusters. British Ministry of Health, said pass without paying a tribute to chest." it would enable penicillin to be the quite remarkable work which "Another M P. reminded the Ministry of Transport, the Ad- standards have been agreed with The Working Party recom- miralty, and organisations con- all the interests affected, and are administered for the treatment of had been done in past years by House of the classic story of a mends that all sea-going ships, merchant seamen in ships. ships' masters. With just the shipmaster who recorded in his cerned with the subject under ex- in fact already in practice among both passenger and cargo, subject amination, including the Merch- shipowners today. Where they had not actually ship's medical chest they had book that he had run out of to a specified minimum tonnage treated the most abstruse illnesses ant Marine Service Association For example, it is proposed iiot a ship's doctor it was provid- Remedy 1J but that by a judi- limit, should carry one mechanical with great effect. With the new and the Navigators' and Engineer that all new sea-going ships ed that the penicillin treatment cious combination of Remedy 8 sounding device and two hand added power contained in the Bill Officers' Union, served on the should have at least two magnetic should be given in accordance and Remedy f he had succeeded lead lines. to use pcnicillin he was sure it committee, whose work was in- compasses; that every new mag- with instructions included in the in bridging the gap." Another recommendation is was a great step forward that terrupted by the 1948 Interna- netic compass should, before in- Medical Guide" kept on board "No doubt shipboard treatment that in peace-time ships' chart would be welcomed by all sea- tional Conference on Safety of stallation, be tested at the Ad- .ill merchant ships. In such ships of sickness on those vessels not rooms should be provided with farers in the kind of ship that did Life at Sea. miralty Compass Observatory; a record must be kept of any ill- required to carry a doctor always orange lighting. Night vision, it ness and of the treatment used, he not carry a medical officer. will be a sourcc of amusement. This interruption led to some and that they should be sited so is stated, is seriously, though tem- said. That rccord was open to The text of the new Act is "All the same, it is a pity sea- delay, but the report is now to as to avoid interference by mag- porarily, impaired by exposure of the shore medical authorities for clear. It amends the 1947 Act farers have had to wait so long hand. netic material. Even steel rings the eyes to white light, or to light examination. and provides for advice on the use before having made available to in officers' caps, it is pointed out, of most colours, but it may be In its Report, submitted firstly As regards the danger of pen- of pcnicillin to be included in the them one of the greatest of mod- may affect compasses. largely preserved in red light and of course, to the Minister, the icillin being stale, Mr. Blenkinsop "Ship Captain's Medical Guide" ern antidotes to sickness. Unfor- Perhaps the most notable to a lesser extent in orange light. working party recommends that said the authorities had to rely on carried on merchant ships in ac- tunately the authorities have not achievement of the Working There are, however, objections to notices should be issued about the instruction included in the cordance with the Merchant Ship- thought it proper to allow ship- Party was to produce a standard red lighting which do not apply compasses to shipowners, ship- guide being fully complied with. ping Act of 1894. masters access to the other new specification covering the quality to orange. Admiralty charts, masters, and shipbuilders. The On the question of the guide it- drug. Streptomycin, but even so and performance of magnetic light lists, and other publications, The new Bill has occasioned Working Part;, has aimed prim- self, he gathered that it would it is clear that penicillin will bring compasses. The need for such a are corrected in violet ink to en- much favourable comment. One arily at producing a code of good take rather longer to bring out much relief to sick seamen if the specification has been felt for a able them to be more easily read of the most notable of the utter- practice which will be acceptable than it had been hoped. It would instructions for its utilisation ue with orange lighting. ances is that made by Mr. Alfred take some time actually to be Wilson, C.B.E., General Secretary carefully followed." Incidentally, the Institute of printed. The Government would of the Mercantile Marine Service Navigation (of Britain) has de- therefore issue a special leaflet Association. Writing in the cided to offer annually an award which he hoped would be avail- Spring (Jan.-March, 1951) issue for the outstanding contribution able very soon indeed. of the "Merchant Navy Journal," Bordsley's to navigation or the outstanding The 1947 Penicillin Act, Mr. he said: Ymi navigational achievement of the Blenkinsop pointed out, provided "The Bill recently passed Art a year, and an award for the best that penicillin and similar sub- through Parliament makes it law- SHAVING paper to be published during the stances should not be supplied, ful for penicillin to be administer- year in the Journal of the Insti- sold, or administered, except by a ed in the treatment of merchant Subscriber It CREAM tute. Joctor, surgeon or dentist, or seamen on ships where there is Each award will be made only someone acting under their direc- no doctor. There was, of course, For a quicker in years when, in the opinion of tion. The only other similar sub- no opposition to the Bill and all the Council of the Institute, out- stance was streptomycin. "It is parties gave it their blessing. The The Navy? and standing work has been done. not proposed at present that occasion provided the usual fund The first award, if the conditions streptomycin should be made more comfortable of good stories, and one M.P. said are fulfilled, will be made for the available in this way," he said. it would not have been right to Order Ytur year 1950-J1. Candidates for the 'Under medical advice we are as- pass the Bill without paying a former auard may be nominated sured it is not necessary or desir- tribute to the very remarkable SHAVE by a member of the Council or able at present. Should it be work done in years past by ships' . by any fellow of the Institute. found to be necessary we should masters with the aid of just the Ctpy Ntw For the second award no nomin- incorporate again the necessary ship's medicine chest. They have ation will, of course, be necessary. instructions in the guide, and shown themselves capable of

mi. I L 50-TONNER BUILT ON THE MACLEAY. MARITIME NEWS OF THE THE FARMERS' & GRAZIERS' A 50-ton single screw vessel was recently launched on the Macleay River, north coast of CO OPERATIVE GRAIN INSURANCE New South Wales. It is the first craft of any size to be built there and AGENCY COMPANY LTD. in many years. Named "Cheerio," it was constructed by Mr. Brucc WORLD 23-25 MACQUARIE PLACE, SYDNEY Jamieson at his mill at Frederick- From our Correspondents in ton over the last three years. Mr. Jamieson is also the owner-skip- LONDON and NEW YORK per. The party which gathered By INSURANCE to see the little vessel off the slip, found that "Cheerio" had launch- AIR MAIL IMPORTANT.— Don't neglect to insure all your assets to ed itself. A belated bottle was their full value against all possible contingencies Failure to do so may involve you in serious financial loss. All classes of broken over it. The vessel, 60 business written (except Life) at lowest current rates. feet long, drawing 5 feet 6 BRITAIN'S SHIPPING DEARTH OF JUNIOR three others injured. The "P. Insurance experts at your service. inches, has a white hull with a INDUSTRY. OFFICERS. and T. Adventurer" was holed green and white funnel. A mast For some time now shipowners and her forepcak flooded, hut was at the bows is fitted with a der- About 20,000 square feet of able to stand by the tanker. CORRECT, PROMPT, AND SATISFACTORY CLAIM floor space in the National Mari- have experienced a shortage of rick for hauling deep-sea fish Planes and tugs were sent out SETTLEMENTS time Museum, Greenwich, has been junior officers. Substantially im- aboard. The saloon, which is from Vancouver to assist the made available for continuing the proved pay and conditions appear also white, and equipped with a "Tullahoma," which had her en- pictorial and model displays of to have failed in keeping certifi- refrigerator, can scat 23. An 85 British maritime history, which cated men at sea and the position gine-room flooded. ENQUIRIES OF ANY KIND ARE INVITED h.p. Gardiner diesel engine, con- has, exhibited elsewhere in the shows little sign of improvement. CHARGED WITH trolled from the bridge, is install- Museum, reached the time of the Recent inquiries amongst some of EXPORTING COFFEE. ed. The vessel can do 8 knots. Napoleonic Wars. The new those who have left or were about Within the engine-room, there floor spacc, which was requisi- to leave have made it clear that The third officer of a Finnish are two berths for the dcck crew, tioned last year, embraces the the financial prospects of com- vessel was fined £20 by the Sun- toilet facilities, auxiliary and east wing of the Museum build- mand make no appeal and cer- derland, England, magistrates on pumping equipment, and switch- ing, where it will be possible to tainly afford no inducement to a charge of exporting coffee. A board. An interesting point about show many exhibits which have continue at sea when jobs are so Customs officer stated that he the engine is that it has a reserve not previously been on view to easily available on shore. There found 30 lb. of coffec in a parcel ASK •h.p. of 125. Forward of the cn- the public, covering the period may be other answers, of course. in the coal bunkers of the vessel gine-room, there are 12 berths from 1815 to the present day. But certainly one answer to the at Sunderland South Docks. A question would appear to lie in equipped with .reading lamp, Emphasis is being given to the further 23 j lb. were found in the the fact that in the Merchant FOR bookshelf, etc. Forward again is history of British maritime devel- officer's cabin. accommodation for 8 more per- opments since 1851, the year of Navy today, the plums are no sons. A cabin for the master ad- the Great Exhibition, showing longer at the top. Make the FIRST WOMAN "SPARKS". SIRIUS joins the bridge. A second cabin the transition from sail to steam, master's job thoroughly attractive and it is generally felt that officers The first woman radio operator berths two officers. "Cheerio" and the use of iron and steel in- will remain at sea and seek to on an Australian ship. Miss was built for service on the Bar- stead of wood in ship construc- Dorothy Smith, is to be found at RUM ! tion. gain it. Unless this is done, the rier Rceef, and 12-day excursions British Merchant Navy may well the transmitter of the interstate are planned from Bowen. It is fall into decline through lack of freighter "Karuah." She's every the second vessel of the same bit a cheery one, too. But don't LOOK RADAR EQUIPPED SHIPS certificated officers to keep it name. The first was taken over healthy and strong. offer up that old sailorman's by the Navy during the last war. Mr. V. M. Roberts, of the Brit- "blue" about a woman in a crew FOR ish Thomson-Houston Co. Ltd., bringing bad luck to a ship. That PROFIT-MAKING went down into Neptune's locker Rugby, England, the retiring TANKER AND FREIGHTER "CARONIA". long ago. Besides, "Sparks" can chairman of the Radio Commun- COLLIDE. THIS The Cunard liner "Caronia", ication and Electronic Engineer- spark all right. which was in Australian^ waters ing Association, said at the an- The 10,000-ton "Tullahoma" early this year on one of her nual meeting of the Association, collided with the freighter "P. AUSTRAUAN CARGO RECORDS. LABEL! tourist voyages, is reckoned to in London, that their marioe sec- and T. Adventurer," 7,600 tons, have earned two million dollars tion up to the end of 1950 had early on the morning of August Shipping records are fast be- in fares during her recent 111- equipped 1,200 merchant ships of 4 off the coast of Washington ing made and broken in Austra- day yachting cruise round the various countries with British State, U.S.A. One man aboard lian waters. For the third time world. commercial radar. the "Tullahoma" was killed and since June, the Australian cargo

Tto Navy S.pt.mb.r, 1951. It record, which had stood for some bring its type of card into line Authority particularly expressed time at about 10,500 tons, was with those used by the majority concern at the comparison be- broken when the freighter of other sight-testing authorities, tween Foreign and British-owned "Munster Castle" reached Sydney and has resulted in a simplifica- vessels visiting the port, which on August 1 with more than tion of the style of letter with a was by no means favourable to 15,000 tons of general cargo. slight increase in the proportion the latter. Difficulties in dispos- The "Derrymore" recently dis- of length to breadth. It should ing of refuse, dirty bedding, bac- charged 12,000 tons, and, at the be noted, that although the type teria-Iaden washing-up cloths, un- end of July, the "Trvvaylor" un- of card has been slightly altered, clean mess-rooms, pantries, wash- loaded 12,668 tons. no change is contemplated in the places, etc., were all cited as po- standard of visual acuity required tential dangers to health. THE FAMOUS "CUTTY of candidates. FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN SARK". EXHIBITION. CASUALTIES FROM MINES. It was suggested that the fa This year the Seafarers' Edu- mous clipper "Cutty Sark" of Figures for 1950 show that 19 cation Service organised an exhi- 1869, moored off Grecnhithc for vessels over 500 tons gross, and bition called "Spare Time at Sea." several years past, should be tak- 17 smaller vessels, were lost or Exhibits include models, handi- en through bridges to King's damaged by mines during the craft, paintings, drawings, photo- Reach for the Festival of Britain, year This total of 36 casualties graphs and written work, all the but it proved impossible. is the most favourable recorded work of seafarers in their leisure- since the risk became acute in the time Books and libraries, a panel BRITISH COASTING early years of the second world TRADE. of photographs illustrating crew war, and compares with 51 such accommodation and an exhibit It was stated in the House of casualties recorded in 1949. representing the work of the Brit- Lords that of every £1 of gross SHIPMASTER FINED. ish Ship Adoption Society were earnings by the British coasting also on show. The Exhibition, trade 8s. 10Jd. went on wages, The master of a British vessel was fined £50 at Hull, England, which was opened by Mr. C. E. salaries, pensions and State Insur Wurtzburg, President of the ance, 3s. lOjd. on bunkers, stores, for concealing cigarettes, tobacco and spirits with intent to evade Chamber of Shipping of the and material, 4s. 5Jd. on insur- United Kingdom, was held from ance, port charges and other dis- duty. It was stated that Customs officers found 1,400 cigarettes, May 25 to June 8 inclusive, on bursements, Is. 2d. on normal dis- board HQS. " Wellington," bursements and of the net profit 4 lb. of tobacco, two bottles of wine and three bottles of spirits Temple Stairs, Victoria Embank- of Is. 7Jd., lOJd. went in taxa- ment, London. tion, 2d. in additional deprecia- concealed behind a panel in the BRITISH LIFEBOAT WORK. tion, 4d. in dividends and 3d. was master's berth. He said he was The Royal National Lifeboat carried over. taking them home for the holi- days. Institution has given rewards for NORWEGIAN SHIP the rescue from shipwreck of 467 DISASTER. PANAMA CANAL DEMAND. lives in 1950. That was 71 lives Panama Gtnal authorities are more than in 1949. Lifeboats Eight men and a woman were demanding that everybody on rescued and seven bodies were went out to the help of foreign board ships passing through the vessels, belonging to 15 countries, found h i Danish fishing vessel Canal must produce certificates in the North Sea on August 13. on 50 occasions and rescued 70 that they have been vaccinated lives. They were from the Norwegian against smallpox within three LOSS OF EFFECTS. ship "Bess." Nothing further has years prior to the issuing of the A new Agreement has been since been heard of the ship or of certificates. the 15 other members of the crew negotiated on the National Mari- and eight passengers who were SHIP SANITATION. time Board governing compensa- It has been interesting to note tion for the loss, by marine peril, aboard the ship. It is feared that AN ADVENTUROUS TOW. A steam piston hoed, weighing they were lost. from recent annual reports issued of an officer's personal effects, nearly two tons, was last month by the medical officers of health professional tools and instruments, The 7,285-ton freighter "Stan- were sent to her assistance. The flown from America to Sydney by SIGHT TESTS. of United Kingdom ports that, technical books, etc. It came firth," adrift and helpless in collier "Heronspool" (7,174 tons) a specially-chartered Pan-American Merchant Navy candidates tak- generally speaking, there has been into operation on March 1 last, mountainous seas for 10 days off also assisted in the tow and stood Skymester. The eircreft made e hurried trip from Sen Frencisco ing the Ministry o' Transport a steady improvement in the san- and represents a very considerable 'die Victorian coast, was towed by the disabled vessel for days. with the piston head for the dis- Sight Tests are now faced with itary conditions aboard British advance on old compensation into Sydney Harbour on the af- The "Stanfirth" was on her way ebled ship "Senta Cell!," recently a new type of Letter Test Card. ships. Nevertheless, all are agreed rates which had become inade- ternoon of I8th August. It was from Nauru to Geelong, Victoria, in Sydney. Freight cherge for the This was brought into use on 1st that there remains considerable quate as a result of the increased an adventurous tow. The "Sun- with a full cargo of phosphates. piston head, which is shown being cost of living and the general in- unloaded et Mascot, was I>000 March, 1951. The change has scope for further progress, and firth" ran out of oil and the Syd- At Sydney the "Stanfirth" replen- dollars. been made by the Ministry to the Sunderland Port Health flationary trend. ished her oil bunkers and contin- ney tug "St. Giles" and the Mel- —Courtesy. "S.M.H." bourne tug "James Paterson" ued her voyage to Geelong. 14 Th* Navy Septea.ber, 1981. TANKER EXPLODES. Twenty-five persons, including TATTERS ALL'S 3 POINT three British Merchant Navy of- NEWS OF THE WORLD'S NAVIES ficers, were killed and others were PROGRAMME missing, believed killed, in an ex- plosion and fire aboard the Brit- The 5/- Cash Consultations — £10,000 THE EXAMPLE SPLENDID! land. Arrangements for the roundings in a period of under ish tanker "Dromus" in Singa- First Prize. Drawn every few days. Vice-Admiral Philip K. Enright, "Cook" to take the scientists and three weeks. He briefly explain- pore harbour early on August 20. C.B., C.B.E., the Admiral Super- to return to Spitzbergen to bring ed the prospects offering for a The 10/- Cash Cosultations — £25,000 The explosion occurred while the intendent at Devonport Dock- them back in September were career in the permanent Navy for First Prize. Drawn every few weeks. tanker, owned by the Anglo-Sax- yard, who began his Naval Career made through the Defence Ser- both officers and men. on Petroleum Company, was load- on the lower deck, recently visit- vices Research Facilities Commit- THE No. 2 £1 MELBOURNE ing petrol for the Philippines at ed the Royal Hospital School and tee, which, under the auspices of H.M. SUBMARINES TO £50,000 First Prize. Pulsu Bukom, a storage island H.M.S. "Ganges" where he was the Royal Society, arranges for VISIT LONDON. CUP CONSULTATION five miles from Singapore. Eight educated and received his prelim- mutual assistance between the As part of the ceremonies to thousand tons had been taken inary training. He is one of three Armed Services and the Learned mark the Fiftieth Anniversary of Postage on tickets and results to be added. aboard. Two survivors of a load- "ex-Ganges" boys who have re- Institutions. Chief among the the Submarine Branch of the ing gang said that the tank they ceived Flag rank in the Royal scientists on hoard arc Mr. J. M. Royal Navy, and in connection The Address . . . Hartog, of Oxford. Mr. W. B. were filling overflowed and a Navy. At H.M.S. "Ganges" Ad- with the Festival of Britain, it is flash ignited vapour from the Harland, of Cambridge, and Mr. intended that two of His miral Enright took the salute at B. Olsen, of Oxford. GEO. ADAMS (TATTERSALL) HOBART vents of the other tanks. Though a march-past on the parade ground Majesty's Submarines shall visit the other tanks themselves did one thousand boys, and London during the period 18th- of nearly NUDES BANNED BY U.S. not catch fire the tanker vessel afterwards made a tour of the es- 28th September. exploded. A tug towed the ship NAVY. When ships of the Navy tablishment of which he could SUNK BATTLE OF NILE from her wharf preventing the recall so many pleasant memories. The United States Navy recent- "heave to" this rope flames spreading to 250,000 tons ly rejected Donald Potter because SHIP LOCATED. holds fast! of petrol and oil at the island NEW U.S. NAVAL CHIEF. he had a nude female form tat- It is reported from Paris that storage. President Truman on August 1 tooed on his arm and refused to divers have located the remains nominated Admiral William Fech- get it removed or keep is cover- of one of three French warships TROCHUS PILLAGING IN telcr, Commander-in-Chief, U.S. ed. He joined the U.S. Army which were sunk by Vice-Admiral ISLANDS BY JAPANESE. Atlantic Fleet, to succeed the late and retained his nude. Lord Nelson's fleet in Aboukir The Minister for the Navy (the AdmirafForrest Sherman as Chief Bay on August 1, 1798. Copper, NAVAL NATIONAL Hon. William McMahon) said in of Naval Operations. Washing- timber, and three cannons have SERVICE TRAINEES Canberra on August 3, that the ton observers say that Admiral been brought to the surface. It report published in the press that Fechteler's promotion may pro- GO TO SEA. will be remembered that only two ANCHOR morning about the pillaging of vide an opportunity to reopen the Four hundred Naval National French frigates were allowed to Trochus shell and copra from is- question whether an American Service trainees at Flinders Naval escape in the Battle of the Nile, lands north-west of Manus was or a Briton should become Atlan- Depot -will spend six weeks at which followed the discoveiy of substantially true. The pillaging tic Pact Naval Commander. The sea. Some of them began their the French Fleet by Lord Nelson was at present an isolated case American President has nominat- sea time in August. They learnt in Aboukir Bay, at the mouth of and the first of its kind since the ed Admiral LyUde McCormick to this on August 15 when the Com- the Nile. modore Superintendent of Train- war. This sort of thing could succeed Admiral Fechteler as At- U.S. NAVY TO ENLIST not be allowed and steps were be- lantic Fleet commander. Admiral ing at Flinders, Commodore H. J. Buchanan, addressed them. Hie 10,000 "WAVES". ing taken to guard against a re- McCormick was previously Vice- Captain Joy Hancock, Director currence. The Royal Australian Chief of Naval Operations, Commodore said each man would go to sea in either H.M.A. Ships of the U.S. "Waves", disclosed Navy had vessels for patrol po Estuary to rescue Allied per- recently at a Philadelphia meet- \SU duties but they were normally em- sonnel. "Culgoa", "Colac" or "Cowra" for two three-week periods. He ing, attended by a thousand wo- In this land of ours—in this Australia of kindliness, of friendship, ployed on training duties. This men, that the regular U.S. Navy's training must necessarily take H.M.S. "COOK" TAKES said the Navy wanted to make of good humoured tolerance . . . perhaps no beverage is more at SCIENTISTS TO target is 10,000 "Waves" by home than good Australian beer. For beer is a drink Australians priority over other commitments their sea-time as interesting as SPrTZBERGEN. possible, so it had been arrang- July, 1952. This is triple the like. It is a part of pleasant living, of good fellowship, of sensible unless and until exceptional cir- strength of the present "Waves," Having embarked a party of ed that they would visit parts of moderation. Aud our right to enjoy it . . . this too is a part of cumstances arose. as the women's branch of the our Australian heritage of personal freedom. • scientists at Gourock, H.M. Sur- Australia other than where they HELICOPTER TAXI very Vessel "Cook" (Captain K. live. Victorians would visit the U.S. Navy is called. SERVICE. St. B. Collins, O.B.E., D.S.C., New South Wales coast and have CANADIAN DESTROYER Beer Ms Good For You A message from Washington R.N.) left Lyness on June 27 for a week-end in Sydney. New "ATHABASKAN" Enjoy Mi! states that the U.S. Civil Aero- Spitzbergen. The scientists are South Welshmen would visit Ad- The Canadian destroyer "Atha- nautics Board has granted to Los members of the Oxford and Cam- elaide and Hobart. Commodore baskan," christened by the Amer- Angeles Airways Company the CARLTON at UNITED BREWERIES LTD. bridge expedition to Spitzbergen, Buchanan commended the trainees icans the "Little Mo" after her BREWING IN AUSTRALIA FOR 98 YEARS. country's first permit to operate a which will carry out geological on their keenness and the way operations in company with the helicopter taxi service. and glaciological work on the is- they had settled down in new sur- U.S. Battleship "Missouri," steam-

It SopHiokofi IHI. ed over 60,000 miles in Naval op- first been intended that "Anzac" long a landmark at the Bermuda R.A.N. SENT TO erations and spent 202 of her 273 -hould accompany the aircraft dockyard, which is now closed, ASSISTANCE fcF "WAHINE" days in Far East servicc in Kor- carrier "Sydney" to the Brisbane took just on a month to make the The Minister for the Navy (the ean waters. She wore the Flags area and be detached to continue voyage. In charge of the opera- Hon. William McMahon) an- was Lieutenant-Commander PROTECT of four Admirals whom she ear- her passage to the Far East just tion nounced on August H that im- ned on passage during her Kor- before "Sydney" visited Brisbane Norman Hunter, R.N., command- mediately on receipt of informa- the "Reward." ean service Vice-Admiral W. from August 3 until August 10 ing tion that the S.S. "Wahine" was YOUR G. Andrewes, formerly in com- for Show Week. The cancella- WHALE WATCHING. aground the Naval Board order- mand of the British Common- tion of "Sydney's" visit had al- ed H.M.A.S. "Barcoo" to proceed tered the plans made for "Anzac" The Minister for Air and to the stranded ship with all des- wealth and Allied Fleet; Vice- Navy (Hon. W. McMahon) said CHILDREN Admiral A. D. Struble, then which ultimately departed from patch. "Barcoo" was at the time Sydney Harbour unaccompanied. on August 17 that R.A.A.F. air- in the Coral Sea on its way to Commander of the U.S. 7th craft engaged in training flights Fleet; Vice-Admiral The Hon H.M.A.S. "Warramunga", which Manus. She was 1500 miles from over the north-west coast of Aus- where "Wahine" was ashore on Sir Guy Russell, Commander-in- had been serving in the Korean area since last September, would tralia were watching for whales, Masela Island. "Barcoo" is an Chief, Far East Station, and Can- at the request of the British Na- sail from Kure for Sydney for anti-submarine training ship of Cornwell's Extract of Malt—the economical tonic food provides ada's Vice-Admiral Grant. "Ath tional Institute of Oceanography, the R.A.N. abaskan" was one of the destroy- leave and refit shortly after "An- essential body building and energy creating vitamins which zac" had arrived. "Bataan", which wanted information on the ers which carried out the epic migration of whales. As point- fortify growing children against sickness and build them night navigation of the Chinnam- which returned to Sydney last strongly for future years. June after having served in the ed out in the May, 1951, issue Korean theatre for a year, would, of "The Navy," the National In- H.M.A.S. "ANZAC" stitute of Oceanography was LEAVES FOR KOREA. following leave and refit, depart CORNWELL'S for Japan on August 31. When founded in 1949 to take over the The new Battle class destroyer "Bataan" reached the Far East work of 'the occanographical "Anzac" left Sydney for Korean Anzac" would return to Aus- group at the Admiralty Research waters on August 30 to relieve tralia. Laboratory in Britain. H.M.A.S. "Warramunga" tem- FLOATING DOCK CROSSES FOUR DESTROYERS FOR NATURE-S TONIC FOOD FOR YOUNG AND OLD porarily until the arrival of H.M. RED SEA. A.S. "Bataan". It was announc- THE ATLANTIC. ed that she would sail by way of The Admiralty floating dock Four destroyers - "Chequers," Darwin, Kong Kong and Kure No. 5, one of the largest floating "Chevron," "Chivalrous", and and reach her destination towards docks in the world, left Bermuda "Chieftain" -of the 1st Destroy- the end of August. The Minister early in July on a long voyage er Flotilla, sailed from Malta on A Message to Youth... for the Navy (Mr. W. Mc- across the Atlantic to Falmouth July 16 for the Red Sea. It was Engineering Apprenticeships are a towed by H.M. Tugs "Reward" announced they would visit Mahon), in making this an- sound basis for a richly endowed nouncement, said that it had and "Warden." The dock, for Akaba and Aden. future. Vacancies exist with . . . W. G. GOETZ & SONS LTD. 136-140 HALL STREET, SPOTSWOOD .VICTORIA 'Phone MW 7695 . NORCO butter Is tfc. clioic.lt af ciMMry

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^ 1W H«vy September, 1*51. 20 and half frozen by his efforts, at tralia for the Jubilee celebrations, PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS very great persdRal risk saved the took part." lives of five Chinese seamen when Mr. Menzies explained that VICE-ADMIRAL SIR JOHN bert Medal in bronze was made their waterlogged fishing boat Rear-Admiral Eaton had, until re- COLLINS VISITS PERTH to K. J. Wilson, a 19-year-old sank off the China Coast. cently, been Director of the Naval AND ADELAIDE. seaman, who lost his life in the Staff College at Greenwich. He rescue attempts. The master of NEW FLAG OFFICER had an excellent record in the The First Naval Member of the the "Nassarius", Captain W. D. TO COMMAND Second World War and took a Australian Commonwealth Naval Speakman, the chief engineer, AUSTRALIAN FLEET. very active part in attacking the Board (Vice-Admiral Sir John Mr. E. Parry, and the storekeep- enemy's supply lines from Italy to Collins, K B E., C.B ) visited Fre- The Prime Minister (the Right er, Mr. D. M. Bain, received the North Africa, and in the Sicily niantle and Port Adelaide during Hon. R G Menzics) announced King's Commendation for Brave campaign. August to inspect naval estab- recently that arrangements had Conduct. The events for which lishments and installations and been made between the British While in command of the de- the awards were made centred members of th. Royal Australian and Australian Governments for stroyer "Mohawk" in 1941 he was round the outstandingly courag- Naval Reserve under training the appointment of Rear-Admiral awarded the D.S.O. for his eous rescue of the "Nassarius's" While he was at Fremantle he J. W M. Eaton, D.S.O., D.S.C., bravery and determination in tow- boatswain from a gas-filled tank. .list) inspected national service as Flag Officer Commanding His ing the destroyer "Gallant" back NEW FLAG APPOINTMENT. trainees. He did not sec any Majesty's Australian Fleet. The to port, in the face of enemy air national service trainees at Port Rear Admiral R. St V. Sher- period of appointment would be attack, after she had been mined Adelaide because those called up brookc, V.C., D.S.O., has been two years and would date from just outside Malta. "Gallant" in South Australia are undergo appointed Flag Officer Germany about 1st October, 1951. struck a mine on the same day that mg training at Flinders Naval and Chief British Naval Repre- Mr. Menzies said that Rear the aircraft carrier "Illustrious" Depot. Crib Point, Victoria. sentative on the Allied Control Admiral Eaton would succeed was heavily bombed by Nazi Commission in succession to 'planes near Malta on the first FORMER AUSTRALIAN Rear-Admiral J. A. S. Ecclcs. Rear-Admiral G. W. G. Simpson, appearance of the Luftwaffe in the NAVAL MEMBER TO C.B., C.B.E.. who was appointed C.B., C.B.E. The appointment Mediterranean. COMMAND "EAGLE". Flag Officer Commanding the will take effect in November, Australian Fleet in October. 1949, A fortnight earlier he was News has been received in 1951. awarded the D.S.C. for coolness, Melbourne that Captain Guy Wil- and who, his term having been completed, would return to the skill and enterprise during an loughhy, R.N., who, as Commo- R.M. COMMANDANT- action in which an' Italian convoy dore Willoughhy, was Fourth GENERAL. United Kingdom shortly after Rear-Admiral Eaton's arrival in and its escorts were sunk between Naval Member of the Australian The Commandant - General, Sicily and Tripoli. Naval Board for two years from Royal Marines, Lieutcnant-Gcn- Sydney. June, 1948, will take over com- cral Sir Leslie C. Hollis, K.B.E., "The Australian Government Two years later he was men- mand of the Royal Navy's new- C.B., has been promoted General and fieople are deeply indebted tioned in despatches for gallant est and biggest aircraft carrier to date from May 11, 1951. to Rear-Admiral Ecclcs," Mr and distinguished service and un- tiring devotion to duty in opera- "Eagle" from the contractors, Menzies added, "for the valuable Nevel ratings on board H.M.N.Z.S. "Taupo" discuss their Korea experiences while NEW DEPUTY CHIEF tions which led to the capture of Harland and Woltf Ltd., at sea services that he has given to the en electric washing mechine does their washing. Left to right: Stoker Mechanic OF R.N. PERSONNEL. on 31st October. "Eagle", whose Royal Australian Navy and the Sicily by Allied forces. Pat Harland, Seaman John Fenton, Stoker Mechanic Bill Bedggood end Stoker full load displacement is 45,000 The appointment has been an- Commonwealth in the last two From March until July, 1942, Mechanic John Armstrong. —Courtcay S.M. Herald tons, will be commissioned on 6th nounced of Rear-Admiral R. S. years. He has flown his flag in Rear - Admiral (then Captain)) November, and her trials and Warnc, C.B.E., D.S.O., as Dep- the aircraft carrier 'Sydney' dur- Eaton was commanding officer of working up will be begun eight uty Chief of (R.N.) Naval Per- ing most of the period in which H.M.S. "Somali" and Captain assumed shore duties. He was Naval Staff College. sonnel in succession to Rear-Ad- days later. Captain Willoughhy the R.A.N.'s carrier air groups (D) of the Sixth Destroyer afterwards appointed commanding He was promoted Rear Ad- has had wide experience in air- miral F. R. Parham, C.B., have carried out their sea training Flotilla of the Home Fleet. In officer of the cruiser "Sheffield" miral in July at the unusually craft carriers. He has served in C.B.E., D.S.O. The appointment in Australian waters, and has seen October of that year, while still and held that command until the early age of 48. several of them in various capac- took effect in August, 1951. them reach their present high Captain (D) of the Sixth De- end of hostilities. , stroyer Flotilla, he was appointed ities and in the Second World standard of efficiency. He was then appointed com- "EURYALUS" RELIEVES AWARD TO CHIEF OFFICER. commanding officer of H.M.S. War commanded one of them, "He has, on several occasions, manding officer of H.M.T.S. "St. "MAURITIUS" On the recommendation of the "Eskimo." H.M.S. "Activity," on the supply Minister of Transport, the King directed combined operations in Vincent," the training school for The cruiser "Mauritius" (Cap- route to Murmansk. has awarded the Bronze Medal which ships of the Australian Under his command "Eskimo" boy ratings, which had been re- tain E. O. F. Price, O.B.E., AWARDS TO M.N. MEN. for Gallantry in Saving Life at Fleet, the New Zealand Squadron was one of the warships which opened after having been closed R.N.), of the East Indies Fleet,, and submarines of the Royal Navy escorted the King when he sailed throughout the war, and, on com- The George Medal was re- Sea to Mr. William John Bunney, was anchored off Abadan, Per- j based on Sydney have been en- from Tripoli to Malta in H.M.S. pletion of that appointment, did a cently awarded to A. H. Dec, a member of the China Coast sian Gulf, during the early part of gaged. Early this year he directed "Aurora" during ti,e war. course at the Imperial Defence pumpman, and C. E. Jones, effi- Navigating and Engineer Officers' July. She was relieved by H.M.S. ; operations in which Australian Later, "Eskimo" helped to sup- College from January until Decem- cient deckhand, for their displays Guild, and chief officer of the "Eufyalus" (Captain P. L. Col- ! and New Zealand ships, a Royal port the landings on Sicily and ber, 1948: of great courage in saving the life motorship "Changsha," owned lard) from the Mediterranean Navy submarine and vessels of was bombed just outside Syracuse. of a fellow-member of the crew by the China Navigation Com- Having finished the course Fleet, and at time of going to other British Commonwealth Captain Eaton took her back to of the motor tanker "Nassariu*." pany Limited. Chief Officer Rear-Admiral J. W. M. Eaton press the "Euryalus" was still in • Navies, which were visiting Aus- Malta without further mishap and A posthumous award of the Al- Bunney, who was very bruised was appointed Director on the service there. .» I 22 TW Navy September, IfSI. " I SEA-ODDITIES ROYAL NAVY'S FIRST MAJOR SHIP OF ATOM JET AQE Few waters of the globe have The Northern Mariannas, also the first threat to its safety, it By now the Royal Navy's top- conditions. They are designed to so infiitc a variety of fishes as the known as the Ladrone Islands, of frequently dives to a depth of secret ship, the cruiser "Cumber- never see the high-altitude air- tropic seas of Torres Strait. which Guam is the largest and half a mile to a mile: thus its help the Admiralty, among other craft at which they are shooting. land," will have put to sea for a things, to decide how the Royal Monster tiger sharks, white most important, were discovered power to withstand great water series of major experiments which The "Cumberland" has alio sharks, grey nurse sharks, up- by Ferdinand Magellan on his fa- pressures must be immense. Navy can best fight faster-than- been fitted with stabilising fins to are expected to have a great bear- sound jet aircraft. wards of 20 feet in length are in mous voyage of discovery round ing in determining the type of prevent rolling. It is the first abundance, as well as huge- the world in 1521, and claimed by warship Britain will build in fu- An intricate system of remote- time that these devices have been sword-fish and great sail-fish, saw- him for the Spanish Crown. It is remarkable the distance ture years. controlled, automatically - loaded used in a big warship, although fish, reef eels, conger eels, du- Strung like beads along an are of many birds fly practically every and rapid-firing guns is part of a similar type of stabiliser has gongs, king-fish, and giant grop- day of their lives. To bring food For the past two years the been fitted to the new P. 6? O. the great volcanic ring known as "Cumberland" has been under- the ship's equipment. The guns ers. the Sunda Arc, this group con- to their nestlings the gannets are directed by an "electronic passenger liners and a few de- range daily over hundreds going a refit at Devonport Dock- Sword-fish up to 900 lb. in sists really of a submerged moun- of brain" device (robot control, in stroyers had them in the last war miles of ocean. Really good fliers yard, and has now emerged as the weight have been harpooned by tain-chain raised again from the short) which is capable of finding as an aid to gunnery. (Incident- like the swallows and swifts prob- Royal Navy's first major ship of ally, the Torres Strait islanders. The sea-bottom by volcanic forces still the range and bearing of the tar- the stabiliser here being put ably do from 300 to 500 miles. the jet and atom age. into use was described fully in the sword-fish generally found here active in that locality. get in a split second. Sandpipers, stints, jacksnipe, The 10,000-ton "Cumberland" May, 1951, issue of this journal.) is the "broadbill", or true sword- Magellan called these islands The cruiser also carries anti- golden plovers, sea-curlews, whim- is of the same class as H.M.A.S. > Although 26 years of age and fish; and specimens of these have Islas de Las Velas Latinas -Is- but since the Admir- aircraft guided missiles, high-al- brels and some other wading "Australia", one of the oldest active warships been known to attain a length of lands of the Lateen Sails—be- alty decided to make her the titude rockets, short-range rocket in His Majesty's Navy, the 15 feet. cause he was immensely impress- birds that visit certain parts of batteries, and long-range V2 type Australia in summer, have their "weapons trials vessel" her sil- "Cumberland" is now one of the ed by the extraordinary sailing houette has undergone a radical guided missiles for attacking tar- Saw-fish, too, will go up to 16 real home in Asia (Siberia, Thi- most modern. feet in length and half a ton in powers of the native "flying change. Her bridge and gun tur- gets well below the horizon as proas", with their huge triangu- bet, Manchuria). In their an- well as guided torpedoes. Many people express doubts of weight; and gropers eight feet nual southward migration they rets have gbne and her super- lar sails made of matting. His structure has been streamlined. the development of the fighting long and 600 lb. in weight are by cover thousands of miles, flying The appearance of the "Cum- efficiency of the British Navy, no means uncommon. followers, however, annoyed by The -cruiser carries a wide the natives' persistent pilfering, mostly at night; and return north berland" today seems to indicate that we always begin a war with As for sail-fish, that speediest range of secret weapons which particularly of articles of iron, again in the Australian autumn. that the Navy gunners of the fu- the last war's weapons. Here is of all big-game naval scientists and gunnery ex- and perhaps finest changed the name to Islas de Los The golden plover, on one of its ture, under cover from atomic direct evidence in complete refut- perts will test under sea-going ation. fishes, these have been caught in Ladrones—the Islands of Thieves southward journeys down the blast and radio-activity, might the coastal waters of the Straits —a name that has clung to them North American coast is said to to ten feet long, and the na- up ever since. It was not until 1668 travel more than two thousand tives tell tales of sail-fish far out that the official name of Las Islas miles over open water. in the Coral Sea of even more gi- Mariannas was bestowed upon gantic dimensions them. A country where there are re- mains of birds ten feet high The mighty sperm whale is (moas), where lizards have a We mostly picture a small fish noteworthy for the gymnastic third sightless eye, where there as a helpless creature. But the tricks it sometimes performs on are no snakes nor poisonous in- 18-inch piranha of the Amazon the surface of the ocean. When sects, and where the biggest na- SHAW SAVILL LINE River would make a tiger cat "breaching," the sperm heaves it- tive animal is a rat—so, in the seem tame by comparison. There self often 20 feet clear of the broad sense, to the naturalist, is • are many tragic cases of cattle water and falls back flat on the New Zealand. High up in the wading into the river during hot surface. In "lobtailing", it stands tussock country, is the strange Font Modern weather only to be literally dis- on its massive head, with its end New Zealand kea parrot, fine- embowelled by the bloodthirsty part 30 feet in the air, and then looking birds, audacious, olive PASSENGER & CARGO SERVICES piranha Dr. Raymond Dittmars, comes down and smacks the sur- green in colour, with darker the well-known American scient- face with violent strokes of its bands. On the ground the kea is to ENGLAND via ist, knew a lady who thoughtless- tail. The sound of the blows can unspectacular, hopping about ly trailed her hand in the water be heard, and the water it throws like other parrots; but when he while being paddled on the river up can be seen, for miles. When rises aloft into the sky he sweeps SOUTH AFRICA, PANAMA, SUEZ CANAL by a native. Suddenly she felt a engaged in "milling," it is the in circles like a hawk, and is terrible blow and, jerking her head of the sperm which is pro- even more predacious. The kea • hand up, was horrified to see a jected above the water. During with his powerful sharp beak, for full particulars and information apply to piranha dangling from it. The the performance of this operation like an eagle's, comes swoop- next instant the fish dropped off the whale turns slowly, with its ing down like a bolt and tears DALGETY ft CO. LTD., SHAW, SAVILL ft ALBION CO. LTD., carrying with it two joints of the little piggy eyes searching the seas the kidneys out of the backs of 2 O'CONNELL STREET, 17 CCONNELL STREET, for signs of possible danger. At living lambs. middle finger. SYDNEY. SYDNEY.

24 Tto Mill WptMiW, IWI. The Cunard liner "Caronia" EGYPTIAN WINS ENGLISH SPEAKING OF SHIPS sailed on her round-the-world CROSS-CHANNEL SWIM. cruise from the United States only The Egyptian swimmer Mareeh The building of the New Zea- replica of a pound note, some of half full owing to the internation- Hassan Hamad, 34, on the night land Shipping Company's new which were cut out and passed in al situation. of August 16 won this year's (the geared diescl ships is arousing pubs. second) international race, France considerable interest among Brit- Casualties to motor and steam to England, across the English ish engineers whb have hitherto vessels of over 500 tons gross in The Osaka Shosen Kaisya (of Channel He won by one minute. been far less enthusiastic on the 1950 numbered 6,893 against Japan) has received permission to A 17 stone 4 lb. giant, he took system than those on the Contin- establish the first post-war regular 7,063 in 1949, rnd 7,739 in 1948. ent. 12 hours 12 minutes to swim the Japanese service, to Brazil and the 21 miles from Cap Gris Ncz, River Plate via Durban, on to The Coast Lines Limited have France, to the place where he L'ndcr the trade treaty between which it is proposed to put seven transferred the motorships "Car- landed on the rocks at Shake- India and Japan, India will ex- ships. rick Coast" and "Baltic Coast" to speare's Cliff, Dover. An Egyp- port tea, manganese ore, coal and their South African interests and tian won the race last year, so cotton and import various goods Three seamen from the Swed- have re-named them the "Zulu Egypt retains the title. Coast" and "Cape Coast" re- including industrial machinery, ish vessel "Svancsund" were fined Hamad will get £1,000- first dyestuffs and steel. • £1.400 at Liverpool for attempt- spectively. H.ad Offic: 67 York Strut prize from the "Daily Mail," Bo. 1555, 6 P.O., Sydn.y ing to smuggle into Britain sponsor of the race. Work.: P.rr.m.tt., M.lb„ Ad.l.id. Both Australia and New Zea- 86,000 cigarettes. Several of the Houidcr Line's A minute after Hamad pulled land arc trying to secure a great- refrigerated meat ships are run- himself ashore, Roger Le Morvan, er proportion of British immi- Huge deposits of manganese ning on the Shaw, Savill and Al 27, of France, touched land three grants than they are getting now: have been discovered under the bion service from New Zealand miles to the east. Le Morvan the aim is per cent, to Aus- Pacific between Hawaii and Wake during the stoppage of supplies in had refused to give up, despite tralia and even more to New- Island, hut how to get at the the River Plate. several attacks of seasickness. He Zealand. metal is another matter. will receive £500 prize money. German engineers have been The third to land was Abd El It is anticipated that Britain The Adler motor packets, discussing the advantages of a Rehim, 42, also of Egypt. Last "Adler," "Fal\c." and "Moewe," two-cylinder compound engine year he won the race in 10 hours will this year spend £70,000,000 off «.p.t. torn* sunm m aura sum, in dollars more than in 1950 in building at Bremerhaven for the for low powers, with a small tur- 5 5 minutes, a record for an Eng- Canada, principally on foodstuffs, Bremen-London service, are being bine to move it from the dead lish Channel swim. timber and pulp with a good deal given the most extreme form of centre in starting. Brenda Fisher, 23, an English THE HOUSE FOR QUALITY AND of metal. modern funnels. ballroom dancing champion, tied Discussions are Ui^ing place os for fourth place in 12 hours 42 SERVICE The Ministry of Transport is- to the possibility of constructing minutes with the third Egyptian During the 1950 ice-free season sued a special invitation to Brit- an oil pipeline between Southern in the race, Saied El Araby. She EVERYTHING IN MEN'S 6? BOYS- on the St. Lawrencc the seven ish shipowners to purchase the Rhodesia and the port of Beira, beat by 39 minutes the women's "Beaver" ships of the Canadian remaining eight American-built Portuguese East Africa. record for a Channel swim, held WEAR Pacific carried over 250,000 tons Baltic-type steamers ("jeeps"). bv Florence Chadwick, of Brit- of cargo westward and nearly The tendency of certain types ain. 350,000 tons eastward. The Government of Ontario of welded ships to develop cor- Miss Fisher tripped jauntily up LONDON STORES LTD., MELBOURNE (Canada) has launched a scheme rugations in the bottom plating the beach and said: "I am as Mr. Bernard C. Curling is re- to admit 75,000 industrial work- is being investigated by Lloyd's fresh as a daisy and could swim tiring from the position of secre- ers during 1951; they will all be Register. back to France." She-will re- tary to the Institute of Marine able to pay their fares to Canada ceive £1,000 first prize as the Engineers before the end of 1951, in instalments by deductions from The P. d O. Line is again put- first of the six women competi- a rost that he has held since 1930. their wages after settlement. ting the "Himalaya" and "Chu- tors who finished the race. THOMAS PLAYFAIR san" and the Orient Line the Winnie Roach, 25, of Canada, British shipbuilders and ship Trinity House has advertised "Orcades" and "Orion" on the came seventh, and will receive PTY. LTD. repairers have framed a scheme vacancies for lighthouse keepers, cruising business this season. £500 as the second woman across. for recruiting and training ap- with the stipulation that they The oldest competitor, William MEAT EXPORTERS AND PROVIDERS prentices on a national basis in- must be "good mixers" on account The walls of the new big dry Barnie, 55, a Scot, who swam in stead of entirely by individual of the lonely life. dock to be constructed by Smith's tartan shorts, made history by be- SMALLGOODS MANUFACTURERS yards. Dock Company, of North Shields, ing the first man to swim the Eng- The British Government divert- are to be of Larssen sheet steel lish Channel twice in one season. A good deal of trouble u/as ed a number of ships carrying piles instead of the mass con- Finishing strongly, he came up ARGYLE STREET, SYDNEY caused by a consignment of Australian grain to Britain and crete which is usual, and many the beach singing "The Rose of All Enquiries: BU 5771. Spanish oranges to London whose sent them to India to relieve the other novel features are suggest- Tralee" and followed it with "I cases had labels including a perfect famine there. ed. Belong to Glasgow."

Tt* Navy 26 S.pHmb.r, Itfl. n N.Z. TROOPSHIP LOST. R. E. Wilson, R.N., of Stour- H.MJS. "Glory" Emulates H.MJS. "Theseus" bridge, Worcestershire, was dam- BOOK REVIEW The New Zealand troopship Describing Some Of The Very Successful Air Strikes Made By British aged by flak during these attacks "Wahine," on her way to Korea, Aircraft In The Course Of A Thousand Sorties Flown from Aircraft and he and his observer. Lieuten- WHITE ENSIGN—SOUTHERN CROSS. ran on a reef off Masela Island Carrier H.M.S. " Glory." ant I. R. Shepley, R.N., of Hatch on August 15. H.M.A.S. "Emu" By Henry James Feakes. End, Middlesex, scrambled ashore from Darwin salvaged war equip- The wonderful service perform- the most successful series of when they were forced to come (Ure Smith Pty. Ltd., Sydney) ment after the crew and 600 New- ed by H.M.S. " Theseus" in Kor- strikes against the Communists in down in the sea off the enemy Zealand troops had been taken ean waters, in the course of which coast. The "Glory's" helicopter dds sketches of the characters North Korea, in the course of The late Rear-Admiral Feakes off by the tanker "Stanvac Kar- the famous aircraft carrier and her picked them up. Another pilot nd personalities of the men who wnich her pilots destroyed and will always he affectionately re- achi" and landed at Darwin. The Air Group were awarded the battered supply trains, blew up forced to "ditch" his aircraft was membered in Australia, where he ailed them and commanded them, island natives also gathered all coveted Boyd Trophy, is being Lieutenant (E) P. Watson. R.N., the whole record is enriched ammunition dumps and causcd spent much of his life and did and they could from the wreck—a successfully emulated by her suc- of Stranraer, Wigtownshire. He by more than 50 drawings and considerable casualties among such fine work in the develop- veritable gift from heaven for cessor, H.M.S. "Glory." enemy troops. - was picked up by the frigate, ment of the Royal Australian photographs of warships from them They boarded the wreck Nearly a thousand sorties an Her aireralt expended nearly H.M.S. "Black Swan." Navy. This splendid volume of H M V S "Victoria" to the latest in hundreds and threw all they average of fifty a day- against During another operation. Sea - naval history is the result of his H.M.A.S. " Sydney." 60,000 rounds of 40 mm. ammu- could overboard to their women enemy targets in the Korean war Fury aircraft from the "Glory" enthusiasm and patient research (We arc indebted to Sun nition, more than ,i thousand rock waiting in outrigger canoes. The :one have been flown by Naval and 180 bombs in these at- flew across Korea to give close over many years. Apart from Newspapers for permission to re- ets natives went through the "lolly aircraft operating from H.M.S. tacks, which resulted in the sink- air support to South Korean chronicling his own career and print this review.) water" (soft drinks) like Sydney "Glory," the light fleet carrier troops on the East Coast. They experiences, the book traces in ing of seventeen junks and the "five-oclockers" on beer, but which relieved H.M.S. "Thes- successfully rocketed and strafed detail the growth of Australia's damaging of 76 others and the would have nothing to do with eus". Lieutenant-Commander F. total destruction of 59 buildings enemy troop positions and de- fleet from the days of Captain the beer themselves. Blankets, A Swanton, R.N., of Manning- and war stores. stroyed a headquarters post and Cook to the beginning of the last containing troops bed sheets, soldiers' clothing, fur ford Abbots, Marlborough, has More than a hundred ox carts gun positions. war, and this authentic record is niture, boxes of tinned food—all made the 2,000th landing of the forming part of an ammunition For the first time H.M.S. made fascinating for the ordinary went ashore to swell the village 14th Carrier Air Group since they train were destroyed and also "Glory" wore the Flag of Rear- reader by the touches of humor "larders" and "linen presses." left England in April. and humanity with which it is eight transformer stations. Near- Admiral A. K. Scott-Moncrieff, The "Wahine" is too hard afast The "Glory", commanded written. Besides telling the story by ly three hundred casualties were D.S.O. and bar, who commands and broken to be refloated. Captain K. S. Colquhoun. D.S.O., of Australia's fighting ships, it caused among enemy troops. the British Commonwealth and R.N., recently completed one of A Firefly piloted by Lieutenant Allied Fleet in Korean waters.

No person associated with the Navy can be without this book! White Ensign — Southern Cross A HISTORY OF THE NAVY IN AUSTRALIA by H. J. Feakes THE LATE REAR-ADMIRAL HENRY JAMES FEAKES, C.B.E., of Sydney served for nearly forty years with the Royal Navy and the Royal Australian Navy. His naval service was closely allied with the development of the Royal Australian Navy and his varied posts brought him into close contact with many whose names arc linked with the growth of the Navy in Australia. "White Ensign—Southern Cross' is not only a valuable historical record but is a colourful story including many interesting anecdotes drawn from Admiral Feake s own experiences and informative character sketches of notable naval and political figures. •A great amount of research has gone into the book and its interest is increased by ^JLiHt the many illustrations. Price 42/- THE ONLY LOGICAL 272 p.p., 58 ILLUSTRATIONS ON ART PAPER. BEAUTIFULLY BOUND IN FULL CONTAINER FOR MILK CLOTH. GOLD STAMPED WITH AN ATTRACTIVE DUST JACKET IN COLOUR. Obtainable from all booksellers — A Ure Smith Publication AUSTRALIAN GLASS MANUFACTURERS CO. PTY. LTD 428 SPENCER STREET, MELBOURNE. 'Phone FJ6101

TIM N«V Soptembw, IMI. A.C.T. Section from Mr. I. the allotment pay day 5th Oc- EX-NAVAL MEN'S Campbell. tober, 1951. Papua—N.G. In order that the new certifi- cates may be issued in time for ALEX H. MACKIE The members at a recent meet- the 5th October payment, Naval Association of Australia ing decided to continue to hold the allottees should return their exist- ENGINEER regular monthly meetings at the ing certificates immediately after 9-11-3 THERRY ST., fwfnt-lt-CkM Hit M«fe»ty T»« Kleg same address in Port Mo(*sby. collecting allotment due on 21st The Hon. Secretary has requested September. MELBOURNE, VICTORIA the local Naval Officer to supply FEDERAL COUNCIL. Sub-Section, has been visiting cil has advised the State Executive The existing certificate may be that it is making a donation of him with R.A.N, ship movements various Sub-Sections' meetings in so that the Section may be able to handed to the Postmaster after It has been brought to the notice South and Western Australia. £52/10/- to the Naval Memorial payment to 21st September, for of Federal Council that many House, Peel St., Adelaide. The arrange entertainment for the visit- Mr. G. Donaldson has written to ing ships' companies. return to Navy Office, or, if this members of the Association are his Essendon Sub-Section Hon. State Council is assisting the Port is not convenient, it may be re- G.W.S. cautiously facing the future prus- Secretary telling him of his present /uielaidc Sub-Section with tunJs turned direct to the Director of METAL STAMPINGS pect of buying or building their whereabouts in England. Sand- to help improve the local club. Navy Accounts, Navy Office, OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS own homes with figures at such a ringham Sub-Section members in- Melbourne. for the high level: it is expected that build- tend to hold quite a number of Western Australia. ing costs will still rise further, RECENT RELEASE ON After 5th October, it will not MOTOR AND AIRPLANE social functions in the coming Officers of the State Council be necessary for certificates to be INDUSTRIES. adding anxiety to would-be- months. had the opportunity of entertain- NAVAL ALLOTMENTS. purchasers. In view of this situa- returned to Navy Office for alter- Officers and members of Latrole ing the Federal President, Mr. F. ation in the amount of an allot- tion and the lack of housing ac- The Department of the Navy Valley Sub-Section worked ex- F. Anderson, during his visit to announces that, with a view to ment. This will be made by commodation for members and tremely hard to make a success of Perth last month. Mr W. W. Postmasters on advice from Navy prospective members from amongst expediting payment of Naval al- their first Annual Ball, which was Waytnan advises that local Ladies lotments, a new form of certifi- Office. ex-Royal Naval personnel, the held at the Morwell Town Hall Auxiliaries are still expanding in cate will be issued to allottees in Where transfer to another Post Federal Executive has written to on Friday, 10th August. The membership and has requested a For all enquiries please respect of allotments payable Office is required, allottees should the Prime Minister, requesting Ladies' Auxiliary of the North- further supply of brooch type that he give consideration to the through Post Offices. The new return their new certificates to 'Phone PJ 3629. Eastern Sub-Sub-Section, at Wan- badges for the ladies. Mr. A. certificate comes into operation on Navy Office as formerly. Association's plea for the raising garatta, is working in close co- Burwash, Goldfields Sub-Section of the limit to the existing housing operation with the members of the State Councillor, has been nomi loans for ex-Serviceinen. Council- locality. nated to the position of State lors advocate that, where neces- Treasurer. sary, a sum up to £3000 should be N.S.W. made available, by way of loan, to each ex-Serviceman desirous of Mr. F. Calvert, a prominent Queensland. member of the Parramatta Sub- HARDY'S building a new home or for pur- Mr. G. M. Arber was re-elected chasing one already constructed. Section, was elected State Presi- State President at the Scctions's dent at the 4th Annual Con- Federal Council is deeply con- Annual General Meeting, held on Speedily Relieves ference, held at the A n z a c Monday, 6th August. Two Vice- cerned ever reports made t^ Memorial Board-room on 28th various State Secretaries that some Presidents were also elected at the INDIGESTION, ACID AND SOUR STOMACH July. Mr. C. Pring has since re- same meeting; they were Messrs. members, ex-personnel of H.M.A.S. signed as N.S.W. representative "Reserve," have been informed .E. L. V. Clifford and H. Giles. AFTER-EATING DISCOMFORT on Federal Council. New Sub- The Section has now authorised that their applications for a share Sections have now been formed in of the R.A.N. Pri;e Money have the installation of a telephone for both the Chatswood and Ryde dis- Mr. W. Macdonald. THAT "MORNING-AFTER" FEELING been received and that they are tricts. Large numbers of new ap- not eligible to participate in the plicants for membership are ex- distribution as it was considered pected to be received from these Australian Capital Territory. "Reserve" was not classed as a areas in the coming weeks. Several Owing to the extremely bad sea-going ship. The Council in- members of Sydney Sub-Section weather experienced in the tends to take the subject up with will transfer to the Sub-Sections National Capital during July last, HARDY'S the Minister for the Navy. nearest their own homes. the Section failed to obtain suffi- cient attendance of memrer* to NEWS FROM STATES. South Australia. form a quorum and the regular INDIGESTION AND ULCERATED STOMACH monthly meeting was deferred un- Port Pirie, the last established REMEDY Victoria. til the normal Annual General Mr. C. H. Hall was re-elected Sub-Section, reports to Mr. W. A. Meeting in August. The Federal State President of Victoria at the Palmer, State Secretary, that an Executive has been advised that 3/- per Soz. Carton from all Chemists and Stores •4th Annual Stat? Conference, held additional five new members were Mr. K. White has taken over the on Saturday, 14th July. Mr. J. enrolled in July. The South Aus- duties of Hon. Secretary of the Dalton, a member of Footscray tralian Theatre Proprietors Coun- Tk* Navy September, IW. JO THE IMPORTANCE OF FILMS C. GILES WATSON'S The Fourth Sea Lord (Vice- ROYAL AUSTRALIAN FLEET RESERVE Admiral The Earl Mountbattcn & SONS of Burma), the President of the Royal Naval Film Corporation, presiding at the 12th Annual Gen- R. A. F. R. PARAGON eral Meeting of the Corporation stressed the importance of films for the Navy. • SACK Ex-Naval men of the Permanent Naval Forecs He quoted a letter from Ad- (K.A.N.) up tc age of 15 years and with a minimum AND HOTEL miral Sir Patrick Brind, then of 3 years' serviee may he enrolled in the Commander-in-Chief, Far East, • PRODUCE K.A.F.K. providing period between date of which read: "Before leaving the Far East Station, I should like to MERCHANTS, discharge and date of enrolment does not place on record my thanks and exceed 5 years. those of the officers and men of this station for the excellent ser- Enrolment is for 5 years in rating held on vices of the Royal Naval Film discharge with option of re-enrolment for further CIRCULAR QUAY Corporation, and to stress the 341 MALVERN RD„ importance of the work of the SOUTH YARRA, 5-year period. Corporation to the morale of the MELBOURNE, SYDNEY, N.S.W. Fleet in Korea. VICTORIA. Annual training is 7 days each year if enrolled "A film library has been es- within 12 months from date of discharge, or tablished in the forward area and •PHONES: BJ 3255-6. 14 days each year if enrolled after 12 month* ships exchange films when in com- fron. date of discharge. pany. Recreation facilities at the main Fleet base arc meagre, but in any case it is not always pos- I'ay and allowances during training will he at sible to give leave from ships H.A.N, rates and, in addition, a retainer of .121 when they arc there owing to the ORDER FORM per annum is payable on completion of POOLE & STEEL LTD. very short periods spent in har- To "THE NAVY," annual (raining bour; the value of programmes, ROYAL EXCHANGE already high, is therefore greatly BUILDING, Ex-Naval men of the Royal Navy or a British 43 STEPHEN STREET, increased. Up to date news films BRIDGE ST., SYDNEY. BALMAIN, N.S.W. are particularly appreciated as Dominion Navy are eligible to join :hc K.A.F.K. they not only show happenings under similar conditions. at home, but occasionally show Please register my subscrip- GENFRAL ENGINEERS. the sailors themselves which is tion to "The Navy." The always popular." BOILERMAKERS. rate is 14/6 per 12 issues Subsequently, members of the post free in the British SHIPBUILDERS. Film Industry who had been pres- Empire. I send Postal Note/ DREDGE BUILDERS ent at the meeting were enter- Cheque/Money Order for tained to lunch by Admiral issues. .f'.ft. — -i ji lily in writing, forwarding your Servicc Plans, Specifications and Mountbattcn; Vice-Admiral A. (Add exchange where rtificate lo:— Estimates prepared for C. G. Madden, the Second Sea applicable) Mining Dredges and Lord, was also present. HIE REGISTRAR, Plant of all kinds. Commencing from: Electric Welding and Oxy- ROYAL AI STKALIAN FLEET RESERVE, Acetylene Work. NAVY OFFICE, MELROl RNE • Keep a Good Name Address Telegrams'. Lookout FOR THE NEXT ISSUE OF " POOLSTEEL," Date BALMAIN, N.S.W. The Wavy

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