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CONTENTS Vol. 10. OCTOBER, 1947 No. 10 EDITORIAL l_.tt.ri to th. Editor, 3 Editor', Note, 12 ARTICLES Malta—Sea Bastion R.ub.n Ranzo IS Drawing tha Fangs of tha Saa Geoffrey C. Ingl.ton 20 Corvette, of tha R.A.N. Sidn.y Jamas 24 Ports Ara Not Always Havans John Clark 32 PERSONALITIES IB Captain A. S. Rosenthal, D.S.O., and Bar, R.A.N. Jb Commander T. K. Morrison, O.B.E.. D.S.C.. R.A.N. 27 Mr. Guy Spencer Packard 42 Chief Shipwright A. W. Robinson. D.S.M.. R.A.N. TECHNICAL Can the Sextant Survive? S. M. Burton 30 (jw: LOUD NELSON. From > p.intin« by fh« AuMraUaii ««i« Eitiw Puenen. dtti ih* portrait by L. F. Abbot. OVERSEAS NEWS. Saa Affairs at Horn, and Abroad Francis McMurtrie Maritime News of the World NAVAL OCCASIONS What the R.A.N. Is Doing At Sea and Ashore- 36 Squadron Dispositions 38 General Incorporating the "Navy League Jour- Personal 39 nal," Official Organ of the Navy League of Australia, and "The Merchant Navy," FICTION Journal of the Merchant Service Guild Doubles and Quits George Hermon 26 of Australasia. SPECIAL FEATURES Circulating through the Royal Austra- "ParramaHa" . J. Basfock 35 lian and New Zealand Navies, the Mer- Norton 47 chant Service and to the general public. Seas. Ships and Sailors ROOK REVIEWS Lloyd Rhys 48 Editor: "My Ship Is So Small'' "Sevan Sailors" Commander Kenneth Edwards, R.N. 49 Commander oil the "Kangaroo" Route — Sydney to London G. H. GILL. M.B.E., R.A.N.V.R. HUMOUR 43 Navy Mixture 43 "yRAVEI. in the Modern Manner — by AIR to London. The Prendargast Associate Editor: "Kangaroo" Servicc offers speed and comfort with the dual ASSOCIATIONS. CLU1S. Ceptain Navy League Notes 43 operation of Lancastrian and Hythe aircraft. W. G. LAWRENCE. M.B.E. 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"Arunta" 33 BRITISH OVERSEAS AIRWAYS CORPORATION GORDON ft GOTCH (A/«ie) LTD.. S.S. "Mahia" 12 Australia and New Zealand. Naval Nocturne: H.M.S. "Nelson" October, 1*47 I LETTERS TO THE EDITORS Time for a DEVIATION OR VARIATION? posing some magnetic attraction in the ship pulls the "Compass North" ten degrees west. That attraction Sir, would cancel out the five degrees While reading your June, 1947, easterly variation and cause a total CAPSTAN compass error of five degrees west, issue of "The Navy," I notice so that to make a course of North the following question on the True, the ship would have, to steer "Make and Mend" page. Page five degrees east of north by compass. 195, Question 7. "What is the Consequently the North point on the card—the "Compass North"—would difference between compass north be five dt, Tees west of the lubber line, and magnetic north called?" The and there would be a difference of answer given on page 207 was ten degrees westerly between it and "Magnetic North." That difference "Deviation." I submit that this would be "deviation." I think that if is incorrect, as deviation is the you work this out you will agree that difference between true north and the answer given in "The Navy" of the north as shown on the ship's June, 1947, is correct. compass, the difference being due Editor, "The Navy." to the magnetic influence of the ship's hull. The correct answer is "Variation." No doubt this error "THE ZUBIAN." , has been pointed out to you, but Sir, For many years past The Commonwealth I thought I would point it out to In the "Editor's Notes" in the CAPSTAN: THE EMPIRE'S Industrial Gases Limited has maintained you again as it has caused quite July issue of "The Navy," the FAVOURITE CIGARETTE a nation-wide chain of Technical Service. a bit of controversy in the mess. death of Admiral Sir Reginald North to South, East to West, wherever Yours faithfully, Bacon recorded in an editorial there's a welding or cutting job to be A/B. R. S. Grant, tribute to this outstanding naval done—from the building of a bridge to officer. Mention was, of course, PHONE OR WRITE a humble repair job, this service is H.M.N.Z.S. "Bellona." made of his period in command OUR SALES TECHNICAL available at call free of cost. It is with of the Dover Patrol during the a feeling of pride, too, that the pioneers I am afraid that you are confusing 1914-18 war. At that time he had SERVICE DEPARTMENT the differences between variation, dev- of the oxy-acetylene process of welding under his command an officcr who FOR EXPERT ADVICE iation, and compass error. Uninfluenc- and cutting in Australia make available has himself since become a fa- ON ANY WELDING ed by magnetic attraction in the ship, this wealth of eiperience and skill, a magnetic compass "north" would mous admiral—"Evans of the PROBLEM. gathered from years of research and indicate the bearing of the magnetic Broke." In hisp autobiography, M E N Z I E S • . pole, so that compass "north" and practical application, to engineers and "Adventurous Life," Admiral magnetic "north" would be identical. The Hotel of industry. Write, 'phone or wire our The compass in this case would be in- Lord Mountevans, as he now is, Subsidiary Company nearest to you. fluenced only by variation, which is tells how Admiral Bacon was re- Distinction. Wholehearted co-operation is yours for the angle between the bearings from sponsible for the creation of the the ship of the True and Magnetic the asking. destroyer "Zubian." Writing of norths. If, however, the compass were the Tribal destroyers in the Pa- influenced by magnetic attraction in That deep sense of comfort the ship, the card would be deviated trol, Lord Mountevans says: "The which you experience with one way or the other from magnetic' 'Zulu's' stern hit a mine but her the really good things of life "north" by that influence, and the fore-part was salved, and the is always found at Menzies. resulting angle of change would be 'Nubian's' bow was torpedoed You could wish for nothing the deviation of the compass. The sum or difference—according to their and blown off but we managed more in hotel service, facil- being like or opposite in influence—of to salve her after-part. As usual* ities, and really personal at- variation and deviation would consti- Admiral Bacon's quick brain tention. Menzies, Mel- THE COMMONWEALTH tute the error of the compass. To functioned constructively, and he bourne's best-known hotel, take a simple case. If a ship—whose compass was uninfluenced by internal had the 'Zulu's' bow joined up gives continuously of its best. INDUSTRIAL GASES magnetic attraction—was steering to with the 'Nubian's' stern and make a course North True, and the created a sort of hermaphrodite variation was five degrees east, she destroyer which he properly would have to steer five degrees west christened 'Zubian ." Incidentally, LIMITED of north by compass. Consequently Telegraphic Address: the North point on the card—the Lord Mountevans says: "Admiral Menzotel, ALEXANDRIA NEW SOUTH WALES "Compass North"—would be five de- Bacon was indeed one of the clev- CLC. SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES IN ALL STATES grees east of the lubber line, and there erest men under whom I had the Melbourne would be no difference between it privilege of serving . the Ad- and "Magnetic North." But now sup- TW Navy Octobti 1917 V LETTERS TO THE EDITORS KEMBLA (Continued.) miral's active brain and construc- tive planning gave us destroyer COPPER, BRASS AMD folk such a variety and diversity of employment that the dull days OTHER NON-FERROUS in Dover changed into the live- liest and most interesting days WIRE CABLES & TUBES that destroyer captains could wish for." Yours, etc., PORT KEMBLA. N.S.W. J. F. Brodie, SELLING AGENTS Bon Beach, Victoria. (with Di«ribut«f» »>' StMul TVBES * BRASS WIRE W">E « CABLES PERADVENTURE. KNOX SCHLAPP PTY'. LTD. BRITISH INSULATED big " . Sir, KNOX SCrtLArr r CALLENDER'S CABLES LTD Collins House, Melbourne ' Many years ago I read a hook 84 William St., Melbourne BUSIHTESS! of short humorous stories of life in the Royal Navy as seen Kembla Building, Sydney 44 Margaret St.. Sydney. Wh en shilling* are put away regularly they through the eyes and told by the become "big business" in any savings account, greatly exaggerating tongue of a no start saving now. Royal Marine. I came across this At current interest rates a regular deposit ol 1/- hook in the ship's library of a a week would amount — steamer in which I travelled as a passenger to England, a year or in 5 years to £13/12/1; in 15 years to £45/3/6 so before the outbreak of the first in 10 years to £28/12/2; in 20 years to £63/9/4 world war.