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HMAS Sydney Sailor Marine ‘Refuges’ May Be the Key to Coral Reef Recovery Following Climate Change ISSUE 132 JUNE 2009 How does one man a Navy in the 21st Century? The Long Journey Home The Story of the Unknown HMAS Sydney Sailor Marine ‘refuges’ may be the key to coral reef recovery following climate change A Bright Flame: The Leadership of Admiral Sir Bertram Home Ramsay RN Visit to BRNC Dartmouth A transcript of the Keynote Address at the Fleet Air Arm of Australia AGM Maritime Law Enforcement JOURNAL OF THE Beyond the Littoral Shipyards: Australia and USA Email: [email protected] Fax +61 8 9410 2564 Tel: +61 8 9410 1111 WWW.AUSTAL.COM Issue 132 3 Contents How does one man a Navy in the 21st Century? 5 The Long Journey Home The Story of the Unknown HMAS Sydney Sailor 9 Marine ‘refuges’ may be the key to coral reef recovery following climate change 15 A Bright Flame: The Leadership of Admiral Sir Bertram Home Ramsay RN 16 Visit to BRNC Dartmouth – CDRE Harry ADAMS prize 21 A transcript of the Keynote Address given by Commander Nat Gould RAN (Rtd) at the Fleet Air Arm of Australia AGM 23 Maritime Law Enforcement Beyond Front page: New South Wales Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione APM, challenges the Royal Australian the Littoral 29 Officers and Navy led by Rear Admiral Nigel Coates prior to entry to the City of Sydney, during the Royal sailors from the Australian Navy Freedom of Entry Parade. Royal Australian Doctrinal Innovation in the Royal Naval Navy begin their 14 March 2009 company from HMAS Ships Sydney, Air Service: Samson, Longmore, and Freedom of Entry Darwin, Newcastle, Anzac, Ballarat, Williamson 35 Parade down Navy makes history in Freedom of Stuart, Manoora, Kanimbla, Success, George Street, Entry Parade Sirius, Diamantina, Hawkesbury, Sydney. Visions from the Vault 47 Yarra, Norman and Gascoyne along ydney Central Business District was with Collins Class Submarine HMAS Sa sea of white on Saturday 14 March Farncomb and Navy land establishments Style Notes for Headmark 48 2009, as approximately 4,600 Royal HMAS Kuttabul, Waterhen, Watson, Issue Number 132 Australian Navy personnel marched Penguin, Harman, Albatross and ANI Online Guide 49 Printed by Everbest through the city’s streets. The Freedom Creswell. Over 150 Australian Navy Printing Company of Entry Parade involved the ship’s cadets also took part in the parade. Australian Naval Institute Info 50 ISSN 1833-6531 ATI - AUSTAL - AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE CREDIT UNION Design & DTP: - BOOZ ALLEN & HAMILTON FRIEND - EDS - KBR - LOPAC ANI Membership Application Form 51 Diane Bricknell - RAYTHEON AUSTRALIA - SAAB [email protected] Journal of the Australian Naval Institute THETHE COMMONWEALTH COMMONWEALTH NAVIES: NAVIES: 100100 YEARS YEARS OFOF COOPERATION COOPERATION TheThe sixth sixth biennial biennial King-Hall King-Hall Conference Conference will willbe heldbe held inThe Canberra sixth biennial on 30-31 King-Hall July 2009. Conference The conference will be held will in Canberrain Canberra on on30-31 30-31 July July 2009. 2009. 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GENERAL INFORMATION GENERALVenue: INFORMATION Venue: Venue:Adams Hall, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra ACT.Adams Hall, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra AdamsACT. Hall, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra ACT. Registration: Registration: Registration: Registration will be at no cost, however, the number RegistrationRegistration will will be beat noat nocost, cost, however, however, the thenumber number of ofdelegates delegates will will be belimited limited by theby thesize size of the of thevenue. venue. Earlyof delegates contact willwith be the limited Sea Power by the Centre size of - theAustralia venue. is Earlyrecommended.Early contact contact with with the the Sea Sea Power Power Centre Centre - Australia - Australia is is recommended.recommended. (Registration includes lunch and light morning tea) (Registration(Registration includes includes lunch lunch and and light light morning morning tea). tea) FURTHER INFORMATION FURTHER INFORMATION SeaSea Power Power Centre-Australia Centre-Australia ConferenceConferenceSea Power Co-ordination Centre-Australia Co-ordination Cell Cell DepartmentDepartmentConference of Co-ordinationofDefence Defence Cell CanberraCANBERRADepartment ACT 2600ACT of Defence 2600 CANBERRA ACT 2600 Tel:Tel: (02) (02) 61276514 61276514 Tel: (02) 61276514 Fax:Fax: (02) (02) 61276521 61276521 Email:Fax: (02) [email protected] 61276521 Email:Email: [email protected] [email protected] AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE THE UNIVERSITY OF FORCE ACADEMY NEW SOUTH WALES Issue 132 5 How does one man a Navy in the 21st Century? L MIEUTENANT ICHAEL NEWMAN The reality, however, is that the previously mentioned ‘old sailors’ are not a product of their time but are in fact a product of the profession they have chosen. At the risk of degenerating into a “chicken or the egg argument” at this point, I am simply suggesting that the profession of arms (and more particularly the navy life) espouses a certain lifestyle that is attractive to the adventurous and fun-loving in our society irrespective of the century in which Dealing with o ask a Warrant Officer to tell you I have heard countless stories they joined. As such, the RAN finds different what has changed in the RAN of Command teams (indeed whole itself in a difficult
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