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Vol. 17. OCTOBER, 1953. No. 10.

or an EDITORIAL: Of M.V. "DUNTROON"— 10.500 eon. Angled Flight Deck For H.M.A.S. "Melbourne" ., 4 India's New Role . . 5 MELBOURNE R.N.V.R.'s Fiftieth Birthday 5 STEAMSHIP Meeting A Challenge •.* 5 CO. LTD. THE WONDERFUL LAMP ARTICLES: Head Office: W.d. I. Aullislla for Tk. 6.ni»«l B.etric Co. Lid. ol E»f,b»o The Significance of ihe Gas Turbine Revolution 7 31 KING ST.. MELBOURNE British Submarines Are Making New Records B BRANCHES OR AGENCIES AT ALL I'ORTS British Cruiser Answers S.O.S. 9 "Nutcracker" Test For Warships 10 MANAGING AGENTS FOR Whet Is Australia? II HOBSONS BAY DOCK AND ENGINEERING CO. PTY. LTD. Harrison Timekeepers at Greenwich r . 13 Cheirmen Reviews 1952-53 Operations • IS Works: Williamstown, Victoria New Third Naval Member For The A.N.B 25 and HODGE ENGINEERING CO. FEATURES: PTY. LTD. News of the World's Navies 15 Works: Sussex St., Sydney. Maritime News of the World 19 SHIP REPAIRERS. ETC. Personal Paragraphs 22 Sea Oddities 24 Speaking of Ships 26 Book Reviews 28

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AUSTRALIAN SEA CADET COUNCIL Wapamntarii'M of too Naval Board: Director of Naval Reserves, ALL CLASSES OF SHIP REPAIRS AND FITTINGS Captain A. S. Rosenthal, D.S.O, R.A.N. (Chairman), Commander F. R. James, R.A.N. UNDERTAKEN HajiiHaajailitt of Tha Nary Laacua: Commander R. A.- Nettlefold, DSC, 88-102 NORMANBY RD., STH. MELBOURNE, VIC. V.R.D., R.A.N.V.R., L. G. Pearson, Esq., Telephones: MX 5231 (6 line.). L. Foraythe, Esq., Lieut. (S) F. G. Evans, R.A.N V.R. Hon. Sauataal: R. Neil wiHbrd. 1 T*« Navy I*H. . INDIA'S NEW ROLE. Humber, London, Mersey, Severn, Solent, South Wales, Sussex, Tay, Tyne, Ulster: four Air Divi­ Of great importance to Australia in the future sions: Scottish, Southern, Channel, Northern, and will be the part played in Asian affairs by India, one independent air squadron—No. 833 (Midland) our fellow member of the Commonwealth of Na­ Air Squadron. It is expected that in 1954 the tions. India is rapidly assuming the leadership of strength of the R.N.V.R. will reach about 12,250 officers and men. non-Communist Asia, and her actions and policies will have great influence. Since Australia's destiny In the two World Wars the R.N.V.R. expand­ is linked up with Asia rather than Europe or the ed beyond all recognition and rendered inestimable Americas, it would be to our advantage to study service to the Allied causes. India carefully and if possible co-operate with her. At the end of World War I. some 6,665 offi­ At present India has wise and moderate leader­ cers held commissions and there were 45,000 men ship. Men like Jawaharlal Nehru, Chakravarti serving in the Royal Navy and 15,000 in the Rajagopalachari and Rajendra Prasad are respon­ Royal Naval Division. In World War II., 80 per sible beings aware of the magnitude of the prob­ cent, of all the officers serving in the Navy at one **•**£'• lems that confront them and the fact that India time held R.N.V.R. commissions -48,000 in all. en become a link between East and West. In­ dian policy throughout the Korean trouble, for MEETING A CHALLENGE. example, has been intelligent and far-sighted. India has a small and noisy Communist Party, Most of us like to think that we are always pre­ but at present there arc few indications that the pared to meet a challenge. To do so is an indica­ Ms* sub-continent will transfer to the Communist camp tion of courage and self-respect. Whether it be as China has done. Whereas the Chinese Com physical or mental, we like to tell ourselves that a f^jgyTpg&ii munists had only to overcome the corruption and challenge is a stimulant which brings out the best incompetence of their foes, the Indians have a in us, and to which we respond naturally. tradition of clean British administration, a sound Such thoughts are consoling to our self-esteem, governmental system and lead-ers educated in the hut this should not blind us to the fact that few Western manner. of us really respond to every challenge. Sometimes Through her part in the Colombo Plan, Aus­ we shirk them with an excuse. Sometimes we so that in-coming aircraft, which might miss the tralia is creating goodwill in India, but it cannot are apathetic about them. Sometimes we simply Vol. 17. OCTOBER, 1953. arrested wires, would not crash into other air­ be claimed that the ties between the two coun­ do not recognise them as challenges. craft that were parked forward. During the nor­ tries are close enough. We should know more We in Australia are faced with many challenges ANGLED FLIGHT DECK FOR mal course of landing, barriers were not needed about India's outlook on international affairs and in these exciting days. Arc we meeting them as a H.M.A.S. "MELBOURNE" on the new type of deck. the reasons for her actions and policies. Austra nation? There is a challenge, for example, in the bans of the future Will have to find means of get­ Aircraft landed-on at an angle of six degrees fact that our destiny will be largely shaped by our Th-e Roy-a! Australian Navy has not lost any ting along with countless millions of Asians, and .icross the deck. The aircraft that had land.'d on relations with Asia. We shall have to find ways time in adopting the recently-designed type of the aid and support of an*India which, though in­ before were parked clear of this angled flight path, of getting along with countless millions of Asians. angled flight deck, which the Royal Navy and dependent since 1947, is still a member of the if a plane missed all the arrester wires the pilot Do we give this state of affairs proper thought and the United States Navy are incorporating in some Commonwealth, would greatly help in the task. consideration? Do we consciously plan so that the of their aircraft carriers. This new kind of deck, would merely go round again, without damage to himself or his aircraft, to attempt another land­ Australia, in which our children and children's which lias revolutionised the technique of deck- children will live will continue to be a safe and ing. R.N.V.R.'s FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY. landing, and which was designed hy the British sound white nation living in neighbourliness with Admiralty, will he fitted into the aircraft carrier A safety barrier was provided on the angled neighbours of other creeds, colours and character­ "Melbourne", which is being built for the RAN deck, but it would be used only if the hook of June 30 marked the 50th anniversary of the pass­ istics? Or do we leave the problem to be solved in the United Kingdom. the aircraft were broken off and there was no ing in Britain of the Act of Parliament sanctioning by somebody else? other way of stopping the aircraft. the formation of the Royal Naval Volunteer Re­ It will enable her aircraft to land on with much Then there is the question of our own moral Mr. McMahon added, that the fitting of the serve. British servicemen everywhere will join less risk than aircraft do on the present conven­ standards. Do we tolerate too much sharp prac­ angled deck would delay the completion of the in extending their congratulations to the officers tional straight deck, and, besides ensuring maxi­ tice, too much profiteering, too much loafing, too "Melbourne" by about six months, but she would, and men, past and present, of this great and gallant mum safety for pilots and flight-deck personnel, much conflict in industry', often with fault on both nevertheless, be ready for commissioning by the body of volunteers. will provide for greater operational efficiency. sides, employer and employee, too many rogues in middle of 1955. As the safety of officers and men It will also reduce the possibility of damage The history of the Royal Naval Volunteer Re­ our midst? These things would never be if each of the Fleet Air Arm and the increased efficiency which is now occasionally done to aircraft when serve is a most notable one. Initially, Parliament one of us had a social conscience. How much of the ships of the Fleet were paramount, this they accidentally overshoot the arrester wires on sanctioned the raising of 4,200 men in Divisions, better it would be if we, as a people and a nation, delay was being accepted. the straight flight deck and collide with the safety the earliest of which were known as London, Scot­ could face up to them and eliminate them. It had not yet been decided whether H.M.A.S. tish, Mersey, Tync, and Bristol. Subsequently barrier. Our dangers, national and individual, are a chal­ The Minister for the Navy (Mr. McMahon) "Sydney" would be fitted with the new type of some of these divisions were separated and others deck. It is, however, devoutly to be hoped that were formed, known as Sussex, Clyde, Forth, Ul­ lenge to us; but in meeting the challenges of his­ uid on September 9 that while flying was in pro­ tory and in our individual selves, peoples grow in gress in the Fleet Air Arm, safety barriers were such a course will be taken, if and at such time ster, Tay, Humber, Solent, and South Wales. it is found possible and expedient. Today there are twelve Divisions: Clyde, Forth, greatness. We have achieved great things in the raised on carriers not equipped with angled decks past; we.can achieve greater things in the future. n. K«T OetoWf, l*»l. I Insulating the arteries THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE GAS TURBINE REVOLUTION The significance of the gas tur­ central petrol engine. It was not complete installation. When the bine for future marine applica­ initially designed for marine work tions is the subject of an article "boosted' ships arriv,-, jays Smith, of industry... but was an adaptation of an air­ pure steamers will ", . ,ome obso­ by D. A. Smith writing in "The craft engine Navy," the British Admiralty's lete because they would be carry­ monthly publication published in "After the Gatric had run ing round an additional load of the United Kingdom. The writer many hours at sea, three things propulsive machinery at the ex­ Ashore.' quotes a recent statement by Brit- emerged. Operation at sea level pense of endurance or the ability Stat* Electricity Commission. tin's Third Sea Lord and Control­ did not result in unduly high de­ to mount better weapons or de­ Imperial Chemical Industries A.N.Z. tecting devices. Ultimately, if gas Australian Gas Light Co. ler of the Navy, Sir Michael M. posits on the turbine blades: the Australian Iron and Steel Ltd. Denny, in which he said that im­ engine was easier to maintain turbines can be made to last as Stewarts and Lloyds. portant decisions concerning the .than a reciprocating engine and it long as steam machinery, the Thompsons (Castlemaine). future of the gas turbine in the handled satisfactorily in the craft steam component may disappear Department of Railways. altogether. Similarly, if the fuel Waterside Cold Stores. Royal Navy had been made. Sir While these trials were going on, Streets Ice Cream. Michael add:d: "The conse­ the Admiralty pressed ahead with consumption can b.' reduced, in Nuffield (Aust.J Ltd. quences of these decisions four projects ashore. There was the smaller craft, the diesel com­ Vacuum Oil Coy. throughout the marine world will the improved version of the Gat­ ponent of the total installation be far-reaching and the impact ric and the 4,800 horse-power G2 may disappear. The advantage, may well prove as revolutionary engine, recently installed in the here, would not be one of weight- Afloat! as the partial supersession of the two new fast patrol boats, "Bold saving so much as easier main­ tenance. Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Co. steam reciprocating engine at the Pioneer" and "Bold Pathfinder." Adelaide Steam Ship Co. There was the Rolls-Royce R.M. turn of the century by the steam The article ends with a- refer­ Jamei Patrick and Co. Pty. Ltd. turbine." In the near future gas 60, a powerful gas turbine de­ Mcll-raith McEacharn Ltd. ence to the Naval Wing at the turbine will be found in all signed from the start as a marine Huddart Parkar Ltd. National Gas Turbine Establish­ engine and now being installed P. and O. Staam Navigation Co. classes of vessels in some form or ment at Farnborough. "This," he Department of tha Navy. for sea trials in the historic World other. says, "is a true stone frigate, the City Lina W. S. Dauchar and Co. Ltd. War II. gunboat "Grey Goose." width of the actual testing bay A.U.S.N. Co. Ltd. "Ships will certainly have pow­ There was the gas turbine being Newcastle and Hunter Rivar er generating sets in the very near being 40 feet, approximately the developed by W. H. Allen Limit­ Steamship Co. Ltd. future. beam of a sea-going frigate. In it AND HUNDREDS OF OTHERS. ed for the powering of a 1,000 can'be conducted the trials of gas Smaller ships will undoubtedly kilowatt electric generating set turbines up to 10,000 shaft horse­ have gas turbine propulsion and for use as an auxiliary. There PHONE BW2373 AND WE WILL SEND AN EXPERT ENGINEER TO • H.M.A.S. Arunte " on her power in conditions closely re­ INSPECT AND ADVISE YOU ON YOUR INSULATING PROBLEMS. recent * rials after the ;*eam g.ts turbines may well be fitted in was also an English Electric gas sembling those to be found at NOTHING IS TOO HOT OR TOO COLD FOR UNI-'VERSIL" TO INSULATE. pipes ar id boilers had b»en aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroy­ turbine, the 6,000 h.p. E.L. 60A. WE ARE SPECIALISTS IN THERMAL INSULATION. AND OUR TECH­ insulated by Uni-'V ersil". ers and frigates as "boost" sets for sea. NICIANS ARE EXPERIENCED IN WORKING WITH EVERY TYPE OF » "In addition the Admiralty de­ use when the full power for which cided to purchase a number of INSULATING MATERIAL. "The wing is a beautifully the ship is designed is required, the small Rover gas turbines, streamlined place with a control other forms of proulsion provid­ built for powering motor-cars, in Um-"VERSIL" INSULATING COMPANY PTY. LTD. room suggesting the shape of ing for the range of speed below order to test their maintenance • HEAD OFFICE: 17 MACQUARIE PLACE. SYDNEY . things to come. It is just what the top fifth of power." qualities in harbour craft." alio at MELBOURNE. HOIART. ADELAIDE and PERTH is wanted to keep Britain in the The article recalls that when, in lead which she has gained in this 1947, the Royal Navy's M.G.B. In a discussion of the implica­ type of engine, a lead estimated -D09 sent the spume flying in the tions of the new machinery, the in some quarters to be one of four Solent, she was the first marine writer says that the "boosting" to five years. craft to be powered by a gas tur­ of the big ships seems to be the bine. "This," says the article, most important. The advantage "The bold and resolute policy "was reminiscent of the famous WARD'S BAKERIES Keep a Good to be gained from a combination of the Admiralty in committing tppearance of Sir Charles Par­ of steam and gas turbines arises, itself to a major gas turbine policy 30-J8 VICTORIA STREET, PADDINGTON. don's steamboat Turbinia,' half a he says, because, while steam ma­ should encourage British industry. Lookout :entury before." chinery is heavier and lasts longer, It may necessitate big changes in Proprietors of: gas turbine machinery is lighter The writer continues: the outlook and production detail COOK'S BAKERY, KING'S BAKERY, ft HAMBURGER BUN CO. FOR THE NEXT ISSUE OF though it does not last so long. "M.G.B. 2009, a World War II of the great workshops that have , Warships only operate at full been traditionally associated with 'Phone: FA 3998. "•oat, originally had three petrol power for a very small fraction •ngincs powering three propellors. ship machinery but the result will The Novu of their life. Thus a combination almost certainly give Britain a WHOLESALE SUPPLIES ONLY The gas turbine, known as 'Gat- of the two forms of power gives wonderful potential upon which tic,' and made by Metropolitan an overall reduction of weight Vickers, took the place of the the country can depend at all without sacrificing the life of the times." Tfto Mat Oet.fcw, US) . IwB^^AaL,^, J BRITISH SUBMARINES ARE MAKING NEW RECORDS By Lt.-Cdr. Novell Hall, D.S.C. R.N.V.R.

The day when submarines can The trans Atlantic crossing is missions merely to establish re­ submerge in home waters and sur­ the latest oi a series of exacting cords. The fact that during train face again tm the <>th;r side of t-*sts earned out by the British ing a record that is, a record as the world has been brought near­ Navy's big submarines since 1947. ludged from details publicly an­ er by the remarkable feat of the In that year the "Alliance." fitted nounced happens to be set up British submarine "Andrew."* Div­ with dn earlier type of Snort, ;s not important. Such tests are ing at Bermuda she came home dived for several weeks again carried out not as a "talking underwater, using h:r snort the exact time was not revealed point" but to assess the perform' breathing tube throughout her off th: coast of West Africa, dur­ ance of a ship's company, the ship 2,500 mile voyage beneath the sea. ing which she travelled for thous­ and her equipment in strenuous ands oi miles beneath the tropical eonditions which would be met in The "Andrew." in making the seas. The following year another active service. Above all. they are first underwater crossing of the "A" class submarine, the "Am­ designed to test the endurance Atlantic, was returning t< > the bush." made a similar trip in Ar­ and reactions of the men on whom United Kingdom after operating ctic waters, spending five weeks the efficiency of the ship must al­ fur five or six months with the within the Arctic Circle. At times ways depend. Royal Canadian Navy. Accord' the "Ambush" encountered such In all these trials scientific and mg to her commanding officer. rough weather below the surface medical observers are present. Lieut.-Cdr. W D. S. Scott, R.N, that she had to come up for three The men's diet, and indeed every­ / it was* just an ordinary training days until the gale moderated. thing having a bearing .'ii the ship to ten the efficiency of the crew's welfare, receive* most care­ "Snort" apparatus with which all Nearly all the major navies of ful study. During the "Am­ submarines of the "A" class are the world have submarines that bush's" cruise, for instance, the fitted. are equipped with some version crew were given special food in­ oi the Snort, for "underwater The crew tit sixty, who regard­ cluding eggs, chicken and fruit breathing," which has made pos­ ed the (est as part of their day's juice. To the gratification oi the sible these endurance tests, was work, suffered some discomfort dieticians, every man on board applied to submarines some years from rough weather in the At­ gained weight. Vitamen tablets ago. The Sn »rt was originally in­ lantic, which at times, caused the which were taken on the cruise troduced by the Royal Nether­ submarine to roll badly and twice "lust in case" were brought back lands Navy and towards the end necessitated the boat being taken untouched. • • of the second world war it was down to eighty feet for some adopted by other navies. It was In almost every instance the re­ Qwartarmastar Gaorgas Beauregard, of Martinique (W«tt lndie»). gave hit friend Quartermaster Pierre Saatiar, of Toafon, hours in search oi calmer condi- claimed that a U*Boat completed turning submarine crews had one France, a beard trim after their jhip, the French sloop "Commandant Amyot D'lnvilU." borthod »f Circular Quay rOeaaMf. ditions. Although the time spent early in 194* would be able to Complaint. With time to spare The iloop has been on duty in Indo-Chineie watars stnea 1948 and stayod in Sydney for four days before leaving for Noejmaa. on passage between Bermuda and travel submerged from Germany and the enforced inactivity Britain is not disclosed, the ship's to Japan. None of this apparatus which in the circumstances was company was in good spirits when could approach in efficiency that inevitable, too often they found the "Andrew." having made naval in the "Andrew." however. life boring. history, surfaced at dawn off the BRITISH CRUISER ANSWERS S.O.S. south-cast approaches to the Eng­ Like the Royal Navy, the Unit­ BRITAIN SETS NEW WORLD lish Channel. ed States Navy has hecn carrying SPEED RECORD. While proceeding to Korean ed up seventeen members of the erational area. The rescued sea­ out prolonged tests with this type Squadron-Leader Neville F. waters recently H.M.S. "New­ The "Andrew" is one of the crew, the remainder, including all men, nevertheless, were undis­ of equipment. In 1950 it announc­ Duke, 51, British test pilot, on castle" went to the assistance of Navy's fifteen big "A * class sub­ her officers, staying on board in mayed by the experience of be­ ed that the American submarine September 7 established a world .< merchant ship which had been marines all of which have been the hope of saving the ship. ing on board a British ship while ! .ecmpleted since the war. Each of "Pickerel" had remained submerg­ air-speed record of 727.6 miles per beached on an island. ed for 21 days, while crossing the hour in a Hawker Hunter jet she was engaging the enemy. these boats has an overall length Within a day, however, the Pacific from Hong Kong to Pearl plane. The machine was the first The stranded ship, the cement- of 281 feet, displaces 1,381 tons ship showed signs of breaking up Harbour, a distance of 5,200 Hunter Hawker which the Hawk­ huilr "Lady Wolmer," the first The "Newcastle' 'left behind on the surface, and is reported by after being bartered by heavy miles. Early this year 23 men er Siddeley Company built. ?hip of this type to operate in in the "Lady Wolmer" five ship's Jane's Fighting Ships to have a seas, and the "Newcastle" answer­ stayed for two months in a sub­ Squadron-Leader Duke took off the Korean area, got into difficul­ cats who refused to leave in spite surface speed of eighteen knots ed a second S.O.S. message, by marine sumerged at Groton, Con­ from Tangmere, Sussex. He flew ties in the Korean straits during of every endeavour on the part of and a submerged speed of 8 knots. taking off the remainder of the necticut* without suffering any fairly low. He made two at­ a gale, and her master was forced crew to bring them with them. They carry ten 21-inch torpedo ship's complement. It was not ill-effects from the experience. tempts and broke the record on to put her ashore on Quclpart. The men hoped that when the tubes and arc equipped for mine- poss.ble to land the merchant both. He averaged 726 miles weather moderated, the cats were laying. And obviously they have But, of course, submarines and In response to an S.O.S. mes­ seamen immediately, as the "New­ per hour at his first attempt. able to get safely ashore a great operational range. their crews do not undertake such sage, the U.S.S. "Henrico" pick castle" had to proceed to her op­ selves.

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The development of the "Nut­ structures. The testing equip­ for fighting purposes. By Neville Smith. Experience in the "Perseus" cracker" invention for the pur­ ment so fa/ available to naval ar­ Australia is your country and Gcelong, or the clatter of rivet- does not help in the matter be­ the woolshed ... the neigh of an pose of testing ships' structures, chitects and structural engineers mine. It is so whether wc be de­ ting in the shipyards beside the cause'the catapult was then sup­ unbroken colt on a stud farm- about which a prefiroinary an­ has been capable only of testing scendants of five generations of Gulf at Whyalla^ ported on a heavy but simple . the indignant bellow of a nouncement was made by us in small scale models, from which the native-born or whether we Well, partly. it was once considered that accur­ Structure built on top of the flight newly-branded steer? Is it the dis­ the July issue of this journal, has have just arrived to help build a Is it the aroma of billy tea ate comparisons with the full- deck,. This was quite acceptable tant sight of a red tractor draw­ created considerable mtcrest in greater nation. It is a vast coun­ brewed over a hush camp fire . . . scale design could be made. It for trials but could not be used ing a 24-furrow plough across the British Naval and shipyard cir­ try. It is old: it is new. To the cheery splashing of a moun­ has become evident, however, that in an operational ship where the Mallee wheatlands ... the crash cles. From the Central Office of each of us it presents a different tain creek bearing its ice-cold, the behaviour of some materials, support must be incorporated into of'a mountain giant as it falls to Information, London, a more de­ picture: for all of us it has a crystal-clear waters through the particularly steel, can be fully and the underdeck structure. Such a the blows of Plumb axes and the tailed report on the construction common factor. It is a mosaic of granite rocks ... the scented correctly assessed only from ex­ structure is far too complicated bite of the crosscut saw . . . the is now to hand. It reads: feelings, of pictures, of impres­ wood smoke from a farm house periments made on structures in for close calculation. In the ab­ barking of the heelers as they A giant frame for testing ships' sions, ot hopes, of struggles, of kitchen at sunset? ... is it the which the thicknesses of tb.- ma­ sence of the new testing frame shepherd the flock along the stock structures, capable of crushing taiths, of joys, of sorrows. So carefree mimicking of the lyre terials, the sizes of the members it would be necessary to allow- routes? the bows of a destroyer like a what is Australia to you, to me? bird, or the industrious search Well, partly. and the methods of connecting more generous factors of safety Is it the muffled roar of an un­ nut in a pair of nutcrackers, has for blue objects by the satin bow­ Is it the whoosh of flame and them together are faithfully rep­ to ensure that no part was too derground explosion as they drive been constructed for the British er bird, the brush turkey building smoke as a rocket leaves its resented at full scale. Thus the highly stressed. Thus unneces­ waterways through the living rock Admiralty. It is believed to be its mound, the distant cawing jays launching platform on the Woom- large testing frame will open a sary- weight would be worked inti - to turn the snow-fed waters of the first of its kind in the world. over a treeless landscape ... the cra range ... the flash past of a new era in the accuracy and scope the ship. This te6t provides an the Eucumbene to the inland The building containing it at long white road stretching in an Canberra jet bomber ... the tick­ of the information on heavy struc­ excellent example of the way in country behind the Snowy Moun­ the Naval Construction Research unbroken line to the horizon, ing of a Geiger counter on the tures available to designers. It which the frame will enable tains ... is it the turning of Establishment, Dumfermlinc, will with shimmering mirages dancing Rum Jungle uranium fields . . . will be possible to test structures better ships to be built. water power into electricity . . . be opened by the First Lord of in the hot air? Is it the whisper the ladder of light of the Instru­ up to given loads or to continue the racelines and pondages and the Admiralty, Mr. J. P. L. of the warm breeze in the guns ment Landing System guiding an testing to the point when the dams of Kiewa? Is it a bucket Thomas, M.P., on 20th July. and the rustle of the peeling bark airliner to the tarmac on a foggy structure collapses, and, of course, BIG UNDERSEA OIL wheel dredger chewing 600 tons The nutcracker simile should . . . th-e scent of boronia in winter day ... a far outback call for to measure the strains imposed. PIPELINE AT FIJI. of brown coal an hour for 24 not be carried too far, for the . . . the sibilant sussuration of the flying doctor coming over the A 1,500-foot underwater pipe­ hours a day and seven days a frame is really a large box, made This testing facility, which will wavelets as they hurry over the pedal wireless . . . Macfarlan Bur­ line has been constructed to bring week from the new Morwcll open up of steel cells, with a hinged be of the utmost value in assist­ Hawkesbury oyster beds? nett at work on virus research or fuel to Nadi airport, Fiji, where cut in the Latrobe Valley ... the door at one end. The inside of ing th: design of warship struc­ Hamilton Fairley on malaria? international airlines' planes re­ power lines spreading their webs Well, partly. the box is 69 feet long, 33 feet tures, will also, where defence re­ fuel. Built by engineers of the ever further over the countryside Is it the lowing of the cattle Well, partly. wide and 39 feet high. To each quirements permit, be available Vacuum Oil Company, the pip: to carry the precious "juice" to as they come in for the evening's Do we sec our country in the cell in the roof, walls and floor for investigating commercial ship­ runs overland from tanks at the the distant marches of settlement? milking . . the frisky leap of the majestic arch of the Sydney Har­ can be fitted powerful hydraulic building and civil engineering airport to the shore. Then it Or the smooth hum of the giant shorn sheep as it emerges from bour Bridge, or the serpentine jacks, operating on the principle problems. It is therefore a na­ "dives" underwater and emerges dynamo sending out life-giving of the modern motor-car jack. tional asset of the highest import­ again at a point where tankers can torce to the great city? These jacks can exert loads of 500 ance. ride at anchor and unload their Well, partly. tons horizontally, vertically or at The first job to be carried out cargo into the pipeline. The angles up to 45 degrees. From in the new frame will be a test pipe was built because construc­ Is it the roar and clatter of each end loads of 2.000 tons can of the bow structure supporting tion of a jetty would have been the looms at Yarri Falls as they Bardsley's be exerted horizontally. The the steam catapults in the Aircraft too costly. It was assembled on turn good Australian wool into door which permits the structure Carrier "Ark Royal". This new rollers in three sections, tested better cloth . . . the smoothly under test to be placed in posi­ type of catapult, a British inven­ SHAVING and then lowered into position. turning lathe, the whining power tion is power-operated. tion already adopted by the U.S. -aw, the stark strength of the hy­ CREAM The frame, the outside of which Navy, and which was put through draulic press, the lurid vapour and measures 85 feet long, 45 feet its paces so successfully in H.M.S. violent flame of the blast fur­ VS. JET MAKES RECORD wide and 51 feet high, with its "Perseus," imposes very heavy nace, the spinning cable wheels For a quicker ATLANTIC FLIGHT. control gear and recording equip­ forces on its supporting structure if the mine poppet head, the and ment, is housed in a building 200 when an aircraft is launched and A United States Air Force B47 •inicky exactness of the precision feet long, 80 feet wide and 85 it is necessary to be quite sure six-jet bomber plane flew non-stop tool? ... is it the mechanical com­ more comfortable feet high. Special heating ar­ that the structure built into the from England to Florida (U.S.A.) plexity of an oil cracking plant rangements are installed to ensure ship is strong enough to with­ on August 4 in nine hours fifty- is it rears itself above Cockburn uniformity of temperature during stand these forces, yet not strong­ two minutes. Its average speed Sound at Kwinana . . . the show­ uBHf^^^ the course of an experiment. er than is necessary. Any weight for the 4,450-mile flight—the er of golden sparks as an operat­ BSfl'ilTWa HPS§fA~ SHAVE The purpose of the frame is to used unnecessarily for such a pur­ longest jet hop on record—was or uses a Butt welding machine make experiments on full-scale pose reduces the margin available 454 miles per hour. on a motor truck wheel rim at i "^1 Ocfob.r.' 1953 _ ^--i^iiftM^fifittVtiiifflrfttoi laiirrrfMfigirt ,., ^ MMiirt-rir-.. progress of the Brisbane river note of a church bell calling the NEARLY 1,200 BOYS HARRISON TIMEKEEPERS AT GREENWICH through the Queensland capital? congregation to service . . . or WANT NAVY CAREERS. the enthusiastic music of a Sal­ All four of the Harrison time­ Is it in the Ghan train winding cate should be made by Larcum covery, and that great navigator its way through the salthush, vation Army band? Eleven hundred and ninety- keepers are at work again at the eight boys sat this year for the Kendall, and this timekeeper is was enthuiastic about it. Even bound for Alice Springs ... or Is it in the musical beauty of National Maritime Museum, educational examinations for en­ also going at Greenich. It was then it was not until 1772 that . the Spirit of Progress drawing Australian aboriginal place names Greenich, for the first time sine-.* try into the Royal Australian used by Captain Cook during his Harrison at last received the bal- into Spencer Street station, on Tintaldra. Cunnamulla, Briag- the war. Naval College at Flinders Naval second and third voyages of dis- ance of-his reward. time to the minute? Do we sec olong, Maroochydore, Tumbar- Depot, Victoria. The exannn.i- Before September, 1939, it had it in the white sails of the yachts umba, Kalgoorlie, Triabunna, tions were held on September 1 been possible for these chronom­ flecking the Swan River, or the Jindabyne. Adaminaby, Wallaroo? and 2. Last year 922 boys ap­ eters to be seen running in the serene beauty of the Derwent, Well, partly. Navigation Room of the National with Hobart nestling at the foot plied to enter the College. Do we see our country in the Maritime Museum, but Juring the of snow-capped Mount Welling The examinations were held :it NICOL BROS. PTY. LTD. beam of light falling on the war they had to be stored, and ton? Do we feel it in the soughs one hundred and sixty-six city an J INCORPORATING Shrine Rock of Remembrance at they all needed cleaning before of air from the blowhole? above country centres throughout the the eleventh hour of the eleventh .hey could be exhibited again. the limestone caws of the Nulla Commonwealth. This was undertaken by the Brit­ day of the eleventh month . . . bor Plain7 ish Admiralty, to whom they be­ or in the scurrying pencil of a The Minister for the Navy PENGUIN HEAVY LIFTING PTY. LTD. Is it -a timber ketch beating its (the Hon. William MeMahon) long, and as each was finished it Hansard reporter as he records was sent back to the Museum. , way across Bass Strait in the teeth the doings of our legislators . . . said recently that the examina­ of a howling gale ... or an ab­ tions would be for the 13-year- Now No. 3, the last to be attend­ or in the poet endeavouring to ed, has been returned to its case, origine spearing a giant turtle off put our national spirit into words old and H-year-old entries. Seven PENGUIN PTY. LTD. hundred and ninety-nine boys and all four can be seen working. the Great Barrier Reef ... or a and the artist busy with his can­ ALL CLASSES OF STEAM DIESEL would sit for the 13-year-old en­ They form 1 great attraction for radio announcer broadcasting a vas? Is it in the war graves »>f AND GENERAL ENGINEERING storm warning to ships at sea . . . try and three hundred and ninety visitors. Gallipoli, Flanders, Kokoda and a BOILERMAKERS. OXY-ACETYLENE or the endless surge of Southern nine for the 15-year-old. dozen other battlefields? It was in 1714 that the British AND ELECTRIC WELDERS Ocean rollers pounding the .'.rid Those who succeeded in the Only partly. Government first made an offer shores of the Great Australian educational test would then un­ PLUMBING AND ELECTRICAL WORK Our Australia is all these of a pri;c of £20,000 to whoever Bight . . , or the pranks of a dergo a thorough medical test things and many more. "The should solve the difficulty of how "willie-wilhe" whirlwind? and, i( they passed it, would be FLOATING CRANE AVAILABLE AT ALL TIMES to determine the longitude with­ smallest and greatest are our interviewed by committees of (20 TON CAPACITY) Well, partly. in suitable limits. If a clock country. It is made of things senior naval officers who would Do we see our country in the could be made to go sufficiently ALL CLASSES OF MARINE EQUIPMENT FOR SALE and people, it is in every one of make the final selection. Last bustle and noise of Flemtngton accurately at sea this would pro­ us. And if our country is some­ year the committees selected 39 when the Melbourne Cup is run vide the solution, but no one had 10-20 WESTON ST., B ALMA IN EAST times wrong, it is because you for the 13-year-old entry and 2<> ... or in the Just and smells of a been able to achieve this, and for and I arc wrong. What we give for the 15-y^ar-old entry. Phone*: WB 3121 — 3 Unes country saleyards on cattle mark­ to our country is what our coun­ a long time men sought alterna­ et day ... or in the roar of the try has. The boys chosen this year tive methods. After hours: UM 9485. WM 3225, FM 5708. preses as thzy spew forth the final would enter the college in Janu­ edition of the evening paper . . . Twelve distinguished Austra­ ary next year as Cadet-midship­ Then in 1735 John Harrison, a or in the staccato clack of a type­ lians said, in the Call to the men and eventually become per­ Yorkshireman who had been writer as a girl clerk hurries to People of Australia: "We call manent officers of the Royal Aus­ brought up as a carpenter, pro­ catch the mail ... or in a surf- on our people to remember those tralian Navy. duced his first instrument weigh­ boat plunging through the break­ whose labours opened this land The Minister said that the num­ ing 73 lbs. This gave some prom­ ers off Bondi beach ... or the to uses of mankind; those who ber of applications received this ise in a trial at sea, and was fol­ hoarse whistle of a diesel engine bore and reared the children of a year for entry into the Naval Col­ lowed in 1739 by the 103-lb. the dragging its trainload of wheat to new nation; those who died in lege showed that a large number No. 2 of the four. No. 3, another the seaboard ... or in the roar battle for us, bringing splendour of Australian boys wanted to large machine, was not completed of the football crowd as the leath­ to Australian arms; those who make the s**a their profession. until 1757, and two years later er sails between the goalposts? worked with mind and muscle for The Navy, with its executive, Harrison produced his master­ the heritage which we, please fleet air arm, engineering, electri­ piece. No. 4. Completely differ­ Is it in the radiant smile of a God, shall hold and enlarge for ent in appearance from its fore­ new mother as she sees her first­ cal and supply and secretariat our children and their children. branches, offered careers with ex­ bears, No. 4 resembled an out­ born in her arms ... or in the side watch five inches in diamet­ straphanger, swaying and grumbl­ "And that this may be so, we cellent prospects to the young men who were finally selected. er In 1761 it was tried on a ing on his Monday morning tram ask that each shall renew in him­ voyage to Jamaica, and on arrival "Liberty and Authority in the ... or in a pretty girl reading a self the full meanings of the call there was found to have an error best British and Canadian tradi­ love story beneath the dryer which has inspired our people in of five second* only. their highest tasks and in their tion are symbolised in the Crown while her hair u being "permed" 1 ... or in the whirr of a lawn days of danger." and personified in its wearer.' Before the Government would HM4 0*n: U Tort SM mower propelled by a suburban And may we all respond to the —Mr. Vincent Massey, Gov­ pay Harrison the promised re­ SOT INS 6 f O SMJH.U garden lover ... or the steady call! ernor-General of Canada. ward, they insisted that a dupli­ Work.: rVr.m.M., bUb.. AMMt. I ImbwM

It •Bttsuiuft,. • -»riVi1iifliifi,|-f . '""" •" NEW NAVAL AIRCRAFT FORRJJ. Vickers-Armstrongs have an­ nounced that they have received NEWS OF THE WORLD'S NAVIES an order for a "substantial quan­ tity" of twin-jet fighters develop­ ed from the Supermarine 508. FRENCH NAVAL R.N. FRIGATE RESCUES COMMANDOS IN ACTION. test equipment. In February this The aircraft, of which details arc- SHIP FROM CHINESE year the United Kingdom Minis­ secret, are for the Royal Navy. A message from London on NATIONALISTS. try of Supply had, in a message Mr. J. P. L. Thomas, First September 6 said that French A message from Hong Kong to the Naval Board, expressed its Lord of the British Admiralty, naval commandos landed at dawn on August 17 said that the Brit­ sincere appreciation of "Hawkes' said that a substantial order had on September 4 in Communist ish Navy announced that day that bury's" work as guard-ship both been placed for a new twin jet territory, 160 miles north-west of the Royal Navy frigate "St. before and after the atomic weap­ fighter plane of the swept-wing Hue, Indo-China. The French Bride's Bay" had rescued the Brit­ on explosion in October, 1952. type which would be capable of High Command claimed that the ish freighter "Nigelock" (946 "Hawkesbury" is commanded by a very high rate of climb. This landing was highly successful. tons) from a Chinese Nationalist Lieutenant - Commander R. J. aircraft, he added, would receive The commandos arc said to have warship which chased and inter­ Scrivenor, R.A.N., of Melbourne. super-priority. killed 141 Vietmingh rebels, tak­ cepted it off Formosa. The Navy The Supermarine 508, from en 56 prisoners and destroyed 120 said that the "Nigelock," owned which the new fighter has been sea-going junks. by Wheelock, Marden and Co. VS. ADMIRAL evolved, was seen in public for Ltd., while proceeding from Hun- CONGRATULATES FLEET the first time at the Society of NEW US. NAVAL ghwa to Shanghai on August 16, AIR ARM. British Aircraft Constructors' an­ APPOINTMENTS. reported that it was being chased Following the demonstration of nual flying display at Farnborough A change-over was recently by a Nationalist warship. It new flight deck technique by the in September, 1951, of which made in leaders of the United overhauled the "Nigelock" and United States Navy and the Fleet mention was made in the editorial States Armed Services. On Aug­ began to escort the freighter to Air Arm in the U.S.S. "Antie- columns in the December, 1951, ust 15, Admiral Arthur Radford the Chinese Nationalist-controlled tam" recently, Vice-Admiral Jer­ became chairman of the U.S. issue of this journal. It was then Piscadores Islands. The "St. auld Wright, Commander - in ' Joint Chiefs-of-Staff, and on Aug­ described as the fastest and most Bride's Bay" went to assist the Chief U.S. Naval Forces Eastern ust 17 Admiral Robert Carney powerful Naval fighter in the Atlantic and Mediterranean, sent was sworn in as Chief of U.S. freighter and obtained its release the following message to the Brit­ world. Naval Operations. without incident. The offending The new fighter's two Rolls- warship retired ignominiously to ish Admiralty: "The perform­ Royce Avon axial flow turbo-jets US, NAVY EXERCISES the southward, a British Navy ance of Royal Navy personnel are installed within the fuselage, WITH CHINESE statement said. during "Antietam" operations has thus preserving the streamlined NATIONALISTS. K.vn superlative. We are grate­ shape of a singlc-engined fighter. The United States battleship "HAWKESBURY" WINS ful for the opportunity of work­ ing with them in the operational A distinctive feature of the "New Jersey" and the destroyer GLOUCESTER CUP. test of the angled deck. Supermarine 508 is its so-called "Fletcher" during the last week The Duke of Gloucester's Cup. "butterfly" tail unit, in which in August took part in air de­ presented to the R.A.N, by His hinged sections perform the dual fence exercises off Formosa with Royal Highness when he was RJS. DESTROYER RESCUES functions of elevators and rud­ Chiang Kai-Shek's Chinese Na­ Governor-General, has been "DITCHED" TRAVELLERS. A stoker it hoisted out of the boiler room of the aircraft-carrier H.M.A.S. der. The Supermarine 508. tionalist Air Force, the U.S. awarded for 1952 to the frigate The Royal Navy destroyer "Vengeance" at Garden Island during recent damage-control training. The thip'i which was the first twin-engined Navy announced on September I, H.M.A.S. ""Hawkesbury" for ar­ company carried out all the procedure followed if the snip was damaged by enemy "Barfleur" (Commander K. C. action. jet fighter designed for the Royal duous and efHcicnt service in the Grieve, R.N.) with the 16 sur­ Navy, has completed satisfactor­ NETHERLANDS RETURNS support force during the atomic SUBMARINES. vivors of a Hastings aircraft ily its deck landing trials. weapon test in the Monte Bello which came down in the sea off Her Majesty's submarines "Ta­ area in 1952. This was announc­ the North African coast, return­ SUVA EARTHQUAKE pir" and "Taurus"—both of the ed recently by the Minister for ed to Malta on July 2?. The sur­ RECORD WORLD OIL PRODUCTION OF HIGH INTENSITY. "T" class—on loan to the Royal the Navy (the Hon. William Mc- vivors, none of whom were hurt, The intensity of the earthquake Netherlands Navy since June, Mahon). Mr. McMahon said walked ashore. The "Barfleur" World oil production was total includes natural gasolene. at Suva in the Fijis in September 1948, are being handed Hack to that "Hawkesbury" had been on was sent from Malta to the rescue 326,7 57,000 tons in the first six The Board estimates the Soviet was between seven and eight on the Royal Navy. H.M.S. "Ta­ duty as guardship at the Monte of the men who were afloat in months o fthis year, the Petroleum and Eastern Europe produced 30 the modified Mercalli scale, on pir," renamed "Zeehond" for the Bello Islands, off the north-west­ rubber dinghies, after the Hast­ million tons. The United States which 12 is total devastation, said period of the loan, arrived at Information Board announced on ern Australian coast, from Aug­ ings had come down in the Gulf was primarily responsible for the the New Zealand earthquake ex­ Gosport, U.K., on July 16, and August 18. This is the most ust, 1952, to January, 1955. She of Sidra, J 50 miles off the North incrcas: with an output of pert, Mr. H. Wellman, on Sep­ following a refit, the "Taurus," achieved in any half-year, and had patrolled many hundreds of African coast. British and Amer­ 168,000,000 tons. It thus ex­ tember 22. It is now known that renamed "Dolphin," will return compares with, ?07 million tons miles to ensure that no intruders ican search aircraft found the ceeded its output in the same per­ in the earthquake and the subse­ later in the year. The "Taurus" entered the prohibited area either dinghies in the fine calm weather in the first half of 1952, exceed­ iod 'of the previous year by quent tidal wave at least eight was completed in 1942 and the during the installation or the dis­ and two United States amphibian ing it by 19,757,000 tons. The 9,842,000 tons. persons were lost. '• "• •' "Tapir" in 1944. mantling and removal of atomic aircr»'f stood by. «4 OeW»f. iwi. II alaum^iijLr. . . R.N. DESTROYER VISITS ing transferred to the "Daring" Bill Bridgeman, on August 7. taken to Formosa. The company wanted to make flying a career, sel—described as a "gunboat"— FINLAND AND SWEDEN. and brought to Gibraltar. The 1951. said that the Nationalists' action and were accepted, joined the The British Home Fleet de- "Culrain" was able to continue amounted to a blockage of Hong first made a surprise attack on JAP. WARTIME OFFICERS RAN between the ages of 17} the Communist vessel. Itroyer 'Agincourt" (Captain J. her voyage to Algeria. H.M.S. IN TRAINING JOBS. Kong trade, because the cargo and 22}, on a seven-year engage­ Lee-Barber, DSC, R.N.) left "Daring" had just completed two aboard the "Heinrich Jebsen" Reuters report that some of ment, fa) addition to being train­ FRIGATE ,"HAWKESBURY" Rosyth on July 12 to pay a court­ months' refit in Gibraltar dock­ Japan's top wartime admirals and was non-strategic and was licens­ ed either as pilots or observers, VISITS NOUMEA FOR esy visit to Helsinki. She spent a yard. generals have been selected to ed by the British authorities for they were taught the duties of week in the Finnish capital and FRENCH SLOOP VISITS serve as instructors at the new export to China. executive officers of the Navy. At CENTENARY. on her return passage to the SYDNEY. National Safety Forces training the end o( the seven-year term United Kingdom she visited Mai- H.M.A.S. "AUSTRALIA" The R.A.N. frigate H.M.A.S The French sloop "Command­ institute, opening this month in they could apply to serve for a mo. Sweden, to take part in a VISITS NEW ZEALAND. "Hawkesbury" visitect Noumea ant Amyot-D'Inville" berthed at Tokyo. According to Japanese further four years. In some cases "British Week" arranged by the H.M.A.S. "Australia" made a in September during the cele­ Circular Quay, Sydney, on Sep­ newspapers they include former they were given permanent com­ Journalists' Association of South good-will cruise to New Zealand bration of the Centenary of tember 14. The sloop has been Vice-Admiral Masatoshi Tomi- missions. Sweden. in September. The cruiser arriv­ the establishment .of French on duty in Indo-Chinese waters oka, who represented the Navy ed at Auckland on the 22nd Sep­ administration in New Caledon­ since 194S, and stayed in Sydney when Japan surrendered aboard H.M.A.S. "ANZAC" H.M.S. "DARING" tember, and, after a four-day stay, ia. " Hawkesbury " while on four days before proceeding to the United States battleship "Mis­ LEAVES DOCK AFTER ANSWERS DISTRESS visited Wellington from Septemb­ passage to Noumea acted as Noumea. souri." REFIT. CALL. er 28 to 30. She was at Lyttle- the Mothership for the yachts taking part in the ocean race from H.M.S. "Daring" (Captain P. VS. NAVY PILOT SETS BRITISH DESTROYER ton on October 1 and 2, and Having undergone an extensive Sydney to Noumea which is be­ D. Gick, O.B.E.. DSC, R."N ) ALTITUDE RECORD. FIRES AT CHINESE from there visited Milford Sound. refit at the Williamstown Naval ing held as part of the celebra­ left Gibraltar on July 26 to an­ The United States Navy said NATIONAUST. "Australia" then sailed for Wes- Dockyard after her recent service tion. "Hawkesbury" left Sydney swer a distress message after a on August ->1 that Lieutenant The British Navy announced temport (Victoria) and arrived in Korea, the Battle class destroy­ on 12th September—the day of collision between a British steam­ Colonel Marion Carl, a Marine at Hong Kong on August 24 that there on October 8. The ship er "Anzac" left for Sydney on the commencement of the yacht er and a Spanish cargo ship in Corps pilot, set an unofficial alti­ the 1,700-ton destroyer "Cock­ carried a large number of naval Thursday, September 17. From race, and arrived in Noumea on dense fog. They were the "Cul- tude record of 83,235 feet in a ade" that morning fired a shot at reservists and National servicemen September 21 until October 12 September 21. She stayed there rain" (6,375 tons) of Leith. and Douglas Skyrocket research plane a Chinese Nationalist gunboat for training during this cruise. she was attendant destroyer to until the 25th. Most of the the "Duero" (1,34) tons). The on August 21 while testing a which was menacing a British H.M.A.S. "Sydney" during the yachts taking part in the race "Duero" sank within an hour and newly-developed high - altitude freighter in the Formosa Strait. FLEET AIR ARM RATINGS aircraft carrier's work-up before were fitted with wireless and a half. The Spanish crew of 28 flying suit. The previous altitude The gunboat had chased the RECEIVE COMMISSIONS. she sailed for the Korean area. were able to keep in touch with took to the lifeboat and were pick­ record of 79,494 feet was set in freighter, the 964-ton "Nigelock," The "Anzac" visited Sydney for Five R.A.N. Fleet Air Arm rat­ "Hawkesbury." The selection of ed up by the "'Culrain." later be­ the same plane by a test pilot, Mr. and fired at her. The "Nigel­ the Trafalgar Day celebrations in ings who have been selected for "Hawkesbury" for this visit to ock" was involved in a somewhat October and accompanied other training as pilots received their Noumea was very fitting as the incident some few days previous­ ships of the Australian Fleet to wings and were promoted to the frigate had recently been award­ ly.) The Navy said: "One shot Melbourne early in November. rank of Sub-Lieutenants on Sep­ ed the Duke of Gloucester's Cup was enough to cause the gunboat The Minister for the Navy (the tember 15. These future naval of­ for 1952 for arduous and efficient POOLE & STEEL LTD. to break off pursuit. After suit­ Hon. William McMahon) said on ficers are N. Boden, of North service during the atomic weapon ably rebuking the gunboat and September 17 that among other Melbourne, G. J. King, of Rich­ test in the Monte Bello Islands warning her against committing duties already allotted to her were mond (Melbourne), D. Orr, of area last year. "Hawkesbury", further acts of piracy, the her attendance on the aircraft Carnavon (W.A.), R. Roberts, of which is under the command of 41 STEPHEN ST., BALMAIN, "Cockade" proceeded in the exe­ carrier "Vengeance" during flying Sandgate (Queensland), and A. Lieutenant - Commander R. J. cution of her previous orders, exercises in January and early Ignaticff, of New Caledonia. Scrivenor, R.A.N., of Melbourne, N.S.W. while the "Nigelock" resumed February. She would also form Their wings were presented to has a complement of 140 officers her voyage from Shanghai to part of the main escort for the Telephone: WB2511 them by the Fourth Naval Mem­ and men. Amoy." ber, Commodore E. O. F. Price, Royal tour from February until O.B.E., R.N., at the R.A.A.F. April and would be required to DANISH GOVERNMENT Station at Pqint Cook (Victoria). ferry the Royal party on various CRUISER AND DESTROYER SEEK? BRITAIN'S occasions. General Engineers, Boilermakers, Shipbuilders, Dredge Builder* The five pilots left Melbourne in IN COLLISION. INTERVENTION WITH the S.S. "Strathmore" on 22nd. CHINESE NATIONALISTS. September for seven months* op­ The British cruiser "Swiftsure" Plans, Specifications and Estimates prepared BRITISH PROTEST and destroyer "Diamond" are re­ Mr. H. Jebs-en, general manag­ erational flying training at Royal REJECTED. for Mining Dredges and Plant of all kinds. er of'Jebsen and Company, of Navy Fleet Air Arm stations in ported to have collided in the Electric Welding and Oxy-Acetylene Work. Hong Kong, said on August 17 the United Kingdom. When they A message from Hong Kong on North Atlantic about 80 mile* that the Danish Government has have finished their overseas train­ September 30 said that China had south of Iceland on the night of asked the British Government to ing they will return to Australia rejected Britain's protest against September 29. The ships were intervene with Chinese National­ and join Fleet Air Arm squadrons a Chinese gunboat's attack on a taking part in exercises of the Telegrams: ists to secure the release of the of the R.A.N. They have already British motor launch about 25 North Atlantic Treaty Organisa­ Danish steamer "Heinrich Jeb- completed 16 months' training :n miles North-West of Hong Kong tion (KA.T.O.). A British Ad­ on September 9. The Commun­ miralty spokesman said on Sep­ "POOLSTEEL,POOLSTEEL," BALMAIN, NS.W. sen" (3,388 tons), which was seiz­ Australia. The Minister for the ed by a Nationalist gunboat in Navy (the Hon. William Mc- ist New China Newsagency re­ tember 30 that there were 32 ca»- - Formosa Strait on August 9 and Mahon) said that yoting men who ports the text of a Chinese Note, ualrJes, none serious. Both ships -.J which says that the British ves­ had withdrawn from the exercise, a I* ^~-«k-i^*>s CHAIRMANS REVIEWS 1952-53 OPERATIONS MARITIME NEWS OF THE The Chairman of Melbourne cent vessels has shown little Our Hobson's Bay Dock and Steamship Company, Mr. D. change since our last meeting. Engineering Company at Wil- York Syme, at a recent meeting You will realise what a ma jor liamstown again made a substan­ said: problem this is when I tell you tial contribution to earnings and that to build a cargo ship of 6,000 the results of the Hodge Engin­ Shareholders will be satisfied, tons deadweight capacity, con­ eering Company at Sydney were I fed sure, with the result dis­ forming to Lloyds Classification satisfactory. closed by the Balance Sheet which and also the requirements of the Over the last few years criti­ WORLD has enabled us to maintain the Australian Navigation Act, en­ cism has been levelled against the dividend at 8$ pa. on the Ord­ From our Correspondents in c tails an expenditure of about adequacy of the tug fleet at Mel­ inary Shares and d ir p.a. on the bourne. With the advent of a £700,000, Australian, being sev­ LONDON and NEW YORK Preference Shares. After pay­ eral times greater than the orig­ new and powerful tug in the last ment of the*: dividends and after inal cost of the cargo units of the few months and upon completion By transferring Cf/XK) to General fleet. of a similar unit now being built AIR MAIL Reserve, an amount of £67,2*1 is at Sydney, the stage will be "MAN WITHOUT carried forward to next years ac­ of four inches an hour. The Bright and Co. are her Sydney Sums set aside for normal de­ reached when this port will be COUNTRY" ENDS counts. preciation of the existing vessels, able to meet all demands. vessel is said to have struck a agents. NON-STOP VOYAGE. submerged object about 9 a.m. You will observe we have therefore, fall far short of the The Directors acknowledge Michael Patrick O'Brien, "the on September 5, about a mile off JAPAN BUILDS GIANT thought it prudent to make amount required for replacement with warm appreciation the con­ man without a country," has end­ Lennox Head, four miles north ORE SHIP FOR US. further provision for future over­ at today's prices. For this pur­ tinuance of the good work done hauls by setting aside J£37,000. In pose we have been building up ed 11 months of travel hack and of the Richmond River mouth in A message from Tokio on Sep­ by our Officers and Staff both forth between Hong Kong and Northern New South Wales. view of the steadily increasing reserves as i »pp< irt unity occurs ashore and afloat. tember i said that the National cost of repairs and maintenance, but this course is greatly hamper­ Macao on a small ferry steamer. With her pumps going at full Bulk Carriers of America are it is important we strengthen ed by the severe Federal Taxa­ The Hong Kong Commissioner of pressure she tied up at Brisbane building a 60,000-ton iron ore provisions accordingly. tion which, as most of you know, "The spirit of truth and the Police, Mr. D. W. Macintosh, an­ wharf with 10 feet of water in carrier—the world's largest—in a spirit of freedom- they are the nounced this on July 30. O'Brien, three holds. Two auxiliary pumps With regard to the transfer of is at present levied upon Com­ shipyard leased from a Japanese pany profits to the extent of ap­ pillars of society." —Ibsen. who came to Hong Kong from waiting at the wharf immediately company at Kure. The ship is i5,000 to the Staff Superannua­ Shanghai without a passport, had commenced working to keep the tion Fund, I should explain the proximately 9/* in the £1. Both expected to cost £2,500,000. m Australia and in the United been travelling on the British water down to a safe level. Later, scale of pensions payable to of­ lorry steamer "Lee Hong," the a Brisbane diver, Neil Todkill. ficers on their retirement, which Kingdom shipowners are persist­ SHAW SAVILL IMPROVES ently urging upon the Govern­ 45 miles between Hong Kong and made three inspections and re­ SHIPPING SERVICE. was adopted when the present Always ask for . . . Macao for nearly 11 months be­ ported that the starboard bilge Superannuation Fund was created ments that the maintenance of ad­ Prior to 1951 the Shaw Savill equate and modern fleets, which cause both British and Portuguese keel was torn out, and four rivets in 1937, has suffered from the immigration authorities refused to shorn away, leaving holes in the Line had provided a service be­ steady fall in the value of the are essential both from the trad­ tween Australia and Africa by ing aspect as well as for our Na­ allow him to land. It is believed ship's bottom. Later, again, it was Australian £1. It is hoped that SHELLEY'S that O'Brien later left by plane revealed that the ship was not making available a limited amount this and possibly future alloca­ tional safety, demands special con­ of space in their through vessels sideration. The Australasian ior Rome, where be transferred holed, but that plates were buckl­ tions will enable a commensurate to a plane for Brazil. His wife ed and rivets sprung. After re­ proceeding between the United increase to be made in the Steamship Owners" Federation FAMOUS DRINKS Kingdom, Australia and New Zea­ has pressed the Commonwealth •ft for Brazil several months ago. moval of her cargo, the "Caledon" amount of pensions. went into South Brisbane dock on land in both directions. In order Government to recognise the spec­ NEW APPOINTMENTS. to be able to cater more satisfac­ Trading results from the steam­ September 11 for repairs. ial position ci shipping and we Obtainable from leading Shaw Savill & Albion Co. Ltd. torily for this trade, at the be­ ers have suffered from the inter­ hope that the forthcoming Fed­ nnounce that Mr. J. A. Mac- ginning of 1951 they introduced mittent shortage of wharf labour •hop* and saloons. eral Budget may help us, even if '.onochie, M.B.E., the Company's to the service the "Afric" which at son>*-ports which has militated MAIDEN VOYAGE. only to a modified degree. I Manager for Australia, has been was devoted entirely to the inter- against good despatch. It is grat­ ppointed General Manager for The new 10,000-ton ocean-go­ Dominion trade, travelling back­ ifying to see that action in the With regard to the continuing he Shaw Savill Line in New Zea- ing freighter "Samoa" arrived in wards and forwards between last few days by the Common­ evil of shortages and pillages of SHELLEY I SONS ind in succession to Mr. D. A. Sydney on the morning of Sep­ South and East Africa and Aus­ wealth Minister for Labour has cargo, I observe with satisfaction CORDIAL FACTORY vobcrtson, who retired on 1st Oc- tember 5 on her maiden voyage. tralia, and in 1952 the "Cufic" resulted in the Waterside Work­ that validity of the Regulations ibcr. She is designed to carry refriger­ was placed in the same service of the Melbourne Harbor Trust PTY. LTD. ers' Federation agreeing to in­ ated and general cargo between with New Zealand added to her Commissioners governing the cor­ crease tire labour force at several Europe and Australia via Indon­ itinerary. The "Cufic" has now rect delivery of cargo was re­ MURRAY STREET, COASTAL FREIGHTER ports in accordance with the re­ esia. Her total cargo space is been withdrawn, but she has al­ cently upheld on Appeal by the STRIKES SUBMERGED quirements of the Australian MARRICKVILLE, 536,370 cubic feet. The "Samoa's" ready been replaced by the "Bra­ Supreme Court of Victoria. Sat­ OBJECT. Stevedoring Board. As soon as N.S.W. modern cargo handling equipment zilian Prince," a ship of similar isfaction with this outcome has The coastal freighter "Calc- the additional men make a start, includes a 60-ton and a 20-tbn speed and capacity. Shaw Savill's been manifested in shipping lon" (1,000 tons) reached Bris- the turn round of ships in port 'Phones: LA 24 »1, LA 2659 derrick. There is accommodation have also decided to augment the circles in Australia and the Unit­ •ane on September 6 with water should quickly improve. for 121, passengers, -and the ship, . service further by adding the ed Kingdom. Hmring into her holds at the rate The cost of replacing obsoles­ .will cruise at 17 knots. Gibbs, "English Prince," which will ar-

. J .•A~V.-*..:<..-jA*1.4tU-jsMX -^jyWm, .v».^^»-JJ8L.u^Li. rive on the African Coast during was found on September 1 by a "FLYING ENTERPRISE" TURKS CONVICT October and load for Australia. searching Lincoln bomber from YIELDS RICH SALVAGE. SWEDISH CAPTAIN. With the three vessels in the str­ the Townsvillc R.A.A.F. station. A large number of banknotes A Court at Kanak Kale, Turk­ and "English Prince," together The "Manuraka" ran aground on have he:n recovered from the ey, on October 3 sentenced Cap­ vice, "Afric," 'Brazilian Prince" Bougainville Reef, about l"ti miles hold of the "Flying Enterprise," tain Oscar Lorentzton, of the with ^hips of their main line fleet east of Cooktown. The three oc­ the American freighter which Swedish cargo ship "Naboland," diverted from their normal route- cupants sheltered on the wreck sank off the Cornish coast m Jan­ to six months" imprisonment for intj on occasional voyage*, a ser­ of the 6,000-ton freighter "Atlas" uary, 1952, after Captain (Stay- negligence when the "Naboland" vice of regular frequency will be which lay nearby. They used a put) Carlson tried to bring her collided with a Turkish submarine provided between main ports mirror to signal the bomber, to port. Apparently salvage oper­ last April, killing its complement Africa and mam ports Australia which dropped supplies. The ations were begun secretly two of 99 officers and men. Captain and New Zealand in both direc­ wrecked men. who were sate and or three months ago, and they be­ Lorentzton was released immedi­ tions. ••ell. were rescued the day follow­ came revealed when the money ately after the trial. The time he ing that on which they were was landed in Ostend by the Ital­ had spent in prison since his ar­ CHINESE SEAMAN tound. ian salvage vessel "Rostro." A PROHIBITED IMMIGRANT. rest two days after the disaster spokesman for .< London tirm, Mr. counted against the sentence. Chou Sang, a Chinese seaman, "ARKABA," IN TOW, P. K. Webster, however, discount­ was sentenced to six months' im­ REACHES SYDNEY. ed any suggestion of mystery in "MONIQUE" WRECKAGE prisonment pending deportation The 5,000-ton ship '"Arkaha." rhe undertaking. Mr. Webster, REPORTED FOUND. m the Phillip Street Court. Svd* which drifted for four weeks as whose firm is concerned in the A report from Port Vila on ney, on September 28 for being a hulk off the West Australian salvage operations, said on Aug­ a prohibited immigrant. Mr. coast, was towed into Sydney October 1 said that wooden ust 31: "There is a lot of talk wreckage found at Erromanga, 80 John Walshe, tor the Australian Harbour on September 14. The about a mystery, hut frankly there Department of Immigration, sa:d ocean-going tug "Allegiance" is miles south of Port Vila, is be­ is no mystery at all. What hap­ lieved to be from the 300-ton that Chou S.mg reached Australia towing the "Arkaba" to Hong pened was that certain Belgian, as a seaman on the "Citos" in Kong. Captain A. L. Waites, French ship "Moniquc." The British, and Swiss companies in "Moniquc" disappeared last Aug­ April, l'^.V When the ship sail­ master of the "Allegiancj," is in sured a number of sendings by ed on May 16 he was serving a charge of both vessels. A spokes­ ust while on a voyage from Nou­ mail from Europe to New York. mea to the Loyalty Islands. There sentence in Long Bay Gaol on a man for the American Trading In January, 1952, they instructed charge of having prohibited im­ Company, agents for the "Alleg­ were 89 persons aboard—75 na­ us when they heard that these tives and 14 Europeans, ports in his possession. iance," said on the tug's arrival mails had not arrived.. We dis­ MEN FROM MISSING that the two ships would con­ covered these mails had been QUAKE CLOSE CORINTH SLOOP RESCUED. tinue their voyage almost immed­ shipped on the "Flying Enter­ CANAL. The missing sloop "Manuraka." iately; they left Sydney on Sep­ prise." If salvage operations were A message from Athens on Sep­ tember 16. The "Arkaba" was H.W.AS. "Quadrant", the Navy's fast anti-submarine frujats, firing a "squid", a which left Samaria, on the south­ carried out quickly we should be tember 7 said that the Corinth depth charge pattern attack, from a mortar mounted on the stern dune- esercHet eastern tip of New Guinea on formerly a well-known inter-statc able to get them out of the sea Canal, linking the Gulf of Cor­ fhhj '" August 16 and was nine days freighter owned by the Adelaide before they rotted." It is said inth with the Gulf of Aegina and overdue at Cairns (Queensland). Steamship Company. that £93,000 in British and the Aegean S:a, has been closed American banknotes have been to shipping for a few days after recovered. the new earth tremors on Sep­ VESSELS BUILT, SUPPED AND SERVICED. tember 5. The tremors shook DIESEL, MARINE AND GENERAL ENGINEERING. JAMES PATRICK & CO. PTY. LTD. CRANE FALLS ON SHIP: masses of earth from the banks RIGGERS AND SHIPWRIGHTS. SHIPOWNERS — AGENTS — CONTRACT DRIVER KILLED. into the canal. STEVEDORES The driver of an ore bridge All classes of repairs and conversion work carried out. FIGHTERS MUST FLY CHARTERS AND BUNKERS ARRANGED crane weighing more than 500 MARINE INSTALLATIONS. MODERN SLIPWAY AVAILABLE AT 900 M.P.H. tons was killed on August 2' FOR ALL TYPES OF CRAFT. when the crane collapsed and fell Present-day fighter aircraft REGULAR INTERSTATE SC OVERSEAS CARGO 8C on a ship, the freighter "Garry were required to fly at speeds up • PASSENGER SERVICES dale," at the B.H.P. steelwork? to 900 m.p.h., the Air Officer • wharf. Port Waratah, Newcastle. Commanding R.A.A.F. Eastern Agents for ... N.S.W. The crane, 80 feet high Area, Air Vice-Marshal J. P. J. A. «& W. Engineering FLOTTA I.AURO (Italian Line)—Cargo end passenger service. 150 feet long, and running on McCauley, said in Sydney on Sep­ Australia to Mediterranean ports, via Singapore. rails, was unloading iron ore from tember 14. THey were also re­ & Ship Repair Co. TASMAN STEAMSHIP CO. LTD.— Refrigerated cargo. Australia the "Garrydale," which runs be quired to reach a height of 50,000 to New Zealand. tween South Australia and New feet in three minutes. These op­ Pig. Lid. ERIE RAILROAD (UAA.)—Awstrslssisn Agents. castle. The crane had no load erational requirements were es­ Head Office: 19 BRIDGE STREET, SYDNEY when it collapsed. The Irani. sential today if fighter aircraft CAREENING COVE. MILSON'S POINT were to successfully combat a Phone: BW4181. work of the crane fell on the ship Telephones: XB 167$ and XB 4387 ALSO AT MELBOUKNt AND BRISCANL about 15 feet from the crew's modern attacking bomber force, WITH AGENTS AT ALL MAIN PORTS IN AUSTRALIA. juarten. he said. After Hours: XJ 3213.

CMsnW, Iff], , - •••"'•in! NEW COMMANDING •M PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS OFFICER FOR H.M.A.S. "SYDNEY." NEW C.-IN-C., PLYMOUTH. tember 1 the appointment of Cap­ The R.A.N, aircraft carrier tain G. C. Oldham as the new The, British Admiralty has an­ H.M.A.S. "Sydney'," would have commanding officer of the aircraft AL£X H. MAGK1E nounced the appointment of Ad­ a new commanding officer. He carrier H.M.A.S. "Sydney." Cap­ miral Six Alexander C. G. Mad would be Captain G. C. Oldham. tain Oldham replaces Captain H ENGINEER den, K.C.B., C.B.E., as Com­ D.S.C., R.A.N.. who since Aug­ J. Buchanan, who has been ap­ mander-in-Chief. Plymouth, in ust. 1951, had held the appoint­ MM THERRY ST., pointed Second Naval Member of succession to Admiral Sir Maurice ment of Captain Superintendent, the Australian Naval Board. Since MELBOURNE, VICTORIA J Manscrgh, K.C.B., QBE. The at Garden Island, Sydney. Cap­ August, 19JI, Captain Oldham appointment take* effect in No­ tain F. N. Cook, DSC, R.A.N., has been Captain Superintendent vember, 1955. would take over from Captain at Garden Island, Sydney. Cap­ Oldham as Captain Superintend­ ROYAL VICTORIAN tain F. N. Cook is the new Cap­ ent. This was announced on Aug­ KNIGHTHOOD FOR tain Superintendent at Garden ust 31 by the Minister for the ADMIRAL ECCLES. Island. Navy. METAL STAMPINGS Among the appointments made Captain Giok's previous ap­ OP ALL DESCRIPTIONS by Her Majesty the Queen to NAVAL ARCHITECT for th* the Royal Victorian Order and pointment was the Australian RETIRES. MOTOR AND AIRPLANE announced in the "London Gaz­ Naval Representative and the ette" was that of Knight Com­ Mr. William E. Hartley retired Naval Attache at the Australian INDUSTRIES. panion (K.C.V.O.) to Vice-Ad- from the Australian Navy Depart­ Embassy in Washington. He miral J. A. S. Eccles. Vice-Ad- ment in Melbourne on September reached Sydney in the S.S. "Or- miral Sir Henry McCall received 18 after 51 years' service in Eng­ cades" on September 4. a similar appointment. lish and Australian Naval ship­ Mr. McMahon said that H.M. building. He has been principal A.S. "Sydney" is at present un­ NEW C.-IN-C., AMERICA Naval Architect of the Royal dergoing a refit and, as planned, For >0 AND WEST INDIES Australian Navy since 1945. Mr. would leave for Korea in Octob­ STATION. Hartley joined the Royal Navy er. FJ3629. Vice-Admiral J. F. Stevens, in 1902 at Portsmouth as an ap­ Captain Oldham is a qualified C.B., C.B.E., has been appointed prentice shipwright, and in 1915 naval observer of the Fleet Air Commander - in - Chief. America came to Australia as a draughts­ Arm and has served in the R.N. and West Indi-es Station in suc­ man for the R.A.N. aircraft carriers "Glorious" and cession to Vice-Admiral Sir Wil­ "Eagle." He was the Command­ liam G. Andrews, K.B.E., C.B., NEW FLAG OFFICER ing Officer of H.M.A.S. "Austra­ COPPERSMITHS, D.S.O. Admiral Stevens" appoint­ SECOND IN COMMAND lia" from 1949 to 1951. He has PLUMBERS, ment dates from October, 1953. FAR EAST. also held the appointment of Di­ The appointment of Command­ The appointment of Rear-Ad­ rector of Naval Intelligence at TINSMITHS er-in-Chief, America and West miral G. V. Gladstone as Flag Navy Office, Melbourne. In ad­ and Indies Station also carries with it Officer Commanding 5th Cruiser dition to the D.S.C. he has been that of Deputy Supreme Allied Squadron and Flag Officer Sec­ twice mentioned in despatches. GENERAL Commander, Atlantic (N. A. ond in Command Far East Station He was born at Glenelg, South IRONWORKERS TO.). in succession to Rear-Admiral E. Australia, in 1906. BRITISH ADMIRAL RETIRES. G. A. Clifford, C.B., has been an­ Captain Cook was serving in The British Admiralty, in a re­ nounced by the British Admiral­ H.M.S. "Royal Oak" when the cent notification of a change in ty. The appointment dates from ship was torpedoed in Scapa Flow. the British Flag List, announced November, 1953. He was the executive officer of the retirement of Admiral Sir E. H.M.S. "Curlew" when it was FOX ft LAWS0N J. Patrick Brind, G.B.E., K.C.B. NEW FLAG OFFICER, sunk by bombs eight miles from Admiral Brind has been placed BRITISH RESERVE FLEET. Narvik in 1940. In 1942 he was LATEST JET NEEDS NO PILOT'S HAND the senior naval officer in charge SUSSEX LANE, on the Retired List, to date from The appointment of Vice-Ad- Britain's latest jet bomber, the of the naval side of the' com­ plane. There was no contact with June 22, 1953. miral I. M. R. Campbell, C.B., I "ur-jct Handley-Page Victor, D.S.O, R.N., as Flag Officer mando paratroop raid on the ground radio or radar stations, SYDNEY. landed on a United Kingdom aer- NEW APPOINTMENTS Commanding Reserve Fleet, in radio location station at Bruneval, as is needed in other "hands off" FOR "SYDNEY" AND succession to Vice-Admiral Sir France. For his part in the oper­ i Jrome on September 14 without binding systems. The Handley- (Opp. HiKUan Parian' Wharf) GARDEN ISLAND. Henry W. U. McCall, K.B.E., ation he was awarded the D.S.C. 'he pilot's hand touching the con­ Page company's chairman, Sir The Minister for the Navy C.B., D.S.O., has been announc­ He was mentioned in despatches trols or contacting the ground. Frederick Handley Page, said if- Tali ArwrHour. terwards that the plane was the (the Hon. William McMahon) ed by the British Admiralty. Th? in 1940. Captain Cook was born ' he entire equipment governing BX3S0O FJI2S» answer to th* problem of landing announced in Canberra on Sep­ appointment took effect in June at Invergordon, Victoria, in 1905. ,h e landing was carried in the in fog.

°ct»Wr. !W3. . _;.. Beach, Florida, while on vacation. SEA-ODDITIES At .his young daughter's urging, NEW THIRD NAVAL MEMBER FOR AJU. he kicked th-.* fish back into the In last month's issue of this we know not of? Can anyone usual. I would welcome fragments Captain (E) Charles C. Clark, yards. say? In short, who would dare of jaw bones and feet for analy­ sea. His foot was swollen for O.B.E., DSC. R.A.N., of Mel­ journal we told of the deep-sea In his term of office, Admiral to predict and, equally, who sis." Meantime, it is reported that three days. This year, while pre­ bourne has been selected for the diving descents made by two Wishart had seen the Battle class would dare to deny? The "silent, so-called fragments of the re­ paring for his holidays again. Pic­ appointment of Third Naval French Naval officers in the Med­ class destroyer "Aniac" and the sunless darkness of th.' abyss" in mains arc being sold, with true card wondered about a trouble­ Member and Chief of Construc­ iterranean. These dives were re­ Daring class ship "Voyager" the seas' deepest troughs may yet Scottish canniness. to the highest some callus that had formed un­ tion to the Australian Naval markable enough in themselves launched, the conversion of vield unknown. unpredictable bidders. der his big toe. An X ray led to Board, and took over the duties and were records at the tin*..* they "Quadrant" from a destroyer to monsters, fabulous beyond the a sojourn in hospital to have a on- 15th September.. On that date were made: hut they have now a modern anti-submarine frigate, most eerie imagining. The deep Whales stranded twelve miles sawtoother fin removed. he w..s promoted to Rear-Ad­ been beaten out of hand by Pro* and the modernisation of sea explorer of today and the in­ from the open sea must be an miral (E). feasor Auguste Piccard. This was "Arunta" and a number of ter-planetary explorer of the not unusual sight in any part of the Fishing off the Californian on September 50, when the fa­ Ocean minesweepers. mous scientist cum balloonist and so very far distant tomorrow- world. Yet it happened recently coast Victor Ohio, of Santa Cru:, Captain Clark would succeed deep-sea diver in his own speci­ may have many a factual story to in the United Kingdom. Two on August 10 netted a thrasher Engineer Rear-Admiral John W. The Minister said that, only re­ ally invented bathyscaphe broke tell that will make the ghost of whales swam 12 miles up the shark weighing 5,700 |hs. Tin- Wishart. C.B.E., who would re­ cently he had announced that the the world's deep sea dive of 6,889 Munchhausen hide his narratives River Mersey on September 15 shark was 20 feet long. use after thirty-eight years in the Admiralty had asked for the mod­ feet set up by the two French of­ away for ever. Certainly the and got stranded on a mud bank. VACANCIES FOR OFFICERS Royal Australian Navy. Admiral ified plans of the Australian built ficers by going down 10,335 feet fisher-folk of the placid fishing- One, weighing approximately four IN W.R.A.N.S. Wishart had been Third Naval Battle class destroyers and that nearly two miles- to reach the village of Girvan, on the coast of tons, was shot after officials dis­ A training course that will pro­ Member since 1948. much of the credit ior these plans sea-floor of the Tyrrhenian Ayrshire, West Scotland, arc covered its weight was causing vide opportunities for women in Captain Clark would be the must go to Admiral Wishart. Trough, the deepest part of the hardly likely to be found among it to sink into the mud, suffocat­ civilian life to become officers in first graduate from the Royal Aus­ the Women's Royal Australian Captain Clark was born at Mediterranean Sea. The precise the unbelievers. They firmly be­ ing it. The other, 30 feet long, tralian Naval College to be ap­ Warwick, Queensland, in 1902, scene of the descent was *0 miles lieve they have seen some such was lifted clear by the incoming Naval Service (WRANS) will be pointed Third Naval Member begun at Flirdcrs Naval Depot, and entered the Naval College in from the island of Ponza, off the prehistoric monster swimming off tide and escaped, making its way and would also be the first gradu­ 1916. As Commander (E) of West coast of Italy. Professor their coast during the 'last few back to the sea. C-ib Point. Victoria, shortly. It ate to attain the rank of Rear- will last two months. H.M.A.S. "Australia" he was Piccard, who was accompanied by weeks, searching for its lost mate. Admiral (E). His present ap­ decorated in 1945 for his work his son Jacques as pilot, said af­ They found its mate, it appears, Whether music hath charms Women aged between 2.' and pointment is Director of Naval at Leytc and Lingayen, where the terwards that "at 10,00(1 feet the washed up on their beach on for animals is a very moot ques­ 33 years who bold the educational Engineering at Navy Office. cruiser was damaged by Japanese darkness is absolute, and at 10,335 August I?—a grotesque 30-foot tion among many naturalists. Yet leaving certificate or its equiva­ Mr. McMahon, in paying a suicide planes. feet he had found "the silent, monster, with a four-foot "giraffe many incidents have been record­ lent may apply to enter it. neck, a camel-shaped head with tribute to the work of Engineer Admiral Wishart was born at sunless darkness of the abyss. It ed that seem to support the sup­ Those who succeed in their ap bone-shielded eyes, four stumpy Admiral Wishart, said that as Cowra (N.S.W.) in 1892 and is broken," he continued, "only position. Certainly music from plications will first serve as rat­ appendages like legs, a 12 -foot tail Third Naval Member he had been joined the R.A.N, in 1915. In occasionally by numerous tiny an electric organ attracted baby ings for three months and will and the intestines of a mammal. responsible for the Federal Gov­ 1934 he was in England for duty phosphorescent flickers. Even seals to a narrow stretch of beach then be appointed cadet officers Therefore, says the Provost of ernment's vigorous construct-on at the Admiralty and in 1935 our powerful searchlight greyed recently at Hunstanton, on the 'or the duration of the course. If Girvan, "it could nae have b;en and development policy of naval stood-by for the building of the away in the darkness." Incident­ Norfolk coast of England. In­ they arc recommended by a selec­ ony feesh, ye ken." Experts hur­ shipbuilding in Australian ship­ cruiser H.M.A.S. "Sydney". ally, the bathyscaphe was stih- deed, they imposed quite a prob­ tion board at the end of that term ried from Edinburgh to inspect merged for two and three-quarter lem. Said beach inspector Her­ they will be given the rank of the creature, but before they ar­ hour.* and the plunge brought to bert Wilson, "My big problem is hird officer. a climax years of experiment and rived the folk of Girvan, revolt­ to get the baby seals back to their The M'nistcr for the Navy endeavour by Professor Piccard. ed by the smell, had poured oil parents before holidaymakers start (the Hon. William McMahon) One of the most outstanding on it and set it alight, destroying petting them. Once they have -aid on SeptcmKr 16 that the scientists of this century, Profes' the carcase except for a few been petted they keep swimming ourse would comprise intensive ROBBIALAC st»r Piccard makes his approach bones. From* photographs taken ashore for more. This week vturcs on general training, per- to the problems of undersea ex­ before the burning, the thwarted im Me fau*H / about 30 people gathered around <>nn-I-wclfare. naval history, pro ploration on a basis that is wholly experts decided Girvan's "missing one baby seal to pet it while other cdure and administration. operational: h: is not so much link" was a basking shark that holidaymakers dashed off to the concerned with what oeeano- had d>.d a natural death in the fishmongers to buy herrings for Women who obtained commis­ graphers and marine biologists sea, but had been battered (and it. I had to take it out in the sion* would be appointed to nav- ROBBIALAC may rind in hitherto unplumbed probably distorted out of its pro­ boat five times before it stayed in I establishments such as Flinders depths, as with giving them a way per shape) by the rocks and half the sea beyond the sandbank Naval Depot or H.M.A.S. "Har- I W\s\\ 1 I to reach those depths. He be­ eaten by other sea creatures. But where its parents bask." :'ian," near Canberra, or to estab­ FOR ALL lieves the bathyscaphe in which in London, the famous zoologist. lishments in Melbourne or Dar­ PAINTING he mad: his recent record-break­ Professor Julian Huxley, did not win. PURPOSES ing plunge—the third he has built dismiss the affair so lightly. "It A fisherman in America, Tei! As officers they would enter — s the answer. was a grave mistake to destroy Piccard, got the real point of thi~ into a first service-engagement of the creature," he said, "The long fish story away back in 1950, but a 'our years. This would be renew­ neck, tail and legs were most un­ he ddn't realise it at the time ed if they proved themselves suit­ What does the sea contain that Piccard caught a catfish at Coco able. OUTSIDE ft INSIDE GLOSS OR SUED!

OctoW, MS)...... I The Governor - General of Aus­ of pearl fishing in the waters of tralia early in September issued a said that the Executive were try­ SPEAKING OF SHIPS Australia's continental shelf will ing to bolster up inefficiency proclamation declaring Australia's impose conditions on areas and the Suggestions have been made Many of the new Japanese when the main thing for a public totalled about 58,000,000 tons, a rights over its continental shelf in quantity, variety and size of pearl that the "Pommern," the last big cargo liners have exceeded 19 record for any six-month period, the north of Australia. This means body was the efficient running of shell to he ta\en. The legislation the poet. Finnish sailing ship, should be tak­ knots on trial and m.nntain 17 the Petroleum Information Bur­ that all persons, Australian fisher' dealing with this matter will pro­ en over by the civil authorities at knots or more on service. eau said on July 29. men as well as Japanese, would hibit fishing m certain areas if this U.S. BUILDING RUNWAY Manehamm and converted into a have to hold licences to fish for is thought necessary. maritime museum. In consequence of goods worth The Hydraulics Research Board pearl shell in the waters of Aus­ FOR'FIRST ATOMIC over £7*0,000 being stolen from (U.K.) suggests that the Port of tralia's continental shelf. BOMBER. One of the heads of Irish Ship­ A refugee German Jew, natur­ Egyptian Custom sheds every year London Authority's dredging bill The United States is reported ping Limited has given the opin- to be buiiding a three-mile-long alised Canadian. was fined the Customs cone in every Egyp­ of about £50,000 a yeai might The Scindia Steam Navigation ion that two or three medium- concrete runway suitable for test £1,(XK) with 12 months imprison­ tian port is to be barred to any possibly be reduced by judicious Co., of Bombay, is reported to sized, moderately fast passenger flights of the world's first atomic ment tor smuggling 4,297 gold person without a special permit. dredging at suitable points. have asked the Indian Govern­ liners would be of great value to bomber. The runway, at Edwards watches, worth nearly £27,000, ment for permission to abandon Irish prosperity. Base, California, will withstand m his motor car landed at South­ The >^aval Construction Re­ its London passenger service Engineers searching for oil in the landing impact ot" a plane hampton. U.K.. from France. search Establishment, at Rosyth which is showing a loss. New Guinea recently bored the The work of salving the mater­ weighing 500,000 lb. loaded— deepest hole in the Southern (U.K.). is considering making ex­ ial of the steamer "Liberty," twice the weight of the present O w t n g to Americans and Hemisphere 13,254 feet at Om- periments with the use of titanium As a result of complying with Canadians Having difficulty in get­ wrecked near Land's End, was B36 bomber. Atomic - powered ati, a message from Port Moresby plates for shipbuilding, as it is as the shipowners" demand for fix­ impeded by sabotage of the aerial ting supplies of French anthracite aircraft now being developed will said on July 20. The hole beats light as aluminium without its dis­ ed prices in contracts the Fair- railway between the shore and coal that they want, they have a probably be several times heavier a hole drilled in Brazil which advantages. neld Shipbuilding Co.'s profits the wreck, and a shot-gun patrol tendency to turn to oil fuel, which than existing planes, because of previously held the record. for 1951-52 (in th: United King- had to be established at the shore the thick shielding around the nu­ will result m the loss of a very German shipyard? are still get­ Jom) were so reduced that they end. clear component. valuable market for Britain. An Egyptian army lieutenant ting numerous orders, particular­ had to pass their ordinary divi­ and an Egyptian relay team on ly for big tankers to standardised dend. The British House of Lords Mr. Justice Sellers, hearing a "I prefer to do right and get August 2 swam the English design in such yards as Howaldts, last year found in favour of the case in the United Kingdom no thanks rath r than to do Channel in record times. The of Kiel, and the Deutsche Werft, The licences to he issued by the Polish seamen in England who brought against the British Docks wrong and get no punishment" lieutenant, Abdel Lit if Abou of Hamburg. Australian Government to permit were promised compensation by and Inland Waterways Executive, -Marcus Cato. Heif, 24, crossed in 13 hours 4* the Gdynia-America Line under minutes, beating the previous re* the former Polish Government. The Western Ocean passenger cord held by Tom Blower, Brit- companies are planning for a con­ am, by one hour 45 minutes. The Among other minor improve­ siderable increase in the sailings relay team swam from Dover to ments in the British India liner between the Clyde and the Unit­ Ctp Gris Nei in 10 hours 51 ENGINE & TELEGRAPH EQUIPMENT "Uganda" as a result of experi­ ed States and Canada. minutes—twenty minutes faster ence with her sister ship the than the record set in September "Kenya" is the heightening of her The Japanese Government has FOR NAVAL & MERCHANT VESSELS 1950. funnel by 12 feet. sought information on the impli­ "The heart of the man is of cations of the proposed legisla­ itself but little, yet great things A Japanese Coast Guard patrol tion by Australia to control pearl MANUFACTURERS OF ENGINE TELEGRAPH cannot till it." vessel arrested a Russian fishing fishing in the waters near Austra­ bodt and its crew of four one mile lia, the Australian Minister for EQUIPMENT AND LUBRICATED TYPE Mr. C. /. Raje, of the Maritime off Worth Hoi{\aido Island on Commerce and Agriculture, Mr. CHAIN AND WIRE GUIDES. Union of India, has been appoint* August 8, the Japanese Safety J. McEwen, said in Canberra on ed Honorary Secretary of the Mer- Board announced on August 9. September 14. chant \avy Co-operative Stores. This is the first time the Japanese • REPAIRS CARRIED OUT PROMPTLY. the address of which is Seamen's have arrested a Soviet vessel since Six months after the February Canteen Building. Bombay, 1. the war. floods of this year Holland was The stores include a. tailoring and still spending £69 p-^r minute, or cloth department. The United States has agreed £J,000,000 each month, on dyke MARINE DIESEL FUEL INJECTION SYSTEMS to let Japan ship galvanised iron repairs. RECONDITIONED AND RENEWED. Bridge Transmitter Recasting the basis on which sheets, chemical fertilisers, sulfa and Engine Room the U.K. Chamber of Shipping's drugs and about 16 other items The decline.in the smuggling QUICK SERVICE FOR SHIPPING COMPANIES. monthly index number of tramp of merchandise to Communist of opium into the United King­ Receiver as shown freights is prepared, to include China, a report from Tokyo said dom, which started in 1950, con­ were fitted to Ship various factors which have been on August 20. tinued in 1951 according to offi­ BEGG & GREIG r Building Board D. ignored since it was revived after cial returns, but the e was a ser­ 20 ERSKINE STREET, SYDNEY the war, has meant an immense Middle East crude oil produc­ ious increase in attempts to « E. Class Vessels. 'Phones: BX 1208, BX 7087 amount of careful planning. tion for the! first half of this year smuggle hashish.

Oc»»Wr. I«3. . . . w^p commerce, art and war. The con­ THE FORT OF LONDON. that is consumed, not only in tact of the Christian Cross with corporation, and an integral and The Port of London is still the Great Britain, but by the smok­ indispensable part of the port it­ the Mohammedan Crescent was world's greatest seaport, not only ers of many European countries. not without its great benefits for self. Trlbury, by the way, was in space but in traffic and dock Here arc cold storage ware­ and improved upon until, with mankind, materially as well as area. houses one of which can hold a9 spiritually. Trade between East the building of a floating pas­ It is not generally realised that many as 250,000 carcases of New- senger landing stage (similar to and West was greatly stimulated: Zealand mutton." merchants and mariners of the he Port of London includes the that of Liverpool) it has become The Travels of Ibn Jubayr. those whose race, faith and ideas vholc of the tidal >ortion of the The entire dock system of the finest dock system in the Translated and Edited by run counter to his own. More­ Mediterranean, especially of Ven- London, including Tilbury Docks ice, Genoa, and Malta found new Thames from Teddington Lock in world. R. J. C. Bn.adhurst. over, he was keenly observant, Middlesex to an imaginary line further down the river nearer Small wonder then that in the London. and from his pages filtrate many and rare commodities in this Sara­ the sea, is, of course, under the cen world as cargo for their home- Irawn from Havengore Creek in past the enemy bent on Britain's In the course of last month's an enlightening and historically- Kssex to Warden Point in K-ent, administrative control of the Port destruction did his utmost to valuable picture of the Moham­ bound ships. Sugar, cotton and of London Authority. It is a vast review vi Dr. Wood's compact many other articles of great value .. distance of seventy miles. But smash the cogs and bring the ma­ little work "Exploration and Dis medan world at the time when the river is not navigable for opened in the year 1886, but since chinery of the Port of London to the first impetus of the Crusader to man first became known to then has been greatly extended covery," passing mention was Europe through the Crusades. As cean-going vessels higher than a standstill. But he never did. made of the 12th century Moor­ of the Christian Cross waa weak­ London Bridge, and ipart from ening and the Saracen was gath­ for its enrichment of English his­ ish traveller and writer whom we tory, our own Richard the Lion Tilbury, the docks are concentrat- know as Ihn Battatu. In this ering for a counter stroke. J on both banks of the Thames When ship* of f ho Navy We go with the traveller, al­ Heart, as w-e all know, took part hook we have presented to us a in these centuries-long conflicts to r wool alone cover forty acres. notes. These notes arc not suf­ for you lish-speaking peoples. Now Mr. To all those interested in a But, as Leo Walmseley says in ficiently explanatory or compre­ Broadhurst in an authoritative and general way with exploration and The Englishman's Country', "the hensive, with the result that the scholarly edition, makes "The discovery, and in a particular way activities of these docks [that is. reader is at times not fully in­ Travels of Ihn Jubayr" accessible with the Crusades and the deeds the Royal Albert and King formed. But the book is a fine for th-: first time in English. of the Hospitallers and Knights George] cover practically every piece of work, for all that. Templars of Rhodes and Malta type of cargo and ship. In nor­ To those who may have imag­ —A.R. ined Ibn Jubayr, the Mohammed­ and th-: impressions they left upon mal times as many as fifty large an, as an austere and fanatically the Orient, this bix>k will come as vessels may be berthed in them minded pilgrim whose main pur­ a valuable compendium to the AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL simultaneously; huge cargo ships, pose was to worship at the Mo­ missionary journeys of Carpini FLAG. tankers, and passenger liners hammedan Holy City of Mecca, and Rudruuuis and the trading It is reported that the Federal fiom America, South Africa, In­ it will come as a surprise to find journeys of Nicolo Polo and his Government proposes formally •to dia, China, and Japan. Here, on emerging from "The Travels" a more famous son Marco. No declare that the Australian flag, the dock side are the three larg- man who was ck-arly both like­ complete picture or assessment of with the Union Jack and six stars c-t flour mills in London handling able in demeanour and estimable those times could be had without on a blue background, is the na­ grain direct from ships' holds and in character. Though profoundly it. tional flag. It was stated officially discharging it as bags of flour bound to his Mohammedan relig­ After all, it was during this per­ in Canberra on July 27 that the into trains and fleets of lorries, ion, and deeply pious, yet he is iod that European craftsmen and necessary legislation would be in­ or barges or small coastal ships never fanatical in its observance soldiers learned valuable lessons troduced into Parliament next for re-export. Here comes a or in any way intolerant towards from the skill of the Saracens in large proportion of the tobacco

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„:;AJ.;*..I EX-NAVAL MEN'S AUSTRALIAN SKA CAD1T CORPS NEW SOUTH WALES DIVISION Association ^\ of Australia A NAVAL OCCASION (By Lieut-Crodr. (SC) D. J. Mort) A Parade of unique importance Patron-in-Chief. Her Majesty The Queen. Cadets from T.S. "Sirius." T.S. ed to send in items of interest for the N.S.W. Division of the "Australia," and T.S. "Sydney" connected with their Unit activi­ Australian Sea Cadet Corps was gave an exhibition of Semaphore ties. (FEDERAL COUNCIL) September issue of "The Navy." Notification of the passing of held on board the Aircraft Car­ Signalling, Cordage and Flag Sig­ A suggestion h.is been made to Readers will recall that the As­ the following members have been rier H.M.A.S. "Vengeance" on nalling respectively. By this time All Units, since the Director of the Federal Council to raise the sociation was represented at the sent to Federal Council:—Messrs. Saturday. 5th September. the visitors were well on the job Naval Reserves carried out his David (Jan) Alexander Tulloch, Annual Inspection, have gone question, at the next interstate Queen's Con.nation Review of The party consisting of approx­ of sight seeing. The Officers and of Cantcrbury-Bankstown S.S.: rapidly ahead to bring themselves Conference, of an appointment of ex Servicemen and women by imately 150 Sea Cadets assembled ship's company of the "Ven­ Arthur Thomas. Sydney S.S.; J. up to the required state of effi­ an Honorary Liaison Officer, to tour members of the Association at the Dockyard Gates and geance" co-operated in such an Leicester, Brisbane S.S., and ciency. It is hoped that by the act for the Association in the Fed­ from Victoria. One of the for­ marched to the ship. The Sea excellent manner that the Parade Charles H. Moran and John next "Inspection," Units will have eral Capital. Should this subject tunate members to participate was Cadet Drum Band assisted by the was a great success. Mann, of Melbourne S.S. prepared themselves for the "Effi­ meet with the sanction of the Miss Doris, Allden, of Melbourne R.A.N.R. Drummers provided The object of the Parade was Conference Delegates, the Asso­ Sub-Section, who wrote a most —G.W.S. ciency Test." This means hard the "March Time." Recruiting. Unfortunately the work, strict attention to instruc­ ciation can immediately proceed glowing report of her experiences newspapers lost sight of this ob­ Approximately 1580 visitors, tions and a general change of the to appoint one of its retiring Exe­ in London during the Coronation ject and nothing was shown or NAVAL RESERVISTS consisting of men, women and present attitude towards Drill cutive Officers to the proposed period, with special mention of said about the occasion. Sever­ position of Hon. Federal Liaison the March Past, when Her RECEIVE TRAINING IN children attended. and Discipline it means working H.M.A.S. "CONDAMINE" al Ceremonial Parades have taken parties during non-Parade Hours: Officer. Majesty and the Duke of Edin­ At 2?0 sharp Captain Barrel 1. place during this year, but littie burgh appeared to hole at us- Commanding Officer of H.M.A.S. it requires regular attendance and Nominations for the award of A training cruise for reservists has been said about them, which "best effort" by ALL Cadets of Life Membership of the Ex-Naval in the words of Miss Allden of the Royal Australian Navy "Vengeance" inspected the Par­ is hard to understand as the Aus­ ""specially and personally." ade. After the inspection the the Unit. Officers and Instruct­ Men's Association for an addition­ was made in the H.M.A.S. "Con­ tralian Sea Cadet Corps is fast ors must also play their part. al three memb.'rs have been re­ Recent inter Sub-Section trans­ di mine" when she left Sydney on Parade marched past, the Captain becoming a stable Youth Organ­ ceived bv Council for Conference fers were effected by Messrs. Monday, 14th September. taking the Salute from a dais rig­ isation, one which is worthy of TS. "Sydney" and ' TS. consideration: they are Messrs. M. William L. Sayers. from Geelong The "Condamine" has since ged opposite the Island. The Par- a place amongst other Cadet "Perth" held welcome home par­ G. Hudson and W. L. Johnson, of to Heidelberg; Carl M. Larsen, visited Tasmania. South Australia ide re-formed opposite the Island Corps. ties for their representative Cad­ New South Wales, and J. V. from Melbourne to Essendon; and Kangaroo Island. ind Captain Burrell addressed the ets returning from the Corona­ Tanner, of Tasmania. The names Laurence E. Jacobs and Frederick Naval reservists from Hobart Parade and the visitors. IS YOUR UNIT HERE? tion. L'cut. (SC) Adam, Com­ of Messrs. G. A. McKce and G. W. Budden. both of Port Adel­ and Adelaide carried out their an­ Giptain Burrell welcomed the Commanding officers are invit­ manding Officer of T.S. "Sydney" W. Scott were published in the aide to Adelaide. nual training in this cruise. Cadets and the visitors; he said The "Condamine" first visited >t was a unique occasion and the Hobart on Thursday, 17th, to em­ Hrst of its kind. He praised the bark na->al reservists, and then "•earing of the Cadets and advis- sailed for Adelaide where she ar­ d the" that the most important rived on Tuesday, 22nd Septemb­ rung to remember as a Sea Cadet TATTERSALL'S er to embark 40 more reserves. as Discipline. He pointed out The V- Cash Consultation -£10,000 The frigate then visited Ardros- ow necessary it was to have dis- san on Wednesday, 23rd. Port ipline in a ship, and as it was First Prixe. Drawn every few days. Lincoln on the 25th and Kangaroo •oped that the Cadets would Island on the 28th. ">mc day be members of a ship's and Visits were made to Devon- impany, they should learn the port on October 1 and Burnie on ncaning of discipline. The 10/- Cash Consultation — £25.000 October 2. "Condamine" return­ Commander Bates, the Presi­ First Prire. Drawn every few weeks. ed to Adelaide on the 5th Oc­ dent of the Navy League of Aus- tober. ralia, N.S.W. Division, thanked The Minister for the Navy Captain Burrell for allowing the (Hon. William McMahon) said Sea Cadets to hold such a Parade POSTAGE ON TICKETS AND RESULTS TO BE ADDED at the time that invitations had n board H.M.A.S. "Vengeance". The Address ... been extended to Sea Cadet Corps He also thanked the visitors for in Ulverstone, Devonport, and 'oming along and lending their GEO. ADAMS (TATTEISAU.) H0BART Burnie, to take part in the cruise support. from Devonport to Burnie. On completion of the addresses C«pt«;n Siirr.ll, R.A.N., Commanding Offtcr. H.M.A.S. 'Viiy—i" Saa Cadntt and vMton a* tkair aajaH aaramaalal aaraaV

OcfeW. IH3. M outlined the trip from time of de­ parture from Melbourne to the ar­ rival of H.M.A.S. "Sydney" back HALLIDAY BIRT & COMPANY in Sydney. It was a very interest­ ing resume of a wonderful exper- BROS. (PTY.) LIMITED ience. He spoke well of the hos­ pitality met with in the United Kingdom, particularly on the part MARINE ac GENERAL of the U.K. Sea Cadets and Navy ENGINEERING League. The Cadets gained val­ A Bridge Street, uable experience onboard the REPAIRS "Sydney" and had a good time in London and the U.S.A. They P.O. Box 544, G.P.O. were indeed fortunate in being Telephone: BO 129 selected for the Coronation trip but it shows that the effort put (15 tines) into their Sea Cadet Service Sydney, N.S.W. brought its own reward. Training "Afloat." NSW. Di­ Also at vision Sea Gidets have had an 64 EAGLE STREET. abundance of Training afloat: in Engine Works: one case onboard H.M.A.S. "Cootamundra" actually at sea 30 ERSKINE STREET. for several days, and then onboard BRISBANE. HM.A.S. "Sydney." "Hawkes- SYDNEY, N.S.W. bury" and "Arunta" and n H.M. A.S. "Nirimha." the new R.A.N. •Phone: BX 1700. Air Station at Schoficlds. In Oc­ Musgrave Coid Stores: tober the Cadets will undergo STANLEY STREET, Week-end Training in H.M.A. Ships " Quadrant," " Arunta". SOUTH BRISBANE "Hawkcsbury" and "Condamine." In 1816, the electrolysis method of producing The Cadets greatly appreciate and ORDER FORM Aluminium was discovered and thit, basically, it the look forward to these Camps as method used to-day- Bauxite ore it first treated to To "THE NAVY," produce pur* alumina; this oiide is dissolved in they gain valuable "Ship" experi­ ence, which is not available with­ ROYAL EXCHANGE molten cryolite and o heavy electric current passed SHIPPING in their own Units. BUILDING, through the solution from carbon anodes to the Rolling aluminium sheet is not basically different BRIDGE ST., SYDNEY. carbon lining of the bath. The o&ygen combines with from that of most other metals; a prepared cast and T.S. "Albatross" and T.S. "To- the anodes to escape as carbon dioxide, and metallic bruk" were onboard H.M.A.S. ingot is reduced in gauge by pasting between aluminium sinks to the bottom, whence it is tapped. hardened steel rolls. It is first rolled hot, but final AIRWAYS AGENTS. "Vengeance" for the week-end Please register my subscnp- ll Little change takes place in the cryolite: the carbon 4th to 6th September. This en­ reductions are made cold to obtain a good finish and tion to "The Navy." The | anodes or* consumed and novo to be regularly perhaps, by work-hardening, a desired degree of abled these two Units to attend rate is IS per 12 issues J replaced. the General Parade on board the hardness. The production of accurately-gauged, flaw­ post free in the British ' less sheet and strip demands very precise and elabor­ "Vengeance" on 5th September. Empire. I send Postal Note/ Four pounds of high-grade bauxite ore needed CARGO AND PASSENGER ate equipment and much experience. It is pleasing to see that boys Cheque/Money Order for to produce two of alumina, which will yield one SERVICES TO UNITED applying to enter the Sea Cadet __ —issues. pound of aluminium of over 99% purKy. Roughly Equal in importance it the extrusion process by Corps are very keen and make the 10 KWh of electricity art consumed for each pound which lengths of metal of constant cross-section, KINGDOM, CONTINENT. (Add exchange where of metal obtained; this makes cheap and plentiful Corps their first thouglit. Com­ applicable) solid or hollow, are made. Very high pressures are power essential, and the world's main reduction plants AMERICA AND THE manding Officers should make it a used to force hot plastic aluminium out of a rule that the boys are up to a re­ Commencing from: are sited on specially built hydro-electric schemes container through a steel die of the required shape. EAST. quired standard.

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The annals of the world are full of acts and er­ as operating relief workers and leaders, showing rands of mercy performed by British Naval arms. humanity at large that Britain is ever ready, as in "*•Up THE One has, for instance, but to recall the British the past, to rise to any cause that calls for the re­ Navy's part in the relief operations during the lief of human suffering. Australia's Martthu Jowut great earthquake at Messina in 1908, and, in these As the full picture of the disaster became ap­ later days, in Korea, and in the disastrous gales and parent, help came from many quarters and from floods in the Low Countries in the early part of many sources. Among other ships that were quick­ this year. ly on the scene were H.M. Ships "Bermuda," Yet the world in general, for all that was an­ "Wrangler," "Forth," "Wakeful," L.S.T. "Reg- nounced in the Press concerning it, had little or gio," Royal Fleet Auxiliary "Spaburn," the Royal no conception of the magnitude of the work ac­ Army Service Corps water carrier "Spalake," and "i Mm***' complished by the British Navy during the recent the New Zealand cruiser "Black Prince." earthquake disaster in the Greek Islands. It is H.M. Cruiser "Bermuda" (Captain G. K.Col- not the way of the British Navy to advertise its lett, D.S.C., R.N.), embarked a medical team with doings, be they of peace or war. medical Stores, JO trucks, jeeps, mainly drawn Ships of the British Mediterranean Fleet, in the from Army sources at Malta, additional communi­ Eastern Mediterranean, were the first foreign war­ cations ratings and radio sets, baby food and two ships to arrive at the scene of the disaster, and as helicopters. the full extent of the damage and the plight of H.M.S. "Wrangler" (Captain C. M. Parry, C. th." islanders became known, other ships at Malta V.O., O.B.E., R.N.). a fast frigate, arrived at were ordered to embark medical supplies, doctors, Sanii from Malta to begin investigations in seaside and rescue and other special equipment and stores. villages. She reported that Sami was completely The scene in the stricken areas can only be de­ devastated. After landing a medical officer and a scribed as indescribable. When H.M.S. "Daring" medical party with water and provisions, she sailed (Captain P. D. Gick, O.B.E., D.S.C., R.N.) arriv­ for Vathi. On arrival there she reported that * ,v^ ed on the scene, she reported to the British Ad­ ninety-five per cent, of the houses were uninhabit­ K^£ miralty that not a house could be seen standing able. Later the "Wrangler" proceded to Samos, -~3*»***t •in Argostoli, the capital town of Cephalonia, and Phaleron Bay, and other devastated parts. : that the ship shook "as if distant depth charges L.S.T. "Reggio" (Lieutenant-Commander R. A ^7#rriai..v» were being dropped" as she entered the harbour. Gilchrist, R.N.), sailed from Malta with water, as opposed to arbitratmess. It denotes three main It was learned that 50,000 people were with­ NOVEMBER. 1953. aviation fuel bowsers, medical supplies, bulldozers, principles: out food and water, although most of the injured jeeps, land rovers, Nissen huts, tents, field kitchens, Knowing what wc can lawfully do and what were being evacuated. When ship's officers went WHAT THE CROWN MEANS. and landing craft with Royal Marine crews. we cannot lawfully do; ashore it was found that the whole town had been H.M.S. "Forth" (Captain R. E. Washbourn, Being subject only to laws constitutionally completely destroyed. Local authorities stated D.S.O., O.B.E., R.N.) submarine depot ship, With the impending visit of Queen Elizabeth II. enacted and enforced; that not one house remained standing on the island brought temporary hospitals, clothing, generators to Austrah.i, the term "the Crown" will receive of Cephalonia. 1 Possessing the assurance of security in the en­ and other stores. Parties from the "Forth" work much attention. What is "the Crown" joyment of our lives and property. The British cruiser "Gambia" (Captain P. W. ed night and day to assist earthquake victims. Apart from the actual pieee of jewellery, the An important feature is the constitutional right Gretton. D.S.C., O.B.E., R.N.) was diverted to The "Wakeful," '"Spalake," and "Spaburn" also Crown of St. Edward, which was placed on the of every citizen to petition the Crown for the the scene of the disaster while on passage from did splendid work. The New Zealand cruiser Queen's head at her Coronation, the Crown is \ redress of injustice. the Canal. Zone to Malta. Sh-; reported that the "Black Prince" (Captain J. F. Whitfield, D.S.C., concept on which ,t great part of our way of lite The Crown means that our laws are enacted town of Zante on that island was in ruins with R.N.), wearing the flag of Rear-Admiral C. F. W. is based. The term "the Crown" is employed by not by the Monarch along, but in association with large fires burning. Half of the inhabitants had Norris, C.B., D.S.O., Flag Officer (Flotillas) Med­ British peoples to signify the sovereign authority our elected representatives. been evacuated to nearby hills, while casualties iterranean, was diverted to the scene at the request in the state. were being removed by landing craft. Fires were nf the New Zealand Government. Soup kitchens, still raging on the following day in the ruined electrically fitted tented hospitals, bakeries were Supreme executive power is vesteJ in the Crown, THE GREEK EARTHQUAKE DISASTER. and alt officers of the state, administrative, mili­ town of Zante as officers and men from the "Gam­ established; clearing and search parties worked tary, naval and air are servants of the Crown. The The prompt aid brought to the victims of the bia" continued their relief tasks. Food was drop­ round-the-clock among the ruins. Naval helicop' taw --making power lies with the Crown in Parlia­ recent earthquake disaster in the Greek Islands by ped by aircraft to some islanders, and others were ters played an important part in the relief work, ment, and the judges who interpret the law repre­ the Royal Navy earned the deepest gratitude of supplied by boat. carrying medical men and supplies to isolated vil­ sent the Crown, which is the bulwark of justice the Greek people and stirred the imagination of The Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean, Ad­ lages and making important surveys. and honour. the world. miral the Earl Mourtbattcn of Burma, K.G., etc., On the food side over a quarter of a million Thus it is that we refer to the Queen as a con­ The spirit of the Royal Navy- -exemplifying flew to Argostoli in a R.A.F. Sunderland flying pounds weight of supplies were issued. The med­ stitutional monarch because her acts and decisions as it did the innate sympathy and generosity of boat shortly after news of the disaster had bc,en ical stores issued included 250 miles of bandages arc not despotic, but are made in relation to strict the British race in time of human suffering—could received at Malta. He was accompanied by the and 2{ tons of lint and cotton wool. Naval work­ constitutional practice and in accordance with law not have been more typically displayed than at the Countess Mountbatten, Superintendent - in - Chief ing parties contributed 150,000 man hours' work and custom having the force of taw. height and during th-: aftermath of that terrible of the Nursing Divisions of the St. John's Ambu­ to the task of rescue and rehabilitation. The The "reign (or rule) of law" is a fundamental disaster. lance Brigade, and a number of staff and technical Royal Navy, with its wide experience, forgot vir­ British concept suggestion the idea of certainty Not that it was in any way new to history. officers. And they came not as mere symbols but tually nothing. Nov.mb-r, 1953. • Insulating the arteries MEN IN THE "LITTLE SHIPS" A STORY OF BRITAIN'S ROYAL NAVAL PATROL SERVICE. of industry... By A. Cecil Hampshire. Overlooking the North Sea at Lowestoft, one of Britain's east Admiralty, a special distinguish' coast fishing ports, now stands a fluted column 50 feet (15.3 metres) ing badge was created for the high, surmounted by a bronze ship device, and bearing on 17 panels men of the "Lilliput Fleet." The Ashore! around its base the names of 2,385 war dead who have no known design of this silver emblem show­ State Electricity Commiu.on. graves. ed a stricken shark, symbol of •n.l Ch.mical Industrie. A.N Z. the U-boat, transfixed by a sea- Auitrelien Gai light Co. It is a memorial to the men lands, Belgium, France, Norway, Agitralisn Iron and Steel Ltd. man's marline spike, sinking Stewarts «nd Lloyds. of the Royal Naval Patrol Service Denmark. Poland and Greece, against a background formed by Thompsons (Ce.tlemeine}. who lost their lives during World had by 194* grown from a nucleus two enemy mines caught in a Department of Railways. War II. (which was unveiled by of fewer than $.000 officers and fisherman's net. The badge was Weten.de Cold Stores. Britain's First S^a Lord, Admiral r.ttings to a force of nearly worn proudly on the sleeve of Streets Ice Creem. Nuffield (Aust.) Ltd. of the Fleet Sir Rhoderick Mo 70,000, manning many hundreds every seagoing member of the Vacuum Oil Coy. Grigor, on October 7). of small craft of every descrip­ anti-submarine and minesweeping Below the new memorial lies tion. sections of the Patrol Service. Sparrow's West, playground of From 1940 onwards the consti­ Afloat! holiday-makers. But during World The hard core from which this tution of the force changed. As War II. the White Ensign of force expanded comprised skip­ the fishing fleets were denuded of Cockatoo Dcc.s end Engineering Co. Britain"? Royal Navy floated over pers and trawlermen from Brit­ Adelaide Steam Ship Co. their manpower, others came to Jamet Patrick and Co. Pty. Ltd. its grounds. For in 1939 this ain's fishing fleets, who in peace­ swell the ranks; bank cashiers, Mcllwreith McEacharn Ltd. Lowestoft park became the Cen­ time tormed the Patrol Service factory workers, omnibus drivers, Huddait Parker Ltd. tral Depot of the Patrol Service, section of the Royal Naval Re­ plumbers, stockbrokers, farm la - P. and O. Steam Navigation Co. headquarters of a "Navy within serve. Trained in minesweeping Department of the Navy. tourers, bricklayers, men from all City Line W G. Degchar and Co. Ltd. the Navy", whose little ships op­ and anti-submarine work, their walks of lit".'. After a brief spell A.U.S.N. Co. Ltd. erated in every theatre of war. function in war was to man ves­ of training at H.M.S. Europa Newcastle and Hunter River The Royal Naval Patrol Ser­ sels requisitioned from the fishing they joined the little ships and Steamship Co. Ltd. vice, which evehtually included industry and converted for their AND HUNDREDS OF OTHERS. went out minesweeping and con­ tr­ among its number men from the vital task of netting more deadly voying as if they had been at sea Commonwealth, from the Nether- catches. all their lives. PHONE BW2373 AND WE WILL SEND AN EXPERT ENGINEER TO + H.M.A.S. ' Arunta " o im INSPECT AND ADVISE YOU ON YOUR INSULATING PROBLEMS. recent tria's after the ream With the fall of France and the NOTHING IS TOO HOT OR TOO COLD FOR UNI-"VERSIL" TO INSULATE pipes and boil.nl had oeen CONCERT HALL AS DEPOT over-running o\ Holland, Bel­ WE ARE SPECIALISTS IN THERMAL INSULATION. AND OUR TECH. nsulated by U-:- Verstl". Lowestoft was the assembly relentless iash of enemy air and gium, Norway and Denmark, NICIANS ARE EXPERIENCED IN WORKING WITH EVERY TYPE OF INSULA1ING MATERIAL. base for the trawler crews, from surface attacks. sailors from these stricken coun­ which they could be kitted up Since all entry into the perman­ tries made their way to Lowestoft UNI-"VERSIL" INSULATING COMPANY PTY. LTD. and drafted to their ships. On ent Reserves ceased at the out­ and into the ships of the Patrol August 23, 193V, while the war break of the war, the Royal Naval Service. In the Middle East HEAD OFFICE: 17 MACQUARIE PLACE. SYDNEY clouds were gathering over Reserve Patrol Service was re­ also at MELBOURNE. HOBARI ADELAIDE and PERTH Greek patriots escaped from their Europe, the management of the named Royal Naval Patrol Ser­ Nari-occupied land, and manned municipal concert hull in the vice. Fishermen, yachtsmen and schooners to sweep mines and grounds of Sparrow's Nest was other small boat experts hastened harry the enemy in the Levant. informed that the Navy was mov­ to its ranks. ing in. While the Navy was still cop­ GALLANT CREWS When the evening perform ing with the urgent problems of Many acts oi gallantry against ancc ended, workmen stripped the expanding sea war came the great odds were performed by THOMAS ROBINSON & SON PTY. LTD. Keep a Good the theatre of its gay trappings. dire threat of the magnetic mine. the little ships of the Patrol Ser­ By midnight the kitbags of the Although the appearance of this vice. In October, 1941, the anti­ FLIHR MILL AND WOOD-WORKING Lookout first drafts of arriving fishermen "secret weapon" was not unex­ submarine trawler "Lady Shirley" ENGINEERS were stacked on the stage. With­ pected, adequate counter-measures commanded by Lieutenant-Com­ in three months the Reservists had to await recovery and examin­ mander A. H. Callaway, of the FOR THE NEXT ISSUE OF had been mobilised and passed ation of one of the mines. Mean­ Royal Australian Naval Reserve, 16P SUSSEX STREET. SYDNEY through the new Depot later to while the gallant minesweepers was on patrol otf the Canary Is­ be named H.M.S. Europa, and fought,the menace with makeshift N.S.W. lands when she sighted the con­ The Xary their sturdy trawlers and drifters gear. ning tower of a U-boat. were escorting coast? I convoys At the instance of Sir Winston At once the trawler attacked. and sweeping mines under the Churchill, then First Lord of the . Continued on peqe •

Tt)« Navy November, 1953. 7 •^^•m

TRAFALGAR DAY CELEBRATIONS -&t COLOURFUL NAVAL DISPLAY AT GARDEN ISLAND

Year hv yea.-, the Nelson tra­ 1'erhaps the two most spectac­ the ship. The Commodore of the dition, far from waning, enshrines ular displays were those of the P. V O. fleet. Commodore D. G. itself deeper and stronger in the "Squid" and the helicopter rescue. H. O. Baillie, who is captain of qualities of our race, bids us each A triple-barrelled mortar de­ the "Himalaya," was one of the and every day to remember the vice, mounted on the deck of H. guests. immortal signal flown from the M.A.S. "Anzae," the "Squid," Other States also held displays. "Victory" at Trafalgar. No less watched comprehendingly by the The Chief of the British Imperial »• - **±*» in this age are there challenges to crowd, tossed thrc: sand-filled General Staff, Field-Marshal Sir meet, responsibilities to face, sac­ d'-pth charges high over the bow John Harding, received a 19'gun .lap rifices to make and victories to be nt the ship. salute at the Navy's Trafalgar won. The crowd also watched w.th Day ceremony in Melbourne on On Saturday, October 24, more great interest the helicopter rescue October 18. More than 30,000 than 42,000 people crowded of a "ditched" pilot from the people watched the firing of the around Captain Cook Graving water. salute, and the two hours of en­ &&&***-' Dock at Garden [aland, Sydney. Th: helicopter whirled up from tertainment provided by the Navy to watch the Royal Australian the deck of the aire raft-carrier during the afternoon. Navy's display in celebration of "Vengeance," circled over the r- 7¥?'^>fa Nelson"? famous victory. They harbour, and returned to hover Streamed into the base from 'bus. over a man in a yellow rubber U.S. GIANT FLYING-BOAT ferry, car, and on foot A large ratt. WRECKED. proportion were children, enthus­ A looped rope descended When millionaire Howard . iastic, all-seeing, and eager to en­ slowly from the helicopter, the Hughes' giant Hercules flying- ter into the spirit of every phase man placed it round his shoulders, boat was crushed in Los Angeles of the display. and was quickly hauled up. The Harbour late in September, U.S. And no wonder! The demon­ helicopter rose, circled over the plans for an atom-powered air stration was as varied as it was harbour, and landed again on the force were probably set back for interesting, performed in the best d:ck of the "Vengeance", the a year. The Hercules was crush- traditions of the Service. whole operation taking about four id and flooded with thousands of —.*«»£&***•»- More than 4,000 Naval per­ minutes. tons of mud when a sea dyke "-«»'.. ' sonnel took part in the celebra­ Earlier in the day, members of burst. Damage was estimated at tions: several Australian warships the Royal Australian Navy, the over £2,700,00(1. The Hercules were open for inspection; a de­ Sea Scouts, the Sea Rangers, and was Hughes' masterpiece, the Si--- monstration of diving by the sub­ the Australian Junior Red Cross largest aircraft in the world and ^?*P***m+ir. marine "Telemachus" was given marked through the city to the ostensibly designed to carry 700 in the dock; the helicopter rescue Cenotaph in Martin Place. The passengers. It was widely report­ of a pilot from the wattr was de­ march left the Mitchell Library, ed that its real destiny was to be monstrated: The Royal Austra­ at the Domain entrance, at 9.*0 the prototype of the world's first lian Navy's most modern anti­ a.m. atom-plane. It weighed 200 tons A Bristol Syc.mof. K.licept.i r.icuirtg «n airman from Sydnay H.rbour during March and aircraft weapon, the "Squid." and had a wing-span of ?20 feet. r.icu. pr.ctic. TW h«licOpt«f On the evening of Wednesday, »•»• • ditplay during th. Trafalgar Day calabratiem. was fired on several occasions dur­ October 21, the N."-y League of ing the afternoon by H.M.A.S. Australia held its annual Trafal­ HELICOPTER "Ansae," a modern battle class ANNIVERSARY. gar Day dinner. The function, MEN OF THE UTTLE SHIPS (continued from page 7) destroyer, which was anchored in held in the dining saloon of the The New York Airway? Com­ Elizabeth Bay: a l$*root model Orient liner "Orion," beautifully pany's helicopter mail, cargo, and Depth charging brought the U- menace from the Caribbean to the carriers. of .i ship was sunk by a limpet decorated with Australian spring passenger service between New boat to the surface, guns biasing. Arctic. Its minesweepers cleared During the six years of war mine attached by trogmen; for 'lowers, was attended by Rear- York's three airports celebrated In the ensuing duel the captain the Allied sea lanes and preceded nearly 3,000 decorations were the first time King Neptune and Admiral H. A. Showers, Flag Of- its first anniversary on October of the submarine and five of his the invasion fleets at every land­ awarded to Patrol Service person­ his Queen Amph:trite, presided iieer-iivCharge, N.S.W. IV The service covered 2SI,000 crew wer: killed. The remaind­ ing. On D-Day in 1944, more nel. More than 400 of their 31 a "eros=mg the-linc" ceremony: Before dinner the 120 guests, miles in its first year of service. er surrendered, although they out­ than 300 minesweepers led the ships were sunk, and over 7,000 there were exercises by fast Naval who included senior Naval offi­ The company's five S-** "Sky numbered the trawlcrmen by van, afterwards keeping open the officers and men lost their live,. motor boats. cers, the branch manager oi the Buses" can carry seven passengers nearly two to one. From her next supply channels to the assault But the little ships were there to As a Navy spokesman said be­ Orient Line. Mr. A. H. Leunig, and I flight attendant. The three patrol the "Lady Shirley" did not area. Patrol Service crews man­ the end, for the surrender of one fore the event, it will be the "big­ ind Mrs. Leunig, and members of airports were formerly separated return. ned every type of ancillary craft of the last enemy outposts in the gest and brightest yet" -and it the Navy League, partook of by hours of congested street and Anti-submarine trawlers of the taking part in the invasion, from Pacific took place on board a was. cocktails in the for'ard lounge of roid travel. Patrol Service fought the U-boat wreck dispersal vessels to water Commonwealth minesweeper

Nevomkar. It$3. • Tb« Navy a > "* T'

NEW TYPE BOAT FOR ROYAL YACHT

Anions rru -i\ boats to be in The principal accommodation is Boat resembles a small edition oi the boat complement of the "Bnt- .tit a swing back to the arrange an R.N.L.l. lifeboat. The hull is 'inu" new buildir.i: .it Messrs. ments of the old time Picket fully buoyant when swamped. John Brown's ClydesiUc yard, arc Boats. The Coxswain's position The engine has a closed circu- two new design h< .u> which will i< amidships, immediately abaft Lit ion system, and outside keel come into general service in the and above the engine-room. cooling of the circulating water is Royal Navy The hull construction follows arranged. This arrangement of In the Royal Yacht there will the system often used in modern circulating water enables the en he the Roynl Barge. i«n Mft Ad .-hips' boat* in the Royal Navy gine to be started up when the mini's Barges, two 27ft. Jolly The hull planking is double skin boat is in davits, which will en Boats and two ?2ft. Motor Cur African mahogany, the inner sure that the engine is running ters. The Royal Barge earned • km being worked diagonally md properly before the boat drops ofT will he the smaller of, the two the outer skin in tore and att the falls. The engine is enclosed existing Royal Barges, thi 40ft. strakes The main consideration in a watertight casing of alumin one built by Messrs. Vosper, g< verning the hull construction mm alloy and is capable of run Portsmouth. -h« rtlv befor. the has been lightness in association ning when the boat is swamped. war. with maximum strength. The stinging arrangements in­ The J2ft. Motor Clutter is .1 The Admirals Barges are un clude Robinson's disengaging well-tried design which must be di r construction at Messrs. Me- gear, which gear enables the boats well known to those who have timer's Yard. Clyndcr. to be released from the davit falls seen service in the Royal Navy. 27ft. JOLLY BOAT. sea-boat fashion whilst suspended The particular 32ft. Cutter for above the water. the Royal Yacht is to the stand The traditional sea boats of the The Jolly Boat for the Royal ard design but of special finish Royal Navy have been pulling Yacht will be a standard boat ex­ appropriate to the Yacht, and is and sailing boats, cither the 32ft. cept in respect to finish. These under construction by Messrs. Sailing Cutter or the 27ft. Whal boats are under construction by Rutherford, of Birkenhead. The er. With the development of Messrs. Newman of Poole. two new designs are the ?5ft. suitable engines, the continued These latest boats are to be fit­ Medium Speed Admiral's Barges use of pulling and sailing craft ted with elaborate systems of and the 27ft. Jolly Boats. The for rescue work at sea is becom­ buoyancy tanks, not of conven­ main particulars of these new ing an anachronism. In a sea• tional construction but of the new boats, which have been designed way the pulling boat possesses fibreglass plastic material. by the Director of Naval Con­ little ability to make progress struction, are as follows: against wind and sea, and in such conditions it is necessary for the 35ft. MEDIUM SPEED boats to be drifted to leeward in "FLYING SAUCER" FIGHTER Commander H. L. Gunn, of G«

m *» Navy November. 1*53. l> EXPLOSION IN H.M.S. "INDOMITABLE" NAVAL HELICOPTER SQUADRON'S SUCCESS IN MALAYA GALLANTRY AWARDS TO OFFICERS AND MEN. Between arrival at Singapore upwards of 4,000 lb. of freight 24,000 lb. of stores and equip- Ten awards to officers .md men Petty Officer Stoker Mechanic The M.B.I-., is awarded for on January 8 and June 1, No. and equipment. The same month, ment had been moved. Helicop­ .m J three Posthusmous Cum* Victor Harold Stanton, P/SKX. courage, skill and initiative when 848 Squadron, equipped with Sik­ four aircraft lifted 205 fully- ters of the squadron have also mendatmns in connection with S01626 (London, W.C.I). Com­ the explosion occurred to Lieu­ orsky S.*5 helicopters, provided equipped troops to seven differ­ provided rapid and efficient meth­ the explosion which occurred in missioned Mechanician Edwards tenant ' Commander John Ray­ by the United States under the ent clearings in 51 sorties and 53 ods of travel for officials in Ma' the aircraft carrier "Indomitable*1, gave orders for the shutting down mond Henry Bull, D.S.C., R.N. Mutual Defence Assistance Pro­ flying hours. In another phase laya. The High Commissioner, < tf M.ilt.i. on February .;. were of petrol delivery lio.s and for (Alvcrstoke), who was in charge gramme, has carried over 4,000 Dt the same exercise, 310 soldiers Sir Gerald Templar, has employ' announced in the "Luiidon (.ia danger warnings to be broadcast of nr.'-6ghting and damage con­ troops on operational lifts in Ma­ and 2,000 lb. of freight were lift­ ed them on two occasions, when ictlc" on July 27. ip the ship Then he made efforts trol measures: Lieutenant (E) laya, flown 1,500 hours and mov­ ed to patrol positions. making tours, while the General The explosion, which occurred to stop the leak until the explo­ Peter Angus Cooper, R.N. ed 100,000 lb. of freight. The By March 31, 850 troops had Officer Commanding, Malaya in the runpir of the >hip while sion occurred. "Although badly (Southsea): Temporary Lieuten­ unit, formed at the Naval Air been lifted since the commence­ (General Stock well) and other aircraft were being refuelled on shaken by the explosion,"' says the ant (L) Kenneth Malcolm Elder Station at Gosport under the com­ ment of operations and 37 casual­ senior officers have' been tran­ th flight deck during an exer citation, "Mr. Edwards proceeded Mackay, RNV.R. (St. Osyth), mand of Lieutenant'Commander ties evacuated. Approximately sported on tours of inspection. vise, killed three rat ngs, suhse to help to organise and direct the and Senior Commissioned Ship­ Sydney H. Suthers, D.S.C.^ R.N., on October 29, 1952, is the Royal quently caused the death of six fire-fighting and continued his ef­ wright Alfred Samuel Robert "Q" SHIPS DIES other rating! and injured three forts without respite for many Saunders, R.N. (Fareham). Navy's first operational helicopter GENIUS OF THE squadron. officers and twenty-seven ratings. hours until he was satisfied that The B.E.M. (Military Divi­ Vice Admiral Gordon Camp­ careful in attacking ships . . . The First Lord of the Admiral no further danger existed." sion) is awarded for courage, One of the roles in which the bell, V.C., D.S.O., who was cap­ "The only time we came to a ty (the Rt' Hon. J. P, L. Thomao, skill and initiative when the ex­ squadron has been employed is tain of one of the mystery ships, near disagreement was when I Petty Officer Stanton, although or "Q" boats, which helped told him that as a Captain R.N. MP.) subsequently stated in the realising the danger which exist­ plosion occurred to Electrician's in the evacuation of casualties, House i*f Commons that there Mate (A) Edward William and already 90 sick and wounded greatly to combat enemy submar­ at an exceptionally early age, ed, attempted to stop the leakage ines during the 1914-18 war, died with the honours His Majesty wa» considerable structural and of petrol, and when the explosion Dawes, L/SFX.873J5? (Brock- Servicemen have been transferred electrical damage to the ship, and hurst, Gosport): Leading Sea­ from clearings in the jungle to in London recently. He was 67. had given him, he must give up occurred he was blown a consid­ Admiral Campbell was personally the dangerous game of mystery that the explosion was caused by erable distance, but unfortunately man George Rex Dudley, P/JX. military hospitals for treatment a leakage of petrol that caught 2*9129 (Bulwell, Nottingham): with the minimum of delay. It thanked for his services by the shipping and must take up the or* without iniury. He helped a bad­ British War Cabinet. When the dinar>' duties of a naval officer in fire. There was no question of ly injured colleague to a place of Leading Electrician's Mate Stan­ was while working up at the' sabotage. ley Arthur John Rutter, P/SMX. Naval Air Station at Sembawang war ended he was in command of war, as such as officer could not safety and then checked that all a destroyer flotilla After his re' he easily spared from the coun­ deliveries of petrol had been stop­ 8J8TO1 (Helensburgh), and Elec that the unit had one of its first Th-.* awards include two George casualty evacuation calls and three tirement in 1928 he published a try's service . . . Among the Medals. One to Commissioned ped and that all storage tanks tncian Alfred George Shott, P/MX.74597* (Bridgemary, soldiers were moved to the Brit' volume on "Q" ships entitled thirty odd mystery-ships' captains Mechanician Hedley \V:llun Ed­ were properly shut down. After­ "My Mystery Ships." He also who served under my flag, he was wards he did invaluable work in Hants.). ish Military Hospital at Kinrara wards, BE M . R N. (St. liu by an aircraft flying from Kuala lectured widely. the only one who could stand the deaux, Plymouth) and another to fighting fires. Posthumous Commendations Lumpur. In a foreword to Admiral strain of mystery-ship work for for courage, initiative and devo­ more than a year." tion to duty in trying to prevent Leaflet dropping at small kam- Campbell's book. Admiral Sir an explosion arc awarded to En- pongs and areas in which it was Lewis Bayly, K.C.B, K.C.M.G., May we add. in memory of this VESSELS BUILT, SUPPED AND SERVICED. gin-.-nxim Artificer (4th Class) known that terrorists were operat­ C.V.O., said: •.'rr.it man: truly an admiral with Brian Howard Clissold Pugh, ing was another of the tasks car­ "Admiral Gordon Campbell the N-.'Ison touch. DIESEL, MARINE AND GENERAL ENGINEERING. P MX 9091 18 (Birming h a m). ried out by the squadron. On served under my flag in mystery- RIGGERS AND SHIPWRIGHTS. Leading Electrician's Mate Albert one occasion, one pilot released ships from October, 1919, to Aug­ All classes of repairs and conversion work carried out. George William Rowley, P/SMX. 700,000 leaflets in two hours over ust, 1917: starting af a Lieuten­ SERVICE CHIEFS VISIT XJ??84 (West Croydon), and bandit territory. The Naval heli­ ant-Commander R.N., he ended BLOOD BANK. MARINE INSTALLATIONS. MODERN SLIPWAY AVAILABLE Electrician's Mate Ronald Can copters hav: also proved their that part of his career as a Cap­ Rear-Admiral H. A. Showers, FOR ALL TYPES OF CRAFT. non. P/SMX.90JM0 (Hartk value for reconnaissance work tain R.N., with a V.C. and three Lieutenant General F. H. Berry- • pool), over the jungle, providing a "clos­ E.S.O.'s. man, and Captain Lockwood in­ er look" at suspicious areas than "He had a genius for foretell­ spected the R.-d Cross Blood could ^orthodox aircraft. IRONIC "SCRAP" DEAL. ing whereabouts a submarine was Transfusion Service in Sydney re­ A. & W. Engineering An ironic flashriack to World The major and most important likely to be found, and what its cently at the invitation of Mr. J. War II. was reported from Man task tackled by the squadron, further movements were likely to F. Clack, Chairman of the NSW. & Ship Repair Co. ila. Philippines, on OctoK.-r 19 however, has been the movement be; a born leader of men, with a Division of the Red Cross. Ser­ when a representative of thrcc of troops, and in one quick de­ wonderful sense of duty to his vicemen in various Army and Pig. Ltd. lapanese steel mills said he ex­ ployment on anti'bandit opera­ country, life and honours seemed Navy commands arc encouraged pected to conclude a deal for the tions in May, 1,800 men were to count nothing to him, provid­ to become Blood Donors. Mo­ CAREENING COVE. MILSON'S POINT purchas- of scrap iron shortly moved in four days. In one op­ ed that he could find and attack bile Red Cross Blood Transfusion eration in March when helicop­ a submarine, and it is safe to say units call regularly at various Telephones: XB 1675 and XB 4387. The scrap iron, ironically enough, will come from 19 ships sunk in ters were used for positioning that, apart from his attacks, he camps, collecting blood from ap­ After Hours: XJ 3213. the Philippines area during the troops, aircraft flew 183 sorties of created a moral atmosphere which proximately 100 donors on each war. 103 hours, moving 650 troops and caused submarines to be far more visit.

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"AUSTRALIA" COMMONWEALTH NAVIES' enemy, and a further 289 were EXPERIENCES 'QUAKE SERVICE IN KOREAN mentioned in despatches. IN N.Z. WATERS. TRIALS SOON FOR U.S. Members of the complement During the Korean war a total ATOM SUBMARINE. of H.M.A.S. "Australia" experi­ of 7S warships of Commonwealth The United States Navy's at­ enced an unexpected surprise dur Navies and of the Royal Fleet omic submarine, now ncanng ing their recent visit to New Zea­ Auxiliary Service served off completion, would bottle up land as pavements lycd under Korea for varying periods, these enemy warships half the world their feet and city buildings rock­ comprising 34 ships of the Royal away, the U.S. Secretary for the ed in Wellington's severest earth­ Navy (including four aircraft Navy (Mr. Anderson) said on quake for several year?. The ship carriers and six cruisers). 16 ships September 15. He was speaking had berthed there the day before. of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary Ser­ at the keel-laying ceremony of For nrnst of the crew this was vice, on: hospital ship, nine ships the United States second atomic their first experience of an earth of the Royal Australian Navy (in­ submarine, the "Sea Wolf." Mr. quake, and it was quite a good cluding one aircraft carrier), eight Anderson stated that the first, the one to start off with. No sailors destroyers of the Royal Canadian "Nautilus," would have its build­ were injured cither ashore or on Navy and six frigates of the er's tnals soon. "Our enemies the ship, but one who was in a Royal New Zealand Navy. may enter a war with six times bookshop had a shelf of books pil­ BRITISH ADMIRALTY'S more submarines than Germany ed on top of him. An officer who MESSAGE OF possessed at the outset of World was on board the "Australia" dur­ APPRECIATION. War II., mostly better and harder ing the earthquake, Lieutenant- to find and sink," Mr. Anderson Commander D. H. D. Smyth, said Following the Greek earth­ warned. the ship shuddered as though she quake disaster, the British Admir­ had hit something, but no damage alty sent the following message H.M. SURVEY SHIPS was done. to the Commander-in-Chief, Med­ HOME FROM PERSIAN iterranean, Admiral the Earl GULF. Mountbattcn of Burma, KG., FIRST SEA LORD Her Majesty's Survey Vessels etc.: "Please convey to all officers VISITS R.N. AIR STATIONS. " Dalrymplc " (Commander R. and men concerned Their Lord­ Bill, D.S.O., R.N.) and "Owen" The First Sea Lord (Admiral ships' appreciation of the way in of the Fleet Sir Rhodcrick Mc- (Commander C. R. K. Roe, D.S. which the Mediterranean Fleet C, RN.) .have returned from the Grigor, G.C.B., "D.S.O.), visited has upheld the prestige of the the Royal Naval Air Station at Persian Gulf for refining and re- Royal Navy by its ready and ef­ commissioning. During the past Bramcote, Warwickshire, recently fective action in relief of the dis­ and took the salute at a Navy two years both ships have been tress of those who suffered in the engaged on survey duties in the Air Day Parade and witnessed earthquake disaster in the Ionian various flying demonstrations. He Persian Gulf and Mediterranean, Islands. The initiative and re­ including surveys of the Trucial later visited the R.N. Air Station, sourcefulness displayed have been Arbroath, and an honorary de­ Coast. They will return to the in keeping with the best traditions Persian Gulf after recommission- gree of Doctor of Laws was con­ of the Service." ferred on him at St. Andrews ing. The Hydrographer of the University. Navy (Vice-Admiral A. Day, KOREAN WAR SERVICE. C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O.), took pas­ On the basis of Korean w-ar sage in the "Owen" from Ply­ U.S. NAVY HYDROFOIL medals and United Nations Ser­ mouth to Chatham to see demon-* DOUBLES SPEED. vice medals issued, it is estimated strations of the latest radar and The latest innovation to in­ that 17,0<)0 officers and men of echo-sounding apparatus installed crease speed on the water is the the Royal Navv, Royal Marines for survey work. hydrofoil. It was demonstrated and Royal Fleet Auxiliary served recently on a United States Navy afloat in Korean waters, and a R.N. COLLEGE BECOMES A Baauftghtar from the S.AA.F station at Richmond metes * low run between the Navy'i fait antisubmarine frigate H.M. speedboat near Chicago. Using hmher 4,300 served in Japan. A H.M.S. "DARTMOUTH". A.S. "Quadrant" (in background] and the frigate H.MAS, "Hawk«*bury." The muni* of a Bofors gun mounted on the hydrofoils, the research craft's total of 165 of these officers and In ccnsequcnce of the naming "Hawkatbury" ij ihown In tria foreground With tba frigata H.M.A.S. "Murchiwn", the submarine H.M.S. "Tactician, and top speed was increased from 22 men received decorations for dis­ of the Royal Yacht "H.M. Yacht the other plants from Richmond, they carried out anti-fubm«r>na, anti-aircraft and gunnery practice off Sydney Haadt. miles per hour to 40 m.p.h. tinguished services against the Britannia," the title and name of

14 TW Novy November, I9S3. ' """''•-ffiff^W the Royal Naval College, Dart­ wards Air Force Base, California, Aboard her were two members Of mouth, have been changed. The on October 16, set a new world the New Zealand Parliament, Mr. College is now to be known us •peed record by averaging 728.110 L. Clotr and Mr. Tirikatene, who The Britannia Royal Naval Col­ miles per hour for 10t) kilometres represented the New Zealand lege. Dartmouth, bears the ship's I round a closed course, the Doug Government at the Noumean cele­ name H.MS "Dartmouth,"' and las Aircraft Company, who built brations. The "Pukaki" took part ceases to he known as H.M.S the plane tor the United States in exercises with ships of the "Bi t.inma", ..-; formerly. Many Navy, announced on October 17. Royal Australian Navy before ••hips ol ih* Royal Navy have Rahn ticw at an altitude of about sailing for Korea, whither she K 'i n the -• ime ' Britannia", in ;o>, feet around twelve pylons was bound for service operations. eluding tw< . u' t training ships, marking the course on the Mo When th, R,-y.i| Na-val College jave Desert Douglas officials SHELLS, ETC., USED hirlJiiv:- w J- opened in IV"'. said he held the Skyray in a Jl IN KOREA. .IIKI t!u training: oi ...idet- trans degree bank while flying the During the Korean operations, ferred Irom H.M.S "Britannia.' c »urse. Rahn's flight breaks the which continued for iust over a s^rew ?hip ••! the 'me ul .V'-* previous closed circuit record of three y.'ars, 23,000 six-inch ;ind tons and 11; guns, the College ~*)9.2 miles an hour for the dis­ 148,000 rounds of 4.7 «r 4-inch assumed this n imc and title. tance set by a British Hawker shells were fired by H.M. Ships H.M.S "Britaini:.." wis launched Hunter jet it Dun-fold. England. in bombardments; 15,200 bombs and named by Her Mijcsty Th: on September 19 On October of various weights were dropped Queen .1: John Brown's yard. ."*. Lieutenant Commander James and 57,600 three-inch rocket Ciydehmk. on April lf>. The Verdin. a United States Navy shells were fired from aircraft.' ship H - xpeeted t do her final pilot, gained the world speed re­ In addition. 3,300,000 rounds of sea truls in December and to cord tor i straight course by aver­ 20 m.m. aircraft gun ammunition bring the Que. n and the Duke aging 7?}.4 miles an hour in tour were tired. In order to maintain ol Edinburgh Irom Tobruk to the passes over a straight three-kilo- ammunition and other supplies of United Kingdom in May next on m 'tre> at Edwards Base. the Fleet, ships of the Royal Aux­ the final stage of their return iliary steamed more than 300,000' miles. journey following the Common R.N.Z.N. FRIGATE wealth tour. VISITS SYDNEY. FIRST SEA LORD The Royal New Zealand Navy PRESENTS "WINGS" VS. JET SETS NEW SPEED frigate "Pukaki" arrived in Syd­ The First Sea Lord. Admiral RECOUP. ney on October - from Noumea, of the Fleet Sir Rhodenck Me A F4D Skvrav jet plane, pilot­ which she visited to participate in Grigor, C.C.B., D.S.O., flew from ed by test pilot Boh R.ihn at Ed the recent centenary celebrations. Northolt recently to present fly­ ing badges to junior Naval officers who qualified as pilots at the R.A.F. Station. Syerston, near Newark. A total of thirty Lieu­ tenants, Sub-Lieutenants and Mid­ The cruiser H.M.A.5 "Shropshire" officially ended her service witH Hto R.A.N. lest month, and navel Artificers removed nor shipmen qualified for their wings nemeplete et the C«pt«in Cook Dock. tThio nameplate will 90 to tho Australian War Memorial Mutmim in Canberra. Tht Bordsley's on completion of their initial '"Shropshire" was given to Australia by tho Royal Navy in 1943 to replace H.M.A.S. "Canberra," which was tost in tho battle training; The First Sea Lord of Sivo Island. She wi'l be dismantled and tho hulk told. SHAVING lunched with the Commanding* Officer of the Station, Group Cap­ simultaneously to provide annual Brisbane. Admiral Halsey com­ vessel would be twice the size, CREAM tain W. P. J. Thomas. D.F.C.. training for Royal Naval Volun­ manded the Allied Naval forces and much faster than, the two before returning to Northolt in u teer Reserve officers and men. in the South Pacific during the atomic-powered submarines — the Naval aircraft. war. Sir John added that he had "Nautilus' "and the "Sea Wolf" For a quicker BRITISH RESERVE FLEET. ADMIRAL MALSLY FOR suggested to the Vice-President —now1 under construction, U.S. and Vice-Admiral I. M. R. Camp­ CORAL SEA CEREMONY. of the United States, Mr. R. M. Navy officials said on September The Australian Government Nixon, during his recent visit to S. more comfortable bell, C.B.. D.S.O., who recently assumed command of the British has invited Admiral William Australia that an American air­ RESTRICTIONS RELAXED Reserve Fleet has been visiting Halsey, of America, to visit Aus­ craft-carrier might be 3Cnt to Aus­ IN KOREAN WATERS. units of his command. H.M.S. tralia for the Coral Sea Battle tralia during the ceremony. Since the armistice, in all ships " Trafalgar", wearing Admiral celebrations next year. This was US. SUPER ATOMIC patrolling-in Korean waters, cer­ SHAVE Campbell's flag, sailed from Ports­ announced on October 19 by the SUBMARINE. tain relaxations have now taken mouth on a cruise to enable the Federal president of the Austra­ The United States Navy is re­ place. They are no longer dark Flag Officer to inspect some of lian-American Association, Sir pined to be considering a propos­ ened at night, scuttles and "black the Reserve Fleet Divisions, and John 'Lathnm, at a Federal Coun­ al to build a 6,000-ton super out" screen doors are now open, cil meeting of the Association in atomic-powered submarine. The providing great relief in the hot

Tbe Navy '. 1*3. , IV • and humid condition! prevailing; British and Netherlands maritime submarines and coastal craft, took watchkeeping duties have been aircraft recently took part in ex­ part, and special opportunity was MARITIME NEWS OF THE reduced as instant readiness of ercises designed to develop new afforded for members of the Roy­ full armament is no lunger neees* techniques of night fighting in al Naval Volunteer Reserve and sary. the narrow seas. Known by the the Royal Naval Mine watching EXERCISE "MARINER": code name "Garage", these eater' Service to gain experience. Mili­ BIG N.A.T.O. TEST. vise-', the tilth set in a series, were tary and Naval shore patrols in­ Some 300 ships and I, air- .1 nducted by the Nor: Command cluded the Home Guard. craft took part in Exercise "Mar- in the area of the wartime convoy R.A^VF. OFFICERS WATCH WORLD mer," the N.A.T.O. maritime ex­ route from the Thames estuary FLYING FROM H.M.A.S. ercise which, under the combin­ and the Wash. During an im­ "SYDNEY." From our Correspondents in portant phase the destroyers ed direction of the Supreme Al­ About 20 officers from the Roy­ LONDON and NEW YORK lied Commander. Atlantic, the "Barrosa" and "Obdurate." based al Australian Air Force Statf Col­ Commander-in Chief, Channel, i n Harwich, and fast patrol boats. lege at Point Cook (Victoria) em­ By •M rkmg from Felixstowe, patroll' the Commander-in-Chief, Mari­ barked in the aircraft • carrier AIR MAIL time Air Channel, and the Su .d the fine of the war channel be­ 'Sydney" in Sydney Harbour on prom.- Allied Commander, tween the Shipwash lightship and October 10 to watch a flying de­ Europe, began on September 1< Smith's Knoll, awaiting early monstration off the New South "GOTHIC" UNDERGOES COOJER STRIKES BRIDGE. "he thought things had been so ind lasted, in various phases, for warning >

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.. - ; - • " " -.WW?*' mg events. Mr. Northatn said re i t Sydney, the Very Rev. E. A. tire broke out alter an explosion HURRICANE STRIKES Egypt made £850,000 in commis­ "flagrant violation" of internation­ cently that "S.iskia" won the Sea- Pitt, and the address was deliver­ in a mann-; works. Within the VS. ATLANTIC COAST. sion from the £1,450,000 which al obligations in detaining the wanaka Cup, held between the ed by Major-General the Rev. C. next 90 minutes flames could be A hurricane of 135 m.p.h. the Farouk Egyptian Government "Parnon." The acting Israel rep­ Unite J States and Britain, in A. Osborne. Captain C. H. seen over almost the entire San struck the United States Atlantic paid to recondition the royal resentative to the United Nations, 1932, .tnd represented Circa t Brooks, R.A.N., representing the Francisco Bay area. coastline on September 26. The yacht "Mahroussa." The com­ Mr. Arthur Loune, said in the Britain in the 1936 Olympic Flag Officer in Charge, N.S.W., letter that the asphalt was to be JAPANESE SHIP RESCUES New Orleans coastguard reported mittee oi engineers which the Came- It eiyht-metrc sailing Rear-Admiral H. A. Showers, discharged at Elath and the mo­ OFF SHORE FISHERMEN. that the steamship "Eagle," a present Government appointed to events are held at the Melbourne read the lessons and Captain. 7,099-ton American Liberty ship inspect the yacht found the tor vehicle's at Mombasa. Inci­ l A message from Wellington, OlympK Carries m l >*o, "Saskia" David Craven, represented the had radioed she was in distress "Mahroussa" was in "perfect dentally, on September 1, the N.Z., on October 19 said that will be wry handy for Australia League of Ancient Manners. 250 miles South-East of New Or­ condition" before the overhaul. United Nation's Security Coun­ the Japanese freighter "Sydney Special prayers were read by the leans. As no news of her loss cil, by eight votes to none, con­ M.i i u" rescued two men in a REMARKABLE ESCAPE. Chaplain of the Sydney Mission has been received, it is presumed EGYPTIAN COURT ORDERS demned Egypt for blockading Is­ dinghy when they were blown Two young Norwegian sailors to Seamen, the Rev. Colin Crav­ she reached port, cither under SEIZURE OF SHIP'S CARGO rael-bound ships through the five miles off shore in a sudden had a remarkable escape from en Sands. The collection was on tow or under her own steam. For IN SUEZ CANAL. Suez Canal and called on Egypt gale on October 18. The men death in the Atlantic recently. behalf of the Mission. r hundreds of miles along the coast­ A message from Cairo on Sep­ to lift the restrictions immediate- w-.*re crayfishing off Cape PalUs They were washed overboard in line, residents battened down tember 15 said that an Egyptian er, *0 miles from Wellington. ly- a hurricane off Newfoundland their homes. In Panama City, a Prize Court on September 12 or­ HUGE ORE ON The "Sydney Maru," which was and then were scooped back un disaster commute-: was formed. dered a Greek ship, the 949-ton CALIFORNIAN contacted by radio, was the only 'QUAKE AT AUCKLAND. harmed when the freighter National guardsmen, firemen, po­ "Parnon," which was detained at WATERFRONT. ship in the vicinity. "Magnhild", to which they be lice and public .utility workers Port Said on September 2, to un­ Auckland rocked on the after­ A devastating fire destroyed longed, dipped into a huge wave. stood by to protect life and pro­ load her cargo of asphalt and Is­ noon of Sunday, October 18 in three huge warehouses on the CATTLE TRANSPORT BY perty. Winds drove along the rael • assembled motor vehicles. the strongest earthquake tremors ANNUAL SERVICE FOR Oaklands, California, waterfront SEA SUPPLANTS LAND coast at gale force and very heavy The "Parnon" was on her way the city had felt for 30 years. SEAFARERS. on the night of October 17. caus­ TRAVEL. rain fell. Ships and planes were from Haifa on Israel's West No great damage was caused. The annual service for seafar­ ing damage estimated at 12 mil­ The successful movement of rushed from all endangered ports Coast, through the Sue: Canal to The undulating motions lasted ers was held in St. Andrew'* lion dollars (£5,357,000). Mr. 2(id head of cattle by sea has and bases. Elath, Israel's port on the Gulf several seconds. The city felt Cathedral, Sydney, on the morn Robert Cooney, nwnci of Allied opened up a now era in the tran­ of Arkaba, and thence to Mom­ two distinct tremors. Auckland ing of Sunday, October 18. A Enterprises, said one of the ware sport and marketing of stock in FAROUK'S ROYAL YACHT. basa, East Africa. On September railway rocked noticeably. Hang­ spectacular scene marked its houses destroyed in the tire which Northern Queensland. The stock A report from Cairo on Sep' 9 Israel accused Egypt in a letter ing lights were set swinging, close. The bearers of more than his tirm owned contained food were brought in a converted Unit­ temper 8 said that nine Egyptian to the President of the United vases fell and doors rattled and 30 flags, moving in procession for Korea and other gin.ds for ed States wartime landing barge cronies of ex-king Farouk of Nations Security Council of a closed. from the chancel, where the flags American troops in the Pacific from the Princess Charlotte Bay had been placed during the ser­ areas worth Id million dollars. area on the Cape York Peninsula vice, suddenly halted. The flag*- The fire still smouldered through ti. Cairns in $6 hours. Normally were then lowered in salute while out the following day, although the overland droving trip, over FOR WORK- the choir and congregation sang 2(H) firemen, a lire-float and Coast some of the roughest country in the National Anthem. The ser­ Guard and auxiliary craft had Australia, takes four to five weeks. vice was conducted by the Dean bmught it under control. The The managing director of Marine FOR FUN Contractors Pty, Ltd., Mr. R. G. The Johnston, who initiated the ven­ •r A rtu f World's Bert ture, said that it was hoped JAMES PATRICK & CO. PTY. LTD. eventually to move 18,000 fat BRITISH tAfpULL Outboard SHIPOWNERS — AGENTS — CONTRACT c.ttt'c a. year by sea. Motor STEVEDORES THE i{-* H.P. MODEL THE MODEL 40 PLUS CHARTERS AND BUNKERS ARRANGED A GRIMM FEAT. For sturdincss, reliability and endur­ (illustrated) A message irom Hamburg, ance, the 40 lb. weight, 3f-4 HP. Send* 12 footer* scooting across the West Germany, on October 20 Seagull outboard ta unbeatable. Op­ water. 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PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS Admiral J. Hughes Hallett. C.B.. only son of Mr. and Mrs. Noble present commander of the Royal D.S.O. The appointment is to Black, of Neutral Bay. Australian Naval Air Station, H.M.A.S. "Albatross," at Nowra Always ask for . . . ADMIRAL DOWLING take effect in December, 1953, or ed from the Royal Australian DEATH OF WELL-KNOWN (N.S.W.). TO COMMAND Naval College to reach Flay rank. January, 1954. SHIPPING MAN. AUSTRALIAN FLEET. He was born at Condone.. Tweed NEW FLAG OFFICER, Mr. C. F. Marshall, Melbourne Cummandci W. B. M. Marks, River, New South Wales, in GIBRALTAR. manager of Burns, Philp fir Co. D.S.C., to be commander of The Minister for the Navy (the The appointment of Rear-Ad­ H.M.A.S "Albatross." He is at SHELLEY'S Hon Willum McMahon) in 19*11, and entered the College in Ltd., Australian shipping owners, 1915, where he was awarded the miral H. P Currcy, O.B.E.. as transport agents and big Pacitic present on special duty at Navy- Canberra on October -t confirmed Flag Officer, Gibraltar, and Ad­ Office th.it Rear-Admiral R R Dowl- King's Gold Medal a* "the cadet shippcrs and traders, died sudden­ FAMOUS DRINKS midshipman who. during his per­ miral Superintendent, H.M. Dock­ ly at his home in Burwood. a inc. (BE., D.S.O.. R.A.N.. had yard. Gibraltar, in succession to been appointed Flag Officer iod of training, exhibited the suburb of Melbourne, on Octob­ most gentleman-like bearing Rear Admiral St J. A. Mickle- er ::. H.M.S. "GLORY" Obtainable from leading Commanding the Australian ihw.ut. CB. D.S.O. The ap­ FKt among the cad.-t-inidshipmen." RETURNS HOME. In the Second World War he saw pointment dated from October. CHANGE IN shops and saloons. 195}. EXECUTIVES. After nearly two and a half Ri'.tr Admiral Dtmiing will service at sea :ii the Pacific. At­ years' service on the Mediterran­ GALLANTRY AWARDS. The Melbourne Steamship succeed Rear Adm.nl 1 W M lantic. Mediterranean and Nor ean and Far East stations, the air­ Eaton. CB. 11 SO, D.S.C. wcglan waters. The George Medal has been Company made some changes R.N. who has been on loan among its executives recently. craft carrier "Glory" has return­ SHELLEY I SONS awarded posthumously to the ed to the United Kingdom. from the Royal Navy since Oc- For his services in command of radio officer of the "Princess Vic­ Mr. J. C. Kenley, the company's CORDIAL FACTORY totvr. 19*1. H.M.A.S "Hobart," he was toria, which sank off' the Irish Melbourne manager, retired on The "Glory" (Captain E. D. awarded the D.S.O. "for out­ G. Lcwin, D.S.O, D.S.C., R.N.) Re.ir Admiral Howling is at coast on January 31, with the September JO, and the Sydney FTY. LTD. standing courage, skill, initiative, went to the Mediterranean Sta­ present attending the Imperial loss of 133 lives. The citation to manager, Mr. H L Morgan, suc­ when his ship tor seven months tion in July, 1951, and from College in London. the award, announced on Octob­ ceeded him. Mr. A. S. W. John­ MURRAY STREET, covered the bombardments of •here was sent to the Far East, He will arrive Kick in Sydney er 6 in the "London Gasette" son, manager at Newcastle, suc­ MARRICKVILLE, Tarakan. Wewak. Labuan, Balik- said: "David Broadfoot, deliber­ ceeded Mr. Morgan at Sydney, where she carried out several on December !'> three days be­ papan, and attacks on Lingaycn tours of duty in the Korean war N.S.W. fore Rear Admiral Eaton leaves ately sacrificed his own life in an and Mr. A. E. Hosken, manager Gulf, Aitape and Wewak." He attempt to save others." The at Dcvonport, Tasmania, became zone. In addition to her company on his return to the United King­ received the C.B.E. :n the New of over 1,000 officers and men the 'Phones: LA 2431, LA 5461. dom. award of the M.B.E. to four cap­ manager at Newcastle. Mr. A. Year's Honours List in 1953. tains whose ships went to the as­ L. Shepherd, of Newcastle, be­ "Glory" also had on board a small In 1948 he was appointed Com­ sistance of the "Princess Vic­ came manager at Devonport, number of officers and ratings re­ Tasmania. turning from Hong Kong and manding Officer of H.M.A.S toria," despite almost overwhelm­ NEW REGULATIONS AT "Sydney," Australia's first air­ ing seas, and the British Empire Singapore. One unusual passeng­ NEW R.A.N. craft-carrier, and brought her out Medal to the coxswains of two er, a Malayan bear, was brought N.S.W. PORTS. APPOINTMENTS. to Australia from England. Dur­ lifeboats. Radio Officer Broad- to the London Zoo and was dis­ New by-laws governing the ing his command of this ship, toot sent 54 messages at an aver­ New appointments for officers embarked at Portsmouth. handling at New South Wales in ships and establishments of the ports of inflammable liquid, dang­ 3,000 deck landings were made on age rate of one every' five min­ In December last one of the Royal Australian Navy were an­ erous goods, and any liquid de­ "Sydney's" flight deck without utes throughout the time the "Glory's" air pilots made the nounced by the Minister for the rived from petroleum, shale, or serious mishap. "Princess Victoria" was in diffi­ 10,000th deck landing in the car­ Navy (the Hon. William Mc­ coal came into force in October. culties until she turned turtle. rier since leaving the United NEW C.-IN-C, BRITISH Mahon) on October 22. They Before a vessel enters a port, WEDDING ARCH OF are as follow: Kingdom. Six thousand of these HOME FLEET. landings had been made follow­ notice must be given to the har­ SWORDS. Captain T. K. Morrison, O.B. ing operational flights. In May bour authority about the nature The British Admiralty has an­ A Naval Guard of Honour was E., D.S.C., of Melbourne, to com­ of this year she completed the of any inflammable liquid or dan­ nounced the appointment of Ad­ formed outside North Shore mand the frigate "Quadrant" longest period of naval air oper­ gerous goods carried, warning miral Sir Michael M. Denny, (Church of England) School from February 4, 1954, and to be ations by any British Common­ flags or lights must be exhibited K.C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., as Com- Chapel, when Miss Margaret captain of the First Frigate Squad­ wealth carrier in the Korean cam­ on the vessel and special safety mander-in-Chief, Home Fleet, in Bagot was married to Lieutenant- ron. Captain Morrison is a: pres­ paign. On one day at Easter the measures must be taken while the succession to Admiral Sir George Commander Alexander Black. ent Deputy-Chief of Naval Per­ pilots of her air squadrons flew vessel is within the port. E. Creasy. G. C. B.. C. B. E., R.A.N., Flag-Lieutenant to Rear- sonnel and Director of Personal Rear Admiral Powhng. an Aus­ 123 operational sorties over North D.S.O., M.V.O. The appoint­ Admiral J. W. M. Eaton, Rag Services at Navy Office. Precautions must be taken to tralian by hinh, has had a varied ment will date from January, Korea, equalling the record set and distinguished career. Officer Commanding the Royal Commander R. I. Peek, O.B.E.. prevent fires on board and explo­ 1954. Australian Navy. The bride is up by H.M.S. "Ocean" last year. sions as well as precautions that From 1950 to 1952 he was Sec­ D.S.C., to be Deputy-Chief of the only daughter of Mr. E. M. Naval Personnel and Director of When she arrived at Ports­ will enable a vessel to be moved ond Naval Member of the Aus­ NEW APPOINTMENT Bagot. house-master of the speedily. tralian Naval Board. His senior TO ADMIRAL COUCHMAN. Personal Services from February mouth, H.M.S. "Glory" had school's Hodges House. The 2, 1954. He is at present com­ steamed well over 160,000 miles In conjunction with regula­ ity as .: Rear-Admiral dates from The British Adnvralty has an­ Commanding Officer of H.M.A.S. the Sth July. 1955. mander of Flinders Naval Depot since she was last in home waters. tions promulgated by the explo­ nounced the appointment of Rear- "Hawkcsbury," Lieutenant-Com­ at Crib Point (Victoria). During overseas service her air­ sives section of the Department The Minister for the Navy (th.- Admiral W. T. Couchman, C.V mander Serivenor, and Lieutenant- Commander G. J. S. Crabb, craft made more than 12,500 of Mines, action is being taken Hon. William McMahon) said O, D.S.O., O.B.E.. as Flag Offi­ Commander J. R. Stevenson, who D.S.C., to be commander of flights, including over 8,500 in about the use of oil pipe lines and that Rear Admiral Dowhng was cer Heavy Squadron, British :s in H.M.A.S. "Sydney," attend­ Flinders Naval Depot. He is at Korean waters. hoses. the th-rd officer who had graduat- Home Fleet, in succession to Vicc- ed the bridgegroom, who is the a 7a* Navy as *1 y^agpi.i*

• own gold. The wreck was first with 34 ships of five different na­ SEA-ODDITIES located in April, 1922, when she tionalise- under the supreme H.i\inc in tht* end been refus* him a hook on the subject about batross* came in 19? 1 -from the was found, broken in three pieces, command of the Commander-in- ed admission to Brazil (sec the »i\ months ago. "I decided," he Br tish survey ship "Challenger,*" lying on her side 20 fathoms • Chief, Allied Forces, Mediterran­ AUttTAYLM S^ii'mK-r issue of thi- journal), said, "after Hading the hook t< near the island of Guam. down, JO miles from the coast. ean, Admiral the Earl Mountbat- 'the man without .1 country," try growing vegetables: in the However, none of the salvage con­ ten of Burma, K.G., etc. I CO. LTD. Michael Patrick O'Brien. ?7. h..s ship Gardening authorities in cerns which have worked on th-* !t teems now that the fantastic Squadron.- of Turkish, Greek, received permission i<< live in the Sydney said I was mad But I wreck have failed to find the gold. Italian, American, and British Republic of Dominica, Central im proud to say that. aft.T five prehistoric monster" washed up Here, then, is a first class mystery ships were engaged for 10 days America O'Brien i> *,od to he months work on my little garden on West Scodand'i Girvan heach of the sea. Sir Robert H. Davis, TIMBfR on sweeping mines of all types < *:. .1 the mysteries oi (he post- the tomatoes, celery, cucumbers, recently see the October issue who tells the story in his fascinat­ laid by air, sea, and submarines. v •: period. He claims to be and radish plant1* will hold their • f this journal proved to be only ing book "Deep-Diving and Sub­ MfftCHaNTS a basking shark, after all. Trip­ marine Operations," asks, with American horn, hut the United own with anything grown on This exercise, named Dragex per* went to Girvan in their good reason: is, then, the whole St.tti • State Department ret'ovs land. Mr Parish explained thai III., was organised by the staff of thousands, and the local villages! thing, so far as the gold is con­ : re ionise him. For nearlv i vegetables grown by hydroponics the Commander, Eastern Mediter­ 1 began reaping a -rich haevesi sell­ cerned, a myth? Or does year he travelled Kick and tort : needed no soil or watering, Every ranean, and was under the over­ ing* so-called souvenirs of "the 22,000,000 worth of the precious between Hum; Kong and Mae. day he soaks a chemical solution all direction of the Commander, Plesiosaurus." as one local auth­ metal still lie somewhere within in the British terry steamer "Lv through th: beds. He catches Mediterranean East, Admiral P. H' ne. " Origin lly he earn, to the solution and feeds it Kick ority called It, thus claiming it to the battered remains of the "Tu­ bantia"? Lappas, an allied area commander Hon}! Kong from Shanghai, hut again through the plant roots the be a surviving relic of a marine of the Commander-in-Chief Al­ COMMERCIAL ROAD because he hid no passport nefth foil, .wine: day. Mr. Parish said reptile that geologists believe be­ lied Forces, Mediterranean. er tbt Hong Kong nor Kvtuguese he was sure o| getting a good crop came extinct millions of years MINESWEEPING authorities a' Macao would allow of fresh vegetables, but estimates ago. The basking shark is a The force was under the oper­ EXERCISE IN hrm to hnd. Alter being promts* that because of the costly equip­ harmless monster, growing up to ational control of Captain D. H. ROZELLE. N.S.W. GREEK WATERS. rj asylum by Brazil, he eventually ment and chemicals, his first to 4

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SPEAKING OF SHIPS EXPLOSION WRECKS US. CARRIER Heavy casualties occurred tanks of liquid split open. Blind­ ter of its kind the United States Liberty-type tinkers, it is re shipbuilders in the first six in Krupps js constructing a £60,- when an explosion wrecked the ing smoke and intense heat faced has suffered in peacetime since ported, are heme; laid up in in­ the world's list of output in 1952. 000.000 steel mill with the indus­ United States aircraft - earner civilian and naval firemen going June 12, 1924, when 48 were kill­ creasing numbers as heini* too in- trial combines of Demag and "Leyte" in the South Boston below the fourth deck. ed ;:board the battleship "Mis­ efficient ti> he run at current oil Kloeckner in India, and helping naval shipyard annexe on Octob­ The commander of the "Leyte" sissippi," off the California!! coast. freight rates. Mr. Sydney Lane, director of the Brush Group, a combine of to build a cement works 300 miles er 16. At least J3 men were kill­ (Captain Thomas Ahroom), who The "Leyte" was launched in four British electrical manufac­ south of Bombay. ed and 40 injured. The "Leyte" had been in command of the ship August, 1945, and commissioned Tru chairman t>f the Institute turing companies, has negotiated was in dry dock being overhaul­ only a month, said the first explo­ in 1946. oi London Underwriters has stat­ a trade deal with Moscow worth Krupps has agreed to provide ed after service in the Korean war sion sounded like "a dull rumble, (A message from New York ed that IK can sec no immediate more than £t,000,000. Subject consultant engineers for the Pak­ and in the Mediterranean. like a subway train going on October 20 said that the Unit­ prospect ot a reduction in repair to export licences being granted istan Government to undertake a The disaster began with an ex­ through." He said that flame ed States Navy had announced c<>*ts. which govern marine in by the Board of Trade, the group thorough survey of all produc­ plosion, the cause of which, at and smoke travelled through the that a mechanical failure had suraiKv rates will supply Russia with Oiesel- tion possibilities in building a siz­ time of writing, is not known. forward part of the ship so fast caused the explosion aboard the flectric generating sets, trans­ able steel industry. Krupps will The carrier caught fire and her that he had to leave his cabin "Leyte." Apparently .;6 men I he Ti>kio correspondent of formers, and other electrieal plant. build a pilot steel plant with a boilers blew up. through the porthole. He climb­ were killed. Vice-Admiral John the London "Financial Times" yearly production of about 20,000 A series of blasts followed the ed a ladder up the ship's side to Ballantine said that fluid in a hy­ said on October I '• that Japan's tons of steel. first explosion. For hours after­ the hangar deck and then went draulic catapult mechanism had Pn >p« tsed plans U>r the new sterling reserves are dwindling wards, flames licked the decks and below to direct rescue operations. leaked out and ignited. Cause of Widnes Runcorn Susp e n s ion very rapidly* and that, according Krupps is to ship machinery, whipped through 'he passage­ He estimated that 1,400 men were the leak and source of the spark Bridge is receiving th-.- considera­ to the Japanese Minister for heavy lorries, and locomotives to ways, sleeping u,u. iters, ward­ aboard the "Leyte" when the ex­ were not known. Captain Thomas tion of the British Ministry' of Trade (Mr. Okana), thev were Egypt, and has an important share room and brig. plosion occurred. Ahroom, commander of the "Ley­ Tr.

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by the author. Because much of ROYAL GREENICH the Nautical Almanac Office and GIANT UNER TUGGED the book is the result of the auth­ OBSERVATORY TRANSFER. the Observatory and Chrononv FROM SANDBANK. or's own efforts, many of the in­ The first stage of the transfer eter Workshops are in hand. Ul­ cidents described are appearing of the Royal Greenich Observa­ timately too, a small block of Ser­ Six tugs on September 8 pulled in print for the first time any­ tory from Greenich, to Herstmon- vice buildings, including a works the f 1,800-ton liner "Liberte" off where in the world. Although ceux Crfstle in Sussex, has been pound and boiler house, will be a sandbank half a mile outside the book is primarily the story of completed. erected, and the huts, erected the French Channel port of Le one ship which was fortunate near the Castle during World Havre, which the liner struck on This consisted of the adapta­ Spearheads of Invasion, by Lieu- 1943-43 to the surrender of Jap enough to be in the centre of his­ War II., will be removed. its way to Southampton during tion of the Castle and the con­ tenant Commander W. N. an, told by th- Control Officer ol tory-making events, it covers the The decision to move the Royal the afternoon ot that day. The struction of the Solar building Swan, R.A.N, published by i Landing Ship Infantry, H.M whole canvas of the Allied ad­ Observatory from Greenich was "Liberte." France's largest liner, and spectroheliograph cellar. Angus and Robertson, Sydney. A.S "Westralia." vances from the first tentative made shortly after the end of is the former German liner Provision has been made for ad­ Thi> is the rirst complete, eye- thrust at Arawe to the dramatic World War II. and preparations " Europa,"" which once held the The author, Lieutenant - Com ministrative offices, library, instru­ witness account ot the seven most landing by the Australian Seventh for the transfer have been in pro­ Trans.itl.mtic Blue Riband. She mander Swan, who was "Westra ment rooms, records rtxims, hostel important invasions carried out by Division at Balikpapan for the gress since then was carrying 1.075 passengers. ha's" First Lieutenant from Feb accommodation and residence for the Allies in the South-West Paci­ last invasion ot the global war. ruary, 1943, to August. 1941 the Astronomer Royal. fic during World War II The perched in the ship's control po The publishers. Angus and The sect >nd sta tie of the general public knew ot these op­ -ition w.is able to see .til that hap Robertson, are to be compliment­ scheme comprises the construction When ships of the Nenry erations by medium »-t official pened at those historic landings ed on sponsoring such an epic of the Meridian Group of build­ communiques and "hand outs": Years of research went into the "heave te" this rape documentary lor the benefit of ings to house a Berks of tele­ but. quite often, il! they were told wealth of detail in the book and holds fast! people the world over, and this scopes, including the Greenich was th..t i landing hid been car hardly an incident ot note at the result of a six year spare time Reversible Transit Circle, the ried out .tnd < beachhead estab­ Arawe. Hollandta, Panaon (Ley hobby" 'on the part of the auth Bamberg Broken Transit .tnd the lished Here, .ft last, is the whole te i. Lmgayen, Tarakan. Labuan or should become a proud text­ Melbourne Reversible Transit story in detail, from the initial and Baltkpapan landings is omit book tor British people and a les­ Circle, all ot which are to be training periods in Australia in ted; that is. incidents observed son for the future- J.J. transferred from Greenich. In addition, provision will be made in the Meridian. Group of buildings for a new mstrument- ANCHOR BRAND a Photographic Zenith Telescope. Ot the buildings in this group, that for the Greenich instrument will be completed shortly, while contracts have been let for the Photographic Zenith Telescope Building and the Bamberg Tele­ scope Building. The building to BEER is good house the electrical control gear for the photographic Zenith Tele­ scope has been completed. for you The Meteorological Enclosure to take rain gauges, thermometers.' wind gauges and sunshine record­ ers had been completed. Work is due to start shortly on the Equatorial Group, com­ prising six new observatory MAY WE WORK domes to house the existing JO inch and 36 inch reflecting tele­ WITH YOU ON YOUR scopes, the 2d inch and 28 inch refractors and astrographic tele­ STEEL ft TOOL PROBLEMS? scope. EAGLE'GLOBE In addition there will be a building in this group for the new- 23-37 BUCKLAND ST., BROADWAY, N.S.W. Schmidt camera telescope, to­ Telephone: MA6421 STEEL CO.LTD. gether with dark rooms and lab­ CARLTON AND UNITED MIWMIfS LIMITED Branches Throughout Australian Capital Cities oratories. Brtm-m i» Amslrmlu f«r 100 ytmrt. AuocuUd Company: ARTHUR BALFOUR ft COMPANY LTD.. Sheffield. Eng. Designs for a block of build ings for the Time Department.

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THE KOREAN ARMISTICE. from their beds or covered by Van Giao, Governor of the Cen­ EX-NAVAL MEN'S The Navy's Task Continues. falling debris when the first tral Vietnam, said on September The following message was re­ shock came. Eight shocks, lasting 26 that the death roll in Indo- ceived by the British Board of 28 seconds woke residents of Ni­ China might reach 2,000. In Admiralty from Her Majesty The cosia—the island capital—during Japan two major cities were Association Jf\ of Australia Queen and was signalled to the the night and caused a panic. floodswept and most of a third Commonwealth Fleet in the Far Most of the casualties and dam­ was inundated. About 7,000 East after the signing of the Kor­ age were in the south-eastern dis­ houses in the heavily-populated ean Armistice— Osaka-Bobe industrial area were Patron in Chief. Her Majesty The Queen, trict of Paphos. Some women "Please express to all serving screamed, "It's going to be like destroyed Thousands of acres in the Commonwealth Fleet Greece." More than 50,000 of paddy fields were washed away (Federal Council) Federal Secretary. bert. John Simmons and Harold my deep appreciation of the people were homeless following and main railway lines were cut The Association was represent­ t Kxr titty items have been W. Smith, of Melbourne; George splendid service they have the earthquakes. in more than a hundred places. ed by Luut. Commdr. V. A. ciimplied and printed on the next A. Schiffer, Mervyn G. Lemass, given throughout the fighting Hundreds of thousands of people Haines. M RE.. R.A.N. (Rtd.) Federal Conference A g e n d a Allan Bushman, Paul A. Camer­ m Korea. TYPHOONS SWEEP JAPAN were flooded out or rendered Senior Vice-President «•( N.S.W. Paper which has now reached the on. Eric W. Crooke. Albert D. (Signed) Elizabeth R." AND INDO-CHINA. homeless. American military in­ State Council, .it the unveiling «>t various State Secretaries and As­ Da nee y, Patrick J. Fahy, Frank B. Since the signing of the Arm­ Typhoons sweeping across In stallations suffered heavy damage the three War Memorials, situat­ sociation Councillors. Flint. Joseph Galea, Arthur E. istice, garrisons of islands in the do-China and Japan killed ,u and at Camp Otsu in central ed at Port Moresby. Lie and Ra Two nominations for the posi* Hocking, John F. Jackson, and demilitarised zone have been evac­ least 1,000 in its earliest onslaught Japan, the damage was estimated haul. His Excellency the Gov i.« n < 'f Federal President have David Kerr, of Brisbane. uated by ships of Commonwealth, at, the end of September. Phan at £89?,000. emor-General performed the un- been received bv Council, they Transfers have been effected United States, Netherlands and veiling ccr;monies, which were ar: Messrs. Harold E. Key. of for Messrs. James Fitzgerald, Republic of Korea Navies. hi IJ before very large representa­ Melbourne, and Herbert H. Han- Cecil R. Welch and Campbell G. Although ten days were allow­ tive gatherings, amongst whom by. oi Adelaide: both these of­ Houston, the first-named to ed for this operation, it was com­ were relatives of officers and men ficers are Past State Presidents oi Footseray and List two to Adel­ pleted in five days and five nights. JAMES McKEOWN, SONS PTY. LTD. who had tall-.n and had been bur their respective States, and each aide from Melbourne. Godfrey Large n umbers of troops and icd in the Territory of New has been a Delegate to Federal M. Gunn from Heidelberg to refugees, with their belongings, Guinea. Conference. Canterbur y-Bankstown and had been evacuated prior to the MANUFACTURERS OF THE FAMOUS Charles B. Stevenson to Gcelong Mr. J K. Stafford has tendered Amongst applicants who have Armistice. All movements were fn »m Melbourne. From Sydney his resignation from the office oi been admitted to membership dur­ accomplished without incident. were Messrs. William O. Earl to Hon. Federal Assistant Secretary. ing the past few weeks arc the Melbourne, Keith M. Levy to The terms of the Armistice al­ Bally 'M" Football Boots Federal Council will not fill the following names: Messrs. Brian Northern Suburbs (N.S.W.)' and low United Nations occupation vacancy owing to th: closeness of T La racy, of Essendon Sub-Sec­ George W. Moran to Canterbury- of certain islands north of the de­ AND the next election of all Federal tion: Hecti >r Brow ne and Alan Bankstown S.S. Allan J. Currey militarised zone, and at present Association offices: in the mean­ R. Go van, of Footseray: Cordon patrol* and mincsweeping activi­ time the duties will be combined has gone from St. George to Bon Bradman Cricket Boots I >. Cruiekshank. Iv it nJ Lau, Headquarters S.S. of N.S.W. ties are continuing off these is­ .;id .igam t.tkin over by the Hon Gordon D. Reid. Brian L. Shoo- lands, and coastal surface patrols GW.S. are taking place outside the three- mile limit. FLYING AIRCRAFT- CARRIER. AN AUSTRALIAN COMPANY Established 1862. The United States Air Force EARTHQUAKES IN TATTERSALL'S CYPRUS. FIRE, MARINE, MOTOR CAR has converted a 10-cngineJ B36 Passengers' Baggage, Pluvius, »^ The 5'. Cash Consultation — XI 0,000 atom-bomber into what is said to The series of earthquakes Householders' Comprehensive. r ^<^^"*^^ | First Prize. Drawn every few days. be a dying aircraft carrier. In which shook the Mediterranean All Risks, Burglary, An announcement released at island of Cyprus on September 10 Personal Accident, Washington recently it was claim- \ TASMANIA J and killed more than 20 people, in­ And all other eJ rhat the bomber can launch jured more than 100, and flatten­ Classes of and retrieve a jet fighter aircraft The 10/- Cash Consultation — £25.000 ed at least 500 houses. The vil­ Insce. in flight. The bomber has been lage* of Djidassi and Stroumbi First Prize. Drawn every few weeks. modified to carry a new swept- rocked heavily. The shocks wing F84F jet fighter in the spread devastation and terror bomb-lay. The tighter is capable among south coast residents in of carrying an A-bomb at more and around Limassol, second larg­ POSTAGE ON TICKETS AND RESULTS TO BE ADDED George ft Hunter Sts., than 600 m.p.h. The announce­ est town on Cyprus. Rubble Sydney. The Address . . . ment pointed out that the com­ choked the streets of Platres and bined range of both aircraft Trodos. One report said that the With branches throughout 'TATTERSALL" GEO. ADAMS HOBART makes the new weapon a formid­ earthquake crumbled four vil­ Australia ft New Zealand. able aggressive striking force. lages. Many people were tossed

30 Tto Mavy Nwimbir, 195!. LONDON-CHRIS TCHURCH W. D. Kerr as navigator. Time, rNCtNIEM AND OHT'HITIIM 24 hrs. J2 mins. 1.9 sees. For aO tnquiric* pl«u* Nud OM -e t Works, fUfints Park. US*. •ranch OW<»» and Aqanciat tn all Statot. The third place was won by an Phon. FJ M29. R.A.F. Canberra let bomber pilot­ ed by Flight-Lieutenant R. M. Fur;c, with Flight-Lieutenant J. W. Harper as navigator. Time, Z-i hrs. ?4 mins. 9.9 sees. ORDER FORM COCKATOO DOCKS The transport section was won i ENGINEERING by the Dutch K.L.M. Douglas To "THE NAVY," Littm.tster captained by Captain ROYAL EXCHANGE CO. PTY. LTD. H. A. (Cooper. Although she was BUILDING, the last to finish in the race and BRIDGE ST., SYDNEY. • reached Christchurch practically nine hours behind the British Contractor! to . . turbo-jet Viscount, the Dutch • Please register ipy subsenp- r tion to "The Navy." The H.M. AUSTRALIAN NAVY plane won the race on handicaps. Carrying 59 Dutch immigrants to rate is 18/- per 12 issues S^'D-builder!, New Zealand, the Lir'tniastcr took post free in the British Marine 49 hours '7 minutes 1? seconds Empire. I send Postal Note/ for the cross the world (light, Cheque/Money Order for Several Engineers. which the Viscount completed in a record 40 hours 49 minutes. InqinriM Invitad. (Add exchange where applicable) An interesting feature of the Tasman crossing stage of the race Commencing from: were th-: navigational and safety COCKATOO ISLAND precaution facilities provided by the R.A.N, aircraft carrier "Ven­ Name SYDNEY geance." The navigational facili­ Address.. ties which "Vengeance" was able Q REPRESENTING THE GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. LTD OF EN6LAND Phone: WB 1941 to provide enabled h:r to main­ (10 lin*«) tain contact with the competitors over the Tasman within a range Date... Sydaay Nawcattla Metbonrnt Ad«iaid» IritlMM Perth Hobart laaa casta* Towatvlila

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portumties for other people to have sport and ex­ which may not have been so apparent to the lay ercise. He is the President ot" the British National mind in the purely tactical operations which had Playing Fields Association, the primary object of taken place in the broad waters of the Atlantic. "'NAVY which is to foster and develop playing fields. Australia's Maritime Journal In this capacity, the Duke will no doubt he THE NELSON TRADITION: IMPORTANCE . interested in Australian playing fields, although OF NAVAL POWER IN THE ATOM AGE. the strict time table of the Royal Tour will prob­ ably prevent him from inspecting very many of The traditions of efficiency and decisive action them. It would be interesting, however, if he inherent in Lord Nelson's great victory off Cape could perform the opening ceremony for one of Trafalgar on October 21, 180i, were commemorat­ them. More than once he has said: "'I will gladly ed with customary ceremony in London and go anywhere to open a playing Held." throughout the Commonwealth in October last. In his love of cricket, the Duke particularly The British First Sea Lord. Admiral of the will appeal to Australians. The cricket season will Fleet vSir Rhoderick McGrigor, G.C.B., D.S.O., be on while the Royal couple are in Australia, and speaking from the plinth of Nelson's Column in ivi doubt writers and speakers will recall such Trafalgar Square, London, said that we of this things as the fact that he was cricket captain ot generation could recapture something of the spirit his school, Gordonstoun, in Scotland. of Nelson's times, for those who had served at sea knew the hardships and dangers of a long- N.A.T.O.'s EXERCISE "MARINER" drawn-out campaign which led to final victory. An outstanding tribute to the spirit of Nelson's Exercise "Manner," the big international mari­ times and the application of Naval power in the time exercise in the Atlantic and Western Euro­ modern world was paid in a leading article in the pean waters, drew to a close towards the end of London "Evening News." September. Some of the romance may have gone out of the As a prelude to the operation carried out by Naval tradition, but that in itself might not be a some JOO ships and more than 1,000 aircraft dur­ bad thing, wrote the leader-writer. "The end of ing the 19 days of the exercise. Admiral Lynde sail has meant the end of a hazy romantic notion D. McCormick, the U.S. Supreme Allied Com­ of men battling with taut canvas in furiously whin­ mander Atlantic, gave a Press conference in New ing storms, which was played up by the authors of wealth ot Nations. DECEMBER. 1953. York during which he outlined the plans for the boys* stories throughout the last hundred years. The Queen is not tall or strongly built, but she exercise, saying that the main object was to secure "Romance is not always reality. The haze of maintains excellent health. When she comes to THOUGHT FOR THE QUEEN. the maximum training of N.A.T.O. forces. adulation has lifted now and hangs round jet- Australia, her beautiful skin and complexion will The exercise began when sea forces of the Unit­ "planes and supersonic speeds and the sound bar­ strike those who have not previously seen her in When the Governor-General, Sir William Slim, ed States and Canada sailed from their East Coast rier. But still the Royal Navy maintains its cease­ the flesh. No photograph does real justice cither ports and carried out various tactical and pre-ar­ less patrol of the water round these shores. It said in Perth recently that Queen Elizabeth was to them or to her petite daintiness. willing and fairly strong, he was speaking from ranged training manoeuvres in Northern waters may be that Jutland saw the last of naval warfare personal knowledge. But the point that he was as they proceeded to join up with units from the on the old pattern. Tactics have changed, though making was that we should not overstrain Her THE OTHER ROYAL VISITOR. United Kingdom and other European N.A.T.O. the basic strategy has not. Air power has added Majesty when she come to visit us in Australia nations. dimension to defence: but the fact remains that next year. As these forces approached Western European whoever holds command of the waters round these Although most attention will be devoted to Her waters, ships of the- British Home Fleet under the islands holds the key to their satety, security, and She will he with us from Wednesday, Jrd Feb Majesty the Queen when she comes to visit us ruary. to Thursday. 1st April, and durum that command of Admiral Sir George E. Creasy, G.C. prosperity. next year, because she is the symbol ot our unity B., C.B.E., D.S.O., M.V.O. (acting in his N.A. "The hydrogen bomb and the atom bomb are period she will have a ijre.it deal to J-• and many within the British Commonwealth of Nations, thousands of miles to travel. Hundreds of thous T.O. capacity as Commander-in-Chief Eastern At­ devastating and crippling weapons, but though there will be a place in our hearts for her husband, lantic and exercising his command of operations they can destroy sources of supply, they cannot ands of Australians will see her and greet her. Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. It is to he hoped that her welfare will not suffer within the area from shore-based headquarters at cut off trade routes, maritime communications and through any excess of our enthusiasm. We <,in welcome him back as an old friend, for Northwood, Middlesex), sailed from Invergordon the slow, relentless business of the sea. Even in Sir William Slims reference to h.r being will he visited Australia as a naval first lieutenant in a North-West to join up. At this point in the exer­ the last war, when so many techniques of war­ mg and fairly Strom: will he endorsed by anybody destroyer during the 1939-45 war. His ship- cise an important phase within the N.A.T.O. com­ fare changed utterly within a matter of months, who has been close to Her Majesty. She takes H.M.S. "Whelp"' -was m the British Common­ mand of the Channel and Southern North Sea, the Royal Navy maintained its defenct «f these her duties very seriously, and approaches them wealth Pacific Fleet, and in her he was also present and the British Home Command, began. shores, keeping supply lanes open in convoy after with a moral and spiritual strength surprising in at the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay on 2nd This phase was on a scale larger than any post- convoy . . . such a young and happy woman. The references September, 194'. to ar exercise in British home waters and apart "The Navy cannot be neglected. It is not out which she has made on several occasions to dedi­ We can also welcome him as a sportsman. This from the immediate threat to the sea and land dated: it has not outgrown its use or its pur­ cating her life to our service were made with will not only be because he has played a great communications o\ the United Kingdom and Con­ pose . . . Whatever changes atom bombs may heartfelt sincerity, and she realises the importance d.'al of sport himself. He is a cricketer, a yachts­ tinental countries which it presupposed, the em­ wreak they have not changed the geography which of the place that she fills as the only concrete sym­ man, a motorist and a player of polo. But, in ad­ ployment of modern weapons and tactics in the for many centuries has determined the vital role bol that binds together the great British Common dition, one of his main interests is providing op- narrow seas brought to the exercise a realism the Navy must perform to ensure Britain's safety."

THE NAVY D«c«mb«r, 1953. < 5 * Insulating the arteries MORE MEN ARE NEEDED IN THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY of industry... The Royal Australian Navy ur­ Flinders Naval Depot at Crib establishment he will receive dn gently needs more men for some Point (Victoria) and will after­ allowance for living out. of its branches. It particularly wards enter the modern Commun­ During his period of service he Ashore t needs radio operators, known in ications School there. will be given generous annual Stat* Electricity Commiuion. the Navy as telegraphists. But it At the end of his training he leave and will be entitled to free Imperial Chemical Industries A.N.Z. also needs seamen who will he will go to sea in one of the ships medical and dental attention. On Australian Gas Light Co. specially trained in radar-air and of the Fleet and will immediately his retirement, provided he has Australian Iron and Steal Ltd. radar-surface track plotting, gun­ begin putting into practice, under served for the necessary length of Stewarts and Lloyds. nery control, the use of under' Thompsons (Caitlemaine). real serv ce and operational con­ time, he will receive a pension, Department of Railways- water weapons and equipment, ditions, the things which, until and for shorter periods, a grat­ Waterside Cold Stores. and so on. ratings who will He then, have been, for him, only uity. Streets Ice Cream. taught to operate and maintain matters of theory All the advantages and benefits Nuffield (Aust.) Ltd. electrical equipment and skilled Vacuum Oil Coy. He will find himself talking by just referred to are enjoyed by all tradesmen of many kinds. means of his telegraph-key to ratings in all branches. It has vacancies, as well, for other ships and shore-establish­ Irrespective of the branch that Afloat ! nival airmen, writers, cooks and ments that might be hundreds, he may wish to join, every man stewards and sick Henri attend­ and, possibly, thousands of miles who enters the Royal Australian Cockatoo Docks and engineering C ants. away, and will realise, more vivid­ Navy begins his service at Flind­ Adelaide Steam Ship Co. The pressing need of telegraph­ James Patrick and Co. ?ty. Ltd. ly than he has ever done before, ers Naval Depot, Crib Point (Vic­ Mcllwr.ith McEechem Ltd. ists has. to some extent. Heen that, in this modem age, in which toria). With two exceptions the Huddart Parker Ltd. brought about by the rapid ex­ so many ot Nature's secrets have ages at which men may enlist P and O. Steam Navigation Co. pansion of the R.A.N, since the been laid bare, space and distance range from 17 to 26. For naval Department of the Navy end of the Second World War City Line W. G. Deuchar end Co. I have virtually been abolished. He airmen they range from 17 to 24 A U.S.N. Co. Ltd. and the establishment in it of a might also find himself sepeating and foi tradesmen from 18 to 28. Newcastle and Hunter River Fleet Air Arm: for the Navy his admiral's or captain's orders Steamship Co. Ltd. now has to maintain a much- by voice through a microphone to Having entered the Depot, a AND HUNDREDS OF OTHERS. more - widely - spread system of ships in company, orders of such recruit undergoes disciplinary communications than it did form­ significance that an error in repe­ training for six months and is PHONE BW2373 AND WE WILL SEND AN EXPERT ENGINEER TO •Jf H.M.A.S. " Arunta " on her erly. 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Swallow, M.A. position in the Pacific Ocean only • { *0 miles from that in which the Board's invitation, and can fulfil Tradesmen required by the In addition, bottom samplers «>ld "Challenger" obtained her the requirements of commissioned R.A.N, at present are qualified wcr: used for the investigation of deepest sounding of 4,47^ fath rank, he will be appointed for a titters and turners, titters and m.t the tirst two feet or so of the sea oms The older ship used rope minimum period of seven years, chinists, electrical titters, electrical floor. Regular observations were .iiid sinker while the present ship and may, at the end of that term, mechanics, instrument makers. made of sea temperatures, mag* uses methods employing sound apply for an extension of four shipwrights and hn.it builders. netic variation, plankton and bird waves produced by eeho-s. lundcrs years. At any time after he has It is obvious that the Navy has life. The ship was most fortunate

THE NAVY Oocombor, 1953. t . the medical board they have them Probationary naval airmen SOME EPICS OF TREASURE SALVAGE is paid .* gratuity of £550, Hut if selected for observer training usu§ he remains in the service tor 11 to undergo tests to prove per­ sonal qualities and flying aptitude: ally go direct to the United King­ Marine salvage is a fascinating force of wind from the South­ of the value salved, and, amaz­ years the cratuity is increased to dom immediately after they have aspect of deep-sea work, demand­ ward fetched a nasty sea down. ingly enough, there were no ac­ £*J0. To become eligible tor the and if they succeed in the tests they are entered as recruit naval completed their pre-flight training ing a high degree of skill, know­ Evidently, diving could only be cidents to life or limb. gratuity he must, in either in­ course at Arehcrfield. They arc ledge and courage, coupled with done from a fairly large and sea­ stance, transfer to the reserve list. airman (pilot or observer). Al­ The "Egypt's" Gold. though candidates' wishes arc awarded their wings and promot­ great ingenuity and mental alert­ worthy vessel kept in accurate Candidates for entry as pilots position over the wreck ..." Another great epic of marine carefully considered, the Naval ed acting sub-lieutenants with ness. It therefore has an import­ or observers under the short-ser­ ant place in maritime history. From first to last the operations salvage was the recovery from BVvrd decides whether they shall seven-year short-service commi*-„ vice system must, of course, be of sions after about nine months' Of epics of treasure salvage were under the command of a re­ the wreck of the "Egypt" of more high physic.il standard and must he allocated to pilot m observer tired naval officer. Captain G. C. than a million pounds' worth of duties further training. there is no end. The truth is have reached what might be gen that it is not merely in their C. Damant, C.B.E., R.N. (retir­ gold and silver. It was on a dead crally called the intermediate B.-th pilots and observers arc ed). calm evening in May, 1922,' that Recruit naval airmen .ire first achievements—as such—that the standard in education, with passes confirmed in the rank of sub-lieu­ salvage experts fulfil themselves. the P. 6? O. liner "Egypt," of given three months' genera] naval tenant after they have served m The first diver found the "Lau­ 8,000 tons, when steaming m at least four subjects, including training at Flinders Naval Depot. In their unspectacular but unnum­ English and mathematics. the acting rank for 1- month*. rentic" lying on her port bilge through a thick fog, outward Crib Point, Victoria. On comple­ bered material successes they with her masts about 60 degrees They must have gained certi­ Th.n. depending upon the results bound from London to Bombay, tion of the course they arc rated wrest from the sea many secrets from the vertical, so that it was ficates in one vi the underimn obtained in examinations, they K and great wealth. went down. After colliding with probationary naval airmen. Those come lieutenants within further practically impossible to stand on the French cargo steamer "Seine," tion;d public examinations — selected as pilots do 14 months' periods ranging from 10 month* The "Laurentic's" 3 Million her deck at all. However, after which struck her a glancing blow- living training with the Royal Bullion Pile Recovered. further investigations had been on the port-side, a little aft of Queensland: Junior. Australian Air Force at Archer to .i year. It is at any time after that, that they may be offered per­ made, final moorings taken up, amidships, she sank in about 20 New South Wales: Intermed­ field (Q'ld). Uranquintv Undoubtedly the greatest epic and a barred iron gate across the manent commissions. in treasure salvage was the re­ minutes, with a loss of ninety-six iate. (NSW ) and Point Cook (Vic.) passage leading to the strong­ live*. Naval Recruiting Officer* in covery of five million pounds room blown off its hinges by gun- Victoria: Intermediate or in the capital cities will be pleased worth of gold from the wreck of cotton charges, diver E. C. Miller The operations on the "Egypt" termediate technical. At the end of that training they are awarded their wings, to give any further information the White Star liner "Laurentic". reached the steel door of the are splendidly described by David It was not only epically great in South Australia: Intermediate promoted to the rank of acting that may be desired cither person strong-room. Opening it with Scott, special correspondent of the matter of the monetary value tradces school or area school. sublieutenant and given short ally or by letter. Eligible young hammer and chisel he slid down "The Times," London, in his book men arc strongly advised to get of the treasure recovered, but it on to a great pile of bullion boxes "Seventy Fathoms Deep," publish Tasmania: School Board, jun­ short-service commissions of was also, considering the depth at seven years. Usually they then in touch with them. weighing 140 lb. and worth about ed by Faber 6r Faber, London. ior technical or higher area which the wreck lay. the exposed leave Australia to do special naval £8,000 apiece. They were awk­ The book provides one of the school. position in which it was lying, ward loads for one diver to handle finest stories of human endeavour flying with the Royal Navy in and, during a great part of the England, Scotland and Ireland. up a sloping slippery passage and and persistence in face of difficul­ Western Australia: Junior. UJV WARNED ON time engaged, the very real dang­ ties and dangers ever written. On returning to Australia they round various corners which pre­ If candidates with the neces­ WHITE AUSTRALIA er from gales, enemy mines and vented much help being given The long search to locate the sary educational qualifications pass arc appointed to their squadrons. action, a triumphal demonstration POLICY. from above. The diver neverthe­ "Egypt": the operations on the of the salvor's skill. Sir Robert less got one of the boxes out that wreck when at last she was The I'nitcd Nations was toid H. Davis tells the story in his night and three more next morn­ found; the work of the divers VESSELS BUILT, SLIPPED AND SERVICED. on October 27 that Austral-... monumental and fascinating book ing. during several seasons: the divers would not tolerate any outside in­ "Deep Diving and Submarine Op­ themselves—fine fellows whose DIESEL, MARINE AND GENERAL ENGINEERING. terference with her White Austra­ erations." Reduced to a few- On the face of it the job now personalities and work Mr. Scott RIGGERS AND SHIPWRIGHTS. lia policy or in "other intern..! words the story reads: seemed to be easy. With ordinary describes so well: the tragedy of luck a few weeks should have the blowing up of their salvage All CJUMCS of repairs and conversion work rswriad out. matters." This announcement war "During the First World War seen the end of it; as a matter ship, the "Artiglio," when engag made by Mr. W. Forsythe, the the 13,000-ton liner was .taken MAJUNE INSTALLATIONS. MODERN SUPWAY AVAILABLE of fact, it was going to last seven ed, during the winter of 1930, in Australian delegate to the com­ over by the (British) Admiralty FOR ALL TYPES OF CRAFT. years. With the fourth box up the work of removal, by blasting, mittee which is studying India* and converted into an armed gales blew hard and often, the of the wreck of the "Florence." complaints against South Africa. cruiser. Early in 1917 she ship­ wreck began to break up and a ship, laden with explosives, Opposing U.N. intervention in ped at Liverpool over £3,000,000 shift, dangers beset the divers on which was sunk by German sub­ South Africa's race problems, Mr. worth of bullion, and sailed for every side and throughout every marines; the loss of the chief div­ A. A W. Engineering Forsyth asked: "I wonder how Halifax, Nova Scotia. But fe- many delegates have fully reflect­ descent. ers, Albert Gianni, Aristide Fran fore leaving the Irish Coast she chesehi, and Albert BargeUini, ed on the implications and where & Ship Repair Co. was sunk by enemy mines, with a Yet, year after year, with grim after they had done the pioneer such a dangerous precedent may loss of 200 lives. The wreck was and persistent courage and ingen­ work on the "Egypt," and when Pty. Ltd. lead." located in a position off the mouth uity, the fight went on, and in they were looking to returning to of Lough Swilly, with a depth of the summer of 1924, with more the job and reaping the reward 22 fathoms (132 feet), and was CAREENING COVE, MILSON'S POINT "A soldier's pack is not so than 99 per cent, of the gold re­ of their labours; the replacing of exposed to the full run of North covered, the job was over. The Telephone*: XB 167} and XB 4387. heavy a burden as a prisoners the lost "Artiglio' 'with another Atlantis- weather from the West­ whole cost of the operations of the same name; and the deci- After Hour*: X) 3213. chain." ward and Northward, while any amounted to less than 3 per cent. President Eisenhower of U.S.A.

TM NAVY •1 sum to tarry on in spite of these enemy mine in open water .*'' her, hung over the ship's strong­ R.A.N. COLLEGE HAS VACANCIES misfortunes, .ill make an extraord miles from the entrance to Whan- room. manly interesting and thrilling garei Harbour, New Zealand, on "Then came the most delicate FOR AMBITIOUS BOYS narrative of great adventure. June IV, 1940." operation blasting the door from its hinges without disturbing tht (By a Special Correspondent) The result of this epic of sal­ Successful as wvre the "Egypt" treasure. Small charges of ex­ vage, which broke all records in operations, the "Niagara" salvagi plosive were so skilfully placed point of depth trom which tr.as was an even greater achievement A wonderful opportunity is ied and unusual aspects. spirit and atmosphere which in­ that the door in yielding fell in ure had been recovered, is well not only by reason of the value presented by the Australian Naval They became part of the splen­ spire in him those qualities of wards, and so the goal was reach­ known- How, on June 22. IVJ2, of the treasure and the depth Board each year to 1?- and 15* did tradition and rich ceremonial courage, manliness, initiative and ed. The grab could now begin there dawned the success ot the trom which it was recovered, but year-old boys throughout the of a Service that goes back for leadership which he will find in­ i a goal in sides serving at sea. trom time to countries. He takes courses at not the least \ iluable forms of surroundings. king and trying task. At length. the achievement ot which they time serve ashore in imp< iftant th: Greenwich Naval College and treasure trove: and in this respect. however, the work began at a had remained Confident, despite administrative posts. at such other historic establish­ and coming nearer home, we have Part of his recreation includes depth of 400 feet. Storms fre the disbelief < t their friends and ments as H.M.S. "Excellent," but to recall the outstanding work From the day the boys are en­ -..ilini: and racing in the College quently interrupted the work, ne­ apparently insuperable difficulties. H.M.S. "Vernon." H.M.S. "Dry­ of the salvage vessel "Foremost rolled at the College they follow yacht "Triton" and the dinghies, cessitating the salvage ship, the The box contained two bars valu- ad" and so on. 17*' on the "Cumberland." sunk a most interesting and honourable cutters and other small boats "("laymore, running tor shelter , J at C8.000." Step by step he is promoted, <.ff Eden, on the -<-uth coast <.t career, in which, while still serv­ wh ich a re used < >n < >ther occa­ in Whangarei Harbour. Some 1 meanwhile serving in ships of the From then • n things went ing their country, they see lit- sions for instruction in hqat'handl* New South Wales, by an enemy times gear was damaged consid­ .tpace. On i >nc day. < iver and the world and all their mul­ ii ii.-. British or the Australian Fleets. mine in I"*>17. "Foremost 17'". by erably, and m one furious temp 050,000 worth of gold was re titudinous activities in many v.ir- While he is doing this th:re are the end ot' its first season of oper est the motor launch "Rosie." Ail the time he is imbibing a covered, Thus in an operation many places to which he may go. ations, ni 19*2, had already "fish working in co-operation with the which lasted )usl under twelve These include places in the At' ed" £150,000 of copper and lead Claymore," was smashed against months, all but £135,000 of the lanttc, the Mediterranean or the from the hold- i^i the wreck. the latter's stern and sunk while in her second season, whwh t\\.' and-a • half million pounds1 Indian Oceans, or in South Afri­ ended in March, 1953, she com Another exciting incident ex­ worth of gold was recovered. can, East Indies. West Indies or pleted the ]uh by recovering the perienced during the early stages Only -;^ gold bars remained in Far Eastern waters. remaining treasure, worth, it is of the operations was when, with the wreck. By the time he has reached the thought, a further £100,000. Bad his lifeline tangled round the Nor have thes* been left wholly rank of Lieutenant-Commander, weather repeatedly brought dang horns of a mine, chief diver J unreclaimed from the deeps. Af­ normally about 12 years after be er and delay and, as with all deep- Johnstone struggled desperately ter completion of her job on the has left the College, he may, if he tea salvage jobs, enterprise and tor hours to keep it from contact "Cumberland" in March last, thc is an executive officer, be given courage were far more prominent inc the "ClaymoreV underplat " Foremost 17" moved across t< command of his first ship, usually elements in the venture than ro ing. One hard touch by that New Zealand and recovered ail a modern frigate or corvette. mance. mine would have sent the "Caly- but five of th- remaining thirty From then on, there will be more" to the bottom on top of five bars. We understand that still other opportunities for the "Niagara." Nor was this th: The "Niagara's" Gold. the "Foremost 17"" is to undertake further promotion. nnly brush the salvors had with But, of course, the recovery of further treasure salvage in Au* It is worthy of note that most the deadly "sea-eggs": as a the "Niagara's" gold was the fin­ tralasian waters. It is to be hoped oi the senior posts in the Royal matter of fact, there were nest; est feat in marine salvage the Aus­ she d(>cs. Certainly there is a wide Australian Navy arc held b> of* of them, all around them, and un tralasian seas have known As field to work i VCT <*nd plenty to fleers who received their earliest derncath. Sir Robert H. Davis says in his took for. training at the Royal Australian book: "Gold bars weighing ten Thus the work proceeded, week Naval College. tons and valued .it nearly after week. At last, however. One important aspect of the JE2,500,000 . . . was the prize to be came the thrill, after many suc­ "If you wish to be good. education and training that boys won from the wreck of the mail cessful blastings, when chief div­ First believe that you are bad." In th* • nqint room of * w«ririip a c«d«» midiKiprft*n w«tcK«« prattura q«uq«i. H« receive while they arc being pre­ steamer Niagara,' sunk by an er Johnstone, in his diving chanv Epictetus. may bacoma a tpacialist in tha anfjinaaring branch of ***• Navy DM day. pared for careers as naval offi-

THi NAVY Da cam bar. 1953, ii » •

the following January. Fifteen-year old boys have to NEWS OF THE WORLD'S NAVIES piss an educational examination set by the Naval Board which will BIRT I COMPANY ensure that they have reached the R.A.N. HELICOPTER FOR RATING INJURED IN mediate operation. The operation, minimum standard ot education (PTY.) LIMITED BROADCASTING QUEEN'S AIRCRAFT-CARRIER. for peritonitis, was successful. Dr. required at the College for boys ARRIVAL. A Press report from London on Ibata, from the Japanese pearling -•t their age. fleet, then lying off the Wessel The examination is based on October 23 said that one rating One of three helicopters own* was seriously injured on October Islands on the North-East coast the assumption th.it. at the end of 4 Bridge Strati, ed by the Royal Australian Navy of Arnhem Land, assisted, with the year in which it is held, the 22 in a gun explosion in Britain's will be used by a commentator of largest aircraft-carrier H. M. S. the operation and administered candidate intends to sit cither for the Australian Broadcasting Com­ "Eagle." The "Eagle." flagship the anaesthetic. The "Shoal­ the intermediate certificate, jun­ P.O. Bon 544, G.P.l>. mission, to describe the arrival of the Heavy Squadron, British haven" took the sick man to Dar- ior certificate or third-year Tas- and landing of the Queen and the • win Hospital. The Naval Officer- Telephone: BO 529 Home Fleet, arrived at Ports­ n.mian hmh school examination, Duke of Edinburgh at Sydney mouth from Invcrgordon on Oc­ in-Charge, Darwin (Commander or for an examination equivalent (15 lines) Harbour next year. Her Majesty tober 24. Her Majesty The Green) said the R.A.N, would re­ to it. and His Royal Highness will Queen, then Princess Elizabeth, turn Seiji to the pearling fleet as Those who p.iss the educational Sydney, H.S.W. reach Sydney in the "Gothic" launched the "Eagle." designed to soon as he is well enough. examination are then required to Abo it from the Bluff (New Zealand) on carry jet planes, at Belfast in undergo an official medical exam­ the morning of February 3rd to 1946. Following the completion ination and selections are after­ 64 EAGLE STREET, begin their tour of the Common­ of her sea trials, the "Eagle" re­ NETHERLANDS NEW wards made in the same way that wealth. The Minister for the ceived her final acceptance into CRUISERS. they are made trom among 13- Navy (the Hon. William Mc- Royal Naval Service on March The trials by the Royal Neth­ year old boys. Mahonj said on October 2 that 1, 1952. Boys who become cadet mid­ BRISBANE. the Australian Broadcasting Com­ erlands Navy of its new cruisers shipmen and later permanent of­ mission had asked that the heli­ "De Ruytcr" and "De Zeven At >«<• ill an Australian wanhip « e-tdtt* H.M.S. "UNICORN" Provincien" began in May last. m>4lhipm«n t*k«t • "..Hot" of th« tun to ficers of the Royal Australian copter be made available to it, h«lp him fit th« tkip'i position. and consent had been given to the REPORTED AGROUND They are fine looking ships rather Navy come from both Govern­ IN SUEZ. like miniature "Vanguards," of ment and private schools. Apart Mukgrave Cold Scores: request. The R.A.N.'s three heli­ cers is th..t these arc given to copters, which were brought to 8,350/9,475 tons carrying eight from passing the necessary edu­ STANLEY STREET, A Press report from London on them entirely free of cost to Australia in the aircraft carrier October 31 said that the 22,000- 6-inch guns and with a speed of themselves or their parents. cational and medical examinations, 3 J knots. Another cruiser, the all they have to do is to prove SOUTH BRISBANE "Vengeance" in March, would be ton British aircraft maintenance Indeed, from the time that they used principally in sea-air rescue carrier "Unicorn" had gone "Friesland," has been launched. join the College until they pas* that they are of good character and have intelligence and ambi­ • operations ashore and afloat, but, aground in the Sue: Canal on that out to go to the United Kingdom because they could hover for long day. Tugs are reported to have tion, and the personality and other BISHOP'S ASHES for further training, everything is periods, they had many varied gone to her assistance. H.M.S. attribute?, that will fit them for SHIPPING provided for them without capabilities. They could be used, "Unicorn" left for the United EMBARKED IN R.N. charge. the duties and responsibilities of among other things, in photo­ the career they wish to adopt. and Kingdom from Singapore in Oc­ CARRIER. In addition they receive either graphic work, radar calibrations, tober after more than four years pocket money or .1 daily rate ot It is for this reason that the The ashes of the late Rt. Rev. AIRWAYS AGENTS. bombardment spotting and mark­ service on the Far East Station. pay, according to the age*gtoup Royal Australian Naval College ing, and communications. In the Douglas Horsiey, M.A.. former has been described as the most Bishop of Gibraltar, were cere­ to which they belong -tnd the per­ Royal Navy and the United H.M.A.S. "SHOALHAVEN" iod they have spent at the Col­ democrat educational establish' • States Navy helicopters were monially embarked at Portsmouth ment in the Commonwealth. AIDS SICK JAP. SEAMAN. in H.M.S. "Perseus." the Royal lege. As they are promoted, after widely used in delivering mails The tug H.M.A.S. "Emu", sta­ they have left the College. 10 their Summed up, the Royal Austra­ Naval ferry carrier, to be taken CARGO AND PASSENGER and other packages aboard ships tioned in North Australian waters, pay is increased. lian Naval College opens the way to Gibraltar for internment be­ and in transferring officer; and received a signal on October 26 Thirteen-year old hoys who to a very desirable professional SERVICES TO UNITED men from one vessel to another. fore the High Altar of the Cath­ career, and, at the same time, of- from a Japanese fisheries inspec­ edral. The "Perseus" left for want to enter the College arc re KINGDOM, CONTINENT, fers opportunities for a good, tion vessel that a man on board Gibraltar on August 17. A Naval juired t«> pass, firstly, a qualify - was ill. The "Emu" signalled the sound education up to the equiv­ AMERICA AND THE guard drawn u pon the quayside ing educational examination, and R.N. FRIGATE "MERMAID" Naval Officer-in-Charge at Dar­ secondly, an official medical exam alent of the matriculation stand' reversed arms as the car arrived EAST. VISITS SEVILLE. win, who, in turn, signalled H.M. ination. A certain number of ap­ ard. It also provides every facil­ alongside the "Perseus" with the A.S. "Shoalhaven." The "Shoal- plicants who have succeeded in ity for healthy, competitive The British frigate "Mermaid" ashes. The Ship's Chaplain, the K>th examinations are then select games and sport. • (Captain A. D. Lenox-Conyng- haven" turned back 60 miles on Rev. J. D. Murray, R.N., headed In other words, it offers every­ ham, R.N.) recently paid a court­ her course to pick up the sick a procession up the gangway and ed by an interviewing committee. PULL PARTICULARS The qualifying examination is, as thing that normally healthy, in­ esy visit to the Spanish port of man, Hamamamoto Seiji. Seiji the ashes were pipes aboard and received by the Commanding Of­ a rule, held in September and the telligent, ambitious boys could FURNISHED ON Seville, being the first British was transferred to the "Shoal­ medical examination in Novemb­ APPLICATION. warship to visit this port for 18 haven" and Surgeon-Lieutenant ficer of the ship. Captain P. C. S. wish for. and everything that par­ T. Carey, RN. er. Boys chosen by the interview­ ents could be proud to take ad years. J. J. Brotherton performed an im­ ing committee join the College in vantage of on their behalf.

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BHtfii COMMISSIONS IN THE ent service officers of the Execu­ was presented with the Queen's COMMENDED WREN BRITISH FLEET AIR ARM. tive Branch. Sword for the best all-round WAS AN INSPIRATION. Cadet of the Summer cruise of the After only seven months in the The British Board of Admiralty KOREAN WAR CHILD training cruiser "Devonshire" by has decided to extend to 26 years Service, a 19-years-old member VICTIMS' RELIEF. the Second Sea Lord of the Brit­ of the W.R.N.S. has been com­ the maximum age ot entry into Clothing and other stores for ish Admiralty and Chief of Naval the Royal Navy under the scheme mended by the Flag Officer Air child victims of the Korean war, Personnel, (Admiral Sir Alexand­ (Home), Vice Admiral Sir John for granting short service com­ provided by the "Save the Child­ er C. G. Madden, K.C.B., C.B.E.) Eccles, K.C.V.O., C.B., C.B.E., in • missions as pilots or observer*. ren Fund," were transported re­ at a passing-out parade in the Short service commissions, which a Speceial Order of the Day is­ cently to the Far East by the Roy­ "Devonshire" at Plymouth. Cadet sued from his Headquarters at ent.nl eight years on the Active al Navy. The first ten tons of Meredith was educated at Taun­ List an J seven years on the Lee-on-Solent, Hants. She is these stores wvre embarked in ton School, where he was a Wren Maureen K-elly Bamber, of Emergency List, were introduced H.M.S. Perseus" (Captain P. C. House Prefect; he won the sea­ in 1948, when the upper age limit Pinchbeck Road, Spalding, Lines, •*- •- J S. T. Carey. R.N.) when she manship prize and the prize for who is serving as an officers" was 20 years. This was subse­ sailed from Portsmouth on Aug­ the best Supply Cadet. His home quently increased t*< 2-* years. steward at the R.N. Air Station ust 17 Her Majesty The Queen is at Southgatc, North London. at Anthorn, Cumberland. On Some twenty per tent- of officers is Patron of the "Save the Child­ Runner-up for the Queen's Sword under this scheme are off ere J Saturday, July 18, she w.is a pas­ ren Fund" and the President is and winner of a prize for the senger in a civilian bus involved 1 permanent commissions during Countess Mountbatten of Burma, highest marks on passing-out was •C-7 I their eight years" service. Those in a collision with a naval bus on C.I . C.B.E., D.C.V.O. En route Cadet Rodney Somerset de Chair, the Carlisle-Anthorn road. There who Jo not choose to take a per to the Far East the "Perseus" car­ who entered the R.N. College, manent commission, or who are were three casualties, one of ried the ashes of the late Bishop Dartmouth, at the age of thirteen which proved fatal, and Admiral X " V&& not selected for one. receive a Douglas Horsley. MA., former He lives at Eaton Place, London, gratuity of CI.*'** on completion Eccles relates "Wren Bamber took Bishop of Gibraltar, to Gibraltar. S.W.I. Other prizewinners were complete charge of the situation, of their eight years" service. for internment before the High Cadet Bruce Edmund Lcmond, of Shore service commissions were displaying coolness and personal Altar of the Gibraltar Cathedral. Liverpool, communications prize. courage on tending the injured introduced to meet the need for Cidet John David Caldccott. of aircrew personnel, additional to and remained with the fatal cas­ QUEEN'S SWORD FOR Winc.inton, Somerset, specialised ualty until he died." those naval pilots and observers LONIX)N NAVAL CADET. subject prize: Cadet (E) John who are drawn from the perm.in Cadet (S) Graham Meredith Millard Thomas Hilton, of Clac- H.M. SURVEY VESSELS ton, Essex, engineering prize; RETURN FOR REFIT. Cadet (L) David Daw son-Taylor, of Purley, Surrey, navigation Her Majesty's Survey Vessels BE PREPARED prize. "Dalrymple" (Commander R. --^ FOR Bill, DSC. R.N.) and "Owen" (Commander C. R. K. Roe, D.S. For tha fint Km* in tha history of MM Royal Australian Navy, two of iti own air- C, R.N.) have returned from the etVt-carr.tfi racanMy oparatad toojatfcar. Thii picture ihow. tfcom tailing in Harvoy lay, IM milas north of sVtsbaao. Tha "Vaaejoaaco" it loading tha "Sydnay," and i Everlasting Life PRIZE FOR ROYAL NAVAL Persian Gulf for refitting and re- front of thorn was tha dottroyar commissioning. During the past As Simple as A.B.G. ENGINEER OFFICER. two years Kith ships have hc-'n The Clare D'Oyly Memorial engaged on survey duties in the the end of World War II. It FIVE FLEETS IN N.A.T.O. GOD'S JUDGMENT Prize for the Summer Term 1953, Persian Gulf and Mediterranean, occupies the former British Over­ MEDITERRANEAN awarded annually to the best of­ including surveys of the Trucial seas Airways flying-boat station at EXERCISES. A IX have sinned. (Sec Roman*, chap. 3, verse 23). ficer of his term at the Royal Coast. They will return to the Hythe, on Southampton Water. Sea, land and air forces of N, A. ** The wages of sin is death. (See Romans, chap. 6, Verso Naval Engineering College, Man Persian Gulf after recommission- T.D. nations tested their defences adon, (U.K.), has been awarded ing. The Hydrographcr of the BRITISH HOME FLEET in Southern Europe and the Med' Royal Navy (Vice- Admiral A. iterranean during Exercise "Weld- GODS PROVISION to Acting Sub-Lieutenant (E) ON AUTUMN CRUISE. Colin David Farley-Sutton, Royal Day, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O.) took The Autumn Cruise of the fast" which began on September EHOLD the Lamb of God Who taketh away the sin of the Navy, of $9 Moore Lane, Ches- passage in the "Owen" from Ply­ British Home Fleet began on Sep­ 29. Five fleets went to sea—the B world (mankind). (John, eh.ip I, verse 2°.) sington, Surrey, England. Sub- mouth to Chatham to see demon­ tember 1. and during the early British Mediterranean Fleet, the Lieutenant Farley-Sutton is 21 J, strations of the latest radar and part of the cruise, units of the U.S. Sixth Fleet and the Navies GOD'S OFFER and entered the Royal Naval Col­ echo-sounding apparatus installed Fleet worked up at Invergordon of Greece, Italy, and Turkey, and OME unto Me all ve that labour and are heavy laden and lege, Dartmouth, as a Special En­ for survey work. for Exercise "Mariner" and then fighter and bomber aircraft oper­ C I (Jesus Christ) will give you rest. (Matthew, eh.ip. II. try Cadet in January, 1950. He took part in that exercise. The ated from ships and shore bases. verse 2V) hopes to specialise in Aeronauti­ HYTHE (U.K.) BASE FOR cruise wit under the command On land Greek, Italian, and Turk­ This Can Be For You! cal Engineering. The prize was MINESWEEPERS. of the Commander - in - Chief, ish troops conducted mock defen­ presented on Sunday, 9th Aug­ The equipping and commission­ Home Fleet, Admiral Sir George sive baton on their home soils. WHOSOEVER WILL MAY COME (See John. chap. J, verse ust. 1953, by Rear-Admiral

16 THE NAVY f, ItSJ. 17 * cummunicatior.s. Six months VTRAN TELEGRAPHISTS The Minister said that more Wran training was dene at Flinders TO BE STATIONED IN N.T. telegraphists would be sent to Naval Dept; (Victoria) before MARITIME NEWS OF THE Telegraphists of the Women's Q ii >na warra at regular intervals. they were drafted to a naval wire­ Royal Australian Naval Service Their tour of duty at this North­ less station, where they received (WRANS) Arc to be stationed .it ern Territory naval wireless sta­ further instruction as well as the naval wireless station at Coon tion would be tor twelve months. carrying nut the duties of naval •iwarra. which is about 15 mites Mr McMahon said that Wrans telegraphists. south-cast oi Darwin in the had be.n serving at H.M.A.S. N\ nhern Territory. An advance "H.trman" the naval wireless sta­ tion near Canberra, since 1951. party consisting of one Wran of­ RJVN. TUG TOWS WORLD They carried out similar duties in ficer and a Wran rating arc al­ DISABLED STEAMER ready there. Seven more Wrans naval communications to those From our Correspondents in will arrive nn November 12. Thi^ performed by male ratings. Be­ TO DARWIN. LONDON »nd NEW YORK fore the Wrans qualified as tel­ ".•as announced on 11th Novemb­ . Having gone to the help of the er by th. Minister for the Navy egraphists th-y received an inter. By s:vc training in ail aspects of naval small steamer "lllawarra." which (the Hon. William McMahon). ran aground near the north-west­ AIR MAIL ern tip of the Cult of Carpentaria, recently, the Royal Australian QUEEN ASSUMES TITLE OF day stated that changes in the away, Garcia Robles, boarded the Naval Diesel tup "Emu" towed MASTER OF THE main passage into Suva Harbour, "Fremantle Star" at Teneriffe. A her to Jensen's Bay to dachafgt MERCHANT NAVY AND caused by the earthquake on Sep­ day out of Teneriffe Robles gave her cargo, She then towed her FISHING FLEETS. tember 14, would not affect the himself up and said he had stow­ t<> Darwin fur repairs. The Min­ The British Government on navigation of the largest vessel ed away to get to his uncle in ister tor the Navy (the Hon. November 25, on the eve of Her afloat. The statement added that Australia. Anticipating immigra­ William McMahon) said on Nt Majesty's departure on the Royal echo-sounding gear in overseas tion troubles with Robles when vember 6 that the "lllawarra". Tour of Australia and New Zea­ vessels had been used to investi­ he reached Australia the master which was owned by the Austra­ land, announced that th-- Queen gate the changes in the reef, and of the "Fremantle Star," Captain lian Aluminium Production Com­ has assumed the title of Master the cable ship "Stanley Angwin" C. Horton, decided to get rid of mission, was on her way from of the Merchant Navy and Fish­ had been taking soundings outside his unwelcome intruder. He call­ Jensen's Bay to Melville Bay, on ing Fleets—a title conferred for the coral barrier reef. ed up the "Melbourne Star," an­ the north-western shore of the the first time in 1928 by King other Blue Star Line vessel, Aus­ (Julf, when she ran on to a ree: George V. on the Prince Of SHIPMASTER TO BISHOP. tralia-London bound. The two among the Wessel Island*. The Wales. The British Press Associ­ A clergyman who holds a mast­ cargo liners met in the middle of "Emu" was ordered to her issist ation Lobby Correspondent said er mariner's certificate and who the Southern Indian Ocean. anc-j immediately. PAY that it was particularly fitting once commanded a passenger lin­ Robles was transferred to the that the Queen should take this er has been appointed Bishop of "Melbourne Star" 2,000 miles from anywhere in a heavy sea YOUR ACCOUMTS CREW MEMBER OF title on the day she leaves on the Melanesia. He is the Most Rev­ erend Alfred Thomas Hill. The and will land back in Teneriffe, OVERSEAS FREIGHTER tour, most of which will be made THE MODERN WAY in a merchant liner. Primate of New Zealand, Arch­ whence he started. A Commonwealth Bank Cheque KILLED. bishop Owen, announced his ap­ Account provides you with a safe, ipeedy JET ENGINES FOR SHIPS. pointment by the Bench of Bish­ BLAST ON FREIGHTER and convenient method of paying A crew member of the oversea* freighter, "British Marquess," ly­ A message from London on Oc­ ops at Wellington, N.Z., on Sep­ KILLS SEVENTEEN. accounts. No need to go from place to tember 26. Bishop Hill will re­ ing in Newcastle Harbour, tober 27 said that Rolls Royce on At least seventeen watersiders place paying bills in person, when you place Bishop Caulton when he re­ N.S.W.. was fatally injured on October 26 unveiled a new jet en­ were burnt to death on November can so easily pay by cheque. signs in March, 1953. Bishop November 5, when his head was gine for marine purposes. The 2 in Boston, U.S.A., when a Paying by cheque has other advantages. Hill was ordained as a clergyman crushed between the ship and a engine, similar in principle to air­ heavy explosion aboard the Nor­ It adds to your prestige, shows clearly in 1938, and since then has been wharf girder. At the inquest held craft icts, develops 5,600 h.p., wegian freighter "Black Falcon" what you have spent and where, and gives headmaster of a boys' school at on the following day, November takes up a quarter of the space was followed by a rapidly naming evidence of payment in case of lost Pawa. British Solomon Islands. (\ the Newcastle District Coroner of a steam engine of that capac­ fire that trapped some of the men receipts. He worked for five years in an found that the man, Albert Con­ ity, and is half the weight. The in the hold. Many others were A Commonwealth Bank Cheque East London mission before he rad Bailey, 20, of Yorkshire, Eng­ engine is being tested by the Brit­ taken to hospital suffering from Account is easy to open, simple to use. went to Melanesia. Open one to-day. land, overbalanced trying to re­ ish Admiralty. The United burns and injuries. Survivors trieve something he had dropped States Navy has already ordered said that the explosion occurred COMMONWEALTH overboard. The "British Mar­ two of the engines. STOWAWAY'S ATTEMPT when a drum of sodium peroxide quess/1 due to leave Newcastle at TO REACH AUSTRALIA SUVA REEF STILL tipped over. Flames shot 200 BANK 1 p.m. on November 6, waa de- ENDS IN REVERSE. feet into the air. One of the NAVIGABLE. -THE SANK YOU OWN" layed some hours until the rinding A Spanish stowaway's attempt watersiders jumped into the sea had been determined, but sailed It was reported from Suva. to get to Australia in the "Fre- with his clothing on fire. He All Branches provide every trading bank service late on the same evening. Fiji Islands, on October 29 that a CGB29-4? mantle Star" recently ended in re­ died soon after he was taken to Government staetment issued that verse in mid-ocean. The stow­ hospital. The fire roared through THE NAVY •r, IW3. It sail on her maiden voyage to Aus­ strengthen the powers of the wegian citizenship when he failed • two uf the ships holds. The tralia on March 17. A spokes* N.S.W. Maritime Services Board master of the ship. Captain Kaare to return home within a seven- year period. He made an appli­ man foi the Orient Line said on to deal with the pollution of Syd- Langhalle, 44, of Melbourne, was November 4 that the new liner cation for United States citizen­ , ncy Harbour is being officially re­ n»'t aboard at the time. was scheduled to arriv.* in Sydney ship 13 years ago, and is still seek­ cognised by the preparation of a on April 1°. Provisional passeng' draft Bill for that purpose. The ITALY'S MERCHANT ing admission from the American er bookings for the maiden voy­ authorities, Bill, which s^eks to give the MARINE GROWS. age from Sydney on April 50 to Board further powers to make reg­ The Italian merchant marine is arrive in England for the English ATLANTIC GALE SINKS ulations against pollution in all now larger than it was in 1940, summer season were now being the navigable waters of New L1BERIAN FREIGHTER: AIKII Italy entered the war. The confirmed. At present the "Or* South Wales, will be submitted TWO KILLED. Merchant Marine Ministry says sova" is being fitted out at Bar* to the N.S.W. Cabinet shortly. that on Juno, 19*3, Italy's merch- A gale broke up the Liberian rowin-Furness. ant fleet numbered 4,447 units, freighter "Greenville," 6,323 tons, SHIP'S MASTER PENAUSED totalling ?.*M.759 tons, of which in the Atlantic on September 21 SMALL, FAST FERRIES BY COURT. 1.276 units totalling 3,470,917 iu>t after the crew had abandoned PROPOSED FOR A Court of Marine Inquiry at tons are steam or oil powered. ship. The captain of the French SYDNEY HARBOUR. Sydney, presided over by Mr. liner "lie de France," which had The remaining 3.171 units are Sydney Harbour (N.S.W.) Justie: Simpson, on October 28 -mall sailing craft and fishing answered the distress signal from Transport Board i< considering the ship, sent a message "aband­ suspended the certificate of a boats. Tankers have practically building small, fast ierrics carry* ship.'s master, John Wallace Nel­ doubled in Italy's merchant mar­ on *hip or we leave you," when ing 10(i to 500 passengers. The the ship's captain, Dvmitrios PD- son, for three months. The Court ine since September 1. 1939, and Board is receiving reports on the recommended that Nelson should now total 824,00fl tons against umianos. refused to abandon proposed n."w-type ferries. The ••hip. Four boats were lowered be given a first mate's certificate A Saafury fightar plana tatat off with tha aid of a catapult from the aircraft-carriar 421,(MMi tons before the war. smaller ferries would replace some if he applied for it. Nelson was H.M.A.S. "Vangaanca" during anti-uibmarina aiarciiac off tha N.S.W. coatt and the "Greenville Y" crew jump­ of the larger ferries, which are racantty. ed from the ship. One man was the master of the S.S. "Calcdon," YET ANOTHER "MAN said to be run at a loss, as they 1,083 tons, when she struck an ob­ Swept away when only a few- go out of service. WITHOUT A COUNTRY" yards from the French liner. Two struction off Lennox Head near Kingdom. Passengers said that set foot on the New World. He A message from Philadelphia, others were iniured. The chief BIG SALVAGE PLAN. Ballina, on the north coast of New U.SJV, on Monday. November 2 South Wales on September 5, they were "tossed about like also has a personal mission. Das­ officer of the "Greenville" was A message from Copenhagen <^tid that Cato Roggcnhihl. the 1953, while on a voyage from corks." They were thrown from soy said he does not want to die crushed to death by falling ma­ (Denmark) on September 12 said Norwegian version of "a man Sydney to Rockhampton, Queens­ their bunks and chairs to the in bed. "In the little time that is chinery just before the rescue. that Danish salvage firms will sal­ sound of roaring winds, thunder­ without a country, sailed on the land, with steel and general left to me I want adventures, vage for scrap the many Nazi ing waves and breaking crockery. previous Saturday. October 31, cargo. The "Calcdon," owned by crossing the seas in a small boat," NEW ORIENT UNER submarines sunk around the Dan­ The "Rangitane's" hospital was he added. Dassoy "s first stop is for Boston. U.S.A. where he Australian Steamships Pty. Ltd., DUE IN APRIL. ish coast during World War II. crowded with the injured passeng­ scheduled to be at Bermuda, then would get another chance to quit went to Brisbane for repairs to a the Collier on which he has been The n:w Orient liner, "Or- German salvage equipment will ers, two of whom were seriously to the Azores, Spain. Italy, and sova," which was launched in probably be borrowed fur the job. slightly damaged hull. There hurt, and the ship's surgeon said England. virtual prisoner for eight were no casualties. The Court n» nth?. Ro^enhihl lost hi* Nor­ May this year, will be ready to it was the worst gale of his career NEW OCEAN-GOING TUG found that the "Calcdon" struck at sea. FOR SYDNEY. the ocean bottom v.'hile she was WRIT AGAINST too close to shore. The naviga­ AUSTRALIAN GOVERN­ A new ocean-going tug was 85-YEAR-OLD SAILS ON JAMES PATRICK & CO. PTY. LTD. launched at Glasgow, Scotland, in tion of the "Calcdon" was not MENT AND SHIPPING carried out. the Court held, with SMALL-BOAT ATLANTIC BOARD. SHIPOWNERS — AGENTS — CONTRACT October for the Waratah Tug Co. CROSSING. of Sydney. ' The new tug, the "scamanliko skill, care and vigil­ A writ claiming £35,000 from STEVEDORES "Woona," has been built by ance." This, it said, was due to Rafael Colorado Dassoy, an 85* the Australian Government, the CHARTERS AND BUNKERS ARRANGED James Lamunt and Co. The Syd­ misconduct by the master, John year-old Spanish-born American Australian Shipbuilding Board, ney Manager of the Waratah Tug Wallace Nelson. citizen, yachtsman and commer­ and the Australian Shipping REGULAR INTERSTATE 9C OVERSEAS CARGO & Co., Mr. S. Aynslcy, said on Oc­ "RANGITANE" POUNDED cial photographer, recently sailed Board was filed in the Australian PASSENGER SERVICES tober 28 that the "Woona" would IN BAY OF BISCAY. aboard a 25-foot schooner in an High Court on November * by • reach Sydney in January, 1954. Waves 70 feet high pounded attempt to cross the Atlantic to th-: Dreadnought Engine Pty. The tug is equipped to burn both Ltd., of Balmain, Sydney. The Agents for . . . the New Zealand Sniping Com­ Europe. His boat, the "Magda- FLOTTA LAURO (Italian Una)—Cargo and piwinii atrvicc, oil and coal. It is 105 feet long pany's liner "Rangitane" (21,700 lena," is equipped with radio and company is claiming this amount Australia to Mediterranean porta, via Singapore. and is powered with triple expan­ tons) in the Bay of Biscay, injur­ an auxiliary motor. It has a crew for damage for alleged breach of TASMAN STEAMSHIP CO. LTD.— Refrigerated cargo, Awtratia sion engines, capable of develop­ ing 22 passengers. The "Rangi- of three. Dassoy carries a self- contract between the company to New Zealand. ing 1,100 indicated horsepower. tanc," which docked at Southamp­ assigned mission to Queen and the defendants, and for ERIE RAILROAD (U.S.A.) —AuatralaaUn Agents. ton on November 3, was forced Elizabeth. He will ask the Queen amounts said to be due and pay­ Head Office: 19 BRIDGE STREET, SYDNEY MORE POWERS SOUGHT to heave to for 17 hours at the to place under Spanish sover­ able for work done by the com­ • OVER HARBOUR pany on the M.V. "Nyora," own­ Phone: BW 4181. height of the storm. The liner eignty the spot on tiny San Sal­ POLLUTION. ed by the Australian Shipping ALSO AT MELBOURNE AND BWSBANl was carrying 260 passengers from vador (Watling) Island in the Bahamas, where Columbus first Board. WITH AGENTS AT ALL MAIN PORTS IN AUSTRALIA. The need for action to New Zealand to the United

THi NAVY Iff). 21 20 largely due to his planning, know­ PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS ledge, and initiative. The medal DUTCH WARSHIP UNDERGOING REPAIRS AT WIUIAMSTOWN is awarded annually to a member FIRST NAVAL MEMBER Royal Naval College. CJreenieh. of the institute who has made a The Royal Netherlands Navy they operated as part of the Royal gave the Royal Australian Navy' AND CHIEF OF THE in succession to Vice Admiral Sir notable contribution to the science corvette "Ternatc" will arrive at Australian Navy until the war great pleasure to be able to place NAVAL STAFF. Aubrey Mansergh, K.B.E., C.B. and practice of engineering in the the Royal Australian Naval Dock­ ended. Eight were later sold to its dockyard facilities at the dis­ yard, Williamstown (Victoria) Statement b\ the Minister for DSC. as from March, 19*4. the Commonwealth. the Royal Netherlands Navy, five posal of the Netherlands. In the Defence, Sir Philip McBride. British Admiralty announced re from Hollandia (New Guinea) on to the Turkish Navy and others First and Second World Wars, Tb. Government h.i? decided cently. PROMOTION TO REAR. December 7 to undergo repairs. to private interests. particularly the latter, the Aus­ tu,» las-Pennant. C.B E.. BE., M.I.E.Aust.. R.A.N., has been awarded the Peter Nicol Bars. The appointment took ef­ K.C.B. C.B.E. D.S.O., D.S.C.. fect in November, 1955. has Ken placed on the Retired Russell Memorial Medal for List (medically umfit). 19*5. The Council of the Insti­ NEW SHAW SAVILL tute of Engineers, Australia, who MANAGER FOR AUSTRALIA make the award, said that Ad­ NEW PRESIDENT. R.N.C.. Mr. D. J. Stilwell, formerly sec­ miral Doyle had had an outstand­ GREENICH. retary for Shaw Savill and Albion ing career as a Naval engineer. Vic Admiral Sir William li. Co. Ltd., in London, has been ap­ ind the present scope of Naval Andrews, K.B.E.. C.B.. D.S.O. pointed manager for Australia un­ shipbuilding in Australia was ha* been appointed President. der Mr W. D. Donaldson, direct­ or and general manager. A spokesman for the Shaw Savill Line, announcing this on No­ vember 2, said Mr. Stilwell suc­ ceeds Mr. J. A. McConochie, who Bordsley's was recently appointed general manager for New Zealand. NEW VICE CONTROLLER, SHAVING R.N. CREAM The British Admiralty has an­ nounced that Rear-Admiral G. B. HAY WE WORK Sayer, D.S.C, has been appointed For a quicker Vice Controller and Director of WITH YOU ON YOUR and Naval Equipment, R.N., in suc­ cession to Rear-Admiral G V. STEEL I TOOL PRORLEMS? more comfortable Gladstone. The appointment dat­ ed from October, 195J. EAGLE * GLOBE 23-37 BUCKLAND ST., BROADWAY, N.S.W. SHAVE "The freedoms which we en­ Tatophom: MA 6421 STEEL CO.LTD. joy depend on respect and trust IrMclm ItisjWlrwri AmtttMmn Capitol Ctttet. between fellow men." A*»c..t.d Company: ARTHUR RALFOUR A COMPANY LTD., SlwHfcM. tnq. —William Tainsh.

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VOLCANO ERUPTS AGAIN SEA-ODDITIES ON PAPUAN ISLAND. Fancy being *i close to .1 shark flopped into Ehe boat," Cousteau which ranges up to 50 feet in A volcano in Lake Wisdom on as t< K* ahl*r to hang tt on the adds, "weak and shaken." length, is the veritable tyrant of Long Island, off the Papuan coast, m>»*' with an undersea motion pic­ the sea; even the largest whale was reported on October 16 to be ture camera! Yel that is what Cuttlefish are akin to the octo­ often succumbs to a concerted at* again in eruption. The eruption ('.ipt.tin Coustej did on one of pus, but. unlike the octopus, tack by these fiends, so swift and is not considered particularly vio­ hi> aqualung Jive* off the coast which has eight tentacles, the lithe are their movements, so lent. Grey mud and water were ol Africa He tells the story, cuttlefish has ten arms, eight sharp the teeth that tear and thrown 500 to 800 feet into the among many other fascinating short and two very long ones. slash at the vulnerable leviathan air every ten seconds. Water va­ stories, in h** recently-published The cuttr.'bone, so much used by body fighting hopelessly its last pour and steam were rising to a hook "The Silent World." He Cagchird fanciers tor the birds to Kittle against the*.* tierce sea-tig* height of 7,0<>0 feet, and drifting say*: sharpen their beaks on, is .1 broad. westward. It will be remembered curved plate which lies over that the population of the district "Wc were cruising in the ' Ehe three quarters ot the back under were evacuated last May and have Moi.nier," when we spotted 1 the skin. Often numbers of these not been returned. Lake Wisdom sht.al of hottlenosc whales. I- t-. cuttlehones may be tound washed The plankton is the basis of all has long been recognised as a 2* feet lunii Dumas [Cousteau's up on our beaches between tide marine life since it is the food, volcanic crater. Last May, a cone di\ mc companion j harpooned marks. In the days before blot­ ofteii at one or two removes, of rose out of the lake and again one We went into the water. m\ ting paper they were ground up .til aninuil lite in the sea. Thus, subsided. The cone is now said self with .i motion picture camera. and used tor drying ink on writ the great nincty-f.i ul on October 23 yachts and a tiny pilot ndine. the compressi- What makes a whale spout1 These belong to the plant-plank- other small craft would line the hility wave ahead of the shark's Actually the spouting of .1 whale ton. They form the pastures of route taken by the Queen from nose. Dumas, the shark and 1 is due to the violent expulsion of the ocean and it is to them that the CJothic" to the landing site mingled underwater in shallow or M tn its lungs after it has had the English Channel owes its in Farm Cove, Sydney Harbour. depth." to hold its breath whilst swim­ familiar green colour. wh:n the Queen comes ashore ming under water; the warm, there on Febru.iry 5. The an­ Dumas swam down towards the moist vapour condenses into spray The animals of the plankton nouncement said that .tpplications shark and pilot fish. He got he as it rises in the air and gives the feed on each other and on the were being invited from mem­ hind the shark and touched the watcher the impression that the diatoms and other members oi the bers of suitable boats to be allot­ caudal fin. The heast turned, but whale is spouting water. As for plant- plankton. These require ted positions in the harbour lane- not toward Dumas. He came at the size of whales—some of them sunlight for ... a fundamental way. Each side ot the laneway Coustcau, who kept his finger on reach to almost incredible propor­ life-process. It follows, therefore, would h: marked with a line of the camera hutton as he came. At tions. Longest of all whales is that the plankton is found most flexible steel wire rope to which two feet away he banged the the gigantic Blue Whale or Sib* abundant in the upper layers, the boats would be moored. A re­ shark on the nose with the cam­ bald's Rorqual, said to reach one top 50 fathoms or so, within the hearsal would be held on Sun­ era Cousteau felt the wash of a hundred feet in length. Professor range of penetration of sunlight. day, January 24. It would be heavy body flashing past and the D'Arcy Thompson has calculated Below the illuminated zone the compulsory for .ill boats forming shark was twelve feet away, circ­ the laneway to attend. All the th.it the weight of such a mon­ plankton population rapidly thins T'-Q commending officer of the destroyer H.M.A.S. "Arunte", Commander W. J. ling the two divers as before, un­ ster would reach the almost un­ out into the darkness and stillness boats should fly flags and bunt­ Powers, obitrv«d tradition at Gordon Island when ho miied the first botch of tho harmed and expressionless. He believable figure of six hundred of the abyss. It is of interest to ing. ship's Christmas pudding. Loft to right oro Loading Cook D. McCarthy, Commandor thought, "why the hell doesn't he ton-;. Most combative of all is know that the sole diet of the Dovars, Ab'a Soaman B. M. Williamt. Chief Patty Officer J. Thompson, and Potty go to the whale. The nice juicy ERUPTION RAISES Officer N. J. turns. The "Arunta" leave* for Korea e*rty neit year. the Killer Whale, a very fiend in great whalebone whales in Ant­ ISLAND. whale. What did we ever do to caruate. It is everybody's enemy. 1 arctic waters is the form of plank­ An eruption in the sea off Mat­ him " happy only when persecuting its ton, previously referred to, known thew Island, 270 miles cast of own kind. Porpoises and whales KRAKATOA ERUPT* last v.as rward on October H6. as "krill," a small shrimp-like crus­ Noumea, capital of the French is­ Then, suddenly, Cousteau real flee for their lives when they AGAIN. Krakatoa erupted in 188? in the tacean about two inches long. In­ land of New Caledonia; early in ised that three huge steel-blue sense its approach; even- the The great volcano Krakatoa, on greatest volcanic blast in recorded cidentally, scientists are now busy October, raised an island. The sharks were coming up from the Sperm Whale is terrttied at the an island between Java and Su­ history. The eruption and the investigating the possibilities of French Navy's sloop "Tiare" re­ depths in a concerted attic k. onslaught of a band of these un matra, erupted on October 25, the tidal waves which followed it on utilising the plankton life, plant ported on October 29 that the However, to make a long story holy brutes; for, like wolves, the Bandung Vulcanological Service that occasion killed more than and animal, of the seas as a po­ eruption had ceased, but that short, they were eventually pulled Killer Whale hunts in wide-rang' reported on October 29. The .;6,ooo people. The noise oi the tential food for future human sus­ steam was still rising from the ing p.icks. This terrible beast. eruption was followed by more explosion was heard in Australia iV'tn the sea by the crew of the tenance. targe basaltic rocks. Elk* Monnter's" launch. "We than 100 explosions, of which the and Ceylon. THE NAVY 24 December, IW1. « - : • •

The average of tanker freights dropped roughly two-thirds during SPEAKING OF SHIPS 1952 from a variety of reasons, Alth. i:j;h the Cywton NV 142.000 worth of surplus farm months of the year was particu­ one being the great excess of new WJIILE S DOVE BITUMASTIC PRODUCTS ; tonal has withdrawn its pi'trngfi' products. All Denmark's leading larly noteworthy. Imports from tonnage over losses and strappings. ships from the CanaJaWest In trade organisations are backing all dollar areas had fallen, but BITUROS SOLUTION ft HARD ENAMEL the Government's decision. imports from sterling areas had in'? services a« unprofitable, the Japanese ship owners and ifij. fleet of eicht ?hip< showed risen. merchants are not only restoring THE WORLD'S BEST PROTECTION ;r J husuvss in 1952 R -presentatives of Egypt and pre-war services, but are planning Japan in Cairo on October ?1 in Sir John Hobhouse has stated to enter areas in which they have The Associated Chamber of dialled a £1,785,000 trade agree never before traded. that Messrs. Alfred Holt tf Co. Manufactures of Australia and ment FRESH WATER DRINKING TANKS. mam other interested concerns have spent about £50.000.000 The British Ministry of Sup­ have iii^cd a Commonwraith em­ during the past eight yean build­ The Gothenburg (Sweden) ply, in the House of Commons, bargo on scrap metal exports to City Council is still debating ing or buying ship- stated that there was no intention Japan, uhieh in recent months whether to convert the sailing German scientists have been of considering atomic power for ha\ e been heavy from Australia. ship "Voking" into a navigation studying the possibilities of copy­ propelling ships until much more J. WILMS & SINCLAIR PTY. LTD. experience had been gained in school or build one ashore in the ing sea animals instead of fishes Tru importation oi sottwi i 'U> port whicji would delay the start the development of stationary to increase the speed of ships. 97 PITT ST.. SYDNEY. N.S.W. into the I'niteJ Kingdom during nf it* operations. plants ashore. 1955. although freed, i* said tu MELBOURNE BRISBANE have been huuftcapped heeause Representatives of the Aus­ It is maintained that consider­ rhe lurcnsing system for domestic The Pacific Steam Navigation AGENTS: tralian and Indonesian Govern able further research i required use remains and nobody knows 3 Company has ordered from Har- ADELAIDE . . . GIBBS BRIGHT * CO. ments have completed a new trade before the gas turbine could burn how mvivh of the licensing total land and Wolff, of Belfast, a new PERTH . . . FLOWER DA VIES ft JOHNSON. agreement. The agreement came boiler oil without rapid blade has been covered by Mockfl on the turin'scrtw passenger ship of about mto force on \ovember 1. The fouling due to a deposit of vern- HOBART . . . R. L M1UJGAN. British Government's hands. 19,320 tons gross, accommodating Australian Minister for Trade and adium pentoxidc. 787 passengers and being driven by- Ctmtoms, Senator N. O'SuIlnan. double-reduction geared turbines. Auttrgha had retained "perfect said that because Australia and freedom of action' by abstaining fndotie.ua were near each otlie> A Press report on November from rating on Japan's udmittjme and their economies were comple­ IS said that a heavy fall in prices to the General Agreement tm mentary there was scope for con­ of raw materials may threaten the Tariff* and Trade (GATT), the siderable expansion of trade be­ future of the Colombo Plan in South East Asia. The Korean director of the Associated Cham­ tween them. Travel ber of Manufacturer* of Australia. war raised prices of stable raw ma­ \U. Latham Wtthall. said on terials of South-fcast Asia to ab­ During October. Australia October 26. normal heights. There was an showed a sharp recovery in her equivalent rise in the cost ot cap­ overseas trade balance with an ex­ ital equipment for irrigation and SHAW SAVILL W'es; Australian Petroleum cess of exports over imports of hydro electric projects which are Pty. Ltd. reported on October _~ £57,300,000. For the four months feature! of the plan. Prices of Fast Pasttngir and Cargo Se-rvicms that the <>il well which the com ended October, the favourable jute, cotton, rubber and tin have pany is drilling at Lcarmonth trade balance of £70,900,000 com* since collapsed. (W.A.) has reached a depth of pared with the previous four TO ENGLAND ••><<><> i\ct Progress is said to bnv.nthe * of €5l.°00,00n running t" schedule .uid geolog­ The Australian Minister of VIA ical formations are what have Commerce and Agriculture, the The new type of short-distance been i xpected. Hon. J. McEfeen. announced in directional wireless buoy, send­ • SOUTH AFRICA Canberra on November 13 that ing out a characteristic signal on Australia has signed a new trade The P. & O. Line, in addition 111 metres wavelength, ha* re* pact with West Germany, to op­ •SUEZ CANAL :o two passenger liners, has one c;t\.ed excellent reports. 10,000-ton. two 9.200-ton, and erate until the end of August, two R.nOO-ton fast cargo liners un­ 1954. The pact assured import­ • PANAMA CANAL der construction. Japan's trade deficit for the ant facilities for most Australian year 195} would amount to more goods exported to Germany. A message from Copenhagen than £300,000,000, the ajpanese These were mainly wool and on November 18 said that the Trade Ministry announced on No- wheat but they also included SHAW SAVILL LINE Danish Government has decided vember 11. The report said that eggs, apples, pears, honey, meat to turn down an American offer the poor export level to the sterl­ extract, prarUhrll, and mineral of between £1,128.000 and £2,- ing area during the first nine and metals.

DacMvtbwr, I9f3. 27 H THt NAVY people. The great achievement of LOSS AT SYDNEY OF LARGE the novelist is his skill in making TRANSHIPMENT TRADE us participate with our minds ALLEGED. and hearts in the tenacious The Port or Sydney had lost a struggle of men against nature. large transhipment business be­ The fight is tough, but the cause of excessive wharf storage DRIBARM people win out in the end. Their penalty rates imposed by the Mar­ itime Services Board, the secre­ •Roll Back The Sea," by A. Den one abandon one's land!* It is story is a splendid example of COMPRESSED YEAST VACUUM PACKED [V. UrnJ Published by Heine better to die where one had work- courage and energy, a tribute to tary of the Sydney Chamber of man at a time when man often Commerce, Mr. A. J. R. Birch, "Dribarm" is a special form of Compressed Yeast, maun. London. eJ dried under scientific conditions and carefully coin- Enchsh and French translations seems to be doing all he can to alleged on November J. Mr. The water rises, blindly and cast doubt on man. Birch said that thousands of tons ponded with a suitable yeast food. Specially suitable have recently been made of this stupidly, flogging the earth, mas when not accessible to, or supplied by bakers. novel by A Den DtH.Uard which "News Area." of goods from Europe had stop­ saenng the maddeneJ cattle, "The Wynne Diaries.** Edited by ped coming to the Port of Sydney recount* the struggle u( the choking the trees, detiling the car­ Obtainable from: Merchants, Store, Grocers, Dutch against the sea, and their Anne Frcmantle. Published by during the last few months. The or direct from the Proprietors: pet-, soiling the stacked linen. Oxford University Press, London. goods were mainly cargoes from progressive reconquest or ?ub overwhelming the orderly routine merged lanJs and villages Diaries written in and around the Continent for customers in the MAURI BROTHERS & THOMSON LIMITED it daily life. A grim apocalyptic the days of Nelson must inevit­ Pacific Islands. Mr. Birch said But note! This is not .t story spectacle of dead trees, cows. ably contain much of interest to that island merchants had been The Compressed Yeast Co., ot the recent flood, which was un- Moated horses, knocked about naval men. The Wynne diaries forced to use Hong Kong instead leashed by the violence of the sea BOX 31, P.O. WATERLOO, N.S.W. aimlessly. And all those Flemish cover a period that is one of the of Sydney in order to meet com­ alone interiors, as clean and luminous most stirring and inspiring in Eng­ petition and because the N.S.W. Tht subject .»r Mr. Den Dool as a Vermeer canvas, given over lish annals, and present human! Maritime Services Board "refused aard's book i< another catastrophe, to the wildness otthe waters. and intimat-j sketches of many to co-operate with them to retain another invasion by the sea the The waver comes in through who played a great part in the his­ the trade." one which drove the enemy from tour breaches, at Nolle. Westka- tory and destiny of Britain. DESTRUCTION IN VS. WARD'S BAKERIES the isle of Walchercn in 1944 and petle, Vcere and Rammekens, and Betsey Wynne, the elder of the tor ! period ot about fifteen STORM. 30-J8 VICTORIA STREET, PADDINGTON. the breaches are widened by each Wynne sisters and one largely re­ Most of the 20.000 people months ate into the island with ebb and flow. But the enemy sponsible for the major content its fierce tides. The island has driven from their homes in New fortresses are flooded or cut off. of the dunes, was married to York, New Jersey, and Connect!' seen two floods within a period M and Walcheren is tree. Captain (late Sir Thomas) Fre- nine years and either ot them cut by tidal floods on November COOK'S BAKERY, KING'S BAKERY, ft HAMBURGER BUN CO. Repair work has to he begun mantle and, intermittently, for 7 returned to them next day as have been enough to mark a man's many years, lived aboard various 'Phone: FA J998. life! it once. Every day lost may en­ the two-day storm abated. The danger the final success . . . of the ships of the Royal Navy in coastline of New Jersey and Con­ The story retraced in Mr. Den They begin with what they which he held command. necticut and the south of Long WHOLESALE SUPPLIES ONLY. Doolaanfl h«>k Cook place in the have, t leaky boat, a sunken Nelson was a frequent visitor Island, New York, bore the brunt tall «•:' 1944 In order to end the dredge And because they believe to the Fremantle's aboard and of the storm. The end of At­ w.ir. the Allie* needed the port Jespite the evidence, these men ashore. Lady Hamilton the Fre- lantic City's steel pier was ripped of Antwerp. But Antwerp was succede. But they are lighting mantles knew well, and most of otf, and a 100,000-dollar yacht inaccessible because of the isle of riot only against the sea, but also the senior officers in Nelsons sank in Barnegat Bay, New Jer­ Walchercn, which bristled with against the sort of men to whom time are mentioned .it one time sey. The floods were caused by German hunkers. A landing is everything is grist, who take ad- or another. One can gather many unusually high tides driven by costly in human lives. Walcheren vantage of the misfortunes of fascinating glimpses of life on gale winds. Forty-foot waves beat i* below sea-level. It would be others. It takes all kinds of people board a man o' war -the grand against the beaches, and water enough, the Allies reasoned, to to make a world and particularly old "wooden walls of England"— rose as high as six feet in some bombard tta dykes for the sea to to conquer the sea . . . during the late eighteenth cen­ homes. The storm at sea forced sweep away the occupant and his Meanwhile, the people of Wal­ tury, and intermingled with these three U.S. Mann*-* Corps fighter vain fortifications. cheren have been regulating their are vivid descriptions of the so­ planes down north of Cuba. Their When the bunk opens, the in­ hvei by the rhythm of the tides. cial life in Europe, in England, pilots were saved by surface ves­ habitants of the little island have Twice a day, for fifteen months, and on board the ships of Nelson's sels. The three planes forced been warned, but how can they the water rises up to the first navy. down in the sea had run out of understand the meaning of such storey of their houses . . . The The attack on Tenehffe, the fuel in trying to avoid the storm. a threat? Having been always work is long and disappointing, Battles of Copenhagen and Tra­ sheltered by the dykes, they re­ tor the sea destroys in a few falgar are described through Fre- An Australian study group has gard them as tacts ot nature, like hours the work of several months. mantle's eyes, and there is a copy been formed in Sydney to re­ the sun. When the order of Everything has to be done all of "Lord Nelson's Orders to Cap­ view the United Nations Charter things has never been disturbed, a over again. Old methods have to tain Fremantle" before Copenhag­ and suggest alterations and im­ threat is bound to he abstract. be replaced by new ones, whose en and the Line of Battle at Tra­ provements by 1955. MaMsVi B-sides, where can they go? Dies novelty shocks some of the falgar. —News Item.

21 THf NAVY i«l , EX-NAVAL MEN'S THE SUEZ CANAL ITS IMPORTANCE AS AN INTERNATIONAL WATERWAY. Association off Australia By Rear-Admiral A. D. Nieholl. The Suez Canal it an interna­ peace, to every vessel of com - maintain the depth of the Canal tional waterway of the first im­ merce or war. without distinction and to accommodate the vessels Patron in-Chief: Hfr Majesty The Queen. portance to a sre.it part of the of Mag . . . The Canal shall never of ever-increasing draught that world. The original concession be subjected to the exercise of use it. Erosion of the banks must by the Turkish viceroy of Egypt the right of blockade". be prevented. (Federal Council) regretted that Papua-New Guinea Rorke. J. A Drcwkt and P Halli- to the French engineer Ferdinand The Canal is run by the Canal There is incessant and rapidly- Tru Association has invite J Section will not have their own Can, of Melbourne: G. Ayres, of de Lesseps, in the middle of last H- Excellency the State Gov­ Delegates available but the Asso­ Sydney, and O. Sherwood, of Company Board, which includes increasing traffic through the ? century, allowed the formation of representatives of the principal Canal. In 1869, the year the ernor "t Victoria to perform the ciation in NVw Guinea will ap­ Newcastle. an international company for cut­ rhcirtl opening of the 1954 Fed­ point its proxies from the mem­ Transfers effected last month users. There is a French presi­ Canal was opened, only 68 ships ting and subsequently Operating dent and J1 other directors, II sailed through. In 1939, how­ eral Conference at Melbourne, un bers in Victoria. included Messrs. A. Passmore. the Canal. The Canal is Egyptian from Perth to Adelaide: J. S. French, ten British, four Egyp­ ever, the number of sailings was Monday. ISth January Names Over fifty items have jo tar property, and when the 99-year over 5,000, and in 1952 it was Kitson, Frcmantlc to Leederville- tian, one United States and one of Delegates chosen to represent been submitted for discussion and concession expires in 1968 every­ over 12,000. W'embley, R. E. Tucker and L. Dutch. A complex organisation their respective States are: more than half oi this number thing reverts to Egypt. The main is required to operate the Canal Messrs. F F Anderson (Federal, Callander, from Melbourne to provisions of the .igrecment as it The average weight of mer­ concerns motions dealing with the and to administer its varied Euro­ chandise carried through the President) and G. W. Scott welfare of ex-Servicemen and Perth, and last-named to Sand- affected other countries were that pean and Egyptian employees. (Hon. Federal Secretary), repre­ ringham; F. E. Ryan, from Par- Canal dues should he equal for Canal in the years 1933*7 was 28 their dependants. The duration million tons. In 1952 it was 83 senting the Federal Executive: N ramatta to Crinterhury-Bankstown all nations, and that no particular In addition to the pilots, the of this Conference is expected to company maintains salvage and million tons. Britain is the great­ A. Murphy. H E. Callaghan and last three days. S.S. fcdvanlage would he obtained by any one country. fire services, a fleet of dredgers, est user of the Canal, and today W \\\ Wavman, tor Western New members accepted into The Federal President and approximately one-third of the Australia: E. M. Smith. W. H. Councillors take this opportunity tugs, large numbers of buoys and the Association during the tirst Britain and France acquired lights, mooring facilities, tele­ total numher of ships passing Sullivan, and W. H. Taylor, for of extending the heartiest of Seas­ half of the current year amounted most of the Canal company phone and radio communication, through are from Britain. Oil on's Greetings and best of wishes Victoria: R. Humphry an J W. to $25 persons. During the same shares, and therefore developed a signal stations, roads, waterworks, products account for three-quart Titman. for New South Wale?: period 22 members have passed for the New Year to all Associa­ common interest in the freedom a hospital and medical services. ers of the total merchandise in G. A. McKee and W. A. Palmer. away. Names of those died since tion Officers and their members of'the Canal and also in the pro­ Constant dredging is necessary to transit. for South Australia. W. J. last list published in "The Navy" and to the readers of "The Navy."" per administration of Egyptian af­ Pearce, t L. Clifford, and W. are: Messrs. R. Lucas and R. G.W.S. fairs, which, at the time of the M Macdonald, tor Queensland: M. Berry, of Port Adelaide: J. opening of the Canal, were de­ A. R. Park and G. R Howe, for A. LePage, of Gcelong; J. C. teriorating to a state of bank­ Tasmania: H. N. Campbell and AIRFIELDS TO RING Hill, of Footscray; D. \V. Man AUSTRALIA'S NORTH. ruptcy. There was much discon­ (; E Newport, for ACT. It is '$«>n, W, H. Tomfinson. W. tent in Egypt, and a growth of BEER is food The Minister for the Navy and nationalist spirit. Matters came Air (the Hon. William Mc- to a head in 1832 with an army Mahon) said in the House of revolt and violent anti-foreign for you Representatives on October 7 that disturbances in which more than the Australian Government had 50 Europeans were killed. Neith­ TATTERSALL'S decided to build a chain of air­ er Turkey nor France would take fields circling the north of Aus­ action, and it was left to Britain The V- Caih Consultation — £10.000 tralia. Mr. McMahon said the to deal with the dangerous situa­ First Prize. Drawn every few days. airrieleds would be at Pearce tion. Th* revolt was crushed, and (Western Australia), Coeos Is­ Egypt became virtually a United \ TASMANIA / •nd land (Indian Oeean), Darwin Kingdom protectorate. (Northern Territory), Manus Is­ Free For All. land (Bismarck Archipe 1 a g 0, The 10/- Cash Consultation — X2S.000 Britain, however, consistent First Prize. Drawn evrrv few weeks. north of New Guinea), Garbutt with it,- traditional policy of the (the airport of Townsville, freedom of the seas, was ready Queensland). and Amb c r 1 e y to join other Powers in guaran­ (Queensland). teeing the freedom of the Suez POSTAGE ON TICKETS AND RESILTS TO BE ADDED Canal, and in 1888 a convention The Address . . . "Fame comes only when de­ was signed by nine Powers, in­ served, and then is as inevitable cluding Turkey. The first article "TATTERSAU" GEO. ADAMS NOBART as destiny, fcr it is destiny." of the treaty stated "The Suez CAM.TON AMD UNITIO MMWMIB LIMITS) Canal shall always be free and —Longfellow. •nam basis of popu­ the fully-qualified tradesman. All tion to "The Navy." The lation alone, Australia cannot afford Gulf and Indian Ocean that is, rate is 18/- per 12 issues receive good pay in cash, supple Obtainable from leading from tine sea flank of a Middle post free in the British to maintain huge forces permanent!) nieuted by practically every living East front to the other. Failure Empire. I send Postal Note/ miller arms. But she can and must requirement, on a scale comparing shops and saloons. to make proper strategic use of Cheque/Money Order for afford to maintain at full-strength most favourably with civilian stand the Sue; Canal and the Canal issues. a modern, well-equipped Navy, Zone base in a future war might ards. Pay is adjusted to the cost of SHELLEY 1 SONS mean disaster for Egypt, for the (Add eichange where Army and Air Force which would living, and married men draw Arab countries, and possibly for applicable) be immediately available as the special extra allowances. CORDIAL FACTORY the whole tree world. Commencing from: PTY. LTD. It is for these vital strategic reasons that Britain has Ween un­ JOIN THE NAVY, THE ARMY or THE AIR FORCE MURRAY STREET, willing to remove her troops from Name the Canal Zone without suitable Enquire at the following without obligation: MARRICKVILLE. Address guarantees that the base will be The Recruiting Centre in your city N.S.W. your District Recruiting t'ominittct maintained ready for use and that or write to the Deputy-Direetor i t Recruiting, tl.P.O.. Box XYZ. it the stores, valued at 600,000,000. your capital city. 'Phones: LA 24} 1, LA 5461. and the installations, worth £500/ Date

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