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Tka Mavf OrtoUr, IWI. Mr. Morrison replied: "I think so, but I do not Government, but would be of such a nature that want to be too dogmatic. It is part of the North individual owners would have no direct interest in Atlantic organisation, and we shall be represent- the financial results of the employment to which ed." Pressed further on this point, the Minister their ships were allocated. reiterated that it Was not the Government's inten- For the purposes of day-to-day operation two tion that British shipping should pass to the di- Branches would be established, one in Washing- rection and control of another individual country. ton and one in London, with all participating Gov- It is in relation to this point, we feel, that the ernments having the right to be represented in British nation and the British Commonwealth are both Branches. While the pool of shipping would most concerned and, by such arrangements as are be operated as a single unit, the Branch in Wash- made, most likely to be affected. ington would deal primarily with shipping and That the decision arrived at will, therefore, meet the demands for shipping services of the Western with the general approval of the British people, Hemisphere and the London Branch would deal needs no emphasis. There are good reasons for primarily with shipping and the demands for ship- believing that the last word concerning the direc- ping services in the Eastern Hemisphere. tion and control of British shipping should remain That such a constitution suitably guarantees to in British hands, is regarded by the Admiralty as Britain, in event of war, the meeting of her vital a question of the highest importance. It must requirements in regard to shipping services, ap- always be remembered that the British Merchant pears on the surface to be reasonably well assured. Navy is the main food-conveyor of the British Yet the operation of undue influences should at all people, and as such the wry life-blood of Britain. times be guarded against. It will therefore, no Should it fail in that essential task and service, doubt, be the objective of the British Govern- then Britain would starve and fail. The prospect ment to sec that the needs and interests of the of such an eventuality cannot for one moment be British nation and the needs and interests of the entertained. British Commonwealth, are at all times and in all things reasonably, but adequately, protected. Obviously, in accordance with its directive from Less than this would not be enough. the North Atlantic Council, the North Atlantic Planning Board for Ocean Shipping has agreed set up in war to implement these principles. This on an outline plan for the mobilisation of ocean- LET US SEE THE FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN Vol. 15. OCTOBER, 1951. No. 10. plan is based largely on the arrangements in forcc going shipping in a single pool and its allocation SHIP IN AUSTRALIA. at the end of the last war. on a world-wide basis in time of War or wartime emergency, and for the establishment in such cir- NORTH ATLANTIC SHIPPING POOL. "In March," the Minister went on to say, "a cumstances of an international organisation of a The suggestion that the Festival of Britain ship small working Group of the Planning Board, which civilian character to be named the Defence Ship- "Campania," one of Britain's aircraft carriers, included British representatives, drafted a report ping Authority. should make a tour of the Australian States and It was an excellent idea to institute plans for on the subordinate machinery of the proposed New Zealand in the coming year will meet with the pooling of British and foreign merchant ships authority. This report is to be considered at the Apparently, then, the objective of this Author- the warm approbation of every patriotic Britisher. in time of war within the framework of the North ity would be to ensure that shipping is so organ- next meeting of the Planning Board in London The "Campania," as explained elsewhere in this Atlantic Treaty Organisation. Our generation has later this month. I should add that both sides of ised as to achieve the greatest possible economy in much to learn from the successes and failures of its employment and to render it effectively and issue of "The Navy," has been fitted up as a the British shipping industry are being fully con- floating exhibition ship and is at present touring the past. What, then, docs the institution of sulted at all stages of this planning and are in readily available to meet the needs, both military these plans involve? and civil, of the co-operating nations according to the main sea ports of Britain. Its object Admiral A. K. Scott-Moncrieff, "Kenya" when she has been in inch shells. D.S O., Flag Officer Second in Inchon and there is a strong cama- By day her guns wrecked roads REGULAR INTERSTATE 8C OVERSEAS CARGO 8C MAY'S Command Far East, who com- raderie existing between the two and tore up rail tracks, damaged PASSENGER SERVICES mands the British Commonwealth Services. bridges and destroyed trains. At SAFETY MATCHES. and Allied Fleet in Korean waters, During the patrols the "Kenya," night she lit up the area with star on completion of twelve months Agents for . . . like the rest of the units of the shells and harassed repair gangs almost continuous operational ser- Fleet, has had to maintain constant trying to make good the damage. FLO I IA LAURO (Italian Line)—Cargo and passenger service, • New Improved Blue vice in the United Nations' cam- Australia to Mediterranean ports, via Singapore. vigil against enemy air attacks, Her gunnery was deadly. She hit paign. TASMAN STEAMSHIP CO. LTD.—Refrigerated cargo. Australia Head! mines and possible submarine at- two locomotives, a dicsel locomo- to New Zealand. The "Kenya's" record is out- tack. Her rifle men and close tive, a train and a mobile repair ERIE RAILROAD (U.S.A.)— Australasian Agents. • Improved, Steady-bum- standing. On July 16th of this range gun crews have destroyed unit. She cut the rail track in Head Officc: 19 BRIDGE STREET, SYDNEY year she had had steam on her 15 mines. dozens of placcs, damaged several Phone: BW 4181. ing Wood! main engines for 363 days since bridges and military buildings and Frequently the cruiser has gone killed a number of enemy troops. ALSO AT MELBOURNE AND BRISBANE she left Chatham in October, on errands of mercy, and has effec- WITH AGENTS AT ALL MAIN PORTS IN AUSTRALIA. • Longer-wearing Strik- 1949. During that period she tively answered signals from starv- When she shelled the two loco- ing Surfaces! steamed no fewer than 82,000 ing or sick lighthouse-keepers or motives, one was destroyed but the miles, and in twelve months of villagers on friendly islands. On other, although hit, managed to war service her steaming log re- one occasion she rescued 10 men proceed into a tunnel. The • Uniform High Quality. cords 63,000 miles—four times her from a "ditched" American air- normal peace-time steaming. "Morecambe Bay's" gunners NIGHT TROTTING craft, and she has helped hundreds promptly attacked the tunnel and 1st FOR VALUE. As one of the major units in the of refugees to escape from the blocked the entrance. The diesel AT Allied blockading force, she has Communists in fishing craft, and locomotive and the mobile repair played and is still playing a big has "mothered" many a small ship unit were destroyed and the train HAROLD PARK part in sealing off Korea from the of the Republic of Korea Navy. was set on fire. sea. With aircraft carriers, other The "Kenya" has a young ship's In a message to the ship cruisers, destroyers and frigates, company—young, that is, in age, Admiral Martin said the exploits the "Kenya" has helped to make but already veterans in service. of her gunners had been followed Next Meetings: this a 100 per cent, blockade. ALEX H. MACKIE The majority have been with the with interest and admiration. ship for nearly two years. They They had shown alertness and an NOVEMBER 1st., 7th., 12th„ 17th„ 21st. and 29th. ENGINEER The North Koreans will not forget the "Kenya's" guns in 19 are proud and jealous of their aggressive spirit. bombardments, including the ship's record. SPECIAL BUS FROM AND TO THE CITY FOR ALL MEETINGS. 9-11-3 THERRY ST., This is but one incident among heavy shelling of Inchon before For nine months of the war the a number in which British Com- MELBOURNE, VICTORIA and during the landing there last "Kenya" was commanded by Cap- monwealth ships sharing continu- September. The "Kenya" has tain P. W. Brock, D.S.O., R.N., ously in the preponderantly Amer- fired at the enemy nearly 3,000 who was relieved in April of this can siege of Wonsan and Chong- six-inch, 2,242 four-inch and year by Captain T. E. Podger, jin have played a successful part. 14,240 forty - millimetre shells. R.N. Night and day interdiction fire Nearly all this shelling was ob- has cut and crippled one of the served fire, and "Kenya" is official- METAL STAMPINGS The British frigate, H.M.S. enemy's main supply lines bring- PARDY PROVIDORES OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS ly credited with having killed "Morecambe Bay," after 15 days many hundreds of enemy troops, ing ammunition, troops and pro- foe the train - wrecking bombardment on visions to his front line. WHOLESALE FRUIT AND VEGETABLE SUPPLIERS destroyed many shore batteries, the East Coast of Korea, has also MOTOR AND AIRPLANE barracks, war factories, ammuni- During this time and since, air- Cnr. PIER & LACKEY STREETS, HAYMARKET. MA 3163. INDUSTRIES. been the recipient of congratula- tion and supply dumps, pill-boxes, tions. The sender on this occasion craft from H.M.S. "Glory" have and entrenched positions. was Vice-Admiral H. M. Martin, often spotted for the "Morecambe Supplier, of Ships' Scons Commander of the U.S. 7th Fleet. Bay" and blasted with rockets Virtually all of the "Kenya's" what was left of the target. Sea FRUIT AND VEGETABLES : POULTRY FISH service has been done on the West The "Morecambe Bay," whose DRIED STORES, Etc. Furies and Fireflies from the coast with its fiercc tides and dan- Captain is Commander James "Glory" have also ranged over the Contractors to: Foe >0 gerous shoals, and the ship's com- Farnol, D.S.C., R.N., and who West Coast from North of Pyon- HOSPITALS t HOTELS i RESTAURANTS FJ 3629. pany refer to Inchon as their was formerly Commander-in- gyang to the rear of the enemy NAVY t ARMY : AIR FORCE. second home port. Most of its Charge of Gunnery Training at lines, raking with rocket or can- personnel have been ashore there the Royal Navy's Gunnery School, non fire wherever a target showed.

TW Navy 176 Oetotsor, 1*51. » such logs is so valuable that, on A SAFE COURSE occasions, after its consideration they find the excitement of the sea. at a preliminary inquiry, the Min- "TINGIRA" MEMORY ships and boats a romantic calling, By Douglas \ermont, Gen. Secretary, N.E.O.U. ister of Transport has found it By D. J. Mort (Ex-"Tingira" Boy) even though Sea Cadet Service is (From the "Merchant Navy Journal") necessary to order a further voluntary. Divisional Executive Officer, N5.W. Division. formal investigation. They also It is surprising that a number of enable the officers concerned to Only those who have been people still believe that the "Tin- One of the most difficult posi- At a subsequent inquiry the show in a clear and undisputed I was accepted for the Navy, and tions in which a junior navigating master's certificate was suspend- through the training ship "Tin- instead of gazing from the shore gira" was a reformatory ship for manner the way they carried out gira" will realise what a valuable officer (M.N.) can find himself ed for two years. In its findings, at the "Tingira" could proudly uncontrollable boys. This idea was their duties. part of Australian naval training may develop when he begins to the court stated that it had no gaze at the shore from her snow- .undoubtedly caused by the fact The recording of actual events service has passed on. feel some personal concern about doubt that the countermanding white decks. that "Tingira" was at one time by watch-keeping officers is i Apart from the romantic aspect "Sobroan," a reformatory ship. a particular course which he has of the previous action taken by Training was strict, and a few comparatively simple matter, but of training afloat, the "Tingira" Later, however, she was taken over been instructed to maintain. the 2 3-year-old second officer led months made boys hardy and the other problem outlined above attracted the "Sea Mind" of the by the Navy and converted into a to the latter taking the view that ready for drafting to the sea-going His immediate duty is, of is one which obviously bristles boy. I well remember, just prior "Naval Training Ship,' 'to which the master had sized up the situ- units of the Service. Our young course, to haul out from the near- with difficulties. On the one to my entry into the Navy, how only boys of undoubtedly good ation and knew best. Conse- minds readily assimilated instruc- est danger and send for the mast- hand, every shipmaster is entitled I would longingly gaze at the mag- character were admitted. er. quently the second officer was tions, and, above all, th: routine caused not to take the action to the loyal support and co-opera- nificent white ship as she swung After doing this, experience tion of his officers in the efficient to her moorings in Rose Bay, and gave us the right spirit of There is something about train- which he otherwise would have obedience and the necessary ac- shows that—on fortunately rare carrying out of orders based on feel that I would give anything to ing afloat that can never be sub- done. tivity required for efficient service occasions—he may be unfortunate the experience and professional be aboard her. stituted by shore training. Whilst to superior officers. afloat the sailor very rarely wants enough to suffer an implied re- The problem described above knowledge of the one who is ul- To watch the spic-an-span boats buke by having the ship put back is one of extreme complexity and timately responsible for the safety And so it is with Sea Cadets to do his "Depot Time." This, running to and from the ship, and though, is essential for his advance- on her original course and the normally it would be better, per- of a ship, her crew, and an often to see smart boys drilling in Lyne who, like the "Tingira" boys of ment. All the schools are situated watch handed back to him, when haps, for no reference to be made very valuable cargo. Park stirred a desire to a'dopt the past years, take to training more readily than their older brothers, on shore at Flinders Naval Depot, his position becomes extremely to such an incident, as such ques- On the other hand, a watch- sea as a career. because they have not had time to which is a self-contained "town," embarrassing. In addition, any tions can unquestionably best be keeping officer knows that his ac- It was a proud day for me when develop on other lines. As well. where the sailor has every com- future action he might feel im- settled by the tact and good sense tions a.e also liable to be consid- pelled to take to safeguard the of the shipmasters and officers fort and facility to aid him in his ered and examined at a formal in- study for higher ratings. ship will be naturally affected by concerned. Unfortunately, how- vestigation should he be involved such an incident. ever, on two occasions in recent in a casualty. He knows, too, Like the passing of the old months the question has arisen at that the higher the grade of cer- "Australia," sunk off Sydney Exactly this position developed courts of inquiry held in this last year in a ship on passage tificate he holds, and the longer Heads, the passing of the 'Tin- country, and it is felt that there his experience at sea has been, gira" brought a sigh from many from Sydney, Cape Breton, to may be a few junior watchkcep- Montreal. The ship had been on the more responsibility he is ex- of the old hands who had served ing officers who would appreciate pected to assume, and the greater in her, and I feel sure that many a course of 302 degrees, from some guidance as to their duties which she was put on to 298 de- the part he has to play in ensuring of us would like to see her in full and responsibilities if they have the vessel's safety. commission again, or some ship grees. The second officer, who reason to believe such a situation was in charge at the time, took like her, once more training the is developing. The reconciliation of these in- boys for our fighting ships. a fix by cross-bearings and de- terests on the fortunately rare oc- If the routine for training boys cided that the vessel was getting Undoubtedly, one of the great- casions when they may perhaps in the Sea Cadet Corps proves in- too close into the land. est safeguards from any officer's be considered to conflict is, as I strumental in inspiring the sea- He -therefore hauled out to point of view is the making of have stated above, a matter for minded with a desire to serve 308 degrees. full and correct entries in ships' the utmost good sense and tact afloat, it is hoped that this training log books and other contempor- on the part of those concerned. A few minutes later the master ary records. This point was will tn some way assist them to came on to the bridge and put touched on in the notes which It is certainly a matter on realise what is before them, and the vessel back on her original were featured in the Summer, which there should be no misun- that it will give them an under- course of 298 degrees before go- 1950, issue of the "Merchant derstanding as between a master standing of the discipline they will ing below again. Half-an-hour Navy Journal," when I stated and his officers, and experience be expected to observe. This pre- later the second officer obtained that: has shown that the majority of liminary knowledge prevents a other bearings which put the ves- watchkeepers, in efficiently—and shock when one is thrown into the sel in very close. The master re- "The value of well-kept scrap contentedly-run ships arc fully rigid discipline and routine which turned momentarily to the bridge, logs in those ships which keep aware of what is expected of them greet recruits to a Naval Training altering course to 314 degrees. them cannot be over-emphasised. and of the amount of understand Establishment. They have every Thirty minutes later cross bear- They provide permanent evidence ing approval which they will re- convenience at hand at their ings again put the vessel close-in of action taken prior to any in- ceive from a captain after taking Depot, and with a little knowledge and, despite hauling out 6 de- cident involving the vessel, and well-judged and prudent "immed- of their duty towards their supe- grees, the vessel stranded within experience in the past has shown iate action" to avert a dangerous riors they should be very content- five minutes. that the information contained in situation. ed and happy during their traioinB N«r TraMgf », "Tiagin" ^ W* ^ fa* * „ ^ ^ period. Tka Navy OOakw. INI. CONDITIONS AT SEA IN MERCHANT NAVY ADDED REWARD FOR ADDED RESPONSIBILITY.

Sir Gilmour Jenkins, Permanent being developed very rapidly and Concluding on an appropriate, Secretary to the British Ministry soon we should have all important but long-overdue note ancnt the of Transport, speaking at the 94th ships and a great many smaller prevailing inequality of treatment, Annual General Meeting of the ships fitted with radar. Sir Gilmour stressed the need for Maritime Marine Servicc Associa- There had also been great de- a new deal for shipmasters, and tion, had some very pertinent velopment of the Decca Navigator, said: things to say recently on condi- with which equipment over 600 "It is very gratifying to see the tions at sea which, he said, "had ships had been fitted, and there added rewards which are in con- improved out of all knowledge in were new chains being developed templation for added responsibili- the last few years." both in the north and south-west ties. There has been inevitably a Everybody, Sir Gilmour pointed of these (British) islands which, great tendency in recent years, in out, had taken an enormous in- when finished, towards the end of raising the standing of lower-paid terest in the improvement of crew this year, would give a complete people, to narrow the gap between accommodation and amenities at coverage of all the water round them and the people who are sea, and he did not think it was our coasts and for a good distance carrying great responsibilities, and too much to say that some of the to sea. The Ministry of Transport it is very gratifying to see that accommodation for seamen that he had instituted, in consultation and tendency is being reversed, in the had seen would have been regard- in conjunction with the industry, present instance, and proper re- ed with envy by first-class passen- training courses for ships' officers ward and proper regard being paid gers in passengf liners not so in the use of radar for observation to the responsibility of the people many years ago. The new stan- purposes, and also in the mainten- at the top." dards were so high and had been ance of radar. There were five achieved voluntarily that they courses going on all the time for scarcely required any regulations, each of these, and over 1,200 ob- R.A.N. ELECTRICAL but the Ministry of Transport was server's and nearly 500 mainten- SCHOOL. now engaged in drafting regula- ance certificates had been issued. Extension To Be Opened At tions to put the matter on a legal A new paper was being inserted in Flinders Naval Depot. the master's examination dealing basis for the ratification of the An extension of the electrical with the general principles of elec- International Labour Convention school at Flinders Naval Depot at tronics and the use of radar ap- on Crew Space and Accommoda- which instruction in radio main- paratus, and, also, the master's and tion in ships. In the task of draft- tenance would be given was open- mate's examinations were being ing and getting things straight ed on August 24 by the Third —& m n .gjt^grr sst - revised at the moment to take ac- they had had enormous help from Naval Member (Engineer Rear- count of a new form of abridged both sides of the industry. Admiral J. W. Wishart, C.B.E.), JOYOUS WELCOME FOR "WARRAMUNGA' nautical almanac. who was accompanied by the Di- Comfort aboard ship was very There were many joyous scenes sailors jumped over the ship's side important, but was not so impor- These things, continued S i r rector of the Naval Electrical when H.M.A.S. "Warramunga" welcome on your return from Gilmour, were all examples of the Branch (Captain (L) A. M. and ran to embrace their sweet- Korean waters and to congratulate tant as safety, continued Sir was welcomed home in Sydney on hearts and wives. When the ship Gilmour. extent to which we had all to keep Newcombe, R.A.N.) In announc-' September 6 after over twelve you on your distinguished service abreast of technological advances, ing this recently the Minister tied up, relatives and friends rush- - under arduous conditions with the months' service in Korean waters. ed on board. Soon children were In that direction there had been and their value was practically for the Navy (The Hon. W. Several hundred relatives and United Nations forces." great advances, partly arising out nothing unless people were trained McMahon) said that, until now, playing on the deck with Japanese friends, mostly women and chil- toys; and in the captain's cabin The Commanding Officer of the of experience during the war in in their use and tested in examina- ratings of the Royal Austra- dren, awaited the ship as she scientific knowledge, and the ap- tions. They could then come lian Navy had received radio several mechanical bears were lum- "Warramunga," Captain O. H swung into her berth at Garden bering ponderously about. Beecher, D.S.C., R AN., replied: plication of that knowledge which along with the proper qualifica- maintenance instruction at the Island, and almost everyone, both went on during the war. All those tions, and owners would know navigation direction school, H.M. Most of the crew were given "Your message on behalf of the on board and ashore, was soon overnight leave, and about two- things had been now harnessed to they had the men they wanted, A.S. "Watson," at South Head, waving and calling as they recog- Government is much appreciated the causes of peace. There had with the proper qualifications, 'o Sydney, as a temporary measure. thirds of the men went on long by all in 'Warramunga.' We are nised those they had for so long leave the next day. been great development in the use take full advantage of every de- The term "radio" included wire- been waiting to greet. happy to be home." vice which was invented in these of radar, and those present at the less, radar, certain navigational At Darwin, on her way home, In her period of service in days for the safety, as well as the The picture was a gay and hap- meeting, particularly ships' cap- aids and other related subjects. the "Warramunga" received the Korean waters the "Warramunga" comfort, of the people who went py one as the Eastern Command tains, might be interested to know With the opening of the exten- following message of greeting and steamed over 70,000 miles. She down to the sea in ships. . . . Band, with customary fine presen- that there were now over 1,000 sion It would be possible to in- congratulation from the Minister holds the record among Britiah Our life depended on the Mer tation, played "There's A Boy of our ships fitted with radar, and struct a large number of ratings for the Navy (the Hon. W Commonwealth ships for the ships were being fitted now at the chant Navy and the proper use of at one time in the various sec- Coming Home On Leave" and McMahon). "Abodaba Honeymoon." greatest number of miles steamed rate of 25 a month. Its use was our ships. tions of the electrical school. "On behalf of the Government A* the destroyer drew alongside. and for the highest total steamed I wish to extend to you a hearty in one month—8,625 mile*. TW Navy iMn, mi. /

"SYDNEY" SAILS FOR KOREAN WATERS. THE BRITISH SHIPPING INDUSTRY The aircraft carrier H.M.A.S. DEATH OF COMD. F. W. NIXSON, O.B.L QUESTIONS OF TONNAGE REPLACEMENT AND OPERATING COSTS "Sydney" "dressed ship" and a (Adapted from "The Navy League Digest") aquadron of 12 planes flew low in In addition to his naval and The question of replacement of salute, presenting an impressive It is with deep regret we an- ard for discharging. Today it various amendments were put nounce the death of Commander general nautical interests, Com- tonnage and the effect thereon of costs as much as 30s. to get one sight, as the great warship moved mander Hixson was a director of down on behalf of the industry. F. W. Hixson, O.B.E., at the age the British Exchequer policy in standard loaded and 20s. to 25s. After some debate in the House down Sydney Harbour on her the Permanent Trustee Company, regard to initial allowances has way to Korean waters. of 89 years, following a short ill- to get it discharged, and the time of Commons the Economic Sec- ness. the United Insurance Company, been one of the principal topics in spent in the port is, as a rule; The carrier was given a stirring the Illawarra and South Coast retary to the Treasury agreed to Commander Hixson was a son of British shipping circles in recent much longer . . . Before the war farewell by hosts of the crew's Steam Navigation Company Ltd., look into the matter further, to the late Captain Francis Hixson, weeks. Bound up with this, how- bunker coal cost 12s. to 15s. per sec "whether it is possible for u* relatives and friends who lined the and the Newcastle Walisend Coal ever, is the question of operating ton on the Continent and in the wharf and the Domain foreshores R.N., who was stationed in Syd- Company. to agree that ships contracted to ney in the fifties of last century, costs, which continue to increase. United Kingdom . . . Now ship- be bought before Budget day at Woolloomooloo. The "Syd- It was stated at the annual gen- and who afterwards took charge He was also a member of the owners have to pay 95s. per ton shall get the benefit." ney" looked bright and formidable eral meeting of the Union-Castle of the Sydney shore establishment Council of the Sydney Church of for bunker coal in British coal as she proceeded slowly into the Company, reported in the "Ship- ports and $24 in Poland ... I am In a comment on June 6, 1951, of the Navy. England Grammar School. In the "Shipping World" wrote stream, assisted by two tugs. A 1920 he was made an Officer of building and Shipping Record," sure that the man in the street cheer went up and the whole scene Commander Hixson will always 14th June, 1951, that: "The voy- that: "there is no doubt that un- be remembered for his keen in- the Order of the British Empire in does not realise what the increase was animated by hundreds of age costs of Union-Castle ships in in coal price alone means . . . less the shipping industry is ex- terest in naval and nautical-affairs, recognition of his work for the empted from the suspension of waving handkerchiefs and flags Australian Comforts Fund. 1950 showed an increase of more When we turn to overseas coun- when the carrier steamed ahead. both at home and abroad. He was than £1,200,000 over similar the initial allowances, at least for At the funeral service held for tries—Australia, New Zealand, The Battle class destroyer honorary secretary of the Navy costs in 1949. This was mainly a sufficiently reasonable time the late Commander in the chapel India, Brazil, and so forth—re- H.M.A.S. "Tobruk" sailed with League of Australia, chairman of accounted for by the increased ahead, the development of the of the Sydney Church of England cord delays in those ports are our her, having practically at the last the Royal Shipwreck Relief and cost of oil fuel, repairs and main- British Merchant Navy will be Grammar School, on September chief worry. Never was expen- moment taken the place of Humane Society, chairman of the tenance, wages, port charges, and sive tonnage worked under such seriously handicapped at a critical 19, about 100 friends and repre- H.M.A.S. "Bataan," which was to Council of the Sydney Sailors' cargo handling. Unfortunately, difficulties. In Australia and New moment ... It is unrealistic to sentatives of organisations with treat the Merchant Navy as sep- have been her escort but which de- Home for many years, and a mem- so far from falling, the trend of Zealand, vessels have had to stay which the late Commander was' arate from rearmament, since an veloped boileT trouble at her trials ber of the board of Royal Naval costs continues definitely upwards. two to three months in port to House, Sydney, being largely in- associated attended. discharge and load cargoes which adequate and efficient Merchant some few days before she was to The matter of costs was the Navy is indispensable to the exist- have sailed. strumental in the success of that It was an impressive service. A in a modern port could be dealt body. choir of boys from the school led principal subject of the president- ence of the nation in peacetime, The 'Tobruk" and "Sydney" ial address at the annual meeting with in less than two weeks . . . He became a Commander in the the singing, and the service was let alone in time of war. engaged in continuous exercises on of the Baltic and International During the war we lost large num- their way to Korea. The first of New South Wales Naval Brigade, conducted by the school chaplain, bers of our best vessels, and for The tendency of British Min- the Rev. Nigel Backhouse. Among Maritime Conference, reported the exercises began almost as soon which was a volunteer naval re- many of those which remained isters of State in the past has been the mourners were Mr. and Mrs. the "Shipping World" of June as the ship* passed through Sydney serve raised and commanded by 13. The retiring president, Mr. it was very difficult, and in many to think of war primarily in terms his father. F. D. Hixson (son and daughter- cases impossible, to get the ord- of tanks and man-power and to Heads. in-law), and Lady Fairfax (sis- Hogberg, of the Svea Company, Stockholm, mentioned that, while inary maintenance and dasaifia- forget that Britain is a land com- ter). The late Mrs. Geoffrey tion. All this work had to be pletely surrounded by the sea. Fairfax was also a sister. gross rates of freight were at present high, they did not neces- completed after the war. Owing In the last analysis, it should PAUL & GRAY PTY. LTD. In a fine tribute to the late sarily bring a high net freight to to this, and the orders placed for never be forgotten that victory Commander, Mr. L. C. Robson, shipowners. Among the reasons new ships, the time of delivery for an island Power rests today headmaster of the school, referred and prices have increased enorm- on sea-air power and, particular- 82 SUSSEX STREET, SYDNEY for this he mentioned: "the particularly to the deceased's work steadily increasing cost of build- ously. The amount of capital in- ly, on ships capable of carrying for the school and for Royal ing and repairing vessels, of op- vested in ships in different coun- foodstuffs and raw materials with- Naval House. erating them, exorbitant bunker- tries is very great ..." out which it cannot live and "He belonged to a generation in ing prices and the heavy expenses Sght. which the standards of industry, resulting from recent social re- As a comment on Mr. Hog- And this, of course, applies in devotion, and integrity were very forms on board ships, not to berg's last quoted remark, it was more or less degree to Australia, high, and he was a fine representa- speak of the long delays and slow stated at the P. ff O meeting on which is also an island nation. tive of that generation," said Mr. turn round of ships in many ports the 6th June last that at 31st The maintenance of our sea com- Robson. . . . Turns of one or two weeks' March, 1951, the group's ship- munications by means of adequate The service was followed by waiting for a berth are not un- building commitments amounted merchant shipping and an ade- cremation at the Northern Suburbs common." to £30,000,000. quate and efficient fighting navy, Crematorium. The promised amendment to with its sea-air power, to safe- On stevedoring costs Mr. Hog- the British Government's Finance SHIP CHANDLERS, SAILMAKERS Be IMPORTERS Commander Hixson will be guard it on the seas, are the prime berg quoted the sawnwood trade Bill, to cover the question of in- greatly missed by his many friends essentials to the survival of Aim* * YACHT REQUISITES OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS from Finland to the United King- itial allowance* on ships, was and acquaintances and by the or- tralia in time of war. A* we hm dom: "Before the war we figurad brought in on June 8, 1951. The RIGGING AND SPLICING A SPECIALITY ganisations to whose welfare he said before: "It is for us newt with 4s. to 6*. per standard for term* of it did not, however, sat- devoted so much of his life. to forget the strategic lmportanoa. loading and about 7a. per stand- isfy the flipping industry, and of that historical lesson." ADMIRALTY HEADS MAKE HISTORIC FLIGHTS. MARITIME NEWS OF THE r A Place to Remember... During visits recently to H.M.S. is the impoeing M.L.C. building, situ- "Illustrious" (the Royal Navy ated in Sydney's central Martin Place trials aircraft carrier) and naval and on the corner of Castlereagh Street. The M.L.C. provides a life assurance air establishments in the South of service, embracing an attractive range England the Ministerial heads of of policies designed to meet all the the Admiralty made flights of his- needs and emergencies of your future. torical significance. The Company's history extends over WORLD sixty years, and it provides life assur- Lord Pakenham became the first From our Correspondents in ance protection to holders of over a Lord of the Admiralty to land on LONDON and NEW YORK million policies. the deck of an aircraft carrier at sea when he flew from Northolt By airport near London to the "Illus- trious" in the English Channel AIR MAIL The after attending a meeting of the British Cabinet. Earlier in the HUGE WAVE BATTERS month Mr. L. J. Callaghan became plaints against them. The "Kyoyo in service again. They have been SHIP'S OFFICER TO the first Parliamentary Secretary Maru" was caught red-handed bought by German shipowner! MLC DEATH. of the Admiralty to fly in an air- poaching trochus shell in the Her- for use as school ships carrying craft which had been catapulted The first mate of the Swedish mit Islands, west-north-west of some 60 to 80 officer-cadets, but into the air. freighter "Barramunda" was bat- ManuS Island. will also be employed for the car- The MUTUAL LIFE and CITIZENS' tered to death by a gigantic wave riage of cargo. The "Pamir" and While his aircraft circled above while the ship was between Cape- BERMUDA LINER the carrier before landing on, the "Passat" were originally built at Assurance Co. Ltd. town and Australia. The "Barra- "OCEAN MONARCH". Hamburg in 1905 and 1911 re- Head Office: First Lord was accorded a 17 guns Tnunda" arrived in Sydney on The new Furness Bermuda lin- salute — probably the first gun spectively, and their new home Comer of Castlereagh Street and Martin Place, SYDNEY August 22. The ship came direct er "Ocean Monarch," which re- port is to be Lubeck. Branch Office. in:— salute fired in these circumstances to Sydney from Gothenburg, cently made her inaugural voy- — by the "Illustrious." Melbourne, Brisbane, AdeUide, Perth, Hobart, Wellington, N.z. Sweden, after a storm-tossed 42- age, is said to be an outstanding EXPANSION OF The Flag Officer Air (Home), day voyage. The officer killed example of British commercial en- JAPANESE TRADE. Vice-Admiral G. E. Lambe, C.B., terprise, and of the fine crafts- was Erik Olsson, 40, of Gothcr- Two official moves recently by C.V.O., who had embarked in the manship of British shipyards. Al- burg, and he had sailed on the Occupation authorities opened the carrier at Portsmouth, met Lord though by modern standards a Swedish - Australian Line, to way to Japan to resume full-scale Pakenham when he stepped from relatively small ship, she has cost which the "Barramunda" belongs, trading operations with the worM. the aircraft and accompanied him approximately the same as the for six years. The wave, tre- They were: (1) The signing of on a tour of the ship. famous Western Ocean "Olym- mendous in its volume and force, a sterling payments agreement be- pic." "If the world remains MAYFAIR DISTRIBUTORS After lunching on board, the swept across the deck one night tween Japan and Britain; and (2) peaceful," writes Captain W. H. First Lord and the Flag Officer Air and caught Olsson, who suffered An Occupation Headquarters an- (Home) took off from the carrier Coombs, C.B.E., President of the a deep wound in the groin and - nouncement that from September Officers (M.N.) Federation, "she and flew to the R.N. Air Station, died twenty minutes later from 1 Japan would assume control of PTY. LTD. will presumably spend the whole Yeovil ton, Somerset, escorted by a internal bleeding. her sterling balances. These of her working life plying from Squadron of naval aircraft. Lord amount to somewhere near £40,- JAPANESE POACHERS. New York to Bermuda or farther Pakenham later went to the Flag 000,000 sterling. Distributors of the Officer's headquarters at Lee-on - The District Court at Manus afield, never to return to her Solent and on the following day Island on August 28 fined the x country of origin. Throughout R.A.F. TANKER he met other Flag Officers of the captain of the Japanese vessel the ages, British ships have had COMMENDED. "MAYFAIR" Canned Hams and Royal Air Command and Com- years, and will make added de- to go in pursuit of remunerative The Royal Air Force tanker manding Officers of many Naval without a licence within Austra- trade in support of Britain's econ- "Wave Laird" recently returned Air Stations and establishments. lian territorial waters. An oflr omy, and to the enhancement of to the United Kingdom after hav- other Perk Products cial of the Department of Terri- her prestige." ing spent some fme on Eastern The Parliamentary Secretary tories announced in Canberra at was catapulted in a naval aircraft service under the command of the the time that the ship would be LAST OF THE WIND- Office: at Farnborough when he began his Commander in-Chief, Far East impounded until the fine was JAMMERS IN GERMAN flight to the "Illustrious." He also Naval Station. In a report on paid, and if it is not paid within HANDS. 18 MARTIN PLACE, SYDNEY, N.S.W. landed on the carrier's deck as she the services of the "Wave Laird" 60 days the vessel will bccomc The former Finnish barqpes the Comman'k-r in-Chief has com- was steaming in the English Chan- the property of the British nel. Accompanying the Parlia- "Pamir" and "Passat," 'old-time mented on the excellent manner ^ Abattoirs: Crown. The District Commis- sailors to Australian ports, and in which the ehip's company car- mentary Secretary was the Vice- sioner at Manus also detained the Controller (Air), Rear-Admiral recently sold for breaking up, are ried. out their duties, and die captain and the crew pending value of the work done by the Homebus!\ N.S.W., and Bendigo, Victoria B. M. C Abel-Smith, C.B., now to be reconditioned, fitted investigation of further corn- ship in those waters. C.V.O with auxiliary motors and placed Wfl. YACHT'S WORLD CRUISE. ana" (11,063 tons), off Pine Peak conduct of the Second Officer in The Sydney yacht, 45 ft. Island, Q'ld, on 3rd January of that he failed (a) to carry out cutter "Waltzing Matilda," an- this year. The officers were the the Master's orders; (b) to as- chored off Cowes, Isle of Wight, master, the pilot, and the third of- certain whether the ship was in a on August 6 after a 46-day voy- ficer. The "Palana" went aground dangerous position; (c) to ascer- age from Brazil. On a world on a voyage from Brisbane to tain the position of the ship, rela- cruise in "Walczing Matilda" are Townsville, but was refloated tive to the Horseshoe ReeT; (d) Phil Davenport, his wife, Rosita, within a few days, and, as told in to inform the Master of his doubt his brother, Keith, and Don the April issue of "The Navy," regarding the position of the Brown. The cutter left Sydney subsequently towed to Sydney ship; (e) to alter course; and in October, 1950, and travelled for repair. The court found that (f) to stop or go astern. His by way of New Zealand, Cape the ship ran aground on an un- Certificate of Service was sus- Horn, the Straits of Magellan chartered reef, and that the acci- pended for six months. (after heavy storms had beaten dent was caused by an unexpect- the craft back from Cape Horn), ed set to the north. "CUTTY SARK" MOORED Buenos Aires, and Rio de Janeiro. AT ROTHERITHE. Since their arrival in England they U.K. BUILDS SHIPS FOR The famous old clipper "Cutty have competed in yacht races US. Sark," notable in shipping history round the English coast. The first of four 12,000-ton for her fast Australia-England prefabricated motor tankers be- voyages in the days of sail, was RADAR TRAINING CENTRE. ing built in England for an surveyed recently in dry dock, the A radar training centre has American company was launched London County Council having been opened at the Watt Mem- in September, a mere seven allocated about £3,000 for the orial School, Greenock. This is months after the keel was laid. cost, to ascertain whether it was the first radar installation set up in The four ships are part of a 20 possible for her to be preserved. the West of Scotland for the She proved to be in remarkably ; million dollar order placed by the training of students in this partic Overseas Tankship Corporation, good condition regarding her hull, ular subject, and the area cover- New York, with British ship- and is to be moored off Rother- ed by the scanner includes the yards. hithe during the Festival of Brit- whole of the Clyde anchorage, an ain. interesting one at all times. NAVAL COURT FINDING DECCA RADAR FITTED TO ON M.V. "LAUTOKA". GROWTH OF THE M.T. "ATHELRING." TANKER FLEET. At a Naval Court held at Vila, One of the best representatives On a number of occasions dur- ,Ncw Hebrides, it was found that of.modern tanker design is the ing late years, in speeches, in of- the cause of the stranding of the motor vessel "Athelring," owned ficial reports, and in periodicals merchant M.V. "Lautoka" of by the Athel Line, Limited, and such as the "Merchant Navy Suva in Vila Harbour was due to built on the Tyne by R. and W. Journal," as well as in this jour- the error of the Master in neg- Hawthorn Leslie and Co., Limit- nal, reference has been made to lecting (a) to verify the i-xact ed. Among her many up-to-date the rapid and unprecedented position of his ship; (b) to alter fittings is the ship's planned navi growth of the tanker section of course; (c) to reduce speed; (d) gational Decca radar installation. the British shippin- fleet. This to keep a proper look-out; and The "Athelring" is one of 100 tendency has been strikingly (e) to heave the lead. For these tankers totalling more than 500,- brought into focus recently by the omissions the Master was severe- 000 gross tons being fitted with announcement that the Anglo- ly reprimanded. The Third Of- the Decca radar navigational aid Saxon Petroleum Company have ficer was found to be in error in equipment. neglecting to verify the exact po- placed orders for the building of Chid Patty Officer 6. Gr.tr helps WORLD JEEP VOYAGERS. no fewer than forty-six tankers of sition of the ship, and was repri- TANKER SHUTTLE SERVICE. Able Seaman Kan Simmar into kit a total dead weight of nearly manded. Those two adventurous jeep immersion suit on board the British 900,000 tons. All of these will voyagers, Australian-born Ben Six fast tankers will run a Submarine "Thorough" off tho MARINE COURT INQUIRY Carlin and his 27-year-old Amer- and the refinery will probably be Sydney Heeds. These suit*, an be delivered within the next four shuttle service between oil fields addition to the standard ON S.S. "IVOR JENNY". ican wife, recently completed an- operating at full capacity in two to years and will make added de- and the projected new £7,500,000 three years time. It will produce are made of e very light weter- A Marine Court of Inquiry other stage of their journey by proof material, bright yellow in mands on the manning facilities Vacuum Oil Company's refinery half a million gallons of petrol- of the British Merchant Navy. was held at Suva, Fiji, in Janu- crossing the English Channel in to be built at Altona, near Mel- colour, so thet they can be easily ary of this year to investigate the their jeep. They left Calais in eum products a day—seven times observed from the air. It is so bourne, Victoria. These tankers the output of the existing Vacuum designed thet the wearer is kept "PALANA" INQUIRY. cfrcumstances of the stranding of stormy weather and sprung a leak will carry 15,000 tons of crude oil refinery at Altona, built in 1949. quite dry, escept for his feco, A court of marine inquiry held the s.s. "Ivor Jenny" on Horse- when half way across. The Car- during his period of immartion, each and arrive at Altona at the The new refinery will produce 60 recently exonerated three officers shoe Reef, near Suva, in Decemb- lins, who have already crossed the and on reaching the surfaca H is rate of at least one a week. The millions gallons of motor spirit a from blame for the grounding of er, 1950. The Court found that Atlantic, plan to sail their amphib- crude oils would come from Dutch aatily inflated and will ramaili year, also turbo jet oil, diesel fuel, afloat for an indofinita pariod. the P. and O. cargo ship "Pal- the stranding was due to the mis- ious jeep around the world. New Guinea and the Middle East, power kerosene, and fuel oil. —"S.M.H.*-

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FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN. "Sea And Ship*" Exhibition. One of the pavilions at the NEWS OF THE WORLD'S RAVIES TATTERS ALL'S South Bank Exhibition of the Festival of Britain, on show prac- 5/- CASH CONSULTATIONS tically since the day of opening, US. ROCKET PLANE ATOM-POWERED to be issued when required, Alao £10,000 FIRST PRIZE is called "Sea and Ships." It BREAKS WORLD'S SUBMARINE. in readiness for Korea's arctic Drawn every few days traces the story of shipbuilding ALTITUDE RECORD. The United States Government winter weather, a big supply of and and marine engineering in Britain An A.A.P. cable from San announced recently that a con- warm clothing for deck and air throughout more or less all their 10/- CASH CONSULTATIONS Francisco on August 31 reported tract had been awarded the Elec- personnel was taken aboard and history. It also shows how passen- that the U.S. Navy the night be- tric Boat Company, of Groton, more will be loaded in Far East- £25,000 FIRST PRIZE gers and freight are transported. fore announced that a rocket- ern ports. Drawn every few weeks. Connecticut, for the construction A navigation display has been powered Douglas Skyrocket plane of the first atom-powered submar- arranged to convey the atmosphere on August 15 broke the world al- ine. No details were given, but NEW TERM FOR of a ship's bridge with typical titude record of 72,394 feet and it is believed that the submarine, "COMBINED OPERATIONS". Postage on tickets and results to be added. equipment on view in the chart exceeded 1,000 miles per hour. because of the weight of the It has been announced by the room. A ship's radar display unit The naval spokesman refused to atomic plant plus the elimination The Address . . . is also on view, on which the reveal the exact height or speed. British Ministry of Defence that of the present-day batteries, will the term "Amphibious Warfare" picture changes every few seconds The flight apparently took place be of a completely new design. GEO. ADAMS (TATTERSALL) HOBART and illustrates a ship's voyage over the Mojave Desert, Cali- will in future be used instead of from London to Antwerp. fornia. A bomber launched the "Combined Operations" to de- DEFENCE OF THE U.K. scribe operations involving two, The aircraft carrier Skyrocket at 35,000 feet and the "Cam- The British Government an- or all, of the fighting Service*. pania" has been fitted out as a pilot then exceeded 1,000 mile* nounced recently that the respon- When ships of tho Navy while climbing for the altitude Towards the end of World War floating exhibition ship. It was sibility for the defence of the II. and afterwards, the term "heave to" this rope programmed to visit ten of test. The previous record was United Kingdom in the event of "Combined Operations" tended to holds fast! Britain's major sea ports during set in 1935 by two U.S. Army war should be exercised by three and be used increasingly for those in the English . summer. There is captains, Orvil Anderson commanders-in-chief responsible Albert Stevens, who reached which the fighting Services of room on board for about 2,500 to the Chiefs of Staff. The three two or more Allied countries took at any one time, and the 72,394 feet in a balloon. visitors commanders-in-Chief will be: part. The former Combined Op- whole of the display is contained N.Z. FRIGATE SAILS Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth erations Headquarters accordingly • the hangar, the dimensions of in FOR KOREA. (Commander-in-Chief, Home Sta- becomes Amphibious Warfare which are 300 feet by 70 feet by The New Zealand Frigate tion) at present held by Admiral Headquarters. 25 feet. The display is similar to "Taupo" sailed from Garden Sir Arthur Power; Commander- that of the South Bank Exhibition Island on the morning of Sep- in-Chief, United Kingdom Land ANCHOR BRAND in miniature. tember 13 for Korean waters. Forces, General Sir Miles Demp- H.MS. "SUPERB" VISITS The "Campania" is manned by The "Taupo", which arrived in sey; and Air Officer Command- U.S.A. AND CANADA. a Merchant Navy crew of about Sydney on September 1, had ing-in-Chief, Fighter Command, H.M.S. "Superb," flagship of 120, and carries about the same since her arrival been undergoing at present held by Air Marshal Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Sy number of Exhibition staff. The anti-submarine training with the Sir Basil Embry. monds - Taylor, K. B. E„ C. B., vessel is being managed by the British submarine H.M.S. "Tele- D.S.C., Cdmmander - in - Chief, Prince Line on behalf of the Fes- machus" and R.A.N, ships. WELL-STOCKED CARRIER. America and West Indies Station, tival of Britain authorities. The THE "BATAAN" SUFFERS The "Sydney" was a well- sailed from Bermuda on July 23 crew wear ordinary Merchant ENGINE TROUBLE. stocked ship, prepared for the for a two months' cruise along Navy uniform with the Festival Korean winter, when she left the eastern seaboard of North in the cap The Australian destroyer "Ba- symbol incorporated Garden Island for the Far Eastern America, during which she was badge. taan" blew out her boiler tubes during routine trials off Sydney waters on August 31. The ship's programmed to visit ports in the In this Land ol ours—in this Australia of Icindlineaa, of friendship, A land travelling exhibition Heads at the last August week- store, which caters for a comple- United States and Canada. Hie of good humoured tolerance . . . perhaps no beverage ia more at opened in Manchester in May. It ment of some 1,300 and is staffed cruiser called at the American end, and did not sail for Korea J home than good Australian beer. For beer is a drink Australians includes many early and modern with the aircraft-carrier H.M.A.S. by 30 officers and ratings, con- Naval Base at Norfolk and sub*e like. It ia a part of pleasant living, of good fellowship, of sensible gas turbine engines illustrating the "Sydney" on August 31. The de- tained, among other things, 10,000 quently proceeded to Canada for moderation. Aud our right to enjoy it ... this too is a part ol story of British achievement in de- stroyer "Tobruk", one of the lat- lb. of bacon, 10,000 lb. of butter, visits to St. Johns (Newfound- our Australian heritage of personal freedom. veloping this type of engine, not est Australian-built Battle-class 36,000 dozen eggs, 70,000 lb. of land), Halifax and St. John (New only for aircraft but also for road, vessels, replaced the "Bataan." flour, 41,000 tins of milk, 40 tons Brunswick). H.M.S. "Superb", Beer is Good For You rail, and sea transport and for the The "Bataan's" crew was hurried- of meat, 25 tons of potatoes, commanded by Captain E. W. J. generation of power for industry. ly transferred to the "Tobruk." 7,000 tins of fruit. As for cloth- Bankes, R.N., later returned to die Enjoy It I There are also countless other They took with them their spec- ing and bedding apart from equip- United States for further visit*. exhibits of differing yet associated ial arctic clothing and supplies is- ment on issue to the crew, 3,300 In September she spent a weak [CARLTON & UNITED BREWERIES LTD. aspects of the shipping industry sued for the rigorous Korean pairs of winter underpants and both at Boston and Philadelphia BREWING IN AUSTRALIA FOR 98 YEARS. and the sea. winter. 3,000 extra blankets are in (tore and eight days at New York. 'J Ik* *M| j Oetibii. mi. DANISH WARSHIP VISITS Mediterranean Stations. Last year with a local team on some village MERCHANT NAVY LONDON. she was one of two Mediterranean ground the next day. OFFICERS MAY NOW JOIN Fleet frigates sent to New Zea- It was possible for the ship's The Royal Danish Frigate ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE. THE BATTERY THAT SAYS "Holger Danske" (Commodore land in exchange tor a N.Z. frig- company at times to associate The General Service Section of G. Paulsen) visited the United ate. The exchange was for train- sporting activities with military the Royal Naval Reserve is now Kingdom between July 24 and 28 ing purposes and lasted about six operations. When they were sup- open to Merchant Navy Officers "YES SIR.!" and berthed in the Thames, above months. After her return to the porting Gurka troops, the "pen- holding Home Trade Masters' Tower Bridge. The "Holger Mediterranean from New Zealand gulu" or head-man of a Malay Certificates of Competency in ad- • Continuously Danske" is a training ship with waters the "Veryan Bay" was at- village approached the officer in dition, to those holding Foreign tached to the 5th Flotilla based at charge of a boat party responsible 35 Midshipmen and Cadets on Going Certificates. ' • Economically board. During the visit calls were Malta. for landing an ambush group and Officers between the age of 21 exchanged with the Lord Mayor intimated that the village would and 26 years inclusive and hold- FOUR R.A.N. G.P.V.'s FOR like to challenge the shi{> at foot- • Promptly of London and the Commander' MALAYAN WATERS. ing Home Trade Masters' Certi- in-Chief, The Nore, Admiral Sir ball. As the military operations ficates are now eligible for entry The Minister for the Navy were drawing to a close the offer Cecil Harcourt, K.C.B., C.B.E. (the Hon. William McMahon) as Probationary Sub-Lieutenants, The Officers and ship's company was accepted and the match was and at the discretion of the Ad- announced on August 29 that the played. during their stay visited the Fes- Royal Australian Navy had agreed miral Commanding Reserves old- tival of Britain and places of his- The match against the bare- er men up to the age of 30 may to lend the Royal Navy four footed villagers may, perhaps, have torical interest in London. The G.P.V.'s (general purpose vessels) also be entered. contributed as much to the overall "Holger Danske" left London to for general duties in the Malayan Confirmation in the rank of continue a training cruise, the area. The first two would be military aim as the show of force Sub-Lieutenant, which is norm- next port of call being the French towed to Darwin shortly where on the previous day, which took ally granted after 17 weeks con- port of Bordeaux. they would be taken over by the form of a bombardment. As tinuous Naval training, with a Royal Navy crews. Mr. Mc- the village football had been lost, suitable recommendation, and also ADMIRAL TOVEY RE-OPENS or destroyed, and a coconut was CATHEDRAL CHAPEL. Mahon said that the R.A.N, was promotion to Lieutenant, is sub- proud to be able to help the the only substitute the villagers ject to the same qualifications as A George Cross Trawler Cap- could provide, H.M.S. "Hart's" j tain of World War II., an elcvcn- Royal Navy by making the for officers with Foreign Going football was presented to the vil- Certificates. Promotion to Lieu- ! medal M.N. Chief Engineer who G.P.V.'s available. This was an- other example of the close link lage at the end of the match. tenant-Commander and a^ove is | served in both World Wars, and which existed between the two During another spell of duty limited to Home Trade Certifi- ! a man who was among the com- Navies and the different parts of the ship's company entertained cated Officers with Foreign Going ; pany of an H.M. Ship during the the British Commonwealth to hundreds of children on board at Masters' Certificates and eight Boxer Rising in China, were in- which they belonged. Penang, and some of the ship's years seniority, but the Admiralty cluded in the processional escort officers and men subsequently at- may select as Lieutenant-Com- for Admiral of the Fleet Lord FRIGATE'S WORK IN tended numerous functions ashore, manders, officers with Home Toovey of Langton Matravers, Trade Masters' Certificates only MALAYAN WATERS. finding the standard of entertain- • G.C.B., K.B.E., D.S.O., when, on ment lavish. who are considered suitable for June 2, he unlocked the mediaeval An odd mixture of operational service as Commodores of Coast- H.M.S. "Hart's" duty in :: gates of the refurnished and new- and social activity was experienced Malayan waters included the pre- al convoys. ly adorned Seamen's Chapel of Temporary Royal Naval Re- Willard by the British frigate H.M.S. vention of illegal immigration and St. Andrews in Lincoln Cathedral, "Hart," which returned to Devon- trafficking in war materials and serve Officers with Home Trade »•• tk* f curvy mm I dedicated to the memory of Lin- port early in the English summer food, the conducting of screening Masters' Certificates should be colnshire Naval and Merchant after six years' service in Far operations in co-operation with eligible for transfer to the Perm- seamen who lost their lives in Eastern seas, though not with the military and police forces, the anent List under conditions sim- ilar to those laid down for tem- World War II. The service was same crew. bombardment of specified targets, porary officers with Foreign Go- attended by more than three The "Hart" was for many and the normal duty of an H.M. ing Certificates. f thousand people, including serv- months employed patrolling in Ship in foreign waters of "Show- ing officers, and men of the Royal Malayan waters and the unpre- ing the Flag." Applications by Home Trade Navy and the Merchant Marine, dictable day-to-day tempo of life The "Hart" went to the Far together with many relatives and Certificated Officers for entry into *********** in Malaya, due to the guerilla East before the defeat of Japan the Royal Naval Reserve should friends of men who died at sea warfare waged by Communist and formed part of a task group during the last war. be addressed to the Registrar Gen- KINNEAR'S EMU BRAND bandits, is illustrated in a report assembled to receive the official eral of Shipping and Seamen at BRITISH FRIGATE RETURNS from her Commanding Officer, surrender of the Japanese in New Cardiff, U.K. HOME. Commander H. H. H. Mulleneux, Guinea on board the light aircraft ROPE, CORDAOE, TWINS mmd LINEN THREAD* The British frigate, H.M.S. D.S.C., R.N. carrier "Glory" in St. George's "Veryan Bay," returned to Dev- The ship had to be prepared to Channel, south-east of Rabaul. patrol off shore, land Naval For this ceremony the "Hart" *********** onport at the beginning of the English summer after five years' parties, or bombard targets one brought Japanese naval and army foreign service, during which she day, and to give a cocktail party Commanders - in - Chief from served on both die Far East and on board or play a football match Kabanga Bay. FIVE-NATION EXERCISES PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS "ESS IN MEDITERRANEAN. TO NAVY OFFICE. RAN. RESERVE OFFICER Grigor, who will in December be- On completion of its Summer AWARDED U.S. come First Sea Lord. Admiral The Minister for the Navy Cruise (referred to in an article DECORATION. Mansergh was until recently Fifth (the Hon. William McMahon) on N.A.T.O. Exercises in the Sea Lord and Air Arm Member announced on August 29 that August issue of this Journal), dur- The American Bronze Star of the Board of Admiralty. His Captain O. H. Becher, D.S.C., ing which H.M. Ships visited Medal was presented to Lieuten- new appointment will take effect R.A.N., commanding officer of Italian, Greek, and Turkish ports, ant Commander B. J. B. Morris, in November. H.MtA.S. "Warramunga" (which the Mediterranean Fleet embarked R.A.N.V.R., at Flinders Naval arrived recently in Australia from on a further series of exercises, Depot (Victoria) on Friday, 31st NEW FLAG OFFICER Korean waters) had been appoint- which extended throughout the August, by Commander R. D. COMMANDING INDIAN ed Deputy-Chief of Naval Per- summer, and included many which Macklin, U.S.N., on behalf of the SQUADRON. sonnel and Director of Personal were held in conjunction with President of the United States Rear-Admiral N. V. Dickin- Services at Navy Office, Mel- other navies in the Mediterranean. j of America. The citation reads— bourne. Captain Becher, who has son, D.S.O. and bar, D.S.C., has In July, a ten-day minesweeping been appointed Flag Officer Com- been commanding officer of "For heroic achievement as Prin- "Warramunga" since she left exercise took place in which the cipal Beachmaster and Command- manding Indian Naval Squadron Australia for the Korean area dummy mines, previously laid, ing Officer of the Royal Australian in succession to Rear-Admiral G. were swept by the combined force Naval Beach Commandos during Barnard, C.B.E., D.S.O. and bar, twelve months ago, was, before the Amphibious Assault against receiving that post, commanding of Italian, British, and United the appointment to take effect in States minesweepers under the enemy Japanese-held Balikpapan, October, 1951. officer of the R.A.N. Radar Borneo, from July 1 to 3, 1945. School, H.M.A.S. "Watson", at direction of the Italian Senior Fearlessly braving the enemy's dev- Officer. astating artillery, mortar and snip- "WORCESTER" CHAPLAIN. South Head, Sydney. Previously er fire to direct the landing and to that he was executive officer The Rev. Charles Strong, In August, the annual "Defence unloading of troops, equipment and of the aircraft carrier "Sydney." of Malta" exercise was expanded supplies on shore. Lieutenant M.B.E., has been appointed Rec- Commander Morris calmly travers- tor of Greenhithe and Chaplain Mr. McMahon also announced to include not only the British ed the entire Glandesan beachhead to the training ship H.M.S. that Commander J. H. Ramsay, Mediterranean Fleet, the Royal area in the early stages of hostili- "Worcester." Mr. Strong, who is R.A.N., at present Director of Air Force, and the Malta garrison, ties, organized his men and weld- but also the United States Sixth ed them into an effective team for a master mariner, served for a Plans it Navy Office, would be carrying on the fight to establish number of years on the Repre- commanding officer of "Warra- Fleet, French air squadrons operat- a foothold on this vital hostile sentative Council of the Officers' munga." Before Commander ing from Tunisia, and Italian stronghold. Calm and courageous (M.N.) Federation as a represent- Ramsay was appointed to Navy coastal forces and aircraft. The throughout three days of bitter ac- maritime aspects of this three-day tion, he continued his gallant ef- ative of the New Zealand Merch- Office he was navigating officer forts, supervising the salvage and ant Service Guild. He was of H.M.A.S. "Sydney." exercise were, it is understood, conducted by the British Com- disposal of damaged planes and awarded the M.B.E. for his ser- Commander Ramsay will be re- SWIbacl Tom H.iiws coold t.H a t.l. or two about kis sM-Urina days. As MM landing craft and the rescue of in- vices while a prisoner-of-war of mander-in-Chief, Mediterranean, jured crew members. By his lead- lieved as Director of Plans by yo.nf.st First Mate o'rtk tfc. Mil- "Invor" Line k. tra..H.d th. »oHd man, Hm the Japanese in Hongkong. The for the "defenders" and the ership, aggressiveness and devotion Lieutenant - Commander W. J. Commander, United States Sixth to duty in the face of danger, Lieu- Church to which Mr. Strong has tk. ketch So. Orrft—s«d «k.» k. doow't faww .boot s.SI,'n, isn't wortk tmhfl Dovers, D.S.C., R.A.N., at pres- Fleet, for the "attackers." tenant Commander Morris served been appointed has had close as- ent First Lieutenant of H.M.A.S. as a constant inspiration to his of- sociations with H.M.S. "Wor- ficers and men and contributed ma- "Australia." Later in August, the British terially to the successful recapture cester" since 1871. Lieutenant-Commander I. H. Mediterranean Fleet, operating with units of the Italian Fleet. clusion of one aircraft - carrier of Balikpapan, Borneo." Cartwright, R.A.N., who com- alone, carried out tactical and These exercises were set by the (H.M.S. "Ocean"), one destroyer YOUTHFUL EXTRA manded H.M.A.S. "Labuan" on weapon training exercises in the Commander - in - Chief, Italian (H.M.S. "Cheviot"), one fast Lieutenant Commander Morris, MASTER. her voyage to Heard Island and Eastern Mediterranean. Fleet, and conducted by the Ad- minelayer (H.M.6. "Manxman"), Electrical Commission of Hobart miral Commanding the First Divi- and two submarines (H.M.JTs Among successful candidates back earlier this year, has been In September, a cruiser, a num- had five years' service in the Roy- sion, Italian Fleet, and the Flag "Tudor" and "Sanguine"). Mean- for Extra Master last year in appointed to H.M.A.S. "Aus- ber of destroyers, frigates, and al Australian Navy in the Second Officcr (Destroyers), British time also, the cruiser H.M.& Britain was Mr. H. M. Preece, tralia." submarines went to Athens to take World War. He is at present un- Mediterranean Fleet. "Cleopatra," after refitting at a member of the Navigators' and part in a ten-day exercise period dergoing a six weeks' gunnery Finally, during Octobcr, the Chatham, has replaced the cruiser Engineer Officers' Union (of KOREAN VETERANS with the Royal Hellenic Navy, the course at Flinders Naval Depot as French and British Fleets will H.M.S. "Phoebe." which recently Great Britain), who succeeded in cxercises being set by the Com- part of Naval Reserve training. DECORATED. meet off the South of France and returned to the United Kingdom. passing this examination at the mander-in-Chief, Royal" Hellenic carry out a programme ot excr- The frigate H.M S ' " Pelican," early age of 25. All who have Captain O. H. Becher, who Navy, in conjunction with the ciscs arranged bv the Admiral which returned to Home port* NEW COMMANDER-IN- had the experience of the scope commanded H.M.A.S. "Warra- Flag Officer, Sccond-in-Command. L'Escadrc and conducted, on the earlier this vcar. has been replaced CHIEF, PLYMOUTH. of this voluntary examination will munga" in Korean waters, has British Mediterranean Fleet. British side, by the Flag Officer by the frigate H.M.S "Cygnet," The appointment is announced agree that Mr. Preece has done been decorated by the King with very well indeed .to obtain this the award of the Distinguished Concurrently with the Anglo- (Destroyers), Mediterranean. recently refitcd at Portsmouth. _ of Vice-Admiral M. J. Mansergh, Greek exercises, other destroyers, Meantime, the composition of In addition, the submarine H.M.&, - ' C.B., C.B.E., as Commander-m- high Merchant Navy qualification Service Cross for his "high ex- at such a relatively early stage in frigates, and submarines were en- the British Mediterranean Fleet "Sturdy" has been relieved by the Chief, Plymouth, in succession to ample, courage and devotion to his professional career. gaged in anti-submarine exercises has been strengthened by the in- submarine H.M.S. "Sentinel." Admiral Sir Rhoderick R. Mc- duty." Osiahw, MM. SEA-ODDITIES H.M.S. "VIDAL" LAUNCHED SURVEY SHIPS AND THEIR WORK. of gold from the Victorian dig- Although usilally found in number are said to lie, wrecked gings, was boarded stealthily by a The first survey ship to lie Electrical power is provided tropical latitudes, many valuable apparently in attempting to run a "ground" about 200 miles south gang of robbers and plundered of equipped with a helicopter flight from 360 kw. 220-volt direct "finds" of ambergris have been down the Great Nor-East Chan- of Ireland, where there is believed about £24,000 worth of the pre- deck, H.M.S. "Vidal," was launch- current diesel-driven generating to be a deep submarine ranyon. made on beaches in Australia, nel. Some of the stories current ed at Chatham, England, on July lead us back to the sea history of cious metal. A Melbourne store- sets. The existence of such a canyon New Zealand, and Tasmania. 31. Spain, to the days when the pir- keeper is said to have met the Among the special features of affects marine life, in that in deep In 1929, two brothers in New ate ships manned by swarthy, robbers on the beach, probably by Since the war R.N. frigates the "Vidal" is her air-conditioning places certain forms of plankton Zealand, when walking along swashbuckling crews, sailed the pre-arrangement, and bought the have been converted during the plant installed to make her living life, a food of fishes, are liable to Kaipara Heads beach, discovered seas, chasing, plundering, sinking gold at thirty shillings an ounce. building stage into survey ships, spaces and offices comfortable in breed, and when carried into the a lump of ambergris that weighed every ship that they could over- He then sailed for England and but H.M.S. "Vidal," the first of a all climates from the Equator to waters above they affect the feed- 224 lb. This was an unusually haul. Certainly, on some of the was never prosecuted. However, new type, has from the start been the Poles. Operating on the re- ing habits of fish. large piece and the market value four men were indicted for the designed by the Admiralty for versible heat pump principle, this islands enough has been found— The water is often rough on the of it at £10 an ounce, which is robbery itself and found guilty. hydrographic surveying and chart 750 B.Th.U/hr. plant is capable old coins, swords, rusted anchors "working grounds" of the survey what it brought, amounted to One was ultimately released, his production. H.M. Dockyard, of heating or cooling the ship. and their chains—that point con- ships and hence :t gave tl— new nearly £36,000. It was, of course, arrest being found to be a case of Chatham, is responsible for both When used for heating, it extracts clusively to Spanish ships and ship's company of "Cook" an op- the best of embergris, the greyish mistaken identity. her hull and main machinery. heat from the sea, and it can do Spanish voyagers. The islands of portunity of learning to work to- amber, and not much of this high the blue north hold many secrets. this even when the sea is at arctic quality stuff is found. However, With a length of^ 315 feet and temperature. gether in difficult conditions. In even the inferior grades bring as An instance which gives grim a beam of 40 feet, she has a han- addition to echo soundings and' gar and a deck arrangement de- This method saves considerable lead soundings, the surface of the much as £2 an ounce. The migratory movements of food for speculation about the electrical load. Only 120 kw. do birds have always formed a sub- signed to make possible the flying bottom was sampled by means of About twenty years ago two fate of vessels that have vanish- the work which would be done by ject of great interest to naturalists, off and flying on of a helicopter, an "armed" lead. After this short fishermen at Port Davey, in Tas- ed without trace or message is 220 kw. in a direct heating plant. and the study of this phenomen- the purpose of which will be for cruise and a return to Plymouth mania, were given the remains provided by the extraordinary on has brought into being several air survey photography and the The British Admiralty's present H.M.S. "Cook" went to the Weat of a whale which, they disco\er- case of the Danish training sail- influential societies whose prim- transport of parties to shore obser- survey fleet consists of H.M. Coast of Scotland to check charts. ed, contained a quantity of this ing ship "Kobenhavn." Carrying ary object is to further its pursuit. vation stations. She will carry Ships "Challenger," "Cook," Her work there included the re- substance which, when sold in 70 cadet-officers, the ship put Among the many observers they three surveying motor boats equip- "Dalrymple," "Dampier," Frank- survey of Gunna Sound, a famous London, netted them nearly into Buenos Aires en route to have enlisted in their work are ped with echo-sounding apparatus. lin," "Owen," "Scott," and "short cut" for fishermen. £10,000. Another large lump of Melbourne. She sailed from B.A. "Sharpshooter." the lighthouse-keepers, not only in December, 1928, but was never ambergris valued at some £10,000 The latest electronic aids to sur- That the work done by these As a final instance of the work in Australia but also throughout seen again. Nor was she ever was found inside a whale that had veying and navigation will be in- brave little ships is of the utmost of the survey ships we need but practically all the world. When heard of again, except for a rou- been stranded at Cape Provi- corporated, and there will be a importance and values goes with- cite the recent announcement by the migratory seasons open the tine "All's well" message which dence, New Zealand. large process camera and a litho- out saying. Survey vessels serve the Admiralty to the effect that it most extraordinary scenes are wit- she flashed on her wireless from Adam Adamson, the so-called graphic printing press to enable in every sea and in all conditions. had received news from the naval' nessed at night around the great far southern latitudes. Silence, the results of surveys to be repro- "Ambergris King," who died at lanterns of the lighthouses. At- Only recently two survey ships, survey ship "Challenger" that a Stewart Island, off the coast of utter and profound, settled over duced on board. The main propel- depth of 35,640 feet has been . tracted by the glare of the pow- the fate of the "Kobenhavn." H.M.S. "Dalrymple" and H.M.S. the South Island of New Zealand ling machinery consists of four "Owen," returned to the United sounded in the Pacific Ocean. erful beam, vast flocks of migra- Not a spar, buoy, lifebelt, boat, diesel engines, driving two shafts in 1934, was probably the world's tory birds flutter round the lan- Kingdom after completing in each This is the greatest sea depth greatest authority on ambergris. or the smallest piece of wreckage through reverse and reduction gear officially recorded. ' tern, somewhat like driven snow- of any description has ever been instance 2 years' hydrographic Practically all his life he was a boxes. The engines have been de- surveying work in the Mediter- flakes in a storm. Hundreds of found to help solve the mystery signed at H.M. Dockyard, Chat- It is understood to have been - professional fossicker of it and in these birds batter themselves ranean and the Persian Gulf. The the end made a fortune out of the of her disappearance, although a ham, in conjunction with the Ad- made between Guam, in the against the glass panels of the specially chartered steamer made results obtained by them in those Marianas, and Yap, an island of rich hauls he made of this valu- miralty Engineering Laboratory waters will be of great naviga- lantern, and often of a morning a long and extensive search for and the Engineer-in-Chiefs De- the Caroline Group. The previous able waste product of the sperm- many lie piled with broken wings itonal utility. aceti whale. the missing vessel. partment of the Admiralty and deepest sounding was made by a or necks on the platform around manufactured in H.M. Dockyard, H.M.S. "Cook," completed in United States vessel on July 14, the light. The observations of Chatham. the autumn of 1950, had for her 1945 This depth was 5,740 lighthouse - keepers have given Occasionally sea birds often "shake-down" cruise the survey of The location of treasure trove fathoms, equal to 34,440 feet. much valuable knowledge to the stray far from home. The ap- is always a popular subject among scientific study of birds and their pearance of seagulls on the shores the pearlers and beche-der-mer ways. of the salt lakes of Central Aus- fishers of the northern Australian tralia is not uncommon; and the A SPECIAL REQUEST! seas. It is a general belief among present writer once saw a white- Several copies of the 1948 April and May issues of "The Navy" ! coastwise Northerners that many What is known as the Nelson bellied sea eagle, essentially a complete official files! Can you help us? We will gladly extend the to an old treasure ship lies buried gold robbery took place in Hob- coastland bird, following the of among the coral reefs of the Gulf son's Bay, Victoria, in April, anyone who can produce any of these back copin, or forward rei, course of the Murray River in of of Carpentaria and the Torres 1852. The ship "Nelson," whioh 1/- per copy immediately upon receipt. the neighbourhood of Renmark, Straits. Round Stephens Island, had arrived the day before from South Australia. BnmUe Cay, and their vicinity a Geelong with a big consignment 1*1. - The Swilsli Hi ostium Group UN. OFFICERS LEAD land on a long lake near the coast land ice lying beyond to the West- ward. SPEAKING OF SHIPS has 18 ship* building or on or-> EXPEDITION TO and to make its way by a rubber der, including the Swedish-Amer- GREENLAND'S INTERIOR. boat to the glacier. With the aid The plant and animal life of of a Greenland trapper and dog Japan is now exporting scrap The Lamport and Holt Line are ican passenger liner being built Greenland are, of course, of the To explore a remote and moun- sledges it would cross the glacier iron and steel to the United building or have placed with in Holland. Arctic type. There are no forests; shipyards orders for building tainous part of Greenland, a scien- and survey a second lake about the dwarf willow and birch are States, from whom she took col- tific expedition consisting of three three miles long that lies along the ossal quantities before the Second three motorships similar to the The passenger bookings on the the chief trees; strange flowering "Defoe" and also one steamer. Royal Naval officers and a Royal eastern edge of Queen Louise mosses flourish and the yellow World War. South African route this year are Marine officer left England re- Land. It is hoped to find on this- heavier than ever before and poppy and other wildflowers. The Investigations into claims on cently in an R.A.F. Coastal Com- lake a site for a base camp for chief wild animals are the white Leaflets reported to have been many of the ships have their ac- mand flying boat, which is visiting further exploration, which, as damaged cargo suggest that 20 per commodation in all three classes polar bear, the polar fox, the found in British ships after leav- cent, were due to bad packing, 3 Greenland on the course of routine already stated, it is hoped to carry ing Naples and other Italian ports booked for months ahead. arctic hare, and the reindeer. The per cent to damage during load- flying training. out next year, and to discover birds comprise in the main the contained detailed Communist in- ing, 15 per cent, during unloading, The object of the expedition is whether this lake would offer a eider-duck, the guillemot, and the structions for sabotage on ship- 7 per cent, through bod stowage, Owing to increased running a preliminary survey for a more suitable landing for float planes ptarmigan. Seals are numerous board. and 1 per cent, through pilferage. costs, the Conference freight rates ambitious expedition planned for which may be used by the main and sealing is an important indus- to East African ports from north next year, when geological, glacio- expedition next year. try of the Danes and Eskimos who The Prince Line won its case in The hire of the 15 refrigerated of Bcira to Guardafui have had logical, meteorological, and biologi- It is also intended to bring back inhabit the land. the Cairo Court of Appeal, and ships for storing meat in British to be increased. cal work would be carried out. geological specimens and to recon- was absolved from liability to pay The expedition should return ports between August, 1949, and The expedition, which is pri- noitre a suitable sledging route tax on commercial and industrial with an interesting and valuable March, 1950, cost the British During the Festival of Britain vately sponsored and has the ap- through the mountains to the in- record of its survey. profits carrying cargo to and from Lloyds held an exhibition in the proval of the learned societies, in- Egyptian ports L Ministry of Food £609,248, two- and-a-half times what it would gallery overlooking the under- cluding the Royal Society, the have cost to store the meat on writing room, which included a Polar Institute, and the Royal C. EBELING & SONS PTY. LTD. Indian shipowners arc only land. replica of the 17th Century coffee Geographical Society, will spend a prepared to raise 25 per cent of house in which Lloyd's started. month to six weeks in Greenland. the capital necessary for the ships The export of British motor cars Led by Commander (L) C. J. planned and suggest that the Gov- to Australia is being curtailed The Egyptian Government is W. Simpson, D.S.C., R.N., the ernment should advance the rest through lac\ of shipping space: considering subsidising Egyptian party indudes Captain M. E. B. at a low rate of interest. only 15,000 tons were allocated to shipping up to £125,000 per an- Banks, R.N., Lieutenant F. R. it in March against a former num. Brooke, R.N., and Lieutenant Angus Erskine, R.N. The Cap- Following the action of the 140,000 tons a month. The experiment of the Canad- tain of the Sunderland flying boat United States, the British Board ian Pacific in making the liner on which they will travel is Wing of Trade has announced that it The question of foreign ships SHIP REPAIRS, MARINE ENGINEERS, BOILERMAKERS "Empress of Scotland" call at the Commander G. G. N. Barrett, has decided not to ask Parlia- buying foodstuffs in British ports AND WELDERS. Clyde during her summer season A.F.C., R.A.F. ment to ratify the Havana chart- at subsidised prices was raised in OWN FOUNDRY AND LABORATORY. resulted in over one-third of her er for freeing international trade. the House of Commons, when the About nine-tenths of Green- Works: 70-80 STEPHEN ST., YARRAVILLE, VIC. British Ministry of Food stated Eastbound and a quarter of her land, which is Danish, consists of Westbound passengers landing or •Phone: MW 2255. The Japanese attempts to per- that the matter was being exam- a sheet of ice 1,600 miles long and ined but that there were serious embarking at Greenock, 600 miles wide, and rises in the CABLES Be TELEGRAMS: "EBELING," MELBOURNE. suade the Allies to permit them to Reg! Office: 1 CASTLEMAINE ST., YARRAVILLE, W.1J, build up their Merchant J^avy are administrative difficulties in re- centre to a height of about ten VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA. being resisted on account of the covering the subsidy. In the shortage of tramp ton- thousand feet. While surveys of certainty of unfair competition nage owing to the coal situation the mountainous coastal ranges with low Japanese rates of pay. German shipowners have prac- cargo space in liners is in such surrounding the ice cap have been tically exhausted the quota of demand that many of them have nearly completed, little is known had to shut out cargo, particularly Out of the 37,000 seamen em- 300,000 gross tons of dry cargo of the interior. It is, however, on the Australian route. ployed in Norwegian merchant ships and 100,000 tons of tankers known that in the region desig- THOMAS PLAYFAIR nated as Queen Louise Land in 77 c ships between 5,000 and 6,000 which they were allowed to buy The British Railways are to degrees North Latitude, there is a are foreigners. abroad under the Washington PTY. LTD. Agreement. Most of the ships are try the Denny-Brown ship stabil- range of rocky mountains 100 miles long, 40 miles wide and Britain was only third in the very old. iser in either the "Cambria" or rising to about 7,000 feet. They MEAT EXPORTERS AND PROVIDERS table of dollar tourists in 1950, "Hibernia" on the Irish Sea Ser- are Nunataks — the explorers' France being first and Italy During the reconstruction of vice. name for a mountain which rises SMALLGOODS MANUFACTURERS ! second. the C.G.T. liner "Liberte" (for- , , , , merly the "Europa"), special at- With the placing of a new beyond an ice field. These moun- type of lifeboat at New Brighton tains are terra incognita. To The revenue officers at Hong tention was paid to the fire-proof- ARGYLE STREET, SYDNEY the life-saving organisation at reach then) entails crossing a 20- , Kong have recently made very ing . and fighting arrangements; the' mouth of the Mersey has been mile wide glacier. j large seizures of gold, both being those fitted in Germany were sev- AH Enquiries: BLJ 5771. erely criticised when she was reorganised, two boats of improv- This year's party intends to j smuggled into and out of the ed type doing the work of three. jr colony. handed over to the United States. TW Navy Osttar. INI. I." R.A.N. COLLEGE ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS SEAFARERS' EDUCATION AFRICAN DEFENCE PLANS SERVICE. OVER 500 BOYS CHOSEN. Throe hundred and four seafar A message from Nairobi, Ken- ers and lighthouse-keepers con- ya Colony, on September 1 an- FOR "BETTER SERVICE" The Minister for the Navy (the join the Royal Navy training South Australia. tributed some 500 entries in com- nounced that a series of unani- cruiser. At the end of three and a Adelaide 25 petition for the priies offered in mous recommendations for the IAYT0N PLATING Hon. William McMahon) an- Bordertown 1 nounced on September 4 that 529 half years abroad they would re- 1950 by the Seafarers' Education defence of Africa, particularly de- Kadina 1 Scrvice. The Service has its boys would sit on 4th and 5th turn to Australia as sub- Port Lincoln 2 signed to ensure the rapid move- Company Pty. LN. lieutenants. Port Pine 1 headquarters at Sclwyn House, ment of forces and supplies September for the educational ex- Endslcigh Street, W.C.I, London, amination for entry into the Royal The following list shows the Whyalla 2 through eastern and central Af- Yankalilla 1 England. Australian N a v a 1 College at .various centres at which the exami- rica, were adopted by the Afri- 48 Mallei Street Flinders Naval Depot, Victoria. nations were held and the number Total 33 LINER TEARS HOLE can Defence Conference. The Last year 586 boys sat for the of boys who sat at each centre. IN TUG. conference, which sat in Nairobi, examination Queensland. Western Australia. The tug "Tooronga," with a ended on August 31. An official 34 Brisbane .. 23 Marecba .. 1 Perth huge hole torn in her side, was communique said Britain and Telephone: MA 3168. The examination beginning on Albany September 4 would be held at one Barcaldine 1 Maryborough 3 lucky she did not sink in the South Africa agreed to consult the Bundaberg 1 Monto .. 1 Bruce Rock other participating Governments hundred and twenty city and Bunbury Yarra River, Melbourne, after she Cairns 2 Mossman 1 had been struck by the liner and then consider what further country centre- throughout the Caioundra 1 Mount Isa .. I Busselton Commonwealth and would last Charters Oakcy 1 Carnarvon "Ormiston" late in the afternoon action was required to implement Harvey .. of September 6. As it was, with Specialists in All Claaaea two days. Towers 1 Proserpine .. 1 the recommendations if such Gympic .. 4 Rockhampton 6 Kalgoorlie water almost instantly 6ft. below movements seemed necessary. Electroplating. Mr. McMahon added that the Helidon .. 1 Southport 3 Nannup decks, she had to be beached on Kingaroy TownsviHc Norseman Nothing Too Large—Nothing boys had either attained, or would ) North Dandalup the edge of the Yarravillc swing- attain, their 15th birthday this Mack ay .. 2 Tully .. .. i JET-TIPPED HELICOPTER. Too Small. Maleny . 1 Warwick 2 Yampi Sound . ing basin. In the collision one year. man was injured- a fireman on A helicopter capable of carry- Boys who wished to enter the Total .. 62 Total 51 the "Tooronga" who was cut in ing 100 passengers at more than Contractors to H.M. Naval College under the Intermediate the leg and bruised. The acci- 150 miles per hour is said to be Dockyards, Garden Island, New South Wales. Tasmania. Entry would not be required to Hobart 13 dent happened when the "Toor- under design by the Wcstland Mort'i Dock, and Cockatoo Sydney .. .. 120 Gunnedah onga" was edging the 5,500-ton pass a special educational examina- Albury .. .. 6 Ivanhoc .. .. Burnie 1 Aircraft Company, Yeovil, Eng- Dock. tion as 13-year-old boys were. Armidalc 2 Katoomba Currie, King Island 1 freighter "Carronpark" into a land. Its rotor blades, measuring Those from Victoria, New South Bathurst .. .. 2 Koorawatha .. Devonport 2 berth. 110 feet across, will be whirled Launccston . Wales and South Australia would, Bega 1 Lismorc .. .. around by jets on their tips. Billinudgel .. 1 Macksville .. Rosebery however, need to have passed the Bowral .. 2 Morec St. Marys intermediate certificate examina- Broken Hill 1 Mungindi Scottsdale tion and those from Western Canberra Newcastle .. Smithton Coif's Harb. 2 Nowra .. .. Australia and Queensland the Totaj 28 P. ROWE PTY. junior public examination. , Cooraa .. .. 1 Orange .. .. Cootamundra 1 Tamworth Northern Territory. A certificate from a headmaster Corowa .. .. 3 Ta?ee .. .. LIMITED Glen Innes .. 1 Wagga Wagga Darwin 1 that a boy had finished his third Central Pacific. Gosford .. .. 4 Wauchope .. ESTABLISHED 19H year at a high schol, or its equiva- Goulburn 3 Wellington .. Nauru 1 lent would be accepted from Tas- Grafton .. .. 1 W. Wyalong Summary. manian applicants. Gulargambone 1 Wollongong Queensland 62 Nauru 1 DISTRIBUTORS FOR: Those who succeeded in the Total .19 New South Wales 193 educational test would have to Victoria. Victoria 160 General Merchants and Importers. submit to an extensive medical Melbourne 104 Mildura .. .. South Australia 33 Western Australia 51 examination and, if they passed it, Alexandra 2 Pemonal.. .. Manufacturers' Agents. Ararat 1 Portland .. .. Tasmania .. 28 would be interviewed by a com- Avoca 1 Pyramid Hill Darwin 1 BJU.M. PAINTS ! mittee of senior naval officers, who Bairnsdale 3 Rupanyup .. would make the final selection. Ballarat .. 4 Sale Total 529 Last year the committee selected Bendigo .. 2 Shepparton .. twenty-eight boys. Cheshunt 1 Swan Hill .. "DUC0" LACQUERS Cohuna .. 1 Terang .. .. 297-299 CASTLEREAGH STREET, SYDNEY The boys chosen this year would Colac .. 2 Traralgon Near Goulbura Street enter the College on January 29th, Daylesford 2 Wangaratta .. Echuca .. 1 Warracknabeal M 2967 (6 lines) 1952, as cadet-midshipmen and Geelong .. 2 Warragul "DULUX" ENAMELS .eventually become permanent Hamilton 3 Werrimul AND AT officers of the Royal Australian Kyneton .. 1 Yallourn .. .. Navy. They would spend four Lome 1 NEWCASTLE: 160 KING STREET. B2115. years at the College before they "PERSPEX" Total .. 160 went to the United Kingdom to

n TW Navy Octobor, I9SI. n State President) has resigned from EX-NAVAL MEN'S office owing to his recent transfer ATOM-POWERED PLANE. to a position in Sydney. This According to the "Journal- vacancy will be filled at the next American" the United States has Always ask for . . . Association of Australia meeting of the State Executive started to build an atom-powered and in the meantime the Presi- aircraft. The newspaper says dent's duties will be carried out by authoritative sources are saying Pafraa-b-CtM Hit Mafuty Tkt King a Senior Vice-President of Tas- mania. that work on the airframe has SHELLEY'S been assigned under the highest (Federal Council) Reports received by Federal Territory of Papua and New Mr. N. C. Plant, Immediate priority to an unnamed company. Readers of "The Navy" may Council, per medium of the Guinea. Quite a number of ex- Past-President of Papua Section, This follows the announcement FAMOUS DRINKS remember the Ex-N.ival Men's "Fisheries Newsletter" (through Naval men are joining the new is endeavouring to interest the by the U.S. Atomic Energy Association's plea to the then the courtesy of the Common- Sub-Sections formed outside the Naval Authorities on the question Commission in March last that Minister for Post War Recon- wealth Director of Fisheries), in- Capital Cities. Latest Sub-Sections of Naval Reserve Training for ex- the General Electric Company of Obtainable from leading struction, urging him to take up dicate that during the last Antarc- formed are:—Mildura, Port Pirie, personnel residing in the Terri- America had been commissioned shops and saloons. with the Commonwealth Govern- tic whaling season no less than North Western District and tories of Papua and New Guinea. to make an atomic-plane engine. ! ment the need for assistance in 31,072 whales, of varying species, Northern Suburbs of Sydney. adopting a long-range Fisheries G.W.S. were caught in the record time of State Secretaries have advised SHIPBUILDING INCREASES plan and tor Government help in 78 days by catchers and factory SHELLEY & SONS Council of the passing away of The flood of orders for merch- the early establishment of the ships. The value of oil obtained the following members:- Messrs. whaling industry in Australia. being approximately £60,000,000 ant shipping is still accumulating. CORDIAL FACTORY F. J. Mackay, F. Bottomley, J. In 1949 the total number of or- • The Federal Executive of the for 358,071} tons. Although Patterson, F Newman, H. A. ders placcd in the shipbuilding PTY. LTD. Association is pleased with the re- methods of oil extraction are being Whiter, A. E. Eastlake and E. D. sult; the request was given full continually modernised, it is re- yards in Britain was for fewer Bradley of Victoria, A Gilmorc, than 400,000 tons: in 1950 it MURRAY STREET, consideration and the whaling un- ported that an additional 53,897 E. E. Bczer, V R Holt and W. was 1,570,000 tons. From 1st MARRICKVILLE, dertaking was eventually launched. tons of oil could have been ex- J Talbot of N.S.W ; J. Healy The last whaling season's catch, off January of this year (1951) to tracted if more up-to-date methods and J M McLoughlin of South 30th March, the total number of N.S.W. the Western Australian coast, was had been used by the factory ships. Australia: A. K. Brown, A. J. orders placed was for 1,466,000 'Phones: LA 2431, LA 2659 so successful that it is anticipated The value of the oil lost to indus- Rate and H. Pegg of Western tons. the return from oil will be worth try would have been worth about Australia. in the vicinity of £1,000,000, £9,285,250. The loss of this huge based on the current price of £180 tonnage through inefficiency pre- Further reports of elections for ton. vented 10} million people from Presidents of States and Sub- securing a ration equal to 4 ozs. of Sections are as follows:—Messrs. Another company (Whale In- margarine per week for one year. R. C. Davies, President of Mel- dustries Ltd.) has since been form- It should be pointed out that the bourne Sub-Section; A. Fraser, ed to work the East coast area of best oil extraction methods were Essendon; P R. Swartz, Foot- Australia; this company will erect obtained by factory ships belong- scray; N. Morgan, Geelong; J. J. its oil extraction plant on land ing to the United Kingdom. Hartley, Heidelberg; L. Mennic, leased from the Queensland Sandringham; W. S. Wilson, Mil- ARMCO Government, probably Moreton dura; J. C. Whitcman, Sydney; Island, near Brisbane. It is un- Mr. J. P. C. Watson, a member W. Nye, Newcastle; W. L. (AUSTRALIA) PTY. LTD. derstood that a permit has been of the Sydney Sub-Section, has Johnson, Canterbury - Bankstown; granted by the Government for been elected to the Federal Coun- V. M. Banks, Parramatta; A. F. the company to catch up to 500 cil as the N.S.W. Section's Fede- Parker, St. George; F. W. KEMBLA BUILDING whales in the coming season of ral representative Councillor, thus Holloway, Northern Suburbs; J. 1952. filling the vacancy caused by the Williams, North Western Dis- 58 MARGARET STREET, SYDNEY resignation of Mr. C. Pring, last tricts; P. R. Buring, South Aus- These projects, besides securing August. vast quantities of edible oils, used tralian State President; G. in the manufacture of margarine, During September the Federal Bennett, Adelaide; L. Walton, MANUFACTURERS OF: and byproducts to be used as fer- Northern Suburbs; M. Allchurch, PREFABRICATED Executive promulgated to all State DRAINAGE PRODUCTS tilisers, etc., are also the means of and Sub-Section Secretaries a com- Port Pirie; H. N. Campbell, Presi- PRES-STEEL BUILDINGS creating further avenues of em- bined statement of the whole of dent, A.C.T. Section; N. Murphy, Available in 20ft., 30ft., 40ft., and Multiple pipes and arches; corrugated ployment for our cx-Naval per- the Association's cash assets and Western Australian State Presi- 60ft. span, framework only. Haysheds nestable culverts; full circle corrugated sonnel who wish to continue their properties, recorded for the year dent; H. Triggs, Papua - New available in 30ft. span. nestable pipe; perforated pipe. lives on the sea. Some members of ended 30th June, 1950. The Guinea Section President; R. Duff-Jones, Vice-President; F. C. STEEL-SHEETS the Association have already been Federal Secretary's report is ex- STAINLESS STEEL working in the whaling fleets and Hill, Hon. Secretary; and I. Electrical; deep drawing; black: bright tremely interesting and shows the Sheet; bar (hexagon, flats, squares, in shore-based whale oil extraction continued growth of the Associa- McDonald, Hon. Treasurer. steel strip; aluminised. plants. tion throughout Australia and the Mr. M. G. Rose (Tasmanian rounds); wire; tubing.

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II "GLORY" AIR GROUP CHINA JAPAN TO TRAIN AT NOWRA. MANILA, COCKATOO DOCKS The Minister for the Navy (the PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, Hon. William McMahon) an- HONG KONG, ROYAL AUSTRALIAN FLEET RESERVE & ENGINEERING nounced on August 25 that, while JAPAN PORTS. the Royal Navy aircraft carrier Regular sailings from CO. PTY. LTD. "Glory" was being refitted in Sydney by modern Luxury • Sydney later this year, the 14th Liners, First Class accom- R. A. F. R. Carrier Air Group, which had modation in Single and Contractor? to . . . been serving in her in Korean Double Rooms with pri- waters, . would do shore-based vate bath available. Ex-Naval men of I lie Permanent Naval Forres H.M. AUSTRALIAN NAVY. training at the R A N. air station, S.S. "CHANGTE" (H.A.N.) up tc ape of 13 years and with a minimum Ship-builders, H.M.A.S. "Albatross," at Nowra. m.v. "CHANGSHA" of 3 years' serviee may he enrolled in the S.S. "TAIPING" Marine "Glory" will arrive in Sydney K.A.F.K. providing period between date of in October. She will be relieved m.v. "TAIYUAN" and in the Korean area by H M.A.S. Full deuiU from discharge and date of enrolment does not General Engineers. "Sydney." ("Sydney" sailed for exceed 5 \ears. | Inquiries Invited. Korean waters on August M. Australian-Oriental Ed.) Line Ltd. Enrolment is for years in rating held on Mr McMahon said that the discharge with option of re-enrol men! for further 14th Carrier Air Group, whose China Navigation Co. 5-year period. COCKATOO ISLAND pilots flew Sea Fury fighters and Limited Firefly anti submarine and recon- JOINT SERVICE SYDNEY Annual training is 7 days each year if enrolled naissance aircraft, would, on G. S. YUILL AND CO. "Glory's" arrival in Australia, be PTY. LTD. within 12 months from .late of discharge, or disembarked at Jervis Bay, 22 Phone: WB 1941 Managing Agents 14 days each year if enrolled after 12 month* miles from Nowra. After leave, 110 lin».l 6 BRIDGE ST. BW 2731-2.3. members of the group would en- fron. date of discharge. gage in day and night flying train- ing, anti-submarine training, bomb- Pay and allowances during training will he at | ing and rocket firing, aerodrome R.A.N, rates ami. ill addition, a retainer of €21 dummy deck landing and other per annum is payable oil completion of activities. They would rc-cinbark ORDER FORM AARONS in "Glory" after her refit had been To "THE NAVY," annual training completed. ROYAL EXCHANGE EXCHANGE "It is a tribute to the high stan- 1 BUILDING, Ex-Naval men of the Itoyal Navy or a British HOTEL dard of efficiency that has been BRIDGE ST., SYDNEY. Dominion Navy are eligible to join the K.A.F.K. attained at H.M.A.S. Albatross'," under similar condition*. Mr. McMahon added, "that the I GkESHAM STREET station, which was established only Please register my subscrip- a little more than two years ago, tion to "The Navy." The rate is 14/6 per 12 issues SYDNEY | is capable of continuing the train- post free in the British ing of skilled and experienced Empire. I send Postal Note/ pilots and observers of a carrier air Cheque/Money Order for group which has gained a' worthy issues. R. l.f .W.— 1/////% in irri/ifiL*. fonvariling your Servicc Only the Best Brands reputation in recent operations (.crtificale to:— (Add exchange where Stocked. against Communist aggressors. "The fact that the Admiralty is applicable) Dining Room tiii: ki:<;istk\r, only too willing to allow skilled Commencing from: Unsurpassed. Royal Navy airmen to train at KOYVL USTKU.IW FLEET KESEKVE, 'Albatross' shows that the training NA\ ^ OFFICE. MELHOl KNE which R.A.N, carrier air groups Name receive there is of first-class Addresf AARONS quality, and the fact that the Royal Navy is going to avail itself EXCHANGE of the facilities at Nowra demon- HOTEL strates again the close link that Date... exists between the R.N. and the R.A.N." Building Publishing Co. P«\. lid. iO I ollm Str*«t. S»dn»\ Ttl »

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Great Britain, New Zealand, Ceylon, Rhodesia. A&iated Leetur.: The Navy League of Canada, The Navy League of South Africa, The POST- Navy League of Australia. THE NAVY LEAGUE MAN OF AUSTRALIA PUMJiiiI: Commander(s) ]. D. Bates. V.R.D., R.A.N.R. Deputy President: Captain L. A. W. Spooner, O.B.E. R.N.(Rtd). Hon. Secretary: Lieutenant(s) F. G. Evana, S.S. IRON KIHHtRLH. second of the Yampi R.AN.V.R. clan ore-carrier* »o join the B.H.P. fleet. Hon Tre^urer: Designed for the Cockatoo Is. (W.A.)-Neu>- Lieutenant(s) ]. H. Paterion, M.B.E., cnsUe and Port Kembla run, these 12500- R.A.N.R. ton (deadweight), turbine-driven ships are the first of their sue to be built to assist in New South Wales Division developing the North, and are the higgest yet constructed in Australia. Hia Excellency The Governor of New South Wales Puridim: T. H. Silk, Esq., M.I.C.E., M.I.N.A. Paying accounts by cash means standing in queues, waiting for change, irritating delays, waste of time. Gordon Coleman Then why do it? Hon. Treotunn: It is so much easier to write a Commonwealth Bank cheque D A M. Shelley, Esq., and pay by post. Commander Winn L. Reilly. THE UNITED SHIP SERVICES Just a few strokes of the pen make out the cheque and a Victorian Division few more strokes address the envelope. The postman does the rest. Patroo: In modern business and in the ho^ne a cheque account is a PTY. LTD. His Excellency The Governor of necessity. Victoria. The Commonwealth Bank is a modern trading Bank and offers Prwidcnt: you a full range of banking services. Commander R. A. Nettiefold, D.S.C., V.R.D., R.A.N.R. A cheque account is easy to op«n. simple to operate. Sacratarr: Open yours with— Brig. Guy N. Moore, C.B.E.. D.F.C. Hon Treaeurer: COMMONWEALTH BUI OF AUSTRALIA a W. Lucas. Esq. •THE BANK YOU OWN- South Australian Division His Excellency The Governor of South Australia. Preaideot: Commander S. R. Symonds, R.A.N. .. (Rtd.). For the Best Soft Drinks Lieut.(i) L. T. Ewens, R.AN.V.R. Australian Sea Cadet Council < Bcpreaetrtarivee al The Naval Board) Always say . . . Director of Naval Reserves (Captain ALL CLASSES OF SHIP REPAIRS AND FITTINGS A. S. Rosenthal, D.S.O.,* R.A.N., (Chairman), Commander F. R. James. UNDERTAKEN RA.N. MARCHANTS (Repeaaentativee of I ha Navy Leagu.) 88-102 NORMANBY RD., STH. MELBOURNE, VIC. Captain L. A. W. Spooner, O.B.E. R.N. (retired), LIG. Pearson, Esq., PLEASE! L Forsythe, . Telephone*: MX 523X (6 tinea). Office St Factory: 34 YORK ST., RICHMOND, VICTORIA Lieut (s) F. G. Evans, R.A.N V.R. •Phone: JA 1151. Appointed by N.B. (on rcconmendation o( tie N/L Coundl).

Tto Mar No.ambar, 1951. lie in the halting of Science. It demands that the THE COCOS ISLAND AIR BASE. multitudes of non-scientists—that is, the vast body A far wider public than Defence Service leaders of the people —should be taught more about the will give support to the Australian Government's methods and significance of Science. Only by a decision to build a big air base on Cocos Island, general recognition of this fact in the educational Australia's newest possession. Indeed, it has system of democracy can the permanent human become more than a decision; the great £700,000 values be adequately understood and adjusted in work has already hegua. terms appropriate to a scientific age. Thus it re- mains true that the able expositor of Science, no Strategically placed 12 degrees south of the matter in what branch of it he works, is today a Equator, 530 miles west from Christmas Island, priceless asset in any community. the Cocos or Keeling Islands arc of considerable importance to Australia, as a link in an Indian And as in civil life, so in the Services. Probably Occan Air Service connecting Australia to South few quarters arc more aware of this momentous Africa. trend than the British Board of Admiralty. The result is that Science today is affecting the life, As an essential stopping place in this trans-ocean equipment and methods of the Naval Service as or service, and as an ideal base for the supervision never before in history. As an index to this sig- of Empire sea routes in the event of war, Cocos's nificant and inescapable development, we need but chief dcfence value to Australia is that it will pro- point, to give but three instances, to the recent ap- vide an alternative air route to the United King- pointment by the Admiralty of a sea-going Fleet dom should ever the Far East routes be closed or Scientific Officer to the staff of the Commander- Nor perhaps is that all. No magic wand will in-Chief, Home Fleet, to the rapid development i'vcr dissolve Australia's proximity to the Asian of the jet-propelled aircraft, and to the fitting out continent and the great archipelago that provides of the scientific-age "trials" cruiser "Cumberland." a series of stepping-stones to this country. The I act is, we are overshadowed by the countries of Today nothing is static. Science moves on, Asia, and our nearest neighbour-State has a popu- whether we like it or not. Only if we so regard lation nearly ten times our own. In the defence it, only if we keep pace with it, can victory, either of our country, or in the defence of our country's in peace or war, be won. interests, the big air base on Cocos may yet prove far from unhelpful. NEW ROCKET MOTOR FOR during the five-day conference at Ottawa. JET PLANES. Vol. IS. November. 1951. No. II. High among the pronouncements was the re- commendation that the existing 12-member treaty SCIENCE AND LIFE. According to a correspondent in London, a new organisation be expanded to take in Greece and ATLANTIC PLANNING GROUP. rocket motor, which will double the power and Turkey. The inclusion of Greece and Turkey was There is little doubt that the great achieve- increase the speed of the fastest jet planes in assured—at least provisionally—on September 19 ments of Science, pure and applied, in all their climbing and in level flight at high altitudes, has when Denmark approved the plan. The 11 other vast profusion, have caused confusion, and even The decision of the Atlantic Council to appoint passed its tests in Britain. N.A.T.O. nations had already given approval. It no little aversion, in the minds of many people. a 12-member committee to plan how to meet the is said that, in the light of this expansion, military The fact is, our generation is somewhat over- It is called "The Snarler" and it has been tested defence needs of the North Atlantic Treaty Or- leaders are mapping plans already for a new com- whelmed by Science. Science has moved so fast extensively in Hawker experimental aircraft. The ganisation without wrecking the economies of the mand to handle Middle East defence. •ind into so many new realms, that the public has managing director of Messrs. Armstrong Siddeley, 12-member nations is, it is felt, both wise and failed to keep pace with it. Mr. H. T. Chapman, said: timely. The incalculable value to the general However, Atlantic Council approval does not "Rockets have already been used to assist take- strategy of the Western powers of such a decision automatically extend membership to Greece and To the Man in the Street, Science seems some unintelligible activity with which he is but re- offs, but they are solid propellent motors and burn must be obvious to all. Turkey. The move has to be ratified by Parlia- motely connected. to exhaustion once they have been ignited. 'The The committee is to make an analysis of military ments in most member nations. Non-ratification, however, is extremely unlikely. That is where most of us err. Snarler', however, can be switched on and off at needs in Europe and the ability of treaty members For, in all kinds of unsuspected ways, Science will, and the pilot can use it for take-offs or for to fill those needs. With these needs determined In regard to Italy's position, informed sources say that the Foreign Ministers of the United is affecting our daily lives in a greater and greater ultra-rapid climbing, or even for performance prior to war, if war there is to be, the Allies' over- legree throughout almost every week that passes. boosts in combat or pursuit." all strategy should be able to fall into place with- States, Great Britain, and France will seek a re- From atomic development, with all its fearful out any undue delay. There will never again be vision of the Italian Peace Treaty. Italy's military ' The Snarler" is the first of its type to be built as well as beneficial potentialities, down to the last any so-called "All Quiet" periods to war, as hap and naval forces at present are limited to 250,000 in Britain. It develops, we understand, the enorm- ^mall invention, Science challenges, and will con- pened in the early months of World War II. men. It is considered possible that the treaty will ous power of 2,000 lb. thrust at sea level, yet it tinue to challenge, the attention of every citizen World War III., should it come, will be a matter be set aside by declaration on the ground that can be fitted into a space measuring' six feet by trom the cradle to the grave. He is inescapably of "all out and all in" from the first tap of the Italy as a defeated nation has met all of the obli- three feet, and its weight is 215 lb. e caught up in its tremendous ramifications, despite gong. Th committee was ordered to complete gations imposed on it at the end of the war. It uses a fuel made of liquid oxygen and a water- his confusion and lack of knowledge of his place its work by December 1. Russia, as a treaty signatory would, of course, be methanol mixture. invited to participate in the declaration. If the in it. Aviation experts claim that "The Snarler" takes The Atlantic Council concluded its work on Russians opposed the treaty changes, they could Here is perhaps the most vital educational prob- British aviation past another milestone in its world September 20 and at once issued a formal an- easily be overruled, as no doubt they would be. lem of our time. The solution, however, does not lead. nouncement of some of the secret decisions taken Tko Mart November, 1951. 4 C r v • «• TREASURE-HUNTERS OF THE SEA-BED C. GILES By YANN LORANZ, of the "UNESCO Courier" TATTERS ALL'S TELLING HOW HISTORIANS IN DIVING SUITS ARE EXPLORING THE SEA DEPTHS FOR 5/- CASH CONSULTATIONS THE WRECKED GALLEONS AND GALLEYS — WITH THEIR LEGENDARY CARGOES OF & SONS JEWELS AND GOLD — OF MEDIEVAL AND ANCIENT TIMES. £10,000 FIRST PRIZE Drawn every few days Throughout the ages, man has Navy, and a French engineer spect in their proper surroundings. and tried to wrest from the sea its named Gagnan. Underwater archaeology should 10/- CASH CONSULTATIONS treasures. As I write, in front of not entail the breaking up of £25,000 FIRST PRIZE • SACK me is a map of the world on which CLUBS TO HISTORY. articles with the sole aim of rais- Drawn every few weeks. hundreds of little crosses mark in During the past 15 years, his- ing them to the surface, recon- AND the cemetery of the sea the resting torians have left their libraries, anJ stituting them, and making them places of legendary ships and their biologists their laboratories, to don museum pieces. First of all it is Postage on tickets and results to be added. • PRODUCE cargoes of jewels and gold. diving suits and carry out methodi- necessary .to study them closely MERCHANTS, Here are the ships of the Invin- cal investigations off the shores ol where they are found, to clear the cible Armada, there the "Eliza- the Mediterranean. Sometimes, sites and to photograph the ob- The Address . . . bethville" with her 13,000 carats becausc of technical difficulties, jects, preferably before handling of pure diamonds, further on the governments have called in profes- them. GEO. ADAMS (TATTERSALD HOBART frigate "Lutine" with her gold in- sional divers — and their reward 341 MALVERN RD., gots, or there the "Orient" with comes when some remarkable ob- AN EMPIRE'S JUNK. SOUTH YARRA, the wealth of the Knights of Malta. ject is brought to the surface. The "materials" awaiting was, for instance, the When ship* of the Navy MELBOURNE, Elsewhere are the galleons of Philip There searchers are of two kinds. famous bronze statue of Zeus of VICTORIA. II or the galleys of Caligula. This Wrecks arc the most usual, but map reminds me of the day in Artemision which, thanks to the there is also a multitude of objects Greek Government, was brought 1934 when, aboard the little Italian which people, in all eras, have got •PHONES: BJ 3255-t>. on the shores of Greece, where cargo boat "Artiglio" I saw the up rid of by throwing away into har- had lain since the fifth century first dredger bucket opened, re- it bours. These are objects which, vealing the gold sovereigns which before Christ. after the mud protecting them has » had just been taken from the shat- The uninitiated wrongly imagine been cleaned off, constitute the tered hull of the steamship that the underwater archaeologists most interesting materials for "Egypt" have only one aim — to recover study, and which provide experts ALEX H. MACKIE Until a few years ago, it was the artistic treasures hidden in the with real "archaeological layers." ANCHOR BRAND hope of making money that led Mediterranean. The great Middle Among the wrecks, two have ENGINEER sailors to carry out salvage opera- Sea, which was the scene of intense for long attracted the interest of tions. Such treasure hunters need- maritime trade in ancicnt times, divers: the Antheor and the 9-11-3 THERRY ST., ed only a little more audacity and hides mainly relics — wrecks and Albenga, discovered by members various objects — whose shape and of the Club Alpin Sous-Marin off MELBOURNE. VICTORIA physical endurance than those prospecting for gold in Alaska. location provide clues to important the Italian coast. Both contain Now a band of newcomers have historical facts, as well as enabling large numbers of jars, not of joined the wreck-hunters on the techniques of a new science to be marble, as has been said, but pot- sea-bed — a handful of men who evolved. True archaeology — tery made of common clay, which are not motivated by thought of whether terrestrial or underwater in Roman times preceded the cask personal gain. In fact, I think — does not aim at pillaging the —a Gallic invention. This shows METAL STAMPINGS their research costs more than they past, but at studying and recon- that the Antheor and the Albenga OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS get in return These men, who structing it. Certain outstanding were not therefore galleys, as has In this land of ours—in this Australia of kindliness, of friendship, far d» are inspired solely by their con- findings have recently been totally been claimed, but cargo boats of good humoured tolerance . . . perhaps no beverage is more at MOTOR AND AIRPLANE cern for history and science, are destroyed by the depredation of bringing food to the Roman capi- - home than good jstralian beer. For beer is a drink Australians the underwater archaeologists. amateurs, and there is, therefore, tal. like. It is a part of pleasant living, of good fellowship, of sensible INDUSTRIES. an urgent need for underwater moderation. Aud our right to enjoy it . . . this too is a part of Underwater archaeology, a new When one thinks of the many • relics to be protected by law in the our Australian heritage of personal freedom. science which still needs definition same way as historic sites and ports which were used by the as well as organisation, owes its monuments on the ground. Roman fleet, and the number and existence to a new diving tech- variety of objects thrown into the Beer is Good For You nique, made possible by a self- M. Philippe Diolc, one of the water by seamen or port-dwellers, Foe all enquirie. please contained diving suit. Following promoters of underwater archae- one gets an idea of the task still to Enjoy it! the pioneer work of Le Prieur, ology and certainly its greatest he undertaken. 'Phone FJ 3629. CARLTON & UNITED BREWERIES LTD. this suit was perfected by Com- authority, has urged that these dis- In any case, underwater archae- BREWING IN AUSTRALIA FOR 98 YEARS. mandant Cousteau, of the French coveries should be treated with re- ology has already proved its

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L. efficacy with the French excava- tions at Fossur-Mer, where divers Royal Naval Reserve Patrol Service had to work with pickaxes to get NEW RANKS FOR OFFICERS AND NEW CONDITIONS OF to the newly • discovered relics. SERVICE. Ceramics (articles of pottery, often decorated, i.e., ceramic art) found pnder the sea-bed enabled them to The distinctive Skipper ranks of ficer is a fully qualified navigator fix — as archaeologists and his- the Royal Naval Reserve Patrol with training and experience in torians had never been able to do Service, drawn entirely from the radar and radio. In the Admir- ' — the date of the city of Marius; men of Britain's fishing fleets, may alty's view the duties such officers the end of the second or the be- gradually disappear as a result of perform, both in the fishing fleets ginning of the first century before the approval of H.M. The King in peace and in the Royal Naval Christ. of new conditions of service, Reserve in war, will in future be which have been introduced to as skilled and responsible as Similarly, the team of divers led bring these officers into line with R.N. and R.N.R (General Ser- by Father Poidebard, after explor- those of the Merchant Navy in vice) officers. ing the waters of Tyre and Sidon, the Royal Naval Reserve and also An important feature of the were able to trace accurately the to lower their age of entry and to new service conditions is the pro- plan of these ancient ports. provide improved prospects of vision of a lower age of entry for promotion. err res UNDER THE SEA. young officers in order that they Instead of the familiar Skipper can complete their initial Naval There are many legends which Class appointments introduced 111 training before entering the criti- tell of cities under the sea. Thc 1910 for the old R.N.R. Trawler cal period in their fishing careers old fishermen of Douarnenez, for Division, which preceded the when they are first appointed to example, claim that at certain tides present Patrol Service, and held a command. one can sec the ruined walls of the by men who dunng two World Candidates between the ages proud city of Ys which, the story Wars have manned and com- of 21 and 50 years fulfilling the goes, sank below the waves off the manded minesweepers and anti- nccessary conditions of service Brittany coast submarine trawlers with outstand- and accepted by Interview Boards Though such stories may belong ing success, officers possessing the held from time to time at the to the realms of fancy, traces of nccessary qualifications will be en- principal fishing ports of Eng- other cities have actually been tered in the future as Probation- land, Wales, and Scotland will be found. Near Hycres, for example, ary Sub-Lieutenants with the same eligible for entry as Probationary the divers of the Cannes Club dis- promotion to Lieutenant and Lieu- TU C.^.,^,.^ .-A^,, Sir ^ „ Sub-Lieutenants. They can be covered the underwater relics of .1 tenant - Commander as R.N.R. promoted to Lieutenant after former Greco-Roman colony, simi- General Service Officers. lar to those of Vercuranum, near three years' service as Sub-Lieu- The special small ship experi- tenant and to Lieutenant-Com- the town of St. Honorat At ence of the Patrol Scrvice is, Olbia, a town which digging opera- mander after eight years seniority R.N.'S FIRST OPERATIONAL JET BOMBER however, to be retained and it is as Lieutenant. They will receivc tions had already partly revealed, not intended that officers should Britain's first operational Squad- the same rates of pay and allow- by one Rolls Royce Nene centri- joined the Royal Navy shortly be- other divers brought to light part be appointed to vessels bigger ron of Naval jet aircraft was offi- of a stone jetty and other construc- ances as arc applicable to the R.N. fugal flow turbine jet engine. fore the outbreak of World War than trawlers in time of war. whilst under training and when cially formed at the Royal Naval A prototype Attacker establish- tional remains. Air Station at Ford, Sussex, on II. and was employed on full fly- Officers now on the active list called out for active scrvice. ed a new international speed re- ing duties in several aircraft car- The new science of underwater of the Patrol Service arc being August 22. It will have a front- cord for the 100 km. closed cir- archaeology is still in the early Chief Skippers transferring to line strength of eight Attacker riers, including H.M.S. "Furious"" given the option of transferring, cuit with a speed of 564.881 miles and H.M.S "Indomitable." He pioneer stage. It lacks followers— if selected, to the new ranks, re- the new ranks will, if selected, he urcraft and later will be embark- per hour on February 27, 1948. not scientists, as such, but scientist- given the ranks of Lieutenant or ed in the new aircraft carrier, won the Distinguished Service maining in their old ranks under For this flight the Attacker was Cross in 1941 for outstanding divers. This is a vocation which the existing conditions of service Sub-Lieutenant according to their H.M.S. "Eagle", who commissions piloted by Lietitenant-Command- will not take long to capture the present seniority with an allow- this year zeal, patience, cheerfulness and fl or retiring immediately. er M. J. Lithgow, R.N. (Rctd ), wholehearted devotion to duty. 1 imagination of youth, and it is to ance made for higher ranks held now chief test pilot for the Sup- The official announcement of This is the first squadron to be The bar to this decoration was be hoped that soon new teams will during war service. Skipper Lieu- ermarine Company, and formerly the new regulations states that quipped under the R.N.'s pro- awarded to Lieutenant-Command- go to the bottom of the sea to help tenants, if selected, will become an operational pilot in the Royal they are designed to "bring the gramme for re-equipping front er Baldwin for distinguished ser- the development of this new field Lieutenant-Commanders. Navy. The aircraft carried its rank and status of these officers line fighter squadrons with jet air- vices, efficiency and zeal while of scientific investigation full military equipment and was more into keeping with the re- Skipper Class Officers who held craft. serving in H.M.S "Attacker" and I sponsibilities which they now hold temporary commissions in the last standard in every respect. with light coastal forces during • both in peace and war." war and who are employed in the The Supermarine Attacker F. 1 The new Squadron, known as the clearance of the Aegean and 1 It is realised that the modern fishing industry will also he con- is a single seater jet fighter which 800 Squadron, is commanded by the relief of Greece. He is a high- j long-distance trawler is a big ship sidered for transfer to the perm ••uccessfully carried out deck land- Lieutenant - Commander George ly skilled aviator and one of the with the latest navigational appli- anent Royal Naval Reserve in the ing trials in H.M.S. "Illustrious" Clifton Baldwin, D.S.C. and bar. Navy's most experienced jet I ances, while her commanding of- new ranks. in October, 1947. It is powered Lieutenant-Commander Baldwin pilots. I MtnaW, mi. Tto Nny in which they were observers "WALCHAREN" 1ST. NOVEMBER, 1944 were hit. By R.P.H. About the beginning of Oc- tober, 1944. the R.AF. had made T.V. FOR SHEER COLD BLOODED COURAGE AND DETERMINATION an accurate bombing attack on "ROMA" IN THE FACE OF TREMENDOUS ODDS IT WOULD BE DIFFICULT the dyke on Walcharen Island, TO FIND ANOTHER ACTION FOUGHT AT SUCH EXTREMELY near the town of Weskapellc. A SHORT RANGE AND SO TRULY IN THE NELSON TRADITION. breach approximately 380 yards wide was torn in the wall and as T.V. Although it was one of the had been adapted as a headquart- alongside were jammed with a result the sea flooded practically "SYDNEY" most fiercely contested Combined ers ship for the Normandy land- sunken ships and barges, railway the whole of the island. How- Operations of the European ings, we were hastily recalled rolling stock and motor vehicles. ever, many of the fortifications Theatre during the last war and from the exciting occupation of Coaling gantries and bridges were had been built into the sea wall its successful conclusion was of chasing "E" boats at night in the ind on the higher ground, and all ruthlessly demolished. In M.V. great strategical value to the Al- Channel, and dispatched to these unfortunately survived. spite of all this chaos, however, "NAPOU" lies, very little is known in Aus- Southampton where Force "T" British Harbour Clearance Units Two small bcaches were soon tralia of the British Assault on was being assembled. already had a number of berths formed by the tides rushing in Walcharen Island in the Scheldt This Force consisted of a close in working order and a small .>nd out of the gap, and it was at Estuary on the 1st November, support squadron made up of basin teemed with M.T.B.'s and these points that the principal 1944. Landing Craft Gun (LOG) and other small craft. trontal assault was to be launched M.V. The capture intact of Ant- Landing Craft Flak (LCF) man- The task of strategically load- by our Force "T." It was taken "RAVELLO" werp, at long last gained for the ned mostly by Royal Marines, ing the vehicles and equipment tor granted by the planning staff Allies a ready-made and splendid- and armed with guns ranging was begun immediately landing that the element of surprise was ly equipped port. Before its facil- from a destroyer's. 4.7" to the craft arrived from England, and ilrcady forfeited, and so "H" ities could be fully exploited, Oerlikon tvpe of cannon. There as each little ship completed her hour was fixed for 9.45 a.m. in VIA were alsc numbers of Tank and nroad daylight, at extreme low however, it was necessary to complement, she was moved else- THE sweep clear of mines the Scheldt Infantry Ur.ding Craft (LCT where and another took her water. This time had the advant- Estuary, which forms an approach and LCI). place at the ramps. Most of the age that most of the additional BARRIER channel approximately 70 miles The senior officers of the three vehicles taken aboard were of the beach obstacles added to the de- REEF fences since Normandy were vis- long. services were located in H.M.S. amphibious variety, and bore such TO The Germans were still in pos- "Kingsmill" from which ship the odd names as "Weezles", "Buf- ible to the craft commanders, and session of the northern shores of operation was to be directed. faloes", "Duckw" (ducks). It therefore to some small extent, IHC^ the estuary which comprised the Most of the personnel forming •i voidable. was reasoned by the planning DJAKARTA, SINGAPORE, COLOMBO, PORT SAID, heavily fortified islands of North the Force had seen service in staff that some difficulty would be As Westkapelle was only 28 and South Beveland and Walchar- previous combined operations and experienced with the waterlogged sea miles from Ostende the Force NAPLES, MARSEILLES, GENOA en, and they were thus able to there was little need or time to terrain of the islands and so mo- Jid not sail from the latter port THROUGH FARES TO LONDON prevent our minesweepers from carry out the usual pre-operation- bility was sacrificed for armour. until 5.0 a.m. on D Day, 1st No- al exercises with the landing accomplishing their task. The is- There were, however, some spec- vember, 1944. The weather was Apply to L GARIGLIO & CO. land of Walcharen was also be- craft. Communications, however, ially waterproofed light tanks to source of great concern to the ing used as a launching base for were rehearsed constantly night provide support. Senior Naval Officer, as the deci- OR the V.2 attacks then in progress and day. October 31 was a day of con- sion to continue or postpone the JAMES PATRICK ft CO. PTY. LTD. on the London area. After embarking about eighty "peration after arriving at the ference and there was much com- In order to remove the obstruc- additional men, which caused a point of assault rested with him. 19 BRIDGE STREET, SYDNEY ing and going of senior officers, tion, planning for an assault on tremendous crush in an already The sea was calm but a ground among whom was Admiral the out of a line of low sandhills. It Walcharen Island from three di- overcrowded ship, "Kingsmill" -well rolled in from the North- most needed, for the initial straf- late Sir Bertram Ramsay, then Al- was obscured almost at once by a rections began in September, sailed from Southampton in a flat .vest, and reports stated that surf fing and for the observation of lied Naval Commander-in-Chief. heavy bank of clouds and once 1944, and was pressed forward calm and arrived at Ostende, her was estimated to be four feet high the preliminary naval bombard- more a gloomy light settled over forward base, without incident, "ii the beaches. A light westerly ment. with all haste. The main frontal Just before we slipped from all. attack was to be made from sea- after passing through the Dover our berth in Ostende, several was blowing out of an overcast For the purpose of softening up wards by Naval Force "T", while Straits close to the beleagued War Correspondents were added ky, and visibility in the direction At this juncture we were to the defences, a mile or so to sea- elements of the Canadian Army German garrison holding Dun- to our teaming numbers aboard, <>f the land was poor. It was a have witnessed what promised to ward, and beautifully silhouetted bleak November morning, and as advanced from the rear across the kirk. and I was fortunate to attend a be a spectacular rocket attack by against a light sky, was the battle- I inflated my life jacket, I causeway which connected the At Ostende the destruction of press conference at which the op- R.A.F. Typhoons on the fortifica- ship "Warspite", making one of thought, not a very suitable one three islands to the Eastern main- harbour facilities was a typical eration in all its phases was ex- tions immediately surrounding our her last appearances in action. for a swim. land. From the south the example of Teuton thoroughness. plained to the newsmen before objective. Unfortunately the Eng- Also in attendance were the mon- lish and Belgium aerodromes from Canadians were also to launch a Great gaps had been torn in con- they were assigned to the various In formation behind a pair of itors "Erebus" and "Roberts". which these fighters operated •tmbune assault from Bieakins, crete quays and lock gates, and craft of the Force. Some of these mine sweepers, the little squad- About 7.15 a.m. the decision to were shrouded in fog, and the aimed at Flushing. cranes were spread-eagled in grot- photographers and reporters later ron approached the land just as proceed with the operation was Force was therefore without close In "Kingsmill," a frigate which esque attitude*. The berths lost their lives when the vessels the sun was rising in golden glory taken, and the "Warapste" and air support, at a tine when it was her consorts began firing shortly w'"m*i, mi. / after. At first only single ranging gun batteries around Middlcburg ficer was later transferred to the shots rumbled across the water, and Domburg. beach, and for his splendid work but as each ship found her pre- In the support squadron the fate there was awarded the D.S.C. arranged target, great salvoes of two of a new type of LCG, op- Meanwhile, as the hours went went rushing overhead like ex erational for the first time, was by, the progress of the Marine press trains. watchcd with interest. Armed Commandos ashore could be judg- So far there had been no indi- with two staggered 17 lb. anti- ed by the triumphal columns of cation that any resistance was to tank guns in turrets, their object smoke which asccndcd from the be offered to our progress, but was to sit on the beach, flood various gun positions as each was soon a Motor Launch leading a special tanks which would hold taken from the rear. By the line of Infantry and Tank land- the craft on the shore, and so pro- evening of 1st November, only ing craft through the surrounding vide a steady platform for the one battery remained which could minefields was heavily shelled, gunners. Both LCG's were lost in fire on the beach, at the gap in and received a direct hit from a the operation. the dyke. These guns clearly four-inch shell, which passed It was rumoured that flame- had the range almost to a yard, through her bridge and wheel- throwers had been turned on them and prevented urgently needed house without exploding. The after they had beached, but sur- supplies from being landed in day- shell killed her Captain, Cox- vivors from LCG 101 informed light. Two LCT's attempted the swain, and two ratings. At this me that a great volume of small journey at dusk, but they were so time a number of heavy batteries arms fire had been concentrated accurately shelled that they were on the island were observed in ac- on the turrets, and that some of it forced to withdraw. At this time, tion, but they were firing towards passed through the sight apertures an ammunition dump near the Flushing and not for the present and killed or wounded most of bcach received a direct hit, and bothering Force "T". the personnel inside. LCG 101 blew up in a fantastic display of fireworks. About 9.30 a.m. the covering had eventually tried to unbeach, Naval bombardment was lifted to but was so badly damaged that After sunset "Kingsmill" retir- enable the support craft to attack she quickly capsized, and sank on ed to seaward as the presence of the pill boxes and immediate reaching deep water. "E" Boats was suspected. We beach defences. At a range which Most of the other craft report- passed a quiet although uneasy was rapidly closed to about 300 ed appalling casualties and dam- night, and returned to the beach- yards, it was practically impossible age causcd by hits from shells of head at dawn. By this time the for the enemy to miss, and it is up to 5.9 inches in calibre, which weather had deteriorated consid not surprising therefore that the passed right through hulls and erably, and a blow set in from casualties amongst the support superstructure without exploding. the North West. This brought group mounted rapidly. By about 11 a.m. the sea off the conditions which very much re- A great deal of moral effect beach at Westkapellc was littered stricted the support which the was lost in the initial stages of with furiously burning hulks. Naval squadron could give the this duel when the Rocket Sup- Some of these drifted into the men ashore, and at the end of port Craft short-ranged, and sent nearby minefields and were sunk, D. plus 1, having first assured our their terrifying showers of explo- while others went ashore and be- selves that the Marines were well sive perilously closc to our own came the recipients of further on their way, we mustered the craft, instead of upon the beach punishment. battered remnants of Force "T", and escorted them back to Os defences. Small craft full of wounded and tcndc. It had been found in previous survivors continuously arrived operations that the German had alongside "Kingsmill," which was The Royal Marines Com- a tendency to fire at the object about a mile from the shore, and mandos had been able to accom on th. ,(.,„ „, ft. H.M.A.S. "Clgo." ..(eh . ,, t , -"S.M.H." Ch which was causing him the most attracting only spasmodic gun- plish their task, but at a fearful ^ " " * "kptl>-cliarg. (ron, th. ih.'p „p|od., discomfort, and in so doing at fire, and it was not long before cost. Of the 28 craft which were Walcharcn, by concentrating his our decks literally ran in blood. employed in the Support Squad TRAINEES LEARN THE NAVY'S WAY Specially fitted Hospital Landing H.M.A.S. "Culgoa" was huck- fire upon the support squadron, ron, 9 were sunk, 11 were badly The old hands call them Mackcrs Craft took as many casualties as i stiff north-east gale. he allowed the Infantry and Tank damaged, 1 was damaged but still because of their tremendous ap- As one of the frigate's officers possible to nearby Ostende, but An 18-year-old "macker," his Landing Craft to beach with only capable of service, and 7 remain petite for macaroons. put it, unable to resist a friendly we still remained the clearing sta- face turned from greenish-yellow slight opposition. Once ashore, cd undamaged. And whatever may be happen- nudge at the "junior" Services: tion, and Mess Decks and Ward- to flat white, appealed to Chief however , the Roval Marine Com- On 28th November, the Scheldt ing in the other Services, the Navy "It seems the greatest tragedy that room alike were pressed into ser- Petty Officer R. J. Bell: "Please, mandos met very heavy mortar estuary channel to Antwerp was is not handling its trainees with can befall a National Service vice. Our Doctor and Sickbay sir, put me off the ship at Sydney. and small arms fire, but they opened to shipping, and at once kid gloves. Officially, they arc trainee in the Army is for his bed- staff, supplemented by volunteers, ! can't stand it, and I'll never be a eventually broke out of the beach began the steady stream of ma treated exactly the same as or- side lamp to fail, and in the Air were unable to cope with the sailor." head and proceeded with the task terials which launched the Allies dinary R.A.N, recruits; they havy Force for the entree dish at dinner rush, and a medical officer was of liquidating the beach perimeter on the road to Berlin and final The boy was one of 80 National the same food, quarters, amen- to be luke-warm. We're trying sent from "Warspite." This of- defences and capturing the heavy victory. Service trainees in the frigate. ities and discipline. hard to shield our trainees from these disasters." «X Ito Navy Nwanker, l*SI. ' I) incident occurred at Madang in COLOURFUL CAREER OF New Guinea. When beaching to MARITIME NEWS OF THE unload, the native labour recruited NAVAL VESSEL to handle the cargo, took one look at this monster charging the fore- shore and straight away vanished Lieut.-Com. G. M. DIXON, D.S.C., R.A.N.V.R. into the jungle from whence it took some time before they could be persuaded to return. The paying-off of H.M.A.S. "La ship were built during World War WORLD In 1947, L.S.T. 3501, as she was buan" brings to an end for a time II from the earliest type, which From our Correspondents in were converted oil tankers, to the still known, was selected to carry the colourful career of one of His the first party of scientists to estab LONDON and NEW YORK Majesty's Australian ships which final L.S.T. built in the United lish Meteorological stations on has rendered so much excellent States of America, Great Britain By and Canada to which class Heard and Macquarie Islands, service to Australia during the few AIR MAIL years she has been opcacing with H.M.A.S. "Labuan" belonged. which are situated in the storm- the Royal Australian Navy. For a wracked seas of the Sub-Antarctic. Built in Montreal, Canada, as After some months spent at time she will be virtually put away L.S.T. 3501, she was launched on in moth balls Swinging lazily- Garden Island, Sydney, where she OCEANOGRAPHICAL the ceremony the U.S. Assistant 17th August, 1944, and under the MASTER'S DAMAGES round a buoy to the fancy of the was fitted out to meet the con- SURVEY IN SOUTHERN National Production Authority command of Lieut.-Commander R. FOR SLANDER. changing winds and tides or moor- ditions of the sub-Antarctic, L.S.T OCEAN. Administrator Norman Foy, call- A Reuter message from Bona, C. Wyman, R.C.N.V.R., made ed peacefully to a jetty in com- 3501, conspicuous in a new coat The Royal Research Ship, ed on United States industry and quoted in a Lloyds List of com- her maiden voyage from Quebec pany with other vessels of the of orange paint, sailed for Mel- » "Discovery II.", operated by the fanners to turn in scrap at an in- paratively recent date, revealed reserve fleet, where, proud of her to the Naval Port of Plymouth in bourne on 17th October, 1947, to National Institute of Oceano- creased rate "lest steel production that the captain of a British steam- efforts and her part in the history England, where she arrived in load a vast amount of equipment graphy, Great Britain, is now on be crippled." er had been awarded damages for of Australia, she may dream such May, 1945, and after a short stay and stores necessary to lay the the third stage of her circum- SOME CATCH. slander amounting to about dreams of the past as may stir the there, sailed for the East to take foundations of the weather station polar voyage. She is carrying out A Laesoe fisherman of Den- £1,000 sterling against the cap- souls of ships. Memories bright part in the recapture of Singapore at Heard Island which has been a general occanographical survey mark, Laurits Petersen, brought tain of an Italian steamer. The with colourful scenes of the East from the Japanese planned to operate there for five of the biological and physical into the Jutland port of Frederik- two vessels had been in collision and of tropic islands or of battles Although Japan sued for peacc years. This was a tempestuous conditions in the Southern Ocean. shavn recently, 24 cases contain- earlier in the year, and the Italian fought with the mighty Grey on 15th August, 1945, and hos- voyage where she encountered She was cxpected to arrive at ing 576 bottles of brandy which master accused the captain of th* Beards of the Southern Seas. tilities ceased, this operation was some of the worst weather ever Simonstown, South Africa, at the he fished up during the night in British vessel in local newspapers end of July. She was then to visit Ghosts of the penguins and seals, carried out. The story is told of recorded in these seas. the Cattegat. It is bebeved that of ramming his vessel to avoid Durban before starting on the once her passengers, who made the how the captain of one L.S.T During the stay at Heard Island, the brandy, together with cognac, running aground. The court de- last stage of the voyage, which in- voyage from their homes in the far beached his ship at such a speed an important ceremony was carried was dumped by a Dutch ship en- cided that the ramming was acci- South between her decks, to the cludes a visit lo the French scien- gaged in smuggling into the Con- dental and the accusation ground- during this operation that she out. . . . The Australian Flag was tific expedition cn the island of ;oo6 of Sydney and Melbourne, careered into the jungle, rending raised, thus transferring from tinent. less. will be recalled by the plaintive Kcrguclen. The "Discovery II." a path through the cocoanut trees, Britain to Australia the guardian- carries a scientific staff of eight "WAHINE" COURT OF NOVEL JACKS. cries of sea gulls in whose com- where she remained for 12 days ship of this lonely island. Next, INQUIRY. pany she will be. members, headed by Dr. H. F. Last year it was decided that, until the next Spring tide, when she made the voyage to Macquarie P. Herdman, of the National In- A recent magisterial Court of as supplies became available, all Lovers of the Zoo will also she was floated off. Island to establish a similar weather stitute of Oceanography, and a Inquiry, held at Wellington, N.Z., Clan Line vessels would fly a tar- mourn the passing (from active For many months, L.S.T. 3501 station there In 1948 she was re- crew of 48 officers and men. The into the stranding and loss of the tan flag on the forward jack-staff service) of another L.S.T., was employed ferrying troops and named H.M.A.S. "Labuan." Master is Commander J. F. vessel "Wahine" on Marsela Is- while in port, the tartan being H.M.A.S. "Tarakan," on whose vehicles in the Middle East, until Between voyages to the sub- Blackburn, D.S.O., R.N. (retir- land in the Arafura Sea on Aug- that of the Clan after which the deck, as tiny cubs, the present finally she completed her commis- Antarctic, she transported stores ed). ust 15, found that no blame was vessel had been named. The tigers at Taronga Park made the sion and was paid off at Trin- and equipment to and from Dar- attached to the master. Captain house flag would still be flown journey from their jungle homes comalee in Ceylon, where she was win and Islands in the Torres HITLER'S LUXURY YACHT F. D. Johnson. The Court or- from the main mast as usual. in Malaya to Australia. Many moored with a number of her Straits, and was also employed to BROKEN UP. dered the return of certificates to That course is now being follow- rare birds from the jungle of New class, until with 5 other L.S.T.s transfer the Australian Naval A United States mobilisation the master and the chief officer, ed and adopted. official applied a cutting torch to Guinea, which delight visitors to she was recommissioned and joined Base from Dreger in Papua to the and it found that the stranding TRIBUTE TO MERCHANT Adolf Hitler's £2,000,000 yacht, was caused by an inexplicable var- Taronga Park, were also passen- the Royal Australian Navy on 1st site of the old American Base on NAVY. "Grille," at a New Jersey port re- iation in the set of the expected gers in "Tarakan." July, 1946, forming one of the Manus Island. cently. The ccrcmony was the westerly drift, against which the Those sea-going officers of the One of a class of Naval vessel 10th (Australian) L.S.T. squad- It was during her fourth and Merchant Navy who listened in last voyage, whilst returning from first step in the brcaking-up of master took all precautions. It which played such an important ron. The squadron arrived in the 476 ft. vessel for scrap ur- also found that the "Wahine" to the speeches at the recent part in every major amphibious Sydney in September of the same Heard Island this year, that some- Royal Academy Banquet in Lon- what tired after so many miles of gently needed for making war ma- was properly manned and equip- operation, from the Mediterranean, year and was employed in trans- teriaL It was estimated that the don must have found much pleas- ploughing the ocean she succumb- ped and that the absence of radar Pacific and Indian Ocean to the porting valuable military and road- ' Grille", built for Hider in 1935, was not a contributing factor to ure in the striking tribute to their ed to the violence of the Southern landing in Normandy was L.S.T. making equipment back from New would yield 3,000 tons of high- the stranding. It praised the con- Service with which Admiral of Seas and has now merited a well' (Landing Ship Tank). Guinea and other Islands of the quality scrap steel. Speaking at duct of all ahriaul the Fleet Lord Cork and Orrery Several designs of this type of Pacific to Australia. An amusing earned rest. opened his speech in reply to the Tfca Ns«y II. 1411. M It

I 1 FIRE ABOARD THE toast of The Fighting Services. brated his 60th birthday on the seas resulting from a hurricane tober 15. It had-no arm* that In effect, Lord Cork and Orrery day of the "Solveig "s" arrival in "SONOMA". struck the ship and she broke can win a quick, easy or magic Sydney. The last three days of said—as this journal stressed in A fire in No. 5 hatch of the apart and went down 200 miles victory, he said. Hopes that sup- the voyage were spent battling its editorial last month—that the U.S. vessel "Sonoma,"' berthed south-east of Cape Hatteras, er-weapons were ready for fight- gales off the Australian coast. BIRT ft COMPANY whole scheme of Britain's Naval, in Walsh Bay, Sydney, damaged North Carolina. ing and winning wars, were exag- Until then, the "Solveig" averag Military, ind Air Defence ulti- twenty bales of cotton on Octob- NEW ITALIAN LUXURY gerated. The plain fact is, he ed 128 miles sailing a day. mately depended upon the Merch- er 18. Firemen from the Sydney UNER. added, that until new weapons ant Navy being able to do its Fire Brigades prevented serious The 14,000-ton Flotta Laura (mr.) LIMITED HUGE OIL FIRE IN BRITAIN. and military applications of atomic job in which it had never fail- damage to the ship and the rest luxury liner, "Roma," said to be energy have proved their reliabil- ed. The owners, officers and men Britain's biggest peacetime oil of cargo in the hold. The cause a "ship that will not burn," ar- ity and arc available, we will have of the Merchant Navy have earn- blase was extinguished, follow of the fire is unknown. rived in Sydney on October 11, to depend on sufficient trained 4 Bridge Street, ed this generous but rightful re- ing herculean efforts, in Septemb- on her maiden voyage from Gen- and equipped ground, naval, and cognition by centuries

IWI. I* IT TIGHT 3INDING "Liberty" was handed over at Royal Australian Navy at a cost CANADIAN NAVY VESSELS Portsmouth in November, 1949, of £2,620,000. It was hoped that OUT OF "MOTHBALLS" and H.M.S. "Cadmus" was ac- NEWS OF THE WORLD'S NAVIES the tanker would join the Austra- The Royal Canadian Navy has cepted by the Belgians at Chath- lian Fleet by June, 1953. Mr. am in January, 1950. The begun to take its reserve ships McMahon said that the acquisi- out of "mothballs"—the plastic R.N.V.R. MOTOR LAUNCHES R.M.F.V.R. DIRECTOR "Ready" is a ship which perform- tion of the tanker would make "MURCHISON" IN DARING ed important mine clearance preservative with which the ves- VISIT DENMARK AND INSPECTS MERSEYSIDE it possible for ships of the Royal RAID. work in the Scheldt towards the sels were treated at the end of NETHERLANDS. CENTRE. Australian Navy to be fuelled at The British Admiralty announc- end of World War II. World War II. The first of 16 ed recently that the Australian Operating together for the The Director of the Royal Ma sea. "It was clearly demonstrated frigates and 20 minesweepers held rine Forces Volunteer Reserve, during the Second World War," frigate, H.M.A.S. "Murchison" first time this year, four motor RECORDS SET BY H.M.S. in reserve at Sorel (Quebec) launches attached to the Solent Colonel R. W. B. Simonds, R.M., he added, "that, if the maximum have been delivered to shipyards and six other frigates had sailed "GLORY". 30 miles up a river behind enemy Division of the Royal Naval Vol- made his annual inspection of the operational use was to be made for refitting and re-conditioning. unteer Reserve, which has its Merscysidc Centre of the R.M.F The 14th Carrier Air Group of of a fleet, all its units must be lines in Korea and plastered Red H.M.A.S. "ANZAC" IN headquarters in H.M.S. "Derg" V.R. at Morpeth Dock, Birken H.M.S. "Glory" (Captain K S. capable of remaining at sea for troops, supply dumps and trains. GUN DUEL. at Southampton Docks, visited head, Cheshire, recently. He in- Colquhoun, D.S.O., R.N.), dur- extended periods away from The daring naval operation took H.M.A.S. "Anzac," the Aus- place about 25 miles west of Kae- Denmark and the Netherlands re- spected the permanent staff, build ing the early part of her opera- bases. In peace-time, the tanker, cently with sixteen R.N.V.R. of- ings, and equipment and a parade tions in Korean waters, set up a which will be manned by a tralian destroyer during her ser- song, in West Korea. With the vice in Korean waters, went into "Murchison" were the British ficers and fifty-six ratings on of all ranks of the R.M.F.V.R. record by launching 46 sorties of Merchant Navy crew, will exer- board. The four boats sailed rocket assisted take off in a day. cise naval units in fuelling at sea action for the first time on Sep- frigates "Cardigan Bay", "Morc- SUBMARINE EXERCISES tember 8 and fought with brilliant from Southampton via Brunsbut- In doing so she became the first under varying weather conditions, cambe Bay" and "Mounts Bay", IN IRISH SEA. success. Standing three miles off tel and Kiel for a four-day visit carrier to operate a Sea Fury so that fuelling operations could the New Zealand frigates "Ha More than thirty surface ves the west coast of North Korea, wea", and "Rotoiti", and a South to the Danish port of Nyborg. Squadron by the rocket take off be carried out efficiently if war scls and eighteen submarines took method. Another record for ear- near Haeju, she engaged a Com- Korean frigate. The Admiralty part in the "Summer War' of broke out. When the tanker is munist coastal gun. Most of the described the raid as "one of the "FRONT LINE" AIRCRAFT ners was made by the "Glory's" not exercising in peace-time she FOR R.N.V.R. the Flag Officer (Submarines), Air Group in flying 350 sorties "Aniac's" shells were dead on navigational feats of the war". Rear Admiral S. M. Raw, C.B.E., will be used for freighting to Aus- the target, and two 4.5 inch shells A start, was made recently in in seven days. The crews of the frigates were in the Irish Sea and Britain's tralia, naval fuel oil at present car- blew the aperture of the coastal Britain with the re-equipment of asked to volunteer for the oper- Western Approaches. The exer ried in Admiralty tankers. The gun's emplacement wide open. It the three fighter and two anti- R.N.V.R. AIR SQUADRONS ation and, said the Admiralty, cise was on similar lines to those tanker has been ordered through is almost certain that at least one submarine air squadrons flown by "they leapt at the chance." organised annually since 1946. STRENGTHENED. the British Admiralty, which has of the shells passed right through pilots and observers of the Royal Ships taking part included the The British Admiralty has tak- been negotiating with major oil the aperture and exploded in the NEW CAPTAINS AND Naval Volunteer Reserve with COMMANDERS, R.N. aircraft carrier "Vengeance," tht en steps to increase the personnel companies in the United Kingdom gun chamber. modern aircraft of the three fighter and two anti- The Admiralty has announced cruiser "Sheffield", the submarine for the taking over of several submarine air squadrons manned its bi-annual selection of 40 R.N.V.R. MINESWEEPING depot ships "Maidstone" and tankers at present being built 35-KNOT ATOMIC SUB. by Royal Naval Volunteer Re- executive Lieutenant-Commanders EXERCISES. "Montclare." A number of the there. They have been designed According to "All Hands," an serve by strengthening their pool to enable them to operate with official United States Navy publi- and 20 executive Commanders During the English Spring five submarines involved, including the of "reserve fliers"—those pilots fleets of the Royal Navy as re- cation, a gigantic atom-powered for promotion to the rank of Naval Volunteer Reserve Divi- submarines "Zeehond" and "Tij- gerhaai", of the Royal Nether and observers serving on List 11 quired. At the request of the submarine is now being built Commander and Captain respect- sions—three in England and two lands Navy, joined in the exer- and increasing the number of Australian Commonwealth Naval which will have an underwater ively. The average age of the in Scotland—combined to form cises after taking part in a large active non-aircrew officers attach- Board, the Admiralty will take speed of 35 knots. The submerg- new Captains is 41 years 8 the 101st Minesweeping Flotilla scalc N.A.T.O. exercise. ed to each of the squadrons. The over an additional tanker for use ed speed of the most modern sub- months, and that of the new Com- and take part in an exercise in 'iverall strength of aircrew is to with the Australian Fleet. "It marines at present in existence is manders 35 years. The youngest Kirkaldy Bay in the Firth of H.M.S. "READY" co up. Apart from National Ser- would not be practicable to build not more than 25 knots. Official selections in each rank are Cap- Forth. It was the first time since TRANSFERRED TO vicemen completing their period a suitable tanker in Australia be- American sources say that "a tain E. T. L. Dunsterville, R.N., the war that a minesweeping flo- aged 38 years 5 months; and BELGIAN NAVY. "f part-time service this will al- cause of lack of man-power, the single charge" of uranium in the tilla had been composed entirely Commander D. A. Dunbar Na- H.M.S. "Ready," the Algerinc low the entry of 200 cx-service over-taxing of facilities and the motor of the atomic submarine of R.N.V.R. manned ships. smith, D.S.C., R.N., aged 30 class minesweeper, has been trans- pilots and 115 observers, mainly disproportionate demands that will propel it "tens of thousands years 4 months. The selections BRITISH MINESWEEPER ferred to the Belgian Navy. The irom the Royal Naval Volunteer would be made upon the ship- of miles." The only factors re- include offcers with Aviation, VISITS SWEDEN. ship was formally handed over at Supplementary Reserve, for ser- building industry." Mr Mc- quiring the craft to surface would Gunnery, Torpedo, and A/S, Sig- H.M.S. "Curjon", motor mine- Portsmouth by Rear-Admiral J. vice on List 11 as "second-line" Mahon said that the decision to be air for the crew members and the time they could endure con- nals, Submarine, and Surveying sweeper attached to the Sussex Di- F. L. Reid, C.B., the Chief of liters. buy the tanker wa* another in- fined quarters. specialist qualifications. Seven vision of the Royal Naval Volun- Staff to the Commander-in-Chief stance of the determination of the promoted executive Lieutenant- teer Reserve, with its headquart- Portsmouth, and she was accept- ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY Government and the Naval Board Commanders and three executive ers at Hove, sailed from Shore- ed on behalf of the Belgian Min- TO ACQUIRE FLEET to maintain the Australian fleet Commanders are naval aviators. ham recently for her first foreign istry of National Defence by TANKER at the utmost possible efficiency In addition, three Lieutenant- cruise of the year. She had some Ijeutenant-Colonel E. Delelienne. The Minister for the Navy (the in keeping with modern develop- Commanders (E) who are quali- thirty R.N.V.R. officers and rat- Belgian Military Attache in Lorr Hon. William McMahon) has an- ments so that, if it became neces- don. The "Ready" is the third fied pilots, are included in the ings on board and spent seven nounced that the Federal Gov- sary, it could co-operate adequate- ship of this class to be trantferr- promotions within the Engineer- days at Gotenburg, the port on ernment had decided to buy a ly with other Navies of the Brit- ed to the Belgian N»vy. H.M.S ing Branch. the Swedish west coast 15,000 ton fleet tanker for the ish Commonwealth and it* Allies. II Ito N*oy ^••••w, im. » TRAFALGAR DAY CELEBRATIONS COLOURFUL NAVAL DISPLAYS IN N.S.W. AND VICTORIA. 146 years ago at Cape Trafalgar and went from glory to glory in a R.N. Ships in the British Navy, under the Com- steady crescendo of unselfish and mand of Admiral Lord Nelson, magnificent achievement. defeated the Spanish and French Trafalgar Day During World War II land Fleets and broke down Napoleon's and air forces were required in plans to invade England, and still, all theatres to achieve victory, Celebrations to-day, the men of the British but sea power was the founda- Navy are proving themselves to tion and base of almost every al- be the living embodiment of the lied success. Without our Navy unquenchable fighting spirit that America could not have deploy- has found expression in every ed her huge armies in Europe and naval action from Trafalgar to allied nations would have been Normandy and the Pacific. unable to operate in various From the "Bismarck" and theatres of war. "Graf Spee" actions, through If Britain and the scattered strenuous convoy years in the At- members of her vast Empire are

Riqht: H.M.S. "Glory," shown !>•'• lantic and the Mediterranean, and to retain their integrity and free- Sydney-bound. w», open to th. publ.c Indian and Pacific Oceans, fleet dom, no treaties, ideologies or in- during the diipley- units of all dimensions enhanced ternational agreements can replace their unblemished naval tradition British sea power. Below: H.M.S. "Thorough" gave ex- hibition divei in the dock durmg the afternoon. To commemorate the Battle of a mock rescue from a burn- Island, and approximately 30,000 Trafalgar the Royal Australian ing aircraft; took advantage of the unique op- Navy, on 27th October, staged a • Naval divers working under portunity of seeing at close range Trafalgar Day display at Captain water; a sample of those marathons of Cook Dock, which was open to • A floating dock lifting a naval might that held the enemy the public. ship; at bay through the anxious and From 1 p.m. to 5.30 p.m. the • Exercises by air search and strenuous years of World War II. dock and its workshops, the Brit- rescue craft: and, An unusually colourful Trafal- ish aircraft - carrier H. M. S. • Displays of naval equip- gar Day ceremony and display, in "Glory", the submarine H.M.S. ment which officers and ratings and Tclemachus", and H. M. A. S. The 10,000-ton cruiser "Shrop- Wrans from Flinders Naval ' Barcoo" were open to visitors. shire" was on view in the dry Depot, the Depot Band in full An exciting feature of the after- dock and many thousands of blue, scarlet and gold ceremonial loon, and the one which attract- people took the opportunity of dress, and cadet-midshipman from ed the most attention, was the seeing what a heavy cruiser iooks the R.A.N. College took part, was British submarine "Thorough" like "from down there", but the held at Como Park, Victoria. making exhibition dives in the young and adventurous went to The Governor of Victoria dock. While the submarine was the other extreme and rode high (General Sir Dallas Brooks) was submerged the public was able to over the dock in the buckct of the present and took the salute at the •ec men "escape" by means of the giant crane. march past. The First Naval Davis Submarine Escapc Appar- At 2 p.m., as thirty Navy planes Member (Vicc-Admiral Sir John atus. When they were making flew in formation over the Dock, Collins) and other members of the iracticc escapes prior to the open- Nelson's famous signal "England Naval Board, as well as many ing of the display, a Navy spokes- Expects That Every Man This other leading citizens, also at- man said it was the first time Day Will Do His Duty" was tended. Davis gear had been used "cast hoisted on the Garden Island flag- The principal features were the of Suez." staff. The planes. Sea Furys and parading of the White Ensign The other main attractions at Fireflys were from H.M.S. before a Guard of Honour and the the dockyard display were— "Glory" and H.M.AS. "Alba- dignified impressive "Death of • Modern naval dockyard and tross." Nelson and Victory of Trafalgar" workshops in operation; H.M. Aircraft-carrier "Glory," ritual in which the Guard of • Naval firefighters walking recently returned from Korea, Honour, other officers and ratings, through flames and staging was moored alongside Garden buglers and the band combined.

He.iwhsi, 1*1. tl H. L. Howden, C.B.E., R.A.N., Distinguished Service Order Lieutenant P. R. Burnett. Chief Petty Officer C. Haynes. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS who has vacated the appointment Captain O. H. Becher, D.S.C., During the evacuation of Chin- This Chief Petty Officer is the as A.D.C. on reaching the retir- R.A.N. (Commanding Officer, nampo on 5th December, 1950, Chief Bos'ns Mate and Rate H.M.A.S. "Warramunga"). H.M.A.S. "Bataan" was called NEW DIRECTOR OF NAVAL of age, will become a full admiral ing age for his rank. Officer of H.M.A.S. "Bataan" and when he takes over his new ap- upon to make a hazardous night has, since the commencement of CONSTRUCTION, British Empire Medal passage to that port. Throughout ADMIRALTY. pointment. Every Australian REAR-ADMIRAL VISITOR. hostilities in Korea, carried out his sailor, soldier and airman who Chief Engine Room Artificer J. the operation Lieutenant Burnett executive and gunnery duties with Rear-Admiral A. D. Torlesse. Boyd, of the R.A.N. (H.M.A.S. carried out his duties as Navigator The First Lord of the Admiral fought under this intrepid leader D.S.O., who commanded H.M.S. commendable keenness and effi- ty has approved the appointment will be delighted by the announce- "Warramunga"). with calmness and efficiency which ciency. During the bombardment "Triumph" during the first three contributed greatly to the safe of Mr. V. G. Shepheard, C.B., ment of his appointment to this months of the Korean campaign, of Chinnampo on 5th December, M.I N.A., as Director of Naval high post. Mentioned in Despatches passage of the ship. 1950, his accurate observation of arrived in Sydney by B.O.A.C. Lieutenant (S) W. A. Kemp. Construction, with effect from The Earl Mountbatten has had Constellation from London on Lieutenant P. R. Burnett, fall of shot contributed to the good 1st October, 1951, in succession an inspiring carecr. Since the be- October 15. He travelled on to R A N. (H.M.A.S. "Bataan"). This young officer, who is the results achieved. to Sir Charles Lillccrap, K.C.B., ginning of the Second World Melbourne for consultation with Lieutenant (S) W. A. Kemp, Supply Officer of H.M.A.S. M BE, M.I.N A., who retired on War, when he was a captain in R.A.N. (H.M.A.S. "Bataan"). "Bataan," has, throughout the Chief Petty Officer Stoker the Australian Naval Board. Ad Mechanic W. C. Forbes. .•SOth September. 1951 command of a destroyer flotilla, miral Torlesse spent two weeks in Lieutenant (L) S. G. Cantor, Korean campaign, carried out his he has been Chief of Combined Australia. Senior Commissioned Electrical very responsible duties mo6t This Chief Petty Officer is the DANISH DECORATION Operations and a member of the Officer (L), R.A.N. (H.M.A.S. capably and efficiendy and has Chief Stoker of H.M.A.S. AWARDED CAPTAIN British Chiefs-of-Staff, 1942-43; NEW ADMIRAL "Bataan"). shown ability consistenUy in ex- "Bataan" and has carried out his R. RHOADES. Supreme Allied Commander, SUPERINTENDENT, Chief Petty Officer Stoker cess of that expected of an officer duties effibendy and cheerfully South-East Asia, 1943-46; Vice- H.M. DOCKYARD, Mechanic W. C. Forbes, of the of his age, seniority and experi- throughout the Korean War, dur- Captain R Rhoades, D.S.C., roy of India, March-August, PORTSMOUTH. R.A.N. (H.M.A.S. "Bataan"). ence. H.M.A.S. " Bataan" carries ing which time the ship has steam- RAN., has been awarded the 1947, Governor-General of In- Petty Officer Cook (S) J. her own accounts and Lieutenant ed over 40,000 miles and has fuel- decoration of the Chevalier of dia, 1947-48; Flag-Officcr Com- Rear-Admiral A. V. G. Hub O'Connor, of the R.A.N. (S) Kemp has had to deal with led some 50 times. H.M.A.S. the Order of Danebrog by King manding First Cruiser Squadron, back, C.B.E., has been appointed (H.M.A.S. "Warramunga"). large sums of money is as many as "Bataan" sustained damage in col- Frederick of Denmark. Announc- Mediterranean Fleet, 1948-49. At Admiral Superintendent, H.M. Chief Petty Officer C. Haynes, five different currencies. During lision on 30th December, 1950, ing this at Canberra on October present he is Fourth Sea Lord in Dockyard, Portsmouth, in succes- of the RAN. (H.MA.S. long periods of patrols off Korean when Chief Petty Officer Stoker 2, the Minister for the Navy charge of Admiralty Supplies, in sion to Vice- Admiral W. Y. La "Bataan"). coast, this officer has been respon Mechanic Forbes showed excep- (Hon. W. McMahon) said Cap- which post he will be succeeded R Beverley, C.B., C.B.E The The citations accompanying the sible for maintaining high standard tional ability in his damage con- tain Rhoades was commanding by Rear-Admiral Sydney M. appointment took effect in Oc- recommendations read as follows: of victualling, thus fostering morale trol duties which contributed great- H.M.S. "Opportune," one of the Raw, now Flag-Officer, Submar- tober. Captain O. H. Becher. of ship's company. ly to the safety of the ship. ships on escort duty during King ines. Captain Becher has been notice- Lieutenant (L) S. G. Cantor. Petty Officer Coo* (S) Frederick's recent State visit to AWARDS TO RAJM. J. O'Connor. Of Royal blood, and possessed able in the forefront of the Com- This officer carries out both the United Kingdom. Incident- PERSONNEL FOR SERVICES of immense riches, Vice-Admiral manding Officers both in his skil- Flotilla and Ship's Electrical duties Petty Officer Cook (S) O'Con- ally, Captain Rhoades, who is at IN KOREA. ful and determined handling of and has undertaken this work with present on exchange duty with the Earl Mountbatten of Burma nor, as Petty Officer in charge of could have led a life of luxurious The Minister for the Navy( the H.MA.S. "Warramunga" and in keenness and efficiency throughout the ship's company galley, has dis- the Royal Navy, was born at his personal drive and dash. He the Korean campaign. Through Double Bay, Sydney, in April, ease. Instead he has grappled Hon. William McMahon) an- played zeal and ability above the with Service and public problems nounced in Canberra that His has inflicted great damage on the this officer's personal efforts a high average. During periods when 1909. He served with distinction enemy by bombardments. He has degree of co-operation was early in the Second World War, in of the first magnitude, always Majesty the King had been ship has been closed up at first with effectiveness and success. graciously pleased to approve fur- patiently carried out long patrols. established and maintained with degree of readiness, the smooth which he was awarded the Dis- His was one of the ships to enter United States Naval Base and tinguished Service Cross, for He has won success through in- ther recommendations for awards running of Action Messing ar- herent greatness — a greatness to officers and men of the Royal Chinnampo estuary at night in bad Depot Ship Staffs wherever met, rangements has been attributable good service in the Mediterran- weather to assist in the evacuation and this proved of great benefit to ean. arising from inspiring courage, Australian Navy for their services to his initiative and devotion to marked intelligence, and great per- in the Korean area. of military forces. His ship play- the ship. duty. ed an important part in tackling sonal appearance and charm. Mr. McMahon said that the list the enemy mining campaign. Re- HIGH COMMAND FOR VICE- of awards was additional to one commended for D.S.O. for his high ADMIRAL THE EARL issued last May in which it was R.A.N. OFFICER APPOINTED example, courage and devotion to MOUNTBATTEN OF BURMA. announced that Commander W. FOR ALL . . . A.D.C. TO KING. duty. B. M. Marks, R.A.N., then com- The Lords of Admiralty an- manding officer of H.M.A.S. •OAT ft YACHT GEAR nounced on October 11 the ap- The Minister for the Navy Chief Engine Room Artificer (the Hon. William McMahon) "Bataan" and now commander of pointment of Vice-Admiral the the Royal Australian Naval Col- J. Boyd. Earl Mountbatten of Burma as announced in Canberra that Com- BROOMFIELDS LTD. modore H. J. Buchanan, D.S.O., lege, had been mentioned in des- He has performed duties of Commander - in - Chief, British patches, and Chief Petty Officer Senior Engineer with outstanding • II ^ l-H " 1 1 A. - • -—_•_« Mediterranean Fleet, in succession R.A.N., had been appointed Aide- yiWIilNMI ITIVIRNQ Tw RMMWIViy de-Camp to the King. Commo- W. A. Roe, coxswain of "Bataan," teal and devotion to duty. The to Admiral Sir John Edelsten, Phone: BX MOl dore Buchanan, who is at present had been awarded the Distinguish- efficient running of the engines of the appointment to become effec- ed Service Medal. the ship is largely due to his force- tive next May. Commodore Superintendent of 1 BROOMFIELDBROOMHE S LTD, 112 SUSSEX ST. (Mar Kb* St* SYDNEY Training at Flinders Naval De- The new awards are as fol- ful leadership, knowledge and Vice-Admiral the Earl Mount- judgment. batten of Burma, who is 51 years pot, Victoria, succeeds Captain lows:— Tk» n«r NwMKkw, IMI. SEA-ODDITIES . NAVAL AIRCRAFT MAKE LONG-RANGE CROSS- COUNTRY FLIGHT. How long do diving birds stay plank, and beyond that 41 inches The suction power possessed under water, and at what speeds into the firm timber; and it was by certain life-forms is another Six "Firefly" reconnaissance and do they travel under water when the opinion of the mechanics that very interesting subject. The anti-submarine aircraft left the in pursuit of their prey? These it would require nine strokes of a humble little limpet, for instance, Royal Australian Naval Air questions rouse many highly con- 25-pcund hammer to drive a bolt can exert tremendous pressure Station at Nowra (N.S.W.) for troversial points, but it is appar- of a similar sue and form into the proportionate to its size. When a Townsville on Tuesday, October ent that though some exaggerat- same depth into the same hulk; limpet decides not to budge, it 2nd, on the first stage of a long- ed figures have been given, the yet this was accomplished by a can hold on with a tenacity that range cross-country flight round a feats of birds in these respects arc singla thrust of the fish." a force of 62 pounds, or nearly large portion of Australia. The far from being unspectacular. two thousand times its own "Fireflies" were accompanied by a Stead, in his "Life Histories of weight, is required to dislodge it. Dakota aircraft in which spare New Zealand Birds," says the How long can whales stay un- But that fearsome ogre of the parts, tool kits and other equip- WILLIAM COOK PTY. LTD. blue penguin can attain 12 miles der water? F. W. Lane, in his sea rocks, the giant octopus, is ment were carried. The flight was per hour and may possibly reach book "Nature Parade," says: probably Nature's record-breaker commanded by Commander J. H. TIMBER MERCHANTS 18 miles per hour when pursuing "The main food of the sperm for inherent suction power. A Stenning, R.N., Commander a fast fish. As for underwater whale is the giant squid, which giant octopus, carrying two hun (Air) at H.M.A.S. "Albatross," MART ST., PRESTON. VICTORIA dives and depths attained by div- lives at great depths. But the dred and forty suckers, can rip up Nowra, and 14 other officers took ing birds, Dr. Dewar, in his ex- sperm is specially adapted for the toughest deep-sea diving suit part in it. They were officers of 'PHONE JU2I6I haustive book "The Bird as a reaching the deep sea home of its as though it were cellophane. the 20th Carrier Air Group, a Diver," says that "the most care- prey. A large sperm whale can portion of which left recently in fully ascertained figures are two stay below the surface for over the aircraft carrier "Sydney" for minutes for the dive [that is, the an hour—probably obtaining a Korea with the 21st Carrier Air duration of it] and 10 fathoms supply of oxygenated blood from Who among us has not marvel- Group. VESSELS BUILT, SUPPED AND SERVICED. for the depth attained." its curious vascula system. led at some of the amazing habits In announcing this, the Minister DIESEL, MARINE AND GENERAL ENGINEERING. "As the sperm frequently dives of many of our sea birds. The for the Navy (Hon. W. ' RIGGERS AND SHIPWRIGHTS. to a depth of over half a mile diving power of the well-known What happens when a sword McMahon) said that the itinerary All classes of repairs and conversion work carried out. fish hurls itself against the side of (and on occasions to a depth of a gannet, for instance. of the flight would be as follows: a ship, as has happened more than mile) it must be able to withstand "Think of it", writes Archer Oct. 2nd.—Nowra to Towns- MARINE INSTALLATIONS. MODERN SLIPWAY AVAILABLE once? In the Museum of the Col- immense pressures. How it is Russell in his recent book "Bush ville, 1126 nautical miles; re- FOR ALL TYPES OF CRAFT. lege of Surgeons, London, is a equipped to resist such pressure ways". "A dive of one hundred fuelling at Amberley. • section of the bow of a whaling is not definitely known. It is feet or more—though, of course, Oct. 3rd.—At Townsville. ship impaled by one of these probable, however, that the whale the gannet frequently dives at Oct. 4th.—Townsville to Clon- A. & W. Engineering swordfish. At one single blow the possesses the power of contract- much lower heights—is not to be curry, 364 nautical miles. fish had plunged his sword ing its body, which movement undertaken lightly, except by an Oct. 5th.—Cloncurry to Daly through, and completely transfix- would both sink it and help it to expert physically and instinctively & Ship Repair Co. Waters, 492 nautical miles. ed, 131 inches of solid timber. withstand the pressure. adapted to withstand the shock Oct. 6th —Daly Waters to Dar- The sword had broken off and be- "It appears that the record for of impact. The bird's bill, which Pty. Ltd. win, 295 nautical miles. cause of it, had prevented a leak staying below water is held by is used to part the water, is long Oct. 7th.—At Darwin. CAREENING COVE, MILSONS POINT in the ship that might well have the cachalot whale. It often and powerful, the body of the Oct. 8th.—Darwin to Tennant's proved dangerous. A second ex- feeds near the bottom at depths bird well-formed, strong-framed Telephones: XB 1675 and XB 4387. ample of the might of this fish of over a mile. One cachalot and buoyant. In its plunge into Creek, 475 nautical miles. After Hours: X) 3213. is to be seen in the British Mus- whale has been known to stay be- the water, the bird descends to a Oct. 9th.—Tennant's Creek to eum. Again a ship's side is shown low water for one hour and forty- considerable depth, where, hav- Alice Springs, 244 nautical miles. with the sword of a swordfish fix- five minutes." ing seized its prey with its strong training of recruits at Flinders Oct. 10th.—At Alice Springs. U.S. NAVY AIR BASE ed in it. The sword had penetrat- serrated bill, it is propelled back Naval Depot and the exercising of Oct. 11th.—Alice Springs to AT MALTA ed no less than 22 inches into the to the surface largely by the nat the Australian Fleet at sea would Parafield, 713 nautical miles: A recent message from London timber. Nor arc these the only The large and dreaded reef-eel ural buoyancy of its body. be shown. Besides giving the refuelling at Oodnadatta. said that three hundred U.S. reedrds we have of this fish. of the northern Australian coasts "What unerring instinct directs officers variation from their normal Oct. 12th.—At Parafield. Navy air personnel had arrived has been known, on several occa- the falling diver to close its wings training, the flight would provide, "When His Majesty's ship" Oct. 13th—Parafield to Mil- at Malta arid will be based there sions, to disembowel a human in that instant before the shock amongst other things, excellent "Leopard",' writes Frank Buckland permanently. They are a U.S.N, diver with one slash of its pow- of impact? By what intuitive gift dura, 176 nautical miles. navigation and radio training and in one of his books, "was repair- patrol squadron of Privateer air- erful and murderous jaws. It has is the fish it is after kept in sight Oct. 14th —At Mildura. experience for the pilots and ob- ing in 1795, after her return from craft An R.A.F. spokesman later been recorded that one diver had during the course of that flurried On. 15th.—Mildura to Nowra, servers in maintaining the effi- the coast of Guinea, a sword of announced that the squadron is a leg snapped clean off just below plunge through the water)' 425 nautical miles. Total, ciency of their aircraft on detach- one of these fishes was found to intended to strengthen North At- have gone through the sheathing the knee by a single bite from this depths? Who would not like to 4310 nautical miles. ed service. reef-infesting eel. know? At each place visited films deal- lantic Treaty forces in the Med- one inch, next through a 3-inch The flight has since been com- iterranean generally, rather than ing with Naval Aviation, the pleted. for the defence qf Malta. r. IWI. tankers for yean, are putting I BRITAIN'S HOME FLEETS SPEAKING OF SHIPS geared turbines into practically all AUTUMN CRUISES. the ships in their new £45,000,000 H.M. Ships of Britain's Home The Australian authorities have The Ministry of Transport (of programme. decided to limit the quantity of Great Britain), questioned as to Fleet sailed from their Home Potts dangerous cargoes entering Aus- the cost of reconstructing and fit- in the first week in September for tralian ports in any single ship, ting out the "New Australia", ex- Suspected cases of sabotage in a three-months Autumn Cruise, flfytmati the quantity varying with the na- "Monarch of Bermuda", stated His Majesty's ships are still caus which will include a comprehen- ture of the cargo and the herth that as the cost would ultimately ing a great deal of anxiety al sive training programme in Home to which the ship is to go. be borne by the Australian Gov- though few of them have done waters and at Gibraltar. ROBBIALAC ernment the information could any great damage. After embarking her air squad- * A JmU/ not be supplied until their con- rons in the English Channel, Over two-thirds of the crew of H.M.S. "Indomitable," Flagship of sent had been obtained. Several governments have the Cunard liner "Queen Mary" Admiral Sir Philip L. Vian, strongly advocated an internation- volunteered to be X-rayed to help K.C.B., K.B.E., D.S.O., the Com al investigation of oil pollution with the investigation into the Both Pametrada and Viewers- mander-in-Chief, proceeded to In- at sea without waiting for the prevalence of tuberculosis among Armstrongs are carrying out ex- vergordon and were joined there Inter - Governmental Maritime seamen. periments with case-hardened and by other ships of the Home Fleet Consultative Organisation to get ground turbine gearing for a month's weapon training. into working order. The Marine Society (of Great For the Cruise, the aircraft carrier A JENS0N I NICHOLSON QUALITY PRODUCT Britain), in its present policy of In the new French turbo-elec- will have on board three squadrons helping boys of all grades to go to tric liner "Kairouen" a great deal The Hamburg American and of aircraft, including one squadron sea, spent three times as much in of floor space in the engine and North German Uoyd Lines in of Netherlands Sea Fury planes providing outfits for cadets and boiler rooms has been saved by conjunction are chartering the old now based in the United Kingdom apprentices m 1950 as it did in the abnormal use of vertical- liners "Homeland", 'Ncptunia' for training purposes. 1949. spindle auxiliary machinery. "Canberra", and "Columbia" to On October 10th the Fleet sail- re-establish their Trans-Atlantic ed for an important "defence of The research laboratory of the convoys" exercise. This took place The Atlantic (Shipping) Con- over a wide area in Scottish LTD. ference decided that, in spite of B.T.H. Company at Rugby (Eng- The South African Merchant waters, the Atlantic, and the South the constantly rising cost of oper- land) is carrying out experiments Shipping Bill, presented in slight- West Approaches, and lasted near- ation, passenger fares will not be in the creep properties of metals ly modified form, contains provi- ly a week. increased in 1951 and at the same in a special room fitted with ther- sions for segregating the white »* «— «.«• « am time the owners increased the mostatic control. In addition to the Flagship, the and coloured members of the tollowing H.M. Ships are taking free allowance of baggage by 25 crews of ships. part: per cent. As a result of 18 months' ex- THE HOUSE FOR QUALITY AND perience with the Doxford O/P "Theseus," aircraft carrier, diesel of the "British liberty" The soot-cleaning plant in the wearing the Flag of the Flag SERVICE A young Czech, who stowed running on heavy oil, the B.T. funnels of the "§ueen Elizabeth" Officer Third Aircraft Carrier away in the "Queen Mary" at Company ordered seven new ships have been changed from the wet Squadron (Rear - Admiral C. EVERYTHING IN MEN'S ii BOYS- New York and landed at South- to be similarly adapted. cleaning to the dry cleaning sys- John); "Swiftsure," cruiser, wear- WEAR ampton without difficulty was not tem after wry successful experi- ing the Flag of the Flag Officer suspected until he voluntarily ments with the "Queen Mary." Second Cruiser Squadron (Vice- surrendered to the immigration Messrs. Japp, Hatch and Com- Admiral C. A. L. Mansergh, authorities several days later. pany, shipping and forwarding C.B., D.S.O.); "Apollo," fast LONDON STORES LTD., MELBOURNE agents of London and Liverpool, The New Zealand Shipping minelayer; "Agincourt," "Jut- have decided to go into voluntary Company's 17-knot motor liner land," "Corunna," "Aisne," "Sole- The Hudson Bay Company's liquidation after 76 years' exist- "Haparangi" beat the record for bay," "Gabbard," "St. Kitts," archives, believed to be the most ence. They formerly represented delays in New Zealand ports by "Cadiz," "Sluys," "St. James," complete and valuable of any pri- a number of Continental compan- taking 131 days to discharge and "Battleaxe," "Scorpion," "Broad- vate concern in the world, are load cargo on the New Zealand sword," "Crossbow," destroyers; ft ftftft ftftft ft ft ft ft being microfilmed in conjunction coast, the previous worst being "Loch Insh," "Loch Fyne," "Loch with the Public Archives of Can- 129 days. The Turkish Government has lArkaig," "Loch Alvie," "Loch KINNEAR'S EMU BRAND ada. recently been placing a number of Killisport," "St. Austell Bay," orders for ships and marine boil- The Dutch J^avy and Ministry frigates; "Mediator," fleet tug; ("Gold Ranger," Royal Fleet The Mersey Mission to Seamen ers with German shipbuilding of Transport have budgeted for ROPE, CORDAGE, TWINE and LINEN THREADS Auxiliary, reported a deficit of £3,085 in and marine engineering firms on over 2,500,000 guilders for the 1950, met by the tale of a war- the basis of price. defensive armament of merchant At the conclusion of this exer- time investment, but the plans for ships, covering purchase and main- cise the Fleet will sail for Gibral- the new Central Club at head- The Anglo - Saoon Petroleum tenance of material and training of tar for further training and then quarters had to be postponed. Company, enthusiasts on motor creuii. return to their Home Ports. umiiiiii

f^WIMlklfi Ifil. deals with the elements of seaman- SHORT SERVICE BOOK REVIEW ship and is intended primarily for COMMISSIONS FOR Naw Flag Officer Commanding RAN. young seamen and for use in the R.A.N. AIRCRAFT PILOTS Rear-Admiral J. W. M. Eaton, mous "Mohawk". Royal Naval Training Establish- AND OBSERVERS. D.S.O., D.S.C., R.N., the new In January the same year Ad- ments; it contains 290 pages and Flag Officer Commanding the MANUAL OF SEAMANSHIP," Published by His Majesty's The Naval Board has decided to miral Eaton won the D.S.C. for 245 illustrations and is available to Royal Australian Navy, arrived Stationery Office, London. invite applications from young rescuing the destroyer "Gallant", the public at 8/6 net. The second ^n Sydney by the P. O. liner men in civilian life and ratings in put out of action by either a mine wider scope calculated to embrace volume, which is in an advanced 'Himalaya" on October 9t He The first of a three-volume the Australian Fleet for seven- or a torpedo, by towing her under all matters of seamanship whether stage of printing, will contain 700 was officially welcomed by Rcar- edition of the Admiralty's new year short service commissions as air attack into Malta. Service or otherwise, and it is odd pages and 420 illustrations, Admiral J. A. S. Eccles, C.B., "Manual of Seamanship" was pub- aircraft pilots or observers in the Sometime later he was promot- hoped it will appeal to all seamen and is intended to serve as a text- C.B.E., whom he has since suc- lished in London recently. With Royal Australian Navy. ed to captain . nd in 1943 com- a completely new text and new whether they are old or young, hook and book of reference for ceeded. Rear - Admiral Eccles manded the destroyer "Eskimo". Mr. McMahon, when making this illustrations, it will take the place professional or amateur, experi- junior officers and all seamen from boarded the "Himalaya" in the In the invasion of Sicily he, his announcement, said that the new of the two-volume manual, which enced or inexperienced. A.B. to Boatswain. The third stream from the admiral's barge. crew and his ship were saved by scheme, which would replace an has served as a textbook for The author of all three volumes volume, which is nearing comple- Admiral Eaton prefers to call a faulty bomb fuse. "Eskimo" existing scheme under which four officers and men of the Royal is Commander A. M. Rundle, tion, deals with the higher aspects himself a "salt horse", which in was attacked from the air and year short service commissions had Navy for more th.m 40 years. D.S.C., R.N., who, in compiling of seamanship such as ship- Navy parlancc means an execu- one enemy plane let fall a 500 lb. been granted to some R.A.N, air- the work, has been able to call handling, towing, salvage, etc., and tive officer who does not special- bomb into one of the ship's oil Written between the years 1908 crew, would present an excellent upon the help and advice of all is written for seamen of ex- ise in any one particular Naval tanks. It didn't go off. Before and 1909, the old manual was re- opportunity for young men to en- Admiralty Departments and of perience whether old or young, of branch. But there is no doubt World War II. he had three years vised several times. That a new gage in an unusually interesting edition would ultimately be need- His Majesty's Dockyards. In ad- high rank or low rank. about his grip of Naval affairs. in submarines. dition, he has been given much life and, at the same time, to serve ed has, of course, for some time The first impression of 75,000 their country been increasingly obvious. valuable help and advice by ex- copies of Volume One is already To succeed in applications for The old edition was intended perienced seamen of both the over-subscribed and a second im- engagement under the revised primarily for the use of junior Royal and Merchant Navies, and pression is in hand. Large num- scheme, candidates must' be aged officers and men of the Royal by civilian firms whose interests lie- bers have been ordered for the between 17 years and eight months Navy, but was also available to in ships and seamen. A feature of the new manual is Royal Navy and also for Com- and 22 years and eight months. the general public through His monwealth Navies. In order to Majesty's Stationery Office. Its the manner in which it has been Both those who entered from make a reasonable number of first usefulness as a textbook for young illustrated. Most of the drawings :ivilian life and those who trans- impression copies available for the seamen other than those of the are in perspective and have been ferred from the Fleet would do general public, arrangements have Royal Navy was limited because executed by Messrs. Chamberlain's their earlier training — up to the it dealt only with methods and Studios, working in close co- been made by His Majesty's stage at which they obtained their equipment used in the Service. operation with the Directors of Stationery Office to meet a propor- wings — as ratings. The latter tion of the original demands from part of the training of both pilots' The new manual, on the other Navigation, Admiralty Office. the second impression. and observers would be done in the hand, has been designed with a far The first of the three volumes United Kingdom. Opportunities would be given for some short service officers to R*ir-Adnlral Eaton, Hair-Admiral Ecclat, and Mr». Eaton. obtain permanent commissions but, In a "Guest of Honour" A.B.C. in any case, at the end of seven Admiral Eaton is a youthful- H.M.S. "KENYA" TO REFIT radio talk he told his listeners that years' commissioned service all of looking senior Navy officer, and, "the days of ships lining up and though every bit a disciplinarian, munication with approximately her patrols, wished her good luck them would (if recommended) be The cruiser H.M.S. "Kenya" firing away at each other are gone his disposition is easy-going and 183 tons of steel. and farewell, remarking on her given the option of re-engaging (Captain J. E. Podger, R.N.), for good", and he holds the opin- pleasant. Born in Rhodesia m The "Kenya" played a very im- noteworthy contribution to the for an additional four years. whose story was told in the ion that the most powerful unit 1902, he went to school in Eng- portant part in the Inchon land- United Nations effort. Whether they served for seven October issue of this Journal, has of the modern fleet is the aero- land when he was seven, to the ings, and during the bitter Korean Those of her present company years or 11 years they would be left the Korean waters to refit and plane—and the carrier that moth- Royal Naval College at Oshorae, winter at one time or another with who have completed more than 18 required, at the end of those terms, recotnmission at Singapore. She ers it. Isle of Wight, at thirteen, and her accurate gunfire succeeded in months of foreign service will re- to join the Royal Australian Naval has been in the Far East from the Yet the most dramatic mo- to the Royal Naval College, Dart- destroying 15 floating mines which turn to the United Kingdom in (Reserves. beginning of hostilities and is the ments of his career have been mouth, some time later. were imperilling our ships. time for Christmas. Ratings who, at any stage of veteran ship of the Korean war spent in "lining up and firing He went to sea as a midship- She rescued a total of ten car- In this regard it has been an- their training, failed to maintain away" — in destroyers, in the man in the battleship "Barham" lone. rier-borne aviators who had had nounced that H.M.S. "Mauritius," the required standards would be Mediterranean ^during World in 1919, and was in command of During her period of duty she the misfortune to ditch in the cruiser, now on the East Indies [iven the opportunity, if from War II. th« cruiser "Sheffield", on his way has carried out 19 offensive Yellow Sea. Station, will exchange ship's com- ivilian life ,of becoming telegra- It was in one of these ships— to fight the Japanese, when patrols, each lasting between 14 The Commander of the United panies with H.M.S. "Kenya" about phists (flying) or being discharged off Sfax on the North African World War II. came to an end. and 40 days, and has steamed a Nations blockading force, Rear- November and then return to the ree, or, if from the Fleet, of be- coast in April, 1941—that he won . Before coming to Australia Admiral George G. Dyer, U.S.N., United Kingdom with those men aming telegraphists (flying) or total of 63,117 miles. She has his D.S.O., and, incidentally, got Admiral Eaton was Director of under whose direction H.M.S. who arc due for foreign leave everting to the rating held on fired 3,386 six-inch shells, hitting a ducking when his ship was tor- the Royal Naval Staff College, "Kenya" has carried out most of olunteering for aircrew duties. the enemy and their lines of com- pedoed. That ship was the fa- Greenwich. Tks im.

TIGHT 3INDING members have been accepted into the Association between 1st H.MJS. "GLORY" SHINES WITH GLORY EX-NAVAL MEN'S January and 30th June, 1951. H.M.S. "Glory", Light Fleet Carrier Recendy Replaced In Korean The following Sub'-Sections have been credited with entering the Waters By H.M.A.S. "Sydney," Sustained A Fine Service Record. Association of Australia prior mentioned number:--Mel bourne, 47; Footscray, 9: Essen The light Fleet carrier, H.M.S. tions on September 9th the 14th don, 2; Sandringham, 2: Geelong, PatraiMa-CtM His M«|«»V Tt. Kill "Glory," Captain K. S. Colquhoun, Carrier Air Group flew 84 sorties, 3: Heidelberg, 28; Latrobe Valley, D.S.O., R.N., on completion of easily the highest number ever f>; North-Eastern, 1; total for her period of duty in Korean flown in any theatre by any such cil has informed the Federal Sec- Victoria, 103; Sydney. 38; New- (FEDERAL COUNCIL) Council, held on Wednesday, 31st waters, has been relieved by the aircraft carrier. This outstanding retary that Messrs. N. A. Murphy castle, 14; Canterbury-Bankstown. A Diploma of Merit has been October. Australian aircraft carrier "Syd- effort of "Glory's" came at the end (State President), A Burwash 18; St. George, 8; Parramatta, 1; awarded by Federal Council to Federal Council has extended an ney." The change-over took place of an eight-day period of patrol (Hon. State Treasurer) and H. E. total for N.S.W., 79; Adelaide, Mr. Charles Pring, for his past invitation to His Excellency the in September. The "Glory" has during which her aircraft averaged R. CaJlaghan (State Vice-Pre.-. 35; Port Adelaide, 18; Northern services to the Association as Governor of Queensland to official- now come to Australia for a refit more than 50 sorties a day. dent and Life Member) have been Suburbs, Port Pine, 10; Head- N.S.W. State Hon. Treasurer and ly open the 11th Biennial Federal 6; and to enable her officers and men When the "Glory" relieved chosen as delegates to Conference. quarters, 8; total for South Aus- Councillor. Mr Pnng, who join- Conference of interstate delegates to have a period of rest after five "Theseus" at the end of April her The A C T Section has elected tralia, 77: Perth, 1; Fremantle, 3: ed the Newcastle Sub-Section in of the Association on Tuesday, months' active service. Escorted Royal Marine Band played "Any- Messrs. H N. Campbell (State Victoria Park, 2; Goldfields, 3; 1934, was afterwards elected its 5th February, 1952. by the Australian destroyer thing you can do we can do bet- President) and K. T White (Hon. Headquarters, 3; total for Western President, holding this office until The Committee and members of H.M.A.S. "Anzac," she arrived at ter." Remembering this, Rear- Secretary) as its representative Australia, 12; Queensland, 5; being transferred to Sydney three the Queensland Section intend Sydney on October 24. Admiral A. K. Scott-Moncrieff, delegates to attend the Brisbane Papua, 3; Hobart, 18; Launceston, years later. The Federal President holding a social evening at their Conference. Dcvonport, 8; Burnie, 9; total It has been an arduous turn of who commands the British Com- and Hon. Federal Secretary were usual meeting place on Friday 6; Federal Council has despatched for Tasmania, 41. During the duty in the war :one as scarcely monwealth Fleet, signalled the guests of the N.S.W. State Coun- night, 7th December. It has been the Federal Agenda, consisting of nine months ended 30th Septem- an aircraft in the 14th Carrier Air Carrier: "Your magnificent per- cil at its 27th Annual Dinner, held decided to hold the Children's fifty-two items, to all State Coun- ber, 1951, the Association lost 28 Group on board the "Glory" has formance yesterday marks an all- on Friday, 19th OctoKr. The re Christmas Party in the Drill Hall cils and Sections throughout Aus- members through decease; of this escaped damage by flak. This is time high. Tune played on your cently elected State President of of the Alice Street Naval Depot, tralia and the Territories. number 14 were members of Vic- accounted for by a stepping up of arrival now completely vindicated, N.S.W. (Mr. Frederick Calvert) Brisbane, on Saturday afternoon, State Secretaries have advised torian Sub-Sections, 6 from enemy anti-aircraft defence and My heartiest congratulations to was invited to be present at the 8th December. Federal Council that 320 new N.S.W., 6 from South Australia, the large number of sorties flown you all." 22nd meeting of the tenth Federal Western Australian State Coun- by the "Glory." During the record-breaking 24 —? ," • --> and 2 from Western Australia. "We are daily meeting modern hours, every aircraft was service- In a previous issue of "The anti-aircraft artillery manned by able and at one period all were Navy" mention was made of an people who know how to use it," airborne. Ever)' pilot and observer appeal to the Minister for the said one pilot who was shot down, of the Air Group flew at least two Navy to look into the matter of "Any idea that this is a one-sided sorties, while nine pilots and five " KEMBLA" Prize money anomalies concerning war is mistaken." observers each undertook three ex-personel of the Tug, H.M.A.S. H.M.S. "Glory" provided the sorties. They dropped fifty 5001b. "Reserve." The Minister has. since major part of the British air effort bombs and fired 328 rockets and & COPPER, BRASS AND informed Federal Council that in Korea up to the time of her 15,000 rounds of 20 m.m. am- eligible personnel of the Tugs relief and in the sorties deep into munition against the enemy, OTHER NON-FERROUS "Reserve" and "Sprightly" may the heart of North Korea and At sunset, the "Glory's" now apply for their share of Prize along the entire battle front her American - manned helicopter sue- I / WIRE CABLES & TUBES money aircraft gave close support to our cessfully picked up the crew of a G.W.S. troops. Firefly which crash landed in The "Glory" overhauled some enemy territory after being hit by & METAL MANUFACTURES LTD. of the records of the pacemaker, anti-aircraft fire during a dive PORT KEMBLA. N.S.W. H.M.S. "Theseus." Lieutenant G. bombing attack on a road bridge. W. Bricker, R.N., of Crewe, The helicopter found the return SELLING AGENTS Cheshire, made the 3,000th deck distance to the "Glory" too great Iviih Diftrihurori ,n til SIMM) landing of the commission. Some and had to put down for the night operations were hampered by bad on a small island off the coast, flying weather. During a tropical H.M.C.S. "Sioux" tot* off the rainstorm, when visibility was re- marooned aircrew and they were duced to 30 yards, several aircraft eventually transferred to the could not find their carrier until "Glory." The helicopter, after they had almost used up their - being refuelled by "Sioux," landed petrol. One of them was flying for safely on board the "Glory" at nearly four hours. dawn. In a brilliant day's flying opera- Well done, "Glory"!

Ik* MaiflNmmAw, I9SI. in "KINDRED DANGERS" On behalf of the Submarine NETTLEFOLDS Branch of the Royal Navy, Rear- Admiral S. M. Raw, C.B.E., Flag C. J. COOMBE We need your help SCREWS Officer Submarines, sent the fol- lowing message to Mr. E. H. D. Manufacturer of ARE Skinner, Chairman of Durham Di- vision of the (U.K.) National to make Australia USED Coal Board, subsequent to the re- IN cent Easington Colliery disaster in MEN'S SHORT Durham: EVERY "We are all most distressed by the TROUSERS strong ! tragic news of the disaster which BRITISH has occurred at the Easington Col- liery. The thoughts of all officers and Never was the neeil so great for SHIP and men of the Submarine Branch experienced men in the Navy, of the Royal Navy are with you at SHORTS. this time, particularly because of Army and Air Foree. Thousands the kindred dangers which attend of young, enthusiastie, hut un- our respective methods of service trained men are answering Aus- to the country. Would you please • convey to the relatives of those tralia's eall for rapid expansion NETTLEFOLDS who have lost their lives in this of our defenee foree6. Thej accident the sincerest sympathy of need your help to make theni myself and all officers and men of efficient sailors, soldiers and PTY. LTD. the Submarine Branch." 243 CASTLEREAGH ST., The Chairman of the Durham SUNSHINE Division of the National Coal SYDNEY Board replied stating: PHONE: MA 7846 VICTORIA "The message of sympathy which you have so thoughtfully conveyed NEW PAY RATES. NEW CONDITIONS, MAKE on behalf of the officers and men of the Submarine Branch of the SERVICE LIFE TODAY REALLY ATTRACTIVE Royal Navy has touched us all deeply. The men who have died Age Limits and Conditions of Entry Air Force: Ground Staff. 18 to 18 year>. here would, I know, be proud to Navy: He-entry up to 47 years for a two- Ex-N.C.O. Wireless Air Gunners and be joined in memory with those of ORDER FORM your gallant Service who, alas, are year period provided ABLE rating or Operators to 2H years. Pilots and Naviga- called upon to sacrifice their lives. To "THE NAVY," above has been held and applicant has not ROYAL EXCHANGE tors re-entered up to 30 years (slightly Your telegram will be lead to been away from the Service more than Members of the Easington Miners' BUILDING, older if with exceptional experience). Lodge when it assembles tonight." BRIDGE ST., SYDNEY. live years. This reply was passed to all • Part-time Service: Those who cannot submarine flotillas in the Royal Army: Willi previous service as a Private, Navy. up to .'50 years for re-entry. With previous enlist for full-time Service can still play Please register my subscrip- service as an N.C.O.. up to 35 years. With an important part in Australia's defence tion to "The Navy." The NEW ROYAL YACHT AS rate is 18/- per 12 issues instructional experience in certain corps, by joining the Citizen Military Forces, the NAVAL HOSPITAL SHIP. post free in the British up to l\ years. Tradesmen subject to trade Koyal Australian Naval Reserve, the Active Empire. I send Postal Note/ ests. up to 11 years. The Naval hospital ship the Citizen Air Force or R.A.A.F. Reserve Admiralty has planned to build Cheque/Money, Order for MINIMUM AGE: ARMY & NAVY, will be the King's Royal Yacht issues. 17 YEARS: AIR FORCE. 18 YEARS. in peacetime. In announcing this (Add exchange where the Lords of Admiralty said that applicable) Kti'iulre without obligation at - The Deputy Director Ituvriting. the new yacht will replace the Commencing from: The Combined Services Rccruiting U.P.O Box XVZ. ilu any ..: the dtle* at left . 111. futur. at itoom for morino purpwoi I lease send me. without obligation, full details if present Royal Yacht, the "Vic- Depot opportunities for ex-servlrtnien In it mot by th. Iat.it labcock d.r.lop- toria and Albert", which has been In any ill the f ollow lug cities: mitte. wtiick in turn, «r. bockod by • NAVY Q ARMY • Allt KOIM K SYDNEY. MELBOURNE. BRISBANE. ADELAIDE. «vor (0 yaan* i.a .ip.ri.nca At iaa, in use since 1899, and which is • Ai.I. THRKK SKIIVICKS PERTH or at M on land, tirna Kai prov.d Hi. sorvico no longer seaworthy. In the • PC LI. TI.MK • PART TIMK -of iabeock Boil.r Plant •event of war the yacht's luxur- The Defence Forces Information NAAIK. . ious fittings could be replaced Bureau BABCOCK & WILCOX with hospital equipment within a In SYDNEY. HOBART or LAUNCESTON. ADORES: «F AUSTRALIA PII. LIMITED fortnight. No details were given OR SEND COUPON ENOIMEIRO AND CONTRACTOR. of the new yacht's design or ton- «U4 Itllct t Harts. ItllBtt Park. U.S.*. nage. •ranch Often ind A«.nd« la all SlalM. Tfca N« Building Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd.. 20 Loftui Slrtti, Sydney. 32 CLOTHES ^at/ouu/ fjMn CfrusaberCfloth

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. 1951. 2 fto Hwrr production of all types of aircraft, of which by existence . . . Were we standing alone it would be far the greater ntunber is for military purposes, a very black picture indeed. Fortunately, we are is at the rate of about 10,000 a year. This includes not alone. We are building through the North a large and increasing number of jet fighters and Atlantic Treaty Organisation a barrier on which bombers. as time goes by we can place the utmost confidence. The Soviet Air Force, it is well to know, is It is an entirely new conception in the Western divided into separate formations for the support world. It goes much further than any peacetime of Army and Naval operations, Home Defence international agreement among the democracies and long range bombing and reconnaissance. Of that ever existed, and certainly it is a much more course its fields of possible operations go far be- reassuring arrangement than any in existence be- yond Western Europe. However, there arc at fore the last two wars." present some 350 airfields on the Western peri- As Mr. Shinwell very properly pointed out, meter of the Soviet bloc, a number of which are potentially, the North Atlantic Alliance is infi- under active and continuous development for the nitely stronger than the Russian Empire. There is latest types of aircraft. These airfields together no field of major production in which we do not could accommodate between 14,000 and 17,000 out-match them. Between them the N.A.T.O. aircraft. The number and size of airfields in this countries (with a population of 339 millions, as are being steadily increased. opposed to Russia's 264 millions) produce annu- "Satellite Air Forces," Mr. Shinwell pointed ally 811,030,400 tons of coal, 124,669,000 tons of out, ^rc very much smaller. They have a total steel and 274,620,000 tons of crude oil. And we manpower strength of 50,000 and an aircraft have access to many other sources of raw material strength of about 1,100. Thus you get a figure of in the Western World, outside N.A.T.O. 850,000 for the total manpower strength of the Equally in manpower there is nothing to fear combined Soviet and satellite Air Forces and a if the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation is allow- total aircraft strength of over 20,000. ed to pursue its plans. Both the United Kingdom Total Soviet strength in manpower also includes and France are approaching the million mark in about 600,000 in the Russian Navy. The Soviet the total manpower in their Armed Services Naval units compose a powerful and modern force (though many of these men must, of course, be which includes some 300 Submarines, many of them deployed outside Europe). Behind us we have the of modern design and the whole strategically dis- American Army which will shortly reach a total Repeating what he had said before, he estimated posed over Soviet Asian and European waters. of ii million men. Vol. 15. December, 1951. No. 12. that the Soviet Army alone comprises some The submarine, Mr. Shinwell pointed out, could 3,200,000 men and women, organised in 175 line In tank and aircraft production Britain is con- hardly be called a defensive weapon for a land and active Divisions. In addition, another 40 centrating upon models of the latest design, and SOVIET AND ARMED STRENGTH. power such as Soviet Russia. As for the total man- anti-aircraft and artillery Divisions were in sup- soon may begin to overhaul the Russian lead. At power strength of the satellite navies, this, it is sea the Allied Naval forces are already in control. port "making a tptal of 215 Divisions. That total thought, lies around 20,000. figure could of course be doubled on mobilisation. Meanwhile, on the political front, the widening The former British Minister of Defence, Mr. realisation that Europe's best chance of survival E. Shinwell, made a statement on the Home Gov- "Not all of these forces however, are arrayed Mr. Shinwell also referred to Soviet industrial immediately against the West," said the former production saying that the current output of crude lies in the integration of her immense resources, ernment's re armament policy at a press confer- that the present economic map of Europe is an Minister. "But there are known to be 22 Divisions steel is 27.6 million tons and the current output ence in London just before his retirement which economic and political absurdity, is apparent not in East Germany, of which 18 arc Armoured with of oil is 37.8 million tons. "In coal, Russia has an revealed many important aspects of the armed only in the Brussels Treaty and the Atlantic Pact, a total war strength of 5,000 tanks. A further 4 annual production rate of 264 million tons, com- strength of the U.S.S.R. and her satellite powers, pared with the United Kingdom's 1950 production but even more strikingly in the creation—and sur- and these cannot be other than of particular in- Armoured Divisions are near at hand. You must vival—of a Council of Europe. add to this about 70 Divisions of the satellite rate of 219.8 million tons. The U.S.S.R., with a terest to the member nations of the Western bloc. population four times that of the United King- Continental progress towards unity may seem He began by pointing out that at the end of armies. They include an increasing proportion of Tank and Mechanised Divisions." dom, devotes only 6.7 million tons, St 2.3 per cent, reluctant and slow in the main, but the number World War II Russian production of armoured of her coal resources to domestic use, as opposed The strength of a Russian or satellite Division, and influence of its supporters are steadily grow- fighting vehicles was running at 30,000 a year. to 35 million tons, or 15.3 per cent, of the United ing. The.goal of a federated Europe may still incidentally, is about 12,000 men. The proportion TTie Soviet Air Forcc possessed 23,000 aircraft Kingdom in 1950. In electric power, the current seem a long way off. But that should only spur of Armour in each Division is, of course, a most and there was a production capacity of 40,000 Soviet output is 90,000 million kW. In the Unit- us to accelerate the march towards unity. Reason important consideration. One third of Soviet ac- aircraft a year. There were 215 submarines in ed Kingdom there was a total output of 55,000 and logic are on the side of a speedy consumma- their Navy. tive Divisions are armoured or mechanised. The million kW. In all, 13 per cent, of the national tion. "Today," Mr. Shinwell went on to emphasise, Russian output of armoured fighting vehicles since income of the U.S.S.R. is devoted to Defence ex- "the combined manpower strength of the Soviet World War II has been at the rate of over 5,000 penditure—and this is only a declared percentage Armed Forces—Army, Navy and Air Force- a year. No fewer than 25,000 tanks are already of her expenditure on armament. Undeclared ex- 9 amounts to 4,600,000 men. Add to this a force with the armed forces, and a similar number are penditure may make the total considerably greater. The Navy of 1,070,000 men in Eastern Germany and the in reserve. In concluding, Mr. Shinwell said that "That is a satellite countries and you get a total of well over Included in the overall figure of the combined brief review of Soviet military power: a huge . is Your Guide 5,670,000. This is a formidable force, far beyond Russian strength, are 800,000 men in the Air Army, an expanding Air Force, and one of the what any one country or group of gountries could Force. There are at this moment something like largest Submarine Fleets that have ever been in to Naval Affairs ever require in peacetime." 19,000 aircraft in that Force. The Soviet Union's

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* It* Navy December, IHI. 1 I i ally supplied to him are worn GADETSHIPS OFFERED SVERY YEAR AT COLLEGE out. The College seamstress does whatever repairs may be neces SPLENDID OPPORTUNITIES FOR BOYS TO TRAIN AS sary to uniforms and other FUTURE R.A.N. OFFICERS. clothing. Few educational establishments With the rapid post-war ex- a four-year coursc, at the end of have good character and intelli- arc set in more delightful sur- pansion of the Royal Australian which they pass out and go to gence, that they desire to make roundings than the Royal Aus- Navy one ot its most urgent the United Kingdom. their way in the world and that tralian Naval College; it not only needs has become an increase in They then leave the United they possess the personality and lies within the beautifully kept, the number of its officers and also Kingdom in the Royal Navy other attributes that will ensure spacious areas of Flinders Naval of its potential officers. It docs training cruiser "Devonshire," them success as officers in the Depot, but also has its own at- not matter how strong a Navy which visits the West Indies and Royal Australian Navy. tractive grounds as a separate en- may be in ships, it cannot per- Scandinavia, and later do fleet No parent or guardian can en- tity from the depot. form its functions adequately, training in battleships, aircraft ter a boy at the Royal Australian The depot grounds are known either in peace or war, unless it carriers and other classcs of war- Naval College by paying fee". throughout the Commonwealth, has sufficient officers and men, all ships. They also attend specialist Every boy admitted to the College and in many other places as well, properly trained, to man the ships courses at historic naval shore es- wins his place in competition for their lovely gardens, which at and the various shore establish- tablishments in England. against other applicants by intel- different times of the year are a ments conccrncd in training and Usually they remain abroad ligence, initiative, physique and mass of brilliant blooms, and for administration. for three and a half years before outstanding ability. their cultivated flowering shrubs The initial training ground for they return to Australia to begin One result of this is that fu- and trees, wide-spreading lawns most officers of the R.A.N.—that their careers with the Royal Aus- ture officers of the Royal Austra- and ornamental lakes frequented is, permanent officers as distinct tralian Navy as sub-lieutenants. lian Navy are selected from by wild-fowl and many other var- from officers of the several re- Under the exchange system ar- among the best examples of youth ieties of bird-life. serves—is the Royal Australian ranged between the Royal Navy in the Commonwealth. They will The College is separated from Naval College at Flinders Naval and the R.A.N, some of them will inevitably uphold and carry on the depot by an asphalt roadway Depot, Crib Point, Victoria. later serve again with the Royal the great tradition which the and a high Cyprus hedge, in which It is there that boys who arc Navy. R.A.N, has already built in its a wide opening forms the main fortunate enough to be chosen as Boys who wish to join the Col- comparatively short existence. entrance to the College grounds. cadet midshipmen obtain their lege under the intermediate entry New cadet midshipmen are These grounds arc beautifully first knowledge of the technicali- must pass the intermediate certi- asked to join only in the clothes kept and consist partly of wide- ties of naval life and learn to prac- ficate, junior public, or equivalent in which they stand. Apart from spread lawns and flower beds. In tise daily those qualities of loyalty, secondary or technical school that, all they require on the jour- the ccntre of them is the "quart- courage, initiative and leadership standard and obtain passes in ney from their homes to the Col- er deck" of the College, above which will mean so much to theip English, a mathematical subject lege is toilet equipment. which flics the White Ensign and in the development of their and a science subject. On arrival at the College they alongside is suspended the large characters and in their ability to Some of them enter the Col- are fitted out with every article ship's bell onpinally cast for the deal with the heavy responsibili- lege in March and others in July. they need from a tooth brush to College when it fv?.s situated at ties they will eventually under- They remain at the College for their No. 1 uniform. The issue Geclong. take. only two years before they go to list comprises many different Every officer and cadct mid- Every year the Naval Board in- England, remain there for three items, varying from such a thing shipman at the College salutes the vites applications from boys of 13 and a half years as the boys of the as a key-ring to a suitcase or a quarter-deck when he walks on Candidates tor the Koyal Australian Naval Collage found something to occupy to it, just as he would salute the their interest while waiting to go before the Selection Committee at H.MJK.S. years of age to enter the College; 13-year-old entry do and then waterproof coat. "Ruihcutter." Successful candidates will be trained as officers. recently it has introduced a new come back to Australia as sub- Although there are about 50 quarter deck of every warship on stepping aboard. intermediate entry under which lieutenants. items in the list, the actual num- are the offices, used by the Com- Standing in front of the admin- Facing on to the grounds from boys who will be not less than 15 It is often said that the Royal ber of articles a cadet midshipman mander of the College and other istrative block is portion of a behind the "quarter deck" and years and one day, nor more than Australian Naval College is the receives is much larger. For in- officers, the sports equipment damaged range-finder from the the lawns and flower beds is the 16 years and three months, on most democratic educational es- stance, socks—he is given six stores and a large and well-fitted first H.M.A.S. "Sydney," which handsome white and red accom- the first day of the following year tablishment in the Common- pairs on joining. He is also given seamanship instructional room destroyed the Germain raider modation block, in which the can apply. wealth, and this statement is four singlets, three blue shirts, containing models of various "Emdcn" at Cocos Island, in the cadet midshipmen sleep in com- Boys in the 13-year-old group soundly based. No such thing as four white shirts and so on. classcs of ships and special appli- Indian Ocean, early in the First fortable quarters, have ® their must pass a qualifying education- class-distinction has ever existed All articles are issued free of ances used in imparting know- World War. meals and enjoy the amenities of ledge to cadet midshipmen. al examination in September, an there, nor can it ever exist there. cost to the cadet midshipman, his The study block contains num- the gunroom, including a well- official medical examination in Boys chosen as cadet midship- parents or his guardians and dur- Also in this block arc the work- erous airy, well-lighted classrooms, stocked fiction library. November and then be selected men come from schools through- ing his stay at the College he is rooms of the seamstress, -who physics and chemistry laborator- by a naval interviewing commit- out the Commonwealth, both paid a daily allowance with which Between the accommodation keeps the cadet midshipmen's ies and a large reference libraty tee. Those who are selected enter Government and private. They to maintain his clothing and buy block and the study block lies the uniforms in order, the sick bay which is kept well up-to-date. the College in January to begin are asked only to prove that they new articles when those origin- administrative building in which and the canteen. Near the block is a parade

Tk. Nary Dacambar, 1951. ground on which cadet midship- men are reviewed by His Excel- A SHIPOWNER'S POINT OF VIEW BRITAIN'S NATIONAL lency the Governor-General at MARITIME MUSEUM the passing-out ceremony towards Speaking at the annual meeting was in every sense worthwhile. ACQUISITIONS. the end of each year. of the Cardiff and Bristol Channel To illustrate his remarks Mr. The studies at the College are Shipowners' Association, held re- Jones traced the career of a boy Of museum pieces of national both practical and theoretical and cently, Mr F W. Jones, the who. at the age of 16, had decid- historic wi rth we cannot have some of them are undertaken m newly-elected chairman of that ed that he wanted to earn his toe many. Not only are they of small ships and boats on Hann's body, made special reference to livelihood as a deck rating until gre.,t interest historically to the Inlet, on which Hinders Naval that part of the shipowner's bus he became eligible—if he so de- citizen of today and to posterity, Depot stands, and which leads incs* of owning and managing sired—to sit for his second mate's but they are also individually and out to the beauties of Western- ships concerned with the officers certificate. As .1 junior officer, collectively .1 moral and spiritual port Bay In addition cadet mid- and men who manned the ships. Mr. Jones pointed out, that it he stimulant and serve as a fillip to shipmen undergo theoretical and Pointing out that the general joined, as third officer, a general recruitment in the national de- practical instruction in engineer well-being of the men of the cargo ship of just over ~.00*> tons fence services. The interest ex- ing. Merchant Navy was not by any gross, he started off at £31 10 0 hibited by bovs presenting them- Other studies are devoted to means neglected, he said their a month. If he decided to enter selves for examination at H.M. academic subjects, such as mathe- pay. conditions of service, and in- into .111 agreement with his com- A S. "Rushcutter" recently, in matics. physics, chemistry. Em; deed a very large numbei of pany, whereby his flours .vere the various historic pieces on lish, French, history, and gcog matters concerning their wealth, not regulated, he would, instead, sh' w at that depot, provides a raphy. which, although they SJV happiness and health were con get full pay between voyages: 'nil wholesome and inspiring illustra- our more of the schoolroom than stantly being considered and ad pay during sickness, within cer- tion of what we mean. does seamanship, nevertheless pro lusted by the National Maritime tain limitations: and full pay again with limitations whilst An exhibition of recent acquisi- vide knowledge essential to the ef- Board, or its District Panels The tions ir. Britain was given early ficiency of a naval officer. Rein; tact that the shipping industry' studying for th-. normal examina- tions. 111 October at the National Mari- IOUS instruction also forms part was singularly happy in its mdus time Museum. Greenwich. Amftng of the curriculum and cadets at- trial relations was due. in no In addition, he would get at w rks of historical interest arc tend church on Sunday. small measure to the system ot least 14 days' annual leave a year Nicholas Pocock's paintings A cadet midshipman who grad regulating its affairs by collective more than the officcr whose hours "Battle of Trafalgar, 1805." and uates will have attained the ma agreement which had been prac- were regulated 7 that gave him "The Action of Sail Domingo, triculation standard demanded for tised by the Board and to the (as an Officcr on General Service IS.)6": Denis Dighton's scenc entry to most Australian Univers- sense of responsibility and good- Contract) a minimum of 3* days on the quarter-deck of the "Vic- ities. will which had actuated those who leave a year. By successive stages tory" is Nelson fell: and J. W. had operated the system. In preparing himself for bis it would be possible for this offi- Cirmichael's "The 'Adventure" lifetime career in the Navy he Mr Jones thought that it was cer, soon after he had turned 40, and Beagle' 111 the Straits of Ma- will also have achieved academic not perhaps generally known quite to become a master earning (in gellan". Ot these "The Battle of proficiency which he will find in how good the conditions of ser the same class of ship) at least Trafalgar" is lent by Lady Gains- valuable. he will have learned vice were in the Merchant Navy £770 a year which, by his fiftieth be rough today. They had constantly im birthday, would increase to lust the importance of maintaining a An interesting Portulan Chart proved during the last ten years, under £1.000 a' year until retire- clear mind in a strong, healthy is that by William Borough of 1 and anybody of g.iod character ment at 65, with a pension of over body and the vital need of always ah. >ut 1' *" show ing the way to and good health, who had a real at least £400 a year. comforting himself in accordance the Baltic, while a pair of globes desire to make a career at sea, Mr. Jones summed up the posi- with the best ideals of manliness of about 1690 illustrates the work could be assured of .1 life that tion by pointing out that a man and high character. of Morden. Berry and Lea. Only following a career as he had out- one other pair of globes by these lined (or he might follow with makers ts known in the United equal success a career in the en- Kingdom gine-room) was very advantage- ROYLYN DRY CLEANERS ously placed in comparison to a The mos: striking of the manu- man 111 almost any shore job He scripts is probably the Log Book DEPOTS THROUGHOUT SYDNEY AND •bo.rd th. f,i,.t. ,),, ,n|.r,d s , ° * S'.... Mr. H.,,.l thought the industry could well kept in the "Betsy" in 1770 by icniific ..p.d.non , d .oA^;,,. ®:u*hV ..;• METROPOLITAN AREAS OUB c be proud of its conditions of ser- the marine painter Nicholas Po- NAVAL AND MERCANTILE WORK vice. > cock and illustrated by him. ON SHORT NOTICE Among further recent acquisi- champion mfldcl of the equally fa- tions by the National Maritime knows, employed for many years mous clipper ship "Thermopy Head Office and Works: Museum. Greenwich, are. as told in the England-Australia trade in lac . Usually considered to have in recent issues of "The Navy," the heyd.iy of sail. With square- U BEATT1E STREET, BALMAIN a scale model of the famous clip- necn the fastest of the clipper sail ships now practically gone Telephone: WB 2660. per ship "Cutty Sark," and a ships of their time, the "Cutty from the seas, the value of model* British Engineering Exhibition Sark" and the "Thermopylae" such as these can readily be un- were, as all the maritime world derstood. W Ito Navy Dmm»W. I**I. try training and three months' cricket, hockey, tennis, bueball training with.ships of the Fleet training in the branch in which and soft-ball and alio for swim- on their visit to New Zealand to RECRUITS ARE NEEDED FOR THE RA.N they intend to serve. They indi- ming, running, gymnastics and exercise with the Royal New Zea- cate that branch when they fill boat-pulling. land Navy. OPPORTUNITIES FOR LIFE OF VARIETY AND ADVENTURE. in their attestation papers. Indoor, games, such as billiards, Ten members of the Reserve At the end of the six months table-tennis and darts are played went to Heard Island in H.M. are of good character and good they are transferred to ships or at night, and cinema shows are A.S. "Labuan" and later 10 The Royal Australian Navy That one example shows that naval establishment} and their given six nights a week. man power w the most important physique can join the Royal Aus- others were embarked in her needs recruits. It needs them bad- lives as active members of the The men sleep in warm com- factor in the whole of the defence tralian Navy and can enter un- when she went to Macquarie ly, and it needs them quickly. It Royal Australian Navy really be- fortable quarters, some provided plan, for, it would obviously be der their first engagement either (sland. not only needs recruits who have gin. They will by then have pass- with beds and others with ham- futile for the Government to pro- for six or 12 years. At the end Besides going on these and not had any previous naval ex- ed through what might be de- mocks] and they have their meals vide more ships, more establish- of their first term of service they other similar cruises, members of perience; it also needs men who scribed as the embryo stage of be- in a huge modern cafeteria fitted ments and more naval compon- can, subiect to satisfactory medi- the Reserve do courses at naval have already served in the Navy; coming sailors and entered upon with the latest cooking and other and it particularly needs men in ents of other kinds if there were cal and other conditions, re-en- establishments, including Flinders gage for a further period. They the stage of learning to become kitchen equipment. Naval Depot. this later category who have not enough personnel to man working members of His Majesty's enter the Navy as recruit ratings, At the conclusion of their six Reserve training, which was qualifications that will permit them. Australian Fleet. And they will and not long afterwards are ad- months' stay at the Depot most suspended during the Second them to be re-advanced to the Young, healthy, intelligent men go on learning, for, no matter how vanced to ordinary rating. But ratings are remarkably fit and are - World War and for some years rating of Chief or Petty Officer so will find %uch to attract them in long a man may remain in the they need not necessarily remain ready to begin their new duties, afterwards, was resumed on 1st that they may be available to in- a naval career. Those who join Navy, he will always find that ratings. wherever these may take them, January last year. Officers and struct new recruits entering the the Navy will lead lives filled there is something he did not with enthusiasm. men are revealing great enthusi- service. with variety and adventure such The Royal Australian Navy is know before. a democratic organisation and rat- Men who join the Royal Aus- asm, but it is very desirable that Besides these three types of as is not discoverable in ordinary ings are told on joining it that Some of the men who leave tralian Naval Reserve do most of their numbers should be increas- men, whom it requires for the occupations. They will travel to they are all eligible to rise to the Depot at the end of six their training consisting of the ed. permanent Navy, the Royal Aus- far places, meet unusual people commissioned rank. Throughout months, particularly those who equivalent of 15 days' home train- Naval Recruiting Offices are tralian Navy wants, too, men resi- and visit unusual scenes. their service they are reminded of are to specialise, will return to it ing a year, in the evenings or in situated in the capital cities of alt dent in metropolitan areas for the In the last 18 months or so this fact by their divisional and from time to time to undergo daylight on Saturdays. In addi- States Royal Australian Naval Reserve. ships of the Royal Australian other officers and are encouraged courses of instruction in their tion, they do 13 days' continuous Previous naval experience is not Navy have visited the United to pass educational and other tests work. The efficiency of those training a year, at sea, if possible. essential to men who would like Kingdom, Japan, New Zealand, so that they may qualify for pro- courses has been proved over and to join the Royal Australian Naval New Guinea, the Solomons, Fiji As opportunity offers arrange- motions when vacancies occur. over again by the efficiency of ments are made for officers and Reserve, but it would be an ad- and other islands in the Pacific, the men they produce and by the vantage both to themselves and Heard Island and Macquarie Is- If a rating does not reach com- ratings of the Royal Australian efficiency of the Royal Australian Naval Reserve to undergo extend- their instructors and the Reserve land, in the sub-Antarctic, and missioned rank he may become a Navy generally. generally. other out of the way parts of the leading rating or a chief or petty ed training with ships of the Aus- officer. Promotion to senior rat- Although it has been explain- tralian Fleet. Early last year, for The need for new recruits in world. ing or rank in the Navy, as does ed that the Royal Australian instance, eight officers and 50 rat- the permanent Navy has become The work that naval men do is promotion in other walks of life, Navy docs not want men who ings of the Reserve did 44 days' urgent for two reasons. Firstly, also intensely varied, especially in depends principally upon the in- would like to join it merely to the terms of service of a large these days of highly-developed dividual and upon the capacity have a good time, a healthy-bod- number of older men who engag- science and specialisation. The in- and enthusiasm he displays in the ied, healthy-minded man living at ed either before or in the early troduction of aviation and radar tasks he is allotted. Flinders Naval Depot can hardly stages of the Second World War and other forms of electronics into the Navy has provided many Because the Royal Navy speci- help enjoying himself. He will have expired, or are about to ex- • have to "knuckle down to the pire; and, secondly, this has oc- opportunities for the more-intelli- ally needs former Navy men who gent man to display and use his can be re-advanced speedily to job" while he is there, but it will curred at a time when the man- not be a case of "all work and power of the Navy has to be con- initiative and talents. the rating of chief or petty officer, it recently introduced a scheme no play making Jack a dull boy." siderably increased because of the It is men of that sort whom On the contrary, besides their extensive post-war expansion of the R.A.N, is seeking, men who under which those with the requi- site qualifications may engage for work, ratings at Flinders have the Royal Australian Navy under are prepared to devote themselves plenty of play—through recrea- the five-year defence plan. seriously to their jobs and to two years. It sincerely hopes that such men will be forthcoming in tion and games, whose value in Then, also, the Royal Austra- work hard. It docs not regard keeping boys and men from be- with favour men who are not numbers sufficient to supply its lian Navy never knows what its needs. coming dull and in promoting WHEN IT'S AN commitments may be and how willing to work and who join the alertness is fully recognised. suddenly they may arise. Ships Navy merely with the idea of All men who join the Royal of the R.A.N., for instance, were having a good time. "Keenness Australian Navy, from whatever Almost every game ever devis- on active service in Korean waters and efficiency" might well be part of the Commonwealth they ed is played at Flinders Naval only a few days after Australia adopted as the watchwords of the come, first of all spend six months Depot and all ratings are encour- £xtt>e * joined other members of the Unit- present-day R.A.N. at the Flinders Naval Depot, aged to tike part in them. Facil- YOU START ed Nations in deciding to resist Men aged between 17 and 24 Crib Point (Victoria), where they ities arc provided for Australian the North Korean aggressors. (special cases up to 26) year, who undergo three months' disciplin- rules football, rugby and soccer.

Ito Navy DhmW, INI. d n RANK OF COMMODORE MARITIME NEWS OF THE FOR ROYAL FLEET AUXILIARY SERVICE.

The British Admiralty's deci sion to institute the rank of Corn LOWNDES modore in the Royal Fleet Aux iliary Service is an excellent one. and will no doubt commend itselt WORLD to all branches of His Majesty's From our Correspondents in Navy. Beyond question, too, it will be particularly well received LONDON and NEW YORK by the members of the Merchant RUM By Navy, to whom it will come not only as an additional tillip to ser AIR MAIL vice, but also as an added laurel RENOWNED THROUGHOUT THE WORLD to a sister service that has done such signal cooperative work CHARTER SHIPS. NEW SHIPS FOR both in peace and war. junks had attacked the Hupeh" British motor car makers have AUSTRALIAN COASTAL and pirates had boarded and seiz- The Royal Fleet Auxiliary Ser chartered 30 vessels since April TRADE. ed the ship for a time. A New Agents: vice, which is manned by Merch to transport cars, trucks, and trac- ' Ten new cargo ships would be Zealand frigate from Hong Kong ant Navy personnel, comprise- tors to Australia and arc in need added to the Australian coastal had, however, speedily effected HARBOTTLE BROWN 8c CO. more than eighty vessels, includ ul more yet. Announcing this in waters within about the next year her release. There were no cas- ing a hospital ship, over thirty London on October 20, the ship- and would ease the "desperate ualties or damage. large freighting tinkers and some ping secretary of the Society of shortage" of coastal shipping, the PTY. LTD. fleet supply ships Motor Traders, Mr. H. C. Boyle, SYDNEY. Minister for Shipping and Fuel, KING FAROUK'S YACHT. The Commodore of the Roya -aid that of the 30 chartered Senator McLeay, said in Can- Fleet Auxiliary Service will fly -i ships, 15 had left for Australia berra on October 24. King Farouk's yacht, the 4,000 broad pendant and the design, and 12 had already arrived. Brit- ton "Marhousa", Jpuilt 89 years which was approved by His on has been exporting 8,000 cars, TRAPPED DIVER SEVERS ago at Liverpool, is getting a Majesty the Kins lust prior to his worth more than £2,000,000, to FINGER. t'2,000,000 refit at La Spezia, Australia, each month, he said. illness, takes the form of an an Trapped four and a half fath- Italy, a Special Service message Australia is Britain's most im- chor surrounded by a gold rope oms under the water at Holyhead from Rome announced .on No- portant and keenest market in THE FARMERS' & GRAZIERS' circle on a navy blue field. The Dicks (England) with one finger vember 3. motor vehicles, and there are still pendant was first hoisted in the torn off, Norman Owen, a deep- .ars and tractors awaiting ship- Royal Fleet Auxiliary "Fort Dun sea diver, severed another finger NEW ITALIAN LUXURY CO OPERATIVE GRAIN INSURANCE ment in every port of England. vegan" 111 H.M Dockyard. with a sheath knife to free him- LINER. Rosyth. on October 7. m the pre- self. Diver Owen was sent down The new Italian luxury liner WHALERS EARN BIG and AGENCY COMPANY LTD. ence of Admiral Sir Philip L to straighten a wire rope which "Sydney," which arrived in Syd- Vian. K.C.B. K B E.. D.S.O.. MONEY. 25-25 MACQUARIE PLACE, SYDNEY had become entangled during ney on October 26 on her maid- Commander • in Chief. Home Whalers earned big money work on a pier. As he unravelled en voyage from Genoa, is the sec- Fleet. luring the 19'I four months the twist .1 block and pulley slip- ond of the Flotta-Lauro's luxury- Captain S. (."• Kent, O.B.E.. of whaling season on Australia's ped and the two middle fingers liners to come to Australia in a Turret House. Bambridge Park. North-West coast, which ended of the right hand were caught. few weeks. The other was her INSURANCE Nr. Eastleigh. Hants, England, in the middle week of October. "One finger was torn off." said sister ship, the "Roma," which who h,is been selected as the firs' The gross value of the catch was Diver Owen, "and in order to left Sydney for Italy via the Bar- IMPORTANT.— Don't neglect to Insure all your assets to holder of the post has command 12,000,000. The lowest paid man free myself I was forced to hack rier Reef on October 14. A novel their full value again* all possible contingencies. Failure to do was the hygiene officer: he re- so may involve you in serious financial loss. All dasws of ed Royal Fleet Auxiliaries foi off th-.- third finger at the joint." feature of Kith these vessels is business written (except Life) at lowest current rates. more than 27 years. • eived /JO a week. The highest Diver Owen, calmly and with that they were originally built Insurance experts at your service. That Captain S. G. Kent is but paid officers received between great fortitude, later walked un- as "baby flat tops" (aircraft car- the first of a distinguished line of -40 and £'0 weekly. The Aus- aided to hospital. riers) for the United States navy, CORRECT. PROMPT, AND SATISFACTORY CLAIM Royal Fleet Auxiliary Service tralian Whaling Commission from whom they were bought by SETTLEMENTS Gimmodores, goes without say eaught 650 whales and the Nor- BRITISH VESSEL ATTACKED the Italian company for conver- ing. The Merchant Navy is to West Whaling Company 574. BY PIRATES. , sion. The "Sydney," 14,700 tons, be congratulated on this further Six chasers in all were used A message from Hong Kong on is very' similar to the "Roma" recognition by the Senior Service Their home port, Carnarvon, is October 27 reported that the (described elsewhere in this is- ENQUIRIES OF ANY KIND ARF. INVITED of its important role in British * boom town today the centre British ship "Hupeh" had been sue), but is more sedate in colour Naval and general maritime his- nf an industry which is only in fired on by pirates near the mouth scheme. Her murals, for instance, tory. its infancy in Australian waters. of the Yangtse River. Armed are in a lighter shade than those

TW Navy Oocontor, IWI. M in the "Roma." The latter, too, moted captain and brought the FIRE ON THE "ORMISTON". featured classical Roman designs; ship to Fremantle. There Captain A fire on the interstate linet the murals in the "Sydney" run N. S. Milne, who was flown from "Ormiston" severely damaged the to tropical scenes depicting birds, Melbourne, took over and brought refrigeration chamber and buckl- animals and trees. The "Sydney" her to Sydney. ed the ship's steel bulkheads when brought 850 passengers to Aus- MEN LEAP FOR LIFE. she was lying at a Balmain, Syd- tralia, 254 of whom disembarked Eighty workmen jumped for ney, wharf on November 8. The in Sydney. their lives from the 1,100-ton col- "Ormiston" is undergoing a relit at Poole and Steel's repair wharf. GALES IN ENGLISH lier "Corrimal" on the afternoon Tugs stood by the steamer "Dal- CHANNEL. of November 7, when a huge lire by", which was moored alongside Gales of 80 to 100 miles an engulfed the Sheerlegs Wharf, the "Ormiston", but firemen from hour lashed the English Channel Mort's Dock, in Sydney Harbour, five brigades brought the outbreak and western European coasts on and quickly spread to the ship. quickly under control. Fumes November 4 and the Argentinian Four men dived into the water mcnaced the firemen and many liner "Maipu" sank after a colli- to escape the flames. Many were near collapse as they came sion in a fog in the North Sea. jumped on to a lighter, and some up for breath at intervals. One The 80 passengers and 158 crew were taken off in the nick of time fireman was severely shocked members were transferred from by a launch. The remainder nar- when a live wire fell on his brass the liner in lifeboats while the rowly escaped with their lives by helmet. There was a flash and American transport "General Her- leaping to the blazing wharf and the fireman was thrown violently sey," with which the "Maipu" racing through the blinding on his back. He later recovered. collided, stood by, and Dutch and smoke to safety. Several carpent- OCEAN WEATHER German tugs rushed to the scene. ers said they had to leave the SERVICE. With her bow severely damaged ship so hurriedly that they were the "General Herscy". limped in- unable to gather up their valu- Discussions were this yen to the German port of Bremer- able kits of tools. It is believed opened with the British Air Min- haven. The British frigate "Red- that a lighted match or a spark istry regarding the nature of the pole" took a schooner in tow four from an oxyacetylenc welding wage increases to be applied to plant ignited oil which had escap- miles off The Needles and then members of the crews serving it While the cruiser H.M.A.S. "Auitrelie" end tin I0.000.ton British f,.;„u.r radioed for help. A Cowcs life- ed from a tanker and was lying ships of the Ocean Weather Ser on the surface of the harbour un- ofl Serden I,lend th. cruise the "SomW amidships. (L»ftJ: Tarheel dt^aT^ ' boat went to the assistance of the vice following the bringing into — by the imp.S.' (Right) £ , "Redpole." Cornish lifeboats der the wharf and around the force of the revised National Mar rescued 17 persons from the Span- "Corrimal." itimc Board wage scales in otho "DIDO" FLAGSHIP OF RESERVE FLEET. ish ship "Minacatiquin" which GRIM ORDEAL ON classes of ship in the Britisl had gone aground. TANKER. Merchant Navy. The battleship "Duke of York," HOUSE AFLOAT. Eighteen survivors of the Pan- "ALLENWOOD" INQUIRY. 35,000 tons, who has been replac- Travellers on Sydney Harbour amanian tanker "Transpct" on A Court of Marine Inquiry ot ed by the cruiser "Dido" as flag- ferry boats rubbed their eyes and November 1 told how they hud- November 6 was unable to df ship of Britain's Reserve Fleet, took a second look when they dled for 24 hours on the blazing tcrminc why the New Soutl left Spithcad on September 2 in sighted a house afloat on the har- deck of their ship as flames ate Wales coastal steamer "Allen the charge of Admiralty tugs bour on November 2. The house, towards the highly - explosive wood" was stranded and wreckct "Jaunty", "Saucy," and "Envoy,"' a fair-sized one with two attic cargo. In a message from Nova on September 14. The 210-toi who towed her to Liverpool. windows and loaded on a barge, Scotia it was revealed that the "Allcnwood" ran aground durin From Liverpool she is to be tow- was being towed by a tug under "Trail ; et", loaded with 20,000 heavy fog at night on Bird Islan ed to the Garcloch in the Clyde the Harbour Bridge. Complete- barrels of petrol, 5,000 barrels of Beach at Wabung Head, jm and laid up with other ships there. ly intact, it was being shifted from jet oil and 5,000 barrels of diescl north of Norah Head, and sout The "Duke of York" was launch- one locality to another. oil, was ripped by an explosion of Newcastle. She was on h< ed by the Queen in February, off the Magdalen Islands on Oc- way from Sydney to Port Mac 1940. She was first commissioned ONE VOYAGE. THREE tober 29. Following the explo- quarie without cargo. Efforts t in 1941, and in that year took MASTERS. sion, lire spread to the radio room refloat the vessel failed and sh Mr. Churchill and the heads of The "Morcton Bay," which before the wireless officer could was later sold as a wreck fo the three fighting Services to the reached Sydney on November 2, send out an S O S. The explosion £601. From the evidence, th United States. As flagship of Ad- had three captains commanding destroyed lifeboats anil rafts. The Court was unable to find that pr« miral of the Fleet Lord Frascr of her during her voyage via the A-itish cargo ship "Ottingc," en per seamanlike care was not ei North Cape in 1943, the "Duke Her master. Captain E. T. Baker, route to England from Caraquet, ercised in the navigation of th of York" helped to destroy the was taken ashore ill at Colombo New Brunswick, sighted the ship. But it considered that German battle cruiser "Scharn- Suez from the United Kingdom, doomed ship on October 30 and lookout hand should have bee horst." From November, 1946, and died the same day. Chief took survivors aboard. Two men placed on the foc'sle head instel until the early part of 1949, she Officer C. W. Sendall was pro- died in the explosion. of on the boat deck. was flagship of the British Home Fleet. It TIM I December, 1961. TIGHT BINDING H.M. SUBMARINE NAMED For the second time ia seven years Lady Tovey, wife of Ad- TATTERSALL'S miral of the Fleet Lord Tovey, NEWS OF THE WORLD'S NAVIES performed the ceremony of nam- 5/- CASH CONSULTATIONS ing the T. Class ocean-going sub- £10,000 FIRST PRIZE marine H.M.S. "Turpin" at Chat- H.M. SUBMARINES S. White Company, Ltd., who throughout the Royal Navy, in Drawn every few days ham on September 17. In Aug, VISIT LONDON. are also responsible for the build- many and various ships ranging and ust, 1944, when the "Turpin" wai Two of His Majesty's submar- ing of the prototype hull. M.T.B. from destroyers to minesweepers. launched from Chatham Dock- ines, the "Acheron" (Lieutcnant- 5701 is 120 feet in length and 25 They will return to Holland on 10/- CASH CONSULTATIONS yard, her displacement was about C. mmander R M. Stafford, R.N.) feet in beam. Craft of these di- the completion of their visiting £25,000 FIRST PRIZE I,50(1 tons. She carried ten 21" and the "Auriga" (Lieutenant mensions are known as "long duties. Drawn every few weeks. torpedo tubes, one 4" and one C. mmander D. Hay, R N.) visit- boats" as opposed to the "short 20 m m. gun, and had a comple- ed London for the period Sep- boats" of approximately 75 feet R.N. FAST MINELAYERS. ment of fifty-nine men. Her speed tember 18 to 28. They were in length. The armament will H.M.S. "Apollo" (Captain F. Postage on tickets and results to be added. on the surface was fifteen knots berthed in the Shadwell Basin consist of four 21-inch above wat- W. R. Larken, R.N.), a fast mine- and submerged, nine knots. Dur and the public was allowed er torpedo tubes and one small layer, joined the British Home Fleet on August 1. She later sail- The Address . . . ing the past two years the ship aboard. The visit was arranged gun. ha? been practically rebuilt, and in connection with the Festival ed with emergency stores for NORWEGIAN DESTROYER GEO. ADAMS (TATTERSALD HOBART details of her design, perform of Britain and as part of the cere- Jamaica, West Indies, leaving nice, and equipment arc still monies marking the 50th Anni- VISITS LONDON. Portsmouth on September 4. sccrct. She retains the name versary of the Royal Navy's Sub- The Royal Norwegian destroy- H.M.S. "Manxman" (Captain J. "Turpin." marine Branch. It was in 1901 er "Bergen" (Commander T. G. T. Lean, D.S.O., R.N.) left When ships of fhe Navy that the Admiralty placed the Kleppc) paid an informal visit to Shcerness on August 27 for trials, THE EGYPTIAN CRISIS "heave to" this rope first orders for submarine boats. London during the closing days including minelaying trials, before Authoritative reports that ap iif'thc Festival of Britain. The sailing on September 9 to join the holds fast! propriatc dispositions of naval In 1901 C. Class submarines were off the House of Com "Bergen" has a complement of Mediterranean Fleet. Both ships ships had been taken to protect m—ired m. ns, Westminster The last of- 240 officers and men. including were recently brought forward Briti-h interests in the Suet Canal ficial visit of His Majesty's sub- 140 Leading Seamen under train- from reserve in accordance with rone in the present crisis, will bc marines to London was in June. ing. The ship remained in the the declared policy of building up gcncrally welcomed in the Com- Port of London for four days and Britain's active fleets. monwealth countries. l'<46, during the Victory celebra- tions. during her stay most of the ship's When on October 17 the Med company visited the South Bank FIRST SEALORD VISITS US. Iterrancan Fleet returned to Malta NEW SNORT PASSES TESTS. Exhibition on the Thames as well The First Sea Lord (Admiral ANCHOR on concluding its extensively sec- A new snort, evolved since the as other places of historical in- of the Fleet Lord Fraser of North ond Summer Cruise programme "Affray" 'disaster, has now been terest. The "Bergen" (ex-H.M. Cape, G.C.B., K.B.E.), visited the which took some of its ships to tested in H.M. Submarine "An- S. "Cromwell") was purchased United States in September to "Yugoslavia. Turkey, and other drew," a sister ship to the "Af- from the Royal Navy in 1946. discuss matters oT mutual Naval countries in the eastern Mediter- fray." The structure has been interest with Admiral Fechteler, ranean. the Commander-in-Chiet, re designed, strengthened and R.M.S. "WARRIOR" HOME. the new Chief of Naval Opera- Admiral Sir John Edelsteli, tions of the United States Navy. • streamlined and it has passed all The aircraft carrier R.M.S. K.C.B.. C.BE., redisposcd his tests successfully. The Flag Offi- "Warrior" (Captain A. F. Pugs- -hips to deal with the situation in cer. Submarines, Rear-Admiral S. ley, C.B., D.S.O., R.N.), recently R.N. HYDROGRAPHER Egypt. M Raw. C.B., C.B.E., has been arrived at Portsmouth from Japan. ATTENDS CONFERENCE. % H.M.S. "Gambia", then pro- tr sea in R.M.S "Andrew" to She brought home to the United Tbe Hydrographer to the Roy- VsL/ ceeding to the East Indies Station see the equipment in use Kingdom a number of Naval rat- al Navy, Rear-Admiral Archibald to relieve the cruiser H M.S ings who had completed their Day, C.B., C.B.E., D S.O., at- NEW M.T. BOAT LAUNCHED In this land of ours—in thi. Australia ol kindliness of friendship, "Mauritius." was halted at Pore terms of foreign service with the tended the International Union of good humoured tolerance . . . perhaps no beverage is more at Said and was later joined by the The first of the new type of Far Eastern Fleet and some details of Geodesy and Geophysics Con- home than good Australian beer. For beer is a drink Australians destroyers "Chequers" and "Chev- M Otor Torpedo Boat. M.T.B. of Grenadier Guards from Malta. ference in Brussels, and in con- like. It is a part of pleasant living, of good fellowship, of sensible ron." H M.S.'s "Manxman" and '""1, for the Royal Navy, has nection with this conference His moderation. Aud our right to enjoy it ... this too is a part of "Liverpool" also left Malta. been launched at the vnrds of DUTCH OFFICERS GAIN Majesty's Survey Ship "Scott" our Australian heritage of personal freedom. Earlier, in September, there was Messrs. J. S. White Er Company. EXPERIENCE IN H.M. SHIPS. (Lieutenant-Commander W. Ash- the biggest assembly of H M. C wes. Isle of Wight. The main Thirty-seven Acting Suh-Lieu- ton, D.S.C., R.N.) visited Ant- Beer Is Good For You Ships for many years in ports of machinery arrangements for this tenants of the Royal Netherlands werp between August 24 and Cyprus. They were preparing craft will be novel in that she will Navy arrived in England in Sep- August 27. The "Scott" was avail- Enjoy it! for bombardment exercises which be powered with Metropolitan- tember to join H.M. ships for a able with the oceanographic ves- were held later off the Southern Vickers Gas Turbines in combin- period of approximately three sels of other countries for an in- CARLTON 8C UNITED BREWERIES LTD Coast and watched by British ation with Diesel Engines. The months, to gain sea-going experi- spection by delegates to the con- BREWING IN AUSTRALIA FOR 98 YEARS. and foreign military observers. installation of the machinery is ence. These young Netherlands ference. The Conference contin- being completed by Messrs. J. Officers will be distributed ued until September 1. Tto Navy Dacambtr, Iffl. BELGIAN NAVY ACQUIRES CANADA PRESENTED in November. Mr. McMahon said THREE-NATION NORTH ANOTHER MINESWEEPER WITH TWO DESTROYERS. that her present trials would be SEA MANOEUVRES. FROM RN. It has been decided to give to ndertaken in the Jervis Bay area. Ships of the Royal Navy, the JAMES PATRICK & CO. PTY. LTD. Canada two destroyers which In Jervis Bay itself, time would H.M.S. "Fancy," an Algerine Royal Danish Navy, and the Roy- SHIPOWNERS _ AGENTS - CONTRACT Class Minesweeper, was transfer- have been on ban to the Royal be devoted to a general shake- al Norwegian Navy and planes red to the Belgian Navy at Ports- Canadian Navy since 1945. They down and harbour drills. On the from the Royal Danish Air Force STEVEDORES formally handed over by Rear- are the "Crescent" and "Crusad- ship's return to Sydney on Fri- and Royal Norwegian Air Force CHARTERS AND BUNKERS ARRANGED Admiral J. P. L Reid, C.B., Chief er", both fast C. Class destroyers day (November 16) leave for her carried out combined Naval and of Staff to the Commander-in- built on the Clyde and completed ship's company began. This Air exercises in the North Sea REGULAR INTERSTATE Sc OVERSEAS CARGO ft Chief, Portsmouth, and was ac- late in 1945. Announcing this would be completed by 31st De- during September. PASSENGER SERVICES cepted on behalf of the Belgian on September 10 the British Ad- cember when she would sail for Last year the Danish and Nor- Ministry of National Defence by miralty stated that the Canadian Jervis Bay again for working-up wegian Navies initiated a series Agents for . . . Lieutenant-Colonel E. Deleliene, Government intends to modernise exercises. She would return to of such exercises in the North Sydney on January 8, ready to FLOTTA LAURO (Ibliu Use)—Cargo and | ••uijii mt, the Belgian Military Attache in their equipment and to convert Sea off the Skaw but this year's Aiucralu to MadttmMiB (**!•, via Snppm. London. The "Fancy" is the them for use as anti-submarine leave with "Glory" three days manoeuvres included British par- TASMAN STEXMSHIP CO. LTD.—Rafrifttntad car^o, AUCNIU fourth ship of this Class which frigates. Since their conversion later. ticipation. Mutual Naval prob- to New 7wl.nrt would be additional to the conver- the Belgian Navy has acquired THREE AUSTRALIAN lems of the North Sea and joint ERIE RAILROAD (UAA.)-Mw Agent*. sions already ircluded in the H.M.S. "Liberty" was handed SHIPS IN ACTION. tactics were studied and the exer- Head Office: 19 BRIDGE STREET, SYDNEY over at Portsmouth in Novemb- R.N. and R.C.N. programme, and The Minister for the Navy (the cise was the biggest so far carried Phonai BW 4181. er, 1949, H.M.S. "Cadmus" was would therefore increase the num- Hon. William McMahon) an- out in these waters. ALSO AT MELBOURNE AND BRISBANE acepted at Chatham in January, ber of ships suitable for anti-sub- nounced on November 15 that The exercise was directed by WITH AGENTS AT ALL MAIN PORTS IN AUSTRALIA. 1950, and H.M.S. "Ready" was marine work which can be made the Australian carrier H.M.A.S Commodore S. Storheill, the transferred about the middle of available in the near future to the "Sydney" had on November 12 Chief of, the Norwegian Naval this year. North Atlantic Treaty Organisa- Staff. Destroyers, frigates, tor- tion, the United Kingdom Gov- launched its thousandth sortie since its arrival in Korean waters pedo-boats, submarines with tend- C. EBELING & SONS PTY. LTD. "BIGBURY BAY" VISITS ernment has welcomed the pro- ers, motor torpedo-boats and gun- posals and has decided to make in September. This sortie was "NELSON'S DOCKYARD". flown on the west coast of Korea boats, as well as minesweepers and the temporary transfer into a per troop transports participated. Before she was diverted to Ja- manent one. when Sea Furies and Fireflies maica to assist in relief work fol- from the carrier hit troop con- Danish ships taking part includ- lowing the recent hurricane, H.M centrations in the Han River area. ed torpedo-boats, submarines and S. "Bigbury Bay" had visited "AUSTRALIA'S" DASH TO One strike was successful in blast- tender, motor torpedo-boats and English Harbour, Antigua, scene PORT WITH SICK STOKER. ing three spans from a railroad minesweepers. of considerable naval activity in The cruiser H.M.A.S. "Aus- bridge. On the previous day In the Norwegian force were Nelson's days. The ship's com- tralia" reached Port Phillip Bay "Sydney's" aircraft had carried Fleet destroyers, submarines and pany found that the Society of four hours ahead of schedule on out day-long attacks on military tender, frigates, troop transport SHIP REPAIRS, MARINE ENGINEERS, BOILERMAKERS Friends of English Harbour, in October 31 to put ashore Stoker targets in the Chinnampo Haeju and ithcr minor war vessels. which the Governor is President, J. F. Egan, of Sydney, who was area. Another R.A.N, ship, AND WELDERS. UNDERWATER TELEVISION are aiming to restore "Nelson's suffering from acute appendicitis. H.M.A.S. "Tobruk," a Battle OWN FOUNDRY AND LABORATORY. A recent message from Canada Dockyard." A certain amount of He was operated on in Flinders class destroyer, with its fast firing Works: 70-60 STEPHEN ST., YARRAVILLE, VIC. said that scientists there had yacht refitting is already being Naval Depot Hospital. 4.5 inch dual purpose guns bat- "Phone: MW225V done there. tered bridges and rail junctions claimed that they had developed a self-propelled underwater tele- j tABLES St TELEGRAMS: "EBELING," MELBOURNE. H.M.A.S. "WARRAMUNGA" south of Somgjin. Two large Reg. Office: 1 CASTLEMAINE ST., YARRAVILLE, W.13, TO COMPLETE TRIALS fires in a rail marshalling yard vision camera that if perfected H.M.S. "APOLLO", TAKEN VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA. OUT OF RESERVE, GOES BEFORE LEAVING FOR proved the accuracy of the de- could map an enemy minefield or I TO JAMAICA. KOREA. stroyer's bombardments. chart underwater obstacles. The machine is encased in a silvered H.M.S. "Apollo" (Captain F The Minister for the Navy (the steel cylinder which is lowered by W. R. Larken, R.N.), minelayer, Hon. William McMahon) an- H.M.S. "SUPERB" VISITS cable. A cameraman aboard* ship has taken 1,500 tents and stores nounced on November 13 that U.S. AND CANADA. controls the camera, which has to Jamaica in connection with the the Tribal class destroyer H.M H.M. "Superb", cruiser, flag- two propellers and can be driven relief of the people left homeless A.S. " Warramunga", which, ship of Vice-Admiral R. V. Sy- in any direction at a speed of one following the recent disastrous commanded by Commander J. M. monds - Taylor, K.B.E., C.B., knot per hour. The image picked KINNEAR'S EMU BRAND hurricane. The "Apollo", one of Ramsay, R.A.N., would escort D.S.C., the Commander-in-Chief, up is transmitted to a screen on the fastest ships in the Royal the aircraft carrier H.M.S. American and West Indies Squad- the vessel through a coaxial Navy, was making her first voy- "Glory"" back to Korea from Aus- ron, has visited many ports on the cable. The remote control oper- ROPE, CORDAGE, TWINE and LINEN THREADS aga overseas since the war. She tralia in January, left Sydney on United States and Canadian At- ation of the camera has been per- has been in reserve for five years. the morning of November 12 for lantic seaboard, including Nor- fected, but the problem of suffi- Nevertheless, she finished the machinery and gun trials at sea folk, St. Johns, N. F., Halifax, cient light to enable the camera journey at 26 knots and no major "Warramunga" completed a refit Boston and New York during to record an image in all depths defects were reported. at Garden Island Dockyard early her recent summer cruise. of water has not yet been solved.

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II I 1 Sydney from Vancouver by the has in various ways characterised occasions; the private royal suite —for it is hardly seemly that ex- PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS "Aorangi" on October 29. Cap- the minds of Britain's Naval is easily converted into operating tempore arrangements should now tain Denbo will live in Melbourne leaders in recent years. It will be theatre* and dispensaries; the in- be necessary whenever His remembered that one hospital dividual cabins and messes requir- R.N. PROMOTIONS AND where he will also serve as nava! Majesty has occasion to go abroad NEW C.-IN-C. BRITISH ship was authorised by the Navy ed for the royal entourage are HOME FLEET. REAPPOINTMENTS. attache to New Zealand. Captain in state. Denbo's last official assignment Estimates for 1951, but this an- needed for the medical staff in His Majesty the King has ap- Rear-Admiral A. L. Poland, was with the Chief of Naval Op nouncement refers to a second the hospital ship, for both are Moreover, since the hospital proved the appointment of Ad C.B.. D.S.O., D.S.C., has been erations in Washington. D.C vessel of that category. additional to the normal comple- ship is a war-time necessity, there m:r.il Sir George £. Creasy, promoted Vicc-Adnural in His During World War II he served As a matter of fact, this is a ment of ship's officers." can be no opposition on the wore K.C.B-, C.B.E., M.V.O., to be Majesty's Fleet and re appointed. in both the Atlantic and North revival of a decision reached as It is fitting that the King should of extravagance to the provision Ccmmander-in-Chief, Home Fleet, Captain (E) A D. McGlashan. Pacific Oceans. long ago as 1939. In introducing once again have a proper royal of the dual-purpose vessel. In- in succession to Admiral Sir D.S.O . is promoted Rear-Admir the Navy Estimates of that year al (E) and re-appointed. Both ADMIRALTY ARCHIVIST. yacht at his disposal--every Eng- deed it can have no opposition, Philip L Vi.ui, K.C.B. K BE. the First Lord—Lord Stanhope— lish Monarch since Charles II. but only wide and general appro- D.S.O.. the appointment to take appointments took effect 011 15th Lieutenant-Commander P. K 'announced that it had intended to V. has had one until the present day bation. effect in January. 1952. August, 195 Kemp. R.N. (Retired) has beer lay down a new royal yacht to re- HONORARY SURGEON AND appointed as (British) Admiralt;. place the "Victoria and Albert" COMMAND SUPPLY PHYSICIAN TO H.M. THE Archivist. The post of Admir completed in 1901. "The Times" OFFICER, THE NORE. KING. alty Archivist replaces that ot (London) naval correspondent Admiralty Librarian, the change AUSTRALIAN JOCKEY CLUB Captain (S) F R J. Mack, In pursuant* of His Majesty s writes: i BE. has been appointed Com of title indicating the wider dutie- pleasure Surgeon Captain T N. now given to the post. "The plan for using one of the mand Supply Officer. The Norl- D'Arcy, C.B.E.. L.R.C.P. I* S.. projected hospital ships for the SUMMER MEETING and will hold the rank of Rear D O.M.S.. Royal Navy, has been BRITISH TRAINING purpose was being worked out RANDWICK RACECOURSE Admiral (S) while 111 this ap- appointed an Honorary Surgeon SQUADRON COMMAND. when the war caused it to be pointment to His Majesty the King from Rear Admiral iR. M. Dick. dropped. The plan has muclj to April I S 1951; and Surgeon Cap C.B., C B E., D.S.C., has succeed commend it, since the designs of SATURDAY, 22nd DECEMBER, 1951 NEW DIRECTOR, NAVAL tain G MeCoull, O.B.E.. V.R.D . ed Rear Admiral J. A. Mickle the two ships have much in com- ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT, B.S.. L.R.C.P. & S„ Royal Naval thwait. D.S.O., in command or mon. The large compartments WEDNESDAY, 26Hi DECEMBER, 1951 R.N. Volunteer Reserve, has been ap- the (British) Training Squadron needed for wards provide the Secretary, N. W. PARRY OKEDEN. Rear Admiral C. P. Clarke, pointed an Honorary Physician to -tate apartments for ceremonial C B, D.S.O. (Retired) has been the King from June 25, 1951, in NEW FLAG OFFICER recalled to the Active List in the succession to Surgeon Captain G. SUBMARINES. rank of Rear Admiral (L) and F. Abercrcmbie, V.R.D.. M.D., The appointment of Rcar-Ad appointed Director of the Naval CH.B. miral G. W. 0. Simpsort, C.B. Electrical Department, R.N., in C.B.E.. to be Flag Officer (Sub succession to Rear-Admiral (L) NEW U.S. NAVAL ATTACHE marines) in succession to Rear S L. Bateson, C.B.. C.B.E., The recently-appointed United Admiral S. M. Raw, C.B.. C.B.E.. A M l.E E. The appointment took States naval attache to Australia, to take effect in January. 1952. effcct m August, 1951. Captain R. W. Denbo, arrived in has been announced. STOREY & KEERS NEW FIFTFI SEA LORD. Vice-Admiral h. W. Anstice. 2 10 SHELLEY STREET, SYDNEY ALBERT'S C.B., has now succeeded Vice Admiral M J. Mansergh, C.B. BOOMERANG SONGSTER No. 56 C.B.E., as Fifth Sea Lord and Contain* words of (he greatest collection of world-wide Hie Sot«s ever published. Deputy Chief of the (British) CONTENTS INCLUDE: Naval Staff (Air). Silver Dollar, Out Of A Clear Blue Sky, A Marshmallow World, Much Binding In The Marah, There'* No Season On Love, Zing HOSPITAL SHIP TO BE Zing-Zoom Zoom, Nevertheless, Sometime, ROYAL YACHT IN SONGSTER I'll Get By, Goat Fiahin', If I Had You On MARINE BC GENERAL BOILERMAKERS & ENGINEERS. A Desert Island, I Love The Guy, Stars Are PEACETIME. The Windows Of Heaven, Autumn Leaves. • WORDS ~1 Come Dance With Me, Lucky, Lucky, Lucky The announcement by the Brit Me, American Beauty Rose, Be My Lev*. All Classes of Ship Repairs. Our Lady of Fatima, A-Razx-A-Ma-Taxi, ish Admiralty on October 8 that LATEST Flying Saucer, So Long, Sally. Roae, Rose, I a hospital ship of medium size, £~ GREATEST Love You, I'm Bashful, May Kway, Oh May which it is planned to build under Kway, Pigalle, Broken Down Merry-Go- Head Office: Shipyard: Woodwork Sectxm: Round, Aba Daba Honeymoon, Who's Sorry a future programme of new con- /POPULAR SONGS' Now, Are You Lonesome To-night, Etc., Etc. SHELLEY STREET, LOUISA ROAD. LOUISA ROAD. YOU WANT struction, will be used by H.M. PRICE, 9d. SYDNEY. BALMAIN BALMAIN the King in time of peace as a BX 1924 or «*™4 1/- in Maanp. and Boonwmng Sonailrr royal yacht and will "replace the WB2151 WB 1066 No. 56 with Ifat of U»«* Popular Soon BX 1925 WB 216* WB 2621 I will b. naU to your addma. now obsolete "Victoria and Al- J. ALBERT ft SON Ply. Ltd., bert". serves to illustrate yet again 197-139 Kim Sow, Sydiwy. the fine utilitarian outlook that IWI. a TW Navy HJVLS. "SYDNEY" supply ships of the Navy. He work, in the ship's hangars re- SEA-ODDITIES IN ACTION. was put ashore at the Korean pairing and servicing aircraft for In a two-day operation against port of Inchon to join up with the next day's strikes (this, of the fish seeks lower depths, gas Kojo, south of Wonsan, aircraft the British Commonwealth Divi- course, was during the "Glory's" The history of deep-sea big- The greater number of Aus- is extracted. By this means the of His Majesty's Australian ship sion and he talked with British recent period of duty in Korean game fishing records many inci- tralian water snakes are sea- fish can remain swimming with "Sydney," the British Common- troops. waters). dents concerning the prodigious snakes, and these arc occasionally comfort at any depth it chooses wealth aircraft carrier of the Some days later, one of H.M.S. Colonel Linklater was catapult- strength of some forms of water found in the northern estuaries . . . The shape of a fish's body is Royal Australian Navy now oper- "Glory's" Firefly aircraft picked ed from the "Glory" in another Jife^ For instance, in his fascinat- and even some miles up the coast- an indication of its speed. The ating in Korean waters, flew 58 up Colonel Linklater and he made Firefly aircraft to rejoin the Brit- ing book, "Battles With Giant al rivers. The beautiful orangc- most rapid fish have fusiform or sorties during the first day in dif- his first landing on the deck of a ish Commonwealth Division in Fish," Mitchcll Hedges tells the banded black sea-snakes may of- cigar-shaped bodies and have ficult weather and 89 sorties on carrier. During several days stay Korea. story of hooking a giant fish and ten be seen in the Fitzroy and breadth rather than height. Slow- the second day in perfect weath- in the carrier, Colonel Linklater Incidentally, on his way back then losing it. "Two inches from other northern streams, gliding moving fish have short, high and er. This outstanding performance was impressed by the ceaseless ac- to the United Kingdom recendy where the eye of the hook was round one's boat. It is advisable laterally compressed bodies. The was during the aircraft carrier's tivity on board her; sorties flown Colonel Linklater visited New fastened to the chain the steel to be careful when handling fish is, in fact, the perfect ma- first operational patrol. from dawn to dusk and all night Zealand and Australia. shank was bitten in two. It must them, as when dazzled by an ex- cess of light on being removed chine for cleaving water." be remembered that this was H.M.S. "COSSACK" STEAMS from the water they strike blind- inch spring steel." It would 22,000 MILES. seem impossible that anything ly at anything handy. Handsome could bite through such a thing, black and yellow species and When an aboriginal hunter H.M.S. "Cossack", the Senior yet a fish had been hooked that black and white species also oc- was caught in the jaws of a hig Officer's ship of the 8th Destroy- had severed the steel shank ap- cur in northern Australian coastal crocodile at Shoal Bay, twenty er Flotilla, operating off Korea parently as easily as if it had waters, and occasionally one of miles east of Darwin one day in (Commanding Officer, Captain been a carrot. the latter species is washed ashore 1941, he was saved from death V C. Begg, D.S.C., R.N.), has at Coogec and Bondi and other carried out bombardments along ; by his mate, who attacked the Sydney-s dc surfing beaches. reptile with a tomahawk and split the West Coast as far North as These sea-snakes swim entirely by its skull with one blow. the Yalu: In the past four As many a surfer can testify, the aid of their flattened, paddle- months "Cossack" has steamed the nip of even a small crab is like tails and rarely, if ever, leave Jimmy Kilarooka, a native of 22,611 miles in Korean waters not to be despised. It is fortu- the water, in which they are with- Melville Island, was the hunter and spent 83 days at sea. She nate that some of the heavy- out exception exceedingly grace- attacked. He was, he said, "close has expended 1,500 rounds of 4.5 weights in the crustaccon world ful in their movements, and may up bin finish," when Tommy, an- inch ammunition in strafing do not infest the Australian surf- often be seen swimming without other Melville Islander, so effec- enemy troops and targets in that ng beaches. The immense robber causing the slightest ripple on the tively came to his rescue. area. crab, which inhabits the islands water. In most of them we find Jimmy Kilarooka, badly maul- of the Indo-Pacific seas, occasion- the two poison-fangs, which are ed, spent some time in Darwin OFFICIAL STORY BRITISH ally secures a coco-nut. The crab both grooved and perforated, sup- Hospital. It needed 39 stitches KOREAN SERVICES. opens the nut in a very methodi- plemented by other teeth like- to sew up his wounds. cal manner. It begins by tearing wise grooved but not poisonous. Lieutenant-Colonel Eric Link- off the husk, fibre by fibre, from With due deference to older later, creator of "Private Angelo," the end under which the three authorities, all sea-snakes, to some has been commissioned to write eye-holds arc situated. When degree, arc decidedly poisonous the official story of the British AN AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTION What sailor has failed to mar Established 1861 these are laid bare the crab ham- and, as already indicated, best Services' part in the Korean war. vcl at the gannet's amazing div MARINE, MOTOR < mers with its heavy claws on one handled with care or let alone. ing power? A dive of one hun He went to the Naval "front of the holes until an opening is dred feet or more—though, of line" recendy in the New Zealand made, it can then cxtract the ed- course, the gannet frequently frigate "Rotoiti," transferred to ible flesh of the nut. dives at much lower levels—is the British cruiser, "Kenya," where he met Rear-Admiral A. Charles Darwin, the famous A fish possesses several' adap- not to be undertaken lightly, ex tations to a life in water which cept by an expert physically and K Scott-Moncrieff, D.S.O. and naturalist, tells of a coco-nut crab bar, who commands the British that was confined in a stout bis- arc not apparent to the casual ob- instinctively adapted to withstand server. One is that most of the the shock of terrific impact Commonwealth Fleet engaged in cuit tin, the lid being sccured the Korean war, and later had a with wire. When the tin was fast-swimming fish have a life- What unerring judgment or in' buoy inside their bodies. To stinct directs the falling diver to spell in the British frigate "Car- next examined it was found that iigan Bay." the crab had escaped by turning quote Frank W. Lane in his ad- close its wings in t^iat instant be down the flange at the inside top mirable "Nature Parade": "It fore the shock of impact? By During his stay with the Navy of the tin and then levering a consists of a sack-like receptacle what intuitive gift is the fish kept lie had a taste of blockade patrol way out through an aperture with membraneous walls contain- in sight during the course of that l"Kich has been an essential, if made by actually punching many ing gas. When the fish rises to- flurried plunge through the wat Pull part, of the Navy's role in small holes right through the wards the surface more gas is ery depths? Who would not like]Ibi s war. He also met the Mast- metal. pumped into the sack and when to know? ers of Royal Heet Auxiliaries, the TW lkn|Hwhr, 1*1. (8,590 tons) built in 1909, which UJ5. TELEVIEWERS TO SEE SPEAKING OF SHIPS is essential for keeping the chan- BRITISH NAVAL EPICS. Ships ShtwtrMl with Flaming Pttrtl nel through the Mersey Bar. A The South American Saint Government to put large-scale em- Historic engagements of' the new one would cost £1,500,000. Flaming petrol showered over Lino has decided to establish two igration to Commonwealth coun- Royal Navy are to be shown to four from the "Penobscot"—are subsidiary companies under the tries on the agenda of the next American television audiences as three ships in Buffalo Harbour, also dead. Presumably they South African dig and to trans- conference of Commonwealth Increased interest is being •art of a major documentary of New"Vork State, on October 30, jumped into the rough waters and fer tour ships to them. Ministers: the substitution of shown by engineers in five-bladed Naval Operations in World War killing four men. Ten others are were drowned. The captain of cross-sections and whole families propellers, in spite of the difficul- II. missing. The petrol- -800,000 the "Penobscot", 51-year-old ties of their manufacture, partic- Canada has ratified four of the for selected individuals is one of gallons exploded when a barge Louis Guyette, and his helmsman, ularly for low-speed cargo ships The television history- • the first International Labour Office's con- the points advocated. Roy Richardson, 56, were burn- and tugs. its kind, and therefore of great carrying it and the Great Lakes ventions on seamen's employment rchival, as well as public, inter- freighter "Penobscot," 6,500 tons, ed to death in their pilothouse —those on standards of food and Enormous deposits of tungsten -t and significance is being pro- collided. It is believed that the after they had backed their ship service, certificated cooks and ore have been discovered on The experts of the Shell tank away from the barge to a break- ers claim to have found means of uccd by the National Broadcast- ten missing men six from the tug able seamen and physical exam- King Island, Bass Strait, and pre- ig Company, in association with water so that the crcw could sltJe discharging without opening up which was towing the barge and inations. parations are being made to put •:ie United States Navy and with down ropes to safety. it to immediate use in the rearm- any part of the deck, avoiding the "ic assistance of the British Ad- cscape of any dangerous gases. A 40 ft. replica of Van Rei- ament programme iralty. „ bee.k's ship the "Domedaria" has C. S. Forester, the notej autlv been built in South Africa: after In reply to a petition from Car The British Admiralty has an diff the British Minister of Tran- nounced that the first of the de r of Horation Hornblowcr nov- being exhibited under way in . is preparing the scripts for PROTECT Capetown it is to be preserved in sport stated that although he is stroyers being converted into empowered under the Defence fast anti-submarine frigates will '.<< half-hour episodes. Film star a museum. Robert Montgomery, himself a Regulations to direct ships to var- be in service in the English aut YOUR umn. vartime Commander in the Unit- ious ports he does not consider . J States Navy, will be principal The French motor barge "Lou it advisable to do so in the interest vetot" landed the bodies of two narrator. The series will be tele- of the trade of* a particular port. The Royal Navy's first speci iscd by the National Broadcast- CHILDREN men who had been killed by car- ally designed hospital ship o1 bon dioxide fumes from her cargo ing Company next (American) The students ill a Gothenburg 10,000 tons, is to be built b\ of cauliflowers. .v inter. navigation school found 22 serious Barclay. Curie if Co. at White miscalculations in two Swedish inch. The British Admiralty is to The Government of Eire is con- official charts of the North Sea. Ifivc access to its wartime films sidering the question nf .iddinc The British Auditor-General'? ! the Royal Navy in action. In Cornwell's Extract of Malt—the economical tonic food provides seagoing and coasting tankers to Furness, Withy & Company (of Civil Appropriation Accounts fot 'articular, by making available essential body building and energy creating vitamins which the Irish merchant fleet. Britain) have celebrated their 1948-49 showed that the Brit.si important sequences on the battles fortify growing children against sickness and build them 60th anniversary by a spccial dis- Ministry of Transport's commer the Atlantic, and the Medit- strongly for future years. T'nc entrance channel into the tribution of per cent, to ordin- cial shipping resulted in a loss ot erranean, in which the Royal Tyr.c has now been completely ary stockholders, not subjcct to £959,974, while a further loss or Navy carried on unremitting war- cleared of the wreck of the Bel- tax. and by allocating £150,(100 nearly £1.200,000 on the sale or fare against enemy U-boats. For CORNWELL'S gian steamer "Brabo" and ship- to staff benefit funds. ships had to be written off. security reasons some of the mo- ping is no longer confined to the iion pictures have never before South Channel. The Egyptian Government is The average number of 'en released. StfLax^vfr complaining bitterly that Egyptian launches by Institution lifeboat: Henry Salomon, Junior, war- time Lieutenant-Commander in Australian coastal shipowners shipping companies refuse to em- since the war has been 613 per NATUKB'S TON arc being severely handicapped ploy the necessary proportion of annum, only four less than the Ihc United States Navy, is the Oc^W^TCMAIaT Tyoun JUNGg AND OLD. through the seamen's preference Egyptians on the ground that average during the Second World roducer of the films. Mr. Salo- for ocean-going ships, particular- there arc not enough of them War. n was first assistant to Captain ly the new oil-burners or motor- suitable to be employed. (Samuel Eliot Morison in writing The History of U.S. Naval Op- shirs1 . • The British Iron and Steel R C. GEO. KEI1AWAY ft SONS PTY. LTD. The spokqpman of the British seasch Association is carrying out erations in World War II." Shipmasters hound for Rus- Ministry of Fuel and Power has an investigation as to the most The Naval History will be 22 QUAY STREET satisfactory types of ship for the 'roadcast as a public service by sian ports are warned by the re- stated that present difficulties of k cent case of one who sent 243 coal supplies were not a passing transport of ore. e National Broadcasting Com- small articles of ship's washing to phase and that the shortage would any's television network in a local laundry and was charged last for several years. The Polish ship "Pokoi fVnierics. SHIPPING PR0VID0RES £5K-11-I0 for them, without ar.y ("Peace") had a free fight on It is to be hoped that the Naval right of appeal. The Mersey Docks and Har- board when she passed through History will also ultimately be jhown abroad, particularly in the bour Board has allocated the tnthec KieMcil s^anaCanali on hencr mission oiol l L jrarticuiari 1 y in thi nilntnu t leHs * - ' The Migration Council (of money for a complete refit for preaching the Communist peace|' " '' of the British Common 13 1 Phones: MA 3982 : MA 4784. U.K.) has appealed to the British the famous dredger "Leviathan" movement throughout the world.r ' "-

Ito Mwf'-k-. MeliLJtllJUiUM final withdrawal from Abadan BOOK REVIEW was completed after weeks of ne- gotiations and discussions in Lon- THE don and Teheran. A watch in Marine Technical Publications. Naval Architecture and Ship burn temperatures had been kept Ml - "WERSIL" INSULATING CRUEL SEA (By Douglas S. Tennant in Construction (U.K. 10/-) has on the situation by a" succession by the "Merchant Navy Journal") been written by Mr. R. S. Hogg, of cruisers, destroyers, frigates and 00. PTY. LTB. Generally speaking, technical primarily to meet the needs of tank landing ships. NICHOLAS MONSARRAT publications written for those navigating and engineer officers After their names had been INSULATING CONTRACTORS • studying for Merchant Navy cer- studying for certificates and to checked and firearms taken into tificates of competency are the re- provide useful preliminary in- "protective custody" until disem- 17 MACQUARIE PL/,CE, SYDNEY sults of what may be called "pri- struction to draughtsmen, appren- barkation at the Iraqi port from One of the vate enterprise." Consequently, tices and others serving in ship- where they were to be flown to considerable interest attaches to yards. 'Phones: BW 2373-4, BU 1520. finest novels of the Britain, the passengers found a those books which owe their or- buffet luncheon waiting for them Royal Navy "Electricity Applied to Marine igin to, and arc sponsored by, in the empty seaplane hangar of Manufacturers of SUPER INSUL high-grade Plastic ever written! some responsible technical body. Engineering" (U.K. 12/6) is by the "Mauritius." A non-stop sup- Lagging Asbestos Composition as supplied to the It is therefore felt that a num- Mr. W. Laws, M.Sc., A.M.I ply of soft drinks was available. Every page of this magnificent ber of junior officers will be in- E E., and has been specially writ R.N. and R.A.N. The same day saw an end to — and true story of the terested in having their attention ten for marine engineer officers, drawn to three technical books students and shipyard apprentices. wlwt was probably the most diffi- Portable Asbestos Mattresses to Specification. Battle of the Atlantic, the cult post-war assignment of the convoys and their escorts. published by the Institute of Ma- It covers the electrical section ol rine Engineers (of Great Britain) the British Ministry of Transport Royal Navy, which posterity may . rings true. Its author secured covering the most important as- examinations, and the author has remember for the restraint of all Suppliers and Applicators of: his material during World concerned and in the words of pects of the work done in a endeavoured to simplify so far as one London newspaper corre- War II as commander of a ship's engine room. possible those points which, from corvette and later of two experience, he feels present partic spondent "by the faithful carry- "VERSIL" Glass Silk Blanket. Insulating for Refrigerating. The Running and Maintenance ing out of orders to the letter and frigates (which between them ular difficulty. of Marine Machinery (U.K. price by the efficiency and dignity dis- sank three U-boats). 12/6) is a symposium by superin- All three of the above-mention played." SUPPLIERS OF ALL FORMS OF INSULATION tendent engineers and others cd books may be obtained A story of "one ocean, two which includes authoritative ad- through all United Kingdom •hips and about a hundred vice on the operation and main- booksellers, or direct from the In- , and fifty men," its drive is tenance of steam reciprocating stitute of Marine Engineers, 85, unfaltering, its suspense re- machinery and turbines, Diesel Minories, London, E.C.3. (N.B. lentless, its realism starkly engines, electrical and refrigerat- If obtained by post, an addition- convincing, its characters firm- ing machinery, boilers, pumping al amount would need to be sent ly drawn and its dialogue, arrangements and steering gears. to cover postage.) easy, authentic and vigorous.

Intelligent, inspiring and ABADAN EVACUATION. powerful, this is a book for The following description of wearing the broad pendant of every naval man to read! the evacuation of Anglo-Iranian Commodore A. H. Wallis, R.N., Oil Company emeployees from Ferried out to the "Mauritius" Abadan has been written by an in midstream in relays in launches, Admiralty Press Officer who was the men crowded the quarter- Price 15/9 (post 1/-) present at the evacuation: deck and waist as the cruiser slip- • The summer-long vigil of the ped her moorings and moved Royal Navy in the Shatt-el-Arab, slowly past the giant and seem- who had seen the largest accum- ingly deserted installations. They ANGUS A ROBERTSON ulation of His Majesty's ships in were silent as small groups of LTD. the Persian Gulf since the war, friends (the last British left on was ended on October 3, when the island) waved farewells from Booltacilen and Publishes. nearly 300 employees of the the banks but shouted derisively Anglo-Iranian Oil Company at as groups of Persian labourers en- 89-95 Casdereagh St., Sydney Abadan—the remaining "hard- deavoured inaffectively to give a 66-68 Elizabeth St., M«U>. core" of the ' gradually reduced "business as usual" appearance. staff at the refinery—were evac- Mountains of personal luggage uated up-river to Basra (Iraq) by and sporting equipment wert the cruiser H.M.S. "Mauritius," swiftly handled by ratings as the

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The Federal Secretary will tion in South Australia and in the Children's Christmas Toys A issue copies of these booklets to same period 45 membtrs from Ad party for the entertainment of all State Councils and their Sub- elaide and Metropolitan Sub-Sec- the children of.members will be Sectionsjn due course. tions have effected transfers. Mr. held, through the courtesy of Federal Council has been invit- Reg. Humphry (N.S.W. Hon. Rear Admiral Showers, at the ed by the Minister for Immigra- State Secretary) has returned to Naval Establishment at Garden ALL CLASSES OF SHIP REPAIRS AND FITTINGS tion to nominate this Associa- duty after spending his annual Island. G.W S. tion's Delegate to attend the Third leave visiting the State Secretaries UNDERTAKEN Australian Citizenship Conven- in Melbourne'and Adelaide. The INDIAN NAVY SHIPS tion, to be held at Canberra, be- Annual Cabaret Ball, organised VISIT TRINCOMALEE. 88-102 NORMANBY RD„ STH. MELBOURNE. VIC. tween 29th January and 1st Feb- by the Canterbury-Bankstown ruary, 1952. The Ex-Naval Sub-Section, was held in the Em Recently, ships of the Indian Telephones: MX 5231 (6 lines). Men's Association was represent- pire Hall, Cimpsie, on Saturday, Navy visited the British base at ed at the two previous Conven- Sth December. Sub-Section mem- Trincomalcc for cxerciscs with tions which were held in the Na- bers with their wives and friends, His Majesty's Ships of the East tional Capital in 1950 and 1951. spent a most enjoyable evening. Indies Fleet, including H.M. Sub- The Federal Executive of the During October our Papua-New marine "Sturdy", temporarily Je- R.S.S. if A.I.L A. has furnished Guinea Section members were tached from the Mediterrar-: n Federal Council with copies of happy to entertain Captain S. Fleet. the League's Annual Report for ' Greve and members of the ship's The Indian frigates "Ciuvery." the year ended 31st December. Company of His Danish Majesty's "Kistna," and "Jumna," of the 1950. The Federal Secretary will ship "Galathca," which visited 12th Frigate Flotilla, operated ABMCO despatch a copy of the Report to Port Moresby for a period of 12 with H M.S. ,"Loch Glendhu." each State Council during the days. Judging by the report sent frigate, of the East Indies Fleet, month. to Federal Council by Mr. F. C. and the Indian destroyers "Rai- (AUSTRALIA) PTY. LTD. Two nominations for the elec- Hill (Hon. Secretary), the con- put," "Rana," and "Ranjit". of 1 w tion of the Association's Federal duct of the personnel of the ship the 11th Destroyer Flotilla, exer- KEMBLA BUILDING President, to be filled at next in- was excellent and all who came in cised with H. M. S. " Loch terstate Conference, have been contact with the "Galathea's" Quoich,", frigate. received to date. The State Coun- crew spoke most highly of their The ships carried out anti-sub- 58 MARGARET STREET, SYDNEY cil of Victoria has nominated friendliness, generosity and hospi- marine exercises with H.M. Sub- Mr. H. Ivey (Past State Presi- tality. Council Officers are in- marine "Sturdy," and general MANUFACTURERS OF: dent) and Western Australia has deed pleased that the Association drills, anti-aircraft and surt\ce PREFABRICATED nominated Mr. F. F. Anderson,\ members in Port Moresby took DRAINAGE PRODUCTS firing, and a small tactical exer- PRES-STEEL BUILDINGS (present Federal President). the opportunity of extending a cise. Available in 20ft., 30ft., 40ft., and Multiple pipes and arches; corrugated Deep concern is being felt by welcoming hand and providing The cruiser "Delhi" (formerly nestable culverts; full circle corrugated the Federal Executive that the re- entertainment to the distant visit- H.M.S. 'Achilles") also visited 60ft. span, framework only. Haysheds available in 30ft. span. nestable pipe; perforated pipe. cent increase in the rate of Sales ors who came to New Guinea. Trincomalee. She was wearing I Tax will deplete the funds of the Organisers of the proposed Sub- the flag of Rear-Admiral G. STEBL-SHEETS Association still further. As Section for the Manly (N.S.W.) Barnard, C.B.E., D.S.O., Rear- STAINLESS STEEL Electrical; deep drawing; blaok: bright Badges, (which are subject to district are busily preparing for Admiral Commanding the Indian Sheet; bar (hexagon, flats, squares, steel strip; aluminised. Sales Tax) always remain the pro- an inaugural meeting which will Naval Squadron, and took part in rounds); wire; tubing. perty of the Association and are probably be held in that area the exercises. It* Navy DttMter. Itll. AGINIAN'S COCKATOO DOCKS ft ENGINEERING WATSON'S GIFT CO. PTY. LTD. SHOP • PARAGON 194 5 trained 85 CASTLEREAGH ST., 644,000 Contractor! to . . • SYDNEY. H.M. 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