CONTENTS Mat a marvellous thinq is APRIL, 1953.
EDITORIAL: M.V. "DUNTROON"— 10.500 ton Admitel Mountbetten'l N.A.T.O. Mediterranean Command 4 British Admiralty Seeks New Idem 5 MELBOURNE -the glow* worm and the firefly STEAMSHIP ARTICLES: CO. LTD. but who cares! H.M.A.S. 'Vengeence" ' Hud Office: Steady Progress Marks R.N. Shipbuilding M Jl KING ST.. MELBOURNE INDUSTRY Mtmt HAVE EFFECTIVE Biggeit Ever Assembly of Warships 12 LIGHTING and SitMltX lamps are Admiralty Develops Gas Turbine* for Marina Purposts 13 New Marker Buoy for H.M. Submarines II MANAGING AGliNTS FOR the logical solution. Symbol of Unity 21 HOBSONS BAY DOCK AND R.A.N.R. Regatta 25 and the angler fish •-• ENGINEERING CO. PTY. LTD. Works: Williamstown, Victoria FEATURES: and News of the World's Navies IB HODGE ENGINEERING CO. Maritime News of the World 19 PTY. LTD. Personal Paragraphs 22 Works: Sussex St., Sydney. Sea Oddities 24 SIEMENS (AUSTRALIA) PTY. LIMITED SHIP REPAIRERS. ETC. Speaking of Ships 26 Book Reviews 2$
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T». Nevy April, 1953. local or national nature. The several Area Com ment of the fighting efficiency of the Fleet. In manders will be responsible to the Commander in suitable cases awards will be made from the Her Chief, Mediterranean, for all allied tasks but will bert Lott Naval Trust Fund which has an income remain under their own national authorities for of more than £5,000 a year. various tasks which are national in character. "One of the purposes of the fund is to make These areas will include the important French and awards to officers and men who contribute in signal Italian areas in the Western and Central Medit degree to the improvement of the fighting appli erranean. National coastal areas will be through ances of the Naval or Marine Forces of Her out a national responsibility. Majesty," states the Fleet Order. Mr. Churchill was asked what would be the re "There are many material problems which now lationship between the Commander-in-Chief, Med face the Service," the Order continues. "Some iterranean, and the projected Middle East Com of these require expert knowledge and laboratory mand, bearing in mind that the Mediterranean facilities for their solution, and perhaps are only forms the principal means of access to the Middle within the scope of the exceptional officer or man East and at present appears to come under the of inventive genius. There are many other prob command of the Supreme Allied Commander, lems, however, to which officers and men who are Europe. experts in the day-to-day use of their equipment Mr. Churchill replied: "In the whole of this can find the answer, since it is only by constant vast question there have been material points to effort, and trial and error, that equipment is per bear in mind. One was that we, with all our ex fected. perience, should, so far as possible and under "Their Lordships are most anxious that the in whatever form was agreed, be responsible for the terest and enthusiasm of officers and ratings in the reception end across the Atlantic Ocean, which dayt-o-day use and maintenance of their equip wc know so well. The second was that we should ment should be stimulated so that keen and intel have effective control of the through communica ligent personnel, working within the resources of tions in the Mediterranean, enabling us to dis ships and establishments, either as individuals or in charge our responsibilities in the Middle East a team, can achieve success in the improvement and also use in full integrity all the bases and and perfecting of their equipment. forces which we have in that sea. This had been achieved, like the other, though not in the form "For the solution of any technical problems, or for any original work which contributes in signal Chief, Mediterranean, will initially be a British wc may any of us completely desire, but I think that the two essentials have been effectively se degree towards a solution or towards the improve Vol. 17 Naval Officer, Admiral Mountbatten. His staff ment and perfection of weapons or naval equip will include Officers from all nations concerned. cured, and I think that it would be a great pity ADMIRAL MOUNTBATTEN'S N.A.T.O. if it should not be an occasion where there should ment, which contributes to efficiency in war. Their He will be directly subordinate and responsible to Lordships are prepared to authorise suitable awards MEDITERRANEAN COMMAND, the Supreme Allied Commander, Europe. be general agreement between both sides of the House [of Commons}." from the Fund. They hope that many more new "In time of war the Commander-in-Chief, Med ideas and inventions may be forthcoming. Offi The announcement that Admiral the Earl iterranean, will be responsible for the security of In reply to a further question the Prime Min cers and men who can produce good ideas should Mountbatten of Burma. K.G., cte., is to be the sea communications, the protection of shipping ister said: "Very practical working arrangements not hesitate to put them forward through the rirst Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean, under and convoys, the co-ordination of logistic support have been made which satisfy the dignity of the normal channels. and the support of adjacent Commands. Other the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, simul nations concerned and, which is far more import "Commanding Officers should bear in mind in important responsibilities are the co-ordination of taneously made by the North Atlantic Council in ant, will enable the [British] Admiralty to make forwarding applications that the two main tests mine warfare, and submarine and anti-submarine Pans and by Mr. Churchill in the British House their contribution as effectively as before." for an award are the value of the invention or operations. For all these purposes his Gimmand of Commons on December 16, was a matter ot Before the N.A.T.O. announcement (similar, improvement in its practical application, and the will include air as well as Naval forces. both gratification and appreciation to the services, as we have already said, to Mr. Churchill's state degree of originality which it possesses. The size and the peoples of the Commonwealth ol Nations. "The duties of the Commander-in-Chief, Med ment) was made in Paris, General Foulkes, the of the award is based on these considerations, It exemplified once again the British Prime Min iterranean, will include the co-ordination of the Canadian Chairman of the Military Committee, and also upon the amount of work involved in ister's diplomatic handling of N.A.T.O. problems, movements of all Naval forces [this includes mari explained the proposals in detail to the Atlantic developing the device. An original idea which is and, incidentally, justified the prediction expressed time air forces] in the Mediterranean. Admiral Council. Significantly enough, there was no de simple in construction, but which nevertheless ef by this journal in its editorial for August, 1952, Mountbatten will continue to be responsible to the bate, and the proposals were unanimously approv fects an improvement in the working of equip that ultimately the question would be resolved British Chiefs of Staff for the security of our com ed—a sign, to say the least, that a healthy co-op ment would not be debarred from an award be in an impartial and realistic way. That it has munications to the Middle East. erative approach had prevailed throughout the cause of its simplicity. been so resolved will unquestionably invoke a uni "The heavy carriers, amphibious and support negotiations and a cordial, realistic appraisement versal feeling of deep congratulation to each and forces of the United States 6th Fleet will remain made. "Awards may also be made to personnel who every party concerned. under the command of the Commander in-Chief. show marked efficiency in fighting practices. Apart from the sums allocated to Commanders-in-Chief Mr. Churchill told the British Parliament that South. The 6th Fleet, sometime referred to as BRITISH ADMIRALTY SEEKS NEW IDEAS. the striking force, is primarily a force organised for team awards to Naval or R.M. personnel who "NATO, had approved a system of command produce good ideas for tactical plans or the tac for the Mediterranean which was formulated by for the support of land campaigns in Southern The British Admiralty has issued a Fleet Order tical use of ships and weapons, or in connection the Military Committee. The principal change Europe. designed to encourage Naval personnel to submit with other staff matters directly associated with is the establishment of a Commander-in-Chief, "The Mediterranean will be sub-divided into a the fighting efficiency of the Fleet. Mediterranean By agreement the Commander-in- number of areas for the exercise of functions of inventions and suggestions aimed at the improve
April, Ittl. I ALTHOUGH NOT HISTORICALLY CONSPICUOUS IN THE H.MJV.S. ANNALS OF THE ROYAL NAVY. THE NAME "VENGEANCE" HAS OCCUPIED AN HONOURABLE PLACE IN SERVICE "VENGEANCE" m ^M^^^MT * 1 YOU NEED RECORDS FOR TWO HUNDRED YEARS.
It was in the year 1758 that the Thompson in the most successful tions off Galiipoli and in the Dar- first of the line, a 32-gun privateer combined operation of these times, deneltes. It was during these ^^^/K of 533 tons, was captured in the with Sir John Jervis at the cap operations Lt.-Commander H. C. ^iL.^ English Channel by Captain John ture of Martinique. Robinson was sent ashore from the Elliott, in H.M.S. "Hussar," and Captain Thomas McNamara as ship with a demolition party and a later commissioned as a unit of the sumed command in 1779, and after covering force of Royal Marines /wtd Royal Navy. assisting at the capitulation of to destroy Turkish ports. The Her subsequent roles included a Trinidad the Peace of Amiens end party manned a minesweeper and, \ ^flf^ffW^ sweeping inshore under heavy fire. small part in the stormy action off ed her active career. Quiheron Bay under Admiral Lord Returning to England in 1802, carried out a most successful and Havvkc and, in 1760, with Captain ehe was laid up and later relegated hazardous operation. For this ac Camalial Nightingale in command, to the sorry duty of prison ship tion Lt.-Commander Robinson was in the actions leading up to the until her final disappearance from awarded the Victoria Cross. capture of Quebec. die records in 1816. After a final period as flagship epsf?J^g) ^ The final contribution to Naval The name was not to remain of Rear-Admiral E. F. B. Charlton ^jKHMsJ^^pr' •fa If You Wont an Efficient Insulation Job History by the first "Vengeance" absent from the Navy List for with the East African Squadron, came in 1761. when she outfought long. In 1817 a new ship was this "Vengeance" ended her career and took as prize the "Entrepre- ^ Using the Best of Materials ordered and subsequently commis in March. 1917. mf////^\^ nant," a French ship of superior sioned as an 84-gun, 2nd. rate of "It was not until November, size and armament. 2284 tons. 1942, that the next and present -^- Carried Out in the Shortest Possible Time Even in retirement this small but Her only contribution to Naval "Vengeance" was laid down at the gallant progenitor continued to history' was made while under the Wallsend-on-Tyne yard of Messrs. •jf At the Lowest Price — Ring play a useful part for many years command of Captain Lord Edward Swan, Huntley and Wigan as a breakwater within sight of Russell during the Crimean War, Richardson was launched early in Plymouth Hoe. when she took part in the bom 1944 by Lady Boyd, wife of Ad The second "Vengeance," a 74- bardment of the forts at Sevasta- miral Sir Denis Boyd, K.C.B., UHI-"VERSIL" 1NSULATIN G CO. PTY. LTD. gun ship of 1627 tons, was laid topal in 1854. C.B.E., D.S.O. down on the Thames in 1771. 17 MACQUARIE PL ACE. SYDNEY BW 23734 1879 saw yet another "Ven H.M.A.S. "Vengeance" is a 328 FLINDERS ST.. MELBOURNE MB 1443 1778, Captain Michael Clements in command, saw her in action geance" laid down and later com light fleet carrier of the "Colossus" ST. G E O R G ES TERRACE. PERTH with Keppe! of Hahant. and in missioned for service in the Medi class of about 18,000 tons and 1780, flying the broad penant ol terranean Fleet, a battleship ot maximum speed of 24 knots. Her Commodore William Hot ham. 13,000 tons, armed with 12in. and normal aircraft complement is Captain John Holloway in com 6in. guns. She carried the name to three squadrons in peacetime and mand, serving under the flag oi China and back to the Mediter four squadrons in war time, con Lord Rodney ir the action against ranean before returning to Eng sisting of Hawker Sea Fury fighters Bardsley's De Guichen rt3 Martinique and at land in 1906 to form part of the and Fairy Fireflies for rcconnais- Are You a Santa Luc' •.. Channel Fleet. sence and bombing duties. Her full ship's company numbers 1100 SHAVING Dismasted and badly damaged In August, 1914, she re - com officers and men, increased under Subscriber to in the Great Hurricane on 10th missioned as flagship of the 7th operational conditions to 1300. CREAM October of the same year. "Ven Battle Squadron, flying the flag of The aircraft form the main geance" number two returned to Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir A. E. weapons of offence and defence. ^H England in 1781, still with Com Bethcll, K.C.B., K.C.M.G. Apart but she is also equipped with a For a quicker The Navy modore Hotham, in charge of a from the Ostend Diversion, no ad number of small calibre anti - air ventures of note befell "Ven and convoy carrying booty from the craft guns. West Indies; her damage increased geance" IV during the first year IfflJffiM more comfortable Order Your in defence of the convoy when it of World War I. Returning to Whilst in service with the was attacked by a greatly superior the Mediterranean in January, Royal Navy under the command French squadron in the Channel. 1915, with Cap rain A. H. of Captain D. M. L. Hesse. Copy Now Repaired and under the com Williamson in command, as flag D.S.C., "Vengeance" formed part El:V^ SHAVE mand of Captain Lord Henry ship of Rear-Admiral J. M. de of the 2 3rd Aircraft Carrier Faulet, the ship flew the broad Robeck, second in command of the Squadron which was sent to Aus penant of Commodore Charles fleet, she took part in the opera tralia in June, 1945, to join the
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Between 1949 and 1950. » n- "Vengeance." 5 l * - if* vS training duties, Captain J. H. F. Jer the command of Captain (now After a refit in the Autumn of ~*A Crombie in command, until the Rear-Admiral) J. W. Cuthbcrt, 1951, "Vengeance" became troop- 1 «3 middle of 1947, when she convey C.B.E., and subsequently Captain carrier and between January, W*^•^ \ R. Cotto. C.B.E , D.S.O.. "Ven 'H3 ed the First Sea Lord, Admiral of 1952 and August, 1952, she un- "^-v 1 \ the Fleet, Sir John Cunningham. geance" was flagship of the 5rd dertook two round-trip; between » K.C.B., DSC. to Norway on an Aircraft Carrier Squadron in the the United Kingdom and Singa S*' s official visit. Home Fleet, wearing the flag of pore and one round-trip between On her return to the United Vice-Admiral C. E. Lambc, C.B., the United Kingdom and Malta, C.V.O., and later that of Rear- Kingdom the ship formed part of under the command of Captain Th» crew el the "Vengeance" wwi bwy unh i.dtno IIOM wijW #ec* afftar her arrival in 5y**ney. the Home Fleet during Their Admiral Caspar John. H. C. M. Rolfe until April, and Th« aircraft war* tealee* hi their ••-JUar e%! Majesties' viftft to the ship* of the In November, 1950, the >hip as* Captain G. F. Coney. C.B.E., Service in the R.A.N, to Date. bourne" under construction in the spected the ship on the 6th Royal Navy assembled in the sumed the duties of Training Car from May onwards. During her On the 13th November, 1932, United Kingdom. January, 1953, when he presented Clyde in July, in 1947. Later in rier, retaining the flag and remain trooping duties she steamed 40,000 the ship was transferred on loan Sir Thomas White, the Aus the ship with a silver kangaroo. the year "Vengeance" was called ing in the Home Fleet. These miles and transported 4,653 pas to die Royal Australian Navy for tralian High Commissioner in upon to make a voyage from the duties ended during the Summer sengers, 112 aircraft. 496 vehicles The Commander-in-Chief, Vice- a period of four years, pending London, accompanied by Lady United Kingdom to Hong Kong Cruise of 1951, when " Ven and over 2,000 tons of stores. Admiral Sir Maurice Mansergh, completion of H.M.A.S. "Mel White and his two daughters, in K.C.B., C.B.E., carried out his in- The Nevv A»iil. ItW. • spcctinn at the -hip on the 4th Sailing from Gibraltar on the normal career, serving in ships of January, ..nd she sailed that day :6th January, Malta, where H.M. the R.N. and R.A.N. Steady Pngmt Mark- ML SMaMMiag for Portland, saluting the flag of Ship "Ocean" was the host ship, A specialist in Navigation, the Commander-in-Chief with a was reached on the morning of the served as Navigating Officer of News forthcoming of the com Shipyard Ltd., of Gosport, on MIT I OOMPANY 15-gun salute ;is she passed down JOth. Here the Captain exchanged H.M.I.S. "Hindustan," H.MS pletion or launching of several December 18th, by Mrs. Stanes, the Sound to sea. calls with the Commander-in- "Pangbourne," H.M.A.S. "Stuart." ships for the Royal Navy shows wife of* Mr. S. Stanes, Deputy (PTY.l UMim that shipbuilding continues to make Director of Navy Contracts. This Off Portland, deck landing trial- Chief, Mediterranean, who was H.MS. "Coventry" and H.M.S. received on board formally. "Devonshire steady progress. ship's main machinery is by Messrs. were earned out by the Service Mirrlecs, Bickerton and Day Ltd., Trials Unit from R.N.A.S. The Sua Canal was transited p.s.c. at R.N.C., Greenwich, The fourth of the "Daring" 1938. Class destroyers, H.M.S. "De of Stockport. She is 152 feet in "Ford." »n the 4th February and the ship length with a beam of 28 feet 9 4 On the 16th January, this year, spent one day fuelling at Aden 1939/40. — Director of Plans fender," was accepted into service in December. She has been built inches, and she will be armed with officers of the R.A.N. Helicopter on the 9th February. and Operations, Navy Office, by Messrs. A. Stephen and Sons three small gi ns Unit flew three Bristol Sycamore Melbourne. Promoted Comman P.O. Box 544, GJUI. After arrival at Colombo on der, 30th June, 1940. Ltd., of Govan, Glasgow, and is Two more Inshore Minesweepers Mk.50 Helicopters on to the ship Monday, 6th February, short de have been launched — H.M.S. in Weymouth Bay. These are the 1941. — Australian Naval At expected to join the Mediter Telephone: BO 529 monstration flights were given by ranean Fleet. "Chillingham," at the shipyard of first Bristol Helicopters to go into helicopters. The Ceylon Govern tache, Washington; on Staff of Messrs. Hugh McLean and Sons (IJ lines) service with a Commonwealth ment is anxious to buy one, and Australian Minister, Mr. R. G. Like her sister ships, the "Dar ing," "Diamond" and "Duchess," Ltd., Renfrew, by Mrs. M. F. Navy, and also the first aircraft opportunity was afforded them to Casey. McLean, widow of the late Prin I, M.W. Brwtols have built for carrier ser see the helicopters in action. 1941/42.—Commanded H.M.A. she has an extreme length of 390 feet and a beam of 43 feet, with a cipal of the firm; and H.M.S. vice. Ship "Norman," built at Thorny- "Altham" at the shipyard of Sailing from Colombo on Tues maximum draught of 12 feet 6 64 EAGLE STREET, On leaving Portland the ship croft, Woolsten. Service in At Messrs. Camper and Nicholsons •ailed to Glasgow to embark air day, 7th February, "Vengeance" inches. Her armament consists of entered the Australian Station on lantic (took Sir Walter Citrine Ltd., of Gosport, by Lady McCall, craft and freight, sailing for Aus and T.U.C. members to Arch six 4.5 inch guns, six other gum 20th February and arrived at and two above-water pented tor wife of Vice-Admiral Sir Henry tralia on the 22nd January. angel). South African convoy es McCall, K.C.B., C.B, D.S.O., Fremantle on Thursday, 26th pedo tubes. Her peacetime com BRISBANE. Gibraltar was reached on 26th February, 1935. corting. Joined Eastern Fleet when Flag Officer Commanding the January, Australia Day. There formed under Admiral Sir James plement consists of ten officers and 268 men. British Reserve Fleet. The Navy were 22 ships of the US. nth Somerville. Took part in capture Estimates for the past year show Fleet present, as well as the Cm- of Madagascar (Majunga and The ship is powered by geared that 29 of this class of vessel were C, Home Fleet, Admiral Sir CAPTAIN H. M. BURREIL. Tamatave — M.I.D.). Operated steam turbines of advanced de in course of construction but not Muagrave Cold Stores: George Creasey, in H.M.S. "Van R.A.N. from Trincomalee in Bay of Ben sign and she is all welded, her hull launched at the end of March, STANLEY STREET, guard." All ships present dressed gal. design incorporating lessons learn 1952. Of 106 feet 5 inches in with mast-head flags in honour of Bom 1 Jth August, 1904, enter 1943/44. — Director of Flans, ed during the Second World War. length, with a beam of 20 feet 6 SOUTH BRISBANE our National Day. Opportunity ed R.A.N, as a Cadet-Midshipman Navy Office, Melbourne (planning Special arrangements have been inches, these Inshore Minesweepers was taken to allow all the men to in 1918, and graduated as Mid for baaing of B.P.F. on South East made to ensure that the habit ability arc designed to operate in shallow get ashore for a few hours. shipman in 1922. Thereafter a Australia). and layout of accommodation waters, such as rivers and estuaries. spaces are in accordance with the 1943. — Commanded H.M.A S. They arc an entirely new type of SHIPPING most modern concepts. She has vessel and they embody novel "Bataan," built at Cockatoo bland, electrical cooking in her galleys, a Sydney. Joined U.S. 7th Fleet. features resulting from lessons modem bundry, modem bath learned during the war and in the Present at Tokyo Bay for Surren rooms, pastel colours in the living PAUL & GRAY PIIT . LTD. der Ceremony. Recovered P.O.W. course of subsequent developments. AIRWAYS AGENTS. spaces, and various labour-saving In addition to minesweeping equip Formed part of Occupation Force devices for cleaning ship. 82 SUSSEX STREET, Si-DNE Y and Tsushima Patrol. ment, each will mount one small Her Majesty's Coastal Mine gun. 1946. — 30th June, 1946: Pro sweeper "Coniston," built at the moted Captain and as Captain D. Southampton yard of Messrs. J. I. CARGO AND PASSENGER Tenth Flotilla. DUTCH DESTROYER'S Thorneycroft. has successfully car 45,000 MILES 1947/48.—Deputy Chief of the SERVICES TO UNITED ried out her trials. She is an en ON KOREAN DUTY. Naval Staff, Navy Office, Mrl- tirely new type with many novel During a nine months' tour of KINGDOM, CONTINENT, bourne. features. Aluminium and other operational duty in Korean waters. AMERICA AND THE P 1949. — H.M.A S. "Australia," nonmagnetic materials were used Her Netherlands Majesty's de 4, JJmjiL in Command. in her construction and the outer stroyer "Piet Hem" has served un CAST. 1950. — Imperial Defence Col bottom is wood-planked. She is der the command of Rear-Admiral lege, London. equipped with the latest mine- E. G A. Clifford, C.B., working 1951.—January/March: .Senior sweeping equipment and will with the British cruisers "Ceylon." SHIP CHAN13LERS , SAILMAKERS ft IMPORTERS Officers Technical Course. operate sweeps against both mag "Belfast," "Newcastle," and "Bir PULL PARTtCULAKS 1951/52 Assistant Australian netic and acoustic mines. mingham" on all types of duties, QUISITES OF ALL YACHT RE DESCRIPTIONS Defence Representative, London. Another Coastal Minesweeper, bombarding enemy positions and AffUCAllON. RIGGING AND SPLICING A SPECIALITY December 2nd, 1952: Assumed the "Bumaston," was launched at giving gunfire support to United Command of H.M.A.S. "Ven the yard of Messrs. Fleetlands States minesweepers and R.O.K. geance."
M pected to be sown in great num Admiralty Davalaps fiat Turbinas Far BIGGEST EVER ASSEMBLY OF WARSHIPS bers with the purpose of destroy ing Allied shipping and disrupting By lieutenantCommander NOW ELL HALL. DS.C, R.N.V.R. the all-important lines of communi cations. Neither do the figures of Shortly before Christinas the the Admiralty with Rolls-Royce in BRITAIN'S CORONATION NAVAL REVIEW AT SPITHEAD ON JUNE 15 WILL BE MARK Fleet "sweepers" alone really re British Admiralty released some 1946 for the production of two ED BY THE BIGGEST ASSEMBLY OF WARSHIPS YET SEEN IN EUROPEAN WATERS, OR flect the great effort Britain is information concerning the pro R.M.60 gas turbine engines. De making to build up her mine- POSSIBLY ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD IN TIME OF PEACE. gress which is being made in the sign work was started in Decem sweeping fleets at home and over development of gas turbine engines ber, 1947, and by June, 1951, a seas. A considerable number ot At the 1937 Naval Review, N.ivy and two are being sent from Daring has the "punch" of a for the propulsion of Naval fast completed engine was on test. Britain's new small minesweepers coastal craft. During these first tests 90 per which uiok place .it Spithead an the Royal Canadian Navy and the cruiser, and is equipped to carry will, I understand, be included in Two types of gas turbine en cent, of the design power was the occasion of the Coronation ot Royal Australian Navy. out the duties of a cruiser is neces the category of "other vessels." King George VI, there were $00 sary. gines are at present being develop achieved and 220 hours of test An examination of the numbers It will also be noticed that the ships. The overall total this time of ships in their classes is interest Since the war, many of Britain's ed under Admiralty contract by running were completed before the may he roughly the same, but the submarine figure is nearly doubled. British engineering firms, one by engine was stripped for examina ing. Comparison with the figures destroyers have been reclassified as This is a fair indication of the rela number ot warships will he much of the 1937 Review clearly shows frigates and have been fitted or the Rolls-Royce Company, known tion. larger. tive size of the submarine forces as the R.M.60, and the other by The tests were satisfactory, and how the composition of the Royal modified primarily to combat sub then and now. The British Admiralty recently Navy and of the Dominion and marines. The composition of the the Metropolitan Vickera Com the Admiralty decided to install But it it the big aircraft-carriers announced that, according to pre other navies has altered during and force which will be at the Review pany, known as the G.2. these two power units in the which will provide the most im sent plans, 191 warships will at since the Second World War. demonstrates the great expansion The design of both these proto "Grey Goose," a gunboat of 205 pressive spectacle. The eight tend from the Royal Navy. With The following comparative figures which is now taking place in those type engines is similar to that of ton* standard displacement and Britain is sending to Spithead are the contingents from Dominion of Royal Navy ships have been categories of ships needed for the aircraft propulsion units, but the originally powered by two 4,000- expected to be the "Eagle," 36,800 and Foreign navies, the total of issued by the British Admiralty: anti-submarine and anti-mine war power developed is transmitted to horeepower (team turbines. The tons standard displacement and fighting ships is certain to be well 1953 1937 fare which the Allies expect will propellers as in the case of turbo- installation of these engine, it is about 47,000 tons full load; the aver 200. This imposing gather Review Review be paramount in the unhappy propeller aircraft engines. understood, has already begun and "Indomitable," 23,500 tons: "Illus ing of Allied naval might is to Iv Battleships - - 1 II event of any future bit* .(inflict at While a large part of Britain's vail be completed later in the year. trious," 23,000 tons; the 26,000- inspected by Queen Elizabeth and sea. engineering capacity has since the The Admiralty has kept the Aircraft-carriers 8 S tons "Implacable" and "Indefatig Admiral of the Fleet the Duke ot war been devoted to the develop United States .Navy informed of Cruisers - - 12 16 Among the forty frigates pre able," carriers which, being in the Edinburgh from H.M.S. "Sur ment of gas turbine engines for the developments and this col- Destroyers - - 20 61) sent from the Royal Navy will be Training Squadron, are not at pre prise," a despatch vessel normally aircraft .the Admiralty has fully laboration has resulted in an order Frigates - - 40 8 several of the new- conversions sent fully operational; the light attached to Britain's Mediter appreciated the possibilities of this being placed with Rolls-Royce for Fleet Mine- from fast destroyers in the Reserve fleet carriers "Theseus," ranean Fleet for the use of the form of propulsion for marine pur two prototype engines for the sweepeis - - 18 10 Fleet. These ships, streamlined 'Triumph" and, perhaps, "Glory," Commander-in-Chief. The Queen poses and a contract was placed by U.S. Navy Department. Submarines - - 30 22 and built largely of light metals, which is now in Korean waters. and the Duke will sec a flypast of Other vessels- are unusually powerful for their In addition, there will be the 300 to 350 naval aircraft, includ including sur size ,and carry new anti-submarine "Magnificent," 14,000 tons, from THE ROLLS-ROYCE K.M.40 GAS TUMINE ENGINE. mg jet fighters and helicopters. In vey ships and weapons of terrible effectiveness. the Royal Canadian Navy, and addition to the warships, there will Iii order to comply with Naval through three mechanically inde coastal craft 62 10 They are, in fact, prototypes of the "Sydney," 14,000 tons, from be present strong contingents from requirements for economical low- pendent turbines. The high pres ships which may well form a big the Royal Australian Navy. The the Merchant Navy and fishing power cruising, a high compression sure turbine drive* the high pres Total 191 142 part of the Allied major fleets in Royal Canadian Navy is sending the next few years. New anti ratio is necessary. This is achieved sure compressors, the power tur no fewer than six warships, in by multi-stage compression and by bine drives the propeller through How the composition of the From this preliminary* list it will submarine frigates, and destroyer cluding her two cruisers—a truly conversions, together with ocean the use of a heat exchanger. Com a two-stage reduction gear and the world's major navies has changed be seen that the number of cruisers imposing contingent in view of pression efficiency is further im low pressure turbine drives the since 1947, and the emphasis on and destroyers (the ships which going and inshore minesweepers, this Navy's size. Of the Dominion constitute the larger part of proved by intcrcoohng after each low pressure compressor. This the main striking forces has shifted. have formed the main strength of navies only that of South Africa is major stage of compression. cycle, due to the mechanically in will be evident. For instance, the the Navy in the first thirty or forty Britain's present naval building not likely to be represented. The operating cycle consists of a dependent power turbine, has the battleship, formerly the capital ship years of the century) will this programme. These new frigates low-pressure compressor, delivering advantage of enabling economy to of the Fleet, will be represented time be appreciably smaller. The may well be the answer to the air through a sea-water cooled in- be maintained down to low powers next June by only one unit cruiser total is well down even threat of the latest fast submarines. "SYDNEY" SAILS FOR tercooler to a two-stage centrifugal and also provides improved engine Britain's 42,500-tons "Vanguard." when Britain's big new Daring Certainly the performance of the CORONATION. compressor. Intercocjing is again flexibility. This compares with eleven of these class destroyers are reclassified as first of them has been moat satis Naval planes circled overhead employed between each stage of big ships which were at Spithead cruisers. With a full load of factory, and suggests that they will and launches crowded with friends The engine will drive a three- the centrifugal compressor. Air at in 1937. On the other hand, there 3,500 to 3,700 tons, these ships, be able to deal with any submarine and relatives of those aboard her Haded variable and reversible pitch maximum cycle pressure is then were then five aircraft-carriers — costing about £ 1,700,000 each, are which is launched in the foresee followed the aircraft-carrier Roto) propeller, which will pro passed through a heat exchanger, the "Glorious" and "Courageous,'' the biggest destroyers ever built able future. H.M.A.S. "Sydney" down Sydney vide a very convenient means of where it is heated by the exhaust both of 22,500 tons, the "Furious," for Britain. To call them de Harbour on March 21, when she reversing and allow variation of The comparative figures of Fleet gases before being delivered to the "Hermes" and "Pegasus," whereas stroyers, and thus put them among sailed with some of the Australian engine speed with ship speed in rnineaweepers—18 as against 10- combustion chambers. Fuel is in next June there will be ten, pos the "little ships" of the Royal Coronation Contingent, bound for order to obtain the best results at •carcely suggest the close attention jected and burned in each combus sibly twelve, of these modern Navy, is to underrate their power the United Kingdom and the a given power. now being paid to combating the tion chamber and the resulting "capital ships"—for such they are. and operational capacity, since majestic pageantry of the en The Company's aero - engine menace of the sea mine—a weapon high-temperature gas is expanded they are in fact light cruisers. A thronement of Queen Elizabeth. practice has been adopted for the Eight will be units of the Royal which, in another war, may be ex AprS. I HI. 12
• ' general principles of many con* i'd during its operation will mate 25 minutes, several hits were por.ents. This policy has resulted rially assist in future development scored on the enemy vessels and in i light and compact power unit • if marine gas turbines with long two were left burning. The NEWS OF THE WORLD'S NAVIES giving considerable increase in total life between overhauls. "Grey Goose" suffered superficial power and a reduction of 50 per HISTORY OF "GREY GOOSE damage and a few casualties. ceiY.. in total machinery weight as The "(Irey Goose" was laid This was merely one of many the name of Naval Aviation to compared with the lightest steam down in January, 1941, at the actions in which the "Grey Goose" •GLORY'S" 10,000 DECK sive flying operations in progress the Fleet Air Arm. He replied machinery yet produced for Naval Cowes. Isle of Wight, yard of took part. In June and July, 1944, LANDINGS IN TWO YEARS. and visited all sections of the that use of the term "Fleet Air proposes. In addition, a saving in Messrs. J. S. White and Co. Ltd. she fought Na:i E-boats in the Lieutenant Anthony Skinner, ship, expressing himself very sat Arm" was discontinued because machinery space ha* been made as a Steam Gun Boat, and was Narrow Seas, and for his leader R.N., of Fleet, Hampshire, made isfied with the excellent manner it was felt it suggested something possible. completed in July of the following ship Lieutenant Peter Neville the 10,000th deck landing in in which the ship is performing separate from the Royal Navy. The R.M.60 i« designed .1- a year. She was one of seven of her Hood, R.N.V.R., who commanded H.M.S. "Glory" since the aircraft her important duties. Consideration would, of course, mcJium life engine for develop' class which were completed to her during this period of the war, left the United Kingdom in Janu be given to any proposals to re merit purposes only, and it 1- an form an experimental flotilla of was awarded a United States' de ary, 1951, says a message from H.M.S "NEWFOUNDLAND" vise the present title of "Naval ficipated that the experience gain- fast and powerful craft to serve as coration, the Legion of Merit, De the Far East. The "Glory" is RECOMMISSIONED. Aviation." Asked how many of E-boat killers. gree of Legionairc. now operating in Korean waters, H. M. S. " Newfoun dl a n d," the rank of Rear-Admiral and They were then officially de THE METROPOLITAN VICKERS G.2 and the landing was made by Lieu cruiser, was recommissioned at above are qualified to fly, the scribed as "light coastal forces," GAS TURIINE ENGINE. tenant Skinner m a Firefly aircraft Devonport on November 5 with First Lord replied: Four, sir. and the public and the enemy were The development of the Metro during the ship's third tour of a Portsmouth crew for service on leff to assume that they were or politan Vickers G.2 gas turbine duty in the war zone. Lieutenant the East Indies Station. Com dinary motor gun and torpedo engine is also of considerable im Skinner was returning from an US. PLANE BOMBS manded by Captain M. G. Good- boats powered by petrol engines. portance. Following the successful attack on an enemy target. Near U.S. CARRIER. enough, C.B.E., D.S.O., R.N., Had it not been for security trials of the Gatric engine in ly 6,000 of the 10,000 deck land -A United States plane acci she engaged in a work-up in the needs, they could have been de MTB. 5559 (formerly M.G.B ings have been made following dentally bombed a U.S. carrier Mediterranean before joining the scribed as "destroyers in minia 2009), which was the first vessel operational 6ights against the in Korean waters on March 6, East Indies Fleet at the end of ture" with powerful steel hulls, a in the world to be propelled by a enemy in Korea. killing two and injuring 15 of the February. displacement of 205 tons, and of gas turbine, the British Admiralty carrier's complement. The bomb 146 feet length. In spite of excep placed a contract with Metropoli H.MS. "CAMPANIA" fell from a Corsair fighter-plane, H.M.S. "AMETHYST" HOME tionally heavy armament, which in tan Vickers Electrical Co. Ltd. for RETURNS TO UK. returning from a mission over AGAIN. cluded a three-inch gun, torpedoes the design and manufacture of H.M.S. "Campania," Flagship North Korea, on to the flight deck H.M.S. "Amethyst," the frigate and depth charges, their 8,000- four larger gas turbines of im of the Special Squadron which of the "Oriskany," off Korea. which returned to the Far East horsepower high efficiency steam proved performance for installa operated off the Monte Bello is Faulty mechanism had failed to after she had been refitted follow turbines, fired from a single boiler, tion in high-speed Naval craft. lands last year for the British release the bomb over the target. ing the damage she suffered in Bomb fragments pierced tanks ot gave them a speed greater than 35 The new gas turbines, known as Atomic Test, returned in De the Yangtsc incident, came home knots. cember to Portsmouth, U.K. a fighter on the carrier and the in December, after further service G.2's, are of 4,800-horscpower and hangar hay was flooded with petr- have been based on the Beryl jet mainly in Malaya, to Devonport These seven ships of the flotilla PETROL SAID TO HAVE nil, but firefighters isolated the EMBROIDERED engine developed by the same com again. are officially credited with sinking CAUSED BLAST ON bay and kept damage to a mini pany. After a series of shore trials six enemy ships and causing heavy "INDOMITABLE." MOSES OF RANK damage to many more. Only one at the works of Metropolitan "CAMPANIA'S" EQUIPMENT (SOLD OR RED BRAID) Vickers, the G.2 gas turbines have A British Admiralty spokesman NOT DANGEROUS FROM Steam Gun Boat was lost during said on February 4 that petrol Any Badge Made to Order the war, but the "Grey Goose" is been installed in two Coastal craft BRITISH ADMIRAL'S FLAG RADIO-ACTIVITY. in order to gain operating experi caused the explosion on the air FLOWN IN U.S. SHIP. the only one of the class now in craft carrier "Indomitable" off When the "Campania" in De ence at sea. As in M.T.B.5559. Rear-Admiral E. G. A. Clif RANK BRAID Her Majesty's Service. Malta on February 3. He said cember arrived at Portsmouth It was in H.M.S. "Grey Goose" the gas turbines arc used only for ford. C.B., Commander of the with some British Ministry of BUTTONS high-speed running. Diesel engines that the theory of sabotage could that Lieutenant-Commander Peter be ruled out completely. The ex United Nations Naval Forces op Supply personnel, and equipment MINIATURE MEDALS Scott, M.B.E.. DSC. and Bar. are fitted for manoeuvring and erating on the West Coast of Ko used in the atomic test at Monte cruising at low power. plosion, in a space near a hangar, CAMPAIGN RIBBONS R N.V.R.. led the flotilla in da<* killed two men and injured 37. rea, recently hoisted his flag in Bello Islands, Rear-Admiral A. ing Channel actions against enemy The new G.2 gas turbines repre One man was blown overboard the U.S.S. "Badoeng Strait" D. Torlcsse. D.S.O., Flag Officer shipping. These attacks became a sent an advance in /performance, and is missing. The "Indomit (Captain H. L. Ray, U.S.N.), of the Special Squadron, laid that regular feature of the war news. weight and space as compared with able" arrived at Valetta on Feb operating under his command in the "Campani?" was 12 miles An official account of an offen the Gatric engine and are the latest ruary 3 under her own power. It the Yellow Sea. The "Badoeng from the explosion. The shock sive patrol in which "Grey Goose" proof of the British Admiralty's is believed that the damage was Strait" is an escort aircraft carrier was hardly felt in the ship. So took part on the morning of July policy to keep the British Navy in less than was at first thought of the United States Navy who lar as he knew, no one suffered 27th. 1943, describes how an the forefront of gas turbine de has an Air Group of the United ill-effects. Most of the equip enemy force of two or three velopment. As with R.M.60, NAVAL AVIATION. States Marine Corps embarked ment used in the test had already trawlers and eight R-boats was en American interest in the develop In the British House of Com for flying duties in support of the been flown home. That brought 568 G«org« St. Sydney gaged four miles North of Cape ment of this engine is also evi mons on December 17 the First United Nations Naval effort on back in the "Campania" was not (Opp. Town Hall I Levi, East of Cherbourg, and with denced by the fact that the U.S. Lord of the British Admiralty was the West Coast of Korea. Dur dangerous from radio-activity, but At No. IS Tram Slop in range of coastal batteries. Dur Navy has ordered two of them for asked what consideration had been ing the time he was embarked. was being handled only by spec ing the action, which lasted about test and evaluation purposes. given to the proposal to change Admiral Clifford watched offen ially trained people. He had noth-
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. ' ing further to a J J to what had largest plane ever built for opera tions of H.M.S. "Ocean" by H. "SHEFFIELD" PERFORMS been previously disclosed about tion from aircraft-carriers. M.S. "Glory," returned to Ports TATTOO AT ACAPULCO. the test. mouth in December. On board R.N. PATROL BOATS H.M.S. "Sheffield," wearing the were two Royal Naval Air broad pendant of Commodore J. ESCORT MARSHAL TITO. H.M-A.S. "ANZAC" SHELLS Squadrons, No. 802 (Lieutenant- G. T. Inglis, O.B.E., R.N.. round KOREAN PORT. Four R.N. patrol boats on Commander P. H. London, D.S. ed off a tour of the Western coast The Australian destroyer "An- March 16 relieved four R.N. de C, R.N.) and No. 825 (Lieuten of the United States and Can zac" on March 17 shelled enemy stroyers escorting Marshal Tito's ant-Commander C K. Roberts. ada with a visit to the Mexican gun positions in the Ponggangi warship "Caleb" when the "Cal R.N.), which formed the flying city of Acapulco recently. Dur area of Korea's West coast. In eb" and its escorts entered the complement in H.M.S. "Ocean" ing the visit a Naval Tattoo was the same period the British frig mouth of the Thames Estuary, —now back in the Mediterranean performed in front of the Presi ate "Cardigan Bay" scored hits during the Yugoslav President's -during her duty in the Far dential Palace before the Mexican on a large enemy boat south of recent official visit to England. East. Between them, these two Foreign Minister and Minister of Soggowanni. The final 50-mile stage up the Squadrons flew a total of nearly Marine and a crowd of 15,000 Thames to London was delayed 6,000 sorties: they achieved a people. H.M.A.S. "WARREGO" tor 90 minutes by fog. daily average of 76 sorties and FLEET CARRIER VISITS LAUNCESTON. on one record day made 123 FIRST INTERMEDIATE sorties. The highest number of "FORMIDABLE" The Australian surveying frig ENTRY PASS OUT OF THE daily sorties by any other carrier TO BE SCRAPPED. ate H.M.A.S. "Warrcgo" visited R.A.N. COLLEGE. engaged in the Korean war zone The British Admiralty an Launceston in March fur that About 20 cadet-midshipmen of was 10? by H.M.S. "Glory." nounced recently that it has been city's Centenary celebrations. The the first intermediate entry to US. COMMISSIONS j decided to scrap the fleet aircraft frigate arrived there on March loin the Royal Australian Naval carrier "Formidable". Only a 13. In announcing this, the Min SECRET WARSHIP. College passed out from the Col The United States 17,000-ton ] complete modernisation could fit ister for the Navy (The Hon. lege on March 6 and left for the her to operate modern Naval air William McMahoni said that cruiser " Northampton," built I United Kingdom about a week specifically to withstand atomic ' craft (said the announcement) "Warrcgo" had been engaged on later to do further training with and this would not be justified survey duties in Bass Strait since attack, was commissioned at the the Royal Navy. The First Naval Charlestown Navy Yards on now that H.M.S. "Eagle" is in early January. At the request of Member and Chief of the Naval service and H.M.S. Ark Royal" the Tasmanian Government she March 7, the United States Sec Staff, Vice Admiral Sir John Col retary for the Navy (Mr. Ander is building. H.M.S. "Formidable" had been obtaining data for a lins. K.B.E.. C.B., took the salute has been in reserve since 1948. chart of Lady Barron Harbour to son) announced on March 9. at the passing-out ceremony and "Much of her equipment is top She was built by Messrs. Har- assist shipping in removing prim afterwards presented the prizes land and Wolff Ltd.. at Belfast ary products grown on Lady secret—communications, electron- and gave an address. The boys, ice, and ordnance," he said. under the 1937 new construction Barron Island. He was sure the whose ages range from 17 to 181 programme and is one of the visit of "Warrcgo" to Launceston joined the College under the in CORONATION SHIPS Royal Navy's oldest fleet aircraft would compensate the citizens of termediate entry two years ago. NAMED ANZAC carriers. She took a prominent that city for the disappointment This entry supplements the nor SQUADRON. part in the war in the Mediter they must have felt by the last- mal thirteen-year-old entry under H.M.A.S. "Sydney" and HM. ranean and later became one of rainutc cancellation—owing to which hoys stayed at the College N.Z.S. "Black Prince," the two the main striking units used unforeseen circumstances—of the for four years. w rships taking the Australian against Japan. submarine "Thorough's" intend They sailed for England in the and New Zealand Coronation ed visit from March 6 to March contingents to the United King 9 "Orcades" which left Sydney on THREE SHIPS LENT TO March 14 and Melbourne on dom, will be known as the "An- INDIA. zac Squadron," the Minister for March 17. In announcing their The British Admiralty an the Navy (the Hon. William A NEW VS. NAVY ATTACK passing out, the Minister for the nounced recently that arrange McMahon) announced in Mel' f PLANE. Navy (the Hon. William Mc- ments had been made to lend Haas of «o»»l Aastraliaa Navy craft »ar« la»ana to kaK-nait •*•» MWI of Hit The United States Navy on Mahon) said that on their arrival bourne on March 25. Both ships H.M. Ships "Bcdale." "Chidding- •nit of Qymm Mary was rasawaa* last montk. February 19 announced the first in England they would serve in left Melbourne on March 24 and fold," and "Lamerton" to the In flight of its AJ2, an attack plane the training cruiser "Devonshire," arc due at Portsmouth on May 5. 1 dian Navy for a period of three AUSTRALIA'S OIL SUPPLY. try, so vital to a land of far hori capable of carrying and deliver from which they would graduate NEW R.N.V.R. AIR ' years, subject to extension by zons and relatively small popula ing an atomic bomb from either as midshipmen. SQUADRONS. agreement, the vessels to be re Australia's estimated consump tion, is of the greatest importance carrier or land stations. The The strength of the air branch turned on request in an emerg tion of petroleum and petroleum to the national future. Transport, flight was at Columbus. Ohio. "THESEUS" RETURNS TO of the Royal Naval Volunteer Re ency. The ships in question are products last year amounted, on in turn, relies on the oil indus The AJ2 is powered by two con PORTSMOUTH. serve is in course of being furth being refitted at the expense of a crude oil basis, to 50,574,000 try for the essential motive force ventional motors and one turbo H.M.S. "Theseus", the British er increased by the formation of the Government of India in com barrels—an inert—t of 12.2 per without which trucks would be jet engine. It carries a crew of light fleet aircraft carrier, tempor four new squadrons, which in the mercial shipyards on Merseyside. cent, on 1951. Much of it was immobilised, aircraft grounded three, and has an announced arily attached to the Mediterran first instance will be used to pro The purpose of the loan is to as needed to keep Australia's ever and srups stranded in port. In speed of up to 425 miles an hour. ean Fket during the replacement vide additional training facilities sist India's Naval training pro growing transport system operat fact, without oil all industry would The U.S. Navy says it is the in the Korean theatre of opera for existing units. gramme. ing. Australia's transport indus soon come to a standstill
M . be visible at a reasonable range to New Marker Buey Fer H.M. Submarines aircraft and searching vessels, both MAIITIME NEWS OF THE A new type of submarine transmitter. by day and by night: remain afloat marker buoy for Her Majesty's A marker buoy may be released and anchored to the distressed sub Submarine-'* has Ken approved by by a submarine if, for any reason, marine in all weathers; and trans the British Admiralty following she is unable to come to the sur mit some form of distress signal. •rials at sea. face after diving. Its purpose is to The annular structure of the The buoy is constructed of light mark the petition of the submarine buoy can be likened to a drum metal alloy and composed of a in such a manner that aircraft and within a drum. Buoyancy is given -cries of capsules enclosed in an searching vessels can easily locate to it by packing with watertight WORLD annular structure, and it is in her, and thus he on hand to rescue pressure • resistant metal capsules geniously designed to combine survivors. the space between the outside tit From our Correspondent, in strength, compactness, and buoy The functions of a marker buoy the inner drum and the inside of LONDON and NEW YORK ancy adequate to support warning are as follows: to be strong enough the outer drum. There are 2lh of devices. A flashing light unit is at to withstand the rigours of sub' these capsules, which are of a light By present installed, and active inves- marine conditions, yet at the same alloy and arc about six inches long AIR MAIL tigations arc being conducted to time be light and small enough to and of about two and a half inches provide the buoy with a radio be carried in the superstructure: in diameter. SKIPPER, HAND AT THE Sydney recently on her maiden March 16 after salvaging most Ciood riding qualities are given SALUTE, GOES DOWN voyage. The "Patagonia" carried of the copper and lead carried 200 tons of refrigerated cargo and When ships of tfc* to the buoy by attaching the moor WITH SHIP. by the steamer "Cumberland" ing line to a mild steel stirrup, Captain James Ferguson, mast 1?,000 tons of general cargo. She which sank, after hitting a mine, "HMV« to" fate which is pivoted on the sides of the er of the Irish Sea ferry steamer, has accommodation for 12 pas near Eden, Twofold Bay, on the Hold* tat*! buoy and hangs downward like an "Princess Victoria," which sank sengers. The ship is owned by South Coast of New South inverted bucket handle. The up off Wigtownshire. Scotland, on the East Asiatic Company of Cop Wales, in 1917. per surfaces of the buoy are paint January 51, went to his death on enhagen, which already has six FIRE DESTROYS LARGE ed with Day-glow, special com the bridge of his ship with his other ships on the Australian DANISH SHIPBUILDING position which has a high daylight hand at the salute. Carrying 17? run. PREMISES. visibility range, and around the top passengers and crew, of whom INTERSTATE SEA SERVICE Fire recently destroyed the is a crown containing 24 reflect only 44 were saved, the "Princess RESUMED. premises of the famous Danish ing road studs. A flag-mast with Victoria" foundered after a sev- The A.U.S.N. Co. and How shipbuilding firm of Burmeister a red nylon flag is carried on top. cntecn-hour battle with a hurri ard Smith Ltd has announced the and Wain, Copenhagen. Includ The interior of the inner drum cane. She was crippled by moun resumption of regular weekly ed in the destruction was the is reserved for the light and warn tainous seas, her engine-room timetable sailings from Sydney well-known photo tower, which ing apparatus. The flashing light flooded and the ship thrown on direct to Brisbane and Adelaide. contained a great deal of valuable unit is housed in a pressure tight her beam ends. The RA. de The service was discontinued he- optical equipment. Damage is container of cast light alloy. The stroyer "Conquest" landed eight fore the war. Four ships, the estimated at more than J,000.00i> BEER is good light, which automatically switches of the survivors who owed their "Corinda," "Cycle," "Coramba." kroner. itself on and off when the buoy i< lives to Lieutenant S. L. McArdlc. and "Balarr," will maintain the BRITAIN BARS CHINA released, is powered by two 21 who jumped overboard with a service. The ships will carry pas WAR TRADE. for yoo amp./hour batteries in parallel, line, swam to a raft and rescued sengers and freight. which gives a minimum life of AZ the exhausted passengers. Britain on March 16 barred its BRITISH SHIPPING TWO COLLISIONS IN merchant ships from carrying hours, and during test had an ac FOGBOUND ENGLISH tual effective life of 52 hours. The FOGBOUND. strategic goods to Communist WATERS. 2.5 watt light gives a range of China or North Korea. The ac The worst March fog in Brit There were two collisions in 3,500 yards in good visibility con tion followed a promise by the ain for many years on March 1/^ the March fog off Britain's coast ditions. Foreign Secretary, Mr. Eden, to Mackcd-out airports and halted in the first week of that month. the United States Government The problem of pntducing the shipping. The liner "Oronsay" A small British steamer struck a that Britain will support an em ideal transmitter is a complex one, with 1,400 passengers from Aus Norwegian tanker in the Bristol bargo on the export of strategic necessitating striking the balance tralia, anchored for three or four Channel, with slight damage. An materials to China. Previously, between a number of desirables, days at the mouth of the Thames, other small steamer collided with the export of strategic goods was including lightness, homing quali where it arrived on March 1. No a motor vessel in the Thames Es barred from British ports, but ties, and the ability to transmit shipping moved, and the "Queen tuary, where the fog, as stated in British ships could pick up ship signals which can be picked up by Mary," on her way from New another paragraph, was of ex ments of such goods at Hong receiving apparataus operating on York, was fogbound outside treme density. Kong or other ports outside Brit widely different frequencies, such Southampton. Visibility in many "FOREMOST 17" ain and carry them to Chinese as arc standard in ships of dif parts was reduced to nil. Communist ports. ferent types. COMPLETES SALVAGE DANISH SHIPS MAIDEN JOB ON SYDNEY YACHTSMEN IN The prototype buoy without its CARLTON AND UMITIO MIWUIIS LIMITED VOYAGE. "CUMBERLAND." "WALTZING MATILDA" light is at present at sea in Her The British salvage ship "Fore B'***rt to 4mtlr*iis /or 100 y«wj. A new 9,000-ton Danish motor REACH FLORIDA. Majesty's Submarine "Andrew." ship, the "Patagonia", arrived in most 17" reached Sydney on Messrs. Philip and Keith Dav April, iff]. it .. . cnport, of Sydney, sailed their 4<> Nazis during the last war. The to the wharf. Captain Sorrell VS. GOVERNMENT SEIZES ft. cutter, '"Waltzing Matilda," in Davenports arc now heading for backed the liner out into the Hud TANKERS. SYMBOL OF UNITY to Miami, Florida, on February their home port, Sydney. son River with her 210,000 horse 24, fifty nine days out from Ply •QUEEN MARY" BERTHS power engines throttled right The United States Govern When, on 2nd June, the Arch the Commonwealth. A (11001, .nouth, England. The Daven WITHOUT TUGS. down. Easing her gently forward ment on March 21 seized two bishop of Canterbury places the young Dominion is being built up ports have been sailing since Oc The 81,000-ton liner "Queen again, the captain berthed his tankers, American registered, and Crown of St. Edward on the head in West Africa, controlled by the tober 1950, when, accompanied Mary" was berthed successfully charge with only a launch to take brought action against the owners of ••Elizabeth the Second, by the natives themselves, and one of its on the northward voyages by in New York harbour on Feb a line to the wharf. It was a his of 14 other ships for allegedly Grace of God of the United King most urgent desires is to keep in Mrs. Philip Davenport, they left ruary 6 without the aid of tugs. toric exhibition of seamanship, trading with Iron Curtain coun dom, Australia and her other the Commonwealth There is a Sydney on their long and ven With New York's tugmen out on and passengers and spectators tries. The two tankers seised Realms and Territories Queen, strong possibility that the Sudan, turous voyages. They visited strike, the master of the "Queen ashore cheered the delicate feat were the 10,195-ton "Seven Head of the Commonwealth, De when it gains its independence in New Zealand, then sailed round Mary," Captain Donald Sorrell, when the "Queen Mary" lay safe Seas" and the 10,296-ton "Jean- fender of the Faith," he will per three years, will seek to join the the south of South America, call brought the giant liner alongside ly berthed. ny," both belonging to the North form a ceremony which will be Commonwealth. Moves are on ed at Buenos Aires, Montevideo, the wharf at his second attempt. American Shipping and Trading symbolic in the four corners of the foot for the creation of a new Rio de Janeiro, and across the Usually 8 to 10 tugs are used. BLAST TEARS TANKER Company, of New York, which world. Dominion in Central Africa, Atlantic to England. While they On Captain Son-H's first attempt, IN TWO: 9 MISSING. is owned by Greek and Panaman In many ways Queen Elizabeth though they are still in their early were in Europe, they made a trip the "Queen Mary" was caught ian interests. The Government will be the only bond between cer stages. The Liberian tanker "Angy," to Oslo, to visit some Norwegian by an ebb tide lust as she had charged the owners with violat tain parts of the Commonwealth, The fact is, of course, that the 99J7 tons, caught fire and explod farmers who had rescued Philip nosed 200 feet of her great length ing the maritime laws by conceal but the represents something which British Family of Nations has ed in a gale-lashed Atlantic on out of a lake when his Mosquito into the berthing area. Rather ing the fact that they had been is far stronger than anything changed with the progress of his March 8. The blast tore the ship bomber was shot down by the than risk damage to the ship or -aliens when acquiring the vessels forged by armed or economic com tory It has changed, not decayed. in two, and the 28 men clinging and claimed that they had been pulsion. It is a living organism, not an inert to the stern section were rescued running oil behind the Iron Cur There it a school of thought, and immovable structure. by the U.S. freighter ••Clai tain. The North American Ship especially in the United States, that The Boer, the French-Canadian, borne." The "Claiborne," on her ping and Trading Company, says that the "British Empire" is way to France, sighted the stern the Hindu, the Malay and the through its lawyer, denied that "finished." Nothing could be fur Maori will, like us Australians, section on March 10, but hours the seized ships had been involv ther from fte truth. The huge passed before her lifeboats could turn their thoughts to Westminster ed in trade with Iron Curtain sub-continent of India, indepen Abbey on 2nd June, for Queen be lowered in the raging seas, countries. dent and self-governing since 1947, and the shivering, hungry surviv Elizabeth is the symbol of unity recognises the Queen a* Head of for us all. ors brought to safety. Up to time FREIGHTER IMPALED ON of writing, it is not known ANOTHER WRECK. whether the bow section remain The 7,269-ton British freighter ed afloat. The captain, his wife, " Kelvinbank," which went and all his officers, nine in all, aground at Ocean Island in Jan arc on the missing section. The uary, is impaled on the bottom IICOL 1101 PTY. LTD. "Angy" left the Persian Gulf by the remains of the wreck of INCORPORATING port of Mcna Al Ahmadi on Feb another ship and is now known ruary 4, and was due at Philadel to be a total loss. The salvage ex phia, U.S.A., on March 11. The pert. Captain J. W. Herd, an PENGUIN HEAVY LIFTING PTY. LTD. lost tanker was registered in Li nounced this on March 25 and V JAMES PATRICK & CO. PTY. LTD. beria, but was operated by a said that the "Kelvinbank" had Greek firm. SHIPOWNERS — AGENTS — CONTRACT grounded on the steamer "Oom- PENGUIN PTY. LTD. STEVEDORES ah," which sank in 1926. •"We CHARTERS AND BUNKERS ARRANGED BRITISH FREIGHTER AND had her floating," Captain, Herd ALL CLASSES OF STEAM DIESEL CHANNEL FERRY COLLIDE. added, "hut ft was impossible to AND GENERAL ENGINEERING free her." It was then found REGULAR INTERSTATE * OVERSEAS CARGO ft The British ship "Llantrisant" BOILERMAKERS, OXY-ACETYLENE (6,500 tons), bound for Mel that the "Kelvinbank" was pin PASSENGER SERVICES AND ELECTRIC WELDERS bourne from Antwerp with a ed by an 18-inch steel shaft which cargo of oats, collided in a Chan had been driven 50 feet into her PLUMBING AND ELECTRICAL WORK Agents for ... • nel fog on March 19, with the side. When Captain Herd left FLOTTA LAURO (Ittlun Liot) Ostend-to-Dover ferry steamer, Ocean Island about the middle FLOATING CRANE AVAILABLE AT ALL TIMES Autfralii to Miiiuir—nii pom, * "Prince Charles." The "Prince of March the "Kelvinbank," (20 TON CAPACITY) TASMAN STEAMSHIP CO. LTD. Charles," with about 100 pas which was a war-time Liberty ALL CLASSES OF MARINE EQUIPMENT FOR SALE •o N.w 7..U.H sengers on board, sent out an ship, had already begun to break ERIE RAILROAD (USA.) ih SOS, but returned to Ostend up- 10-20 WESTON ST.. • ALMA IN EAST Head Office: 19 BRIDGE STREET, SYDNEY under her own power. The - Phone: BW4181. "Llantrisant" apparently suffered "If a good face is a letter of Phone*: WB 3121 — 3 Bass ALSO AT MELBOURNE AND BRISBANL little damage and sent word that recommendation, a good -heart is WITH AGENTS AT ALL MAIN PORTS IN AUSTRALIA. she needed no help. a letter of credit." After hours: UM 9485, WM 322J, FM 570S. —Bulwer-Lytton.
April, "**. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS Squadron in the Mediterranean INTER-SERVICE SPORTS, since th-.* war. He was also at 1953. one time employed at the British ADMIRAL EDELSTEN Chief of Naval Staff (Warfare) Admiralty as Deputy Director of At the Boxing Championships, AWARDED GC.B. .it the British Admiralty in suc the Gunnery Division and in the on the concluding night of Inter- Among the New Year's Hon cession to Rear-Admiral G. Bar Fourth Sea Lord's Department. Service Sports of 19S3. Rett- '>ur? awarded to officers "I the nard. C.BE . D.S.C. and Bar. the Admiral H. A. Showers presented appointment dating from Janu Royal Navy and it* Reserves was SECRETARY TO VICE- trophies to the successful con the award of Grand Commander ary. 191}. testants. When making these pre ADMIRAL, FAR EAST .! the Order of the B.ith sentations, Admiral Showers said: (G.C.B.) t.. Admiral Sir John COMMODORE R.N. STATION. BARRACKS. PORTSMOUTH. 'To-night we have witnessed the Hcreward Edclswn, K C B.. The appointment in the rank of final round of the Inter-Service C.B.E. Commodore Sir Robert Stirling Captain has been announced of Hamilton. Bt.. has succeeded Boxing Championships for 1953, Captain A. J. Pack. Captain (S), and, I believe, you will all agree NEW LORD COMMISSIONER Rear Admiral M W St. L. as Secretary to Vice-Admiral C. Searle, C.B.E.. as Commodore of with me that a very fine perform OF BRITISH ADMIRALTY. E Lambe. C.B., C.V.O.. Com ance has been put up by all con Her Majesty the Queen has the Royal Naval Barracks. Ports mander-in-Chief, Far East Station. mouth. testants. been graciously pleased to approve Our congratulations go to the the appointment of Rear-Admiral ASSISTANT TO DEPUTY PROMOTION TO REAR- winners of each fight and to the i'.. Barnard. C.B.E.. D.S.O. and ADMIRAL. lasers for the gameness of their Bar to he I bird Commissioner CHIEF OF ROYAL NAVAL PERSONNEL. The British Admiralty has an efforts, and in particular we con of the British Admiralty and nounced the promotion, to date gratulate the R.A.A.F. on their Deputy Chief of Naval Staff in The appointment in the rank of Captain has been announced January 8, uf Captain (Commo truly excellent victory in the whole succession to Viee-Admiral E. dore 2nd Class) Frank Arthur tournament, this being the second H. Evans-Lomhe. C-B. The ap of Captain the Viscount Kclburn, D.S.C, as Naval assistant to the Ballance, D.S.O., A.D.C., to the occasion that the R A.A.F. has pointment took effect in Janu rank of Rear-Admiral. won the Arnott Inter-Service Box ary. 19*3. Deputy Chief of (Royal) Naval Personnel. ing Shield. FLAG LIST PROMOTION. R.N. CHAPLAIN APPOINTED "As you entered the stadium you NEW CHIEF OF N.Z. NAVAL HON. CHAPLAIN TO THE were no doubt bailed up by two The British Admiralty has an STAFF. QUEEN. very charming young ladies of the nounced that Rear-Admiral J. F. Giptain Sir Charles E. Madden. Stevens, C.B.. C.B.E.. has been In pursuance of Her Majesty's W.R.A.N.S. and W.R.A.A.C.S., Bt. R N.. has succeeded Com who, using the wiles common to promoted to Viee-Admiral in Her niodure F. A. Balance, DSC, pleasure the Reverend F. D. Majesty's Fleet, to date Deccmh- Bunt. O.B.E.. M.A.. R.N.. has their sex, extorted donations from R.N.. as Chief of the Naval Staff you towards the Legacy War er •», 19<2. Keen appointed Honorary Chap- and First Naval Member of the Orphans' Appeal. Iain to the Queen, in succession FLAG LIST RETIREMENT. New Zealand Naval Board in the to the Reverend D. J. N. Wan- "It has been the custom over the Vice-Admiral Sir Geoffrev A. rank "f Commodore Second Class, last four years for the Hast Ser H Hawkins, K.B.E.. C.B. M.V. with effect from February, 1953. stall. C.BE.. M.A., Q.H.Ch.. R.N.. placed on the Retired List vice to donate all the gate 11. DSC. has been placed on money and your contributions to the Retired List. The above R.N. FAR EAST to date November 50. 1952. for their generosity and their co APPOINTMENT. this very worthy cause. Every by S/O Thompson of the Navy." change on the Flag List was an penny counts- -and ensures of the operation in assisting us to put on (Stoker Mechanic Bob ,: The appointment in the rank of il, lunced t d.
As**. Mil. SEA-ODDITIES RJUS.R. REGATTA r The crew of the Dechaincaux lowed in third place by a crew of Some halt a million years :««•• they are harpooned by native Two Byron Bay (north coast class recruits won the final of the Officer Candidates from H.M.A.S. It crcat channel took place alone spc.irmen. The crocodiles are of New South Wales) fishermen pulling regatta in service whalers "Rushcutter." The winning crew the eastern COM of Australia, as then finished off with a bullet, on March 20 caught one of the at the Royal Australian Naval was awarded the N.S.W. Police I SON Lit i result of which the se.i in places rolled into the boat and hunting biggest sawfish that has ever been Reserve Regatta, held on Satur Cup for 19)9, while the other \crsprcad the land Port Jack continued until dawn . . . The captured on the eastern Austra day. 14th March, at H.M.A.S. National Service crew which came - n, originally .1 great river aboriginal has now entered this lian coasts. It measured 15 feet "Rushcutter," Sydney. Rushcuttcr second received a special prize for ft inches. They caught it in their \..lley. was invaded hy tin- sea. commercial field on his own ac Bay presented a scene of sunlit the best-turned-out crew. HONBR LEATHBt Broken Bay it the estuary of the count, spearing the crocodiles and prawning nets. The fishermen, animation, and, with good races A Seaward Defence Motor Boat Hawkcshury River, came into he selling their skins through the Vic Hopkins and Jack Woold- and good weather to provide en- followed each race, and carried IB.TIN6 me, and 111 North Queensland church missions. White men now ridge, said they were fishing for myment, everybody, competitors friends and families of the crews, this rise in the sea level resulted consider crocodile hunting does prawns about a mile from Byron arid spectators alike, had a who were accorded enthusiastic FOW» TRANSMISSION 111 the drowning of the land over not warrant the overhead ..." Bay when the fish was netted. It thoroughly good time. support and barracking. The which now lie* Whitsunday Pas was too big to haul into the boat The pulling regatta in service prizes for the Regatta were pre sage, the delectahle isles with so they towed it ashore- -in the whalers was run in three heats— sented graciously by Mrs. J. L. which it is now studded being in It was recently claimed hy a nets, of course. It took 1* men two of four boats and one of five. Bath, wife of Commander Bath, l.ict the remnants of what was visiting Austrian scientist. Dr. to lift th • fish from the water. The distance of the race was just who was on that day relinquish prior to then dry land. For these Hans Haas, that to scare sharks No scales to weigh it on were under half a mile, from the pon ing his command of H.M.A.S. lunglc and pmeclad Whitsunday you must shout at them. And available, but the weight was esti toons on the south-eastern side of "Rushcutter." mated at between 1,500 and Islands were once the tops of tall what is more, his everyday exper Garden Island to H.M.A.S. "Rush- A traditional Naval Regatta 117 YORK ST. l.ftiHi pounds. In its death strug mainland mountains, and the plac iences and continued existence, cutter." enhanced in this instance by a gles the sawfish cut great holes id Hue tropic waters that lie he seemed to go a long way to prove The winning crew was present "tote" run particularly for those in the nets and caused £50 worth tween them were deep coastwise the claim. The same man, in ed with the Albert Cup, and also who felt "lucky"—it provided a of damage to them M434I valleys. Here, in the inlets of Sydney recently, had something received the Mission to Seamen's fine display of the sportsmanship the Passage, are some of the to say really worthwhile also Cup for the best recruit crew. and spirit which pervade all (4 Lines) about the giant clam of the Great haunts of the dreaded estuarine A further and special - event branches of the Senior Service and Barrier Reef. In fact, he cleared crocodile. The North Australian seas are was an open whaler race in which its members. up any doubts that the giant clam the home of a mammal that is seven boats took part; crews of on the Barrier Reef (sec "Sea never exhibited in zoos. It is the R.A.N.R. National Service Oddities" in the October, 1952. It has generally in the past dugong, a coast animal and one Trainees from H.M.A.S. "Pen issue of "The Navy") would grab heen assumed that all estuarine that is rarely seen in the open guin" came first and second, fol- a diver by the leg and hold him crocodiles made their way to fresh sea. Much like a manatee in ap under water. "It's true," he water to breed and returned to pearance, it grows to a length of said. "I tested the story with an the salt water parts every dry 9 feet. It has oval flippers, a Ro artificial leg and a clam about AUSTRALIAN SCIENTIFIC season But Eric Worrell, a noted man-like nose, and a horizontal four feet across. It nearly snap Northern Territory expert on tail-fin. It appears to feed chief STATION ON ANTARCTICA ped the leg in two, although I crocodiles, disputes this point. ly on seaweed. The female du had rilled it with plaster of paris." He also asserts that crocodile gong, when nursing its young, The Australian Government Dr. Hass said the leg he JSCJ was hunting in the northern parts of holds it to the breast with one of has planned to send an expedition one from a shop window dummy Australia over the past five years its flippers, and it is this action, to the Antarctic next summer to seen from a distance by ancient, set up a scientific station on the has greatly depleted the crocodile a woman. "I was quite sure." highly imaginative travellers, Antarctic Continent. In announc population Writing in the Pro he added, "I would be able to which probably gaw rise to the ing the plan in Canberra on ceedings of the Royal Zoological pull the leg out of the clam's mermaid legend. March 20, the Minister for Ex Society of NSW., 1951-52, he jaws. But my wife and I tried ternal Affairs, the Hon. R. G- says: for JO minutes and could not Casey) said that "today the Ant Along the Wildman River. budge it." Incidentally. Dr. Sea eruptions seem to be the arctic is a challenge, which can Northern Territory, where in Hass and his wife left Sydney fashion nowadays. A message not be ignored, to Australian l'M« I saw hundreds [of croc for the United States on Febru from Tokyo on February 7 said courage and imagination, and the odiles], it is now considered rare ary 4. They planned to continue that a Japanese fishing vessel proposed expedition shows that to see two or three in the course their underwater studies and take radioed that day that volcanic we will grasp our opportunity." of a day. The skin of the estuarine photographs of marine life at eruptions occurred the morning He added that the station would crocodile is used in the manufac Canton Island and' Fiji on the before in the sea near the recent he in the Australian sector, hut ture of high quality fancy leather way. A director of the Undersea ly formed Myojin Reefs, about its exact position had not yet been goods. White men in boats, with Research Institute at Vaduz, 200 aula south of Tokyo. A determined. The expedition was native assistants, shoot the croco Liechenstein. Dr. Hass, together party of investigating scier expected to leave Melbourne in diles on the banks during the with his wife, took many under said that the Myojin Reefs December this year and set up day, or approach them with a water colour photographs on the now practically an island. the station in January, 1954. powerful spotlight at night, when Barrier Reef.
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Aaril, Ittl. WHAT WOULD NELSON HMS. "ROCKETS" THINK? BOOK REVIEWS ANTI-SUBMARINE After a ceremony in Trafalgar DEMONSTRATION IN Square, London, on the 147th an KOREAN WATERS. The second volume of the new weather. The volume also deals niversary of Nelson's victory and Brtish Admiralty Manual of Sea with ship recognition, ship safety, death at Trafalgar, the Rt. Hon. manship UKU published early in fire fighting, rope maintenance, J. P. L. Thomas, First Lord of the Further information concerning \*i \ em her. 19*2 and communications. Admiralty, addressed a luncheon the anti-submarine demonstration The new "Manual ->t Seaman at the Navy League. work in American waters of The third volume, yet to he H.M.S "Rocket," one of the ship" is .1 work in three vulumej What, he asked, would Nelson published, will deal with the high Royal Navy's fast anti-submarine with .1 text and illustrations lot- think, if he could descend from his er aspects of seamanship, includ frigates, converted from Fleet de .illy different rr T*» Mow April. ITU. It EX-NAVAL MENS AUSTRALIAN SEA CADET CORPS Association of Australia FIRST TASMANIAN DIVISION CADET CAMP. Commanding Officer's Report (abbreviated). From Friday, 9th January, until ed instructional classes each "work R.N.O. on a visit to the Camp, Patron in Chief: Her Majesty The Queen. Friday, 23rd January, 1953, ing" forenoon and afternoon for consisted of a very brief black eighty-eight Sea Cadets from about three-quarters of the Sea board - illustrated talk about a FEDERAL COI'NCIL. "Whilst on the Australian some good for the ex-r-ailor, and I Hobart, Launceston, Burnic and Cadets—a Route March or two— cruiser in action, and was imme The Ex - Nav.i! Men> A.--oeta Station I decided to devote my may here say that if all charitable Ulverstonc, with ages rangirjg from and Lectures daily during the "dog diately followed by the appointing tion of Australia has been for energies to working for the institu • institutions were run as soundly fourteen to eighteen years, attend watches." The first "working" of a cruiser's Ship's Company tunate in having received, over the tion for which 1 have the greatest and economically as the Austrian ed the "first-ever" Sea Cadet Camp forenoon, a few Sea Cadets took using all the listening Sea Cadets, past years, a very large measure of admiration and affection as far as Ex-Naval Mens Association tar in Tasmania. boats away and the remainder, on "falling them in" on the parade its success from the interest and the ex-Service man is concerned- more folk would be supported per The Camp was held under the large parade ground available, ground, positioning them roughly achievements of its Life Members. the Ex-Naval Men's Association of pound subscribed than are at pre supremely ideal conditions at Fort sent semaphore signals to each as they would be in a cruiser: a The names of members upon whom Australia--and managed to earn sent. All the State president- and Direction, an Army establishment other, marched about in seaman- group representing "A" Gun's the Association has conferred its for them and kindred institutions secretaries gave freely of their on the South Coast of Tasmania. like manner with rifles, tied knots, crew; "B" Gun's crew; the Bridge highest honour are as follows: something over £2000 by lectures time, and not inconsiderably from The facilities loaned by the Army and so on. Then, that afternoon, Party; The Director-Layer's party; Messrs. J. Higgmbotham. J. W. on the Dover Patrol, by broadcast their < »wn modest purses, a nd consisted of a large dining hall half the Ship's company embarked and sundry other guns' crews back Seabrook, C. S. Vaughan, A. S. ing and writing occasionally. when, just prior to my dep.ir:ure (complete with kitchen, store in boats to proceed to a beach to "Y"-Gun's crew. The R.N.O. Smith, H. Boulter. W. H. Powell, from Australia, I was elected rooms and a large refrigerator) about two miles away, whilst the then announced that the Sea H. Callaghan, G. W. Raynor, A. "In each of the principal cities unanimously a Life Member and used as a Mess Deck and a remainder route-marched there by Cadets* cruiser would attack an J. Martin, C. G. Suckling, S. C. the ex-Naval men have their or awarded the Gold Badge, I appre Church; a theatre-cum-cinema: a road. The separate parties changed enemy cruiser. The noise was ter Williams, W. Edwards, W. J. ganisation, and they not only help ciated that the days and weeks canteen; a fairly large recreation over for the return trip. rific as the Cadets, enjoying it given to assisting the unempl yed force, F. F. Anderson, J. P. ed the seaman and stoker who had room; an office—used as the Ship's So it was that, three days after hugely, shouted (at the tops of Peterson and H. R. Lockwood, been struck down by the storm of ex'sailor were more than well office; a small room — used as a their voices) wheel orders, booms worth while." the Camp started, when the Sea Dr. L. J. Dunstone and Admiral disarmament and reduction, but Wardroom, and five sleeping huts Cadets had been given a "Make and bangs and rata-tat-tats — fire Lord Mountcvans. they also looked after ex'Naval The Federal and State Councils, with h. and c. laid on! Messing and Mend" to do their dhohcying, parties rushed hither and thirher Readers of "The Navy" may he petty officers and, to their lasting together with the many Sub- equipment, beds, mattresses, pil roam the nearby hillsides at will, — all the Cadets screamed and pleased to know what the opinions credit, they had helped many an Sections throughout the Common' lows and blankets were also pro fish, and generally enjoy them shouted for all they were worth of Admiral Lord Mountcvan* are ex-officer back to a permanent job. wealth and Territories, arc always vided by the Army. Last, but selves, and had, every man-jack of until the R.N.O. announced at the concerning the Association. In his "Ever since the days when on the lookout for active workers never least, the Army placed Sea them, reported within an hour top of his very adequate voice Autobiography, published in De- Lashly and Creen journeyed with and interested members. Cadets for ever in their debt by and-a-half at the Ship's Office ask "Enemy Cruiser Sunk!!", and in rcmber. 1946 (see page 1*S). he me over the glistening snows of —G.W.S. providing for the duration of the ing, nay, begging "to be taken out the ensuing silence said that that write:— Antarctica I have managed to do Camp a most excellent Army again in the boats," it was decided had been about one-hundredth of the actual noise experienced under EARTHQUAKE ROCKS Cook, a Driver and a Jeep com to cancel all shore instruction and plete with trailer. real action conditions. MEDITERRANEAN AREAS. spend the remaining eleven days of After the Sea Cadets had de the Camp, in so far as possible, Throughout the Camp, routine More than a thousand people posited their baggage beside their with all hands afloat. Lectures and was kept as closely as possible to TATTERS ALL'S were reported killed when an beds and been given a few minutes yams about the Navy the Sea that of a ship in Her Majesty's earthquake rocked the Sea of Mar to wash, etc., they were piped to Cadets could have all the year Royal Australian Navy. Except V- CASH CONSULTATIONS mora and Aegean coasts on supper. Until now all has been round at their Unit's home base. for the time when all hands were £10,000 FIRST PRIZE March VJ. The Turkish town hustle and bustle, orders and in Only one officer was brave enough partaking in a trip afloat. Quarter Drawn every few days of Yenice, near Gallipoli, report structions. Now, however, for a to try to hold the interest of the masters and Bosun's Mates were ed the heaviest damage and loss brief moment there was complete Sea Cadets in a talk one evening and on Watch with an O.O.D. of life. The earthquake damaged silence as the entire newly-formed by telling of his own experiences Watches were kept throughout the 10/- CASH CONSULTATIONS Ankara's water supply and many Sea Cadets Ship's Company stood in the Navy during the last war- night, volunteers for these night £25.000 FIRST PRIZE part;- at the city were without for the Visiting Chaplain's Offer before he had been yarning for watches actually pestering the 1st Drawn every few weeks water. A message from the ing of thanks before supper. twenty minutes the Sea Cadets Lieutenant, Sea Cadet Lieutenant were slipping away to bed, tired Greek island of Mitylenc. in the A Kit Inspection followed sup G. Cutts. to be allowed to keep Aegean Sea, -aid the earthquake out after the day's practical work them! Surely such keenness is.un- per, and "Pipe Down" followed in afloat and aiming to be fresh for POSTAGE ON TICKETS AND RESULTS TO BE ADDED killed many people and destroy paralleled! due course by "Lights Out" con the following day's "sea-time"! ed houses. At or about the same cluded the first day. time an earthquake shook Dutch Prizes were presented to ten Sea The Address . . . Routine swung into Camp life, Guinea and Trinidad, West In Only two shore lectures during Cadets by His Excellency the but Camp life did not swing into dies-many thousands of miles the remainder of the Camp caught Governor for various feats and the routine which had been plan 8E0. ADAMS (TATTEISALL) HOBAIT away. , the Sea Cadets' fancy. One of performances; the most important ned. This planned routine includ these, given by the Tasmanian being an excellent inscribed stain- April, i*. It less steel knife awarded to the Best Cadet Other prises were for the Best Leading Seaman, the Best COCKATOO DOCKS Cook's Assistant, the Best Swim mer, the Sea Cadet who showed * ENGINEERING the most improvement during the Camp; two prizes tor sketching of CO. mr. LTD. boats and the 1st Lieutenant's Prize for the Biggest Fish Caught. • The Camp's Canteen supplied all the needs of the Sea Cadets Contractor! to . . . from tilms to fishing gear. It was H.M. AUSTRALIAN NAVY. open during the forenoon Stand Ship-builderj Easy, when the Sea Cadets were in Camp, and every evening after Marine supper until the evening Film ord Show or Camp Fire Omccrt start Genera! Engineers. ed at 20(H) hours. A concert 'nqu'riot Invitod. Th* future of tt**m for mann* purpotai staged entirely by the Sea Cadets it mot by th* lat*tt Babccck d***lop was a huge succes< on the last m*ntt, which, in turn, *r* backed by night of the Camp. On that final Ov*r 50 y**ri t*a lipf t'Ci At III evening the Camp vv.i^ visited by at on land, tim* hat r'O.ad tl.* tarvic* of Babcock Boilor Plant the Senior Officer, A.S.C.C. (Tas COCKATOO ISLAND manian Division), Commander G. SYDNEY BABCOCK & WILCOX E. W. Bayly. O.B.E., M.R.N.V.R. OF AL'STRAIIA PTV LIHITSS (Retd), who gave a thrilling, ENGINEER* AND CONTRACTOR* Phone: WB 1941 Htid OMice t Works. Detents tot. NSW. graphically - illustrated description •ranch 04Rc«< and Agtncitt in all Srarat of Minesweeping off the Nor (10 lino*) mandy Coast for the D-Day In vasion, and read a gracious reply- to a message of Loyal Greetings (which had been sent from the Camp during its first week) to the FOR "BETTER SERVICE" Empire's Commodore of Sea Cadets, H.R.H. The Duke of AARONS LAYTON PLATING Edinburgh. EXCHANGE Company Pty. Ltd. No more fitting close to a Camp HOTEL could have been experienced than this message expressing his best wishes and signed simply "Phillip." I GRESHAM STREET It was particularly pleasing to the 46 Mallet Street Camp's CO., who, long ago, had SYDNEY Camperdown rubbed shoulders with another Lieutenant in a place called Cor- Telehonc: LA 3168. sham in England this same "Phillip." Only the Beit Brands Finally, the Navy League held a Stocked. dinner at the ("amp and, hearing of the huge success that the Camp Dining Room Specialist* in All Classes had been, made arrangements there Unsurpassed. Elect roplatiriK- and then to spare no effort to make this Camp only the first of many- Nothing Too Large—Nothing annual Camps. Too Small. Contractors to H.M. Naval (Slid.) C. H. ARMSTRONG, AARONS Lieutenant, R.A.N.V.R , Dockyard*, Garden Island. EXCHANGE Commanding Officer, Mort's Dock, and Cockatoo HOTEL Dock. First Annual Sea Cadet Camp, Fort Direction, Tasmania. The Nevv ii you are TiilED and DEPRESSED TAKE A COURSE OF CLEMENTS TOXIC CLEMENTS TONIC NOW CONTAINS VITAMIN Bl ALEX H. 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Telephone!: MX 5231 (6 lines). Lieut (S) F G. Evan.. R A.N.VR Htm. SMmm: R. Neil Walford. ... M.», I HI. - suspended on the'two remaining "Majestic" Class the highest rank in each of the fighting services; ;- ships, it will no doubt he proceeded with when King George V., however, took the position of the necessary facilities can be so diverted. Chief of the Royal Air Force instead of the rank of Marshal. It has been thought more suitable for LOYALTY A VIRTUE. a Queen to bestow these distinctions upon her Queen Anne, in 1702, made her consort. Prince With the Queen's Coronation now an accom husband. plished fact, we shall hear more and more about George Duke of Cumberland, Generalissimo of all the feeling of loyalty. There will he few among Forces, Constable of Windsor Castle, Lord High us who will not experience a personal impulse to Admiral, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports and ward loyalty as we think of a beautiful young Captain-General of the Honourable Artillery Com '•& Queen who will dedicate herself to our service. pany. The first of these dignities no longer exists; the third has been permanently in commission be •—jfcf But what is loyalty? The dictionary says: "In teS tween Lords of the Admiralty since the last indi modern usage, loyalty connotes the feeling or sen vidual Lord High Admiral became King William timent (often strong or even enthusiastic) accom IV. in 1830. panying a sense of allegiance." Actually, this is only a partial description of the term. Loyalty is The D uke of Edinburgh now takes his place a good deal mor-: than that. -Loyalty is a virtue, with twelve other Admirals of the Fleet, none of and as such is something greater than an abstrac whom at present holds an active Naval appoint tion. It goes beyond the static and abstract to ment. become a positive exercise of intellectual and moral faculties. N.A.T.O. C.-IN-C VISITS EUROPEAN This somewhat obscure explanation can be made CAPITALS. r clearer if we compare the exercise of intellectual and moral faculties with the exercises of the phy Following the announcement of Admiral the :J*2 *fsr sical body. The average person deliberately exer Earl MfJunthatten's appointment as Allied C.-in-C, „W cises his or her body to maintain health and de Mediterranean, Mr. Koprulu, Turkish Foreign Min velop muscle. By the deliberate exercise of a ister was reported by "The Times," London, to virtue like loyalty one can grow in intellectual have stated in Istanbul that he was fully satisfied - and moral strength. ment is so devised as to enable aircraft to land i with visits he had paid to Paris and Rome. He Vol. 17 MAY, 1953. deck without any possibility of over-running the In the case of the Queen, the feeling of loyalty also volunteered the information that Turkish catapult operating positions or aircraft parked at should not be based on any sense of obligation, naval forces in the Sea of Marmora, the Straits, ANOTHER BRITISH LIGHT FLEET the forward end of the flight deck. The immense even of duty. It should be spontaneous. When and the Black Sea would be placed under the CARRIER LAUNCHED. value of this to air-sea operations needs no em she was crowned on 2nd June, Elizabeth II. re- N.A.T.O. Mediterranean command of Lord phasis to Naval men. dedic.ited herself to our service. She has already Mountbattcn. twice declared her feelings about this—in her The Turkish Minister also stated that out of The announcement by the First Lord of the The "Hermes" is a ship of 741 feet 6 inches in 21st birthday broadcast and in her Christmas Day £80,000,000 allotted to various NATO, coun Admiralty in the British House of Commons on extreme length (650 feet between perpendiculars) broadcast last year. When she docs this, do not tries Jtl 1,000,000 had been given to Hurkey, January 26 that mother aircraft carrier for ser and her beam is 90 foet. Her main machinery', we owe her something in return? most of which amount, it is understood, will be vice with the Royal Navy was about to be launch consisting of geared steam turbines, is by Messrs. She will be among us next year. Between now spent on the construction of air bases in Turkey. ed, created a feeling of general appreciation and Vickers-Armstrong Ltd. and then we as a nation could build up a great congratulation in British and Commonwealth The ship has both steam and diesel driven elec Early in January Admiral Mountbatten met Gen sentiment of loyalty and affection. Naval circles. tric generators, connected to a ring main system, eral Ridgway, Supreme Allied Commander Europe, in Paris, and is reported to have discussed Complementary to the First Lord's announce from which supplies for power and lighting are matters relating to the coming into operation of ment, the British Admiralty the same day issued a distributed throughout the ship. The standard of H.R.H. THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH the Allied Mediterranean Command. . statement to the effect that H MS "Hermes," the illumination will conform with the best practice or PROMOTED ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET. fourth of the "Hermes" Class of improved light shore. Illumination of living spaces and offices "The Times" Paris correspondent reported that . fleet carriers, would be launched from the yard of will he effected by fluorescent lighting. The ship The announcement on January 15 that Her "no date has yet been fixed for the "activation' of Messrs. Vickers-Armstrong Ltd.. at Barrow-in- will be fitted with an automatic telephone system Majesty The Queen had approved the promotion the new command, but • it is unlikely to be before Furncss on February 16 and that Mrs Winston and a broadcast system to cover all living and >f Commander H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh, March [1953]. Lord Mountbatten is here in a Churchill would name the ship. The launch, then, working spaces. KG., K.T., R.N . to Admiral of the Fleet will be dual capacity, as a subordinate commander to: is now an accomplished fact. ' That the Royal and Commonwealth Navies received with a deep sense of pleasure in the Naval General Ridgway and as a British Admiral -visit forces of the nations over which she so wisely and ing France. In the latter capacity, he has paid In many ways, the Admiralty announcement have nine aircraft carriers in various stages of graciously rules. On the same day Her Majesty courtesy calls on M. Pleven, the French acting added, H.MS. "Hermes" will be more advanced construction and thirteen afloat, is also a matter approved the appointment of His Royal Highness Minister of Defence and on M. Gavini, the acting. than the earlier ships of her class, the "Albion." for congratulation Work is proceeding on seven as a Field Marshal of the Army and as a Marshal Secretary of State for the [French] Navy, by "Centaur," and "Bulwark." She will incorporate of the nine under construction: the "Hermes" and of the Royal Air Force. The promotion and ap whom he was entertained at luncheon, together, new equipment and arrangements, notable among her three sister ships, two light fleet camera of pointments date from January 15, 1953. with Admiral Nomy, the French Naval Chief of: which will be the Angled Deck arrangement to the "Majestic" Class which are intended for the Staff, and Mr. William Hayter, British Minuter-, which emphasis was laid, and details given, in our Commonwealth Navies, and one fleet carrier} the It has been customary in the present century in Paris." editorial columns for March. 1953. The arrange- "Ark Royal." Though launched work has been tor a male Sovereign on his accession to assume M.,, itn. ^^ah£>. aWAJ£«S . CORONATION NAVAL REVIEW fi& YOU NEED PAGEANT OF BRITISH NAVAL SEA AND AIR POWER PLANNED. The British Admiralty has offi to the foregoing, has been made cially a nnounced that Her available by the British Admir Majesty the Queen, accompanied /•*•.?.••-. alty: by Admiral of the Fleet, His The Queen has approved that Royal Highness The Duke of Admiral Sir George Creasy, K.C. Edinburgh, KG., K.T., will re *<$& B., C.B.E., D.S.CV, M.V.O.. Com view Her Majesty's Fleet at Spit- mander-in-Chief Home Fleet, who head, on Monday. 15th June, will be the Senior Officer afloat, from H.M. Ship "Surprise." H. he painted the normal Admiralty should command the Fleet. He. t4jv*^w&| ? ^\\\WliAli* M.S. "Surprise" is a despatch ves grey. For the Review she will he with Admiral Sir John Edelsten. sel normally attached to the Med commanded by Vice-Admiral E. G.CB., C.B.E., who is Command {^•-n^HL/ mWamld**^ iterranean Fleet, and has under M. C. Abel Smith, C.B., C-V.O.. er-in-Chief. Portsmouth, will be gone a routine refit in the United Flag Officer, Royal Yachts. The responsible for the organisation Kingdom. As a warship she will following information, in addition of the Review. ^gTIBk^^^^^^^l^^ ^ "if I\^*f You Wanton Efficien^t Insulatio n Job SHIPS TAKING PART IN REVIEW: As initially planned, it is prob Carriers 8 (5); Cruisers, incluh- In comparing the figures for F^WW/^^Z- 1 -^ Using the Best of Materials able that about 190 ships will rep ing ships of the "Daring" class the 1957 and 1953 Reviews, the resent the Royal Navy in the Re 12 (16): Destroyers 20 (60): change of emphasis which mod •j( Carried Out in the Shortest Possible Time view and about JOT to 350 air Frigates 40 (8): Fleet Mine. ern conditions have brought craft of Naval Aviation will take sweepers 18 (10); Submarines about is clearly shown. Thus, part in the Fly Past. The actual -50 (22); and other vessels whilst the numbers of battleships, •^ At the Lowest Price — Ring composition of the Fleet will de (mincswoeners. surveying ships, cruisers and destroyers are small pend, of course, on the Royal coastal craft, etc.) -62 (10). er, the number of aircraft carriers Navy's commitments at the time, The total of 191 H.M. Ships has increased, and the consider UNI "VERSIL" INSULATING CO. PTY. LTD. and the names of individual ships taking part in the Review com ably larger numbers of frigates, are not, therefore, at time of writ pares with 142 in the 19*7 Cor minesweepers and other smaller 17 MACQUARIE PLACE, SYDNEY BW 2373-4 ing available. The numbers in onation Review. They will be vessels indicate the attention be 32S FLINDERS ST., MELBOURNE MB 1443 each class of ship, however, arc representative of the Home, Med ing paid to anti-submarine and ST. GEORGE'S TERRACE, PERTH expected to be of the order of iterranean, and Reserve Fleets, anti-mine warfare. This develop the following (the figures in and of those employed in the ment was noted by the First Lord, brackets are the numbers present Home Commands. Royal Fleet the Rt. Hon. J. P. L. Thomas. it the 1937 Coronation Review): Auxiliaries will also be represent M.P-. in introducing the Naval Battleships I (II): Aircraft ed. Estimates in March last vear. Bardsley's Are You a COMMONWEALTH AND FOREIGN NAVIES: SHAVING Her Majesty has expressed the dom to participate in the Re the Admiralty to invite both of Subscriber to wish to see as full a representa view. Invitations to be represent these services to send representa CREAM tion of the Navies of the Com ed by one ship have also been ad tive ships to the Review. monwealth as possible. As read dressed to foreign naval powers A further announcement stat For a quicker The \oi if ers know, H.M.A.S "Sydney" through diplomatic channels. ed that an anchorage is being set SHAVE Copy Now TIM H. . .• STRENGTH OF THE BRITISH FLEET "CONDAMINE" RETURNS HOME. THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE STRENGTH OF THE Some three hundred relatives BRITISH~FLEET IN CLASSES (EXCLUDING MANY VESSELS and friends of the !*0 officers and OF THE FLEET TRAIN, ATTENDANT SHIPS AND NUMER ratings on board welcomed the H.M.JLS. OUS SMALL CRAFT) AT THE END OF FEBRUARY, 195$. frigate H.M.AS. "Condamine" when she berthed at Garden Is land, Sydney, at 10 a.m. on April "VENGEANCE" Trunin! and 20, after in months' service in Experimental In Reserve: In Course Korean waters. Active (Special RcoSicise to of GETS READY Fleet Complements) Reserve Construction* The "Condamme," commanded by Lieutenant-Commander R. C. Stvat'e, is the twelfth Australian Battleships Vancuard Anson FOR SEA Howe Navy vessel to serve in Korean Duke of York waters since the war began. Aus Kine George V tralia has kept two warships con Fleet Eacle Indefatigable Victorious (.1) Ark Royal tinually in service there. Those Carriers InJntmtable Implacable Warrior (a) Illustrious in Korean waters at present arc Light Fleet Theseus Triumph Hermes the "Anzae" and "Culgoa." Carriers Glorv Bulwark Album Ocean "CondamineV main duty was H.M.A.S. " Vengeance," Centaur to patrol the Korean coast and Maiesttc (J the new aircraft carrier Levuthan(c) the ship fought occasional duels on loan to the Royal Aus Hercules (e) with Communist shore batteries. tralian Navy, has nearly Powerful (f> Aircraft Main- Unicorn Perseus Pioneer The Minister for the Navy finished its refit at Gard- 'enance Ships (trooping (the Hon. William McMahon) i en Island Naval Dock •Ucort Carrier Limpania and the Australian Naval Board yard. In this picture, naval ratings are painting 'Vuiscr* 11 13 3(e) sent congratulatory messages to ^ the "Condamme" as she neared the anchors and bow. The Destroyers 31 9 r<,7 3 carrier will take part in Fn nates 31 17 113(b) 13 Sydney. Mr. McMahon's signal, addressed to Lieutenant Com Sydney's Coronation Cel catt Minelayer? T 1 .- -- mander Savage, read: ebrations. Next month Monitors 2 - H.M.A.S. " Vengeance Submarine* 37 16 "On behalf of the Common will go to sea, and will Minesweepers: wealth Government I welcome take on its Australian Ocean 23 3 38 home you and those under Naval aircraft for the - your command. I congratulate Coatul 17 V 43 47 first time. you on your meritorious ser •> 4K Inshore -. 33(c) vice in Korean waters, and trust that you will enjoy happy TRANSFER OF FLINDERS COLLEGE TO JERVIS BAY family reunions and restful •Excludes submarines. leave." The transfer of the Royal Aus (a) Modcrnisine. said he did not know that Navy As an economy measure dur tralian Naval College from Flind Department assessors were at (h) Exclude;- three refitting tor luan to India, three refitting (in Den The Naval Board message read: ing the depression in 19JI the ers Naval Depot, Victoria, to present -that is, at the time of the mark) for loan to Denmark, two refitting for loan to Norway. "On return to the Australian Naval college was transferred to (c) Include* those heine fitted out for minesweeping. Jervis Bay. has been approved, in announcement -at Jervis Bay, but station after completion of 10 the Flinders Nasal Depot at (d) To he transferred to the Rcyal Australian Navy on completion. principle, by the Federal Cabinet he would confirm this or find out Point Cribb, Victoria. (e) Work suspended (see Navy Estimates 1953-54. panes 231*232). months' arduous service in the hut no final decision has been the purpose of their visit. The Jervis Bay college closed (f> Being completed for Canadian Na\y at Canada's expense. Korean area, during which reached. period H.M.A. Ship under your He added: "Naturally enough, on June 12, 19.-1, and was rr-es In announcing this in Canberra command fully maintained the if the college is shifted to its tra tablished at Flinders Naval Depot in March 27. the Minister of the high standard of her predeces ditional home, compensation on July 15, 1931. The state of preparedness of the Reserve Fleet has b.-cn improv Navy (the Hon. William Mc would be paid to civilians at pres ed during the course of the year hy berthing the vessels alongside sors, the Naval Board are pleas It has been at Flinders Naval Mahon), said the transfer could ent occupying businesses at Jervis Depot ever since. jetties as far .is possible and removing certain of the ships, which are ed to extend to officers and men lot be contemplated in the cur Bay." Incidentally, the proposed at a longer notice of readiness, to commercial ports where they are their sincere well done' and to rent financial year because other The Jervis Bay college was transfer has been responsible for being dehumidified and maintained by contractors. It is hoped that express the hope that each projects had greater priority in finished, it will be remembered, some criticism and dissent, most this policy will lead to substantial savings and that, in addition, a con may experience a happy home •i nance. in 1911 and the first Naval cadets ly, it is thought, from civil source* siderable number of Naval personnel will become available to serve coming and enjoy a well-de served 'stand easy'" Mr. McMahon, who was reply started their training there on sine- the official announcement with the active fleet. ing to questions in Parliament, February 10 of that year. was made. Til* H«M M.,. Itfl BRITAIN SAID TO BE King IMpntM VMm tnfMMIM MIVI complaints, were soaped, lathered THE 1952 BOYD TROPHY AWARD PLANNING NEW TESTS and shaved by the Court barbers AT MONTE BELLOS. Navy Office advises that the KOREAN DUTY SQUADRONS, they were welcomed by the cap and .were then violently ejected naval correspondent in H.M.A.S. FLYING FROM H.M-S. "OCEAN," Britain will begin a series of tain, who then escorted them to a into the canvas bath when they "Sydney"' has stated that King were vigorously dealt with by a GAIN TROPHY. new tests with atomic weapons high, spacious platform, overlook at the Monte Bello Islands, off Neptune and his Court boarded ing a big canvas bath filled with pack of roaring Bears, who prov the West Australian coast, in the the Australian aircraft carrier yes sea water, from which, after the ed that they were no respectors of The B< yd Trophy, presented tighter pilot) relieved m the Far second half of this year, the Lon terday morning (Tues., April 7) orders had been bestowed, some persons. Later other officers and annually for the most outstanding East. don "Daily Mail" stated on April as the Anzac Squadron, which in terrible punishments were to be men of all three Services were te.it of aviation in the Royal The two squadrons, which ex 13. cludes the New Zealand cruiser meted out to novices and malefac given the full treatment. Mean Navy, has Ken awarded for 1952 pended some 16,000 rockets and "Black Prince," crossed the Equat tors whom His Majesty had nam while, Lady Godiva arrived on jointly to 81O and 825 Squadrons 4,'iiH) bombs in their ground sup The Chief Superintendent of High-Explosive Research in the or carrying the Australian and ed. The victims were operated board mounted on alfie. the Aus tor their operational achievements port role, arrived back in the New Zealand Service Contingents upon on a "theatre table" by the tralian Army Component's wood in the Korean war zone. United Kingdom on board H.M. British Ministry of Supply, Sir William Penny, the newspaper ti the Coronation celebrations in Ciurt surgeon and his assistants en training steed, and was re- The Trophy will he held hv S. "Theseus" in December last. said, ii working on detailed plans L ndon. for the most horrible internal eeivej with loud applause. HM.S. "•Ocean." the light fleet Si 12 Squadron a Sea Fury for the tests. Dolphinius. Clerk of Ciurt to earner, from which their aircraft unit was initially commanded by The plans, however, will have His Most Watery Majesty, came flew ..gainst Communist targets Lieutenant-Commander S. F. F. On hoard on Monday evening and from May to October last year. Shotten. D.S.C, R.N. He was to be approved first by the Minis Rtyal Navy's New Diesel Engine ter of Supply. Mr. Duncan ordered the ship to stop while An offieial citation stat-.'s that relieved by the late Lieutenant- Sandys, and the Minister of De hc read a proclamation announc The Royal Navy's new lightweight diesel engine, named the "Defoe.'" during this period the offensive Commander D. A. Dick. DSC. fence, Lord Alexander, and then ing His Masters forthcoming ar was demonstrated for the first time to the public when installed in spirit, skill, tine airmanship and R.N., and after his death the finally by the Prime Minister, Mr. rival. Dolphinius was accompan Her Majesty's Fast Patrol Boat 5212. eourage shown hy the pilots of squadron was taken over by Lieu- Churchill, and the scientific ad led by the Chief Bear and Bears, the two squadrons resulted in an tcnant-Cimmander Peter H. Lon . : ,-'•=». viser. Lord Chcrwell. The Chief of Police and his Offi- outstanding performanee and don. D.S.C, R.N., who brought ceri and Heralds, all appropriate The tests will be carried out, much damage to the enemy. it Kick to the United Kingdom. ly dressed- They approached the the statement went on. with the The eitation continues: "Stat He has now been succeeded as Ciptaiifs bridge through fire and co-operation of the Australian istics arc quite remarkable. In 79 dmmandmg Officer by Lieuten- water, which had been placed in Government, but it is not likely days of flying they average a ant-Cimmander . D. M. Steer, DOWtiun, coincidental!)- perhaps. that the United States will be daily sortie rate of 7ft.3 sorties. R.N. The Squadron, which was by the ""Sydney's" engineers, with invited to take part in them un 12? sorties being the highest for first formed in the Mediterranean red and green lights playing on less there is a major change in its *'iu day's operations. A division in 193?. was one of the front line the sprinkling cascades. After attitude to sharing atomic secrets. «f 8>12 Squadron accounted for units in World War II., when Dolphinius had read the proclam the first Mig to he shot down hy three of the ships in which it was The newspaper said that the ation and a list of distinguished Naval aircraft. embarked were sunk under ft. initial plan is for the explosion of personages, including the com- "825 Squadron had only four One of the most famous of the certain atomic weapons—their tnanding, officer of the ship, the incidents on the deck resulting in Royal Navy Squadrons, 825 precise type may never be divulg leaders of the respective service a deck landing accident rate of 1 Squadron, which is equipped with ed—to he spread over several imponents, and their officers. m 49ft landings. The highest ac Firefly aircraft, is still'commanded months. Continuation of the pro ipon whom King Neptune wish- cident-free sequence was 1.613 by Cimmander C K. Roberts. gramme will depend on the re J to bestow orders, he gave per- landings. RN.. who led its aircraft in the sults of these initial tests. issi-ui for the ship to proceed. "It is evident that these figures Korean war zone. Initially form When, at Canberra, on April returned to the vasty deep with could not have been attained ed in 1935 on the China Station, I J, the "Daily Mail's" statement the captain's greetings to his Roy- without an extremely and consist it was embarked in H.M.S. '"Vic was brought to his notice, the Employer. ently high standard of mainten torious" in May, 1941, for the Australian Prime Minister. Mr. This new engine has been de plete isosceles triangle, so that a search for the German battleship Menzies, said he had no comment When King Neptune and veloped and designed for the cross section through the middle ance hy squadron maintenance ' >uecn Amphitrite and the Court ratings and outstanding support "Bismarck" and nine of its air to make on the report. Royal Navy by D. Napier and of the engine reveals a delta-form -rived on the carrier's flight deck from all in H.M.S. "Ocean*." craft took part in the attack on Sons, a subsidiary of the English arrangement, with three sets of lis morning by means of the af- Electric Company. It is the in Between them, the two Squad that vessel securing a torpedo opposed pistons, one set horizont BRITISH FREIGHTER • r lift well, they were received tention of the Royal Navy to use rons flew a total of nearly 6.000 hit. In 1942, one of its pilots al at the top and the other two STRIKES MINE. ' y the ship's band and a guard Deltic engines for powering new- sorties. Their highest numh-r of earned the first Victoria Cross to forming the sides. The Deltic I honour, both wearing a var- high-speed coastal craft, and in sorties in one day 12.3 com be gained hy a Fleet Air Arm Of The British cargo ship "Pam develops 2.50(1 horsepower and it ty of uniforms which had prob- some installations they will be Tares with an earlier record of ficer. He was Lieutenant-Com pas," of 5,57ft tons, on March 2? only nine feet long. This engine !Hf never before been seen be used in combination with gas tur 105, the maximum achieved hy mander (A) E. Esmond-.- to struck a mine off the Dutch coast is said to have the highest power eath the sea or on land. The bines. The secret of the Deltic is any other British carrier in Korea. whom it was posthumously award between Bremen and Antwerp. output per pound of weight of embers of the King's Cnirt also partly revealed in its name In It was set up by H.M.S. "Glory," ed for leading six Swordfish air The owners, the Royal Mail Line, any compression ignition engine ore a most odd assortment of stead of arranging the cylinder! which the "Ocean," commanded craft of the squadron against the said they had no report of casual- in the world. The picture above -range garbs. The King and His in the conventional single line or by Captain C. L. G. Evans. D.S. "Scharnhorst" *and "Gnciscnau." tics among the crew of 48. shows the Fast Patrol Boat 5212 1 feoaort and the Court moved more advanced V formation, the O.. D.S.C. R.N., (himself a well- From this operation, none of the Whether the ship sank or not is powered by the "Deltic" at speed • ong the flight deck, on which engineers have set them in a com known World War II. Naval aircraft returned. at time of writing also not known. during trials off Gosport. M.,. mi. ' SOME INCIDENTS IN THE "SEA-GOING SANTAS" WAR IN KOREA. C~! Christmas on H.M.A.S. "Taran ers at the termin When the Australian destroyer gau" at Manus Island saw the be ation of her last "Anzac" (Captain G. G. O. Gat- ginnings of a warm friendship be tour of duty H. acre, D.S.C. and Bar, RAN.), tween the Ship's Company and M.A.S. "Conda- recently returned to her base after the children of The Spastic Cen- mme" was pre a patrol off the East Coast of tr.\ Mosman, N.S.W. sented with a Korea, she reported heavy snow At this time. Officers and men wrought silver falls and temperatures as low as of "Tarangau" decided to organ- bowl by Koreans 9 degrees F. T.V. ise a concert to help children of living on an is' During the patrol Captain Gat- SURRIENTO the Centre, and. as a result the land off the west acre commanded a Task Unit of Honorary Superintendent, early coast of Korea. American ships which "Anzac" this year, received a letter from The silver bowl joined. They carried out patrols them enclosing a cheque for was made on the in defence of friendly islands, £259/6/0, the proceeds from the island, and has maintained the blockade of the concert, and asking if it might be been presented enemy coast, and bombarded posi used to maintain a bed for a Spas as a token of tions and railways. tic child. gratitude for the T.V. clothing, toys News of Australia's Davis Cup 'SYDNEY' The subsequent suggestion from win reached the "Anzac" while the Centre that the money be and chocolates given to 95 or she was refuelling from an Amer used to add a four-bed dormitory ican tanker in company with to the country childrens' Hostel phaned Korean children living United States destroyers. Two was enthusiastically received at tennis racquets were promptly Manus Island, and by return there, by "Con- damine's" ship's hoisted on the signal halliards and VIA letter came another cheque and a some amusing exchanges followed company. This THE promise that each month a dona to explain to the Americans this tion would be sent to help to was revealed on BARRIER March 23 by the strange signal. wards the upkeep of the new REEF dormitory. Minister for the Another very interesting inci TO A short tim-e later four child Navy (the Hon. dent concerned an air-sea rescue. IHEI^ ren were chosen from Queens William Mc- Over loudspeakers on th*.* Mahon). On one bridge and flight deck of H.M.S. DJAKARTA, SINGAPORE, COLOMBO, PORT SAID. land. Western Australia and New NAPLES, MARSEILLES, GENOA South Wales, and arc now part of " C o n d a- "Glory" during air operations in of the happy family being cared mine's" visits to the Yellow sea. the voice of the THROUGH BOOKINGS TO LONDON for at the Centre. the island, the Air Qintroller in the ship's oper RETURN PASSAGES GUARANTEED. ations room told officers and men Thus, the big airy room with officers and men Tha cipUm of tha frigata H.M.A.S. "Condamina," Liautan- int-Commindir R. C, Savagt*. R.A.N, praienting tha chtque that one of their aircraft had its door inscribed "This dormit had seen the for £300 to tha honorary tuparintandant of tha Spastic been forcd down by enemy flak Apply to L. GARIGLIO ft CO. ory was fully equipped by the plight of the or Contra, Mrt. A. L. McLaod. to land in the sea. Ship"s Gnmpany of H.M.A.S. phans and im- Tarangau,' Manus Island," came Immediately a United States JAMES PATRICK & CO. PTY. LTD. into being as a gladly undertaken mediately raided their own kit- Commander R. C. Savage. R.A. Air Force helicopter was alerted 19 BRIDGE STREET, SYDNEY. BW 4181. charge on the men of that ship- bags to give them winter woollies. N-, has received many hundreds ind flew twenty miles to rescue The ship's welfare fund yielded of letters, including one address In February, several officers the pilot. Lieutenant Wilfred were visiting the "Glory" at the navcr" arc to take part in the money to buy tinned fruit, meat, ed to "The Seagoing Santa from and men on leave from Manus Russell Heaton, R.N.. of Not time. Coronation Naval Review at Spit- cheese, biscuits and chocolates. Santa himself . . . Congratula tingham, who was in ar. inflated Island, arrived at the Centre one A bottle of Scotch whisky was head on June J 5. They will carry "Condamine's" men promised to tions." dinghy. Soon afterwards in gath Sunday, laden with flowers and presented bv Captain E. D. G. official .guests of the British Gov bring toys back on their next ering darkness the helicopter sweets, and spent the afternoon WK.'n "Gmdamine" returned Lewin. D.S.O., DSC. and Bar. ernment. trip, and enough money was col landed on the "Glory's" deck. with the children. The immed to Sydney on April 20 they made Commanding Officer of the lected to buy more than a hun ITierc the helicopter pilot and iate result was, of course, a very a further generous contribution to "Glory," to the helicopter pilot RUSSIAN WHALER AT dred toys which they gave to the Lieutenant Heaton were greeted seaman-like comaraderie between unfortunate children, this time in as an expression of his ship's CAPETOWN. Korean children, when the ship oy Vicc-Admiral Clark, D.SN., all concerned and a lasting topic Sydney, when they, also, helped gratitude. The crew of a Russian whaler of conversation among the child returned. When the ship's gun the Spastic Centre, with a gift of ommanding the United States nery officer went round with the newly arrived at Capetown from ren. £300/0/0, money allocated from •?th Fleet. Rear-Admiral Gingrich. the Antarctic smiled and waved hat, one rating offered £5/0/0 the profits of the frigate's can U.S.N., commanding Korean UNERS TO TAKE PART The total amount subscribed which was refused. Away went IN CORONATION NAVAL to people on the quayside as their teen during its service in Korea. blockade and escort forces, and ship docked on April 10. Later to date by " Tarangau" is the rating and promptly returned Rear-Admiral E. G. A. Clifford. REVIEW. £1,319/2/5. the captain of the vessel invited with £5/0/0 worth of chocolates. What a different place this C.B., R.N., commanding Korean "Now refuse that," he said. The The Orient liner "Orcadcs" Press reporters aboard and dirt- "CONDAMINE" JOINS IN. world would be if we all put a West coast Naval forces, who and the P. 6r O. liner "Strath- closed details of his catch. Prior to leaving Korean wat captain of the ship. Lieutenant shoulder to the wheel. Ma., im. n • ••nt-kr..--1 - . . ^Mrt .. .. . NEW LINER FOR AUSTRALIAN SERVICE NEWS OF THE WORLD'S NAVIES VS. BUILDS ATOMIC he able to stay submerged for is the limit for an aqualung div POWER PLANT FOR great lengths of time, and to tra er's suit. It can say submerged SUBMARINE. vel thousands of miles without for a maximum of four hours. The world's first version of an refuelling. The submarine is noiseless and atomic power plant to propel a will cost about £450, mass pro "SYDNEY" AND "BLACK duced. submarine has been placed in op PRINCE" SALUTE eration, the United States Atom QUEEN MARY. ic Energy Commission announc SAVING NELSON'S ed in Washington on March 51. Forty-gun salutes were on "VICTORY". The engine—a working model of March 27 fired from the aircraft The London "Daily Mail" said one that eventually will power carrier H.M.A.S. "Sydney" and on April that the British Minis the U.S. atomic submarine "Nau her escort H.M.N.Z.S. "Black try of Works and the Admiralty tilus"—has been set in operation Prince" in honour of Queen have asked atom scientists to help on land at the Commission's test Mary. Both ships, carrying the save Nelson's famous old "wood ing-station in Arco, Idaho, the an Australian and New Zealand Cor en-wall"" flagship, H.M.S. "Vic nouncement said. It added that onation contingents, were 125 tory." from the ravages of that the engine had entered a phase miles south of Cape Pasley when damaging wood-borer, the Death- Two new 28,000-ton liru-rc far Both were started in January The 'Orsova'' will he the first of development where the atomic the salutes were given. watch beetle. A committee of the England-Austr.-Hi run were last year and arc to he completed ship of her sire to he mastless. fuel used was sustaining a chain specialists will decide whether to launched within two hours of early next year. and the largest liner in the world reaction and yielding atomic en BIKINI ATOM BOMBS use X-ray equipment to render the each other .it British shipyard* The "Orsova" is heint* built .it with an all-welded hull, every ergy that could be harnessed for OUTMODED. beetles and their eggs infertile, or last month. Barrow-in-Furness by Vicker. inch of which has heen x-rayed propulsion of a submarine. Admiral W. H. P. Blandy. whether it will be more effective 1 They .ire the Orient Line". Armstrong, and the "Arcadia" .it for flaws. United States Navy, who planned and economical to use radio-active "Orsova" (pictured :iK>'.-.*) unJ Clydebank. Glasgow, by John isotopes prepared from the atomic Both ships will have stabilisers NAVAL MEMORIAL and commanded the atomic-bomb the P. and O. Linc'j "Arcadu" Brnwn and Company Ltd. TRIBUTES TO pile at Harwell. Neither method to reduce rolling. tests at Bikini in 1945, addressing QUEEN MARY. a group in Baltimore, U.S.A.. on will kill the beetles, but will en The liners will he launched by H.M.A.S. "Shoalhaven" fired March 29, said a modern atomic sure that the present generation the wives of the Anderson broth a 40-minute gun salute in Sydney bomb could wipe out a city the of beetles is the last. The "Daily ers Sir Colin Anderson, a di Harbour on March 31, the day of size of New York The bombs Mail'" says that the British Gov rector of the Orient Line, and POOLE & STEEL LTD. the late Queen Mary's funeral. tested at Bikini were now as out ernment is following the experi Mr. Donald Anderson, the depu A memorial church service was moded as a model T Ford car. ments closely, because if they are ty chairman of the P. and O. held in the Garden Island dock he said. successful they may save many The "Orsova" will replace the yard chapel at 11 a.m. Similar thousands of pounds spent each "Ormonde " which was taken oft NEW ONE-MAN year on maintaining old monu 4-. STEPHEN ST.. BAI.MAIN. memorial services were also held the Australian run last year after on all other H.M. ships and es- SUBMARINE. ments. N.S.W. .-ft years of service. 'ahlishments. According to the "Sunday BRITISH ADMIRALTY She will carry "85 first-class Sun," a new one-man submarine, NEW PHASE OF NAVAL INVESTIGATES passengers and SI? tourist-class the "Mama Ray." has been tested HISTORY PREDICTED. PLASTIC BOATS. passengers. successfully by its Califoinian in Mr .Carl Hinshaw, chairman of ventor. It is operated by a div The British Admiralty has been The "Arcadia" will he more (ifurral Engineers. Boilermakers. Shipbuilders. Dredge Builders the U.S. reactor sub-committee of ing-suited man who rides it like investigating the possibilities of conventional in outline, following the Joint Congressional Commit a surf-hoard. It is 1?} feet long. the technique for building smalt the lines of the "Himalaya" and tee on Atomic Energy, said on 7 feet wide and an inch thick. boats ..f plastic material for sev Plans. Specifications and Estimates prepared the "Chusan." March l\ that the development Made of wood covered with alu eral years and has been keeping tor Miii'i; Dredges and Plant of all kind* She will be named after a dis of the working model of an en- minium, it will float when mo in close touch with developments Electric Welding and Oxy-Acetylene Work. trict in Greece. Her name means einc that eventually would power tionless. The operator, lying in the United States. A recent "Happy." the U.S.S. "Nautilus", opened the prone, steers with .i rudder bar at official announcement stated that: most significant new phase of his feet. He wvars a frogman's "About. t\>' years ago, the Ad The "Arcadia" will have a ser Naval history- He predicted that suit and an aqualung, a recently- miralty- purchased two fibre v:lass vice speed of 22 knots and the Telegrams: ' soon the high seas may become invented breathing apparatus to plastic dinghies. These have been "Orsova" 22} knots. completely untenable for surface replace the old-type diver's hef- subjected to trials, the results of vessels." A nuclear-powered sub met. Designer • inventor J. R. •POOI5TEEL." BAI.MAIN, N.S.W. Each liner will cost £A7,5O0,0O0. which arc fairly promising. Con or about as much as the "Queen marine, as already explained in a Monro*, said the "Manta Ray" sequently it v..-.* decided to pro Maiy" cost. previous issue of this journal, will can submerge to ?t>0 feet, which ceed with further investigations TW Navy M.r, I HI. ii - \mm and to use the technique for boats RMS. "ARMADA" De Gamboa." It is the first time ed an anchor in the original crest, of more complicated construction. RETURNS TO U.K. that a Spanish warship has visited has been replaced by the three Gibraltar since the Spanish Civil It is possible that the technique H.M.S. "Armada," (Command Asoka Lions, as in the symbol of War and it is believed to be the may prove more advantageous tor er W. F. Skelton, R.N.) arrived the Republic of India. The word first time for more than a century the rapid production of large .it her home port of Chatham on "India" which was carried on a that a Spanish Admiral has ar numbers of similar craft. The in January 15 after twelve months' scroll under the old crest has been rived by sea flying his flag. vestigation into this technique is service in the Mediterranean. replaced by the motto "Shan no further encouraged by the hope The "Armada" originally left the Varunah." meaning "May Ocean that plastic boats may be free United Kingdom for the Mediter H.M. CRUISERS EXCHANGE (God) be auspicious unto us." of ship worm in tropical waters ranean in August, 1949, and re STATIONS. The words are taken from the and that the trouble due to rot turned to recommission in De The cruisers "Bermuda" (Cap Vedas. The original has been re may be avoided." cember, 1951, going back to the tain H. P. Currey, O.B.E., R.N.), tained. Mediterranean in January, 1952. flagship of the South Atlantic N.G. TRAINEES RECEIVE She was one of the two destroy Squadron since December, 1950, TRAINING IN NAVAL ers to cover the withdrawal in is to relieve, if she has not already AVIATION. the cruiser "Mauritius" in Oc relieved, the cruiser "Euryalus" Naval National Service Trainees tober, 1951, of the last remaining in the Mediterranean Fleet The are now being trained in ground employees of the Anglo-Iranian "Euryalus" will then join the staff duties associated with paval Oil Company from their refinery South Atlantic Station as flagship aviation. Thirty-seven trainees .it Abadan. On that occasion, she of Vice-Admiral P. B. R. W. Wil- had been selected for training as stood by while nearly 500 oil liam-Powlett, C.B., C.B.E., D.S. naval airmen, and had been sent men were transported by launch O, Commander-in-Chief, South to Royal Australian Naval Air from Abadan to the cruiser in the Atlantic. H.M.S. "Euryalus" has Stations. They are the first Naval Shatt-el-Arab river and then ac served several years in the Med National Service trainees to un companied the ship up river to iterranean since World War II. dergo training in naval aviation. the Iraqi port of Basra, where and began her present commission Ten of the trainees had gone to they were disembarked to be there in September, 1951. Schofields (N.S.W.) which was flown home. commissioned as H.M.A.S. "Nir- BRITISH PARLIAMENTARY imda" on April 1, for technical in SECRETARY VISITS FLEET. TWO R.N. FRIGATES struction in the maintenance of BACK HOME. The Parliamentary and Finan airframes of naval aircraft. cial Secretary of the British Ad Twenty-seven .ire at HM.A.S. In another paragraph under miralty (Commander Allan this heading we tell of the return "Albatross" at Nowra (N.S.W.) Noble, D.SO., D.S.C, M.P.), for training in aircraft handling, of H.M.S. "Armada," destroyer, visited the Mediterranean Fleet to the United Kingdom. After meterology, tire-fighting, aircraft during the House of Commons ordnance, safety equipment, dam EMBROIDERED nearly two years' service with- the Parliamentary Recess, flying to Mediterranean Fleet, two frigates age control and air medical aid. •ADGES OF RANK Malta early in the year. While Their course would take eight have also arrived back home in the Mediterranean he spent (GOLD OR RED BRAID] •They are H.M.S. "Loch More" weeks. This was announced on several days at sea witnessing April 1 by the Minister for the (Commander P. J. Wyatt, D.S. exercises from several types of Any Badge Mad» io Order C, R.N.), and H.M.S, "Loch Navy (the Hon. William Mc- ships. During the flight from Mahon). All of the trainees had RANK BRAID Craggie" (Commander P. B. N. Malta to Athens on his way to Lewis, D.S.C., R.N.). The "Loch completed nine weeks preliminary join H.M.S. "Ocean" in the East training in gunnery and seaman BUTTONS More" returned to Chatham and ern Mediterranean, the Parlia the "Loch Craggie" to Devonport. ship at H.M.A.S. "Penguin" in MINIATURE MEDALS mentary Secretary's aircraft was Sydney, and three weeks training hit by lightning and the pilot took at sea in H.M.A. Ships "Coota- CAMPAIGN RIBBONS SPANISH ADMIRAL the machine back to Malta for VISITS GIBRALTAR. mundra" and "Murchison." They safety reasons. Commander Noble began their National Service train Admiral de Ozamiz Lastra, later continued his journey in an ing on January 12 and had been Captain-General of Cadiz naval other aircraft. No one was hurt selected from New South Wales. Th. Cooml-Gonorol for Sot j»fi Koroo, M . Hoon Lincoln Kim, a Bofon f«n in tho frtgoto "Con domino" at Gardan liUnd roc antly. Hit cj.ida U base, paid a courtesy call on the in the incident. Victoria and Queensland trainees. th« captain of ttto 'Coodomino," Flag Officer, Gibraltar, Rear-Ad- Uoui.-Cowimondor R. C. Sovoojo. miral St. J- A. Micklethwait, C. INDIAN NAVY'S NEW "HIGH SEAS PIRACY" B., D.S.C, on January 14. The CREST. ALLEGED AGAINST Spanish Admiral was returning ed on Israili fishing craft in the scribed the Egyptian action The Indian Navy has decided EGYPTIAN NAVY. 5 LOITERING IN GARDEN ed out of the area. Fishermen been modified so that it ean MARITIME NEWS OF THE ISLAND WATERS. from time to time, it was stated, launch a "Regulus" type of gild had hoarded warships moored in ed missile. The "Regulus" missile carries a powerful warhead for A fisherman. Frank Squadrito. the prohibited waters around the blasting targets. Experts alsc en 37 Bourke Street. Woolloomoo- island and stole from them- visioned the use of the weapon loo, was fined £5 in Sydney Cen in amphibious warfare by the tral Court en April 17 for hav U.S. SUBMARINE United States Marine Corps u- its. ing allowed his vessel without EQUIPPED WITH Launching equipment for the permission to loiter in Naval GUIDED MISSILE WORLD "Regulus" missile can be installed waters around Garden Island on LAUNCHER. on several types of vessels in a From our Correspondents in April 16. Sergeant Barrett, Nav The United States Navy on short time, the U.S. Navy -.id. al dockyard police, said it was March }0 revealed it has a sub LONDON and NEW YORK And it can be done, it addco. at not alleged Squadnto was doing marine equipped with a guided relatively low cost, and with • nly anything but fishing at the time, missile launcher. Officials said the By slight modifications to the shir it- but he had previously been warn U.S submarine "Tunny" has -elf. The Navy said the "Reg AIR MAIL ulus" missile was initially de /el oped in 1948. In appcaranc. it FOREIGN LEGION SOLDIER SHIPS FOR NORTH safety. By the time the local Fire When ships of *»• Nwvy resemble, a conventional, swept* RESCUED AT SEA. QUEENSLAND PORTS. Brigade arrived, explosions in the heave TO" rfc.i ropm wing jet lighter. It is about 3 The British freighter 'Alendi The Australian Minister for sulnhur were already sending hold* fait/ feet in 'ength. Kill" picked up an emaciated, Shipping and Transport, Senator flames roaring 10 feet in the air nearly exhausted man from a G. McLeay, said m Canberra on The firemen had to pour hun small raft drifting among raven- Mareh 2V that the interstate lin dreds of gallons of water .and BRITAIN SELLS NEW ers "Manoora" and "Kammbla" the ship's crew pumped ill sea MINESWEEPERS TO U.S. HIS sharks in the Bay of Bengal •in March 27. The man stated would begin trips to North water, before the fire was extin Britain's newest minesweepers that he was a member of the Queensland ports this month guished. have been bought by the Un:ted French Foreign Legion who, with (May) when the winter tourist States, by which country, as in . companion, had dropped over- season begins. The "Manunda." SOVIET AND CHINA Britain, they are rated highly ->oard at night from a troopship which normally maintained the RELEASE JAPANESE BOATS. ANCHOR The contract for the orders, un ^ound for Indo-Chma ?4 days • service during the summer, had Two Japanese fishing boats derstood to represent a total of riefofc. His companion, he said, been laid up with engine trouble. held by Russia for six months re £},°60,000, was recently signcJ lad died from starvation after 18 Senator McLeay said it was also turned to a northern Japanese at the British Admiralty, London. Jays on the raft, which measured hoped to improve cargo services port on April 5 with 26 men All the ships in question will inly four feet square. The man. to Queensland ports. aboard. Three Japanese fishing come from British shipyards. relieved to be a Finn, was taken boats with crews totalling 147 They embody many novel t'ca- to hospital when the "Alendi SOVIET SEAMEN VISIT returned to Nagasaki on March tures. Hill' docked in Singapore on Departing from recent preced 6 from Communist China, where "\pril 1. He saiJ in hospital that they had been prisoners. They BEER is good Twenty have already been ent, 18 members of the crew of vhen he and his companion had said they had received better launched under priority eondit: ns a Russian ship delivering wheat eft the troopship .they thought treatment from the Communists for Britain's own use: 28 ir. ire at Rouen, visited Paris by bus as hey were close to the shore of than they had expected. are under construction. tourists on April J, The ship's for you Sumatra, which they hoped to master was among them. Crews The minesweepers are abjut "each. Instead, they were blown of Russian vessels calling at TOWED SCRAP SHIPS 1(16 feet long, with a beam of 20 >n their raft back across the Bay French ports in the past have REACH JAPAN. feet 6 inches, and are of the In >f Bengal. The master of the been kept on board or confined The two old Australian coastal shore type, details of which were Alendi' Hill." Captain E. J. to the neighbourhood of the port. vessels—the 6,000-ton "Dirlga" given in the March issue of this "lumhy, said that "it was a chance and "Hundrula"—finished their journal. They mount only one a a million that we found him BOSUN RESCUED FROM 5,000-mile tow from Sydney to gun but are packed with new :id a shark nearly got him as we SULPHUR FIRE. Yokohama on April 6. They are electrical equipment capable of auled him aboard." Crew members of the English expected to yield 4,000 tons of dealing with all types of mines, freighter, "Lochyhank" on March scrap metal for Japanese indus magnetic and acoustic. LINER'S LUXURY CRUISE. 27 saved their bosun from fall try. The 1,100-ton Hong Kong if/ They are specially designed for ing on a burning heap of sulphur tug "Castle Peak" cast off the work in the shallow waters oi es The Cunard liner "Caronia," in the hold. The bosun, James ships outside Yokohama and they tuaries, a favourable place for •o well known over the past few- Hughes, 31, of Liverpool, Eng w;re picked up by waiting Japan; minelaying. ears for her luxury cruises, is to land, was overcome by sulphur ese tugs who towed them into CARLTON AND UNITED •RfWIRIK LIMITED Anti-mine operations, we un eave New York in January, fumes and was in danger of fall harbour. The "Castle Peak" had B'ttrtri in Amilrmlie t*r J00 yttrt. derstand, now have the highest 954, on a 100-day Pacific Ocean ing into the (ire when crew mem towed them parallel at 4J knots. priority in Britain's Naval de ruise, including calls at Sydney, bers climbed down the ladder in Not a single person was aboard - fence plans. Melbourne, and Port Moresby. to the hold and hauled him to either ship during the entire- Navy M4* 1951. ' journey, which started on Feb picked up the launch 750 miles BRITISH TANKER AFIRE: out from Colombo in the Indian PRESUMED TOTAL LOSS. carrying the gold from Japan to FIVE COLLISIONS OFF freighter "Marinucci." The crew ruary 27 in Sydney. Germany. The "Twyford" at Ocean. Custom officials in Cey A message from San Francisco BRITISH COASTS IN ONE of the "Liege" was taken aboard present is salvaging the 1,500 lon impounded the opium, worth on April 16 said that an engine- the " Marinucci," which ran FINNISH VESSEL ON REEF: tons of copper in the cargo of DAY. about £A.?6,000 on the black- room fire early that day forced aground but was refloated. The CREW SAFE. the Dutch liner "Klipfontein" market. Police said the launch the crew of 80 to abandon the Ten ships were involved in five Turkish ship "Cuma" and the The Finnish vessel "Angela** which sank, as reported in the was hound from Bangkok, Siam, British 7,800-ton tanker "Menes- collisions in long-prevailing heavy German steamship "Johanna" col (491 tons) ran aground on a reef February issue of this journal, in to Penang, Malaya. theus," 600 miles south of Los fog off the coast of Britain and lided off the East coast of Eng off the west coast of Scotland the Mozambique Channel in Jan Angeles. There were no casual Holland on March 20. Three of land. They needed no help. The early on the morning of ApriLlO. uary*, and this job may occupy ties. One hour after the tanker them sank. The German ship Greek ship "Vas-iliadcs" report She sent a radio message that all DARWIN PEARLERS RUN her until the middle of May. had sent an S.O.S. reporting the "Waldemar Sieg" (4,877 tons) ed a collision with the British the crew had been landed safely FOR SHELTER. Other possible salvage jobs for fire, the American ship "Navajo and the Dutch motor-ship "Spaar- steamer "Statesman," but again on th-j island of Coll. the "Twyford" are five ships The first four luggers of the Victory," which had rushed to nestroom" (857 tons) collided in apparently neither ship required which U-boats sank south <*f Darwin pearling fleet to put to sea the aid of the "Mcnestheus," a dense fog among heavy seas assistance. OPIUM CARGO Capetown in 1942-45. this year were forced on April radioed that the abandoned ship 4 miles off Dover. Fifteen people IMPOUNDED ON S to seek shelter by storms. They were saved by the "Waldemar was burning fiercely and looked BRITISH FREIGHTER SALVAGED LAUNCH. anchored at Cioulburn Island in SHIP RECALLED 200 MILES Sieg" from the sinking "Spaar- like a total loss. The "Menes FOR LATE PASSENGERS. A motor launch, manned by a the Arafura Sea. The storms theus" left Balboa, port of Pan nestroom," but one from the lat REFLOATED. The American steamer "Pion solitary Chinese and carrying A probably upset the luggers* sched ama City, on April 5 for Los An ter ship was reported missing. A eer Reef" sailed from Sydney on The British freighter "Mil- 17,000>lh- cargo of opium, was ule of operations, which meant geles. She is owned by the Ocean woman cook went down with the they missed the first neaptide of April 15 for New York without bourne," carrying a cargo of towed into Colombo harbour on Steamship Company. Limited, of Finnish ship "Roine" (1,085 highly explosive raw carbide, was April 5 by the Polish freighter the season and had to wait a Liverpool, England. three of her passengers and had tons), which sank in the North fortnight for the next. to return the following day to refloated on March 20 several "Mickjewici" The fretg h t e r Sea after colliding with the Brit hours after she had run aground embark them. The passengers, •CUTTY SARK" APPEAL ish ship "Briardene" (5J8 tons). in fog off Holyhead. North Wales. from Melbourne, missed the ship FUND. The "Briardene" was damaged be The crew twice abandoned ship because of a misunderstanding in low the waterline, but picked up A world-wide appeal for because of the danger of an ex- - -ailing time. When the agents 15 men and a stewardess from the plosion if water reached the t'250,000 was opened in London found that the passengers had "Roine." The Belgian steamer on April 19 to constitute a fund cargo, but they ?taycd aboard missed the "Pioneer Reef," whose "Liege" (3,515 tons) sank after to preserve the S4-year-old, 962- when the ship was refloated on first call was Panama, they recall a collision with the Panama ton former tea clipper "Cutty the high tide and taken in tow. ed the ship by radio. She steam Sark." The "Cutty Sark" Preser vation Society, whose patron is ed more than 200 miles to pick up H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh, the passengers and sailed again a plans to repair and relit the fam few hours later. ous old windjammer with some SYDNEY SEES ITS LARGEST NICOL BROS. PTY. LTD. of the money and with the rest TANKER. INCORPORATING to provide bursaries for young The first ship to reach Sydney men to train .is Merchant Navy flying the Libcrian flag, and the officers. The "Cutty Sark," which 'argest ever to enter Sydney after her tea-clipper days carried Harbour, the 20,607-ton oil tank PEN8UIN HEAVY LIFTING PTY. LTD. JAMES PATRICK & CO. PTY. LTD. arain from Australia to Britain, er "Adrias," bmhed at Balm.,in later became a training ship for •>n April 18 tin her maiden voy- SHIPOWNERS — AGENTS — CONTRACT Merchant Navy officers. She now cge. Built by Jap.-nese shipyards lies anchored, awaiting her fate, STEVEDORES near Yokohama in 15 months, PENGUIN PTY. LTD. in the Thames. Contributions to CHARTERS AND BUNKERS ARRANGED the "Adrias" began her trials on the fund can be sent to the "Cutty ALL CLASSES OF STEAM DIESEL February 5 and then sailed to the Sark" Preservation Society, 40 AND GENERAL ENGINEERING Mexican Gulf to load fuel for REGULAR INTERSTATE & OVERSEAS CARGO & Westminster Palace Gardens, Ar BOILERMAI'-jRS, OXY-ACETYLENE Australia. The 575-foot tanker PASSENGER SERVICES tillery Row, Yondon, S.W., Eng AND ELECTRIC WELDERS • ost her Greek owners four mil land. PLUMBING AND ELECTRICAL WORK Agents for . . . lion dollars. She is manned most- 'y by Greeks hut has nine Japan- FLOITA LAURO (Italian Line)—Cargo and passenger mvin, SALVAGING |APS.' SUNKEN FLOATING CRANE AVAILABLE AT ALL TIMES Australia to Mediterranean porta, via Singapore. GOLD. se in her crew. Each member (20 TON CAPACITY) TASMAN STEAMSHIP CO. LTD. Refrigerated cargo, Australia f the crew has his own cabin, It is reported from South Af ALL CLASSES OF MARINE EQUIPMENT FOR SALE to New Zealand. rica that the British salvage ship martially lined with mahogany, ERIE RAILROAD (UAA.)-Australasian Agenta. "Twyford," 800 tons, may soon nd containing a writing desk, a Head Office: 19 BRIDGE STREET, SYDNEY make a bid to recover gold lying 'an, and central heating. In ad 10-20 WESTON ST., BALMAIN EAST Phone: BW4181. in two Japanese submarines sunk dition crewmen have a giant washing machine, a smoking room Phones: WBJ121 —3 lines ALSO AT MELBOURNE AND BRIS6ANL off the east coast of Africa during md mess room, both furnished on WITH AGENTS AT ALL MAIN PORTS IN AUSTRALIA. the war. The submarines were After hours: UM 948), WM 3223, FM 3708. modern design. \i T». Navy May, ltd. „Ji.i:ii!lH>uf».lJ..H. linn I u. v^mssfUHp PROMOTION TO ADMIRAL. the Cape," he said. Captain Dick "Huon," (the Naval Snore Estab R.N. RATINGS ON PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS ON RETIRED LIST. son joined the P. and O. in 1914 lishment in Hohart, Tasmania), AMERICAN TELEVISION. Vice-Admiral Sir Richard V. as fourth officer in the "Mold tions of the success of the Royal and the Resident Naval Officer, During a ten days' tour of '.M EARL MOUNTBATTEN Symonds-Taylor, K.B.E.. C.B.. avia." His first command was the Navy in the Second World War. Tasmania. Korean war zone, Mr. Edw "d PROMOTED ADMIRAL. D.S.C. (Retired) has been pro "He de France" -in 1944. He My Lords trust that the occasion Morrow, the American televi- n The British Admiralty has an- moted to Admiral on the Retired was subsequently in command of Commander F. D. Shaw, R.A. will recall for you many happy commentator, found his sched 11 miiccd that Acting Admiral the List, to date from January 27. the "Strathedcn." In November, N., of Sydney, at present Com memories of the Service in which ule too tight to allow a visit to t.irl Mounthattcn of Burma, 3951. he took over the "Himil- manding Officer H. M. A. S. you have had such a long and dis APPOINTMENT TO the ships of the United Nations' K.C.. etc., Commander-in-Chief iva," the company's largest liner, "Huon," and Resident Naval Of hritish Mediterranean Fleet and tinguished career." It is only the PORTSMOUTH. and became commodore in De ficer, Tasmania, would become the Navies, but he did sec sr II nrst Commander-in-Chief Medit second occasion within living The appointment in the -rank cember, 1952. Captain Dickson Commanding Officer, H.M.A.S. Royal Navy contingents on sh re, erranean under the North Atlan memory that an Admiral of the of Captain has been announced spent 10 years in wartime duty "Shoalhaven." 25 miles from the front line. tic Treaty Organisation, has been Fleet has served 25 years in the o/ Captain J. H. Unwin. R.N.. it sea in the two world wars. "I He was so interested in this r r o m o t c d Admiral in Her rank Admiral of the Fleet Sir as Deputy Superintendent. Cap must have been one of the luck Acting Commander R. H- E. forward Naval maintenance ur.it, Majesty's Fleet. The promotion Henry Keppel, who Jied in 1904, tain of the Dockyard and Queen's iest seamen in the world because Kerruish, R.A.N., of Sydney, at which looks after carrier aircraft I'UCS from January 27, 195.V had served 27 years in the rank. Harbourmaster, Portsmouth. :n all that time I never got even present Commander of the Gard forced to come down on la::d, He was promoted Admiral of the that he included it in a 20 nv.n- FLEET SUPPLY OFFICER. a minor fright from enemy ac en Island Dockyard and Deputy Fleet in 1877. Sir Henry Oliver utes spot recording along with a . ADMIRAL HARCOURT FAR EAST STATION. tion. We met no enemy submar Captain Superintendent, Sydney, is 88. United States land unit which CREATED G.B.E. The appointment in the rank ines, surface craft, aircraft or would become Director of Plans mything disturbing in either looks after Sabre jets. Anions; the New Year's Hon of Captain, of Captain (S) R at Navy Office, Melbourne. ADMIRAL HARCOURT war." he said- Petty Officer C. O. Garr rd, our* conferred upon officers of Williamson Jones, R.N.. as Fleet RETIRES. whose home is at Maldon, Essex, the Royal Navy and its Reserves A change in the Flag List, to Supply Officer to the Commander Lieutenant Commander A. N. Dollard, D.S.C., R.A.N., of Syd England, joined United St-,:es was that of the Grand Command- date January 27, 195J, was an in-Chief. Far East Station, has NEW AUSTRAUAN ney, at present Staff Officer Oper mechanics around Mr. Mom X'I tr of the Order of the British nounced recently with the retire been announced. APPOINTMENTS FOR ations to the Flag Officer-in- microphorie and while cine cm- Empire (G.B.E. I upon Admiral ment of Admiral Sir Cecil H. J. QUEEN'S COMMENDATION NAVAL OFFICERS. Charge East Australian Area, eras clicked away, explained his Sir Cecil Halliday Jepson Har- Harcourt, G.B.E. K.C.B. Ad FOR R.N. RATING. The Minister for the Navy would become Deputy Director job with piston-driven Sea Furies court. K.C.B., C.B.E miral Harcourt has been placed The Queen's Commcndatior (the Hon. William McMahon) Manning and Inspector of Naval and Fireflies. on the Retired List has been awarded to nineteen' Recruiting at Navy Office, Mel ADMIRALTY tnnounced on March 25 a num "It's a much harder job than years-old Ordinary Seaman bourne, in the rank of Acting CONGRATULATE? TWO VICE-ADMIRALS ber of new appointments for of jets," he said. "I've done both" Stephen Richard Thomas Ratsey. Commander. ADMIRAL OLIVER. CREATED K.C.B. ficers in ships and shore estab Mr. Morrow with a 12-man In the New Year's Honours of H.M.S. "Watchful," a motor lishments of the Royal Australian team of technicians and lorry lead The Board of Admiralty took Vice-Admiral Charles Edward fishint: vessel of the Fishery Pro Navy. They arc. Lieutenant Commander A. W. of cameras and recording ma the unique step of sending their Lamhe. C.B., C.V.O.. and Vicc- tection Flotilla, who dived into Savage, R.A.N., of Collaroy, New chines, toured Korea to prep re warm congratulations to Sir the sea during a gale to save the Captain S. H. Beattie, V.C., Admiral (S) William McBride, South Wales, at present at Flind for a nation-wide television pro Henry Francis Oliver, G.C.B., life of a shipmate washed over R.N.. at present in command H. C.B., CB.E., respectively, have ers Naval Depot, Victoria, would gramme intended to show the K.C.M.G.. M.V.O., LL.D., on the board from the vessel. It is con M.A.S. "Shoalhaven" and Senior been created Knight Companions become Commanding Officer United Nations' effort in the K.r- occasion of the 25th Anniversary sidered that but for the action of Officer, First Frigate Squadron, of the Order of the Bath. HM.A.S. "Murchison." of hi* promotion to the rank of O'S R.itsey, whose home is at las been appointed to H.M.A.S. Quadrant" in command on com Admiral of the Fleet on January ADMIRAL WILLOUGHBY'S Cowes, Isle of Wight, the mall missioning, and Senior Officer, 21 last. A letter to the Admiral. FLAG OFFICER would undoubtedly have been First Frigate Squadron. VESSELS BUILT, SUPPED AND SERVICED. signed by Sir John Lang, K.C.B., APPOINTMENT. drowned, while even an instant's delay on his part would have Commander W. J. Dovers, D. Secretary to the Admiralty, stat The appointment of Rear-Ad DIESEL, MARINE AND GENERAL ENGINEERING. meant that he .vould have beer S.C.. R.A.N., of Beaumaris, Vic- ed: "I am commanded by my miral G. Willoughby as Flag Of RIGGERS AND SHIPWRIGHTS. too late to effect a rescue. : ria. at present Director of the LorJs Commissioners of the Ad All classes of repair* and conversion week carried out. ficer Flying Training (RN.) in .'lanning Division at Navy Office, miralty to convey to you their succession to Rear-Admiral W. P. 8£ O COMMODORE Melbourne, would become the MARINE INSTALLATIONS. MOOERN SLIPWAY AVAILABLE warm congratulations on the oc T. Couchman, D.S.O., O.B.E., TO RETIRE. n.inanding Officer of HM.A.S. FOR ALL TYFES OF CRAFT. casion of the 25 th Anniversary' the appointment to take effect in The Commodore of the I', and Arunta." of your promotion to the rank of June, has been announced by the O. fleet and master of the "Himal Admiral of the Fleet. They and British Admiralty. Commander H. D. Stevenson, the whole of the Royal Navy, take aya." Captain S. W. S. Dickson, K.A.N., of Rose Bay. Sydney. A. 4k W. Emtimeerima pnJ in this notable event. They NEW CAPTAIN OF will retire when the liner, which - 'uld become the new Director are happy to recall the fine ser "VANGUARD." sailed from Sydney on April 4. i the Planning Division at Navy A Ship Repair C#. vices you have rendered to the The appointment in the rank of arrives in London. Captain Dick i 'ffice. .Royal Navy before, and during, Captain, of Captain R. A. Ewing, son has been visiting Australia Commander V. A. T. Ramage, the First World War, and they DSC, to H.M.S. "Vanguard," in the course of his seafaring car A.D.C., R.A.N„ of Melbourne, Ptff. Lid. believe that your subsequent in command and as Flag Captain eer for 40 years. He came ti : present Inspector of Naval Rc- CAREENING COVE, MILSON'S POINT work as Second Sea Lord and as to the Commander - in - Chief, Australia first in January, 1910. ruiting at Navy Office, Mel Telephones: XB 167) and XB 4 587. i Commander - in - Chief, Atlantic Home Fleet, has been announced "It took us three and a half bourne, would become the Com- Fleet, did much to lay the founda by the British Admiralty months to make the trip out via tndinu Officer, H. M. A. S. After Hours: XJ 321}. a ito Hwf Ms., l*tl. Admiral MauntiattM Atari "Sydnty" The "Dunlupinar" broke in SEA-ODDITIES two after a night collision with the 4,000-ton Swedish freighter. Inspiring and instructive inci In few places arc there more applies to the Loggerhead variety) board in the vicinity of a turtle. had made "attacks" on H-M.S. "Naboland." Only five of six curiosities of the deep than in it is advisable to keep clear of Almost inevitably the fish clamps dents marked the Anzac Suad- "Indomitable" and H.M.A.S. ron's passage through the West men who happened to be on the the waters of the Caroline Islands their flappers which can be wield down on the quarry, and a pulling "Sydney." ern Mediterranean, on its way to submarine's d-eck at the time of and the Microivesian seas. In the ed with great force, and these Se- match between fish, turtle and na the U.K. to attend the Corona "Sydney's" commanding officer, the sinking, were saved of the ing provided with a spur about open waters, porpoises rise and tive is on." tion on June 2. Captain H. J. Buchanan, R.A.N., whole ship's company. tall in a black wave beside the half-way up the outside can inflict But, of course, a turtle is no on May I lunched with the Earl Radio Ankara said on April 5 ship, or glide across its bows: a had wound if they come in con The Australian Navy Office in mean creature to land. It may Mountbatten in the "Indomit that a telephone cable was con porpoises have been seen to zig tact with your arms or feet. Also, Melbourne on April 27 announc weigh upwards of four hundred able." Captain Buchanan flew to nected with the watertight com zag in trout of a destroyer doing the strength of a turtle's jaws is ed that the Commander-in-Chief weight and is capable of dragging his luncheon engagement in the partment where 40 of' the trap 52 knots. Flying tish shoot up enormous, the moral here, that of of the Mediterranean Fleet. Ad a canoe or row-boat over miles observer's seat of a Firefly air ped men remained alive. They from the water with a powerful keeping your hands away from miral the Earl Mountbatten of of sea. Yet "the slinging powers craft. He flew back to the "Syd reported that they then had oxy "take off' and. with fins out' th-e jaws, being likewise apparent. Burma, and Lady Mountbatten of a sucker-fish are equal to the ney" about 3 o'clock. gen for about S hours. spread like wings, glide through To demonstrate the strength of a high strain caused by the frantic inspected HM.A.S. "Sydney" at the air. if -the wind currents are turtle's jaws an aboriginal on the struggles of the be-clamped turtle Malta during the week-end com The last message from the sub RESCUE WORK ON SUNKEN favourable, for a hundred yards North-West coast of Australia and the hefty pulling of the na mencing April 25. marine was from Petty Officer Scl- thrust a stick in a turtle's mouth TURKISH SUBMARINE ami, who said: "We are waiting or more. Sharks are hunted by tives. Few turtles escape," con Lord and Lady Mountbatten, and the creature fastened on to UNAVAILING. with courage. If we die, give our the natives everywhere, the fins cludes Mr. Lane, "when once a high Naval and Air Officers, and it with such vicious determination last greetings to our families. of their victims going to China in sucker-fish has a firm hold . . a Senior Turkish Naval Officer that he was able to drag the turtle Salvage and rescue ships on Long live our Fatherland." table delicacies or for use in mak It has been proved by experiments attended a church service on the about the beach by th-e stick. Any April J abandoned attempts to After that, the voices of the ing gelatine. The swordfish is that a shark sucker a little over a Sydney" as she lay at anchor tendency on the part of the turtle raise the 1,562-ton Turkish sub trapped men could be heard pray also hunted, but sometimes be fixit long can adhere with a suc with the New Zealand cruiser to exhibit this bull-dog attribute marine "Dunlupinar," which sank ing aloud. Suddenly the swift- comes the hunter, shattering the tion of over 70 pounds." Black Prince." on one's arm or leg should there with 81 sailors aboard, off Canak moving current snapped the canoes of its pursuers. The rare Laird Mountbatten told the fore not he encouraged. Kale, a port at the southern end cable and the voices were cut off. dugong or sea-cow, is occasionally -hip's company and members of seen. of the historic Dardenelles, on This latest submarine tragedy the Anzac Coronation Contin April 5 All efforts to rescue the gent, lined up on the flight deck. is one of the worst in the last 20 In the lagoons, brilliant blue One of the most valuable ma trapped men were unavailing. that the Anzac Squadron would years. starfish lie reflected like scintillat rine products of the North Aus accompany the Mediterranean ing gems on the pink coral floors. tralian coasts and the islands of •Many sea creatures have strange Fleet as far as Gibraltar. Squid and the octopus live in attributes in their life-habits to the Pacific is the beche-de-mer, holes in the reefs. The reef eels help preserve them from harm or sea-slug. Though a most re Later, Officers from the "Syd and sea-snakes are rightly dread or as aids in hunting for food. pulsive-looking object it is never ney" and "Black Prince," repre THE FARMERS' I BRAZIERS' ed. So is the stingray and the One such characteristic is suction theless a much-prized one. This senting the three Services, attend tiger fish whose tentacles burn power, illustrated, for example, by piece of "animate ooze" is like a ed an Anzac Day service at the GO OPERATIVE 8RAIN INSURANCE the skin like red-hot iron and the lump-sucker, or owl fish. This great snail, a yard long at its ex Memorial at Floriana, near Val- whose squirted poison will blind strange fish carries a portable treme length, and four or five tta. and AGENCY COMPANY LTD. one if it reaches the eyes. Then anchor in the shape of a large inches thick. We once scooped For the "Sydney's" airmen the there are the bladder-fish which sucker-disc on its under parts and one of these holothurians from • •yagc from Malta to Gibraltar 2J-25 MACQUARIE PLACE. SYDNEY can blow themselves up like bal in a rough sea it can attach itself a coral pool, put it on the beach, .is particularly memorable. A loons and which are also deadly to a rock and rest as securely as and forgot it. On looking for it lispatch received at the Navy Of- poisonous. And lastly (but lastly a ship at anchor in harbour. half an hour later it seemed to e in Melbourne .in April JO only so far as this paragraph is Writing of another fish of this have dissolved, as it were, into •tated that Firefly aircraft from concerned and not in actuality) type, the sucker-fish of the Great little more than a pool of slime. H.M.A.S. "Sydney" joined Fire- INSURANCE there are the climbing fish which Barrier Reef, Frank W. Lane in W'.-.en the beche-de-mer of com les and Sea Furies from Admiral spend half their time on the merce is cured it shrinks from a IMPORTANT. Don i Mcfact to •a all your aaatta to his fascinating book "Nature Par Mounthatten's flagship. H.M.S. their full value again* ail |iupwllll OS shores, hopping from rock to yard in length to about a foot. Oadcs. Failure lo do ade," says: "The sucker-fish . . . Indomitable," in a heavy mock torn. All daaaaa of rock, or clambering up the trunks is used by the natives to catch The Chinese, who slive, cook, and . -:tack on the Rock of Gibraltar and '.-ri.-.chzs <-f the trees. turtles. This fish has one of it- Lai it with great relish, place the '•te in the afternoon of April }0. dorsal fins modified to form a slug in a chemical which restores The aircraft also "attacked" the lamcllated disc on the top of its it almost to its living length. 'Jjoining dockyard and airstrip. CORRECT, PROMPT, AND SATISFACTORY CLAIM head. With this sucker it at Another variety, often seen in The aircraft left their ships at SETTLEMENTS taches itself to sharks, whales, the Capricorn Group at the south p.m. when the Rock was HO We were asked a little time and other means of transport and ern end of the Great Barrier ago if turtles are dangerous. Our ':.lies away, and swept down upon t enjoys a free ride. Knowing this Reef, is about six inches long, is iheir targets in several waves. answer was no, not in the accept habit of the fish, the natives se shaped lit: a cucumber, and has ENQUIRIES OF ANY KIND ARE INVITED ed sense, but they can be, if They returned to the carrier at 7 cure a cord round its tail, and its body dotted with blunted rm. handled carekssly. When handl when out fishing throw it over spikes. ing them (and this particularly Earlier in the day the aircraft May, IH1. 1teNs*v -— -~-~-.-.»-«.-^--.. -•••• ^ -w - . , -•-• — - •' ' -* ••^•'•iii'ii ir- --••- ••—-»•• •- •;T .-.-*», SPEAKING OF SHIPS iYIWr WW VISIT MIAUL AND AMHWA ALSO PEARL HARBOUR AND NEW ZEALAND. ~he Cunard Line announced anese planes sank in Port Darwin on in West Australia in the (i April 2fi that it had 11 ships on February 19, 1942. North-West Basin between Ex- After the Coronation. H.M.A.. Harbour, in the territory of Ha ur.icr construction, including two mouth Gulf and the Murchison fly his flag in H.M.C.S. "Quebec " River ha* aroused keen public S. "Sydney" would visit Canad waii, on July 26. Pearl Harbour Manoeuvres and flying exercise* 2( O0-ton liners, at a cost of Canada's exports declined by interest. The fixing of the fir?' ian. American and New Zealand is the main American naval* base would be carried out during the £:'.425,noo. 46 million dollars £20,000,000) drilling site is expected shortly cities on her return voyage to in the Pacific. She would leave passage. in March this year, when ship Expenditure up to a recent date Australia from thf United King- Pearl Harbour on July 29 for Merchant seamen who arrived The Minister said he was cer ments CO Britain and other Com amounted to £1,250.000. and an dom. This was announced on Auckland (N.Z.) reaching there in Hong Kong early in February tain that exercises of this nature monwealth countries continued to other £1.000,000 may be spent March 23 by the Minister for the on August 10, and would sail next said that Chiang Kai Shek's would be of great benefit to ail fall for the third consecutive by the end of the year. Navy (the Hon. William Mc- day for Sydney where she would Chinese Nationalist forces had the ships taking part. It would month, the Canadian Bureau of Mahon). arrive on August 15. four gunboats near the harbour also show the Coronation mem Statistics reported in Ottawa on Sydney" will sail from Ports- ertrance of Anioy, 300 miles Federal Grand Jury (of the Mr. McMahon said the visits bers of the Australian Army and April 28. mouth on June 16 for Halifax no-th-east of Hong Kong. United States) in 7\ew Tors; on of H.M.A.S. "Sydney" to Canada R.A.A.F. in H.M.A.S. "Sydney- .Canada) and arrive there on April 25 indicted 22 people m j and America would be regarded how navies operated at sea. Japanese Customs figures re }une 25 for a five-day stay. She gold and diamond smuggling racket as the returning of visits paid by Mr. McMahon stated that he ~hc United Nations Review of leased at the end of April this year would then visit Annapolis in involving more than 611,000.000 warships of the Royal Canadian was sure that every city H.M./V E. nomic Conditions in the show that in the year ended Maryland (U.S.A.) on July 2, Navy and the United States Navy S. "Sydney" visited would make V Jdle East says that crude-oil March, 1953, Japan's imports Among those indicted was a U.S .here the United State? Naval Treasury official- since the end of the war. the men of the Australian Arm pr duction there has increased in exceeded exports bx about Academy is situated. On July 5, When "Sydney" sails for Can ed Services very welcome and th. past two years- by 10 per £A49,000,000. Sydney" would sail from Anna ada from the United Kingdom she cement even firmer the friend cc't. in 19? 1 and 8 per cent in The Lebanon would support polis for Pearl Harbour via the would travel in company with five ships between the peoples of Can 1^*2—despite the loss of Persian The revival of the West Aus Egypt in achieving evacuation of Panama Canal, calling at Colon ships of the Royal Canadian ada, America, and New Zealand. e:. - orts. tralian whaling industry, with sta British troops from the Sue; on July II. which is at the north- Navy. All of the ships, including tions at Point Cloatcs and Carn Canal zone, the Lebanese Presi •.rn end of the canal, and at Yan- H.M.A.S. "Sydney" would be un dent, Camille Chamoun, said in .ima, at the other end of the canal, The British India Line freighter arvon, has been marked with suc der the operational control of the No phase of life, whether pubi "Cwntala," which berthed in Mel cess. The value of the 1,224 Cairo at the end of a six-day visit • n July 12. Canadian Flag Officer, Rear Ad to Egypt on April 26. lic or private, can be free frrm bourne recently, had 31 Merchant whales ought in the course of its "Sydney" would arrive at Pearl miral R. E. S. Bidwell, who would duty. Navy officer cadets aboard. Some operations in 1951 was £1,200,- of the cadets on board her have 000. Two R.A.A.F. fighter aircraft be all over the world. a Vampire jet and a Mustang The owners of the German mo- crashed into the sea off Morn;- -\ gale which sw^pt the East torship "Hans Hoth" sent a don Point, North of Newcastle, c . st of the South Island of New ation of £100 to the South N.S.W., on the morning of April Z. dand on April 11 caused wide Shields Mission to Seamen in ap 30. The two pilots have been of spread damage and considerable preciation of the care taken of Aeially listed as "Missing, partic abruption to power lines and sea the wrecked survivors of that ulars unknown." a-i.l land communications in many ship. p; -ts. The French wine tanker The Ellerman Group's ship "Nady" had four seamen suffo ndia has built up her merch- building programme includes nine cated on board her, apparently by a:: shipping fleet to 4*0,000 tons. 15 knot ships of 10,500 tons alcohol fumes (rising from her Ir 1939 India's shipping tonnage gross, in addition to three of empty tanks. Ki 125,000 and she lost 75,000 4,000 tons of the "Maltasian" to: s in the war. class, and one of 2,200 tons. Some second-hand ships, pur chased by Germany in 1950 and Travel Shaw Savill With the completion of its Shipowners are voicing strong of obsolete age, are said to have pn sent construction programme, complaints about the general earned their purchase price with err bracing in all 11 new ships, lack of dry-dock facilities of a in twelve months. the Cunard Line group's gross type which suits the dimensions tonnage of ships in service will and shape of their new vessels. Some experts say that thi total almost one million. They say that they often are com world's oil deposits will be expend A pelled to keep certain of their ed within twenty-six years; others, *> again, say seventy years. In any The United Statu Supreme ships in service with foul bottoms cote .they mostly agree that the 1© C urt on April 27 held Lloyds of with greatly increased fuel con L idon liable for 860,000 dollars sumption. life of the oil-age has a very defi (I £384,000) insurance for the nite comparatively short-term time £ It-, mship "Portmar," which Jap The search for oil now going limit. w«y. !•». «,!W*uu*WM- »y wi J i^/_(jiAii«f»ip*|jipjpi|P MEMORIAL FOR COAST .'»;- WATCHERS. hMM. "OtylM" at MaMvlM fttprfc* Coast Watchers of the Second A description of the world's World War want to erect a mem lon," which dominated the har COCRATOO DOCKS REVIEWS youngest republic—the Maldive bour, was floodlit. orial on a site to be- selected in Islands, some 400 miles South ft INC.MI.HUN* Papua- New Guinea, in memory A delegation from Ceylon - west of Ceylon—received from the island, not the ship -was tak of their comrades who lost their H.M.S. "Ceylon." flagship of the CO. PIT. LTD. The British Admiralty recently for the control of certain strategic lives on active service. en to the Maldives by H.M.Cy.S. islands, arduous Naval Air opera Commander-in-Chief, East Indies issued a 2f'page document entitl Giptain J. Plunkett-Cole, R.A. "Vijaya." The Air Officer Com tions, dull routine and blockade (Vice-Admiral Sir William Slay- • ed "British Commonwealth Naval N.. Director of Naval Intelligence manding, Ceylon, who was also patrols, and the bombardment of tor. K.C.B., D.S.O.. D.S.C), who Operations in Korea," Part IV. It .it Navy Office, Melbourne, spon present, travelled in a RAF. Contractors to . . . is a most interesting commentary enemy targets ashore. >vas present at'hte inauguration of "Sunderland." sored a meeting held at 8 p.m., she Republic, makes informative H.M. AUSTRALIAN NAVY. on Naval operations in that war Additionally, a section is de Tuesday. Uth April, at the White -one up to '.he time it was written. aid interesting reading Com Ship-builders. voted to the work of the replen Ensign Club, Exhibition Build FEDERAL CABINET manded by Captain J. C. Stop- Marine Although the pattern of the ishment fleet of Royal Fleet Aux ings, Melbourne, for this pur /MENDS RETIREMENT Naval war in the Far East has not lord, O.B.E., R.N.. the "Ceylon" ilianes without which warships pose. took the United Kingdom High FUND TO ASSIST and changed the document shows could not operate for long per A representative Committee that there has been no slackening ('ommissioner in Ceylon, Sir NAVAL PERSONNEL. General Engineers. iods so far from their main base. was elected at the meeting and Cecil Syers, K.C.M.G., C.V.O., Inquiriot Irwitod. of the calls made on Common The document concludes: donations were invited to meet Federal Cabinet recently con wealth Naval forces, and that to Malo, the principal island of "So the work goes on and has the cost of the memorial. It is sidered a matter relating to the many ships, including IIK aircraft '.he group, for the ceremony. The been going on for eighteeen understood that the Committee future welfare of certain serving carriers "Glory." "Sydney," and description reads: months, unspectacular but im will also be responsible for the officers and men of the Perman "Ocean," the cruisers "Belfast" selection of the site. In a state "Malo comes a? something of a ent Naval Forces who are not COCKATOO ISLAND and "Ceylon," and smaller ships portant work; work which has entailed much seatime and much ment made prior to the meeting -.urprise to those who think of cor- members of the Defence Forces SYDNEY of the Royal Navy, the Royal Captain Plunkett-Cole said that il islands as something remote Retirement Benefits Fund- This Australian Navy, the Royal Can hard steaming under conditions of great heat m the summer and the work and courageous exploits Irom civilisation. It is in fact a was announced on April 4 by the adian Navy, and the Royal New- of the Coast Watchers during the entre of thriving life, owing Minister for the Navy (the Hon. Phone: WB 1941 Zealand Navy hive been engag intense cold in winter; work which has called for fortitude and Second World War had necessar much to both Eastern and West William McMahon). llOlhml ed. ern cultures. There is a clean endurance by ships" companies: ily K>cn kept secret, but since the Mr. McMahon explained that These ships haw operated well-built township with wide work which has earned the end of the war they had, to some a number of naval personnel had principally off the West Coast of extent, become known to Austra -tre:ts of crushed coral, parks, elected not to become members of Navy's traditional measure of men concerned another oppor Korea, and the document de lians. He went on to say that the ••ell-constructed houses and com the Retirement Benefits Fund praise, "Well done" tunity of electing to contribute for' scribes the long-drawn-out battle contribution towards the Allied munity centres, electric lighting when it was instituted in July, victory in the Pacific by the com uid a wireless station. There are pension. They would be given 1948. They wish to remain on six months in which to make up paratively small number of men • nly three cars and neither trams deferred pay. nor buses in the peaceful and their mind. comprising the Coast Watchers, In 1951 the Government had quiet island, which has the gen The New RAN. Air Bsse at Sehefielis had been a most substantial one. made attractive increases in pen eral appearance of a well-planned Coast Watchers were installed sion rates and had also increased RECORD "COMET" The former RAF. air station at The School of Aircraft Main .irden city occupied by a clean in islands occupied by the Japan the entitlement for the retention LONDON-TOKYO-LONDON Scholields, taken ovel by the Roy tenance will be transferred to nd orderly people." al Australian Navy and named Schoficlds, together with aircraft ese and succeeded, in the face of of a pension up to an amount of FLIGHT. H.M.A.S. "Nirimba," was com for storage and certain technical great difficulties, in sending by A message from Her Majesty £312 per year after a naval man missioned on April 1 as a Naval facilities. teleradio, from jungle hideouts. the Queen was read at the inaug had retired from the R.A.N., but A B.O.A.C. Comet jet airliner invaluable intelligence information uration in an open durbar hall was then employed in a civil cap landed at London airport on the air base. H.M.A.S. "Nirimba," The R.A.N."s development at 2" miles north-west of Sydney, is about movements of enemy war and the ceremony was watched acity in the Commonwealth Gov morning of April 7 after complet Scholields, Mr. McMahon said, the Royal Australian Navy's sec ships and aircraft. They were from the outside by crowds of ernment Service. ing a 20,400-mile trip from Lon will provide aircraft maintenance also successful in retrieving and don to Tokyo (Japan) and back ond land-based air station- rrilliantly clad men, women and In view of the increased liberal and repair facilities close to the later bringing back to safety, many in 5* hours 59 minutes actual fly In announcing that the new air children- Purdah having been re benefits, a number of naval men Australian fleet's main base at allied airmen who were shot down ing time. The Comet left Lon • station would shortly be opened, cently abolished, women took an still serving who had elected not Sydney. over enemy-occupied territory. don on April 3 on the first jet the Minister for the Navy (the equal part with men at the func to become members of the De passenger service between Britain Hon. William McMahon) said in Captain D. Sanderson, of the Captain Plunkett-Cole extend tion and a prominent role was fence Forces Retirement Benefits and Japan. It took 35 hours 55 Canberra on March 23 that be Royal Navy, commander of the ed an invitation to former Coast rliyed by one lady leader of the Fund, had asked if they could minutes to reach Tokyo and 38 cause of the growth of aviation new Naval air station, said at the Watchers and all other people in M.ildivian Lower House, while now join the Fund in preference hours 50 minutes to return, in- i in the R.A.N, it is now no longer commissioning ceremony on April terested in the erection of the two uniformed young women to receiving deferred pay. possible for the air station at 1 that H.M.A.S. "Nirimba" was memorial, to attend the meeting. formed a part of the entourage eluding stops. It stopped at • Nowra, H.M.A.S. "Albatross," to equipped not only to handle the "I the Maldivian President. The Minister said that their Tokyo for 17 hours 37 minutes. fully meet the tasks 6f training requests had been very sympa It made the round-flight in II latest types of Naval aircraft but "The true civilisation is where The celebrations ended in the aviation personnel and of main thetically received and the Gov hours 13 minutes less than B.O. also to meet the requirements of every man gives to every other evening with a State banquet, tenance, repair, and storage of air the modern Sea Venoms and Gan- every right that he claims for him ernment had decided to amend A.C. piston-engined airliners take festivities in the open square and on a single outward journey from craft. net planes. self." the Defence Forces Retirement fireworks, while the cruiser "Cey Benefits Act, to give officers and London to Tokyo. . (N.S.W.) and J. L. Field from members from the Melbourne Line's "Aorangi" was withdrawn Parramatta to CanterhuryBanks- Sub-Section lists to Arirat Sub- there would be no passenger ship" EX-NAVAL MEN'S ro.vn. In South Australia Messrs. Section- on the trans-Pacific route between 4& P. E. Holloway and B. G. Day- G.W.S. Australia, New Zealand, and m.-.:i have been transferred from North America. The company of Australia Pi -t Adelaide to Adelaide: A. Association THE •'ORONSAY" Tp would run two experimental voy E Passmore from Adelaide to ages next year with the "Oron I'c-th, and J. H. Stockbndge from ENTER PACIFIC SERVICE. say" and then review the posi Adelaide to LecdervilleWembley The Orent Line's 28,000(011 tion. The first run would begin Patron-in-Chief: Her Majesty The Queen. Sur -Section. liner "Oronsay" will enter the on January I, 19J4, from Sydney Since the last obituary notice, Pacific service experimentally in and the second on May 21 from furnished, for its member*. Don t (FEDERAL COUNCIL) Dinners and Smoke Nights are which was published in the Feb 19*4. She will replace the Sydney. The liner would call at forget to let the Sub-Section of amongst the varied forms of en ruary issue of "Navy," State Sec "Aorangi." which goes off the Auckland, Suva, Honolulu, Vic EACH FOR ALL—ALL FOR ficers know promptly when and EACH. tertainment provided to help keep retaries have advised the Federal trans-Pacific route m June this toria (British Columbia), Van the members interested in the where .iny vacant properties cm hi .:>• of the passing of the fol Annu.il Reports and Balance year. Commenting on the an couver, and San Francisco. The social life of the Association. be found. lowing members: -Messrs. John nouncement by the Orient Line round trip would take 59 days. Sheets received to date by the r Towns, Ivan A. Chapman, Beth Federal and State Coun At the March General Meeting u\ London to this effect on April Federal Executive from some of A:in R. Webb and Wiilum T. cils are st:ll receiving urgent re of the Melbourne Sub-Section the 2, the Line's Sydney branch man the State Councils indicate that H.rris, of South Australia: John "It is seldom we find out how quests from ex-Royal Navy per- President read out to member) ager, Mr. A. Leunig. said that most of their Sub-Sections are in T Cooper, William H. Stevens, great are our resources until we sonncl. at present resident m the of the Association a list of nam:s when the Canadian Australasian .1 sound and flourishing position. W\liam T. Harries and Thomas are thrown upon them." United Kingdom, for Association of five men with over thirty years Executive officers of these Sub- A JeCarteret, of Victoria: Rich nominator-; for themselves, wives membership each. Some original Sections have compiled extensive ie W. Williams, Grenville S. and families, to en ible them to mi members of the Victorian Section and detailed reports of their many L .is and Samuel B. Parmenter, grate to Australia: ?ome of these arc m*\v enrolled in metropolitan activities over the past financial •I New South Wales: and Frank chaps are not particular in which Sub-Sections, whilst a few arc on year and. although there has been C irad Humphreys, of Western State they desire to work, so lone the hooks of other States' Sub- a very slight decrease in the num A--tralia. bers of fully financial members. as they can obtain responsible per Sections. Listed amongst recent the amount of festive organisation sons to nominate them. Mem intra- and inter-state transfers arc —he Association's Diploma of has not abated at all. in fact most bers and their friends are asked the undermentioned members: — Merit has been awarded to Mr. Sub-Sections are busily increas to inform their Honorary Secre Messrs. S O. Slattery. A. Onga- .V:hur Ernest Vincent, of Foots- ing the number of social evenings tary if th;y know of any person relic i. R .1. Philippi and A. Stew r.. Sub-Section, for his outstand and arranging day bus outings, willing to shoulder the task of a art from Melbourne to Heidel ing efforts on behalf of ex-Naval "Chop Picnics," etc.. for mem nominator for these ex-Na.valmen. berg: I. \V. Pross. A. Frcycr and personnel. bers and their families and The Association is continually J. E. Pinslc to Sydney: W. L Readers of "Navy" and cx-Nav- friends. Balls. Dances. Lectures. on the lookout for suitable aceom- Savers to Geelong: G. Anderson 'I Men living in the North-West Debates. Theatre Parties. Gird modat'on. be it rooms, flats or to Fremantle: K. P. Scott and er- portion of Victoria will he Evenings. Film hlightS, Annual houses, either furnished or un- L. I. Crcwthcr to Mildura: W. pit ised to learn that the Ararat I. Pearce to Brisbane: J. ?• •^-Section of the Association Murphy to Adelaide: K. J. ...• successfully inaugurated at Phillips from Essendon to Head A-,rat, on Saturday, 28th Feh- quarters S.S. South Australia: N. ru; ry. There were fifteen foun- TATTERSALL'S S. Grant. Essendon to Adelaide: laaon members present with the M. H. Lasarus from Mildura co Stile Executive officers to launch Melbourne: F. R. Ferguson and 5/- CASH CONSULTATIONS th< new venture. Names of the A. \V. Grainger from Heidelbcre £10,000 FIRST PRIZE : -nders are:—Messrs. F. O'Brien to Melbourne; C. H. Choakc, A. U-esident), W. Stainson (Hon. Drawn every few days E. Thrush and G. J. Bray from S .retary) of 29 Palmer Street, \ TASMANIA / and North-Eastern to Melbourne; B. A: rat, F. R. Avent, H. E. Boyle, T. Drummond, D. N. Smith, G. 10/- CASH CONSULTATIONS R J. Brady, S. J. Brooks, G. R. White, J. A. White, and Dr. D ant G. H. Dibbs, A. Hollis, £25,000 FIRST PRIZE J. F. M. Payne from Latrobe Val Drawn every few weeks P. .1. Hughes, A. Maxwell, N. F. ley to Melbourne. Movements in _ CWrne, C. P. Schultz. J. Stillie Vyf New South Wales are:—Messrs. 'anej.I. J. Webster. At the follow- R. D. Lee and E. V. Buss from '". monthly General Meeting, POSTAGE ON TICKETS AND RESULTS TO BE ADDED ' Sydney to Manly-Warringah: M. hetd on Friday, 27th March, V. Crawley to Parramatta; F. A. The Address . . - Messrs. R. J. Milliken and J. Wruck to Brisbane;. W. R. Pe-idlebury were admitted as Chorley to Adelaide; W. A. numbers. Arrangements will be Roar-Admiral H. A. Showan qi'voi « trophy to naval national torvieo trainoo 6E0. ADAMS (TATTEISALL) H0BART Sm;ile to Northern Suburbs R. O. Morris «t the poatina-ouf porodo of Balmoral Naval lata. Tha Trophy wot nisde shortly to transfer additional awardad for his crow's niccosi In tho HA.N.K. in March, daicribod in tho April inwo uf Tho Novy M«y. ITO. _ r- - JAPANESE FISH POACHERS FINED. The R.iKiul District Court on April 10 lined a Japanese fishing II ho.it captain, Kimio Ohyama. "KEMBLA C50Q for having fished in Austra- lian territorial waters without .1 licence The court also ordered that his ship, the "Sumiyoshi COPPER, BRASS AND Maru," a dicsel-powered vessel of 164 tons with a capacity to ice OTHER NON-FERROUS pack 60 tons of fish, to he detain ed for 60 days. The vessel was WIRE CABLES & TUBES sighted by an Australian Depart* inent of Civil Aviation launch inside the three-mile limit off the METAL MANUFACTURES LTD. south coast of New Britain, where PORT KEMBLA. N.S.W. it was suhs-*u,uently arrested by Tba futura of *taam for marina purpota* the assistant district officer at SELLING ACENTS it mat by tha lataat labcock davalop- Kandrian. The penalty imposed (with Diltrthutori .<• .11 Sui.il mantt. whicn, in turn, ara bached by on the "Sumiyoshi Maru" should II CREAMERY ov«r 50 yaart' taa aiparianca. At taa, leave no doubt in the minds of HOI & HRASS «'IKF S.IRE * C..VBLIS M on land, tima hai provad ttia sarviea the Japanese fishing companies as af labcock Boil.r Plant KNOX SCHLAPP PTY. LTD. BRITISH INSULATED to the law covering Australian CALLENDER'S CABLES BABC.OCK & WILCOX territorial waters. The fine was BUTTER Collins House, Melbourne LTD. OF AUSTRALIA PTV. I.IMITKD subsequently paid. CNCiNCcna AND CONT ACHIEVEMENT The entry of the first capital ship, H.M. Air are the mighty masses of G.E.C. and B.G.E. craft Carrier "Illustrious," into the Captain electrical equipment. . . . These include Cook Graving Dock on March 2nd, 1945, three main G.E.C. electric motors of 1,200 represented a great and visible achieve h.p. each, and over 100 smaller motors; 45 ment made possible only by an even route miles of Pirelli-General cable; ten greater but unseen achievement beneath E.P.M. transformers, and other large-scale the Dock itself. . . . Many feet below the electrical equipment which plays a vital bed of Sydney Harbour, housed in man- part in the smooth running of this great made caverns hewn from the solid rock. enterprise If* f^\ M S~* A y> 4 * AO /7\J WAwM * 9/3 i JL/r- Cry-/ 7 THIS MATERIAL WAS FILMED AT A REDUCTION RATIO 16.5x SOME PAGES MAY CONTAIN FLAWS AND OTHER DEFECTS WHICH APPEAR ON THE FILM ..'ji>jife,'y:' ^*f.^-"' I.» 9» • CONTENTS STOREY & KEERS JUNE, 1953. •TM'NTROON"— 10.500 I Construction, Convenian and Modernisation 2 10 SHELLEY STREET, SYDNEY Britain's 1953-54 Navy Estimates MELBOURNE Empha'is on Small Shipi STEAMSHIP Nevel Avletion Research and Dfvclopmenr . CO. LTD. Head Office: 31 KING ST.. MELBOURNE Britain to Build Many Minesweepers and Anti-Submarine Frigates HRAV His I'R .V.LNI IKS MARINE fit GENERAL BOILERMAKERS & ENGINEERS. H.M.S. "Hermes" Launched AT ALL PORTS H.M.A.S. "Melbourne" to Commission in 1954 .... MANAGING AGENTS FOR ANZAC Squadron and Coronation Contingent! 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LTD. 462 Willoughby Road. Willoughby. N.S.W. Commander C. T Goode. R A.N R South Australian Division Patron: Hi< Excellency The Governor of South Australia. Lieutenant Ctlr. C C. Shinkhc'd. THE UNITED SHIP SERVICES R ANR (rctd.) Hen. Sfcmwy] Lieut. Commander (S) L T Essen-. PTY. LTD. R.AN.VR. Tasntanian Division Vice-Admira] Sir Guv Wyatt, KBE. CB, R\\ (retd.). Prcsidtni: Phone: BX 3'584. The Risht Hon Ms. A. R Park. M.H A. Hen. s..:..,,, P F Morns. Esq AUSTRALIAN SEA CADET MAKE A POINT OF COUNCIL CALLING IN TO THE R«pr>Mlttativea of the NJI.I1 Board; Director of Naval Reserves, Captain A. S. Rosenthal DSO. R AN. (Chairman I. FIRST & LAST HOTEL Commander F. R. James. R.A.N. ALL GLASSES OF SHIP REPAIRS AND FITTINGS (LATE CUTTY SARK) RafM-eMntBttv** ol Tht Navy Laatuc: Commander R. A. Nettlcfold. DSC. UNDERTAKEN V.R.D., R A.N.V.R., CIRCULAR QUAY L G. Pearson. Esq. 88-102 NORMANBY RD.. STH. MELBOURNE, VIC. L. Forsvthe. Esq.. Lieut. (S) F. C.'Evan.. R.A.N V.R CONVENIENT, CENTRALI-Y SITUATED Telephones: MX 52J1 (6 lines). Hon. Secotlary: R Neil Walford. Jure, I9S3. T». N. 1 will be universally regarded by the Western world types of aircraft continues and will be much help as an all-wise provision. ed by the receipt of equipment from the United In actual fact, the First Lord of the British States. All of the aircraft carriers in the active ApstnRi'i I i% Admiralty hat asked Parliament for a Vote of fleet have been equipped with helicopters for £329,100,000, to which will be added a sum of search and rescue duties. CM,000,000 to be provided by the United States The overall manpower during the year 1953-54 as an appropriation in aid of contract expenditure is provided for in the Estimates to a limit ot on ships and aircraft. 151,000. The First Lord placed on record the ap Thus the total British Naval Estimates amount preciation of the Royal Navy of the services ren ing to 064,^00,000 will be £7,250,000 more than dered by those offices and men who made it DOS' the previous year (when there was an American sible (by their retention) to strengthen the sea* appropriation of £25,000,000) or £4,350,000 more going fleet considerably, to place the Reserve Fleet it allowance is mad- for the supplementary esti- in a greater state of readiness, and to,strengthen in ite presented to Parliament on January 2", 1953. other essential Naval services. The manner n which the amount budgeted for \t to be -pent is at once apparent. Almost half RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT. the Estimate* ».'l57,600,000—is to be spent on production and research. Thus production will "The main objectives of the .Admiralty research not only continue to go on apace but it will be a and development programme," th-- First Lord production strengthened and enhanced by all that said, "being based on the future strategic role of the science f*i war can apply to it. the Navy, remain unchanged, but the programmes have been completely reviewed since the an EMPHASIS ON SMALL SHIPS. nouncement of changes in Government policy" [that is, to spread re-armament expenditure over In his memorandum presented to the British a longer period and to hold it to a lower level], ^ISr «*s*2i* Parliament with the Navy Estimates on February "in relation to defence. There has been steady &* 26th, the First Lord of the Admiralty (the Rt. progress in investigations designed to provide ade Hon. J. P. L. Thomas, M.P.) explained in a broad quate defence against the threat of mines of * - way various aspects of the proposed expenditure. number of different types, against modern sub marines of high underwater speed and endurance, boats are now in service. It is expected that the He said that in the field of new construction. the bulk of expenditure proposed would be in re and against aircraft Anti-submarine weapons, small hospital ship which will, in peacetime, serve both shipborne and airborne, far more effective as a Royal Yacht for Her Majesty the Queen, spect of ships approved earlier on which work is CONSTRUCTION, CONVERSION AND than anything known during the last war are be will be completed this year. proceeding, but, in addition it is proposed to begin MODERNISATION. a further programme of anti-submarine and mine- coming available, and arrangements have been Work continues on the fleet carrier Victorious," made to enable heavier and faster types of Naval being reconstructed in Portsmouth Dockyard, to sweeping vessels, together with a number of mis cellaneous small craft. Indeed, the emphasis of aircraft to be handled in, and operated from, our Work also will continue on the fleet carrier enable her to operate the latest types of Naval air fleet carriers. "Ark Royal" and on the tour light fleet carriers of the Naval programme continued to be placed on craft. The work on the light fleet carrier "War "The efficiency of the propulsion machinery' of the "Hermes" Class. Three of these light fleet the building up of the minesweeping and anti-sub rior," undergoing a less extensive modernisation, ships and submarines has been greatly improved carriers should be complctcJ within twelve to marine forces. The production of minesweepers is well advanced, and the modernisation of the from the point of view of generating more power eighteen months. cruiser "Royalist" has been started. Conversion and minesweeping equipment is being progressed with super priority. for a given weight of plant, and more power for a Oi the "Daring*" Class destroyers two more, of the destroyers "Venilam," "Venus." "Virago," given weight of fuel. Both these factors are of the "Duchess" and the "Defender" have now join and "Orwell" to anti-submarine frigates has re NAVAL AVIATION. high importance as, apart from questions of speed ed the Fleet and the "Dainty" is about to do so: cently been completed, and a number of others and endurance, savings in weight and space achiev the remaining three are (tearing completion. are nearing completion. A number of submarines "During the last year Naval aircraft have con ed in these ways can be applied to the improve The frigate and submarine programmes have have been modernised and others are in hand. tinued to take an important part in the hostilities ment of ships' armaments. suffered some delay from the steel shortage, but in Korea in support of the United Nations naval "Satisfactory progress is being maintained in difficulties are being overcome and better progress and land forces. Squadrons operating from H.M Naval contributions to the development of guided should now be made. BRITAIN'S 1955-54 NAVY ESTIMATES. Ships "Glory and "Ocean" have carried out a re missiles and in electronic valve research, which the Progress with the new minesweepers is being Britain's belief in the need for a strong Navy in cord number of sorties against a vast variety of Admiralty carries out on behalf of the three Ser maintained though there have been some delays targets. vices and the Ministry of Supply. Good progress arising inevitably from the introduction of a large modern warfare, as reflected in her Navy Esti The modernisation of our Naval air stations has has been made in improving our means of co-ord programme of vessels of a new type embodying mates for 19*3-54, js, without question, generally mad: considerable progress Work on runway re ination with N.A.T.O. Naval authorities in the novel features. The first vessels of this category shared by all Commonwealth Countries, That is construction and extension has been Completed at research and development field, and it is hoped to are nearly finished, and 1953*f4 should witness not to say that there goes with that belief a con two air stations while a third, formerly in reserve, extend the range of subjects in which collaboration a steady stream of completions, and more are to comitant foreboding that war is inevitable. Clear was commissioned and is being developed to ac has been started. The experiment of attaching a be ordered during the year. ly the Churchill-Atlee mind encourages no such trend. Britain's <364j million Naval Budget is cept a major flying task. Two others are expected scientist to the sea-going staff of the Commander- Most of the seaward defence boats and fast to re-open in 19*$ on completion of work on their •n-Chicf, Home Fleet, has been successful and a patrol boats on order should be completed before merely in the nature of a high but well-considered premium against unpreparedness: and as such runways The improvement of radio aids to Naval similar appointment will shortly be made in the the end of t9?3'54. Two experimental fast patrol air station* to provide for the operation of new Mediterranean Fleet. Jwn., 195). I i • BRITAIN TO BUILD MANY MINESWEEPERS AND • ANTI-SUBMARINE FRIGATES YOU NEED BY LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER NOWELL HALL, D.S.C, R.N.V.R. Minesweepers ;ind anti-submar five will be coastal and inshore them being three Daring class de ine frigatc=. the kind of "little minesweepers. stroyers which had been on the ships" all the NATO navies need stocks tor two or three years. The in large numbers, will he in the In addition, a further pro other ships consisted of one mine forefront of the Royal Navy's gramme of these vessels, together sweeper, eight fast patrol boats big building programme for the with a number of miscellaneous and one seaward defence craft. next twelve months. Small war* small craft, some of which can be converted if necessary' for mine But although building activi ships, particularly mine-sweepers, ties were hampered, one of the will continue to have top prior sweeping duties, is to be put in hand. Mr. J. P. L. Thomas, the factors being a shortage of steel ity. The "balance" of naval a difficulty which has now large building stresses the possible First Lord of the Admiralty, in announcing this extra programme ly been overcome —1952*53, the trend of future sea warfare, in second complete financial year of which an enemy would largely recently (February- 26) did not reveal details. Britain's rearmament programme, rely on the mine and the fast sub was essentially a period ot plan marine to destroy allied shipping There has been little to show, ning and preparation. The results and cut sea communications. in the number of actual ships ot this ground-work will be seen fa If You Wanton Efficient Insulation Job Ot about 140 ships under con completed, for the work done in in the steady flow of new ships struction in British yards between the current period of naval build into the Royal Navy in the next fa Using the Best of Materials now and the end of next March, ing During the year ending twelve months, and especially in thirteen will be anti-submarine M.irch M only thirteen warships the build-up ol mines weeping fa Carried Out in the Shortest Possible Time frigates and no fewer than ninety have been finished, the largest of THE SIZE OF THE NAVY fa At the Lowest Price — Ring When considering such a pro inz from battleships and carriers b wts 10, and several motor tor gramme, one is too often apt to u> submarines and minesweepers. pedo boats and other ships. overlook the strength of the exist Some 166 of them are 'active," Not Launched: Frigates 13, UNI -"WEHSIL" INSULATING CO. PTY. LTD. ing Fleet, or to think of it only 47 are carrying out special train Minesweepers: Coast 30, Mine m terms of the numbers of ships ing and other duties, and 332 are sweepers: Inshore 28 17 MACQUARIE ? L A C F , SYDNEY BW 23734 actively discharging the Navy's in reserve or reducing to reserve. 328 FLINDERS ST.. MELBOURNE MB 1443 heavy and increasing commit This total, by the way. bv no The eight carriers, six o! which ST. GEORGES TERRACE. PERTH ments at home and abroad. means represents the real strength are in an advanced state of build of the Royal Navy, for it does not ing, are the "Ark Royal," 36,800 Details given in the First Lord's include the large number of ves tons, sister ship ot the "Eagle." memorandum accompanying the sels, such as tanker? and supply which recently joined the Home new Naval Estimates are illumin ships, in the fleet train. Nor does Fleet: four 18.300 tons light ating. The Estimates provide for •t include attendant vessels or in fleet carriers of the "Herm:s" an expenditure of £329?} million numerable small craft, or take in class - the "Centaur," "Alb on," Bardsley's during 1953-54, of which more "Bulwark" and "Hermes**: the R.1.-W* '* ^H Are You a to account well over 100 ships than £1*7 million is earmarked now heinu built for the Navy and light fleet carrier "Majestic," SHAVING for production an J research. for l:ian to allied navies- 14,000 tons, which is to be trans •^1 WS& Subscriber to These sums, imposing as they are, ferred to the Royal Austrian CREAM assume their right proportion The strength of Britain's Navy Navy on completion; and the when considered in relation to the should not be judged as it too U.diMi tons "Leviathan" and The \avi§ size of the Fleet on which the often is by the number of ships "Hercules," on which work has For a quicker money is to be spent. Indeed in dually in the active fleet. Be been suspended since 1946. A and the memorandum is a tab!-; set hind this fleet is a vast "shadow ninth earner, the "BonaventurV Order Your ting out in the different categor fl *ct" which is maintained for use (ex-"Powerful") has hr-n bought \ gEEjEB more comft rtable ies the number- of Britain's war* it short notice. by the Canadian Government and j; ships serving in the active fleet, Among warships now under is being completed in a British devoted to training and experi construction in British yards are: vard for the Roya! Canadian BH'll^^S fc~x$N\ Copy Now mental duties, and in reserve or Launched: Aircraft carriers 8. Navy. SHAVE reducing to reserve. Adding the Cruiser? 3, Destroyers 3, Mine The Admiralty hopes th;-.t three figures given, one gets a grand sp>:crs: coastal 17, Minesweepers: of the Hermes carriers will be total of ^4* ships of types rang inshore . 20, Seaward defence Continued on page 8 Tk. Nov, Juna 1953. SHAW SAVILL LINER'S H.M.A.S. "HERMES" LAUNCHED LAST VISIT TO MOST MODERN AIRCRAFT CARRIER IN THE WORLD" " AUSTRALIA. S.S. "Mahia" Watched by hundreds "I" work most modern aircraft earner in The "Mahia," Captain J L. ;nen who have helped t" hii'lJ the world. "Her flight deck is Carroll, which arrived m Sydney her and by thousands ot nthcr larger than a football field: her recently is the last of the Line's spectators crowding the shipyard distilling plant is sufficient tor coal-burners to visit Sydney and and the hull? of other ship?, the most small towns; her generators on Completion of !uaJmg cargo aircraft carrier "Hermes" shJ in- could supply 10,0(10 homes with at No. 1A Darling Harbour she t" the W'alney Channel .-t B.ir out fear of power cuts: and two proceded to Ball's Head to bunk mw-in-Furncss nn February 16. games of badminton could be er. After discharging in the The "Hermes" was launched played on the after lift." he said. United Kingdom she will be from the yard of Messrs. Vickers- The "Hermes" is the last of handed over to ship r-reakers. four ships of her class to be Armstrongs and was named by This vessel is 10,S.*< tons and Mrs. Winston (now Lidy) launched. Of the others, two. th; "Centaur" and the "Albion," like her sister ship "Mariana" Churchill). was built in 1917. She was, of After the launching, the Rt. are expected to be completed this \ ear, and the third, the "Bul course, immediately taken up un Hon- J. P. L. Thomas. M.P., der the British C.o\ernment*s First Lord of th: British Admir wark," by early next year. She is the tenth vessel of her name, Liner Requisition Scheme and es alty, said that when completed caped untroubled by enemy action the new "Hermes" would be the th: list having been a small air craft carrier sunk by Japanese air during the 1914/1S war. As with the other 1914/18 Continued from page 7 craft off Ceylon in 1942. The new "Hermes" has a total war built and standardised ships ready within the next twelve I • she shared the general nickname eighteen months. Th-.: ships have length of 741 feet 6 inches, and a beam of 90 feet. She will take of "One of the Old Iron Dukes." been much improved since they The "Mahia" has enjoyed an were laid down eight to nine a war-time complement of about 1.41X1 m;n, most of them sleep uneventful career with the ex years ago. and when ready they ception of the occasion in 1930 will probably be the most modern :ng in bunks instead of har.v mocks. when she was stranded in Port earners in service anywhere. Royal, Jamaica, but cam: off safe- They will be well able to operate The Naval Correspondent of ly- even faster and heavier naval air "The Times." London; states that the "Hermes" will be the first Her Commanders included Cap craft than the latest types now tains V. J. H. Bosdct (1917/20), coming along for the Royal Navy. British carrier to embody three post-war developments: the angl Captain J. Williams (1924/28), For instance, the "Hermes." Captain A. Mcintosh (1928), A'hoK launching ! attended re ed deck, the steam catapult, and the side lift. "These. * says the Captain C. M. Adams (1928/3?), Setters d«cor«t»d tfw sight-inch gun turret* and craft on the cruiser H.M.A.S "Austral!*" «t Garden Island m preparation lor cently, will be the first earner t«. the cruiser's part in Sydney's Coronation celebrations. The chip was dressed with bunting, end illuminated at night. correspondent, "will remove many and Captain W. M. Thompson have the steam catapult, a British (1935) from the Aberdeen cr invention which will enable her 'imitations usual to an arcraft carrier and will enable her to op- Commonwealth Line- to launch the most powerful naval As a matter of interest her sis H.M.A.S, "MELBOURNE" TO COMMISSION IN 1954 aircraft likely to be in service for crate efficiently the most power ful Naval aircraft available. ter ship "Mahana" left Welling H.M.A.S. "Melbourne," a light the shipbuilding programme. increased when one of the en years to come, and the "angled ton nn the 10th March for Eng deck" arrangement, another Br:t "Both th: angled deck and the licet aircraft carrier for the Royal The Minister said that the air gines was cut off. It was fitted land via South Africa and will Australian Navy, would be com craft that would be operated from with modern radio and radar ish idea which will enormously steam catapult are recent British likewise «nd her days in the hands developments. The former is an missioned about the end of 1954. the R.A.N, earners would be the equipment and weapons necessary facilitate the landings m of air of the ship breakers. - craft and reduces risks of acci arrangement of the flight deck the Minister for the Navy (th. Sea Venom turbo jet fighter air to enable it to hunt and destroy dent*. •'referred to in detail in the edit Hon. William McMahon) said on craft and the Gannet turbo-pro submarines of every type- Un SHIP SINKS IN COLLISION. Both of these ideas have been orial columns of this journal's 2*th April. peller anti-submarine aircraft. like the present type of naval an adopted by the United States March issue] which p;rnvts air A message from the Hague on The carrier is at present being The Sea Venom was a two-seat ti-submarine aircraft, it would Navy for use in its earners. The craft to land at an angle of about April 18 said that the 197-ton built m the United Kingdom. er day and night all-weather air carry three men instead of two— "Hermes" will alio be the rirst R degrees, so that should they German motor vessel "Ingrid When completed, " Melbourne" craft, of high speed and rate of a pilot, an observer and a crew British carrier to Kc equipped overshoot the arrester wires they Becher" sank off the Danish is would be capable of carrying and climb. It was made by the Dc man, who .mid act as telegraph with a side-lift making for great can fly straight off over the port land of Moen during the previous operating jet aircraft. Mr. Mc- Havilland Aircraft Company Ltd.. ist and operate some of the equip er case in servicing aircraft dur side. The latter is a high-power night after a collision in heavy Mahon said that the delay in H. of Hatfield, England. ment. Forty had been ordered, ing operations The addition of ed catapult driven by stoam from fog. The "Ingrid Becher" collid M.A.S- "Melbourne's" commis The Gannet had a douhlc and thirty of these would arrive this improvement involved a con the main boilers which can, if ed with the 47 vurn German ship sioning was due partly to the mod Mamba turbine engine, wjiich in Australia in 1955. The Gannet siderable alteration in the ship's necessary, launch heavy aircraft "Norder," which picked up the ifications that are being made to drove two propellers. It had a is made by the Fairey Aviation structural design. while the ship is lying at anchor. sinking vessel's crew. the carrier and partly to a lag in wide cruising range which was Company, of Hayes, England. Tto H**f 1 ANZAC SQUADRON AND CORONATION CONTINGENTS PAY TRIRUTE AT TORRUK A high and unique tribute ti> (Lieutenant Colonel T. C. Coup whole aspect w« uld have been .til those officers and men. includ bell, D.S.O. M.C). Others in changed but fur the dogged and ing Australians and New Zea- the party were Chaplain B. C. active defence of all those who lander- who lost their lives in Archbold, M.C, of the Austra formed, supported and supplied the North African and Middle lian Coronation Contingent, who the garrison of Tohruk." "With campaigns was paid by the Au? served as Chaplain of the Austra - pride and humility." Brigadier tr.ihan and New Zealand Cort*n" han Division for eight month* or* Whitehead added, "We honour .ituit> Contingent* and the ships the scige of Tohruk. The Rev. the memory of all those who sen. companies M the Anzae Squad* H. F. Harding, D.S.O. M BE. ed in these parts." r«'n at th< Australi.m Memorial in of the New Zealand Army Com* At the conclusion of the ad t he T( 'hruk Wa r Cemetery < 'n portent of the Contingent, who dress, the wreaths which had the mormni! of Thursday, April was Chaplain ot the New Zea been made in Melbourne, Perth land Forces of the Kth Army and Colombo, were laid on the The itinerary of the Squadron, which took part in the relief of memorial. Tohruk, and the Rev. J. O. Were, cumpnsing H.M AS. "Sydney" Brigadier Whitehead laid one RAN., and Rev. Father K. P. and H.M.N2S "Black Prince.*' on behalf of the 9th Australian Ellis, R.A.N, the "Sydney's" had been altered MS that wreath- Division Councils: Captain Bu chaplains. The First Secretary of might he laid OB the Memorial chanan on behalf of the Royal the British Legation at Benghazi and .1 Service held there. M<-n Australian Navy: Group Cap Mr. F. Manard); Brigadier J. D. than KXm officers and men of th-- tain K. R. J. Parsons, D.S.O., Anderson. C.B.E., D.S.O., Com Royal Australian Navy, the R->yal D.F.C.. A.F.C.. R A A.F., on be mander of the 25th Armoured New Zealand Navy, the Austra half of the R.A.A.F.; Chaplain Brigade District; Wing Gmv han Military Forces, the New Zca Archbold on behalf of the Aus mander C. R. Betmead, D.FC, land Military Forces, the Royal tralian Army Component; Lieu Commanding Officer, RAF.. El Australian Air Force and the tenant Gilonel Campbell on be Adem, the Acting Mutassintf ot Royal New Zealand Air Force half of the New Zealand Return Tohruk. and the Mayor ^i To were pres.nt. ed Services Association, and Mai hruk were also included. A special armed guard, mclud or L. H. Lyon on behalf of the m(4 members of the three Scr Chaplain Archbold, assisted by West Australian Vth Australian l««vt«n*nt G. MCMBM. R.A.N. c«rrkd m wrtath from • iwval twlicoptar «t KiMtford Smith Ov«l Longuwill*. racmitty, be vices from the two Dominions, the Rev. H. F. Harding and the Division Council. fore « tarwic* commimo'ilinq *ri» 2Sfft *nm»«n«ry of •*•» fliaM of Sir CtwrWs fuMfiferd Smith «tid Ulffl •crott tho Pacific. was accompanied by H.M AS Rev. J. O. Were, conducted the An "Ode of Remembrance" "Sydney's" hand. Aircraft from main service in front of the mem was then read by Sergeant G. F. BIG CANADIAN COAST the "Sydney" and from No. 7R orial. Shortly before it began, Plummcr, of Hampton, Victoria, DEFENCE PLAN. Fighter Wing R.A.A.F. at Malta armed guards resting on "Arms whose father served with the 2. A message from Ottawa on C. EBELING & SONS PTY. LTD. engaged in formation flying and Reversed" were posted at the four 48th Battalion throughout the Mireh 2' said that the Canadian a fly past. The naval aircraft corners of the monument. An seige of Tohruk and was killed Defence Department, bent upon flew in the form of a letter "T". other service was conducted by at El Alamein- Sergeant Plum preparedness against possible the colour patch of the uth Ana the Rev. Father Ellis in a differ mer then joined his father's old enemy attack from the frigid Indian Division, and the R.AA.F ent part of the cemetery, but all Battalion, and he served with it North-West, has disclosed plans aircraft, in the form of a Cross. those present combined for an ad dress given by Brigadier White until the end of the war. After for a multi-million dollar pro Among those in the official head and the laying of the the reading of the Ode" the gramme designed to strengthen party «were the Commander of wreaths- Last Post and Reveille played in the coastal and far northern de the Australian Coronation Con echo were sounded by buglers fences of the Dominion. The tingent (Brigadier D. A. White In his address. Brigadier White from H.M.A.S. "Sydney," the greater part of the immense bill SHIP REPAIRS, MARINE ENGINEERS. IIOILERMAKERS head. C.B.E.. D.S.O.. M.C. head said "That on the more re armed party and memorial guards will pay for improvements and AND WELDERS. E.D.); the Commanding Officer cent impact of final victory in "Presented Arms" and all officers modernisation at an old base used OWN FOUNDRY AND LABORATORY of the "Sydney" (Captain H. |. Europe and the Pacific and the saluted while the National in the Second World War by the Buchanan. D.S.O.. A.D.C.. R A. world and the resounding events Anthem was played and and air United States Army and Air Works: 70-80 STEPHEN ST., YARRAVILLE. VIC. N.); the Commanding Officer of that led up to it, the early strug craft roared past overhead. The Force at Edmonton, the gateway 'Phone: MW 2255. the "Black Prince" (Captain G. gles, oi which Tohruk was the fo armed party and memorial guards to the far north. The programme CABLES ft TELEGRAMS: "EBBUNG." MELBOURNE. V. M. Dolphin. D.8.O., R.N), cal point, might haw become "Sloped" and "Ordered" Arms also embraces a 5,000,000-doIlar Reg. Office: I CASTLEMA1NE ST., YARRAVILLE, W.H. and the Commander of the New dimmed. A brief survey of the and the historic ceremony was Naval explosives magazine at VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA Zealand Coronation Contingent desert campaigns show that the over. Rocky Pomt. Vancouver Island. to Ito Nn| . . -,- THE ROYAL NAVY'S MERCY WORK BATTLE OF THE CORAL SEA COMMEMORATED TTn- Royal Navy sent tfaoue 5. "Ganges," the training estab saving life completed in Britain, As in former years the annual the anniversary proceedings, the For lame days prior to Coral andl of men. many ships and craft lishment at Shotlcy Gate, near the Navy turned its efforts to Coral Sea Week in Sydney, Acting Vice-Chancellor of the Sea Week, a panel of Australian tnj much material t" help in the Ipswich, manned dinghies to evac rescuing sheep and cattle, and in which began on May 2 and end University of Sydney (Professor Naval officers who took part in rchet work in th. devastated areas uate women and children from the Eastchurch area of Sheppy ed on May 8, was notable for its A. D. Trendall) gave a special the battle gave lectures, during of England's East Coast and flooded houses at Harwich: Re D.U.K.W.'s were employed in impressive weH - attended cere luncheon to members of the Aus school hours, to pupils at Sydney Europe's Low Countries following serve Fleet personnel took part in this work. monies and highly inspiring tok tralian-American Association and schools describing the object and the floods which swept them early ens of remembrance. several visiting Fullbright schol success >ji the Coral Sea en the withdrawal of officers and At Kingsley Bridge the link m February. The world heard Highlights of the Week, inaug ars from America. counter. men from the R.A.F. base at Fel between Sheppey and the main little of these things at the time. urated to mark the anniversary of i\stowe which was cut off by the land the Isle of Grain, the Essex tiT the British people were e.er the great Allied victory over the floods: Service divers were made coast, and the Grave send, Whit .silent workers on mercy jobs. Japanese in the Coral Sea in May, available to assist in essential re stable and Sittingbourne area, The destroyer "Contest" and pairs to sewerage systems; and 1942, were a special Commemora POOLE & STEEL LTD. working parties of ratings and tive Service at St. Andrew's An other H.M. Ships were still Royal Marine D.U. K.W.s used Royal Marines were on duty, searching tor survivors from the to maintain important communi glican Cathedral, and a Coral Sea many of them working continu Ball, organised by the Australian- British Railways steamship "Pnn cations. ally for ten days through the day- cess Victoria," lost in the Irish American Association. in the week that foll< wed, tight hours, receiving their meals Sea, when the abnormal weather Among the people who attend' 43 STEPHEN ST.. BALMAIN. there was non-stop back breaking from mobile canteens and field conditions and the exceptionally ed the St. Andrew's service, held work from first light to dusk for kitchens. high tide disaster to Britain, on Sunday morning. May 5, were N.S.W. officers and men drawn trom many On the West coast of Scotland Holland, and Belgium. In the the American Supervising Con -hips and shore bases in the race at Ullapool, the Navy helped to darkness of the night of Satur sul-General (Mr. Donald W. against time to fill the gaps in the reinstate the severely damaged lo day, January 32, the worst flood.1- Smith), the N.S.W. president of sea defences along England's cal fishing fleet. More than half in living memory swept inland the Australian-American Associa East Coast before next high tides. of this fleet 2" motor fishing from Lincolnshire to Kent, ^aus tion (Sir Iven Mackay), and the General Engineers, Boilermakers, Shipbuilders. Dredge Builder* Much of the Navy's efforts were vessels were left high and dry ing damage estimated at between head of the Sydney Seamen's concentrated on the Isle of Shcp- by the gales, and the Boom De £4O'£50 millions and resulting in Mission (the Rev. Colin Craven- Plane, Specifications and Estimates prepaied pcy, isolated from the rest ot fence Vessel "Barneath" assist the death of more than MK) men, Sands), who delivered the ad Kent by the flooding, and while ed fishermen to refloat their for Mining Dredges and Plant of all kinds. women, and children. dress. hundreds of ratings repaired Electric Welding and OxyAcetylcnc Work. stranded craft, which were haul Also present were representa At Shccrness, Naval and civil breaches in the sea walls and rem ed to the water by wire cables. tives from the Australian Navy officers struggled waist-deep in the forced partial breaks, a small During the danger period of and Air Force and the Austra deluge of water surging over the fleet of vessels sailing from Chat high tides commencing on Febru lian-American Association, and high sea walls and racing feet ham to Sheerness ferried food ary 14, nearly a thousand men of numbers of the American Consul Telegrams: deep through the dockyard. H M. ••tuffs and other supplies to the the Royal Navy and Royal Ma ate staff. S. "Berkeley Castle," frigate of 2f,000 marooned inhabitants ot rines stood by from dawn until The Coral Sea Ball, held at •POOLSTEEL," BALMAIN. NJLV. the Reserve Fleet at Sheerness, the island. dusk each day ready at thirty Prince's,' Martin Place, on Thurs had the shores washed away from minutes' notice to leave for any Naval lighters, harbour craft day night. May 7, though some her and she turned on her beam area where further flooding might and motor launches were used to what marred by heavy rain, was with her masthead resting on the occur. move 2,000 tons of food in four a spectacular event, fully worthy side of the dry dock in which Fifteen days after the flooding, teen days, and to transport emerg of the occasion. The Ambassador she was being refitted. Nearby, the work of salvaging the two ency clothing, water bowsers and for the United States. Mr. Pete in another dry dock, the submar vessels in Sheerness Dockyard, over a million sandbags. News Jar man. and Mrs. Jarman, who ine "Sirdar," with hull plates re which was originally considered papers and milk were also carried had flown through stormy weath moved in the course of work in might take several weeks, war each day, while more than er from Canberra specially to at progress, was swamped as water completed. The submarine "Sir 16,000 civilian passengers were tend the function, were welcom poured in from the adjoining da" was refloated and on Mon basin. also moved to and from the is ed by the president of th; ball day, February 16. the Command committee, Mr*. H. A. Showers, Within a few hours on Sun land. er-in-Chief, The Norc. Admiral and Rear-Admiral Showers, and day, February 1, the Royal Navy. On the second day of the the Hon. Sir Cecil E. Douglas the N.S.W. pi, -ident of the or alerted as to the magnitude of the floods, nine Naval helicopters ot Pennant, K.C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., ganising association, Sir Iven emergency, were assisting in 70J Squadron tlcw to Holland to D.S.C., was among those who Mackay, and Lady Mackay. rescue work, helicopters of 705 assist the Netherlands Govern saw the "Berkeley Castle" swing As the guests arrived they Squadron at the Naval Air Sta ment and during their service on upright in the basin. Salvage of passed through a guard of honour tion at Gosport were sent to A A the Continent earned the highest ficers had closed valves in her of Australian Navy League cadets D. airfields in Kent soon after praise of the Netherlands people hull, plugged and placed plates —and Naval uniforms were seen dawn and made an early aerial by rescuing 752 people in five over openings, and when the almost as often as "tails," as many survey to discover the full extent days water flowed int* the dock she officers attended die dance- of the damage. Boys from H.M. floated on an even keel. W«b: r>.rr.m.H.. M.lb., A4.l.kf. With the immediate task of On Friday, May 8, terminating 12 k:,. 4£ " -*" MEWS OF THE WORLI'S NAVIES 1 . * HMT^I rMMtSM < am VS. "ATOMIC INVASION" verted to carry 20 tons of cargo TRANSFER OF H.M. SHIPS EXERCISES. or be reconverted as air ambu TO OTHER COUNTRIES. '£ ^^^^B^' lts%sw_ lances. They are the first tran During the financial year One hundred United States sport planes to fly with the new 1952-53 just concluded, the Brit 9^. ^^^ warships and 24,000 marines took Curtiss • Wright turbo-compound BttN ish Admiralty transferred the fol •• part in "atomic invasion" exer engines, which the U.S. Navy has *_5?7^ cises on the Pacific coast of lowing ship? to other Common been using on the Lockheed P2V wealth countries and to member **>+yr; \ America on May 5. Wave after Neptune patrol bomber for sev &3«4aiP wave of landing-craft put ashore nations of the North Atlantic eral years. Their range is more Treaty Organisation: The light •• "niA PUj^fc.^ troops, tanks, and artillery in than 5,000 miles. mock warfare designed to teach fleet carrier "Vengeance" has «t&P troops how to overcome an been lent to Australia and is now **T!X& -**"'" *~ A enemy with atom-bombs. Fifty BRITISH ADMIRALTY attached to the R.A.N.. and the l^^K helicopters helped to land troops, ENTERTAINS GREEK light fleet carrier "Powerful," ; which was laid down at the end ISr•t #^r?>' "• -tJL, -•- " * ^•jaiPlg^'*••*••' * i - and planes strafed and bombed KING. the beaches. of the Second World War but on ?flfcj- *""• . The Lords Commissioners of which work had been suspended, S^LU—_ the British Admiralty had the was sold to Canada. A destroyer FIRST SPACE SUIT honour of entertaining King Paul : v PRODUCED. was sold to South Africa and tfpBK i^3ii£"1 - *< of the Hellenes at Admiralty three frigates are being refitted R^oMr F " '-v**#"^ pr^* ••* ?*** The United States Navy claims House, London, on February 25 1**"*fr'^*r- iXs5-3 ~ ; *•*•&* *€.* * for loan to India. Three frigates P^* *'' "^sfip*" (TSsCSCi •""^ J*_ — ** —*••**'* ^ - "'" to have produced the world's to mark the occasion of His ~ *. ^iwirjiin <**w" "' are refitting in Denmark for loan HP^^Sij^,* jJK-2#" ; .j? first space suit. It cost £100,000 Majesty's recent appointment as to Denmark and two frigates are r^*s to produce the outfit, which is an Honorary Admiral in Her refitting for loan to Norway. said to carry its own pressure, Majesty's Fleet. Two minesweepers, sold to Bel oxygen and air-conditioning ap gium as part of an agreement paratus and has already been made in 1949, have been deliver- •• St ^"' worn successfully at a ground- U.S. PURCHASES BRITISH MINESWEEPERS FOR •d. The last of the four submar chamber altitude of 70,000 feet, ines being lent to France was de and could be worn to the moon N.A.T.O livered. In addition a landing tomorrow. However, its claim A contract for the purchase of craft (assault) was sold to Jor that secret devices give the suit a number of Inshore Minesweep dan. almost complete mobility is chal ers by the United States from lenged by the United States Air the Admiralty was signed on Force. The Air Force says it March 1?. Forming part of the H.M. SHIPS RETURN TO abandoned research along the U.S. Navy's off-shore procure UK. lines adopted by the Navy some A Bristol Sycamore halicopt*' from H.M.A.5. "Alb* trow." taking • "«ound»d" m«n off HM Battle cl«n destroyer H.M.A.S. ment programme, they will be for Four i'i Her Majesty's ships "Tobruk" during roeont ••••cis*. off J*rv!> Bay. Tn« daitroyar Uft for Korea lata latt month. time ago because suits of the allocation to N.A.T.O. countries returned to home ports recently Navy's type were too cumber as future requirements dictate. following service overseas. Two some, making it impossible for Mr. Graeme C. Bannerman, Head of them arrived at Portsmouth: H.M.A.S. "SYDNEY" FOR KOREA the wearer to move in them pro of a U.S. Navy Contracting Team H.M.S. "Vigo" (Commander K. perly. The light licet earner H MA • b: given leive whilst the carrier ney's" second tour of duty in visiting Britain, signed the d«u- C. Grieve. R.N.), a destroyer at S. "Sydney"would proceed t-> Kor underwent a relit. On completion Korea would enable officers and tn-.nt, which concludes the tached to the Mediterranean v.in waters in October tor her tec of the refit t working-up pro men, especially pilots and observ NEW TRANSPORT PLANE "Letter of Intent" at the Admir Fleet since lanuary, 1951; and i in J tour .**'i • . _... placed on the Retired List: Vice- PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS Admiral Sir Maurice J. Mansergh, FLEETS' MMIINED EXEICISES IN MEDITEIIANEAN K.C.B.. C.B.E. to be promoted BY LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER NOWELL HALL. D.S.C.. R.N.V.R. ADMIRAL PACKER R.N. NAVAL PERSONNEL to Admiral in Her Majesty's RETIRES. APPOINTMENT. Fleet: Vice-Admiral P. W. B. The retirement of Admir.tt Su Rear Admiral H W. Biggs. Mediterranean, force consisting oi the "Eagle," under the command of Admiral Brooking, C.B., D.S.O.» (Rein March, 1953. "Indomitable," "Theseus," "Im Carney with whom the Com H.rhert A Packer. K.C.B.. C.B D.S.O., was in January appointed ed) to be promoted to Admiral \ - has been announced by the Deputy Chief of (R.N ) Per Seldom has the month of placable,' 'and "Indefatigable" mander in Chief, Mediterranean, on the Retired List; Rear-Ad (the last two from the Training closely co-operates. British Admiralty. Admiral sonnel (Personal Services) in sue miral I. M R Campbell C.B.. March been marked by such P.icker has been placed on the cession to Rear Admiral D. M. Naval training activities as are Squadron) was the largest yet In "Rendezvous," which Ad D.S.O * to be promoted to Vice- seen in these annual combined ex miral Mountbatten is directing Retired List Lees. C.B, D.S.O.. whose recent Admiral in Her Majesty's Fleet. now proceeding in Mediterranean. retirement t-» the Retired Lisl is Hundreds of warships and larue ercises. Among frigates were the from his headquarters at Malta, PROMOTION TO ADMIRAL announced els.where in these R.N. ATHLETE DIED numbers of aircraft of NATO na "Venus," "Verulam" and "Vir naval and air forces of many IN HER MAJESTY'S FLEET. columns IN IRISH SEA DISASTER. tions ire taking part in series of ago," three of the Royal Navy's NATO nations arc combining to The promotion of Vice-Admir newest vessels designed and equip' ensure safe passage of convoys An outstanding Royal Naval large-scale exercises which em i ^ir Maurice J. Mansergh, K.C. CAPTAIN OF THE FLEET phasis the great contribute »n * »t ped to hunt and destroy fast sub through the Mcditerra nea n. H C BE., tn the rank of Admit -;;id int-.r-Service athlete is pre marines of the type which might Among forces under him are war TO C.-IN-C. sumed to have lost his life when combined sea and air power t<> in Her Majesty's Fleet, h.i- MEDITERRANEAN. Western defence. well be used in considerable ships of Turkey, a comparative Ken announced by the British the Irish Sea ferry steamer strength against allied shipping in newcomer to NATO. I believe The appointment in the rank H ird of Admiralty. "Princess Victoria" sank off the Each exercise largely concerns a future war. It was the frigates' this is the first time Turkey has of Captain, of Captain M. Ever Scottish coast on January ?1. He protection of sea communications first appearance in the Home and joined in a major sea exercise of NEW FLAG OFFICER .ird. R.N., as Captain of the Fleet was Petty Officer George T. vital to the allies- And all stresses Mediterranean fleet manoeuvres. the Organisation. Turkey is the (FLOTILLAS) BRITISH to the Commander in Chief. Med wnght (2J), of Holly Cottage, strategic the importance of the fourth sector of the Meditcrran Two other exercises, "New HOME FLEET. iterranean. has been announced. East Heathley. Sussex. It was Mediterranean both as an area can command, the others being Hoon" and "Rendezvous," in The appointment of Rc.ir Ad not known at the time that he covering Europe's south flank and the Western Central (Italy), and FIRST PAKISTANI C. INC both of which NATO sea and air ril I P. 1. Reid. C.B.. R.N.. was on the "Princess Victoria," what is even more important as Eastern Mediterranean (Greece). OF R.P.N. forces are engaged, are being stag' :- Flag Officer (Flotillas) Bnti-h although he was due to proceed an ocean highway linking Europe The Turkish naval command is Rear Admiral H M. S. C.hoii ed in the middle and possibly the H. me Fleet in succession to Rear t-. the Royal Naval Air Station to Middle East and beyond. It is divided into two parts. The first, dhn. Royal Pakistan Navy, has eastern part of Mediterranean. AJmiral W U. A. Rohson. C.B., at Eglmton. Northern Ireland. also significant that in the day and under Admiral Sadik Alt mean. succe.'ded Vice Admiral J. W. Forces involved include many l^ S.O.. D.R.C.. to daw from Aug from the United Kingdom. night "battle*" now going on car Commander - in - Chief, Turkish ; Jeff .rd. C.B. D.S.O.. R.N.. as ships of Britain's Mediterranean .-:. IW . h<- been announced. Wright was the holder of the rkx and land-based aircraft, par Navy, covers the Black Sea area. Commander-in-Chief, Royal Pak Fleet. "New Moon" is designed Meantime rr->m February. Ad Navy mile and three mile records, ticularly Naval aircraft, have a The second, under Admiral Rid- istan Navy. He is the first Pakis to test sea and air defences of miral Reid has been engaged on the inter-Services thive-mile re bigger role than ever. van Koral, covers the Straits tani to become Commander-in- Southern Europe and is being di- thi stalf ' t the Commanderin- crd. and he won the Nave cross and the Sea of Marmora and pro Chief First exercise was the three-day rected from his Naples headquart Chief, Portsmouth, for the Cor country championship in 1WR. tects sea communications through "Crossbow" conducted at the ers by Admiral Robert B. Carney -. lion Naval Review. 1949, 1950, and 1951. that area between European and ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF western end of the Mediterran in his NATO capacity of Com Acian Turkey. Turkey's partici PROMOTION TO NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. MOUNTBATTEN ean by British Home and Medit mander in Chief, Southern pation in this big convoy exercise VICE-ADMIRAL ADMIRALTY. APPOINTED PERSONAL erranean Fleets. Such manoeu Europe. It is stated that the two indicates the growing strength of IN H.M.'s FLEET. In the rank of Captain. Cap A.D.C. TO QUEEN. vres are held annually when the exercises which are closely lntv- NATO defences in the Mediter The promotion of Rear Admir- tain M. G. Haworth. D.S.C. and The appointment of Admiral Home Fleet goes south for its grated arc the biggest planned for I Huehei Hallett, C..B . D.S. Bar. R.N.. has been appointed to the Earl Mountbatten of Burma. spring cruise. They afford op ihe Mediterranean since the war. O, t" Vice-Admiral in Her the British Admiraltv aa Assistant K.G., etc.. as Personal Aide de portunity for both fleets to put in But though they can be regarded Majesty's Fleet, has been announc Director of Naval Intelligence. Camp to Her Majesty the some advanced combined tactical almost as one, the second marks a R.A.N. AIRMAN KILLED ed by the British Admiralty Queen, has been announced by training. "Crossbow" hinged on definite advance in the NATO IN CRASH AFTER AIR DUKE WINS HIS WINGS. the British Admiralty. defence of convoys against air scheme of Mediterranean sea de' COLLISION. The Duk: of Edinburgh, wear ADMIRAL TORLESSE'S surface and underwater attack, fence- It is directed by Admiral A R.A.N, officer, Lieutenant- ing the uniform of a Marshal ol NEW APPOINTMENT. GREEK KING APPOINTED that being the central theme of Earl Mountbatten, Commander in Commander Reginald Albert the Royal Air Force, received his The British Admiralty has an HON. ADMIRAL IN all exercises having to do with Chief, Britain's Mediterranean Wild, D.F.C., was killed when a pilot's wings at a private cere -. unced the appointment of Rear- H.M.'s FLEET. protection of sea communications. Fleet in his new NATO post of Sea Fury plane crashed following mony at Buckingham Palace on Admiral A I). Torlesse. C.B.. In pursuance of Her M.ijesty's On this occasion there were dif C.-in-C. Mediterranean. a collision with a Tiger Moth air May 4 The RAF. Chief of D.S.O.. as Flag Officer Ground pleasure. His Majesty King Paul ferences. Admiral Sir George craft over Forest Hill aerodrome, Staff. Air Chief Marshal Sir Training in succession to Rear -i the Hellenes has been appoint' Creasy. Commander in Chief In time of war Admiral Mount- near Wagga, on May 17. The William Dickson, presented the AJmiral C. R L. Parry. C.B. -.J an Honorary Admiral in Her Home Fleet who directed the ex batten or his successor would be Tiger Moth also crashed, but its wmgs P.S.O.. „s from May, 195J. Majesty's Fleet ercise had overall charge of *0 responsible for maintaining com' pilot escaped with injuries to the to 60 warships. They included munications right through the R.N. RETIREMENTS. FLAG LIST CHANGES. PROMOTED TO ADMIRAL collarbone and wrist. Lieutenant' one battleship, the 42,500 tons sea, and would thus control move Recent R.N. retirements to the The following changes in the ON RETIRED LIST. Comiriander Wild, a veteran of "Vanguard," which is his flag ment of all NATO Naval forces World War II and the Korean Retired List include Rear-Admiral Flag List arc announced by the Vice Admiral P W B. Brook ship, five carriers, seven cruisers, D. M Lees. C.B., D.S.O.,. and British Admiralty to date lHth ing. C.B., D.S.O. (Retired), has to this end. The United States War, was leading a flight of four 19 destroyers and several frigates Sixth Fleet as a force designed to Sea Furies back to Nowra air Rear-Admiral P. V. McLaughlin. March. I'J'.V Admiral Sir Herbert •seen promoted to Admiral on the and submarines. The ca rrie r (• B.. D.S.O. A Packer. K.CB.. C BE to be (R.N.i Retired List. support land offensives remains base after air exercises. it Taa NsMV JkptMfc --*—•" —T' " J - P'1'JU.-lWHJI subsided was about thirty min rarest of opportunities. A century SEA-ODDITIES utes. would not be enough to examine properly the thousands miles of How do the i tr-' Emperor pen and trouble-centre since it was land vertebraes. or animals that reef and islet, cay and lagoon. AAIONS cutnt .it their mokertes on Adelie According to a "Fact" corre discovered by a British ship in possess a backbone. Of al! There is nothing like the Great Land, keep »li\.- on the ice, spondent. Able - Seaman Frank EXCHAMI I86T. In that year it was jut! a known creatures the coelacanth Barrier in the world" through the terrible winter hltz reef By 1894 it was SO feet high has lived the longest and has re Burrows, of Cheshire, England, -.ird?. with their nnly fond fish Four years later the ocean had nut tied almost unchanged in g.'n saved the lives of 10 men recent which they must *. itch from the beaten it down to a shoal agajn. eral form. It has presumably sur ly by dipping his macintosh in Another interesting creature of icy, halffncen sea? How do Thirty years passed: then, in vived by Irving at great depths m oil, lighting it and waving it the North Australian waters is is I GRESHAM STREET they keep w irm their eggs< and l"2S. the volcano, over which the ocean, escaping the later- above his head. The men, sur the sail fish. Specimens of this feed their chicks'* One of the the island lies, erupted again, and evolved predatory fish, and the vivors from the sinking steamer beautiful blue coloured, brown SYDNEY mysteries of natur.il history i- thi> Falcon Uland towered Win feet ancient and modern d-*epsea fish "Stanley Force" were drifting doited fish have been caught up bird** .tbilitv to withstand the in above the sea Buf by |9?8 the ermen, by virtue of its remoteness hopelessly in the treacherous to 7 feet 9 inches in length. The tense cold of Antarctica It was ocean had ch« »ppcd it di >\\ n to from the wont elements nf de Race of Alderney, off the Cher fin on the back of one of that size Ml feet. And today, the scientists bourg Peninsula of France, un was .» feet long and 2 feet wide, in .m attempt t Ivc the*.- ques- struction. Apparently ;t still Only th* Bast (rands tmu and some others th.it led the said they had tu dive 71 fe.t into lues usually in the primeval slime til Burrows' improvised signal at and, when erected, stood up latest French Antarctic Expedi the sea to rind what remains tit ol th: oceans, from which all life tracted help. exactly like the mainsail of a StocUd. turn, recently in Melbourne. to it The Pacific has evidently emerged- It is to US the "wonder schooner. When the fish arc ap UfMnt) Room Aikhe Land and t > choose wintei doused the volcano. fish" of our time. Elliott Napier, in his book "On proached or become alarmed they Unsurpassed. .i» the time tor the attempt. The the Barrier Reef," reminds us that close it down with a snap. members of the expedition, which The wh« >Ie w< »rld ha $ in >w T- iday. if we read ot a ship in the glorious region ot "TV wa* led by Monsieur Mafic Mar R.A.N. APPOINTMENTS. twice been stirred by the dtseo\ leaving for (juam, we know that Barrier" Nature "has bestowed a ret. believe they have some of cry of ,i Ganoid type of fish, she has left for the big United gift upon Australia which is as Th." Minister for the Navy, the the MBwen CD the mystery IUT* AARONS which, since the beginning of States naval base in the north unique as it is wonderful. The Hon. William McMahon, an rounding this bird, but are not scientific research, was believed Pacific. But terminologies, like Barrier Reef contains an area of nounced on May 22 new appoint EXCHANGE making any public statements un to have become extinct 10 or W> tunes and customs, change. Vests over 80,000 square miles: of its ments for officers in the Engineer HOTEL t;! they h.ive delivered their re millon years ago. The story of ago. when the piesent writer was length of 1500 miles, over 1000 ing Branch of the Royal Austra pent to the French Government. the first discovery, made m South a youth, the island of Guam had miles are in purely Australian lian Navy. M Marret did disclose, however Africa in I9J8, was told, in brief, no trade and no importance at waters. It contains thousands of Captain (E) E. A. Good, that from one M . SPEAKING OF SHIPS The new* th it the Orient Lin. engineer. James Arthur Tiver, a French merchant navy officers When Communist guns on the blockade of the Korean coast and tvnoVffa Ha enesflwlBai i- (o maintain Australia's an link Sydney Court of Marine Inquiry ended their three week-old strike Korean mainland shelled a friend the defence of friendly islands u'th America, with the diversion held on May 7. The court, how on May 18. They did not get the ly island in the Haeju area, the close to the mainland. To the ENGINEER t' the Pacific of the liner "Oron ever, was of opinion that the reduced hours they demanded, Canadian destroyer "Nootka" islanders the warships are much sav. has been welcomed most ap fault did not amount to gross mis but will receive long* monthly (Commander R. M. Steele, more than protectors. They carry 9-11-3 THERRV ST.. prc.-i.ttively in Australia. conduct. leave. R.C.N.) came to the rescue with food to the islands that cannot such accurate gunnery that four now obtain supplies from the main MELBOURNE. VICTORIA Among the pl.il!' ..i the Royal There is growing need for over- The Idemitsu Oil Company of out of six shells scored direct hits land, give medical treatment, and National Life-Boat Institution (of ace vessels on the Australian Japan, which is buying oil from on the gun position and caused a mark out fishing areas Great Rntain) .ire the suhatjtu Coast to be replaced by modern Persia, transporting it in the big explosion in a cave. The tar The islands, in turn, provide tion oi die Jww, int. RAN. CADET MIDSHIPMAN and we began to wonder about WINS GRAND AGGREGATE. the condition of the lower yard* which would have to support the A Royal Australian Navy pressure in a storm." cadet-midshipman has won the Grand Aggregate pri:e for Sup And here he is, in "Howling ply and Secretariat Branch Cadet- SUMO Desolation." watching the black Midshipmen, who completed Farewell »i indjanimcr. By Holger ing third mate of a great sailing storm clouds piling up in their their training in the training cruis Tr.sicff With Preface hv Al.in ship after only four months* ex wake and thundering down upon er H.M.S. "Devonshire" during ELECTIIG LAUNDRIES PTY. LTD. \ liin rs) Published hy Thami-* perience on the high sea< Yet the ship, a momentary glimpse of April He was Cadet Midship .;! J Hudson. L.inJ.in and New perhaps an even greater tribute the t Irani Race home, which the man (S) Barrie Lawson West, 83 MILLER STREET, R0RTH STOREY Y ,rl to h:s ability and character is the "Passat" won. of MooriKilhark. Victoria. fact that he filled the post with "W e had now reached latitude This i. tin- stury "I the lis* Midshipman West received his a it. > inconsiderable measure ot fifty degrees south and hy five prire from His Royal Highness, XB 202" aitward ind homeward voyage success. o'clock it was already dark. There of flic of the last o( the big - the Duke of Edinburgh. i>n Tues We Kiyagc with a lively fancy were -low thrc. men at the wheel, squ. re sail windjammers The day. 14th April. in chapter after chapter. The two of them lashed, and with author in li:- -111111111' calls it: "An The Minister for th.- Navy hook first deals with the "Last the wind on the quarter they had Aecouni oi the Last Circumnavi (the Hon. William McMahoni Days ..t Sail" and with the de literally to fight to keep the ship g.ition of the Globe hy .1 Sailing said that this information has cling and oblivion of the ships on her course. No. I never left SPECIALISTS IN QUICK SERVICE LAUNDRY Ship tnd the Last <»rain Race been received by the Naval that figured ill it the "Lawhill," th • immediate vicinity of the bin from Australia t.. England." And Board on 16th April. OF ALL TYPES. "Viking," "Pamir," and "Passat". nacle, and his gaze played be that, in t'aet. in a broad sense, tits The Minister said that Midship The author's ship is the "Passat", tween the howling rigging and the hook exactly. man West's achievement of win a four masted barque of 4,700 the face of the compass, which Yel the hook in .1 spiritual was lit hy the fluttering light of ning the Grand Aggregate award tons burthen and the largest of in the Supply and Secretariat sense is more than that: it is a the four. How its crew, compris two paraffin lamps. A point or so RING FOR IMMEDIATE SERVICE personal record of experience at off the course and up into the Branch was very praiseworthy, as ed mainly of dilettantes with he would be competing against sea. the like of which may never little or no seafaring experience, wind would set the sails aback, he written again. and if that happened we should Cadet-Midshipmen of Navies faced up to the work, knew some from other countries of the Brit An J that is the work's great of the glory, of square-sail sea he extraordinarily lucky to escape major damage to the sails and rig ish Commonwealth. est charm. If here and there the manship it shown in pictures Midshipman West entered the authors approach and manner of that, if a little naive and lands ging . . . That night the howling of the rigging turned into a roar Royal Australian Naval College treatment is somewhat amateurish, man-like, are none the less ex at Flinders Naval Depot (Vic "MAIN" COALS the lapses if such they can he tremely interesting. . . a whole gale . . . The helms men were glad of their lashings toria) in January, 1952, and in FROM THE MAITLAND (NSW.) COALFIELD callrd cnntrarilv merely contrib Perhaps the two best chapters July he went to the United King ute greatly to the hooks sincer are those entitled "Rising Seas" Through seas that really were PELAW MAIN—RICHMOND MAIN enormous, 'Passat' plunged along dom for training in the Royal itv and genuineness. and "Howling Desolation." Here Navy. He is 19 years of age. ABERMAIN—STANFORD MAIN The author is m fact so gen is the author encountering the at a logged speed of thirteen umc at times thst in certain cir "Passat's" first major mishap of knots, despite her load and the few sails she was carrying." ISLAND VOLCANO for Gat, Railways, Manufacturer* and Householder*. cumstances and events the reader the voyage. BLOWS UP AGAIN. almost feels AS though he is work- "I stepped out of the poop and, It is of interest to note that ins aboard with him. one of his still drunk with sleep, looked the last two deep-water windships A menage from Port Moresby STOCKRINGTON COALS curious intrepid shipmates. He on May 21 reported that the vol around me in the rolling ship. I - -the "Pamir" and the "Passat" unturpaawd for Bunker*. finds himself reacting almost as he saw at once that something un had started nut on their last cano on Long Island. 100 miles and they reacted But can the usual had occurred. No. 2 had voyages practically about the same east of Madang, which has been FIRST GRADE STEAM COAL FROM THE author be called at fault for that1 active recently, erupted again on had the topgallants furled during time as the U.S.A. announced "BOREHOLE'' SEAM, NEWCASTLE (NSW.). Not m sincere work like this the morning watch, but there that work was about to begin on that day. The first eruption oc Quite the reverse, in fact. were figures still crawling about the first two vessels designed to curred on May 9. At the last Though the reader's reaction the main upper topgallant yard be driven by atomic power. Cie eruption huge clouds of smoke Apply to: against the author may on occa and seemingly hard at work. No. era of deep-sea sailing was end billowed up from the island's sions he adverse, even disputatory, 2 was standing amidships watch ing and another just beginning. centre to a height of 6.000 feet. most often it will find him feel ing them ... I went across to Will the era of atomic power he An aircraft which flew over the J. & A. BROWN & ABEMMIN SEAHAM ing only the highest respect and find out what had happened. The as romantic and as interesting as crater could not penetrate the admiration In fact, Tresleff's ex starboard yard-arm had crumpled the sail? Perhaps! Anyhow, one black ash and smoke and had to perience was an extraordinary sea a fathom or so from the end, and thing may be said: it will almost turn away from the scene. About faring achievement It is indeed it appeared that the steel pipe certainly be safer and faster. 300 inhabitants of the island, in cluding all the women and the a tribute to personal worthiness was very badly corroded intern "Farewell Windjammer" is a Head OKce: OoVei ally through water having lodged aged people, were evacuated to and an event surely unique book well worthy of an honoured SYDNEY. N.S.W. NEWCASTLE. that the young author of the book there This did not augur well Sudor on the New Guinea main niche in the library of the sea land following the first eruption. should succeed in becoming act for the strength of the rigging. farer. Jm. IWI EX-NAVAL MENS EASTER NAVY DAYS AT CHATHAM HAVE LINK WITH PAST Visitors to Navy Days held at It was on ?0th April, 1903, Royal Navy's progress both afloat Association J%\ of Australia Chatham on 4th, *th and 6th that the first 5,0<>0 officers and and in the air. April were able to take a step men, previously housed in hulks, Displays for visitors from the back into history to the Royal formally marched into the new, London area and all parts of Navy of fifty years ago, da>*s but still uncompleted, barracks on Kent ranged from a mock, but Patron-in-Chief: Her Majesty The Queen. when tattooed and beared ratings which work had b;en started realistic, gun action between a in loose-fitting uniforms and shal nearly five years before. The ship dummy cruiser and destroyer and (FEDERAL COUNCIL). Hcate to Mr. Hallett for his 1111 tcred 2" members for the Terri low-brimmed caps, who lived on name "Pembroke," which had a fight between boarding parties mess decks where candles were been borne ever since that time of ratings and pirates on a captur His Excellency the Governor yring efforts on behalf of ex- tory's Ansae Day March. This used to improve the dimlight- by the Chatham Barracks, was ed junk to high'speed attacks by t rcncral has granted Ins Patron* Naval personnel, and has re Section will hold its Annual Ball ing, scorned cigarettes as effem transferred to the establishment Naval jet fighter aircraft in action *ge to the Association during his quested Mr. (>. (Angas) McKee, ..t the Red Cross Hall. Port inate in favour of "pusserV* leaf from a vessel of that name, a against a Naval vessel. :erm of office in Australia. the State President, to make the Moresby, on Friday, 10th July, presentation on behalf of the Fed' when it is fully anticipated that CobaCCO rolled in canvas anJ tied former flagship of the Command While many H.M. ships in the Due to publicity given m recent • -r.il President. 4 fit* Navy JUII. IW3. R.A.N. PLAYS IMPORTANT PART IN CORONATION FESTIVITIES. The Royal Australian Navy A. BAGLEY & SON played a prominent part in the Sydney celebration! of the Cor 211-213 BEAMISH ST., onation of Her Majesty, Queen CAMPSIE. Elizabeth II., on June 2. The Navy had nine ships participat N.S.W. ing in the colourful display in The largest and most Sydney Harbour on Coronation up-to-date Shoe Store Night. Each ship was beautifully decorated and illuminated, and in the district was the display, witnessed by vast established by us in crowds packed along the harbour 1920. foreshores, included a brilliant fireworks exhibition and other at tractions. Ships taking part in REPAIRS? YES! Th» futur* ol steam lor marine purpesei the display and the berths they it mat by the stnit tebcock develop ments, which, in turn, are backad by occupied were as follows: ov»r SO yeen' tea eiperience. At •••, "Australia" (Shell Cove Buoy) Best of leather and •l on lend, time hat proved tha service "Vengeance" • (Kirnbilli dol el tebcocs Bo.lar Plant workmanship phins) guaranteed. BABCOCK & WILCOX "Arunt.t"' (Athol Bight) Or AISTXM U I'D II Ml IKK "Bataan" (No. 2 Buoy) EtMMettM »ND OM'HI ron« Point) Hud Ollice * Work; I •••:: ?:•*. : S,N Murchison" (off Robertson •ranch Officii and *a-- *•• in all States. PHONE: LF3183. Point) "Barcoo" (No. 1 Buoy) "Wagga" (No. 3 Buoy) "Cootamundra" (West of .»•«..... <» »-^ Shark Island) FOR "BETTER SERVICE" "Tactician" (N e u t r a I Bay Buoy) To "THE NAVY," LAYTON PLATING The mooring of the nine Naval vessels, lit from stem to stern, ROYAL EXCHANGE Company Pty. Ltd. around the central part of the BUILDING, Harbour added greatly to the BRIDGE ST., SYDNEY. gaiety and brilliance of the scene. • Please register my subscrip MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR 48 Mallet Stmt tion to "The Navy." The "CENTAUR" DEAD. rate is 18 - per 12 issues dnperdown The Governor of New South post free in the British Tetehone: LA 3168. Wales. Lieutenant - General Sir Empire. I send Postal Note/ John Northcott, on May 17 at Cheque, Money Order for tended a service held in St. An issues. drew's Anglican Cathedral, Syd (Add exchange where ney, in memory of those who applicable) died in the sinking of the Aus Specialists in All Clavses Commencing from: Flfnropl.niriE. tralian hospital ship "Centaur," torpedoed by a Japanese submar Nothing Too Lance—Nothing ine off Queensland in 1943. Sub Too Small. sequently a wreath, carried by Name two survivors of the sinking (Mr. Contractor* to H.M. Naval Addre** Dockyards, Garden Island. L. Hogan, of Ccssnock, and Mr. W. Cornell, of Sydney, both Meet's Dock, and Cockatoo former ambulance personnel on Dock. board) was laid on the Cenotaph Date.. in Martin Place. TIM aaafU ACHIEVEMENT The entry of the first capital ship. H.M. Air are the mighty masses of G.E.C. and B.G.E. craft Carrier "Illustrious," into the Captain electrical equipment. . . . These include Cook Graving Dock on March 2nd. 1945. three main G.E.C. electric motors of 1.200 represented a great and visible achieve h.p. each, and over 100 smaller motors; 45 ment made possible only by an even route miles of Pirelli-General cable; ten greater but unseen achievement beneath E.P.M. transformers, and other large-scale the Dock itseli. . . . Many feet below the electrical equipment which plays a vital bed of Sydney Harbour, housed in man- part in the smooth running of this great made caverns hewn from the solid rock. enterprise /** /9 f** * S> 4T%s -4* i ** f7% j, A i r *3 c tSiiuml f7%jr%7o 4€1/774T77± Tf/f^JC^A ** 'm .S»/*' liiW/i turn Ni-fir*-%*tthiliiv •. ../ 111. Crm-nil H.riri, In 1 hi. ..( /.,./,,,..; Jr 11 + sroNiv NIWCAiUI MlllOUINI AOIIAIOI IRIltANt 1* PIKTH " •»«' IAUNCISTON Building Publuliinii Co. Pt>. Lid.. 20 Loli.n Si.. Sydn*>—BW IMS. ABOUT ALUMINIUM No I In 1886. the electrolysis method of producing Aluminium wos discovered ond this, basically, it the method used to-day. Baunte ore it first treated to produce pure alumina: thit onde it dutolved in molten cryolite and a heavy electric current patted through the solution from corbon anodet to the Rolling aiumimum theet it not basically different carbon llninq of the bath. The oiygen combines with from that of most other metalt: o prepared catt the anodet to etcape at carbon dionde. and metallic ingot it reduced in gauge by patting between aluminium sinks to the bottem. whence it it tapped. hardened tteel rolls. It it first rolled hot. but final Little chango totes place in the cryolite: the ca.uon reductions ore mode cold to obtain a good finish and anodes ore consumed and have to be regularly perhapt. by work-hardening, a detired degree of reolaced. hardnett. The production of accurately-gauged, flow- lets sheet and strip demandt very precite ond elabor Four poundt of high-grade baunte are needed ate equipment and much eipenence. to produce two of alumina which will yield one w pound of olummium of over °° 0 purity. Roughly Equal in importance it the eitrution proce.t by 10 KWh of electricity are contumed for each pound which lengths of metal of constant iiutt-tection. of metal obtained: thit mokes cheep one plentiful solid or hollow, are mode. Very high pretturet are power ettential. and the world s main reduction plantt used to force hot plastic aluminium out of a are sited on tpecrolly built hydro-electric tchemet container through a ttee! die of the required thape. 4GJ7 AUSTRALIAN ALUMINIUM COMPANY PTY. LTD. (Incorporated in the State of Victoria) Mail P O Boa 12. Granville Phone: UU2J21 SALES OFFICES N.S W 82 Pitt Street. Sydney 'Phone BW 2464-6 VIC. : 77 Bridge Road, Richmond. 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