AUSTRALIA'S MARITIME JOURNAL JANUARY, 3953 I '6 CONTENTS
JANUARY. 1953.
EDITORIAL: or an M.V. "DUNTROON"— 10,100 ion. o< New Scheme for Training Engineer Officers for the Merchant Navy 4 Surveying Australian Waters ... . 6 MELBOURNE Merchant Navy Radio Medical Advice Service . . 5 STEAMSHIP ARTICLES: CO. LTD. Britain Is Concentrating on Small Ships 7 Head Office: THE WONDERFUL LAMP Accommodation in R.N. Ships . . • 31 KING ST., MELBOURNE M.u. in Auitt*li* lot Th« G«n.f*l Electric Co Ltd o( Engijna Pyrotechnic Signals .. 10 German S.S. Man to Salvage Rommel's Treasure . ... II Tha Monte Bello Test 14 MANAGING AGENTS FOR The Queen to Launch New Royal Yacht 31 HOBSONS BAY DOCK AND ENGINEERING CO. PTY. LTD. FEATURES: Works: Williamstown, Victoria and News of the World's Navies 15 Maritime News of the World ... 19 HODGE ENGINEERING CO. Personal Paragraphs 22 PTY. LTD. Sea Oddities 24 Works: Sussex St., Sydney. Speaking of Ships 26 SHIP REPAIRERS. ETC. Book Reviews 28 R.A.N. Awards 29
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over one of the most treacherous marine beds in SURVEYING AUSTRALIAN WATERS. the Australian waters- The ocean bed in Bass Strait, it appears, is al *HJ8.. The announcement in Canberra on December most fiat except for "needle rocks" which rise CO 26 by the Minister for the Navy (the Hon. within a few feet of the surface in 30 or 40 Australia's Marittac Journal William McMahon) that H-M.A.S. "Warrcgo" fathoms of water. Such a rock is Wakapipu, which and H.M.A.S. "Barcoo" would leave Sydney on rises to within 6 feet of the surface and is only January 2 to survey the Bass Strait and Gabo Is 6 feet in diameter across the top. Although the land areas was received in Senior Naval circles area in question had been charted previously, the not unexpectedly. The fact that some Australian rock was unknown until the ship "Wakapipu" marine charts were still based on the charts of struck it and was holed in the early part of this Captain Cook and Matthew Flinders- *good century. though they were considering the conditions un A most satisfactory feature of the surveys, is der which they were made- could hardly be de that the operating ships are both of a type well scribed as a position meriting complacency and equipped to make them. Captain Tancred said satisfaction. both the "Warrcgo" and "Barcoo" are equipped It came, therefore, as no surprise when Captain with the most modern echo-sounding devices, G. D. Tancred, senior officer of the Royal Aus which would be used to chart the seabed. tralian Navy's hydrographic service, which has the Each vessel carries three diescl-driven motor job of surveying Australian waters, amplified the boats fitted with echo-sounding equipment. These Ministerial announcement with a press statement motor boats would do most of the actual sounding on December 27. work. After pointing out that "lers than ten per cent Captain Tancred estimated that it would take of Australia's seven million square miles of ocean another 20 years to survey the Australian waters waters had been covered by modern surveys," thoroughly. Without wishing in any way to be Captain Tancred went on to reiterate that our critical, it cannot he too strongly emphasised that maritime approaches have "all been surveyed in a the sooner the work is completed the better it will sort of a way, but some of our marine charts arc be for Australian maritime welfare and efficiency. still based on the charts of Cook and Flinders." And "in those days," he emphasised, "soundings were taken by swinging the lead- by dropping a MERCHANT NAVY RADIO MEDICAL It is known that the councils of both the Navi lead weight attached to :. line." ADVICE SERVICE. JANUARY. 1953. No. I. Vol. 17. gators and Engineer Officers' Union and the Mer As announced by the Minister on December 26, cantile Marine Service Associatoin have advocated NEW SCHEME FOR TRAINING ENGINEER the "Warrcgo" will operate east and west of the From time to time evidence comes to hand of for many years the necessity of introducing an al Furncaux Group and in the approach to Lady OFFICERS FOR THE MERCHANT NAVY. ternative scheme to the normal shc-c-going ap the very useful work which is performed by this Barron Harbour. At a request of the Tasmanian particular service which has been available for prenticeship, and accordingly will no doubt wish Government she will obtain data for a chart of success to this new method of training. It is in some years in the United Kingdom. A feature of In the September, 1952, issue of this lournal Lady Barron Harbour to assist shipping in remov the service is that it is free of charge. details were given of the new seheme tor the train teresting to note that at the inauguration of the ing primary products grown on Lady Barron Is Navigators and Engineer Officers* Union in 1936 Shipmasters in general are familiar with the inn of Engineer Officers for the Merchant Navy. land. procedure which is given in chapter 24 of the The enrolment of boys by Shipping Companies provision was made in the Rules of that body to promote and actively participate in the work of The "Warrcgo" will then survey Hanns Inlet, "Ship Captain's Medical Guide," but the latest has now taken plaee, and the results apparently which leads from Western Port Bay to the wharf returns seem to indicate that the facilities offered have been very satisfactory. training of Engineer Apprentices for the Sea Ser vice. It would seem therefore that the scheme will of Flinders Naval Depot. arc not being fully utilised. The British Ministry of Transport, in conjunc The "Barcoo," in turn, will survey the Gabo In 1951, 77 British and 7? foreign ships made tion with the Education Authorities, have arrang' have the support of .ill organisations, employer and employee, affected by it. Island area taking in about 1,650 square miles use of the service in the United Kingdom and in ed special classes at Technical Colleges throughout of sea. In carrying out her survey the "Barcoo" all 515 messages to and from ships, most of them the United Kingdom where the boys will com During their training the Engineer Apprentices will use. Captain Tancred said, the marked land will be eligible to take up membership with their containing medical advice, wen transmitted. mence the first two years of their training. features in a triangulation to pinpoint her posi The facilities are provided by the G.P.O. at each representative organisation as Probationary Mem tions at sea. Several shoal patches have been dis This embodies a two-year ordinary National bers, exactly the same way as their brother appren o( the eleven Coast Stations and cover the whole Diploma course in mechanical engineering with covered, disturbingly enough, on the main ship twenty-four hours. Day and night medical advice tices on deck, at an annual subscription to the or ping routes in this area. additional practical training during vacation fol ganisation of £1. Accordingly, they will be en can be freely and readily obtained. lowed by a period of IS months' service as an titled to all the benefits of the Organisation and Reverting to the Lady Barron Harbour-Flinders Each Coast Station has a list of doctors and apprentice Engineer .it sea, and finally a period of the wide range of specialised services which the Island-Bass Strait survey to be undertaken by the hospitals to which messages should be referred. 12 months' special training in a shipyard or ma Organisation places at the disposal of its members- "Warrcgo," Captain Tancred explained further When a request for advice is received the matter rine engine builders' or other suitable engineering that the Tasmanian Premier's Department had This journal would like to congratulate both is referred to a local doctor or hospital and the asked for this survey so that ships could take off works. the authors of the scheme and the Organisations advice received is transmitted, or a further mes the products of soldier settlers on Flinders and September, 1952, marked the beginning of the it affects on this further step forward in the fu sage is sent asking for more details to enable a other islands in the Furncaux Group. He empha new scheme, and in four and a half years' time ture well-being of the Seafarer. Nothing succeeds diagnosis to be made and appropriate treatment sised that the "Warrego" would be operating the boys will have completed their training to tak-: like co-operative effort. to be recommended. up duties on board ship as Junior Engineer Officers. TW Navy January, 1953. 4 "BRITAIN IS CONCENTRATING ON SMALL SHIPS" By NOWELL HALL, YOU NEED Naval Correspondent of "The Daily Telegraph," London.
A recent statement by Mr. J. guided missiles, new usefulness un that her chief naval strength, con P. L. Thomas, Britain's First Lord der modern conditions of war at sidered numerically, lies in small of the Admiralty, explains why a sea must be limited. But those ships. great change is coming about in who speak disparagingly of the Most of the considerable new the composition of the Royal battleship, and are tempted to construction is devoted to small Navy. write her off as a "has been," ships. Britain's private yards are Warnings have been given from should remember that she is a mag now building 65 more minesweep time to time in all the allied coun- nificent sea-ship. She is able to ers, fast, shallow-draught vessels, tries that the main threats co operate in all weathers, and in her largely of non-magnetic materials, operating navies would face at sea capacity to give and take punish seven aircraft-carriers and fifteen in any future war would be of ment she still has no equal. destroyers and frigates. three types. These arc the mine, Nevertheless, such are scientific In addition, the Admiralty is the fast submarine, and air attack developments in wartime offence carrying out a big refitting and on shipping. Possibly the three, and defence since the Second conversion programme, again most in so far as they could be sepa- World War, the battleship is tem ly of smaller ships such as destroy •fa If You Want an Efficient Insulation Job rated from one another, would porarily outmoded. The time has ers and frigates. rate in importance in that order. yet to come when she can again Cautiously, the First Lord of the fa Using the Best of Materials It it with an eye to such pos fulfil her traditional role as the Admiralty referred in his speech sible developments that the Ad hub of the modern fleet. to those destroyers which are miralty planners are now concen Let us consider the strength of being brought from reserve and fa Carried Out in the Shortest Possible Time trating on providing more small the British Navy, as given in the converted to fast submarine "kill ships. current Navy Estimates. Britain ers." "We have now had time to fa At the Lowest Price — Ring Mr. Thomas said that the Ad has five battleships. Four of them evaluate the first few of these, and miralty, whose first task is of are in reserve and one, the "Van the general opinion is that they course to keep the sea lanes open, guard," is in commission as flag are an unqualified success," he to maintain those communications ship of the Home Fleet. There are, said. He added that in their con UNI "VERSIL" INSULATING CO. PTY. LTD. which are absolutely vital to mari in all, 524 warships of various version space was being provided 17 M A C O U A R I E PLACE. SYDNEY BW 2373-4 time nation, were concentrating on types listed in the Fleet's total for still more up-to-date weap*>ns. 328 FLINDERS ST.. MELBOURNE MB 1443 1, Providing fast frigates and strength, which includes units ac So far, six or seven of these tively serving, on training and ex ST. GEORGES TERRACE. PERTH minesweepeis; 2, Bringing carriers new anti-submarine frigates have up to date;'and 5, Big ships. He perimental duties, and in reserve. joined the Royal Navy. pointed out that, owing to the There are fourteen aircraft - car The first of them, H.M.S. financial position and the need to riers. "Rocket," which is equipped with use trained manpower to the best Smaller ships, such as mine a new anti-submarine weapon of advantage, big ships could not be sweepers, destroyers and frigates, devastating power, has been un Bardsley's supplied in increasing numbers arc in the vast majority. Even so, dergoing trials with United States Are You a without sacrificing the strength of their numbers fall short of require warships for some weeks past in the all-important small ships. ments. Incidentally, the same can American waters. Rebuilt largely SHAVING In all the major navies of the be said of all the allied fleets. One of aluminium and other tight Subscriber to world the accent is on building of the chief lessons learned from materials, this one-time 34-knot CREAM fleets of small ship- — ships much this year's big programme of Rotherham - class destroyer has more powerful than any previous N.A.T.O. naval exercises has been found extra speed with the saving that all the member navies are For a quicker The Navy units of their size. of weight. H One would be unwise to gene short of little ships, especially The existence of the post-war and ralise about the big fellows of yes minesweepers—those valuable ves weapon with which she and other sels of which there can never be more comfortable Order Your terday such as battleships. For the anti-submarine frigates are being 1 !IS@S2 time being the battleships' time- enough. fitted was revealed by the then honoured role, the focal point of Britain has 165 frigates, among Parliamentary Secretary of the the fighting fleet, has been taken them escort destroyers now re Admiralty early last year. British Lj JEj0r Copy Now over by the aircraft-carrier. Until classified. Excluding little ships naval scientists have evolved a SHAVE some new place is found for her, intended for conversion, she has weapon which may well remove possibly a "bombardment plat 146 minesweepers, and there are much of the menace of the fast form" for the discharge of heavy 110 destroyers. It will be seen submarine It is a type of multi-
Tk. Nny January , 1953.
I barrelled mortar which tires ahead >N IN R.N. SHIPS SYDNEY PRESENTS ITS FLAG TO R.A.N. CARRIER of the ship a pattern of under water homh< so powerful that they Plans have been made to im it is even more difficult tp find will crack the toughest submarine prove messing arrangements in sufficient space to provide dining hull it they explode within a sped Her Majesty's ships. Meals are halls. Nevertheless, in view of tied distance. to he provided in centralised the advantages accruing from cen tralised messing, in particular the This secret equipment locates messes as far as possible, but it removal of all food stowage and it- quarry, aim- and tires automati remains the intention of the washing-up from mess-decks, a cally. No matter how the fugitive British Admiralty to retain as far new system of messing has been submarine may twist and turn, she .is possible the original form of installed for trial in H.M.S. i- tracked down inexorably once mess-life on board Her Majesty's "Venus." Junior ratings, while she is within range ot the pursuing ships one in which the ship's continuing to have meals in their frigate. The number of men neces company is divided into small own messes, draw their meals in sary to operate the new weapon units. dividually from a servcry adjacent is reduced to a minimum. Within the space available, the to the galley. Subsequently their It is a far cry from the "Id maximum privacy will be provided me** gear is returned to a scullery form of attack with depth charges for each mess, and in some in adjacent to the galley tor cen released over the stern a far cry stances bunks will take the place tralised washing up. Chief Petty even tmm the "Squid" used by of hammocks Officers, as far as Officers' and Petty Officers' mess- anti-submarine ships during the possible, .ire to lv provided with men draw the food for their messes Second World War. single cabins, as was the practice from the servcry, the subsequent "Small ships" can be a mislead before World War H. washing-up being done either in ing phrase. The new small ships A British Admiralty Fleet theif pantries or the scullery. of the Royal Navy are as power' Order containing details of the At the same time a variation of ful as were the bigger ships they Admiralty's intentions has been this is being tried in H.M.S. replace. In many eases they are issued. "Virago." Here the serving of more powerful. It states that in new construe Food by messmen and ax>ks of For instance, the Daring class tion and modernised carriers, din messes is carried out in the normal destroyers now mining the Home ing spaces separate from the mess- way, but washing-up is centralised and Mediterranean fleets arc in decks and with adjoining serveries in a scullery adjacent to the gal effect light cruisers. They are and sculleries are being provided ley, except for Chief Petty units of about J000 tons and can so that centralised general messing Officers" and Petty Officers' messes, perform the functions of light may be operated. where it can be done in their pan cruisers. And the/ certainly have In H.M. Ships "Ark Royal," 1 tries. .( heavier "punch." Their radar- "Centaur," "Albion," "Bulwark" controlled 4.5-inch guns are able and "Hermes," aircraft • carriers The practice of providing to inflict more punishment, and under Construction, and in H.M.S, modern steam heated and electric inflict it at a greater "range, than "Eagle" there is one dining space cooking equipment in place of the could some of the bigger guns in for Chief Petty Officers and Petty older types of apparatus in ships earlier ships. Officers and another for junior where sufficient steam and electric ratings. In H.M.S. "Victorious. ' power is available is being con The post-war Royal Navy may now being modernised. Chief tinued as opportunities for carry not be so large as it was in num Petty Officers and Petty Officers ing out the work occur. bers and size of ships, except, of will have their meals in their own The Lord Mayor of Sydney. Alderman P. D. Hill*, this month presented a City of Sydney Flag to tha aircraft-carrier H.M.A.S. course ,the new carriers such as Cool storage for vegetables and messes. Other ratings will be "Sydney" during a ceremony aboard the ihip at Garden Island. The picture shows (left to right] Admiral J. W. M. Eaton, the "Eagle" and her nearly - com fruit is. where practicable, being Aldermen Hills and Captain H. J. luchenan, of the "Sydney," holding the flag after it had been presented before the divided between two dining pleted sister - ship, the "Ark fitted in ships undergoing long re "Sydney's" company. •paces, one forward and one aft, Royal," but it has never been more fit to supplement the limited up each with its own galley, servcry, efficient than it is now. per deck stowage already avail' etc able. This will give ships detach' nesting tables and chairs GO that allocation to selected Senior Chief the spaces may also be used for RECORD FLIGHT BY A trial of centralised general ed from their base for appreciable Petty Officers. A trial has already recreational purposes. It is ex CANADIAN JET. messing in H.M.S. "Glasgow" has periods considerably more fresh been authorised in one ship in "Almost all the world's jute; pected that this policy will be ex not proved successful largely f(x»d than they have hitherto been which a special compartment will almost all the world's rubber; tended to other new construction A message from Ottawa on De owing to the difficulty in providing able to carry. be fitted as a Chief Petty Officers' more than three-quarters of the and mixlernised aircraft-carriers. cember 17 said that a CF. 100 adequate dining halls in addition H.M.S. **Victorious," now being bunk space, containing, in addi world's tea; two-thirds of the It is, however, dependent on the jet fighter established a Canadian- to other living spaces. Cruisers modernised, and the "Hermes" tion to bunks, an appropriate world's tin; and one-third of the installation of centralised general built jet record by flying non will, therefore, continue to be fit Class of aircraft-carriers, are being number of kit lockers. world's oils and fats! All these messing. stop from Ottawa to Winnipeg, arc produced in the area covered ted with normal general messing fitted with bunks for all ratings Barbers' shops are to be provided 1,100 miles, in 2 hours 11 min Consideration is also being given by the Colombo Plan for aid to arrangements, at any rate for the adjacent to their kit lockers. The in all larger ships — battleships, utes. The plane was on its way to providing a small number of South and South-East Isia " present. bunks will be portable and folding. aircraft-carriers and depot ships - to the sub-Arctic for cold weather bunks in other types of ship for —Colombo Plan Report. In destroyers and smaller ships The bunk spaces are provided with where space is available. tests. January, 1953. I TW Navy PYROTECHNIC SIGNALS NEW TONNAGE FOR THE SHAW SAVILL LINE. In W50 .in unfortunate acci at an elevation oi about 40 de- dent befell a -hipmasier .is a result grees The rocket rose to a height The launching of the "Cymric," of the premature exphwion tit an of ahout JO feet but then curved the second of the two twin-screw • 'lit >it date pyn*tcc hnic.il signal, inwards, striking the sea about 30 motor refrigerated cargo liners anJ it was then suggested in ccr feet trom the ships side. The being built by Harland tf Wolff um quarters that the instructions -inking of the water's surface at Ltd. for the Shaw Savill Line, appearing in the Annual Buik of an angle by the nose of the rocket t TW Mow* January. 1953. II • • HELICOPTERS FOR REPORTING OF DEATHS AT SEA "VENGEANCE" DUE IN SYDNEY to carry out the proper and effi MALAYAN JUNGLE cient development of its air com' WARFARE. nonent. The British Ministry of Trans purpose, where the heath of a ON MARCH 11 "The Australian Government The Royal Navy's first opera port has asked that the attention person at sea is assumed to have and the Royal Australian Navy tional helicopter squadron, equip of shipmasters be drawn to the taken place because the person in The aircraft - carrier "Ven Jervis Bay and some at Sydney. are deeply grateful to the British ped with 10 American-built Sikor following: question is reported to be missing, geance," on loan from the British The "Vengeance" is command Government and to the Admiralty sky S55 aircraft, sailed for Malaya or where a person is killed or Admiralty to the Royal Australian ed by Captain H. M. Burrell, for their generosity and co-opera- during the third week of Decem "Acting on the advice at pre drowned as the result of falling Navy, will leave the United King R.A.N., who has been serving in tuiM in helping them to strengthen ber in the aircraft-carrier depot sent given in the official Log Book, or jumping overboard, falling from dom for Australia on January 22 England. The party of 500 officers their defences, and to continue the ship, H.M.S. "Perseus." it is the practice of Masters to re a rope or ladder attached to the and will reach Sydney on March and men who will bring the "Ven highly technical training which is The British High Commissioner cord in the tabular statement of ship, or from the ship's gangway, 11 geance" to Australia left Sydney, necessary in the Royal Australian for Malaya, General Sir Gerald the Official Log not only particu the death should be regarded as In announcing this on January it will be remembered, at the end Navy's new activity." Templer, has appealed more than lars of deaths which occur on having taken place on board. 5, the Minister tor the Navy (the of September. once for helicopters with which to board, but also of those which do Masters should, however, continue The "Vengeance" will be Aus not i^ccur on board, and to render Hon. William McMahon) said R.A.N. ORDERS 40 FAIREY increase the mobility of his opera to report full particulars of deaths th.it the "Vengeance" will call en tralia's second aircraft • carrier. tional forces. returns of all deaths recorded in which occur otherwise than on GANNETS. the tabular statement on form B. route to Australia .it Gibraltar. The other is H.M.A.S. "Sydney." The helicopter squadron aboard board in the narrative section of Malta, Port Said, Su-;, Aden, and The "Vengeance" will be used by The Royal Australian Navy has and D.l. This practice is not the Official Log. They should also the "Perseus" will be used to strictly in accordance with Section Colombo. She will arrive at Fre the R.A.N, until another carrier, ordered 40 Fairey Gannet jet and strengthen vital air-supply route.*, render a return of such deaths on mantle on February 26, and will H.M.A.S. "Melbourne," now in propeller driven antisubmarine 254 of the Merchant Shipping a new form B. & D.2 instead of on and will greatly extend the heli Act, 1894, which requires only call later at Melbourne and Jcrvis course of construction in England, aircraft from Great Britain. copter work already pioneered by Form B. 6* D.l, as hitherto. Bay on the way to Sydney is ready. In announcing this in Canberra deaths which happen on board the Royal Air Force, using the should be recorded in the Official "Copies of the revised B. fir* D.l The "Vengeance" will carry lu It was originally intended that on December 23, the Minister for smaller S51 helicopter, over the Australia in 1952, but her depar- Log Book. and of the new form B. 6? D.2 Sea Fury fighters, 21 Firefly anti the Navy (the Hon. William Mc jungles of Malaya. Helicopters may he* obtained from Mercantile submarine aircraft, and > Bristol the '"Melbourne" would arrive in Mahon) said that thirty-seven of are now recognised by military ture from the United Kingdom "In future. Masters should re Marine Office Superintendents in 171 helicopters. The helicopter* the Fairey Ganncts will he used strategists as being just as essential cord in the tabular statements of the United Kingdom, and from will he used for rescue work, and was postponed so that she could for operational purposes and three to success in jungle warfare as arc undergo certain modifications. Official Logs only those deaths Consuls and Shipping Masters this will he the first time that the for training. long-range wheeled troop tran which occur on board. For this abroad." R.A.N, has obtained these par The date on which she will leave Their total cost will be about sports in desert warfare. ticular aircraft for Naval work is indefinite. £4,000,000, and they will arrive Helicopter squadrons are the (Helicopter? have been used by Amplifying his statement, Mr. in Australia in 1953. only means by which troops operat the R.A.N, in Korea, but they McMahon said: "The Australian Mr. McMahon said that the ing in jungle country can be have have hitherto been on loan Covernment asked the British Fairey Gannet is the most up-to- switched from one sector to an £\ see editorial in the March, 1952, Government for the loan of a car date and efficient aircraft of its other, or transported swiftly to issue of thi* Journal. Ed.) rier because it is essential that the kind. areas behind the enemy lines. Royal Australian Navy should AND Mr McMahon said that some It has a Double Mamha tur The Royal Navy helicopters of the aircraft on hoard the "Ven have two carriers in operation, bine engine, which drives two ready for an emergency and able will each carry 10 fuliy-equippcd ice, tnee" will he disembarked at propellers on one shaft. The wide troops or six stretcher cases. Six cruising range of the aircraft can of the 10 aircraft, which form a be increased by stopping one pro squadron, are fitted with winches For Growing Children peller and one unit of the double by which troops can be lowered JAMES PATRICK & CO. PTY. LTD. engine. For arowiati ymmflHen there u to, or raised from, the ground oothiMt better thaa CorawcB'* SHIPOWNERS — AGENTS — CONTRACT Mr. McMahon added that the when limited space makes it other k euppUn imntiil body-build- STEVEDORES new aircraft will be fitted with wise impossible to land. in* proteins, IMwkltl die bounoltl energy of heehhy CHARTERS AND BUNKERS ARRANGED all the modern radio and radar The Royal Navy's first opera 1 equipment and weapons necessary frrM*—- end the viumim to tional helicopter squadron took the to enable them to hunt and de over their helicopters as recently REGULAR INTERSTATE 8c OVERSEAS CARGO 8t stroy submarines. They carry a as on November 17, 1952, and PASSENGER SERVICES pilot, an observer, and a crew since then the pilots and ground NATURE'* TONIC FOOD IOI YOUNG AND OLD • man, who acts as a telegraphist crews have been undergoing inten Agents for . . . and operates some of the equip sive training. FLOTTA I.AURO (Italian Line)—Cargo and paaatngcr aervica, ment. The 85S*s have a maximum Australia to Mediterranean porta, via Singapore. The Fairey Ganncts will fly speed of 110 m.p.h., a cruising CORVIWELL'S TASMAN STEAMSHIP CO. LTD.—Refrigerated cargo. Australia to New Zealand. principally from R.A.N, aircraft speed of 86 m.p.h., and a range of carriers. 470 miles. The helicopters form ERIE RAILROAD (U&A.)—Anatralataan Agenta. ing the squadron in question are Head Office: 19 BRIDGE STREET, SYDNEY 10 of the 17 provided by America Phone: BW4181. "The most beautiful thing in to Britain under the Mutual De ALSO AT MELBOURNE AND BRISBANl the world is freedom of speech." fence Programme. WITH AGENTS AT ALL MAIN PORTS IN AUSTRALIA. —Diogenes. January, It53, Tt* Nanr-f . THE MONTE BELLO TEST A I IAVAL OFFICER'S IMPRESSIO NEWS OF THE WORLD'S NAVIES Sum.' impressions of the Monte iced beer and soft drinks was put from Onslow, having taken any' Bello Islands and the test of the up close by, and a stretch of beach thing up to 8-14 days from Eng Mr. McMAHON PRAISES as soon as possible. When Lord —took part in the exercise, which British atomic weapon have been was netted off to allow bathing to land. A nightly cinema perform WORK OF R.A.N. SHIPS Teynham suggested in the House included an amphibious landing given hy Commander D. P. take place. ance on board was always well- IN KOREA. of Lords that representative ships, operation. Willan, D.S.C., RN., command "Fish of all shapes and sues attended. both large and small, of the Mer ing officer of H.M.S. "Narvik," abounded and could be caught by "After many weeks of hard The Minister for the Navy BRITISH DESTROYERS (the Hon. William McMahon), chant Navy should be given an who returned to the United King trolling, line, or Seine Net fishing. work, plenty of sweat and a few opportunity of joining in the re VISIT YUGOSLAVIA. Jntn hy air with Dr. W. (• The largest types caught were the minor delays owing to bad who returned to Sydney in mid- Two British destroyers, H.M.S. December from a visit to the view, brnl Salisbury said that he Penney, hut has since rejoined his Travally and Groper (something weather, there was an air of great would pass the suggestion to the "Chequers" Captain C. E- Keys, *hip in the Far East. like a rock cod), but the most expectancy when D-Day dawned. Korean area, Singapore, and other R.N.) and H.M.S. "Chivalrous" parts of South-East Asia, sent the appropriate authorities. The Re The impressions, released hy the tasty were Spanish mackerel. Rock Shortly before the explosion was view will take place on June 15. (Commander M. A. Hemans, British Ministry of Supply, stated oysters were succulent, and in due to take place, ships had with following message to the First D.S.O., R.N.), paid an informal that H.M.S. "Narvik" left Ports season turtle soup, turtle steak and drawn to a safe distance. All per Naval Member of the Australian visit to Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, Naval Board and Chief of the NATO. CONFERENCE mouth in company with H.M.S. scrambled turtle eggs proved a sonnel who wished to witness the IN FLORENCE. between November 11 and 1 J. "Zeebrugge" on February 19, welcome change to the menu. Ex explosion and who were not on Naval Staff (Vice-Admiral Sir 1932, routed via Suez. The ships cluding sharks, the largest fish we watch, were fallen in on deck John Collins, K.B.E., C.B.): "On' A three-day conference of ATOM-POWERED arrived at Colombo on March 29, caught over the ships' side was a facing away from the target to my return from Korea may I Naval and Air Force officers from CARRIER. where some of their personnel wit Groper weighing 183 lbs A few prevent any possible damage to congratulate you as senior repre six N.A.T.O- countries — Great Unofficial reports from the nessed the funeral of the late wild cats existed on one of the to the eyes caused by the flash. A sentative of the Royal Australian Britain, the United States, France, United States indicate that Amer Prime Minister of Ceylon, Mr. islands, but these were exclusively running commentary was given Navy on the excellence of the Italy, Turkey, and Greece—took ica will launch an atom-powered Senanayake. Subsequently they nocturnal and we rarely saw them over the ships' loud-speakers as the performance and morale of "An place recently in Florence under aircraft-carrier in about three proceeded to Frcmantle by April although many tracks were evi time of the explosion drew near. sae" and "Condamine." Would the chairmanship of Lieutenant- years, quite possibly sooner. Mr. 16 and after spending a few days dent. Apart from some rats, "Although facing away from you please convey my good General Schlatter, Commander John Fleberg, assistant Secretary there to refuel and embark store? other wild life ashore was virtually the explosion, the light flash was wishes to them?" The First Naval Allied Air Forces, Southern to the U.S. Navy has predicted the ships continued their journeys non-existent. so intense as to be visible all round Member signalled the message to Europe, whose headquarters are that all major warships would be to the Monte Bello Islands, where the horizon, and this was the first " Anzac " and " Condamine," in that city. Problems relating to atom-powered eventually, prob they arrived on April 26. They indication that the long-awaited whose ship's companies Mr. Mc the air defence of the Mediter ably within 10 to 20 years. were joined there by H.M. Ships hour had arrived. A few seconds Mahon addressed on board dur ranean and of the southern Euro "Campania." "T r a c k c r" and later the order was given *You ing his visit. pean sector and to past and fu NETHERLANDS NAVAL "Plym" on August 8. may look now1 and all turned ture combined training exercises AIR SQUADRON TO TRAIN Commander Willan states: about. SQUADRON OF FIREFLIES were discussed. IN UJC. "We found the Monte Bellas to "The sight that met our eyes TO BE CARRIED IN No. 3 Squadron of the Royal consist of a group of some hun was enthralling, a great greyish- ••SYDNEY." MALTA ASSEMBLY FOR Netherlands Naval Air Service, dred small islands, the largest of "It must be many years since black cloud being hurled thous A squadron of eight Firefly EXERCISE "LONG STEP." consisting of eight Sea Furies, ar which are Hermitc, Trimouille. ands of feet into the air and in rived recently in the United such a number of Army personnel anti-submarine aircraft will he Submarines of five nations as North West, and Alpha Islands. were accommodated in H.M. Ships creasing in size with great rapidity. carried in H.M.A.S. "Sydney" Kingdom for training in Royal A coral reef flanks the western What seemed some little time sembled at Malta in preparation Naval ships and establishments. for such a long time (it will be when she leaves with the Austra for the big N.A.T.O. Exercise coast of the Islands and the waters for about 11 months, when they later, but which in reality cannot lian Coronation Contingent about This is part of the co-operation surrounding them arc shallow and have been more than a minute or "Long Step." It was the largest between Navies under NATO return to the United Kingdom). March 21. The pilots of the concentration of submarines seen rocky in many places and studded The Army, consisting of R.E., two, there was a very loud bang, squadron will engage in flying agreements. The squadron will with coral "niggerhcads". The not unlike a gun firing, followed a in harbour since the war and in carry out its initial disembarked with some R.E.M.E. and A.C.C. exercises on their way to Eng cluded the French "Laubie," climate throughout was very pica- personnel, found their sea legs re second or two later by a similar land. training at the Royal Naval Air Rant, not unduly hot hy day and noise. At the same time we ex "Mille," "Bouan," and "L'Afri- Station, Anthorn, Cumberland. markably quickly, and co-operation caine"; the Turkish "Gur," "Sa- Cool by night, with little humidity. was excellent. It was not an un perienced a quite noticeable shock CORONATION NAVAL Later the squadron is expected to Everyone has been remarkably tit wave, reminding us of the sensa karya," and "Inonu"; the Amer embark in R.N. aircraft-carriers, usual sight to find sailors mixing REVIEW. ican "Lionfish," "Sea Poacher," "Although there was plenty of concrete and soldiers tending tion experienced in one's ears and will return to the Nether when in an aircraft losing height. There will be a Coronation Re and "Torek"; the Greek "Pipin- lands at the end of 195.V hard work to be done, recreation berthing wires as if they had been os," and "Argonaftis"; and the doing it for years. All this time the cloud was getting view of the British Fleet by Her wa< not forgotten. The sandy sur Majesty The Queen this year. British "Talent," "Trump," 'Tok SWISS APPLAUD ROYAL face (of the islands) proved tix> "It was occasionally possible to higher and higher, assuming fan tastic shapes as it became dis Announcing that Her Majesty en," "Sturdy," and "Trenchant". MARINES BAND. soft for making proper pitches, but allow personnel to proceed to had approved the holding of the All left harbour early in No The Band of the Royal Marines by laying some bitumeniscd hes- some of the adjacent islands for persed by the strong and varied winds at different altitudes. review at Spithead, the First Lord vember to take up positions from won great plaudits from the Swiss -ian over the sand we were able to week-end picnics; they much en of the Admiralty in the British which to "attack" snipping. The people when on a recent visit to "It was a fine sight and to be prepai e some excellent seven-a- joyed the change and relaxation. House of Commons said that ar forces of six nations—France, Switzerland. Among other able to witness it was a fitting re side foot hall and hockey fields, "A most welcome event was the rangements were now being made Greece, Italy, Turkey, United things the "Swiss Observer" said: ward to many months of hard and these became very popular. arrival of mail, which normally and would be announced later, Kingdom, and the United States "One of the highlights of the AN A A F.I Canteen serving was received twice weekly by sea work." J«!w»'V, 1913. II '4 Tlw Navy " " Fetes dc Geneve,* which took contingent on the international officers and 39 ratings of the per' ment late in December passed a SUBMARINE TRAINING H.M.S- "Dolphin**, the submarine place recently was the concert situation. manent naval force, nine members bill agreeing to the loan and the FOR R.N.V.R. OFFICERS. base at Gosport, where they will of the R.A.N. Reserve, and three agreement was brought into force receive a preliminary course tast given by the Rind of the Royal National Servicemen in the Marines, which was specially in R.A.N. WINESWEEPERS members of the Women's Royal by an exchange of Notes. ing a fortnight. BEING MODERNISED. Australian Naval Service. In United Kingdom granted officer vited to Geneva for the occasion. rank in the Royal Naval Volun They will then be appointed The minesweeper H.M.A.S. announcing this on December 15, CI VIL LORD OF BRITISH This concert met with enormous teer Reserve during their full- to serve in a Submarine Squad' success and was followed by a "Fremantk," modernised and re the Minister for the Navy (the ADMIRALTY VISITS ron for two months training at fitted at the Williamstown Naval Hon. William McMahon) said time national service are to be ceremonial display. An audience SHIPYARDS. given the opportunity of serving sea. This will be followed by an of 19,000 frantically applauded Dockyard, Victoria, was recom- that the men will leave Australia The Civil Lord of the British examination. Depending on how missioned on December 10. In in the aircraftcarrier H.M.A.S. in submarines as part of the com the Band and its leaders. Captain Admiralty, Mr. Simon Wingfield plement. successful he is in this examina Lang and Captain Maclean." announcing her modernisation, "Sydney" about March 21, and Digby, M.P., visited recently tion, the young officer will be the Navy Office said "Fremantlc" will arrive in the United King- Preliminary training in the shipyards on the North-East coast classroom will be reduced to bare appointed as a Fourth Officer in REPORTED ATTACK ON would now be able to deal with dom on May 5. The WRANS of Britain. At Sunderland he the complement of a submarine, MYSTERY SUBMARINE. every known type of mine, as will leave Sydney with the wo essentials in order to make it pos called on Bart ram and Sons Ltd., sible to give practical experience or he will be recommended for would eventually all of 11 similar men members of the other Ser Sir James Laing and Sons Ltd., further training before appoint A message from Manila on No vessels included in the Royal Aus vices in the P. &> O- liner "Strath- to these young officers, who will vember 29 said that, according to and Messrs. Greenwell's Ship Re form a valuable reserve from ment as part complement. tralian Navy's minesweeper mod eden" on March 27, and will pair Yard. He then travelled to .1 reliable report in Manila, a ernisation programme announced reach England on May 3. which the Submarine Branch of Those officers recommended to Philippine Navy patrol craft en the Middle Docks and Engineer the Royal Navy could be rapidly remain in the Submarine Branch in 19*1. "Cootamundra" and ing Co. Ltd-, at South Shields. titled an unidentified submarine "Wagga" had already been mod expanded in event of war. will receive Submarine pay off Pol.Ho Island, east of Luzon, H.M.S. "TACTICIAN" The following day, the Civil Volunteers who have still amounting to an additional four ernised and rccom missioned. DOES RESCUE WORK. in the Philippines on the morn Lord visited Smith's Dock Co. twelve months to serve will join shillings (4/-) a day. Work on the "Junee" is nearly Ltd., at North Shields, Messrs. ing of November 28. The Unit complete and work will soon be The R.N. Submarine, H.M.S. ed States Navy at Sanglcy Point, "Tactician," rescued three girls Readhead's Shipbuilding Yard, started on the "Bowen" and and the North Eastern Marine in Cavite Province, J1 miles south "'Castlemainc." "Ararat," "Bun- and a youth from Sydney Har of Manila, said it received a re bour after their 12-foot sailing Engineering Co. Ltd. He was en bury," " Dubbo," " Kapuntfa," tertained at dinner by the North port of the engagement, but indi "Rockhampton," and "Strachan" boat capsized on December 22. cated that it remained "sceptical" The girls and youth had sailed East Coast Ship-repairers' Asso are alfiti course of being Tefittcd ciation. Before returning to MURRAY BROS. PTY. LTD. of its authenticity. The Manila at Sydney. their boat from Vaucluse and report said that the patrol craft were just inside the Heads when London, Mr. Digby inspected the Furness Ship-building Yard. He was watching the eastern coast MINES IN JAPANESE a sudden strong gust of wind of Luzon Island when it detected keeled it over, emptying the oc was also present at the launch of TIMBER WATERS. a tanker at the yard of Messrs. .in unidentified "submersible" at According to reports from Tok- cupants into the water. They AND ? a.m. on November 28, Manila spent about half an hour in the William Gray and Co. Ltd., at io, many mines laid during the West Hartlepool. time, but that, after dropping last war still infest the Japanese water before they were picked depth charges, the patrol craft coast. A mine-sweeping unit of up. Lieutenant-Commander R. JOINERY MERCHANTS M. Wilmot, R.N., of the "Tac lost contact. So far as can be ?S sweepers has been formed by NAVY SERVICE FOR FOR KILN DRIED TIMBER learned, the report was not taken the Japanese National Safety tician" said all four were shiver WAR DEAD. seriously. Board to clear infested areas ing from cold. The "Tactician" War widows and other rela around Japan's coasts. The took the girls and youth to the tives of Royal Australian Navy • RELEASE OF R.N. sweepers arc nearly all 2i0*ton Balmoral Naval Base, where their members who died in the two RETAINED MEN. and l3f'Con wooden vessels, once parents met them- A Navy launch World Wars attended the An PARK ROAD, ALEXANDRIA The British Admiralty has stat used by the Japanese Navv. An towed the sailing boat to the base. nual Commemorative Service in ed that it is now possible to give investigation by the J.N.SB. the Dockyard Chapel, Garden MX 1473 (7 linn) effect to the progressive release shows thai M.000 mines were WARSHIPS FOR JAPAN. Island. Sydney, on November $0. of retained men which was an floating loose in Japanese waters An A.A.P.-Rcuter message The Port Chaplain, the Rev. J. nounced by the First Lord (the at the end of the war. Only 17 from Tokio on December 27 said A. Wilson, R-A.N., who conduct Rt. Hon. J. P. L Thomas, MP.) per cent, of dangerous waters that an agreement for the loan to ed the service, said such a young ALFRED HERBERT (A'asia) PTY. LTD. during his presentation of the have been cleared. There are Japan by America of IS frigates country as Australia had suffered SOU! AGENTS IN AUSTRALASIA PO« Naval Estimates to the House of still vast areas to be swept and and 50 large landing ships as a a serious loss with the death of MESSRS. ALFRED HERBERT LTD, COVENTRY, ENGLAND. Commons. The intention is to cleared. The Board estimates it nucleus of a new Japanese Navy so many of her young men. Sixty R.A.N, officers and ratings, HERBERT release all retained men, includ will take another five years to became effective on that day. — MACHTNB TOOLS ing Special Service, between clear all Japanese waters of mines. Japan already has some of the and the Royal Naval Reserve — MACHTNB SHOP EQUIPMENT April, 1955, and April, 19*4. ships and is using them for train Band, also attended the service. — SMALL TOOLS The scheme will involve the re "SYDNEY" TO TAKE ing recruits for the Japanese sea-* PRE EMINENT IN THEIR CLASS THE WOULD OVER. lease of large numbers over a rel CONTINGENT TO going force, now known as the "If it is 'imperialism' for a 101 PYRMONT BRIDGE ROAD, PYRMONT, SYDNEY atively short time, and serious CORONATION. Maritime Defence Corps. The great nation to use its strength TEL.. mm (> i—.>, Mwms. drafting problems will have to be United States Congress agreed to 144 KING STREET, MELBOURNE The 55 Navy personnel in the for other people, then it is some- TO..: MU4U1, MU 2711. overcome. The carrying out of Australian Services Coronation the loan of the warships last thing the world needs." So.. A..lit,. tm»,!«••.», PRANK DC ROSE * CO 1 W.i.n.th St . A4 releases must remain, of course. Contingent will comprise four summer. The Japanese Parlia- —Mr. Menzies, Prime Minister. Old. Ri. 1 in: QXAND MACHINE CO. LTD., I«-1M Ak«R. St., hi, -=T - * ~ ~, HALL. 8 yui sm**, KmitmS. Tfct Navy January, Iff]. ' MALTESE CANDIDATES selected every six weeks. They ideation used for other education' FOR R.N. will be sent to the United King al establishments, while their MARITIME NEWS OF THE The first preliminary entrance dom for training and will serve headmasters will be known as .• \,i ruination for Maltese boys on an equal basis with boys en "Principals." These schools at wishing to join the Royal Navy tered from the United Kingdom. Portsmouth, Devonport, Chath as hoy seamen was held recently am, Sheerness, and Rosyth were at H M.S. "Angelo." Eleven U.K. DOCKYARD SCHOOLS instituted in 184? "to enable ap L indicates tor this entry were in BECOME TECHNICAL prentices to acquire a scientific tervievved by a local board assist COLLEGES. knowledge of their profession." ed by Lieutenant-Commander R Founded more than a century They are attended by Dockyard WORLD F. Jackson. R.N., who had been ago, H.M. Dockyard Schools will and Repair Yard apprentices aged sent to Malta by the recruiting in future be known as "Dockyard between 15 and 19 years and a From our Correspondent! in department of the British Admir Technical Colleges" to bring them full course of four years at these LONDON and NEW YORK alty. Twelve boys are to be into line with the system of class- schools is undertaken by about ten per cent, of the entrants. The By Dockyard School at Malta will AIR MAIL also come under the new designa TATTERSALL'S tion. INTERSTATE FREIGHTER "WHTTESON" INQUIRY. "The Voyage of 'Waltzing Ma GROUNDS. The Hong Kong Court of In tilda*," is just on the point of be NEW R.N. COASTAL ing published in London. On the 5/- CASH CONSULTATIONS MINESWEEPER. Two tugs on December 26 quiry into the loss of the wooden steamer "Whiteson" found an er day she arrived in Melbourne, £10,000 FIRST PRIZE Her Majesty's new Coastal failed in an attempt to refloat the interstate freighter " Merino" ror of judgment on the part of Mrs. Davenport received a letter Drawn every few days Minesweepers, of which Mine the master's part in putting to from her husband which said that sweeper No- 14 was launched at (549 tons), which with its price and less cargo of French paintings sea when a typhoon was about, he and his brother, Keith, had the yard of Messrs. Cook, Wel- but that it did not warrant sus left in the "Waltzing Matilda" on 10/- CASH CONSULTATIONS ton, and Gemmell Ltd., Grove- was aground near Wineglass Bay, £25,000 FIRST PRIZE an isolated part on the east coast pending his certificate. their homeward voyage to Aus hill, Beverley, Yorks, in the Eng tralia. Drawn every few weeks lish autumn, are an entirely new of Tasmania. The ship ran on to NEW P. & o. CARGO BOATS type of minesweeper, embodying a sand bar during heavy fog early TO HAVE LESS SPEED. on December 25. The "Merino" The two P, ^ O cargo boats NO UGHT ON CAPTAIN'S many novel features. Their con DISAPPEARANCE. POSTAGE ON TICKETS AND RESULTS TO BE ADDED struction incorporates the use of was listing 10 degrees to star on order from John Brown's aluminium for the framing and board and was being buffeted by Yard at Clydebank, which are to An inquiry in Brisbane on No The Address . . . structural castings; the outer waves whipped up by a 45-mile be delivered in the latter part of vember 25 by the Acting Mer bottom is wood pi inked making westerly gale. However, on Jan 1955, are said to have rather less cantile Marine Superintendent, GEO. ADAMS (TATTERSALL) HOBART the hull largely non-magnetic. uary 2, after having been 9 days power and speed than the com Captain N. Buxton, failed to The ships will have the latest aground, the "treasure" freighter pany's existing "S" ships. throw new light on the mystery was towed free by the tugs in of the disappearance at sea of mmesweeping equipment and will LONE SEA DRIFT ON RAFT. operate sweeps against both con question — the powerful "St. Captain J. D. Mountain, 42, A message from the Canary tact and influence type mines, i.e.. Giles" from Sydney and the master of the British freighter Islands said that a 27-year-old they will he able to deal with "Eagle" from Melbourne—and "Maplebank." Captain Mountain BEER is good French professor, Alain Bombard, mines operated magnetically and soon after noon left for Hobart disappeared on November 14 left Las Palmas recently on a rub acoustically. The term Coastal where she docked. It is estimated when the ship was about 700 ber raft in an attempt to drift Minesweeper signifies that they that to save the ship from becom miles from Suva on the voyage to alone across the Atlantic without for you will be capable of operation in ing a total wreck it cost the own Brisbane. Captain Buxton found fresh food or water. The profes shallow coastal waters and distin ers about £100,000. The "Mer there were no suspicious circum sor aims to prove that shipwreck guishes them from Inshore Mine ino's" cargo of paintings was still stances attached to Captain ed sailors can survive on fish they sweepers which are to be operable in the ship and undamaged. Mountain's disappearance. This catch and a mixture of fish juice in shallow estuarial waters. The finding will be entered in the and sea water- hulls of these vessels, being of FACILITIES FOR ENGINE- "MaplebankY 'log and there will similar design, arc capable of rap ROOM RATINGS TO SMALL BOATS LONG be no further inquiries. id fabrication. Their diescl en QUALIFY. VOYAGES. gines are also standardised to sim The Southampton (U.K.) Mrs. Rosita Davenport, who SWEDISH SHIP CRASHES plify the maintenance problem. branch of the National Union of reached Melbourne in the "Or- INTO WHARF. Minesweeper No. 14 is fitted with Seamen put forward a resolution cades" on November 25, sailed Caught by near gale - force machinery built by Messrs. Mirr- calling for facilities for engine- from Sydney with her husband, winds, the Swedish motorship lees, Bickerton and Day Ltd., of room ratings to qualify for en Mr. Phil Davenport, in the 36 "Boogabilla," 5,800 tons, crashed Stockport. Her length is 152 feet gineer-officer certificates. The ft. cutter "Waltzing Matilda" in heavily into No- 21 Wharf at and her beam 28 feet 9 inches. branch withdrew it, however, October, 1950. The voyage to Pyrmont, Sydney, on December CARLTON AND UNITED HEWER) ES LIMITO She will be armed with three when the General Secretary of Europe took 38 weeks. Descrip 11. The mishap occurred when a small guns. tive of that voyage, a book, writ towlinc from a tug attending the Briwwn <• Ausiralio for 109 fBT*. the Union pointed out that such a scheme had existed since 1945. ten by Mr. Davenport, ar,d titled freighter snapped while the ship January, 1953. . . was coming alongside. The failed to do by shifting the hulk erating near Gabo Island. The was not an adventurous voyage/' age to Australia. The old "Nes launched a smaller motor boat force of the winds rendered the of the wrecked 5,000-ton steam crew worked frantically to re he told a reporter. "There was tor," which left Sydney for the and speeded rescue work until, ship practically helpless and er "Nairana," off a sandbar in cover Smith from the net, but only one good storm—in the Eng last time in May, 1950, after 37 eventually, all survivors were swung her against the corner erf Port Melbourne. The "Nairana," apparently he was dead when lish Channel." After the war years' service, was well known safely ashore. The captain was th-- wharf. There was no damage a former Bass Strait passenger they pulled him aboard. Captain Tober spent three years in In to Servicemen of two world wars. the last man to leave the "Cham to the wharf, hut a plate in the cargo steamer, was blown ashore Smith left a wife and five child' donesia and six months in Aus The new 7,802 -ton "Nestor", pollion." side of the "Bogganilla" was dent about two years ago and all at ren. The "Samuel Benbow" is tralia. On his return to Holland built at Dundee in 1952, berthed TWENTY GERMAN FISHER ed and a number of rivets were tempts to refloat her failed. Na owned by Cam and Sons, the he conceived the voyage he has at Walsh Bay. sheered. ture's efforts may not prove to be trawling company of Sydney, by just completed, and he began MEN LOST. whom Smith was employed for CHINESE FIRE ON HULK BLOWN OFF an unmixed blessing; in its new looking for a job ashore as soon Twenty German fishermen are 20 years. BRITISH SHIP. SANDBAR. position the hulk lies within a as he anchored. feared lost with their trawler, few feet of a concrete retaining Press reports from Hong Kong The gale which lashed the Vic "GOTHIC" FOR ROYAL the "Ebeling," 487 tons, which wall on the foreshore and fears U.S. FREIGHTER AGROUND: on December 4 said that two torian coasts in the second week TOUR. is believed to have sunk off the arc held that it may be driven CREW SAVED. Chinese gunboats on December 1 of December achieved wh.it An official announcement from west coast of Iceland. The next against the wall. pursued and fired on a British countless salvage attempts had London on December 12 said that The U.S. military freighter of kin were told on December "Quartette" (7,198 tons), with coaster off the Chinese port of 26 that a four day search by ships NEW SHIPS FOR the Queen and the Duke of Foochow, killing the ship's mast Edinburgh will use the M.000- a crew of 37 ran aground, ripping and planes had yielded no trace AUSTRALIAN GOVERN her hull wide open, on the Pearl er. Captain Robert Adam. The of the trawler. MENT. ton Shaw Savill liner "Gothic" coaster was the 335'ton "Rosita." for their tour of Australia and and Hermes coral reef, 90 miles The Federal Government will east of Midway Island, on De The "Rositta's" chief officer, Eric TWENTY-TWO KILLED IN place orders with Australian ship New Zealand next year. The Shakesshaft, "!9, of Lancashire, JAPANESE PORT Royal party is scheduled to leave cember 22. The crew were taken yards for four new ships. Sir aboard another American ship, told of the attack when he EXPLOSIONS. Arthur Fadd.'n, then acting the United Kingdom in Decemb brought the bullet scarred vessel er, 19*3, and to spend most of the "Frontenac Victory." The The second explosion in a week Prime Minister, said in Canberra "Quartette's" holds are flooded with Adam's body aboard into at the Japanese port of Nagoya on December 2. Two of the ships January, 1954, in New Zealand Hong Kong harbour. Boarding before coming on to Australia. and it is feared that she will be on December 26 killed six persons will be built by the State Dock come a total wreck. parties from one of the gunboats and injured eight. The blast oc yard. Newcastle, N.S.W. AMERICAN CREW RESCUED looted watches and other person curred in the magnesium store of DECEMBER 2i—A DAY OF al possessions from the "Rosita's" a photographic supplies dealer. KING GEORGE'S FUND A message from Leghorn, Italy, URGENT CALLS. FOR SAILORS. on December 17 said that Four crew of 24. Shakesshaft said Six days before, an explosion in December 23 was a fateful day that the searching parties wore It was announced recently by United States Navy helicopters an ammonium sulphate plant kill' in sea annals. No fewer than four Chinese Nationalist cap badges. ed sixteen and injured hundreds. the King George** Fund for Sail the day before rescued the last urgent calls were sent out from ors that Her Majesty the Queen of the 13 members of the crew No official statement has been ships. Besides the French liner TRAGIC DISASTER TO made as to the caufe of the blasts. has consented to become patron of the American refrigerator ship "Champollion" (see separate para FRENCH LINER. "(Irommet Reefer." The "Grom- of the Fund. The title and crest graph), at least 4 other large ships All surviving passengers and CLYDE LIFEBOAT TO THE of the Fund will remain unalter met Reefer" broke in halves after were in trouble at widely separat hitting a reef 350 yard* off the crew members of the French lin RESCUE. EMBROIDERED ed ed points. The U.S- freighter er "Champollion," which broke A lifeboat from Camphelltown Leghorn on December 15. Only "Quartette" (referred to else BADGES OF RANK FOUR SHIPS IN three men had been taken off in two after wedging itself deep on December 2 3 t 22 T«. No»y JoMMry. 1953. - " ' " SEA-ODDITIES NEW EXPEDITION TO at great heights. The capsule is HEARD ISLAND. reported to be packed with food, quantities amounting to undream What the senses of many ani In the September issue of this water, signal rockets, and radio FOR all Machinery & Equip journal we published an account ed-of millions. For that their mals tell them may be very dif It was announced in Melbourne equipment, and rests on a rocket ment required in the Pressed of the annual migration flight numbers went into some such ferent from what our senses tell on December IS that a new Ant charge, which expels it from the Metal, Canning; flc Cannieter southward of the mutton birds computation I have not the slight us. How different, for instance, arctic research expedition, in cockpit when the pilot presses a Trade, consult . . • This account, the first recorded est doubt must be the world of fishes from charge of Mr. J. M. Bechervaise, button. Three fins in the tail "1 this .imagine phenomenon, The birds seemed not unduly our world, since fishes have a sense writer and photographer, will keep the capsule upright in the was written by the famous navi wing-weary, but flew strong and informing them when they are leave Australia early in February air, while a small parachute opens gator Mathew Flinders, dunnc purposely. Not that many do not swimming towards a rock, thus for Heard Island. Mr. Becher to slow it down. When a safe W. G. GQETZ & the time he was making his re fall by the way; uhey do. Some enabling them to avoid collision VMK led the party which first speed is reached, the small para mark.ible survey of the eastern times when storm attends the an even in utter darkness. What climbed Federation Peak in Tas chute pulls out .i main parachute. Australian eoasts. Since then, the nual flight thousands of the weak senses inform them? We do not mania in 1949. Dr. A. M. Gwynn, If it lands in the sea, the capsule SONS LTD. flight has been described by er birds are beaten down, to know, but the fishes may be able the medical officer, is an authority will stay afloat and keep the pilot (EM 18751 others, and this month we pub strew the eoasts with dead and to perceive stimuli to which our on Antarctic birds and animals warm and dry while awaiting lish another, and much more re* dying forms. Yet still the flight senses do not react at all. Yet in and has been a member of pre rescue. cent description of it. The a< goes on in an unbroken and re some ways their stimuli is dull vious expeditions. The members DIEMAKERS * ENGINEERS count, penned by the Australian lentlcss stream. compared with ours. An instance of the expedition will number HALL ST., SPOTSWOOD JAPS. OPENS FIRST POST- author Archer Russell, is reprint "This astounding migration of this is provided by the octopus. about 12 in all. WAR AIRCRAFT FACTORY. MELBOURNE ed from the "Sydney Mail" of the movement of the mutton-birds The octopus feeds largely on crabs, 26th September, 1934. He writes: takes place every year, usually which it captures with the suckers PARACHUTING IN SEALED The Mitsubishi Organisation, some time late in September or on its tentacles and then quickly which built japan's Zero fighter "I was looking out over the CAPSULE. early October. It was September crunches with its powerful jaws. plane during World War II., on sea, passing a lazy hour on a cliff- 27 when 1 saw them first, and You might therefore expect that a A message from London on December 18 opened its first top by Naroom.i (South coast of when we left Narooma on Sep crab would be recognised by an November 26 said that the post-war aircraft factory. NSW) when 1 saw them I tember 2*) this was in 1933 octopus, which has very good sight, "Daily Express" had stated that For all enquiries plea could hardly believe my eyes . they were still passing a little m whatever situation in the sea an American aircraft company "Law is a form of order," and So I got my binoculars: and then 'Phone MW7695 lessened in number, perhaps, but the crab is found, but this is not had developed a sealed, whale- a good law must necessary mean I knew I was witnessing one of still in unbroken column and fly so. A hungry octopus pounces shaped capsule in which pilots good order." the most amazing bird-movemenN ing purposely and strong, bound rapidly on a crab crawling on the can bail out of supersonic aircraft Ovid. in all the avian world. The for their nesting burrows on the sea fl(x»r, yet if a crab is dangled southward flight of the mutton isl mds of south-eastern Austra on the end of a string before the birds had begun in earnest ha. particularly those of the Bass octopus, the latter does not move; There they were, half .i mile Strait and the coasts of Tasmania. it apparently is quite unaware of "If shore, low down over the "I count my view of the an its presence But as soon as the SHIPS - FACTORIES - COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS waves, so that many of them al nual southward flight of the mut crab reaches the sea floor the oc most clipped the waves A whirl ton-birds as one of the most amaz topus jumps on it and envcl- >ps ing, dipping, endless stream of ing sights of my life." it with its tentacles. FOR ALL CLASSES OF ELECTRICAL bird*. How long the birds had The antics and natural habits be*:n ilymg past before I noticed ot some birds are a never-i tiding INSTALLATIONS AND REPAIRS, them I cannot say I should like source of interest Take, for in to know I only know with stance, the Adelic penguins In the Thursday Island museum MOTOR AND GENERATOR WINDING, surety that for the succeeding two there was, and probably still is, an These birds make their nests ot RADAR INSTALLATIONS, ETC. days they never stopped, but wen* stones, and use stones in their old-fashioned ship's bell. On one • Ml in an unbroken movement acts of courtship. The normal Ite N«vy January, I9S3. PACIFIC JETLINER over the complete route. The SERVICE IN MARCH. Mark 1A Comet has a fuel cap SPEAKING OF SHIPS acity of 7,000 gallons. The British Shipbuilding Re many of their own employees are land Islands meat trade, which The Canadian Pacific Air WRIGHT HEAT0N EIGHT DEAD IN U.K. S.MI. h Association has been mak alleged to be implicated. was put forward nearly three Lines* transpacific Jetliner service HURRICANE. ing big progress in the develop' years ago, has been held up by will commence from March 13, t GO. LTD. ment of electronic apparatus for An £11,000,000 plan to dredge the long delay in completing the when the first Comet initiating Eight people were killed and u>.- in ships' trials and subsequent the bar of luil{e Maracaibo to 35 refrigerating plant. the service will arrive in Sydney. hundreds injured during one of performance «m service. feet, saving the present expense of The company will begin a weekly the worst hurricanes that has trans - shipment at Curacao or During, the Anglo-Argentine service, carrying passengers at swept Britain in all her history :ight miles a minute eight miles on December 17. Most of the The suggestion to increase Aruha. is to be financed by a loan trade talks the British reply to CUSTOMS AND high. The South Pacific opera dead were buried under falling Swedish light dues and pilotage from the oil companies. the demand for a much higher tions manager of the company, debris. Buildings collapsed, ship FORWARDING AGENTS rates hv about 100 per cent, has price for meat was that the qual Mr. W. Woollet, said on No ping was delayed and had to seek aroused strong opposition, as it Mr W. Marquardt, a Dutch ity must be improved from recent THROUGHOUT vember 22 that the first jet ser shelter, and air services were can taould make them three times as engineer, has evolved plans for a standards. vice would use British Mark 1A celled. The new American liner N.S.W. and VICTORIA high as those at Copenhagen and radial flow turbine with novel fea Comets carrying 44 passengers. "United States" had portion of twelve times as high as Antwerp. tures to make it suitable and econ Heinz Schliewen, of Hamburg, These did not have sufficient omical for small vessels. has bought the Swedish 4-mast- her bridge damaged when fierce range for the flight from Van ed barque "Moshulu" and re winds swvpt it towards the wharf The Indian Government has couver to Honolulu, and would after pulling out from Southamp The Honduran flag motor tink named her "Oplag" for trading cancelled its grain contract with operate from Honolulu to Suva, ton dock bound for New York. er "Rose Mary," in international and training, as well as the freak 17 Pin STREET, Run a as the price is double that Auckland and Sydney. The Hon A seaman was blown from the waters, was machine-gunned by f masted schooner "Carl Vin- charged by other countries. olulu-Sydney flying time would deck of his ship in the Mersey Albanian shore batteries without nen." be 11J hours. Douglas DC6B air River, Liverpool. Three men who STOREY sustaining any casualties. Th: proposal by the Port of liners would carry passengers on tried to cross the River Trent at The Japanese Government has London Authority to improve the Vancouver-Honolulu leg. The Nottingham are missing after 'Phone BW 19J5 The Dundee, Perth and Lon approached the United States to Shadwell Basin for the fruit trade Mark II Comet would be avail their boat capsized. The Isle of don Company's coasters "Perth" lease it SO laid-up "Liberty" ships FOR ALL ENQUIRIES. was defeated in the British House able for service in 19*4, and Man registered wind gusts of up and "Lunan," having proved to time charter to Japanese own of Lords by the opposition of the would be able to carry passengers to 130 m.p.h. very successful on time charter for ers at a very low rate. local church. service between the Canadian Great Lakes and Newfoundland The German Government is It is officially announced that last season, were fixed with the making very generous tax conces' about fV> per cent, of Bntain s similar charter for 1952, together sions to shipowners to allow them softwood imports are used for with the "London.** to build up their fleets. packing exports. PKIMBLA" IP- There has been a big drop in The British Government has Mr. D. Fraaer, of Liverpool, the fixing of tankers for consec secured a site at Feltham, in ~w.:.'~a#>-« I has invented a machine for indi utive voyages by British chart Middlesex, for a big new testing F COPPER, BRASS AND mJA cating and accurately recording erers, but a certain amount on tank but plans are not yet ready with date and time, all orders American account. for its construction. r OTHER NON-FERKOUS from the bridge to the engine WIRE CAB! ES fir TUBES 1 • *F*tfplH '•' room* Towards the middle of July, The possibility of combining 1952, the price of a Liberty ship gas and steam turbines in a single The Peruvian Wharf at Plai- on the British market was propelling unit is attracting atten stow has been reconstructed for £300,000—half the price ruling tion among marine engineers more 1 METAL MANUFMSMS IT* 1 the handling of raw sugar in hulk in the preceding January. than ever. • tor Tate and Lyle's adjoining re finery. During the year 1951 the Hum- The Outward Bound Trust (of MssssKLav * v^v&iSHfflj Kfcl •''Kf.^tr.'ii ber port medical officers reported Great Britain), in addition to its The familiar " Groningen" that verminous living quarters sea school at Abcrdovey, has tak type of Dutch motor coaster is were by far the most frequent en over the Moray Sea School at • - «•—.•''" i - • being adapted for the Indonesian fault found with British ships. Burghead. Government for passenger and - . ' • general cargo work in the East The crews of some ships have A fireman in the "f^ueen Eliza • Indies. been delayed so long in New Zea beth" was fined £20 for helping a land ports that they have been stowaway who made the double Many shipyards are complain finding part-time jobs ashore- voyage on board and was only dts- ing of large-scale thefts of ma covered shortly before the liner terials in short supply, in which The plan to develop the Falk returned to Southampton. 26 Tto Navy J*MMry. 1*S3. R.A.N. Told m ar* easy, convex^, MORE AWARDS TO RJUM. OFFICERS sational style, it carries the scenes and events of naval war with clar AND MEN FOR "BETTOR SERVICE" ity and understanding. The boys of the R.A.N, how these pages LAYTOM PLATING The Minister for the Navy (the BcncJigo (V), Radar control rat commemorate their lusty, derisive Hon. William McMahon) an- ing, first class, in charge of the daring, their enduring fortitude Company Pty. LN. " I he Silent Service,** by Torpedo in the life of the "Perth," of The nounccd on December 23 that transmitting station in H.M.A.S. and devotion, their unfaltering, in man T. M Jones and Ion L. Midnight Battle of Matapan," of seven more awards had been made "Bataan." the work of the armed merchant flexible will to win! Idrcss, Published by Angus and to officers and men of the Royal Mr. McMahon said that the cruisers "Moretun Bay" and "Kan Indeed, as an episodical chron Robertson Sydney New Edition Australian Navy for operational citations accompanying the recom imbla." of "The Battle of Bandar icle of the Roy^l Australian Navy There can he tew among us services in Korean waters. Forty- mendations for the awards stated 48 Mallet Strati Shapur," of "Yarra's Last Fight." at war and at service stations. who do ii"i remember the story" five awards had now been granted that Commander Braccgirdle and of The Battle of the Coral Sea," this book fails in little The men, of the Royal Australian Navy in to R.A.N, officers and ratings Commander Ramsay had display of the work of " Paramatta," ships, Btrttcgems, incidental types World War II Here is that since the Korean war began. ed outstanding leadership and Tclehonc: LA 3168. story or. thai story in the main "Nestor," "Armidale" and "Qui and phages are authoritatively and Commander Braccgirdle, whose inspirationally presented; each great devotion to duty when their tuld with salty humour and .ill heron": of days and actum epi name appeared in the new list, narrative is a modest yet vivid ships were under fire and at other that traditional Nclsonian spirit sodes on the famous Tohruk IV had been awarded a second bar to recital of deathless adventure and times. that never knows dete.it. trol, m and around Singapore, m the Distinguished Service Cross selfless devotion to duty. It is, The other recipients had brought Thu* vve have "actKm stations," the Java seas and in the Solo and Bar, which he won in the Special!*, in AH Clajaea of course, not a complete history remarkable energy and enthusiasm scenes and events m the amazing mons: i'l "Sea Giants and Air Second World War. Electroplating. that would need volumes but to their tasks, which had frequent- life nt "Australia's old tinvans Demons," and ot the multifold The list was as follows:— it is complete enough to give it a I y been performed under hazardous the "Stuart," "Vendetta." "Wat • >ther fights, incidents, convoys, Nothing. Too Larue—Nothing completeness in itself, as a book. Bar to Distinguished Service and extremely unpleasant wintry erhen." "Voyager," and "Vam duties and humours ot the fight' Too Small. The book, in short, "grips" Cross. conditions. pire of "The Battle of the ing ships and boys of the Aussie Contractor, to M.M. Naval from the first page to the last, Commander W. S. Braccgirdle, Cruisers," of "The Last Fight of Navy. He knew that all Australians Dockyard* Garden Wind, and, apart from the episodical D.S.C. and Bar, R.A.N., of Syd the Graf Spec," of "The Battle It is a stirring, dramatic story would be delighted at the recog Mort'a Dock, and Cockatoo story itself, it illustrates in inter ney, who commanded H.M.A.S. nition of the services that had been of Tugargan Gap" and the work of mingled heroic loss and gain Dock. pretative words the vast debt our "Bataan" in the Korean area from or the "Hobart" in Somali and this collection of individual. given so skilfully and courageous nation owes to the ships and men February until September this East Indies waters, of a hot spot unofficial service annals 01 the ly by members of the R.A.N. of the R.A.N Indeed, but for year. their valiant and devoted service Distinguished Service Croat. Acclaimed by Critics . . . to the United cause, particularly Commander J. M. Ramsay, WhM skips of ihm Navy in the Pacific, we should not now R.A.N., of Sydney, who com "ftMv* to" Mis ^^T^^^^c_^ > / . . . will delight the be a free people. manded H.M.A.S. "Warramunga" aoMsfas*! k >\ heart of yachtsmen. Mr. Norman J. O- Makin, the in the Korean area from January *sf~* A tyro or veteran . . . then Minister of the Navy, in his until July of this year. l\ I \-. A •It- Argus," MribouKM British Empire Medal »4s=^- • -ViVi , ~£j£~ appreciative foreword, said: "In its record of this comrade (Military Division). •§2^\ ^r . . . neatly salted with ship and of what our men and Chief Petty Officer A. S. Harris, i stories of exciting ships have achieved, 'The Silent of Frankston (V.), Gunnery In >fS(JO episodes that are the Service1 is a story of which Kith structor of H.M.A.S. "Warra It breath of life to sail* the Navy and the nation may well munga." ing men . . . he proud. The authors contribute Mention in Despatches. %rs\IIIYd ^ richly to a public appreciation of Lieutenant J. E. Harrington, the R.A.N, in recording incidents R.A.N., of Melbourne. Surface fa. '^\ . . . will stir the blood that will enshrine the names of gunnery control officer in H.M.A. j "«h i \ in the veins of land valiant ships and of men who Ship "Warramunga." 1 TV\ \ i lubbers as well as have served their country with Acting Petty Officer Telegra I I • \ i y—r—^^ sailor men . . . traditional courage and devotion." phist C. R. Stringer, of Adelaide. "Th* Sunday Sun." Sydney Senior rating in charge of the PpF BLACK CREW PREFERRED wireless department in H.M.A.S. '~~ / •J TO WHITE. "Warramunga." The South African Govern- Leading Stoker Mechanic R. G. 12/6 ment steamer "Aloe," having had McNamara ,of Toowoomba (Q), fc an attempted attack on the cap whose duties in H.M.A.S. From all booksellers //'J tain and seven desertions from her "Bataan" included the mainten •^v: T-y**—-y ^> *3E£>» - A Ure Smith Publication white crew in one voyage, paid ance of machinery on patrol under It* Willi IP ST., SYDNEY off the remainder and replaced Arctic conditions. them by coloured men. Petty Officer S. R. Smith, of Vm Navy ItH. Ball-bearing fixtures in the ceil EX-NAVAL MENS THE QUEEN T< • LAUNCH NEW ing of cabins and passenger suites from which the beds will be hung ROYAL YACHT so that they will not be affected Association ^\ of Australia It was announced from Bucking and a cruising speed of 21 knots. by the movement of the ship. ham Palace that Her Majesty "About one-third of the vessel is The state-rooms, the ball-room, The Queen will launch the new already completed under a 150,000 the reception-room, the swimming- Royal Yacht at Clydebank, Glas square foot glass roof at John pool and the cinema are laid out in gow, on April 16th next. The P.itron-in-Chief: Her Majesty The Queen. Brown's yards. She is due to be such a way that all can be con vessel is being built at the yard launched in April, and there arc verted at short notice into operat of John Brown and Co. Limited, rumours that she will be named ing theatres, wards, and sterilising (Federal Council.) Federal Council is in receipt Committee. This course has and will be capable of undertaking King George VI.' "• rooms. Gangways and corridors Tit information from the Chair been taken by the Trustees be long ocean voyages. It is design "The yacht," continues the are being made specially wide to Official advice has been receiv man of the Services Canteens cause the time has arrived when ed from the Official Secretary ed for service as a hospital ship in "Sunday Dispatch," "will be prac allow easy access for stretcher Trust Fund relative to widows the number of non-war caused war-time. tically unsinlcable Watertight cases. and Comptroller to His Excellency widows and orphans outnumber md orphans of war servicemen Describing the Royal Yacht, the bulkheads from 12 to 30 feet apart Even the two-car garage to the Governor-General, informing the figures of war caused widows md widows .md orphans of ser English "Sunday Dispatch" in a will intersect the entire length of house the Queen's private limou the Federal Council that Her and orphans. vicemen who have passed away recent article said: the yacht. sines will be capable of taking am Majesty The Queen h.is gracious since their return to civilian life. ly granted her Patronage to The It is the desire of the Services "'Secret' details of the Queen's "The thousands of plates that bulances. The Trustees have decided as Canteens Trust Funds Trustees £1,000,000 yacht now being built form the hull will be 'pickled' first A distilling plant to make the Ex NI.tv.il Mens Association ot' from 1st January, 1953, to merge Australia. that all ex-Service organisations on the Clyde include an 'iron man' to discover flaws; then they will ship self-supporting in water for the Widows and Orphans* Panels will make it one of their active gadget on the bridge that will be welded edge to edge instead of domestic use. Officers of the Federal Execu in each State with the Regional duties to contact all eligible wid flash a warning if anything goes overlapping. The welds them A playroom for Prince Charles live deeply appreciate this wry Welfare Committee by abolishing ows and orphans, particularly im wrong with the steering gear and selves will be X-rayed for further and Princess Anne is on the top high honour bestowed upon the the former panel and adding to mediately following the death of automatically put the ship back on flaws. Then plastic will seal the deck, and a church is in the lower Association by Her Majesty and the Regional Welfare Committee an ex-service man, to keep in its course. joints to provide a slipstream skin." deck. all ex Naval personnel may justly i nominee of the War Widows' touch with their needs for assist Designed by the Admiralty, the Other outstanding features of The yacht will be manned by a feel proud that the Association is Guild and Legacy. All applica ance, and where it is considered yacht will be 380ft. long, 55ft. the yacht, according to the "Sun crew of 150 hand-picked from the the only ex Service organisation tions for assistance from widows necessary, to take action to en in the beam, with two screws, day Dispatch," will be: Royal Navy. so greatly honoured by the .md orphans will then be dealt sure Chat their need for assistance Queen. with by the Regional Welfare is brought to the notice of the State Regional Welfare Commit tee concerned. The task is to seek out these widows and or CLUB WILL WELCOME phans rather than wait until they make their applications for as NAVAL MEN sistance. The Trustees have M.my migrants who served *• To purchase property and hold found from experience that wid during the war with the Royal husMings for the benefit of mem ows arc reluctant to apply for ind Hominum Navies haw found ber* and to provide club rooms, help and in many cases do not a warm welcome from the Ex- print, publish and circulate books, know of the assistance available machines and papers for mem Naval Men's Association ot Aus bers' benefit. to them; they go on suffering tralia. Names and addresses of Sutc sec hardship which could be alleviat The association is always on the retaries arc: ed if only their case could be look out for ex-naval personnel New South Wales: Mr. R. Humphry. brought to the notice of a Reg 77 Pitt St., Sydney. ional Welfare Committee. from Britain and the Dominions Victoria: Mr. W. H. Sullivan, 383 to welcome to its midst, states Flinders Lane, Melbourne. Trustees feel that the Fund Mr G. W. Scott, Federal Secre Queensland: Mr. W. H Macdonald. should be brought to the notice tary 112 Brisbane St., Bulimba. of all eligible widows and orphans South Australia: Mr. W. A. Palmer, The aim* and obiects of the asso 23 Peel St.. Adelaide. whether war caused or not, and ciation are: Western Australia: Mr. W. W. Way- it will be necessary to have the * To unite ex-naval personnel for man, 149 Petra St., East Fie wholehearted support of all ex- their mutual benefit. mantle. service organisations in seeking * To provide entertainment for Tasmania: Mr. G. R Howe. 99 visitine Naval personnel. out these widows and orphans of * To encourage the social, intellect Collins St., Hobart. all types in distress. The Ex- ual and general advancement of Canberra: Mr. K. White. 4 Third St.. Naval Men's Association will co member*. Narrabundah. operate with the Trustees to * To endeavour to assist members Papua-New Guinea; Mr. F. C. HOI, achieve this object. in distress and to aid them in ob Department of Education. Port taining employment. Moresby. G.W.S. JSMMV. MB. lr RAN. OFFICER COMMANDS NAVAL AIR STATION AT NOWRA. COCKATOO DOCKS Captain Rodney RhoaJe-. * ENGINEERING Ef you are TEHEE* DSC'.., RAN., has assumed his appointment as commanding ontoer CO. PTY. LTD. of the Royal Australian Naval Air and f Station, H.M.A.S. "Albatross," at • Nowra (N.S.W.), and Resident : Naval Officer at Jems Bay Contractor* to . . . EME'EIESSEEE In announcing thii i>n December H.M. AUSTRALIAN NAVY I IS, the Minister fur the Navy Ship-builders, (the Hon. William MeM.il.on) Marine said that Captain Rhoades, who succeeds: Captain G. H. Beale, and D.S.O., O.B.E., R.N., about to General Engineers. leave on his return to the United Inquiri.t Irwitvd. Tho futuro of it»«m for marina purpoioi Kingdom, is the first officer of the it mot by trio lat.it lobcock dovolop- Royal Australian Navy to have • Tionti. which, in turn, oro bockod by commanded "Albatross." He was ov«r SO voa'i iea oiporionco At too, executive officer there, with the TAKE A COURSE OF •i on land, tlmo hoi provod tho lorvico of Babcocl Boilor Plant rank of commander, before he left COCKATOO ISLAND for England in August, 1950, to SYDNEY BABCOCK & WILCOX serve with the Royal Navy. OF AUSTRALIA PT1. IIMIIH< Shortly after he arrived in Eng CLEMENTS TONIC CNCINICRO AND CONTftACTOKO Phone: WB 1941 land he was appointed Commander Head Office I Works. Reeents Park. N.S.W. 110 linn) Branch Of'cti and Aganeiat in oil Stat«. (D) of the Norc Destroyer CLEMENTS TONIC NOW CONTAINS VITAMIN B Flotilla and commanding officer of the flotilla leader H.M.S. "Oppor tune," which was on escort duty during the State visit to England by King Frederick and Queen Ingnd of Denmark last year. AARONS A. BAGLEY & SON King Frederick awarded him the ZINC decoration of Chevalier of the EXCHANGE 211-213 BEAMISH ST., Order of Danncbrog. Later he CAMPSIE. joined the staff of the Commander- HOTEL Without this essential metal there would be in-Chief, Portsmouth. He return N.S.W. ed to Australia last month. I GRESHAM STREET NO GALVANIZED PRODUCTS and The largest and most Captain Rhoades is a graduate of the Royal Australian Naval SYDNEY NO BRASS. up-to-date Shoe Store College, which he entered in 192.V in the district was He commanded the Australian de ! ZINC is aho used extensively in lead-free PAINTS and in DIE CASTING end is a basic require established by us in stroyer "Vendetta" on the Tobruk • ment for many industries. 1920. ferry run in the Second World Only fhe Beit Brands High-grade ZINC is produced in Australia, using zinc concentrate from Broken Hill, N.S.W., and ss War and also took part in the evacuation of Greece and Crete Stocked. from Roscbcry, Tasmania, and electric power generated by the Hydro-Electric Commit lion of and other operations. It was for Dining Room Tasmania. REPAIRS? YES! his services in the Mediterranean that he was awarded the Dis Unsurpassed. Best of leather and tinguished Service Cross in De Sole Australian producers workmanship cember, 1941. He was also men • tioned in despatches. guaranteed. ELECTROLYTIC ZINC COY. of AUSTRALASIA Ltd. Later in the war he commanded AARONS the destroyer "Quickmatch." In EXCHANGE Head Office — 360 COLLINS STREET, MELBOURNE O May, 1946, he commissioned H.M.A.S. "Shoalhaven" and in HOTEL •PHONE: 1.1} 185. her served as Senior Officer of the Works — RISDON. TASMANIA First Frigate Flotilla. MUtnf PoUfahitsa Co. Ply. ItJ.. 10 Uitu. St.. Svdn*v—BW 1*411. 32 Tee Nervy \uvul Aviation to use the VENOM i III- IIAVIII \\l> AIK4RAI I PT¥. LTD. Q M Box 30. P.O.. 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Morris, Esq AUSTRALIAN SEA CADET COUNCIL RtprutntMivta of tno Nivil Board: ALEX H . MACKIE Director of Naval Reserves, Captain A. S. Rosenthal. D.S.O., ENG INEER ALL CLASSES OF SHIP REPAIRS AND FITTINGS RAN. (Chairman), Commander F. R. Jamet* R.A.N. 9-11-3 THERRY ST., MELBOURNE, VICTORIA UNDERTAKEN Rtnr—•ntitiyg of Tho Nwy LN*IM: Commander R. A. Nettlefold, DSC, METAL STAMIPING S OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS V.R.D., RJVN.V.R., 88-102 NORMANBY RD., STH. MELBOURNE, VIC. L G. Pearson, Esq., FOR THE MOTO R AN D AIRPLANE INDUSTRIES L. Forsythe, Esq., Telephones: MX 5231 (6 Una). Lieut. (S) F. G. Evans, R.A.N.V.R, FOR ALL ENQl JIRIES PLEASE 'PHONE FJ »629. R. Neil Walford Tt. M.»» February. 1953. f—'WW'-™. They flew at about 100 feet. It was the first time has already supplied the smaller S.51 Dragonfly a Sovereign has been escorted in this manner. helicopter to the Royal Navy and the R.A.F. Dur In other ways, too, the helicopter is filling an ing the last three years this little three-passenger Atstralla's important place, fulfilling an important duty As machine has given excellent service in Malaya, recently as January—that is, in last month's issue where the R.A.F. uses it to evacuate casualties from - this journal reported the use of helicopters in the jungle. It has also been employed by British Malayan jungle warfare. This followed the an European Airways for experimental services in nouncement in 'he British House of Commons that the United Kingdom, and took part in recent tests ten S.55 ten-seater helicopters were to be despatch to determine the suitability of the South Bank ed, with trained personnel, to Malaya for that site for London's helicopter terminal." purpose, together with a subsequent confirma An encouraging feature of the provision of Bris tory statement to the effect that they would ar tol 171's is that these helicopters are of British rive at their destination late in December. design and make. That Britain is now overcoming In making the announcement in question, Mr- her lag in helicopter production and that these .^my^Hf^ Birch, Parliamentary Secretary to the British Min> particular machines will also prove efficacious, may istry of Defence, said the United States Govern therefore be expected- It undoubtedly cannot Went had agreed to advance the delivery date of he other than anticipated, that, through their provi • the [ten S.55] helicopters, which were to have sion and use, the efficiency and general operational been allocated to the Royal Navy in 1953 under effectiveness of the R.A.N, will be appreciably the Mutual Defence Assistance nrogramme. The strengthened. British Government . nd the High Commissioner for the [Malayan] Federation "arc most grateful," ROCKET PLANE " COMBAT READY," added Mr. Birch, "for the co-opention of the SAY VS. EXPERTS. United States Government in this matter " Inci dentally, though manned by the Royal Navy, W The Republic Aviation Corporation of Amer rh>- S.55's in MaLy.i will come under the open ica is reported to have claimed that it has invent J£~* tional control of the Royal Air Force with cei ed a new fighter plane, the XF-91, that has "brig- tain existing Squadrons of smaller helicopters al cd the gap between the jet plane and the rocket ready in operation there. F'irthermore, they have plane." been accepted by No. 848 Squadron which is com The plane, it is said, is the first United States FEBRUARY. 1953. editorial of March last, have long since passed manded by Lieutenant-Commander S. H. Suthers, beyond the stage of novelty. They are, in fact, D.S.C., R.N., who joined the Air Branch of the aircraft officially credited with flying faster than now recognised, because they come within the loyal Navy as a midshipman in 1939. sound while completely equipped for combat. NAVY MINISTER BRINGS scope of possible eventualities, as part and parcel Earlier U.S. supersonic flights were by unarmed HELICOPTERS TO R.A.N. nf operational routine—and as such are now be Jn commenting on this acquisition and on th'- experimental planes, experts said. ing prepared for and accepted. craft itself, the Aeronautical Correspondent of The Corporation described the XF-91 as a high "The Times," London, wrote that "the S.55, speed, high-altitude interceptor, capable of coping The announcement by the Minister for the Navy Nor has the helicopter come prominently into which was produced by the Sikorsky Aircraft Di (the Hon. William M.Mahon) that three Bristol the news only on the field of battle; on the home with high-speed bomber aircraft. The President vision of the United Aircraft Corporation [of of the Republic Aviation Corporation, Mr. 171 helicopters would form part of the aircraft front, and in various ways, it is also establishing America], has been used extensively by the Unit equipment of H.M.A.S. "Vengeance"—due in itself as an instrument of signal utility. Mundy Peale, said: "ft may be considered as ed States forces in Korea. It can carry, in addi important in the future as was the step from the Sydney on March II—is a matter not only for ap For instance, when Her Majesty The Queen tion to a crew of two, up to 10 soldiers or eight preciation hut for congratulation. visited Britain's Home Air Command at Lee-on- reciprocating engines to jet power." stretcher cases, six of which can be loaded by Mr. Peale added that, although the XF-91 was Although the use of the helicopter is not new Solent on November 21 eight Naval Dragonfly means of a power-operated winch while the air to the Royal Australian Navy—it was used, on ($.51) helicopters, we learn trom the Admiralty technically still an experimental machine, it "is a craft hovers. It is also suitable for carrying combat-ready plane. It is not a purely research loan, in H.M.A.S "Sydney" in Korea -this will News Summary, took part in a fly past and two freight. he th-: first time Australia has proprietorially add THE ROYAL NAVY IN 1952 NEW SHIPS AND DEADUER WEAPONS. YOU NEED By NOWELL HALL, The year 1952, just ended, weapons evolved since the war, largest aircraft carrier ever built brought for the Royal Navy com their debut has made naval his tor the Royal Navy, joined the # mitments heavier than any it had tory. Home Fleet in the summer, and previously thrown in time of The graceful, streamlined frig her sister-ship, the "Ark Royal," peace. They have included the ates are the first of many Britain is nearly finished. Work has large and continuous contribu is building or converting from been resumed on several other tion, in ships and manpower, to destroyers. Ships of this type will aircraft carriers. They, too, will the United Nations fleet operat be much in evidence in the Brit 1 *M0tw^\K ing off Korea, and the handling be able to operate the new jet .drafti ish and other navies in the next m \\ v ^WJJI of thousands of ships of all na fighters which wil join the Navy 5 WT\>VcViVAii* few years. Towards the end of in squadron strength next spring. tions, among them Russia, for the year, six arc in commission, many weeks after Egypt had In the sphere of naval air de broken the Anglo • Egyptian and nearly twenty others arc velopments two innovations the i vu^**^ Treaty in October, 1951. ncaring completion. Dozens of Royal Navy have produced this Britain's reserve destroyers are year will vastly improve the oper P^r-I| ^r Nevertheless, the Royal Navy, destined for similar conversion. ational efficiency of carriers. One ^jlpi-ta ™"4i^* •4r If You Want an Efficient Insulation Job though hampered by the need for In the late autumn three of the is the steam catapult which is to national economy and other diffi new anti-submarine frigates ex be installed in the latest carriers culties of adapting itself to new ercised with the Home Fleet in of the British and Dominions •jt Using the Best of Materials peace-time requirements, can re arctic waters, and another went navies and the United States rw//^i\^ gard 1952 as a year of very real to the United States for special Navy. The catapult is so power -^ Carried Out in the Shortest Possible Time progress. It enters the New Year trials. In September, Mr. J. P. L. ful that it will launch aircraft with new strength, better prepar Thomas, First Lord of the British heavier than any yet in service. ed than ever before to counter the ^ At the Lowest Price — Ring Admiralty, said: "We have now It will be no longer necessary for three big threats likely to be made had time to evaluate the first few a ship to leave formation to steam by an enemy in any future war of these ships, and the general into the wind when flying off her at sea—those of the fast submar opinion is that they arc an un aircraft, as has been the practice ine, the mine, and high-speed air qualified success." UNI "VERSIL" 1NSULATIN G CO. PTY. LTD. craft. until now. In certain circum 17 MACOUARIE PL ACE, SYDNEY BW 2373-4 Much of the equipment they stances aircraft can even be The large programme of naval 328 FLINDERS ST.. MELBOURNE MB 1443 carry is still secret. It includes launched down-wind, or when a construction which is under way carrier is stationary. ST. G E 0 R G ES TERRACE. PERTH the most devastating anti-submar is .imed chiefly at building up, ine weapon yet known. This is Complementary to the steam ;i the shortest possible time, the a kind of multi-barrelled mortar catapult, in that it facilitates air Navy's anti-submarine and mine- which fires a pattern of power craft in landing on carriers, is the sweeping forces. In doing this ful underwater bombs ahead of new British idea known as the the British Navy reflects the trend the ship. Once the frigate comes "Angled Deck." It is also being Bardsley's of all the world's major fleets within range of its quarry, the adopted by the United States Are You a In many respects, it is leading weapon locates the target, aims Navy for its carriers. the way. This is so in regard to and fires the charges automati This consists of a rearrange SHAVIN6 the new anti-submarine frigates. cally. Every movement of the ment of flight deck space so that Subscriber to The few which Britain already submarine is followed until it is aircraft, by approaching to land CREAM has are likely to be the pattern destroyed. at an angle instead of from for other navies. During the Also packed with new equip dead astern in the convention year those deadly little ships have ment are Britain's new mine al manner, can fly straight off For a quicker The Wavy made their appearance in service, sweepers, several of which were the side of the ship if it makes a and both in training squadions and in launched from the summer on faulty touch-down. The new ar fleet exercises. wards. Between forty and fifty rangement not only reduces the more comfortable Order Your The first two, the Rocket and of these vessels arc being built risk of accident but increases a "Relentless," were commissioned and very many more are planned. carrier's capacity to accept more at the beginning of 1952. Con A big programme of refitting high-speed aircraft. Announcing Copy Now verted from 34-knot destroyers, minesweepers in reserve is well the new arrangement last month, SHAVE containing features revolutionary advanced. the British Admiralty said that in warship design, streamlined Naval aviation, too, has made the angled layout would involve and equipped with still-secret much progress. The "Eagle," the very little structural alteration to F.bm.ry, 1953. Tli. Navy 7 " THE NAVY LEAGUE OF AUSTRALIA *• PRESIDENTIAL REPORT PRESENTED AT THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE COUNCIL, 24th NOVEMBER, 195- Gentlemen, lo make arrangements Western Australia has already "whether in association with shown and the number of influ- I have the honour to present the Navy League or other ential members who have accept the Second Annual Report of the wise for the instruction and ed office on the Executive are Navy League of Australia. equipment of persons en more than encouraging to this You will recall that in my last rolled in the body of cadets Council and on behalf of all its report I referred to the fact that raised by that League and members I wish to record a wel under our new constitution wc known as the Australian Sea come to our new colleagues in were now an independent entity Cadet Corps." the West. hut that we remained affiliated to Under the Act the Naval Branches of the New South the parent body of the Navy Board is therefore now empow Wales Division were formed at League in Great Britain and to ered to render such assistance as Newcastle and Wollongong and the Leagues in Canada, New it may consider desirable, whether Sea Cadet units are operating in Zealand and South Africa. financial or otherwise, to the Aus those important centres. I am glad to report that, far tralian Sea Cadet Corps. In pass In South Australia Sea Cadet from weakening our relations ing it may be observed that the training commenced early this with our colleagues in other parts first major result of this amend year in two of Adelaide's lead of the British Commonwealth, as ment was the provision of funds ing schools. This is a splendid some amongst us feared, wc have, by the Department of the Navy start and I know Lieut. Com' since becoming the Navy League which enabled us to send an offi mander Shinkfield and his friends of Australia, achieved a greater cer and ten sea Cadets to Eng in Adelaide are looking forward understanding and a clearer ap land to represent the Australian to further progress in this most preciation of their methods and S;a Cadet Corps at the 1952 Em important of Navy League activ problems than existed before. pire Training Course in H.MS. ities. There has been a wider exchange "Osprey." There has been steady pro of information and ideas than in We are greatly indebted to the gress in Tasmania where since my the past. There were valuable Director of Naval Reserves, Cap last report Sea Cadet Units have personal discussions between the tain A. S. Rosenthal, for his con been formed in Launceston, Ul- Chairman and General Secretary tinued personal interest in the verstone and Strahan. The Tas- of the Navy League in Great Sea Cadet Movement. His advice manian Division held its inaug Britain and the CO. of your Sea and encouragement has always ural meeting at Hobart in April, Cadet Unit which visited Eng* been readily at our disposal, as 1951. You will agree with me land in July last. There has been has that of his St.iff Officers. that the formation of four sea correspondence with Canada and A set of Regulations govern cadet units some of them in wide' New Zealand and a month ago ing the foimation and administra !y separated areas, in one Divi a visit from the former Dominion tion of the Sea Cadet Corps has sion within 18 months, is a re President of the Navy League of been drawn up by D.N.R. in con cord of which Tasmania may well New Zealand. I need not empha sultation with your representa be proud. I convey to the Tas- size the value ot these exchanges tives on the Sea Cadet Council manian representatives here my at HMA.S 'RuiricuH.r" hav. ba.n qattinq realistic training. Abla Saaman R. S. Hnn of th. R.A.N. Diving School in formulating a common policy and these arc in course of publi congratulations and those of the Flaherty, of L.iehk.rdt. who wai (bmargad on ttia harbour, bad. rj.». Hi. alarm tiqnal to tit tba raacrioni o( tka trainaw. other Divisions. Th., had than to haul him to th. .Urf.c. (abov. -i,ht| and att.mpt lo ra.i.. him [abo.a laft). Tka trains war. not told and in strengthening the several cation at this moment. until th. tait had ba.n eompl.r.d th.t th. alarm ngnal ... not o).nuin«. Navy Leagues in their efforts to Expansion of Navy League In Victoria too Sea Cadet af achieve the objectives which are Activities in Australia. This has fairs continue to expand and I the ships and would have the ef kind, cook place early in Septemb Portsmouth! common to all. been another year of progress. would particularly refer to the fect of increasing the length of er. The powerful lighting at Relations with the Royal Austra In Western Australia a new Di formation within the last month the flight deck hy 40 per cent. tached to the underwater camera Overshadowing all else was lian Navy. During the year 19*2 vision of the Navy League was of a unit at Bendigo. You will Showing the amazing possibil enabled the viewers ashore to see Britain's mighty atomic test at an amendment to the Naval De formed at a meeting held at Frc- be interested to know that the ities of underwater television. clearly i diver moving on the sea Monte Bello Islands, off the fence Act of great importance to mantle on 15th September. The CO. of this unit and the man British naval scientists relayed pic bed, swimming fishes, crabs and northwest coast of Australia. In the Australian Ses Cadet Corps first President is Sir Frank Gib mainly responsible for its biith tures taken by a camera 100ft. be other marine life. The ship-to- this the Royal Navy pliyed a was passed through Parliament. son. Unfortunately neither he is a former Sea Cadet officer from low the surface of the English shore link allowed a diver, wear leading part, sending a special Copies of this amendment have al nor a representative was able to the Wollongong Unit in N.S.W. Channel to an audience in a naval ing his full kit on the deck of experimental squadron which in ready been circulated to .ill Di make the long journey to Mel General Sea Cadet Affairs. ihore establishment at Ports H M.S. Reclaim" far out to sea, cluded the frigate "Plym," the visions and you will remember bourne for this meeting but the Throughout all Divisions I have mouth sixteen miles away These to plav a game of noughts and vessel "vapourised" in the explo- that it enables the Naval Board interest and enthusiasm which felt a new enthusiasm in the Sea remarkable trials, the first of their crosses with an opponent in sion. TV. Navy F*bn**wy. I*W. "" Cadet movement. We are a small deep appreciation of the Navy members. I have found this can hotly and we have many prob League of Australia for the gen best be done by personal influ lems. I believe the greatest and erosity of our colleagues at home ence. If each member of each most pressing of these are. first in making possible a visit such Divisional Executive wrote a to find 10 TIM Haw February. '951. •• lore must do its exporting and INDIA'S MODEL PROBLEM SOLVING importing by rail, and this, of "GLORY'S" THIRD KOREAN PERIOD OF GLORY PORTS course is an expensive substitute. Dredging a deep channel into RELIEVES HMS. "OCEAN" At Ian (Hocked Poona, 120 dia's scientific revolution and also Mangaluie will cost an estimated miles from Bombay and the sea, illustrate how technical assistance 4,000,000 rupees, an investment The light fleet carrier, H.M.S. Forces Far East (Vice-Admiral Hair Air Group, consisting of engineers are working out an • by a United Nations agency which the city can amortize in "Ocean" (Captain G. L. G. R. P. Biscoe) which read: 801 Sea Fury Squadron (com swers to problems confronting (UNESCO) can be dovetailed four years if the channel can be Evans, D.S.O., D.S.C., R.N.), "Commander Naval Forces Far manded by Lieutenant-Command India's ports, her main lifelines into a well-planned national econ economically maintained. It is was recently relieved from duties East compliments the officers and er P. B. Stuart, R.N.) and 821 to the outside world There, omy. this "if* which is now being stud in the Korean war area by H.M. ratings of H.M.S. 'Ocean' upon Firefly Squadron (under the 2,000 feet high and dry in the Model tests of harbour prob ied in a 32,000 square-foot model S. "Glory" (Captain T. A. K. the outstanding performances of cotsmand of Lieutenant - Com Western Ghats mountains, sand lems are easily the most spectac at Poona. Maunsell, R.N.). combat duty just completed. Will mander J. R. N. Gardner, R.N.), bars choke up the Hoogly Estu- ular aspect of the station's work. There are now 40 engineers The ship she had come to re long remember your co-operation, hit hard at the enemy supply lines .try, nightmare of captains taking By reducing these harbours to and 500 construction workers at lieve left the Far East with a mag skill and aggressive spirit. Good in North Korea, blowing up am ships into Calcutta, and cyclone* •small scale, huge sums of money the Poona station, in addition to nificent record. It had not been bye and good luck." munition trucks and wrecking blow into Madras Harbour, tos? which otherwise would have two men sent in by UNESCO, achieved without some casualties. From Commander United Na bridges and railways in a relent ing ships at their moorings been spent on full-sized experi Alfred Frants Mogensen, a Dan' Within minutes of the return of tions Blockade and Escort Force less series of attacks and during But this is alt happening in ments can be saved. Poona*s en ish navigation research engineer, her last aircraft on completion of Far East (Admiral Gingrich): eight flying days the group flew miniature and under the eyes of gineers are called in regularly to and Dr. R. V. Baud, a Swiss en her tour of duty a memorial ser "Your unceasing efforts and de 432 sorties. seek solutions to the many prob problem-solving engineers. For gineer, whose specialty is testing vice was held on the flight deck votion to a common cause have lems of India's ports and har This is the "Glory's" second "SO years, Poona has been the structures and materials for safe of the "Ocean" 'for those killed been reflected in the outstanding site of a vast outdoor iaboratury bours. ty D. V. Joglekar is the director results accomplished during your winter tour off Korea. During in action. As the final notes of the first part of the patrol her where engineers have been able A typical case is that of Man- of the station, and Dr. Gurdas the Last Post were sounded trib tour of duty with U.N. forces in to scale down waterpower and ir galore, a city of 125,000 inhabi Ram is in charge of the station's Korean waters. To the officers aircrews had to contend with bit utes of wreaths were cast on the terly cold winds of gale force. rigation problems to model sue. tants on the west coast of India, physics section- waters. and men of H M.S. 'Ocean' a In 1947, the Central Water and 500 miles south of Bombay, and hearty 'Well done'. Smooth sail Although short days and wintry The "Ocean's" air Group set weather may prevent the Power Research Station there a heavy exporter of coffee, ca new and high standards for light ing and good fortune to you all." was given the added assignment Anu ro It would be interesting to know "Glory" from equalling the high shew nuts. pepper, " °f tfes. fleet carriers. Apart from the re From Commander United of investigating port problems in The main stumbling block at how many Sydney people are sortie rate achieved during the aware today that a real sea battle cord of 123 sorties in one day States 7th Fleet (Vice-Admiral summer months, her first patrol its 120-acre laboratory, one of the Mangalore is the port's lack of a Clarke: largest in the world (elsewhere, was fought to a finish just outside the Group achieved a daily aver average of 54 -sorties a day— Jeep channel through the shallow "Commander 7th Fleet com weather conditions force engin their famous Heads. In 1804, age of 76 sorties, and altogether without deck landing accidents— water stretching three miles off pliments officers and men of H. eers to conduct their tests under 148 years ago, a British privateer flew nearly 6,000 sorties during is a good start to her tour. shore from the city and which M.S. 'Ocean' for handing the roofs, but rain is a rarity at named the "Policy" engaged at the tour. The highest accident- forces ocean-going ships to be un Communist enemy many damag Watching the "Glory" open Poona). loaded by shallow-draft dhows. the time in the whaling indus free landing sequence was 1613 ing blows. Especially noteworthy her assault was Aear-Admiral E. During the four-month monsoon try, attacked the Dutch whaler and there were three sequences of The activities of the Central is the daily sortie rate which in season, not even the dhows can "Swift." A grimly fought battle over 1,000 accident-free deck G. A. Clifford. C.B., Flag Officer Water and Power Research Sta dicates maximum effort on the get over the shallows and Manga- ensued in accordance with the landings. Second'in-Command, Far East, tion at Poona are a symbol of In H.M.S. "Ocean's" best average part of all hands. Good luck and who was with his ships off the traditions of these, at that time, pleasant voyage." inveterate foes. The "Policy" deck landing interval achieved West Coast of Korea. JAMES PATRICK & CO. PTY. LTD. carried 12, 6-pounders and the was 17 seconds for a formation of "Swift" 6, 18-pounders. The Sea Furies. The Fireflies' best SHIPOWNERS — AGENTS — CONTRACT British ship, rolling in the ground was 19 seconds. More than STEVEDORES swell, fought her guns like so 16,000 rockets and nearly 4,000 CHARTERS AND BUNKERS ARRANGED many piston rods, pouring shot bombs were dropped on the after shot into the Dutchman, enemy and approximately half a who replied bravely enough, each million rounds of 20 m.m shells REGULAR INTERSTATE * OVERSEAS CARGO & were fired from aircraft cannon PASSENGER SERVICES vessel occasionally registering a hit which left its mark. So the Lieutenant J. L. Treloar, R.N., of battle waged, and soon the deck Lee-on-Solent, the best bridge Agents for . . . of each ship was slippery with buster in the air group, was pre FLO IT A LAURO (Italian I.int)- -Cargo and something more colourhful than sented with a scale model of a Australia to Mediterranean porta, via Singapore. Sea Fury Aircraft made on board. TASMAN STEAMSHIP CO. LTD.—Refrigerated cargo, Australia blubber oil. The 6ght lasted for nearly three hours; it ended with Out of 19S bridges smashed dur to New Zealand. ing the tour, be claimed 16. ERIE RAILROAD (U.SwA.)~Australasian Agents. the conquered "Swift" being tow ed triumphantly into Sydney On leaving the Far East Sta Head Office: 19 BRIDGE STREET, SYDNEY Harbour and sold, the prize tion, the "Ocean" received mes Phone: BW 4181. money, including 20,000 Spanish sages of congratulation from ALSO AT MELBOURNE AND BRISBANE dollars on board the "Swift," be United Nations commanders as WITH AGENTS AT ALL MAIN PORTS IN AUSTRALIA. ing not inconsiderable. follows: From Commander Naval F.bf».ry. I»5i. II . • TARANTO ANNIVERSARY DINNER Ten nt the Royal Navv pilots It was twelve years, almost to The guest of honour at the NEWS OF THE WORLD'S NAVIES and observers who ti>ok off from the hour, since the first flight of Taranto dinner was the First Sea the moonlit flight deck of the air Swordfish aircraft set out on the Lord (Admiral Sir Rhoderick Mc- craft carrier "Illustrious" 10 win 170-mile flight across the Medit Grigor, G.C.B., D.S.O.) and other JAPANESE NAVY'S refit. She will be proceeding to But that ships of Britain's Far for Britain the most significant erranean on an operation, under guests included Admiral Sir RE-BIRTH. the Mediterranean to work up Eastern Fleet were later switched Royal Navy «ir victory of World consideration long before Italy Lumlcy Lystcr, K.C.B., C.V.O., The United States on January and will join the Fast Indies Fleet whenever possible to patrol the War II, wire among th.- guests entered the war, which was to C.B-E., D.S.O., who commanded 14 handed over ten ships to the early this year. Her Command pirate-infested areas, the loss to at a dinner at the R.N' Barracks, provide striking proof of the po the carriers in the Mediterranean; Japanese Government in a cere ing Officer (Captain M. G. Japan in fish cargoes and fishing Lcc-on-Solcnt »:i the anniversary tency of Naval air power. Admiral Sir Denis Boyd, K.C.B., mony at Yokosuka naval base, Goodenough, CB.E., D.S.O., craft would have been much of the Flee: Arr Arm's crippling And the result? Twenty air C.B.E.. DSC. then the Com thus marking the re-birth of the R.N.) received a message from greater. raid on the It.Jian fleet in Tar- craft left three of the most pow manding Officer of the "Illus Japanese Navy. Japanese seamen the Lieutenant Governor of New anto Harbour, on November II, erful units of the Italian battle trious": the Fifth Sea Lord, hoisted the Rising Sun flag over foundland stating: "On the DUKE OF EDINBURGH 1940. fleet sinking and others damaged. Vice-Admiral E. W. Anstice, the vessels. The ships comprised commissioning of H.M.S. 'New JOINS NAVY LODGE- The Duke of Edinburgh has C.B.; and the Flag Officer Air. • six 1,700-ton frigates and four foundland' I send you, your of ficers and ship's company, on be been admitted to the Navy (Home) Vice-Admiral C. E. 450-ton landing craft. They will Lambc, C.B., C.V.O. half of the Government and Lodge of English Freemasons. be named after Japanese ships people of Newfoundland, my best The Earl of Scarborough, Grand The seaborne air attack on Tar ! sunk during World War II., and wishes. Newfoundland will never Master of the United Lodge of anto has been decschbed by his form the first of 68 warships forget her close ties with the England, was present at the cere torians as "an example of econ which the United State will loan Royal Navy, in which so many mony. omy of force, the success of which to Japan for a period of 5 years. thousands of her sailors served had a profound effect on the The Japanese Prime Minister, in two world wars. We are proud BRITISH FRIGATE VISITS Mediterranean situation." Mr. Shigeru Yoshida, complained that your ship bears the name TRISTAN DE CUNHA. last April that Japans' post-war Forty pilots and observers com of our island, the cradle of our The British frigate "Actaeon" coast guard of 46 ships was in prised the force that reached the Commonwealth and Empire, and has visited the South Atlantic is target and only two of this num adequate to guard her 6,000-mile we hope that some day soon you land of Tristan de Cunha, one of ber—Lieutenants G. W. Bayley " coastline. will visit us. Good luck to you the most lonely outposts in the and H. J. Slaughter, R.N. loss all." British Commonwealth. This was their lives in the attack. Two VS. NAVY ASKS CONGRESS the first visit to the island by a FOR TWELVE CARRIERS. others failed to make the return R.N. FRIGATE FOR KENYA. British warship for several years. flight to the "Illustrious" and A Press report from Washing The "Actaeon's" company took spent the rest of the war in ton on January 2 said that the The Royal Navy frigate, "Loch part in a parade during the an O.O.W. camps. Thev were Lieu United State* Navy had asked Glendhu" arrived at Mombasa, nual island ceremony of "Queen'* tenant-Commander K. William for Congressional approval for the seaport of Kenya, on Janu Day," and a plaque of the ship's son, a pilot, who was awarded the the construction of twelve ary 7 to supplement British crest was presented to the chief D.S.O. for his outstanding cour 60,000-ton aircraft carriers. The forces in a renewed drive against islander (Mr. Repetto) by the age in leading the strike, and is U.S. Navy already has two such the Mau Mau rebels. The frig Commanding Officer of the ship A Commonwealth Bank Cheque now Captain (Training) on the carriers in the course of building. ate's arrival followed that of the (Commander R. C. P. Wain- Account provide* you with a safe, speedy staff of the FO. Air (Home), The Secretary for the Navy, Mr. Commander-in-Chief of Middle Wright, D.S.C.R.N.) Later the and convenient method of paying and his observer. Lieutenant N. Dan Kimball, said in an Ameri- East land forces. General Sir ship was open to visitors; a film- accounts. No need to go from place to T. Scarlett, R.N. The latter, '• can Defence Department report Brian Robertson, who had flown tea party was given for 50 place paying bill* in person, when you now Commander Scarlett-Streath- on January 2: The time has come to Nairobi, the capital. The children, and an adult film show can so easily pay by cheque. field, D.S.C., R.N., was decorated to consider replacement of the General's arrival coincided with for 70 islanders. A programme a combined army and police Paying by cheque has other advantages- for his part in the raid and Men capital ships of the Navy, and of sports events, including a tioned in Despatches for organis sweep of the Aberdare Mountain football match, was organised and It adds to your prestige, shows clearly only a beginning has been made area. what you have spent and where, and gives ing escapes from the prison with the "Forrestal" (the first of at night the ship was floodlit and evidence of payment in caw of lost camps during his period of cap the two giant carriers) and its there was a fireworks display and lateinu. tivity. sister-ship. Based on current INCREASE IN CHINESE a dance. PIRACY COMBATED. A Commonwealth Bank Cheque Sixteen of those who took part world conditions, a minimum of Account is easy to open, simple to use. in this operation have, however, 12 Forrestal class carriers are re- Taking full advantage of the FRENCH ADMIRAL VISITS Open one to-d«y been killed in action or on active . quired if the Navy is to carry diversion of Allied warships to BRITISH MEDITERREAN service since the Taranto raid. out its primary mission." Korea, piracy in Chinese waters FLEET. COMMONWEALTH Nine have now retired or have increased considerably during the Vice-Admiral DEscadre L. M been placed on emergency lists, NEWFOUNDLAND GREETS year 19J2. The pirate boats, P. A. Sala, D.S.O., Commander- BANK THE "NEWFOUNDLAND." Chinese-manned, operated mainly -THE BANK YOU OWN and thirteeen, nearly all of whom in-Chief, French Naval Force* have reached senior rank, remain H.M.S. "Newfoundland" re against Japan's fishing fleet* and Mediterranean, flying his flag in All Branches provide every trading bank servin in the Service. commissioned at Devonport early are reported to have captured the French cruiser "George* CGS7)«: in November after an extensive large numbers of these boat*. Leygues," arrived at Malta on !«. Faanury. l*tj. II which had already served in November 18 to visit the Com "Tracker" were expected to re drawn. The following message Bight from Okinawa to Manila, announced on January 16 that mander-in-Chief, British Mediter turn to the United Kingdom late of thanks was received by the Philippine Islands. The Mariner Commander J. S. Mesley, D.S.C., Korea from September, 1951, un ranean Fleet. Admiral Sala was in January. Admiralty from the Royal Neth and a R.A.F. Sunderland flying- RAN, at present commanding til February, 1952, would relieve « former French Naval Attache erlands Navy: "The Royal Neth boat landed at the scene of the officer of the destroyer "Tobruk," "Anzac" in Korea next June. BRITISH FRIGATE RETURNS erlands Navy would like to ex crash and rescued survivors. would be appointed Captain (D) H.M.A.S.'. "CULGOA" AND in London and was awarded a FROM PERSIAN GULF. D.S.O, in 1946. His visit lasted press their very deepest apprecia The Sunderland took off safely, of the 10th Destroyer Squadron "TOBRUK" TO SERVE IN The British frigate "Flamingo" tion of the speed with which but the Mariner, which is sup and commanding officer of the KOREAN AREA. two days during which time he (Captain N. W. Fisher, O.B.E., these ships and the two lifting posed to have taken off 10 per destroyer "Anzac" with the act The Minister for the Navy discussed matters of common in R.N.) returned recently to the terest with the British Command craft, L.C.15 and 16, were placed sons from the wreck of the Nep ing rank of captain,' as from (the Hon. William McMahon) United Kingdom after more than at their disposal, particularly when March 23. H.M.A.S. "Anzac" er m Chief and his Flay Officers. three years on the East Indies tune, crashed after take-off. Lat announced on December 17 that The greater part of the Mediter they remember that you had to er messages from New York, was serving in Korean waters on H.MAS. "Culgoa" would re Station, for the most part attach a second tour of duty. Mr. Mc ranean Pket had returned to bring your work at Dover to a however, claimed that an air-sea lieve H.M.A.S. "Condamine" in ed to the Persian Gulf Division. Mahon added that Commander Malta on the conclusion of the complete standstill. Also many action had taken place, that the the Korean area next April and Since she was completed in 1939 thanks for the valuable advice Mesley would be succeeded as summer cruises extending over most of the "Flamingo's" service Neptune crashed after being fired H.M.A.S. "Tobruk," which had the preceding five months. given to the Netherlands by the commanding officer of "Tobruk" has been in the East. She is now on l»y anti-aircraft batteries on by Commander I. H. McDonald, previously served in Korea from Chief Salvage Officer (Mr. C. L. Communist-held islands; and that September, 1951, until February, home to refit and recommission Black) and his staff." RAN, now Director of Naval ATOM TEST ADMIRALS for further service in the Persian a second U.S. Navy rescue plane Communications at Navy Office, 1952, would relieve H.M.A.S. MESSAGE TO NAVAL Gulf. was also attacked—this time by Melbourne. Commander Mc "Anzac" there in June. "Culgoa" BOARD. ALLIED AIR-SEA ATTACK an unidentified aircraft, but and "Condamine" are River class ON N. KOREAN MAINLAND. Donald was commanding officer Rear-Admiral A. O. Torlcsse, R.N. SALVAGE SHIPS SENT escaped. Indications are that at frigates. "Tobruk" and "Anzac" The United States battleship of the frigate " Shoalhaven" D.S.O., who commanded the TO HOLLAND. least 11 of the 21 persons aboard arc Battle class destroyers. "Con "Missouri" and the British cruis which was on occupation duty in Naval force employed in connec Two British Admiralty Coastal the crashed planes were killed. damine" has been serving in Kor er "Birmingham" on January 7 Japanese waters with the destroy tion with the test of the British Salvage vessels and two powerful ALLIED WARSHIPS ean waters since last July. "An shelled Communist coastal guns, er "Bataan" when the Korean atomic weapon at the Monte tidal lifting craft, towed by two ORDERED TO SCENE zac" has been there on a second caves, and fortifications recently war broke out in June, 1950. Bcllos sent the following message Admiralty tugs, sailed from Dov OF PLANE CRASHES. tour of duty since September. constructed opposite the North "Shoalhaven" remained in the to the Australian Commonwealth er on November 10 for the Hook Korean islands of Chodo and Sok- Following the crash of two Korean area until she was reliev She first arrived in the Korean Naval Board: "On departure of Holland, where the steamer po. Seafire and Sea Fury aircraft U.S. Navy planes—a Neptune ed by the destroyer "Warramun- area in August, 1951. She left from Australia 1 would like to "Faustus" lay sunk and partially uf the British carrier "Glory" and a Mariner—on January 18, ga" three months later. "Tobruk" there the following month to es express my appreciation for the blocking the new waterway to the joined in the assault. reported elsewhere in this journal, cort the Royal Navy aircraft car- magnificent assistance my squad port of Rotterdam. The salvage a New York message on January ron has received throughout the vessels the Royal Fleet Auxiliary US. NAVY AIR LOSSES 19 said that the U.S. destroyers operation " H.M.S. "Campania," "Succour," of which Captain R- "Halsey Powell' 'and "Gregory" wearing the flag of Admiral Tor- Souter is Master, and H.M.S. IN KOREA. The United States Navy an and the sea-plane tender "Suis- lesse, returned to the United " Uplifter " (Lieutenant - Com en," all from the 72nd U.S. Task mander N Ross, R.N.). When nounced on January 1 that the Kingdom which she reached to Force, left Formosa waters for the wards the end of last year. Other the decision was later taken not U.S. Navy and Marine Corps scene of the crashes as soon as ships of the force, H.M. Ships to attempt to lift the "Faustus" lost 1,016 planes in combat or ac " Narvik," " Zeehruggc," and the Admiralty vessels were with cidents in Korea from the start word was received of them. The of fighting until December 1, Royal Navy frigate "Morcambe 1952. It claimed that Naval and Bay" is also said to have left Marine planes had killed 100,000 Hong Kong for the scene at about Communist troops and destroyed the same time. Later, a U.S. Navy TAT1rERSALL' S 92 Communist planes. The Navy spokesman said that Communist lost 238 planes and the Marine shore batteries fired on one of the p^^ 5/- CASH CONSULTATIONS Corps 226 to enemy action in destroyers but that no damage £10,000 FIRST PRIZE Korea. Operations cost another was done to it. 303 Navy aircraft and 249 Ma Drawn every few days BRITISH HOME FLEETS fXcO rine Corps planes. \ 1 and MOVEMENTS. MftNM *klpt mt Hm A Press message from London 10/- CASH CONSULTATIONS TWO VS. NAVY PLANES on January 7 said that the battle I p £25,000 FIRST PRIZE CRASH. ship "Vanguard" and the air \~~*i Drawn every few weeks A message from Hong Kong craft carriers "Eagle" and "in on January 18 said that a U.S. domitable" would sail with the \Jr Navy Mariner flying-boat carry British Home Fleet's spring POSTAGE ON TICICET S AND RESULTS TO BE ADDED ing survivors of the earlier crash cruise to join with the Mediter of a U.S. Navy Neptune patrol ranean Fleet. The Address . . . bomber crashed into the sea 50 NEW CAPTAIN OF 10th miles north-east of the Chinese DESTROYER SQUADRON. GEO. ADAMS (TATTEISAU) H0BAIT port of Swatow earlier that day. The Minister for the Navy ANCHOR The Neptune crashed while on a (the Hon. William McMahon) Tte Ha»f Mnury, ltd. 17 ncr H.M.S. "Glory" to Sydney •try 5 and "Australia" would tries to intercept." MAIITIME NEWS OF THE to undergo refit at Garden Is reach there from Westernport The midget jet fighter, in turn, land Dockyard. While "Glory" the following day. The three is reputed to fly faster than sound was in Australia she was relieved ships would remain at Hobart un and has a rate of climb greater in the Korean theatre by the til February 12, when they would than any contemporary jet fighter. RAN. aircraft carrier H.M.A-S. leave for Jervis Bay. On passage It is so small that a six-foot man "Sydney." Mr. McMahon said to and from Hobart they would can look over the top of it. that ships of the Royal Australian engage in exercises. "Sydney" The fighter is the conception Navy had played a worthy part would carry' out flying practice WORLD in the Korean campaign ever of Mr. W. E. W. Petter, who de since hostilities broke out. Every signed the famous twin-jet oper From our Correspondents in Australian warship that had serv BRITISH LEADERSHIP. ational bomber, Canberra. IN AVIATION. ed in the area had won high The midget fighter is designed LONDON and NEW YORK praise from senior British and Britain's pronounced leadership to operate at heights of up to 12 By American officers, and thirty in aviation development was again miles. It is believed to be so AIR MAIL eight R.A.N, officers and men had evident in two recent announce simple to build that mass produc been decorated or mentioned in ments emanating from authorita tion will be possible. TWO SHIPS AGROUND. tons. There is now a large trade SHIPS ON PANAMANIAN despatches. tive quarters. The first state The second announce m e n t Two ships ran aground during bci>.ecn South America and Aus REGISTER. ment, made on January 9 by the came from the British-owned tralia. "Evening News," London, was storms off the eastern coasts of the Among the resolutions submit R.A.N. SHIPS TO VISIT Kemsley Press on January 20. to the effect that: United States on January 9. They CANADIAN "EMPRESS" ted at the Annual General Meet HOBART IN FEBRUARY. Among other things it said that: ing of the Navigators' and Engin • A new British bomber will were the British freighter "Wave LINER BURNT. * British planes with speeds eer Officers' Union, held in Lon The Minister for the Navy fly on the brink of the sound Commander" and the United of 800 miles per hour are in With flames leaping from the don on October 17, Lord Winster, (the Hon. William McMahon) barrier; and States oil tanker "Albert E. sight, and flight at 1,000 m.p.h. portholes, the Canadian Pacific P.C., K.C.M.G., presiding, wa6 said on January 17 that the air Watts." The "Wave Command • A midget jet fighter is under should he common in 1960 ac liner "Empress of Canada" the following: That this meeting craft carrier "Sydney" (attended construction in Britain. er" (8,000 tons), with a crew cording to Mr. Sidney Camm. of 40, grounded near the entrance (20,325 tons) was destroyed by expresses alarm at the continuous by the Battle class destroyer The designer of the first, the fire at a Liverpool (England) Mr. Camm, designer of many to Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, but growth of tonnage on the Pan "Tobruk") and the cruiser "Aus new scimitar - winged four - jet Boating dock on the night of Jan amanian and similar registers, and tralia" would visit Hobart during Handley-Page Victor bomber, Mr. planes including the famous Hur tugs pulled her free and towed ricane and the Hunter, was, it her to Norfolk. The "Albert E. uary 25. Early on the morning instructs the Council in conjunc Regatta Week in February. R. S. Stafford, is reported as say tion with seafarers' Organisations "Sydney," wearing the flag of the appears, addressing a Wayfarers' Watts" (10,000 tons) went of January 26 the ship, practi ing that the aim of the bomber cally gutted, heeled over on her to take effective action against Flag Officer Commanding the would be to fly in the stratosphere Club luncheon in London. He ashore about 15 miles south of made it clear that much has been Miami, Florida. A few hours side, with vast clouds of smoke sub-standard ships on such regis Australian Fleet (Rear-Admiral at a speed on the brink of the ters and thereby protect the in done to reduce the drag caused later the tanker broke free and and steam billowing into the air. J. W. M. Eaton, D.S.O., D.S.C.), sonic barrier. "By so doing," he terests of members. and "Tobruk" would arrive at said, "we force the enemy to by air resistance at these really proceeded on her course to Hou The liner had no passengers Hobart from Sydney on Febru high speeds, and said: aboard, and had been moved into cross and recross this hazard as he ston, Texas, under her own MARINE SOCIETY power. the floating dock on January 24 to "I can see no limit to what undergo the final work of her SAILING GIGS. the pilot can take, but as we The Marine Society (of Great NEW DUTCH SHIP FOR annual overhaul. The "Empress reach about 1,500 m.p.h. we run of France" of the same line was Britain), which since 1756 has into the heat barrier, at which SOUTH-AMERICA- rendered assistance to youths C. EBELING & SONS PTY. LTD. AUSTRAUA TRADE. lying astern of the "Empress of friction is caused to metal by the Canada" at the time of the fire, wishing to go to sea, has recently speed through the air. We are but the wind blew the flames made funds available to nautical already working on materials, The new Dutch passenger from the burning ship in the op establishments for the provision such as minium, to beat this ship, "Straat Banka" (9,435 tons) of sailing gigs. Four such gigs posite direction. Firemen had problem." which arrived in Sydney in mid- are now being used by H.M.S. January, is the seventh ship now fought the fire for nine hours "Conway," and the first two of Neville Duke, test pilot, who trading between South America before the liner heeled over and another batch of four are now was also at the luncheon, told and Australia. The ship, owned capsized. The "Empress of Can being operated at the Southamp the Club that the pilot did not by the Interocean Lines, can ada" was built in 1928, had ac ton University College, School of hear any of the "sonic" bangs carry 50 passengers in two state, commodation for 700 passengers Navigation, Warsash. These as his plane broke through the 16 double-berth, and 14 single- and cost £2.000,000 SHIP REPAIRS, MARINE ENGINEERS, BOILERMAKERS gigs are 20 feet long, gunter rig sound barrier. berth cabins. All the cabins ged and fitted with centre board, AND WELDERS. "Speed is increased gradually have their own private facilities, FAST FREIGHTER and have been built by members OW FOUNDRY AND LABORATOK.. and gingerly," he added. "There and the ship is elaborately equip The Australia - West Pacific of the staff Works: 70-80 STEPHEN ST., YARRAVTLLE, VIC. were minor indications you were ped with all modern aids, includ Line's new freighter "Delos" "Phone: MW 2255. approaching the barrier but once ing radar for navigation, and reached Sydney on the morning AFRICAN STOWAWAYS CABLES ar. TELEGRAMS: "EBEUNG," MELBOURNE. through there appeared to be modern fire-fighting and smoke- of December 31 after having cov PUT ASHORE. nothing to prevent us going detecting facilities. The "Straat Reg. OfSce: 1 CASTLEMAINE ST., YARRAVILLE, W.1J, ered the 1,860 miles from Rahaul The Norwegian Attorney-Gen further—except drag, rise and Banka" cruises at 16 knots and in five days, averaging 16.6 knots VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA. eral decided recently not to take and lack of power." has a cargo capacity of 9,000 per hour. legal action against the master of tw Navy F.btu.t,. IHI. Okinawa on the night of January in Auckland on January 18 that ship titles. A sister ship, the "Ar Norwegian steamer "Jaspis,*" who MALAYS, INDONESIANS speed—the "Oranje" to Indon 8. Eight of the ship's comple his parent company would defi cadia," is being built on the had been criticised for putting JEER JAP. SHIP. esia and the "Willem Ruys" to ment were killed. Rescue vessels nitely re-enter the Pacific pas Clyde. two African stowaways ashore on Malayan and Indonesian sea' Holland. picked up the remaining 32 mem senger trade, probably with two the North African coaat last bers of the crew. The eight who big 2 5-knot ships. A former men on ships in Fremantie har &S. "KORANUI" SOLD. MJV. ENGINEER March. He stated in his report were lost were amidships when executive officer of the Matson CERTIFICATES. bour (Western Australia) re The Union Steamship Com that while the master's action cently hissed, jeered and spat as the tanker split. They were the liner "Monterey," he said his must be regarded as "rather pany's 39-year-old steamer "Kor- company recognised that there Records show that in 19? 1 the the Japanese freighter "Mantetsu captain, chief engineer, and six British Ministry of Transport ex rough," especially because of the anui" (1,266 tons) has been sold mess-boys. The United States was a great future in the Pacific Maru" berthed. The ship was for £10,000. It is understood amined 6,254 candidates for Mer age of the stowaways, he found the first Japanese vessel to visit Navy on January 11 reported that and did not intend to miss an in) reason to order court proceed that the ship has been bought to opportunity to re-enter the trade. chant Marine Engineer certifi Fremantie since the war. As she a tug had taken the stern section cates, and issued 801 second-class ings against him. The master had moved in to Victoria Quay wharf, be sold as scrap in Japan. It of the tanker in tow and was pro The new ships, he said, would reported to his owners in Oslo, would first be loaded with scrap maintain a high standard of ser certificates, 562 first-class certifi Malayans and Indonesians on ceeding to Japan. The splitting cates, and 11 extra first-class certi Norway, that although he had the ships "Gordon" and "Ores metal, and then would tow the of the "Avanti" was one of a vice, and he was confident they put the men ashore, reports of 40-year-old steamer "Morinda" would be the "last word in sea ficates. Yet the net gain of cer tes," berthed nearby, shouted series of storm-caused ship acci tificated engineers afloat was only the manner in which this was " Murderers, Cannibals." The (2,025 tons) to Japan, also, it is dents and distress calls in the transport." However a Matson done were exaggerated. thought, to be sold as scrap. Line spokesman on January 23 a fraction of the new certificates "Mantetsu Maru" sailed at noon Pacific and Atlantic during the issued. In fact it was only 125. next day for the Eastern Austra The "Koranui," formerly the week. treated the statement with reserve and said that the Company had First voyages totalled about 3,800 lian States. "Cleopatra," was built in Lubeck, but the net gain of certificated Germany, in 1914. Until lately DUTCH LINER SUNK BY "no firm plans for re-entering the PIERCED BY 9-INCH passenger service to New Zealand and uncertificated engineers was she was used mainly to take gen SUBMERGED OBJECT. only about 430. In short, the THERMOMETER—BUT eral cargo from Newcastle, Syd and Australia with new liners." ALL WAS SHIPSHAPE. The 10,000-ton Dutch liner wastage to shore employment con ney, and Port Kembla, to Mel tinued. A Press report from New Or bourne and Tasmanian ports, and "Klipfontein" struck a submerg ed object and sank in 45 minutes DUTCH SHIP SINKS leans (U.S.A.) on January 2 said return with fruit and produce. AFTER COLLISION." that Charles Chapman (38), a five miles off Mozambique, Por II,000-MILE SMALL-BOAT The Dutch ship "Stella Maris" ship's engineer, had stated that TRAGIC LOSS OF LIFE IN tuguese East Africa, on January VOYAGE. a nine-inch thermometer was S. KOREAN FERRY 9. The British 18.000-ton Castle (619) sank after a collison with An Englishman, Patrick Ellam, thrust into his abdomen when he DISASTER. liner "Bloemfontein Castle" res the Norwegian ship "Lynenfjord" 32, arrived recently at Beach fell on the boiler-room instrument cued all 233 of the "Klipfon- (3,800 tons), off Lir.desnaes, The South Korean Naval auth Haven, New Jersey, U.S.A., af aboard ship. In the Azores doc tein's" passengers and crew. Af The Naze, Norway, early in the orities on January 10 announced ter an 11,000-mile voyage from tors operated but did not remove ter the liner struck the object morning of January 12. The that the captain of the 146-ton London in a 19-foot boat. The the thermometer. Three days there was an explosion in its oil "Lynenfjord" took all the crew ferry-boat which capsized and trip took more than a year. At later other doctors operated and tank. Her bow settled low in of the "Stella Maris" aboard. sank in a hurricane, with a loss Beach Haven, Ellam was joined removed the thermometer, which the water and the cabins flooded The Dutch ship was bound from of 249 lives, on the night of Jan by an American, Merton Gib had entered his right side be quickly. Passengers, who lost all Neewcastle-on-Tyne to Kristian- uary 9, would be indicted for bons, and with him continued the tween his ribs and pelvis, and their possessions, were ordered to sand- "grave responsibility." The dis parade on deck with only their voyage to New York. EMBROIDERED then all was shipshape. aster occurred 10 miles from Pu- passports and important papers. FISHERMEN'S LOYAL RADGES OF RANK NEW TRAMP-TYPE san. Only seven of the vessel's All remained calm and songs were 256 passengers and crew, all or GREETINGS BY CARRIER "KON TIKI" LEADER (GOLD OH RED IKAIDI ACCOMMODATION. sung as the ship's boats were low nearly all of whom were South PIGEONS. RETURNS TO GALAPAGOS. The accommodation provided ered. Half an hour later the Koreans, survived. The ferry, the British fishermen on a trawler Any Badge Mad* toOrder in the new tramp-type Watts "Bloemfontein Castle" arrived on Mr. Thor Heyerdahl, Norweg "Chang Tyong-ho," was on its off the East coast of Britain used Watts steamers of the ''Windsor" the scene and took the "Klip- ian leader of and author of the RANK BRAID regular run from Yosu to Pusan, carrier pigeons on January 1 to class includes officers' dining sa fontein's" passengers and crew book on the "Kon Tiki" expedi and was one of the coastal ves send a New Year's message of loon, smokeroom and lounges aboard. The "Klipfontein" was tion, is planning another visit to BUTTONS sels regularly used between loyal greetings to the Queen. and crew's cafeteria and lounge. on a round trip between Bremen the islands. Indeed, he may al Korea's East and West coasts. The message was delivered to MINIATURE MEDALS AH the men have single-berth and Lourenco Marques, via the ready be there. Mr. Heyerdahl The survivors, who comprised Her Majesty at Sandringham and said in Quayaquil (Ecuador) on CAMPAIGN RIBBONS cabins. Cape of Good hope. She left received by the Duke of Edin the captain, two members of the Mozambique on the night of January 5 that he and Mr Erik burgh. DUTCH LINERS COLLIDE crew, and four passengers, swam January 8. Reed, of the United States, and IN RED SEA. half a mile through icy, raging Mr. Ame Skjolscold, of Norway, Two of Holland's biggest seas to a small island. Appar- NEW P. ft O. UNER would spend about four months ocean-going liners, the "Willem cently the "Chang Tyong-ho" MATSON LINE IN NAMED. in the Galapagos, digging for Ruys" (21,000 tons), and the was hit broadside on by a giant PACIFIC TRADE. The P. & O. Steam Navigation traces of their early inhabitants. wave and overturned. "Oranje" (20,000 tons) collided Captain Robert A. Eastman, Company on January 1 announc They hoped to prove that In early in the morning of January master of the freighter "Ven ed in London that a 28,000-ton dians from what was now Ecua SWEDISH TANKER BREAKS dor had reached the -stands, 800 568 George St. Sydney ft off Port Sudan, in the Red Sea. tura," which is owned by the liner being built in Belfast for Both ships were reported to be IN HALVES: EIGHT KILLED. Oceanic Steamship Company, a the United Kingdom-Australia miles off the Ecuadorian coast, (Opp. Town H.ll| severely damaged, but sustained The Swedish tanker "Avanti" subsidiary of the American Mat- service, will be named the "Iber even before the Spaniards landed At No. IS Tr.m Step. no casualties, Ihe liners contin (10,034 tons) broke in halves in son Navigation Company, said ia," one of the company's earliest there more than 400 years ago. ued their voyages at reduced a hurricane between Japan and Fshravy. Itt). XI 20 1W Hem ' _ United Kingdom Liaison Staff, PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS New Zealand. BRITISH HOME FLEET IN ARCTIC NEW C.-IN-C, THE NORE. took over command of the Royal SEAFARERS AT ROYAL DARKNESS The Rntish Admiralty has an Navy's newest and largest air GARDEN PARTY. HIT ft OOMPANY nounced that Admiral tlv- Hun. craft carrier, "Eagle." 4i,000 Captain V. Fungue - Smith, A strong force of the British minutes North, 23 degrees 50 Sir Cyril Douglas Pennant, totns. He ha* had wide experi D.S.O., in command with one of Home Fleet manned by more than minutes West). Commander K.CB, CBE, DSD, D.S.C, ence in aircraft earners In the principal tanker companics. 6,000 officers and men sailed Simpson stated that he and his has succeeded Admir.il Sir Cecil World War 11. he commanded Captain E. W. Espley, in com from Rosyth in mid-November party were in good heart and tm.) UMITID Hareourt, K.C.B.. CBE , as the aircraft carrier "Activity" on mand with one of the well-known for the Fleet's Arctic cruise. found their hut much warmer Comnundct'in-Chief, The Nore. the supply route to Murmansk. cargo liner companies, and Cap The operating force included than his office in the Admiralty. Mr McMahon added that trn- tain John Hawthorn, a member the battleship H.M.S. "Van They were waiting for a heavy PROMOTION TO Naval Board had signalled its of the Mercantile Marine Ser guard" (wearing the flag of Ad fall of snow so that sledging could 4 IfMft SlrMli VICE-ADMIRAL. congratulations to Rear-Admiral vice Association and well known miral Sir George Creasy, K.C.B., be resumed. Willoughby on his promotion. The promotion to Vice Adnnr in the English cross-Channel C.B.E., D.S.O., Commander-in- During this exchange of mes P.O. Box 544, G.P.O. il m Her Majesty*! Fleet nf Rear vrvices, were amongst those in Chief) ; the aircraft carrier sages the Home Fleet was in Telephone: BO 129 Admiral S. M. Raw. C B . CBE, BRITISH MINISTRY OF vited by Her Majesty the Queen '"Eagle"; the Royal Navy's most company approaching the ice bar has been announced by the Brit DEFENCE APPOINTMENT. to attend one of the Garden modern destroyer "Diamond"; riers off the East Coast of Green (IS lines) iah Admiralty. This change on Captain 1. G. Robertson, Parties at Buckingham Palace. three of the latest anti-submarine land after experiencing two days the Fla^ List took effect on Aug D.S.O., D.S.C. and bar, R.N, frigate conversions, "Venus," Sydswy, H.S.W. P. & O. MARINE of snow and gales with air tem ust 1*, 1953 "Verulam," and "Virago"; other Abo at has been appointed by the Brit SUPERINTENDENT. peratures down to 12 degrees destroyers, some submarines, a ish Admiralty for duty with A message from London on Fahrenheit. 64 EAGLE STREET, FLAG OFFICER, SECOND- tanker and a tug. The cruiser the British Ministry of Defence January 10 said that Captain A. Admiral Creasy and Command IN-COMMAND, on the staff of the (Commander H.M.S. "Swiftsure," visited Ice MEDITERRANEAN. Rodger has been appointed ma er Simpson are known personally' in-Chief EASTLANT as Assist land and joined the force at sea. to each other, having served to It has been announced by the rine superintendent of the P. &* ant Chief of Staff, Plans and Op 0. Steam Navigation Company in The cruise was designed to gether in the cruiser "Suffolk." BRISBANE. British Admiralty that Rear Ad -.rations. mtral \V W Davis. C.B.. D.S.O. succession to Captain E. M. give officers and ratings experi and Bar, has relieved Vice Admir Coatcs, who has retired. Captain ence of operations in severe DIRECTOR OF AIR Rodger, who served in the full- weather conditions and to test COMET AIRLINER'S al R. A B Edwards. C.B., OPERATIONAL TRAINING FAST FLIGHT. C.B.E., as Flap Officer, Second - in - rigged ship "Mersey" from 1909 equipment and communications Musgrave Cold Stores: BRITISH ADMIRALTY. to 1915, commanded the "Strath- and to include fleet manoeuvres, A B.O.A.C. Comet airliner on Command Mediterranean Fleet, a regular flight from London to STANLEY STREET, Captain T. G, C. Jameson. more" in 1945 and 1946 in voy and anti- submarine exercises and Flag Officer Air (Mediter Rome (nearly 1,000 miles) on R.N., has been appointed in the ages to Australia. with carrier-borne and maritime SOUTH BRISBANE ranean). January 9 covered the distance in rank of Captain as Director of aircraft taking part. 2 hours 10 minutes. The com Air Operational Training, British CHAIRMAN, RETIREMENT. The ships set out for an area pany said it was one of the fast Admiralty. AUSTRALASIAN The British Admiralty has an in the Greenland Sea West of est flights made between the two STEAMSHIP OF the Greenich meridian, where for nounced that Rear Admiral R. Mr. H. L. Morgan, Sydney cities. The airliner, with 36 pas SHIPPING M Dick. C.B, C.B.E.. D.S.C, APPOINTMENT TO STAFF several days ships' companies sengers aboard, was bound for OF COMMODORE. manager of the Melbourne Steam worked their ships in Arctic has been placed on the retired ship Company, Limited, has been Johannesburg. HONG KONG. darkness without seeing the sun, list. Rear-Admiral Dick will he re-elected chairman of the Syd Captain John Howson, D.S.C, and in temperatures of 20 de AVIATION RADIO FOR AIRWAYS AGENTS. reemployed in his present ap ney branch of the Australasian grees below zero. pointment in the rank of Rear R.N., has been appointed to Steamship Owners' Federation, COCOS GROUP. Admiral (Retd). H.M.S. "Tamar," in command for the ensuing 12 months. During the cruise H.M. "Van* Australia has installed a £600,- and as Maintenance Captain of guard" made radio contact with 000 aviation radio system on R.N. CAPTAIN PROMOTED the British North Greenland Ex staff of Commodore, Hong Kong. West Island, in the Cocos group, CARGO AND PASSENGER REAR-ADMIRAL. AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE pedition. When in a position about 1,400 miles off the coast of The Minister for the Navy R.N. FAR EAST SCIENCE TALKS. about 900 miles North of John-' Western Australia. The equip SERVICES TO UNITED (the Hon. William McMahon) APPOINTMENT. The Australian Minister for Groats, radio messages were ex ment will aid aircraft flying the Oil January 14 announced in Can The appointment of Captain Defence (Sir Philip McBndc ( on changed between the Command Sydney-Johannesburg (South Af KINGDOM, CONTINENT, January 14 announced in Can berra that he had been advised A. G. Forman, D.S.C. and bar, er-in-Chief and Commander (L) rica) service. The new radio's AMERICA AND THE that Captain Guy Willoughhy, R.N., as Chief Staff Officer (In berra that a meeting of the Com C. J. W. Simpson, D.S.O., B.Sc.' signals can be picked up over an R.N., had been promoted Rear telhgenee) to the Commander-in- monwealth Advisory Committee (Eng.), the leader of the Expedi area of 399 square miles, making EAST. Admiral. For two years from Chief, Far East, has been an .ui Defence Science would be tion. the tiny island an easy target for June, 1948, Rear-Admiral Wil- nounced. held in New Delhi (India) from Subsequently the Commander- air navigation. The system, which louKhhy, who was then Commo March 2 to March 14. Senior in-Chief and his Flag Captain has been developed by the Radio dore, was fourth Naval Member APPOINTMENT TO UJC. scientists of Commonwealth coun- (Captain J. S. S. Litchfield, Physics Division of the C.S.I. PULL FART1CULARS of the Australian Naval Board LIAISON STAFF, N.Z. tries and senior officers of the O.B.E., R.N.), spoke with Com R.O. and the Australian Depart FURNISHED ON and Commodore 22 1W Navy Mnufv. Itil. " SEA-ODDITIES Is ther. a . u,d!if of the globf selves : commercial crabs who of these islands are. According more alive with land and marine live (for mutual advantage) in to an old northener, in the early- life than Australia's Great Barrier intimate association with other days it was a favourite spot with Reef? Take, for instance, its forms of life: and parasitic crabs, the mainland aborigines, who many species 00 Crustacea; there who live upon the labours and visited it on their fishing expedi arc literally myriads of crabs on the lives of others. We watched tions, sometimes staying there for its hundred? of miles of reefs and a patch of sponge, and presently lengthy periods. These natives beaches. They scuttle across the saw a tiny piece of the sponge were very hostile to visiting •ands in veritable droves during move away from the rest as whites, and in the 'eighties of last the hour* «.t night especially. though it were endowed with century were responsible for the And they are of many kinds and legs- And indeed it was. For, massacre of pearlers and other habits. But it is on the reef it picking it up, we found it was a white fishermen. In fact, it was self that the mofl amaiing kind crab holding a piece of sponge near the island that there occurr ed, in 1886, the first recorded in arc found. Fi r it is here that the over his head like an umbrella, his hermit cr.ihs, in all their astonish stance in the Far North of a white hindmost pair of legs being per man being killed in his own boat. ing variety of colour and form, manently and curiously bent abound. And what a pleasant The vessel was the cutter "Smug r< »und over his hack, to enable surprise they give one! What gler," owned and commanded by astonishes one most of all is their him to do V). We >aw a crab Captain Towns, with a crew of colour Mot people think that deliberately dress himself with four. One night, when the boat crabs only become red when seaweed- just as a woman might was anchored just off the island, boiled, but the hermit crabs are dress her hair with ribbons . . . some dozen or so natives came on as vividly red. it not redder, than When the )ob was finished, there board. Captain Towns, who was any Kuled * ne Of* the species. was our crab so successfully dis sleeping below in the cabin, was And they drc as h\ely as crick guised as a piece of seaweed that awakened by their movements on ets. Their strange habit of fit it was no wonder the unsuspect deck- Not thinking that savages A Soo Fury t«Ui off from MM d*ck of HM Auitr«li«* •ircrtft-corrior H.M.A.S. "Sydnoy" during tfw •ttfri-Mibmoriiio oiorcuot. ting themselves backwards into ing small fry of the neighbour were aboard, he climbed up the their shells and carrying them hood approached him with every ladder to investigate. As soon at aK>ut on all their peregrinations confidence. And then "he wel his head appeared above the is as astonishing as their chro* comed little fishes in with gently deck-level he was struck down •. f * * ' matic K-auty The crabs range smiling jaws." We saw crabs and killed. A series of blood' • , in sue from smaller than a pea with greedy red eyes that went curdling yells broke out as the • to the dimensions of a large in and out on stalks like tele natives prepared to raid the cut /•-/' \ * V - " saucer: and they adopt almost scopes, round crabs, square crabs, ter. But the crew had by this I t V. mg -- '^jt^b^sViiatifeV'tt^^ ' •i-.vr->^ •,-, ajtrteytrf';i, r.'flY^ every conceivable shape and kind angular crabs, crabs so long time armed themselves, and after J 1 'A:.*vatftt • of shell. drawn out that they looked like a short fight drove the natives crabby dachshunds, grey and overboard. --"' green crabs, blue crabs, and crabs £^|BW5**-r'\_ •- _ — that were as variable in their dress —--.£:-• •& • ^•J* -" as chameleons . . . And, finally, ' i** * - jMiki* - > ».-. 1 We km-w. i f course, that the we saw a crab who makes a prac k. ^SfaBE; .. —a.jrsijj*- ^^p^p^ "•*.. * lives and habits of marine crea tice of carrying his wife in hit ;Vw'-- '-» tures arc as strange and as di arms. This struck me as connu When we think of the light verse as land animals. Let us bial affection overdone. and colours ttt have seen in the continue with the crabs, for in sea our mind immediately con ^ stance. Elliott Napier, in his jures up phosphorescence. For, -• **^, -•*»»*' ^Si — """^ —— -~ Ktok "On the Barrier Reef," has of course, phosphorescence is a *-—„ , 1 .« this to say of some of their hab In the middle of Limmen Bight light and is produced by many ^f~ '"^^f^^ • its, particularly in relation to their -the name given by Flinders to marine animals. The bright, cold nHtt-a m ~ light which they emit, though in CkA .i-.. • . -^^M* means of camouflage and the var a gap in the far south-western \ 1 » ious shells they ate. He wrote: corner of the Gulf of Carpen visible in the far more powerful "We found crabs that shut up taria—is Maria Island. It is a light of day, in darkness appears tf» ^-^' 1 -* ^ like a box: hermit crabs that small, uninhabited, and little- very similar to that given out by place I nemt -ncs < .n their shells, known rocky speck of land but, yellow phosphorous and by com 0*-* like pluncs upen a helmet, and perhaps naturally enough, its mercial barium and calcium sul presumably utilize some poison shores are rich in historical asso phides. Certain fish, swimming ^"- ous secretion <>f these flowers of ciations. Among other things, it in shoals, can give a startling and the tea .>.$ a defence for them is an island of tragedy, as many uncanny display on a dark night. IMS FI rot y h it too crtntt bofTMT ow two «*M-fect .ft.' M lit Ii.it kW ~—J Ha trip..^ >*M \m*m%. TW Navy SPEAKING OF SHIPS RAISING THE GIANT SINGAPORE FLOATING DOCK The Clan liner **Clan Mac winter (Australian summer of The Cork Harbour Commis The Boom Defence and Sal "Salvictor," arrived in Singapore also had to replace buckled plates lachlan" has been found blame 1952/n) with the "Orcadcs" sioners had their tender "Killar* vage Department of the British to take part in the raising of the and render the strained and leaky less for her collision with the and "Oronsay." ncy" arrested by the Customs Admiralty has raised the first sec dock itself- Two Bar class vessels tanks completely air tight. "Manchester Shipper" when the with contraband on board just tion of the giant Singapore float and a shore party of some 62, in two ships jammed in the Man ing dock and the section, J60 cluding 12 divers, have also been The buoyancy of each tank The Lord Chief justice (of before the arrival of three Trans- had to be estimated and shown Chester Ship Canal. England) has found that the serv Atlantic liners, but she was re feet in length and displacing engaged for periods during the nearly 9,000 tons, is being prepar operation. upon a model. It was planned ing of drinks in passenger vessels leased pending inquiries. to raise one end of the section The River Fal (U.K.) « again when they are not alongside is ed for towing to the United Almost totally submerged and Kingdom for scrap. When this first to adjust the buoyancy for being used as the laying-up place quite legal, a custom which has badly damaged by the bombing, -•.tabihty and then to raise the The plea of the West Indian has been done, the salvage men the wrecked dock presented a for idle tramps, beginning with five been practiced for well over a colonies to the Canadian Govern other end. This plan succeeded of the Counties Ship Management lentury. will turn their attention to the major salvage problem. It was ment to corxtirue the passenger raising of the remaining section and the section came up exactly Gompanv, which hare completed found expedient to cut the struc as calculated. service with the "Lady Nelson" of the dock. ture right through, athwartship, charters m connection u-ith the The South African authorities and "Lady Rodney" has been re and this was accomplished under /nJo-Chinese operations. took special measures against a The dock was towed to Singa Mr. C. L. Black, Admiralty jected water by divers using oxy-arc reported pirate salvage steamer pore, before the start of World Chief Salvage Officer, as told in cutters. the October issue of this journal, The British House of Lords has Dii the site of the wreck of the War II. and was sunk by the An Indian Transport Minister British when Singapore fell. The About a million cubic feet of went to Singapore for the initial found in favour of the Polish East Indiamen "CJrosvenor" on has admitted that the target set the Pondoland Coast. Japanese raised it and it was be air were pressed into the tanks, planning and he left Mr. R. seamen in England who were for Indian shipping by the com Brammall, a Salvage Officer, with promised compensation by the ing used by them for repairing which form the bottom of the mittee in 1947 had not been the Japanese armed merchant dock and part of her sides. It two assistants to carry out the ttdyniaAmerica Line under the The Belgian police arrested one reached and he could not say operation. During the critical former Polish CJovernment. cruiser "Shiretoko," when it was was impossible to use any of the of their own wireless officials as when it will be. again sunk during an American pipe lines, by which these tanks stage, a visit to Singapore was being responsible for the false air attack. could be blown when the dock made by the Director of the S.O.S. messages which have caused The two 22,000 - ton liners Alarmed by the lack of bal In 1946 the British Admiralty was intact and divers had to enter Boom Defence and Marine Sal planned by the Canadian Pacific so much trouble in the English the damaged structure to blank vage Department of Admiralty Channel. ance in emigration, seven girls to refloated the "Shiretoko" and will carry- three times as many every 100 men, the Dutch Gov beached her. In March of 19*2 off the complex pipe system be (Captain J. H. Ruck Keene, tourist as first-class passengers. ernment is chartering a ship to the Admiralty Salvage Vessel fore blowing could start. They O.B.E-, DSC, R.N.). The modernisation and im take a number of Dutch girls to Among other minor improve provement of the accommodation New Zealand. ments in the British India liner in the New Zealand Shipping Uganda" as a result of experi Company's motorship "Kaipaki" ence with her sister the "Kenya" were c< mtn ved by lifting her The growing of Indian hemp is the heightening oi her funnel bridge S feet. to be smuggled abroad has become by 12 feet. a serious matter in Jamaica and terrorism has prevented the large The Russian Government has rewards offered producing much As an experiment the Shaw refused to submit the dispute re information. Savill liner "'Dominion Monarch" garding its claim to 12 nautical loaded in New Zealand a consign miles for territorial waters, op ment of beef, part chilled at 29$ posed by Sweden and Denmark, The difficulty of the Suez degrees, part frozen and carried at to the International Court of Canal Company in finding the at 13 degrees and part refrigerated Justice. agreed number of suitable Egyp in the normal manner at 12 to tians for pilots has resulted in the 14 degrees. The preliminary work of rais service being 25 be low strength ing the big Soaring dock at Sin since December, 1951. The Sired^h Merchant Service gapore, scuttled during the war, Travel Shaw Savill .now includes between 20 to 25 per has started and it is hoped to re The Saguenay Terminals Ltd., cent, of foreigners m its crews. float it by the end of 1952 or of Montreal, have extended their early in 1993. Trans-Atlantic service to the In some of the Channel Island West Indies by through bills of resorts old Army flame-throwers The alolwance of dutyfree cig lading to numerous islands with are being successfully used arettes for cruise passengers in trans-shipment at Trinidad- .(gainst oil pollution on the British ships has been cut to 25 & beaches. per day for each passenger owing Mr. E. H. Watts' suggestion «* to the discovery that they had that as welded ships get older 10 The Orient Line reintroduced been bartered in foreign ports to their damage repair bills arc like cruises from Australia to Suva circumvent the currency reguta- ly to become very serious has and Auckland during the English tions. aroused a great deal of attention. TW M«*» HMS. "TACTICIAN" is not expected, it seems, to oper underwater speed of 18 knots. VOYAGES SUBMERGED ate from die open sea like a car This vessel, "without guns but FROM SYDNEY TO rier plane. But it can operate Always ask for ... with 12, 21-inch torpedo tubes,** MELBOURNE. from protected waters, such as a is reputed to operate at great dis The British submarine "Tic lagoon or a bay, where the U.S. tances. The number of these im tician" left Sydney on January 3 Navy needs fighters in limited proved submarines is not given. to voyage submerged from numbers, or in forward areas SHELLEY'S Prom the massive collection of Sydney to Melbourne with only where no airstrips are available. It one thing is clearly shown publishers, "Great Bntain has details in the 454-page volume it her Schnorkel breathing tube It can supply fighter strength in the 1952-53 edition of ihat done likewise, an aircraft main is evident that most of the larger ahowing. The submarine took without tying up an aircraft car splendid publication "Jane's Fight tenance carrier and a number of navies are concentrating on mine' about four days to travel the 770 rier. ing Ships," published by Samp ocean minesweepers earmarked sweepers and building or con miles which would normally take The retractable skis used by the son Low, Marstoa and Co. Ltd., for disposal having been refitted verting warships chiefly to tight 2] days voyaging on the surface. new aircraft, only recently an Obtainable from leading the submarine. These types of of London, it is that Allied lor reserve. These ships, built nounced by the US Navy, ease warship form the biggest part of Lieutenant-Commander R. M. Navies which arc restoring ships fbr a fraction of today's costs, Wilmot, R.N., who commands the the shock of high-speed water constitute .in immediate stiffen the British construction pro landings. The skis take the shock they intended to scrap, ire build gramme. Most of the anti-sub "Tactician," said prior to the •ng up their strength mainly to ing of the respective reserve submarine's departure, that the and skates along the top of the fleets." marine frigates are of two kinds water, sinking as the plane slows SIELLEYiSOiS combat the threat of plane, mine, of striking power. It is asserted trip would test the efficiency of and fast submarine. In short, As in previous editions of the Schnorkel apparatus and give down and settles in the water on that they will be supplementary its hull. COSDIJU. FACTORY they are being nn demised. "Jane's," the section of the pub to each other and that the simpler the ship's company added experi Cases in point of this process lication devoted to the Russian "Utility" type is being produced ence in long-distance underwater The final tests of this remark PTY. LTD. HI adaptation to modern condi Navy is presented with reserve. in larger numbers. travel. able aircraft will be eagerly await tions are clearly indicated in the It is pointed out that new infor "The crew would be under ed by air-sea naval circles. MURRAY STREET, publication mation about Russian warships is "Jane's" says that the develop strain all the way," he said. MARRIOCVIIXE, The United States, for in still difficult to obtain. The Rus ment of a new type of submarine "Anyone with a cold would suffer N.S.W. stance, has restored to her Navy sian Navy's manpower is given for the Royal Navy is continuing a great deal of discomfort. "Enthusiasm is the genius of as 520,000 officers and men, ex satisfactorily. All possible means List four heavy cruisers and 17 The 'Tactician" travelled about sincerity, and truth accomplishes LA 2431, LA 2659 destroyer escorts which had been cluding naval air forces. No ref of submarine propulsion are He 15 to 20 miles off shore to avoid no victories without it." available for disposal since the erence is made to the Soviet sub ing investigated including sys shipping lanes. It is understood —Bulwer-Lytton war- Canada"? frigate and mine marine programme. Russia is re tems using nuclear energy and that she approached shore only sweeper strength, again, has been ported to have $70 submarines in oxygen-bearing fuels. Work on once a day to fix her position. increased "merely by re-acquiring service or reserve and about 120 guided weapons is also being The "Tactician" which was last nearly 40 ships she discarded four under construction. She is said to studied. in Melbourne in 1950, stayed to six years ago." be building an improved "K" Considerable additions, chiefly there 3 days and then returned to Class boat of 1,560 tons, with an "To a lesser extent," say the minesweepers and ancillary craft, Jervis Bay for further exercises. I are being made to the United States Navy, which is described VS. WATER-BASED JET as "a colossal fighting force,'' as FIGHTER GIVES HIGH large as all the other navies of the HOPES. 8KB is i|ood world combined. It includes over 100 aircraft carriers, 15 battle A report from Washington ships, 75 cruisers, 350 destroyers, early in January said that the 270 escort destroyers and frig Unto) States Navy entertains for goo ates, 200 submarines, 220 mine high hopes for its water-based jet layers and minesweepers, 150 pa fighter aircraft which is under The Syrimy Steel going its initial Bight tests. trol vessels and more than 3,500 other craft. The report described the Delta- wing XF2Y Sea Dart, which re Ce.Pty.tut Japan, now forming a "marine cently successfully passed its • guard*' of destroyers and coastal initial taxi-ing tests at San Diego vessels, is embarking on a pro HANIJVACTUUBU Of (California), as the first jet fight ALLOAmm Of gramme of her own. Meantime er designed to land and take off we know that in order to aug from water, and the first combat ment that programme the United aircraft to use water skis to ease States recently handed over six its water landings and take-offs- MARRICKVUXE 1,500-ton frigates and four 450- It is said that the new aircraft V ton landing craft to the Japanese will supplement present ca/rier- Government. East Germany, in based and land - based aviation, CAMLTOM AND UHITt» turn, is reported to have 43 snips; and will have only a limited use. while West Germany is said to The Sea Dart seaplane fighter MMWWttM /ff t^w f&trtm have 30 vessels. rl&IHFy. 'H3. I* - EX-NAVAL MENS RJLN. PROMOTIONS The Minister for the Navy Charles Watson, M.B.E. (Acting Reid, of East Malvern (Victoria); Association of Australia (the Hon. William McMahon) Commander (S)), of Dover Osmonde Marshall May, of Bris has announced the following pro Heights (N.S.W.). bane. motions to date 31st December, Royal Australian Naval lieutenant-Commander (S) to 1952: Reserve (Sea-Going). Commander (S): Aubrey Lynd- Patron in-Chief: Her Majesty The Queen Royal Australian Navy. hurst Freer, V.R.D., of Mel Commander to Captain: Sun- bourne. Commander to Captain: ley Hamill Crawford, M.B.E., Royal Australian Naval Thomas Kenneth Morrison, O.B. R.D., of Cremorne (N.S-W.). terests and activities ot the Asso loined forces in the establishment Volunteer Reserve: FEDERAL COUNCIL. E„ D.S.C. (Acting Captain), of Royal Australian Naval Lieutenant (Sp. Br.) to Lieu ciation and to wish him a peace of an ex-Servicemen's Club. Croydon, Victoria. Reserve. The ^'imposition oi Federal Queensland Section is to hold tenant-Commander (Sp. Br.): ful and happy time in his retire Lirutrnan t-C ommandrr to Commander to Captain: Stanley Council, the main governing hodv ment from the R.A.N the usual quarterly Family Night Lesleigh Arnold Stockdale, of of the Ex Naval Men's Associa Commander: Ian Kitchener Pur Darling, D.S.C. and two Bars, Kew (Victoria) ; Pendarves Vyv- on Monday, 2nd March: mem vis, of Rose Bay (N.S.W.); Eric tion of Australia, is comprised of Mr. W. J Pearcc. a former bers, their wives and families and V.R.D., of Edgeclufe (N.S.W.). yan Warren Trist, of Brisbane. the undermentioned Executive Federal Councillor, and a member John Peel, D.S.C, of Elwood lieutenant to Lieutenant-Com- For Information. friends will be entertained by a (Victoria). Officers: Messrs. F. F. Anderson of Melbourne Sub-Section for screening of motion pictures. mander: Walter Edgecumbe Captain Morrison has been (Fed President). H. S Peebles many years, has none to reside in Commander (E) to Captain Tucker, V.R.D., of Sydney; Deputy Chief of Naval Personnel (Fed Vice-President); *.'.. W. Federal Council is awaiting ad sunny Queensland and has trans vice of the results of the annual (E): Alfred Maurice Clift, of Ronald Walker Fowler, of Chats and Director of Personal Services Scon (Hon Fed Secretary); C. ferred his mcmhcrshi|> to Bris Moonee Ponds (Victoria). wood (N.S-W.); Ronald George at Navy Office, Melbourne, since R Barne (Hon Fed. Treasurer): election of officers and Committee bane S.S. Before departing from of Sub-Sections throughout Aus Commander (S) to Captain Bagley, of Vaucluse (N.S.W.); early last month. Before that W. J Greenwood (Hon. Fed Or- Melbourne, Mr. Pearce was the (S): Richard Fulton Hat herd I, Norman Harold Henderson, of he was Director of Manning. He wfiiwg Secretary), and J. K. tralia: these results may b? pub recipient of a gift of a pair ot lished in the April "Navy." D.S.C., of Manly (N.S.W.). Dnimmoyne (N.S.W.); Alan commanded the Battle class de Stafford (Hon Fed. Asst. Sccre- pipes as a mark of appreciation Keith Collins, of Elsternwick stroyer "Tobruk" from July, Mr. W. H. Sullivan (Hon Lieutenant-Commander (S) to tar>'). They are members of St. for his past services. Commander (S): Reginald (Victoria); Ronald Frederick 1949, until August, 1951. He George Sub -Section, Sydney S.S.. State Secretary) of Victoria, re Brisbane S.S.. Manly-Warringah The Victorian State Council ports the passing away of the fol S.S., Footscray S.S.. and Canter has. with great reluctance, closed lowing members:--Messrs. Alex bury-Bankstown S.S. respectively. down Latrobe Valley and North ander Bruce, Ernest Satterley, Names of the various States' Eastern Sub-Sections: this was Sydney G. Rick-it, of Melbourne elected Federal Councillors are:— brought about by the diminishing Sub-Section, and Alexander An FOR WORK- Messrs F. C. Crerar (Victoria); numbers of members in those derson, of Mildura Sub-Section. J P C. Watson (New South areas: many of them seeking Mr. J P. C. Watson (N.S.W.'s FOR FUN Wales); E. H. Cook (South other avenues of employment Federal Councillor) was given a Australia): R. D. Middleton nearer the Capital. The remain warm welcome when visiting (Western Australia); A. C. ing , members in the districts are Naval Memorial House, the Ad Nichols (Queensland), and J. having their equity in the Associ elaide and Port Adelaide Sub- BR/T/Si EAQUll Benjamin (Aust Capital Terri ation safeguarded and their mem Sections' meetings during his so tory). Papua-New Guinea Sec bership has been transferred to journ in South Australia just tion has yet to advise Council of Melbourne Sub-Section's books. prior to the close of last year. its representative. Personnel of H.M.A.S. "Syd Financial membership of South ney" were entertained in the Messrs. F. F Anderson, F. Australia has increased consider Fremantle Navy Club and in ap divert and V. M. Banks, all ably during the past eighteen preciation of the hospitality re members resident in NSW., are months and the total strengthen ceived from the members, per members has now exceeded the the General Trustees of the As sonnel made a donation which is it arm m. Ursx 10 in. sociation. Trustees of the King figures recorded for New South being placed in a fund for the pmufcc '« i.JOO ILP.M. without George Fund for Sailors are Wales. building of a proposed Navy of Messrs. Angas McKee, of South Members of Canterbury-Banks- House, Fremantle. The Sub-Sec Australia: C. N. Hall, of Vic town Sub-Section have been busy- tion's Committee is again busy toria. and A. Hodgson, of N.S.W. raising funds and generally work organising the Annual Church At the last meeting of Federal ing in close liaison with their lo Parade and Re-Union of surviv DAKAR, GEDYE & MALLOCH HI cal branch of the Air Force As ors of HM.A.S. "Perth": both Council it was resolved to for 10-14 YOUNG STREET, SYDNEY ward to Captain H. L. Howdcn, sociation with the object of ac these functions will be held at C.B.E.. R.A.N. (Rtd.) a message quiring club-rooms. It is pleasing Fremantle this month. G.P.O. Bos; 309. of profound thanks for alt his to note that the scheme has come BRANCHES: MEBOURNE. NEWCASTLE, USMORE. WAGGA. HAY. previous efforts to further the in to fruition, both bodies recently -G.W.S. f ••'•#ry, i^vl* was awarded the O.B.E. in the Second World War for his work in H.M.A.S. "Hobart" during the COCKATOO DOCKS evacuation of British Somaliiand, w.is mentioned in despatches for t INOINIIRING his services at Leyte and received the D.S.C. for his part in the CO. PTY. LTD. STOREY & KEERS operations of Lingaycn. Commander Purvis is Officer in a Charge of the Torpedo Aim Contractor* *• . . . 2-10 SHELLEY STREET, SYDNEY Submarine School at H.M.A.S "Rushcutter." Sydney. He was' H.M. 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AantrsJlen -built frigate* hare played sn important pert In Routh Modern destroyer would fire 10 at one lime Pacific operatlooa. They cent C&Sf.SSf. on an Important target £ 31.300 Coat of outfitting one ordinary seaman .... £Sf CONTENTS SHIPS FACTORIES COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS MARCH, 1951. EDITORIAL: M.V. "OtWrSOON"— 10,500 Fill A I I CLASStS OF I I 1 I' T R I (' A !. Royal Navy Devise, New Flight Deck Arrangement, 4 I N S T A I LATIUNS A N II R I I' A I R S. Underwater Television from Ship To Shore S MELBOURNE MOTOR A N 11 ' • I N K R A T O R ft'lXPIXC. Royal Yacht Will Be Completed Thli Yaar S STEAMSHIP K A l> A R INSTALLATIONS. I T ( CO. LTD. ARTICLES: Head Office: Training Common wealth's Future Admiral. 7 31 KING ST.. MELBOURNE British Midget Submarine...... I Austral,*') Defence Bast Network 10 R.A.N. Representatives Chosen For Coronation Contingent ... II We wtfpr our services MANAGING AGENTS FOR R.A.N. To Trein M.N. 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Pearson. Esq, 'Phone: FA 3998. 88-102 NORMANBY RD., STH. MELBOURNE, VIC. L. Forsythe, Esq., Lieut. (S) F. G. Evans. RAN.V.R. WHOLESALE SUPPLIES ONLY. Telephones: MX 5231 (6 line*). R. Neil Walford. March, IIM. Tt« Navy ... . i«r* r- crease, and, if the conventional deck arrangement tenant-Commander J. Bathurst, O.B.E., D.S.C., were to continue, both the arresting and barrier R.N. space would have to become greater at the ex Clear television pictures were received ashore ApMnHi't pense of the deck park. from the sea bed, some 16 miles distant and 100 The principal advantage of the angled layout feet below the surface of the sea, and this by no is that the arresting area can overlap the parking means represents the full range of the ship-shore area amidships, giving a total effect equivalent to transmission link or the maximum operating depth increasing the length of the carrier by 40 per of the television camera. Viewers in Portsmouth cent. This will make it possible for the carrier were able to see a diver, fishes and crabs illumin to accept more aircraft and aircraft of better per ated by the powerful light associated with the • ^'*d***ik, .< formance. underwater television camera. The angled deck follows closely the British de To test the effectiveness of the link, arrange velopment of the steam catapult, of which it is ments had been made for the diver to pay a game the complement. While the steam catapult will of noughts and crosses with a viewer in Ports increase the carrier's ability to launch aircraft, mouth. The noughts and crosses board had been the angled deck will increase the ability to accept painted on to a standard diver's table. Large them. It is expected that the new idea will prove washers' were to be used for the noughts, in con to be a real "something for nothing" development junction with small metal crosses. Very adverse which will substantially improve the efficiency, weather conditions, however, prevented the com- economy and fighting power of carrier-borne air •pletion of this part of the trial and the noughts craft. and crosses game had to be carried out over the Consideration was first given by the British ship-shore link with the diver fully rigged on the Admiralty and the British Ministry of Supply to deck of the "Reclaim." the future design of the aircraft carrier flight deck S^jSiiS'jja layout in August, 1951. It was desirable to have THE ROYAL YAOHT WILL BE a clear landing path, such as existed before in COMPLETED THIS YEAR. *§>•*> creases in the number of aircraft operated had made deck parking and barriers necessary. The British Admiralty announced on Novemb *ss> Studying the ways in which this object could er 20 that the small hospital ship to be used in the laying out of the flight deck so that aircraft be achieved. Captain R. R. F. Cambell, D.S.C.. peacetime as a Royal Yacht is expected to be Vol. 17. MARCH. 1953. fly at an angle of about 8 degrees to the fore and R.N., Deputy Chief Naval Representative, British completed at the end of 1953 and that Her aft line. Ministry of Supply, in association with Mr. L. Majesty has seen and approved a model showing Boddington, of the Royal Aircraft Establishment, ROYAL NAVY DEVISES NEW FLIGHT When the new system is in operation an air the general arrangements in the vessel. Farnborough, England, conceived the idea of ang DECK ARRANGEMENT. craft not brought to a standstill by the normal ling the landing area about 10 to port of the The ke.'l of the ship was laid at the Clydeside method of hooking on to one of a series of arrester centre line of the ship. The simplicity of the yard of Messrs. John Brown and Companv Lim wires, may fly straight off over the side of the With the wing'spana of carrier based aircraft method and the fact that it involved a minimum ited, in June of 1952, and it is intended that Her flight deck without altering course, and then fly increasing, BO to apeak, almost overnight, there of structural alteration immediately impressed the Majesty shall launch the vessel in April next. round again for a further landing attempt as in has arisen simultaneously the need tor greater authorities with the possibility of its application Work is now well in hand and many bulkheads practice at shore airfields in similar circumstances. safety in landing operations. The increasing wing' to all types of carrier aircraft. and frames are already erected. spans have meant, for one thing, that planes have To appreciate the advantages o( the new sys The load displacement of the ship will be about had to land too close to the deck edge in clearing tem, it is necessary to understand the layout of Preliminary trials of the scheme have now been 4,000 tons and the maximum draught in any sea the "'Island" of a conventional carrier. This obvi the conventional flight deck. This is divided into been conducted in both the Royal Navy and the going condition will not exceed 16 feet. The ously necessitated a new flight deck arrangement. three areas: at the after end is the landing area United States Navy and further development is ship's overall length will be 413 feet; her length not only to permit of further landings in event of in which are arrester wires intended to engage the proceeding. at the water line 380 feet: her maximum beam arrester-failure by elimination of the stop-harriers, hook of landing aircraft and so to bring them to 55 feet; and her moulded depth 32 feet 6 inches. hut also to direct plants away as far as possible rest: next come the barriers which are intended UNDERWATER TELEVISION FROM SHIP Single reduction geared steam turbines fed by two from the ship's superstructure. to stop aircraft which occasionally overshoot the TO SHORE. boilers will drive twin screws to give her a con With this object in view, and also with the ob arrester wires; then there is the area for the tinuous cruising speed of 21 knots. ject thereby of increasing the fighting power of parking and launching of aircraft from catapults. Successful trials have been completed in H.M.S. She will have a modified cruiser stern and a the aircraft carrier, just such a deck has now been With the angled deck the conventional barrier "Reclaim," the Royal Navy's Salvage Ship, with raked bow. Three masts are to be fitted. The devided by the Royal Navy and the British Min may normally be eliminated because the way ahead equipment for relaying underwater television pic Royal Standard will be worn at the Main, the istry of Supply and the idea is being developed is clear, for the aircraft to open up to full power tures from ship to shore. The trials, the first of Flag of the Lord High Admiral at the Fore, and simultaneously both m the United States and the and take off again if the hook fails to engage any their kind, were carried out during two days early the Union Flag at the Mi;:en. United Kingdom. of the arrester wires. A barrier capable of erection in September, 1952, in the Portsmouth area with The ship will be fitted out for voyaging in both Known as the "Angled Deck" in the Royal in emergency will cater for the extremely rare an experimental transmitter designed and produc cold and tropical waters and will be fitted with a Navy, and the "Canted D^ck" in the United case of a defect in an aircraft which might prevent cd by Messrs. Pye Ltd-, of Cambridge. This ship stabiliser to reduce roll in bad weather. There States Navy, the new arrangement is extremely it altogether from using its arrester gear. to shore link was used in conjunction with the will he both Decca Navigator and Navigational simple and is the result of a new approach to the As aircraft increase in size and speed, so must underwater television equipment already installed Radar to assist her navigation- The entire above problem \>\ flying aircraft on to ships. It involves the "pull-out" of arrester wires and barriers in- in H.M.S. "Reclaim," then commanded by Lieu* water line structure is to be riveted. Tft« Navy Marek. I?W. S •• TRAINING COMMONWEALTH'S FUTURE ADMIRALS By A. Cecil Hampshire. m i^^^^^CI * I YOU MEED One particular ship of Britain's of their training these young ROUTINE AT SEA. Royal Navy carries more budding sailors from overseas have proved Routine at sea commences at flag officers in her complement themselves excellent mixers, and six in the morning with deck scrub than any other unit of the Fleet. their keenness and enthusiasm are bing and boat pulling before break Some of these future admirals will outstanding. fast. The rest of the day is divided fly their flags not in United King Following the initial tSrm at into a series of instructional dom waters, but as senior officers .*^ Dartmouth, undergone by all ex periods. The curriculum is both in their own navies. cept certain earlier age entrants educational and professional. For H.M.S. "Devonshire," the from Australia and New Zealand On fhc Naval side the cadets \ **0ttffG\ Navy's training cruiser, includes who go straight to the training m \\ y " Tk> N.vy Marcti, ltS3. - BRITISH MIDGET SUBMARINES ADMIRAL FAREWELLS "CULGOA" X CRAFT OF THE ROYAL NAVY. By Donald MacRovv. £\pl<>it* el British and Italian armament and their size, remain lying surrounded by anti torpedo midget -uhmannes were highspots a potential menace requiring sub nets, behind boom barrages and of the last war. The Royal Navy stantial Naval forces to stand minefield.- at the head of the has led post-war development in guard over their lairs. British X- Kaafjord in Northern Norway, this type of craft and has con craft carry large explosive charges some 50 miles from the <>pcn sea, tinued to train officers and ratings which have to be laid directly when British midgets detonated in their use. A British X-craft, as under the bottoms of enemy ships several tons of high explosive un the midget is called, was loaned to lying at their moorings. derneath her keel. the U.S. Navy for exercises dur ("icmiauy built and used her ing 1950. During the approach run from "Scehund" class ot light submarine Scotland, six X-craft were towed One of the objects of the mid during the Allied invasion of by normal submarines, all craft get submarines is to seek out and Europe The craft mounted two being ,-ubmcrged most of the time, destroy enemy warship- in their torpedo tubes, showing that they so that the secret of the attack was own ki-H-s, behind the protection were intended to engage Each craft has a passage crew of one officer and three ratings as well as an operational crew of two officers and three ratings. The two-crew system is essentia! be cause there is no sleeping or living accommodation in the ships, each man having about as much rcH.m as he would in a tank but X- craft operations last several day-. The men are drawn from the nor mal Submarine Service, manned almost entirely by volunteers. A Gardner dicsel bus engine provides surface propulsion and a single electric motor is used when submerged. One-third of the ship's M feet length is battery space, Lioutonant Ralph Cudworth, R.N., 25-yoar-old Firit Lioutonont of midgut Mibm«rin« one-third main machinery and one Raar-Adntiral J. W. M. Eaton laying farawoll to officers and craw of H.M.A.S. "Cohjoa" at Sardan Island narly this month XE I, «t Hi* hydroptano controls (left hand) end electric motor control (right hand). third is the control room. whan Ik. ship tailad for Koraan watart. Raar-Admiral Eaton wished tha ship good luck and a safa ratiirn." Tto Navy March, 11*3. . AUSTRALIA'S DEFENCE BASE NETWORK RJLN. laprttMtativM Ohsstn far Gtrtnatisn Gtfttingtnt The Minister far the Navy (the stioyers and frigates will be inte the operation and training of the The Minister for the Navy Lieut. (P) H. E. Bailey, DSC, D.S.M., Frankston, Vic; CP.O. Hon. William McMahon) in a grated in a search pattern over Fleet and R.A.A.F. units in con (the Hon. William McMahon) R.A.N., Kooyong, Vic: Lieut. H. G. C. Waites, D.S.M.. recent announcement on Austra expected submarine approach ditions under which they would announced on February 16th the (E) W. J. Rourke. R.A.N., Ned- Hawkesbury. N.S.W.: P.O. J. E. lias defence bases, emphasised routes. fight a war. This applies particu names of the 55 members of the lands. W.A.; Lieut.Cdr. (S) R W. Gordon. Geelong, Vic; P.O. the importance of Mantis and larly to anti-submarine training. NavaJ portion of the Australian P. Newey, R.A.N., Pymble, S. O. Drake, Langdon, via Mac- The Minister continued: "In Services' Coronation Contingent. N.S.W.; Senr. Commsd. Elect. Cocos Islands in Australia- de the last two years excellent pro "It will also be the centre from kay, Qld.: A/P.O. E. J. Snlway. fence plans He said that the Royal Aus Officer (AL) J. P. Moore. Sandgate. Qld.; L/S. W. F. gress had been made on the con which fishery protection and anti- tralian Navy would be represent R.A.N. Nowra, N.S.W.; Lieut. Mr McMahia -aid that "the struction. CoOOl has nearly been poaching patrols may be carried Barnes. Kogarah. N.S.W.; A/B. ed by five officers and }6 ratings Cdr. H. F. Goodwin, V.R.D. W. J. Read, Oakleigh, Vic: A/B. Australian Govt t n me a I had completed by the R.A.A.F. as an out by sea and air and will be the of the Permanent Force, five R.A.N.R. Grange North, S.A.: brought forward the target date airfield, and plans have been com headquarters of a New Guinea R. L Wood. D.S.M., Fitzroy. officers and six ratings of the 2nd Officer M. Stevens. Vic: A/B. D. F. Taylor, Foot- tor the completion ai the Ktse at pleted for the construction of the Division of the R.A.N. Royal Australian Naval Reserve W.R.A.N.S., Maroubra, N.S.W Manus from lv.sft to IW4 " Naval and air bases at Manus. "Several small armed and un- scray, Vic: A/B. H. Ward. Mt. Forces, and one officer and two Ku-ring-gai, N.S.W.: P.O.S.M "Manus is an advanced Naval armed ships of the R.A.N, and George Cross Winners- CoCQl and Manus aft key bases ratings of the Women's Royal B. H. Hoffman. E a r I w o o d, for Navy R A A F anti-submarine ."id air base guarding the northern the R.A.A.F. will be permanently Australian Naval Service. Acting Lt.-Cdr. J. S. Mould. approaches to Australia It will be based on Manus, and larger ships G.C, CM., R.A.N.V.R., Mos N.S.W.: P.O.S.M. B. S. Domom, patrols across the north western The names of four R.A.N.V R. Cannington, W.A.; P.O.S.M. I. and north -astern approaches to p.;rt of the northern defence sys of the Fleet will call from time to man. NSW.; Acting Lt.-Cdr. L. time. officers who had been awarded the E. K. Renwick, Frankston. Vic: Australia Apparently :t i> plan tem and will provide a secure an- George Cross and had accepted V. Goldsworthy, G.C, DSC. ned that song range R A.A.F. •>orage for a task fleet and a fleet "The airfield at Lomhrum will G.M., R.A.NV.R. Nedlands. S.M. G. K e r r i s u n, Lithgow. the invitatiim to join the Contin N.S.W.: S.M. B. S. Tilbrook, anti submarine aircraft. RAN train. he complementary ti the air base gent had already been issued, but W.A.: Acting Lt.-Cdr. G. Gone, Hilton. S.A.; S.M A. D. Steers. aircraft carriers, carrier-borne air "It has a first-class airfield. The at Garbutt. near Tiwnsvillc. they were also included in the G.C. R.A.NV.R., North Ade craft and Specially equipped de base will he a tropical station for "A composite Naval and Air present list. The complete list was laidc, S.A.i Lieut. H. R. Symc. Sheffield. Tas.: CA.F (O) A. Force service construction unit of as follows:— G.C, CM., R.A.NV.R, K™>- W. Stanton, East Tamar. Tas.: about JfO men will be formed to Officers. yong, Victoria. RE. (A) G. W Stevens, Caul complete the work as soon as pos field, Vic: A R.E.A IV (A) Lt.-Cdr. J. S. Austin. DSC. sible." Permanent Ratings. N. S. Judd. Hawthorn. Vic: R.N. LAUNCHES THREE MORE MINESWEEPERS R.A.N.. Greenwich, N.S.W.; CP.O. G. D. V. C Cheadle. Two more inshore minesweepers Belch, wife of Mr. A Belch. H.M.A.S. -CLLGOA" and a coastal minesweeper have C.B.E., Controller of the Ship been launched recently by the building Conference. The ship t LEAVES FOR KOREA. British Admiralty mam machinery will be by Messrs. The frigate H.M.A.S. 'Cul- The in-hore minesweeper- were Mirrlees, Bickerton and Day Ltd., goa" left Sydney on Tuesday, tad the M.2604, being built by Philip of Stockport. Of 152 feet in March, for Korean waters, where and Sim. Dartmouth, and the length and with a beam of 28 she will relieve H.M.A.S. "Con- M.26l*i, .it the yard of Mnm feet 9 inches, she will be armed damine." H.M.A.S. "Condamine" Brooke Marine Ltd, Lowestoft with three small guns. has been serving in Korean waters The vessels are of 106 feet 5 Coastal Mines wee pe rs arc an since last July. The other R.A.N inches length with a beam of 20 entirely new type of minesweeper ship at present serving in Korea feet 6 inches, and are designed to embodying many novel features. is the Battle class destroyer operate in shallow wa*er«, such a- Their construction incorporates H.M.A.S. "Anzac," which will be rivers and estuaries. They are a the use of aluminium, both for the relieved by H.M.A.S. Tobruk" new type of vessel and embody framing and structural castings, in June. Mr. McMahon said re novel features resulting from les the outer bottom being wood cently that ships of the Royal sons learned during the war and planked. The hull will be largely Australian Navy had played a in the course of subsequent de of non-magnetic material. The worthy part in the Korean cam velopments. In addition to mine- ships will have the latest mine- paign ever since hostilities broke sweeping equipment, each will sweeping equipment and will ciut. Every Australian warship mount one small gun. operate sweeps against both con that had served in the area had tact and influence type mines; i.e., won high praise from senior The British Navy Estimates for they will be able to deal with British and American officers, and the current year show that 29 of mines operated magnetically and forty-five officers and men had this class of vessel were in course acoustically. been decorated or mentioned in of construction but not launched The term Coastal Minesweeper despatches. at the end of March, 1952. signifies that they will be capable The coastal minesweeper was of operation in shallow coastal "No phase of life, whether M.I 112, launched from the yard wafers and distinguishes them public or private, can be free from of Messrs. Richards Ironworks from Inshore Minesweepers which duty." Ltd., of Lowestoft, by Mrs. A. are for shallow estuaria) waters. —Cicero. Tk. MiaMar far tka N,.,. Mr. W. McM.lnn. iaaaaakj ; of < laatar a» UMAX "Sasha," aa ft. carta* iifM aast. prtar fa H* aWparfara far i to •"• C#fWMfl*M CvntiattMAT. Marc*. ItSI, L Airman I (".. Smljjiss* Hamii RJUI. TO TMIH MUNUT RRVY OFFICERS NEW ENGINE FOR ANTI feet from the ship's hull. Con FILMS OF THE ton. Qld.:' N.A.I. F Donnelly. SUBMARINE AIRCRAFT. trolled from the small box on the CORONATION Forest Lodge, NSW.: EA III Details have been announced ship's bridge, the apparatus can TO BE AIR RACED A. Wnaht. Northmcad, NSW be retracted or extended accord TO UNITED STATES. Courses tor officer- at British in each subject in Part I took of a new version of the Arm RE. I W. OBrv.in. Fitzroy. strong Siddeley Double Mamba ing to weather conditions. Cap The United States television Vic: L.EM. E W. Brunker, merchant ships that would he de three hours. In subjects, in Part II tain Roberts said that the "Or- networks arc reported to be ar fensively equipped in wartime it varied from three to nine hours. airscrew-turbine engine. Sutherland. NSW: C.Y.S. H Known as the ASMD 5. it will onsay" was the first ship in the ranging to stage a transatlantic T. O'Neill. San- Soiici. NSW were begun at the recently estab It was desirable that each officer Australian trad.- to be fitted with air race on June 2 to be the first lished Merchant Navy Defence should complete a full fortnight's be installed in the Fairey Gannct P.O T.-l E. J T. Hcnnck-. anti-submarine aircraft. it and the largest ship in the CO Show films of the Coronation Training Centre at H.M.A.S. course without interruption, but, world to be so equipped. As pre Woollahra, N.S.W.: C.P.O. Wtr Te Gannet is one of the six of Quecen Elizabeth to viewers in R. P. RiJJ.tr. Chat-wood. "Lonsdale," Port Melbourne, on if this were not possible, even one dicted by this journal in the course America. The three large net February 2.-rd. subject eould he taken at a time, aircraft to which "super-priority" if a long descriptive article in its Store- P.O (V) F. W F..rJ, has been given. According to a works have chartered special Ringwood, Vic.; C.P.O. 0».k except in Part II. m which some issue for May. 1951, the stabilis In announcing the initiation of statement made on behalf of the planes on which the films will be W. A. Oates. Congee, NSW; subjects must he taken consecu er is being freely adopted by tins feature on February ?. the firm of Armstrong Siddeley, the developed and edited during the Cook (O) W R Kingston. Col tively. Officers ^i oversea ships British shipowners: while, as also Minister fi r the Navy (the Hon. engine also will be given "super- flight from London to New lar..y Plateau. N.S W : ERA II could, for instance, Jo some sub indicated, the British Admiralty- William McMahon) -,nj that the priority" production shortly. York. Some of the planes' seats W Bright. Brisbane, Qld.: Joiner lets at Royal Navy school*, in the was one of the first to acknow Course* would consist of two part-, will be removed to provide room L'nited Kingdom .::ij others at the Mr. H. T. Chapman, managing ledge the value and recognise the 1 N. A Ba--ett, I'arr.im.Hta. for editing and recording equip each of which would occupy a Royal Australian Navy school at director of Armstrong Siddeley, potentialities of the device. NSW.: S.B.C.P.O. J. E Robb. ment, so that the films will be week The training centre would Port Melbourne. says that this new "two-in-onc" Some of Her Majesty's Ships MID. Box Hill. Vie. CP.O. he open throughout the year so will give the Gannet more power ready to go over the air net Officers would be informed of already have been fitted with the works A$ soon as the winning Steward V G. Mclean, Benalla. that officers of visiting coastal, in and greater economy of operation. anti-roll stabiliser. Vie.: M.A.A. S Wdliamaon, terstate and oversea -hips could the arrangement »f sessions for And with no increase in size and plane reaches New York. BEM. Waverley. NSW.. .ittenJ for instruction while they each week by means of monthly weight. Musician I I I'lcass. Prospect. were m port. programmes issued by the Mer The engine has been adapted S.A chant Navy Defence Instructor to run on British Admiralty diesel Reserve Racings. Subjects tnclujed in the Courses Officer. These w<-uld be distribut oil, kerosene, "wide-cut" turbine XETTLKFOLDS SCREWS P.O. S. W. Green, Northfield, wvre trade protection, convoy ed in Australia through the De fuel, or a mixture of the three. S.A.; A/L.S. K. P. H. Wheatley, work, communications, radar, de partment of Shipping and Trans The significance of this achieve Art lb* la Evtry IritMi Ship Cronulla, N.S.W.: A LJe Tel fence against submarines and port, the Australasian Steamship ment lies in the possibility of M L. Pike, Brisbane. Qld.: mines, damage control and fire- Owners' Federation, the Oversea avoiding the complications arising Shipping Representatives' Associa P.O.S.M. J. S. Stafford, Kew. fighting, general, surface and anti from carrying special aircraft fuel tion and other similar organisa Vic: E.R.A.2 R. J. Montgomery, aircraft gunnery, atomic biological on board, with separate storage • and chemical defence, and so on. tions. Moonah, Tas.; CP.O. Wtr E compartments, pumps, and pipes. The courses were similar to G. —ookway, Kalumunda. W A. Officers who attended the Whereas piston engines use those devised by the Admiralty W.RA.N.S. Rating*. courses would be paid daily mum high-octane petrol, aircraft gas NETTLEFOLDS PTY. LTD. twelve months or so ago for officers P.O. E. F. Ekcrt. Brisbane. travelling expenses up to a dis turbines normally burn paraffin. SUNSHINE, VICTORIA whose ships were staying tempo Qld.; A/Ldg. Regulator V Ware. tance of 10 miles from the train The use of diesel oil involves no rarily in British ports. Instruction Baliarat, Vic. ing centre, in addition to meal modification of the Gannet's Arm allowances. They would also re strong Siddeley Double Mamba ceive their normal appropriate pay engine. JAMES PATRICK ft CO. PTY. LTD. from their employers. VESSELS BUILT, SUPPED AND SERVICED. "ORONSAY" FITTED WITH DIESEL, MARINE AND GENERAL ENGINEERING. SHIPOWNERS — AGENTS — CONTRACT N.Z. SPEEDBOAT EXCEEDS STABILISER. RIGGERS AND SHIPWRIGHTS. STEVEDORES 100 M.P.H. The England to Australia AH laMRCR of rejJOHTS ABB ©OffVCrRtOIl WORK CRWRWB OUC CHARTERS AND BUNKERS ARRANGED A message from Wellington (N.Z.) on February 22 said that Orient liner "Oronsay" (28,000 MARINE INSTALLATIONS. MOOOtN SLIPWAY AVAILASLB that morning a New Zealander, tons) has been fitted with the FOB ALL TYPES OF CRAFT. REGULAR INTERSTATE ft OVERSEAS CARGO ft Len Southward, became the first new anti-roll stabiliser at a cost PASSENGER SERVICES man in Australasia to travel at 100 of £125,000. Captain R. W. miles an hour on water. In the Roberts, who commands the lin Agents for . . . 2} - ton hydroplane "Redhead," er, said the stabiliser, by reducing A. A W. FLOTTA LAUKO (I powered by a 1,450-horsepower an eight-degree roll to nil and a Allison engine, he covered two JO-degrcc roll to 10 or 15 de A Skip Kmwmtr Cm* miles in 71.1 seconds, an average grees, had almost eliminated sea of 101.266 m.p.h. The record was sickness on the liner's recent voy «§•. Ltd. established at Evan's Bay, the age from London to Sydney. Head Otfce: 19 BRIDGE STREET, SYDNEY Wellington flying-boat terminal. Fitted 16 feet below the water CAREENING COVE, MILSON-S POINT BW41S1. The world water speed record, line, the stabilisers are shaped TsfcphoMK XB 1*73 and XB4SS7. held by Paul Sayres, of Seattle, like aeroplane wings, are 6 feet XJJ2IJ. WITH AGSSSTS AT ALL MAIN POTTS IN AUSTRALIA. U.S.A., it said to be 178 m.p.h. 6 inches wide and protrude 1) It -•• *•«•»• NEWS OF TIE WORLD'S NAVIES R.A.N. SURVEY SHIP FINDS THE R.N. PERFORMS of developments which cannot SUBMERGED ROCK IN MANY SERVICES. now be foreseen, no more reservists BASS STRAIT. will be compulsorily recalled be During the recent visit of the yond those to whom notices have The Minister for the Navy British frigate H.M.S. "Actaeon" already been issued. (the Hon. William McMahon) to the lonely South Atlantic island said on February 14 that of Tristan de Cunha (the story of H MAS. "Warrego," which *as which was told in the February NATIONAL SERVICE conducting a survey in Bats Sdait, issue of this journal), the ship EXECUTIVE OFFICERS had discovered a submerged rock brought to the island from South OF RJJ.V.R. GET whose top was only eight feet be Africa: A bishop, who confirmed PERMANENT COMMISSIONS low the surface of the water at 26 children and young people on A limited number of British low tide. It was about 13 miles behalf of the Archbishop of Cape National Service Officers in the cast-south-cast of the Pyramid; Town during the first island con Executive Branch of the Royal about 16 miles off the western firmation service for five years; a Naval Volunteer Reserve have coast of Flinders Island, and about Fleet Dental Officer who examined been or arc to be selected for per eight miles south-west nf Frank- the teeth of the entire population manent commissions in the Execu land Rock. The Commonwealth of 243, continuing the surveys tive Branch of the Royal Navy. navigation authorities had been in carried out in 1932 and 1937 on The decision to grant such com formed of its existence. Mr. behalf of the British Ministry of missions was an exceptional McMahon added that the rock Health; a representative of the measure confined to the year 1952 was in water of a charted depth South African Broadcasting Cor and was designed to meet the de of 25 fathoms and was on a route poration, who prepared a record ficiencies in the number of junior more or less frequently used by ing for a programme depicting life Executive Officers which appeared ships trading between Cape Bar on the island and on board the in certain age groups. All British ren Island, Flinders Island and the "Actaeon"; a biologist of the South National Service Officers serving Victorian coast. "WarregoV pre African Department of Commerce between September 1st and the sent survey task in Bass Strait and Industries; a Clergyman (as end of 1952 as Midshipmen or began early last month and would suming office on the island) with Acting Sub - Lieutenants of the extend until the middle of April. his wife and three children; a Executive Branch for whole-time T-o Rrijtol Syc« mora K«l cop+»M K 14 If . cently received in private audience breeches buoy during a gale but THREE R.N. FRIGATES H.M.S "DAMPIER" by the Pope. The Commander-in- officers and seamen ratings remain RETURN HOME. SURVEYS PENANG. Chief, Mediterranean, also met ed on board to assist in the refloat Three frigates of the Royal The survey ship H.M.S. "Dam- C^3 several Italian Ministers and ing operations. Navy returned to the United pier," temporarily under the com Heads of Services, Later he re mand of Lieutenant • Commander ROYAL NAVY Kingdom on completion of normal turned to Malta periods of foreign service late last Glenn, recently spent a month PARTICIPATION IN year. Two of them, H.MS. surveying the harbour and ap EXERCISE "ARDENT." H.M.A.S. "BATAAN" AS "Burgehead Bay" (Captain J. A. proaches to Penang, Malaya. Dur REGATTA FLAGSHIP. Aircraft of the Royal Navy Jevers, O.B.E.. R.N.) and H.M.S. ing her stay in the area, the ship The Australian destroyer, and the Royal Naval Volun "Veryan Bay" (Commander R. gave a party to about 100 children H.M.A.S. "Bataan" (Commander teer Reserve and H.M. Ships Horncastle, R.N.), arrived at from local orphanages and for the T.V. W. F. Braccgirdlc) acted as flag took part in Exercise "Ardent," Devonport on October 30th from families of local residents. It is 'ROMA" ship at the 11 "7th Anniversary the Royal Air Force's biggest ever the West Indies, where they have reported that practically all the Day Regatta helJ on Sydney Har peacetime exercise. The aircraft- been replaced on the America and ship's company had to entertain bour on January 26 carrier "Eagle" and the battleship West Indies Station by H.M.S. the guests, who consumed enor "Vanguard," with destroyer es "Snipe' 'and H.M.S. "Bigbury mous quantities of cakes and fruit H.M. FLEET CARRIER corts, took part in one convoy Bay." The third frigate, H.M.S. and three gallons of ice-cream. VISITS PORTl GAL. operation and other convoys were "Loch Dunvegan" (Commander The Fleet carrier "Implacable' made up by minesweepers from H. R. Ryeroft, DSC, R.N.), U.S. NAVY BOMBARDS of the British Home Fleet Train Harwich and ships from Ports arrived at Devonport on October WONSAN. T.V. ing Squadron paid a rive-day visit mouth Command. 31st from the Mediterranean, The United States Navy's heavy "SYDNEY" to Lisbon in October. Command where she had been serving for cruiser "law Angeles" steamed in ed by Captain B I Rolvrtshaw. REAR-ADMIRAL more than two years. to Wonsan Harbour on February CB.E.. R.N.. she wore the flag ot SCOTTMONCRIEFF 28 and began what the U.S. Navy the Flag Officer Training Squad AWARDED CB.E. Department described as a "heavy C.B., C.B.E.), and she has on The award of Commander ot R N. MIDGET SUBMARINE bombardment" of the battered hoard some aviation cadets and the Order of the British Empire VISITS THE THAMES. Communist port on the North- VIA Upper Yardmen (Air) and more (CB.E.) to Rear-Admiral Alan After taking part in Exercise East Korean coast. The announce THE than 600 rating* under training, Kenneth Scott-Monerieff, D.S.O "Mainbrace," the R.N. submarine ment said 'planes were spotting BARRIER in addition to her ship'~ company guns and storage targets for the and Bar, R.N., for distinguished XE8 (Lieutenant H. T. Vcrry, REEF of about SOD. services in Korean waters, was an R-inch guns of the cruiser. R.N.), one of the smallest offen TO iHEpr nounced recently in the "London sive Naval units in the world, paid HM.A.S. "SYDNEY" INCREASE IN BRITISH TO TAKE PART IN STEEL ALLOCATION. Gazette." an informal visit to the Thames in DJAKARTA, SINGAPORE, COLOMBO, PORT SAID, PORTSMOUTH The British Admiralty has an VETERAN R.N. FRIGATE October. With her was the 164- NAPLES, MARSEILLES, GENOA CORONATION REVIEW. nounced that as forecast by the RECOMMISSIONED. foot trawler mother ship "Gates THROUGH BOOKINGS TO LONDON. head," commanded by Lieutenant- The Minister for the Navy Civil Lord of the Admiralty. Mr. RETURN PASSAGES GUARANTEED. Simon Wingtield Digby. MP., in The R.N. frigate "Whitcsand Commander J. A. R. Troup, (the Hon. William McMahon) the course of an adjournment de Bay." last year recommissioned on DSC, R.N.. who is Senior announced on February 3 that the bate in the House of Commons on the Far East Station for a further Officer. X-Craft. Royal Australian Navy aircraft- Apply to L. GARKSLIO & CO. October 14th. there will he an in tour of foreign duty, is one of the carrier "Sydney" would take part crease in the allocation of steel veterans of the Korean war. She in the Coronation Naval review went to the Far East from the R.N. MIDGET SUBMARINE JAMES PATRICK °t CO. PTY. LTD. for shipbuilding as from January VISITS THE VS. by the Queen at Portsmouth. 1st. 1933. The allocation for the America and West Indies Station England, on June 15th. 19 BRIDGE STREET, SYDNEY. BW4181. first quarter of 1933 will he 9 per in August, 1930, and since then One of the Royal Navy's midget Mr. McMahon added that "Syd cent, higher than the allocation for has operated off Kith coasts oi submarines, the XE9 (Lieutenant- ney," in which the 250 members the quarter ended December 31st. Korea. Since the outbreak of the Commander W. R. Ricketts, of the Australian Services' Corona • 195:. Korean war she has steamed R.N.), arrived in October last at turn Contingent would travel to 47.340 miles, spent 311 days off Norfolk, Virginia, U.S.A., for the United Kingdom, would leave H.M.S. -WAVE" Korea or in Japanese waters and evaluation by United States Naval Sydney Harbour on March 21st, GROUNDED. fired more than 5,000 rounds of authorities. She was taken to the and, after calling at various ports The British Fishery Protection four - inch ammunition. About United States in the U.S. Naval on the way, would reach Ports vessel "Wave."" who went aground two-thirds of her company during transport "Whitley," one of the mouth on May 5th. in St. Ives Bay. Cornwall, when her last commission returned to ships which came to the United She would be in Melbourne her cable parted, was later refloat the United Kingdom in November Kingdom for Exercise "Main- from March 23rd until March ed by the Naval Salvage Organisa last. H.M.S. "Whitesand Bay" brace." The XE 9 is about 53 feet 24th, in Fremantle from March tion and towed to Devonport. She was completed in July. 1945, and in length and is powered by a 29th until March 30th. and in was damaged below the waterlinc has not been in Home waters since single Gardner engine and a single Colombo from April 9th until and several compartments were October of that year. She has electric motor. She will remain in April 11th. flixided Fifty-eight members of served in the Mediterranean, West the United States for about six her crew were taken off by She would pass through Aden, Indies and the Far East. months. Suez and Port Said and would M Tto Navy M.rek. 1*53. arrive at Malta on April 25th. historic review by a ship and fliers COMPLETION OF TURBINE- Leaving there two days later, she with such excellent records. DIESEL MOTOR TORPEDO MARITIME NEWS OF THE would reach (.'-ihraltar on April Naval aviation was comparatively BOATS. Huh and sail from there on her new in the Australian Common four-days' passage to Portsmouth wealth, hut H.M.A.S. "Sydney" The first two Motor Torpedo on May 1st. and her pilots and observers had Boats of the Royal Navy to he powered by gas turbines in com Mr. McMahon said that he already won high praise for their efficiency both in their peace-time bination with die.se! engines arc knew that the people »;! Australia being completed for service. would he proud that they were to activities and their operations he so worthily represented at the against the (Ymmunists in Korea. They are Her Majesty's Motor WORLD Torpedo Boat "Bold Pioneer," launched in August, 1951, at the From our Correspondents in Cowes, Isle of Wight Yard of LONDON and NEW YORK Messrs. J. S. White and Co. Ltd., TATTERSAIX'S and Her Majesty's Motor Torpedo By Boat "Bold Pathfinder," launched AIR MAIL 5/- CASH CONSULTATIONS in September, 1951, at the Por* £10,000 FIRST PRIZE Chester Yard of Messrs. Vosper anese tanker to come to Sydney shattered sea-walls on Britain's r^~1 Drawn every few days Lid. UNITED KINGDOM MERCHANT FLEET since before the war, she was East coast and the dykes in Hol \ TASMANIA J Both craft are fitted with gas and DECLINING. loaded with 17,000 tons of petrol land, where the sea, storming 10/- CASH CONSULTATIONS turbines made by Messrs. Metro from Galveston, on the U.S. over the below-sea-level lands, re politan Vickcrs Electrical Co. The.United Kingdom Chamber Gulf. This is said to be the larg claimed through the centuries, £25,000 FIRST PRIZE Ltd., of Manchester, the main of Shipping on February 22 issu Drawn every few weeks est single shipment of gasoline scored the greatest victory against machinery installation having been ed a warning ot' "ominous signs" ever to arrive in Australia. The Holland since the 15th century. undertaken in each case by the of a decline in the British Merch "Otowasan Maru," owned by the respective shipbuilder. The tur ant Fleet. "So long as taxation Mitsui Line, is one of the largest DUTCH FREIGHTER POSTAGE ON TICKETS AND RESULTS TO BE ADDED bines have been developed from prevents the retention of suffi and most modern tankers afloat. BRINGS DREDGE FOR the Gatric engine 'which operated cient of the industry's earnings to She was launched last August, SYDNEY. The Address . . . so successfully in MOB. 5559 allow ships to he replaced, so long has a crew of 50, all Japanese, The 8,143-ton Dutch freighter (ex 2009) in 1947. Both craft will the merchant fleet inevitably and is expected to remain on the also will carry a peacetime com decline. The continued replace 'Almkerk" arrived in Sydney GEO. ADAMS (TATTERSALL) HOBART United States-Australia run in from Hamburg on January 22 plement of two officers and sixteen ment of the fleet cannot be taken definitely. ratings and be armed with four for granted. Unless the present with an 80-ton dredge for the 21 in. torpedo rubes and one small taxation policy is altered, the out N.S.W. Maritime Services Board. gun. look is grim indeed," said the BIG JAP. COAL BOATS The Board imported the dredge chamber's annual report- The re VISIT NEWCASTLE. for use in Sydney Harbour. The The principal dimensions of the port added that former enemies dredge was unloaded at No. 5 BEER is good .rra f: and the details i if the On order to load coal at New in the maritime service now of Walsh Bay. machinery installations differ castle, N.S.W., during January fered real rivalry in sea transport. lightly because the boat built hy were no fewer than three large SOUTH AUSTRALIAN In short, the position cannot be Messrs. White is cf Hard Chine, Japanese freighters—the "Toho KETCH SAVED. for you taken lightly. Thus, it must be .md that built by Messrs. Vosper Maru," "Chuvei Maru," and the patent to all that what this journ An alarm, given by a man on f Round Bilge form. "Nisshu Maru". These three duty on Birkenhead Bridge (Port al said in its editorial of Novemb ships took a total of 33,000 tons Principal dimensions of Messrs. er last was, regrettably enough, Adelaide) control tower, saved the of Australian coal for Japanese White's boat, "Bold Pioneer," are far from ill-founded. As we im coastal ketch "Hawk" from be .is under: plied then, to gravely jeopardise consumption. coming completely gutted when Extreme length—121 feet; fire broke out aboard early on the the British shipping service at this THE EUROPEAN FEBRUARY Length between perpendiculars juncture in world affairs, would morning of January 24. A fire- — 116 feet 3 inches: STORMS NATIONALLY float and land appliances extin be to gravely jeopardise not only DISASTROUS. Beam—25 feet 6 inches. the industry itself, but also the guished the fire, but not before Dimensions of Messrs. Vosper's economy and the very future of Th-: toll of ships lost and the about £1,000 worth of damage boat, "Bold Pathfinder," are: the nation upon whom the se coastal damage wrought in the was done. Extreme length — 122 feet 8 curity of the Commonwealth of widespread storms in the Bntish inches: Nations stands or falls. and western European waters in FRENCH ANTARCTIC Length between perpendiculars early February mounted to disas EXPEDITION SHIP — 117 feet; trous proportions. Trawlers, AT HOBART. Beam--20 feet 5 inches. JAPANESE TANKER'S BIG cargo motor'vesseis, coasters, and The French Antarctic expedi CARGO. Ocean-going ships were among tion ship "Tottan" arrived in Ho- CARLTON MD UNITED MIWttIB UMITD9 "The Youth of a nation are the The 12,687-ton Japanese tanker those that were lost or damaged. bart on January 26 after spending "Otowasan Maru," arrived in Thousands of servicemen and a year in the Antarctic- Aboard Mn n-s m AmttrmiU /ar 100 ytws. trustees of Posterity." — Benjamin Disraeli. Sydney on January 20 on her civilians were called into round- were eight French scientists who maiden voyage. The second Jap- the-clock battles to repair the have been in Adelieland invest: Marsh. Iff]. It . —. ••-•;,<>= gating the lite cycle of penguin; anchor off Gravesend. Passcng- man for the company said on Feb "Lark," 196 tons, missing since signers, not content with these, and making a detailed survey of ers will then go by train to Lon ruary 17 that it had decided to February 10, now was considered have decided to banish the propel the coastline. Two crates of pen don for the Coronation. revive the east-bound round-the- lost with all hands. The "Lark" ling machinery from the orthodox COCKATOO DOCKS position amidships to the after- gums brought Hack in the "Tot world service across the Pacific left Porsgrunn (Norway) on that a gysj IjjglUBIiigM WOMAN'S SMALL-BOAT date and has not been heard of end of the ship. This left a much • BIVWINRUMIII W tan" will he distributed to zjoos VOYAGE ACROSS THE because it had not been able to m Australia .ind France. since. She carried a crew of larger proportion of the hull free ATLANTIC. ga:n membership of the Europe- seven. of machinery space uptakes and CO. PTY. LTD. Mrs. Ann Davison, a 38-year Far East freight conference. The FLOATING ACCOMMODA- rates will, it is said, be on the casings in which to lay out a con HON FOR CORONATION "!d English widow, on January JAP. SHIP SINKS NEAR tinuous sweep of public rooms, 17 became the first woman to same level as other companies to • VISITORS. OKINAWA. cabin accommodation with central make a small-boat voyage across avoid undue competition. The Csstf—t—11* ... The M,6f2-tnn Holland Amcr The "Shinsci Maru," a small alleyways on five decks and a clear the Atlantic done. In her 23ft. ships will run through the Pan ika liner "Vccndam™ will become Japanese ship, capsized and sank sun deck unobstructed by funnel KM. AUSTRALIAN NAVY yacht "Fclic ty" she reached Dom ama Canal to New York and .t one day "floating hotel" during in heavy seas near Okinawa on casings. inica Island, one of the Leeward across the Atlantic to Europe, re Ship-builders. the ceremony < .... . ' *•' been appointed Admiral Com and Commonwealth strategy. D.S.C., RAN., whose appoint PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS manding Reserves (temporarily) The British Board of Admiralty ment in Washington would ex was represented at the presenta pire in July. GEO. GHEW LEE NEW SECOND SEA LORD. Captain E W. Bankes. R.N., for in succession to Vice-Admiral J. A S. Eccles, C.B., C.B.E.. who. tion of the Colours by the Fourth Captain Gatacre, who is a Her Majesty tlu- Queen h.is duty with the Defence Research as previously stated in this journ Sea Lord (Vice-Admiral S. M. graduate of the Royal Australian I 00. m. LTD. been graciously pleased to ap Policy Staff. British Admiralty. al, has been appointed Flag Of Raw, C.B., C.B.E.) and the Per Naval College, was Deputy Chief prove the appointment of Vice manent Secretary (Sir John Lang. of the Naval Staff at Navy Office, R.N. DEPUTY DIRECTOR ficer Air (Home). Rear-Admiral Admiral F. R I'irh.im. C.B.. C B Campbell will be relieved by K.C.B.). The Commandant Melbourne, from June, 1948, un E. DSD. t,. he a L.rd Com WELFARE AND SERVICE General, Royal Marines (Lieut- til October, 1950. SHIPPING CONDITIONS. Rear-Admiral A. K. Scott-Mon- misskmer <>! the British Adinir cnetf, C.B.. C.B.E.. D.S.O. and General J. C. Westall, C.B., At the outbreak of the Second CONTRACTORS alty. Second Sea Lord and Chiet The appointment in the rank Bar. on completion of the tatter's C.B.E.), was also present. World War he was serving with • i Naval Personnel in succession of Captain of Captain H. P. convalescence after an illness con the Royal Navy and continued to [u Admiral Sir Alexander C. G. Koelle. Captain (S). as Deputy serve with it until 1942. He was WHOLESALE & RETAIL tracted while serving in Korean NEW AUSTRALIAN NAVAL GROCERS Madden. K.C.B.. CBE, as from Director oi Welfare and Service waters. Admiral Scott-Moncneff's ATTACHE APPOINTED mentioned in despatches in June, July, 19*}. Conditions, has been announced appointment as Admiral Com TO WASHINGTON. 1941. MARKET GARDENERS by the British Admiralty. manding Reserves has already- The Minister for the Navy In October of that year he was FRUIT MERCHANTS NEW ENG1NEER-IN-CHIEF been announced by the British awarded the D.S.C for his good OF THE FLEET. DUKE'S SECRETARY (the Hon. William McMahon) PRODUCE MERCHANTS Admiralty and notice of it ap announced on January 27th that services in H.M.S. "Rodney" in Th.- British Admiralty has an RETURNS TO LONDON. peared in the December issue of Captain G. G. O. Gatacre, DSC the operations that led to the de IMPORTERS nounced the appointment of Lieutenant - Commander Mich this journal. struction of the German battleship ael Parker (R.N. Rtd.). private and Bar, R.A.N., at present Cap EXPORTERS Rear-Admiral (E) F T Mason tain (D) of the 10th Destroyer "Bismarck." .is Engineer in Chief of the Fleet secretary to the Duke of Edin DUKE VISITS burgh, left Sydney on the night MEDITERRANEAN FLEET Squadron and Commanding After he had returned to Aus in succession to Viec-Admiral Officer of the Battle class destroyer of January 24 by Qantas Constel tralia he served in H.M.A.S. HEAD OFFICE: (E) the Honourable Sir Denis C His Royal Highness the Duke "Anzac," now in Korean waters, "Australia" and H.M.A.S. "Shrop Maxwell. K.C.B, CBE. The ap lation for London. He was ac companied by his wife and two of Edinburgh, K.G., visited ships had been appointed Australian shire." He was awarded the Bar 19 LACKEY STREET, pointment will take effect about and establishments of the Royal Naval Representative and Naval to his D.S.C. in February, 1945, the end of April. !<>'.•. children. Lieutenant-Commander HAYMARKET. Parker, with his family, arrived Navy during his visit to Malta to Attache at the Australian Em for skill,, coolness and resolution Phone MA 2383. in Sydney on December 21 and present Colours to the three Com bassy in Washington. He would in operations in the Solomon REAR-ADMIRAL RETIRES. mandos of the Third Royal succeed Captain F. N. Cook, The retirement of Rear-Ad has been spending a Christmas- Islands. New Year vacation with his par Marine Commando Brigade, now miral D. H. Everett. C.B., C.B. stationed in the island and lately F... D.S.O.. has been announced ents. Captain and Mrs. C. A. I'arker. at East Kew, Melbourne. returned from Malaya. by the British Admiralty- Ad Many ships of the Mediter mini Everett his been placed on ranean Fleet were in harbour dur the Retired List CM. FOR SUBMARINE. From the aithors of "MUTINY ON TNE BOUNTY"... Her Majesty the Queen has ap ing the visit of His Royal High ness. They included the aircraft- DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF proved the award of the George carriers "Theseus" (Captain C. N. to C.-IN-C. PORTSMOUTH. Medal to Lieutenant H. M. Wool- aiother oitstariiig drana rych. R.N.. of the submarine Lentaigne, D.S.O., R.N.) and Captain Mart*. ITU. 21 Tk* Navy Gambier, were with a party otf arc particularly interesting for in its surroundings. As for the SEA-ODDITIES fishermen setting nets in darkness their remarkable changes otf colour squids, an optical effect produced by certain otf these animals, most li now MOM th.it more re-ult- ed with pumice a foot deep, with already brought to the surface about 30 yards offshore. Both and pattern. This, too, is true otf if not all of which are capable of than those -t ..turn bomb test- cam. some larger masses occurring. archaeological treasure in the shape men were working in waist-deep shrimps and prawns. The chame rapid colour changes, is among the nut of th. Bnti-h Admiralty* re Nothing could move in it, and of 1000 large amphoras. These water. The first indication that a leon prawn exactly resembles the strangest of all forms otf camou cent scientific expedition to the thousands of dead fish and turtle- are pottery vessels used to carry shark was among them was when colour otf the seaweed to which it flage. Squids show dark and light M"iitc Bcl!'(». BVMC now tamou- were washed up on the hcachc>. the liquid cargoes of the ancient Holmes screamed and threw his clings motionless during the day horizontal stripes while swimming, i>l.tnJ> otf the coast of W«Mm Mediterranean people. Some otf arms over his head; he had been light hours, whether it be green, which give an illusion otf streaks Australia T!K- Bnti-h Museum of these vessels, still corked, contain bitten severely on the thigh. The red, or brown. In the deep rock On February 15, off Shell of water, but when they come to N.itur.il Hi-tTv UN February 10 the 2100-year-old wine. shark then struck at the fishing pools prawns cling among the harb« >ur, • iuth »>f W< .11< MJi >ng. rest these stripes vanish and arc anii' unced th.ii about ^HWi new N.S.W.. a m.n mm severely maul net, took fright and swam back weeds, invisible unless disturbed, species «i| lite t'trm-i animals, into deep water. Mclntyre and and in a sandy pool the shrimps, replaced by vertical bands suggest ed in deep water by a six-1*x March, ItU. FIRST LORD AT FERRY CREW RE-UNION DINNER. SEA CADET CHRISTMAS CAMP The First Lord of the British Admiralty (The Rt. Hon. J. P. L. Forty Sa Cadets made up from wish that they could stay on for ship, but in citizenship and the Thomas. MP.) and the First Sea members of Newcastle, Wollon- another week. The Camp ter development of the hoy. Uniforms Lord (Admiral Sir Rhodenck gong and Sydney Area Units en minated with a Church Parade at are provided: hoy- take part in McGrigor. G.C B„ D.S.O.) at "$00 Years af London River." By K*»k lies in the number of newly- camped for the Xm.is Holidays on St. John's Church of England, exercises and training on board tended the annual reunion dinner board Schnapper Island, the Head Balmain, where an appropriate warships and in Naval Establish Aytotin Ellis Published by drawn hull lines of some of the at the Connaught House. Kings- Bodtey Head (John Lane). most famou- clippers ol the early- quarters of the NSW. Division Service, especially prepared for the ments. A boy who has a liking way. London, of the Admiralty of the Australian Sea Cadet Sea Cadets, was conducted by the for the sea will, although too London day wool .md tea trader Ferry Crow Association whose This K»»k seSS 'Ut primarily to Corps. The Cadets reported on Rev. W. Chied, State Secretary of young to join the fighting Navy "I.~00 Miles in Open Boats." By members manned small craft taken board at 2 p.m., Saturday. 29th Missions, representing the Rector, or Merchant Navy. And his wish be -in attractively produced hi-- Cecil Foster. Published by over or built by the Admiralty Bory "t Hays Wh.trr Incidentally. December, and were in true ship the Rev. A. G. Rix. An impres can come true by joining the Sea Rupert Hart Davis, London during World War II far their style sive part of the Service was the Cadet Corps. however. :t achieves tar more, in Voyages m open Nut* are al delivery t<- the bases. Ceremony of the "Colours" being If a boy wishes to join the Sea that it contain? much of wider m way- an appealing subject to sea The daily routine of the "Ship" The Ferry Crew Service had a marched into the Church and re Cadet Corps or desires informa tere-t in th-.- maritime held In farer-, and m thi> N>ok. one Of* the included physical training, boat wartime strength of more than a ceived by the Padre. tion on the Corps and its activities, deed, it c.in he read with consider* latest title- in the most attractive sailing and seamanship instruction. thousand drawn from all walks of he can apply in writing to the able interest and profit K h th Manners" Library series, we are Rigid discipline gave the Cadets life, yachtsmen and engineers, Divisional Executive Officer, c/o seafarer and land-man. given a c» rvtnge . »f lu^t such a an insight into the shipboard life who for various reasons could not 1 Neil Street, Merrylands: or to voyage. Here, in lltort. Captain of a man-of-war. Recreational be accepted for the armed torces, P.O. Box 7, Drummoyne. A boy- Cecil Foster's account ol the training included training pictures "The Tea Clipper*-" Bv David but volunteered to form the crews is not committed to any of the famous voyage of the "TfevunV shown on the Corps" own 16-m.m R. MacGeonie Mwd by of vessels that might be required Armed Forces and he is permitted lifeKut-. in IV26. i- neatly re machine. Pcrcival Marshall. London to be delivered from London to to "try out" the Corps for six printed. The -tory is told in a The Omcer-in-Charge of the It i- quite 'mpi«iNe for any Londonderry of from the United weeks before becoming a member. one with a love fat Bnti-h man clear unvarm-hed style, while the States of America to Malta. In Camp. Sea-Cadet Lieutenant Gor Little appears to he known of time historv t remain unintere*: compelling subiect it embrace- is short, anywhere they were re don Humphrey, supervised the the Sea Cadet Corps and its activi Now is the time to join — the year's training programme com ed by thi* N>»k It i- a well i f that hixih standard which need* quired. activities of the Camp, which the ties, which is a pity, as being a Sea no recommendation by anyone to Cadets rated as Al. Without ex Cade: affords a hoy of 14 excel menced on Mth January So illu-trated account *»t a fascinating The Service w-as formed in hurry up and he in it. and notable era in the a^e of the TTWpTllliirT it- maritime and general ception the Cadets expressed a lent training, not only in seaman appeal 1942 and it moved 1,020 boats. windiammer A feature of the Si mc of the volunteers were over To years of age. and one engineer of 72 undertook more than 90 voyages. POOLE & STEEL LTD. The Admiralty Ferry Crew Ass.>ciation. established at the end of the war. is now recognised by the British Admiralty and en ARMGO couraged to widen its scope so 43 STEPHEN ST.. BALMAIN. that in the event of another emer (AUSTRALIA) PTY. LTD. gency it may present a classified Ni.W. list of skippers, mates, engineers and deck -hands for service again. KEMBLA BUILDING ROYAL ROUND-THE- WORLD TRIP. 58 MARGARET STREET, SYDNEY General Engineers, Boilermakers, Shipbuilders. Dredge Builder* A Press cable from London on January 26 said that the Queen MANUFACTURERS OF: Plans. Specifications and Estimates prepared and the Duke of Edinburgh will PREFABRICATED DRAINAGE PRODUCTS for Mining Dredges and Plant of all kinds nuke a round-the-world trip in the course of their visit to New PRES^TEEL BUILDINGS Electric Welding and OxyAcetylene Work Multiple pipe* and arches; corrugated Zealand and Australia in 1954. Available in 20ft., 30ft., 40ft., and nestable culvert*; full circle corrugated Originally, they planned to call at 60ft. span, framework only. Haysheds nestable pipe; perforated pipe Ceylon on the outward trip, but available in 30ft. span. Reuters News Agency understands STAINLESS STEEL Telegrams: that they are now likely to go by STEEL-SHEETS way of the Panama Canal and call Electrical: deep drawing; black: bright Sheet; bar (hexagon, lata, squares. -POOLSTEEL." BALMAIN. N.S.W. at Ceylon on the homeward jour steel strip: aluminised. rounds); wire; tubing. ney. Reuters says (though this ney. M.rdt. i*n. It ' EX-NAVAL MEN'S WORLD VETERANS MAKE HISTORY IN LONDON Association ^f% of Australia W.V.F. SPEAKS FOR 16 MILLION VETERANS IN 19 COUNTRIES. London was, in December, the Duchess of Luxembourg, the powerless to do anything effective venue of the greatest gathering of Governor-General of Pakistan, His to achieve the aims to which the war veterans ever held. Excellency Ghulam Mohammed, United Nations are dedicated." Patron-in Chief: Her Majesty The Queen. More than 100 veteran leaders President Truman of the United "You are in a happier position," from 30 countries, representing States, President Quirino of the Lord Alexander added, "by your FEDERAL COUNCIL. at Melbourne on Monday, 18th fit of its members, and to more than 20,000,000 veterans, Philippines, President Vargas of participation at this conference, January. It is anticipated that at provide club rooms, print, attended the third General Assem Brazil, President Einaudi of Italy, by your united work to solve the An illumindteJ Charter h a > this coming Conference all Fede- publish and circulate Books, bly of the World Veterans' Fede Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia, and problems of the ex-servicemen, you been designed for the use of each ral Executive Officers may be Magazines and Papers for ration in London from December President Auriol of France. can make a practical contribution one of* the Sub-Sections of the elected from amongst members of members' benefit. 8th to 11th. Messages from Prime Ministers t o international understanding. Association and, later on, the the Victorian Sub-Sections. Names and Addresses of The Assembly was opened by include Mr. St. Laurent of Your conference has much to do Federal Executive will request the Various Officers from the State of Honorary State Secretaries. Field - Marshal Lord Alexander, Canada; Mr. D. Senanayaka of and, what is more, it has a real respective State Presidents to pre New South Wales have, over the Victoria: Mr. W. H. Sullivan, Britain's Minister of Defence. Ceylon; General Neguib of Egypt; opportunity of doing it." sent these Certificates, on behalf past 25 years, held positions on the 383 Flinders Lane. Mel New Membership Ratified Mr. Kwame Nkrumah of the Gold A special message was delivered of the Federal President, to the Federal governing body of the bourne, Victoria. 'Phone: During the Assembly the mem Coast; Mr. Erik Eriksen of Den by Colonel Alfred Katzin, special various Sub-Section Presidents for Association. All States have MU4539. bership was ratified of nine new mark; Field - Marshal Alexander envoy to the Assembly of Mr. ultimate display in the Associa agreed that the central control \.S.W : Mr. R. Humphry, 77 organisations of veterans, three of Papagos of Greece; Mr. David Trygve Lie, United Nations Sec tion's meeting room*. Ben-Gurion of Israel; Mr. Pandit should now be passed over to the Pitt St., Sydney. 'Phone: them from countries not previous retary - General, expressing the Preparations for the 1954 Fede original Section's membership, ly represented in the W.V.F., Nehru of India; Dr. Alcide Dc hope that the W.V.F. would con BW 5036. Gasperi of Italy; Mr. Pierre ral Conference are already being which, by the way, is the largest Sth. Aust.; Mr. W. A. Palmer, bringing the total membership of tinue "to lead public opinion, to the W.V.F. to 103 associations, Dupong of Luxembourg; Dr. W. stand as closely in support of the made by the Hon. Federal Or of any Section in the Common Naval Memorial House, 23 ganismg Secretary (Mr. Wm J. wealth. including 16,000,000 veterans in Drees of die Netherlands, and United Nations as it can at what Peel St., Adelaide. 19 countries which include Bel Mr. S. G. Holland of New ever sacrifice. This is the road to Greenwood). The assembly of in Mr. Fred. Calvert. B.E.M. West Aust.: Mr. W. W. terstate Delegates will take place gium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Zealand. world peace." (NSW. State President), has Wayman, 149 Petra St.. East France, Gold Coast, Great Britain, been elected as a Federal Coun Fremantle. A reception for the delegates M. Albert Morel, French Presi Greece India, Israel, Italy, Luxem was given by the Foreign Office at dent of the W.V.F. said that cillor in the stead of Mr. J. P. C. Queensland: Mr. W. M. bourg, Netherlands, Norway, Watson, who was recently ap Macdonald, 112 Brisbane St., the residence of the Rt. Hon. Mr. although the Federation was still Pakistan, Philippines, Turkey, Anthony Eden, M.P., and the young it had accomplished a great pointed by the Minister for Re Bulimha. United States, Yugoslavia. The If it's from . . , patriation to the Chairmanship of Tasmania: Mr. G. R. Howe, 99 Lord Mayor of London gave a re deal. Although it had received International Confederation of ception at the Mansion House. wide and enthusiastic co-operation one of the Appeals Tribunals. Collins St., Hobart. Former Prisoners of War is also a Mr. Alec. C. Nichols, a former A.C.T.: Mr. K. White, 4 Third In addition, letters and tele there had been criticism also. This member was not a danger; on the contrary, >ion\\ General President of the Associa St., Narrabundah, Canberra. grams of support and greeting it was a stimulus. tion, has been elected as State Papua \C: Mr. F. C. Hill, The Assembly was preceded on were received from scores of pro Rehabilitation And Peace. President of the Queensland Sec c/o Dcpt. of Education. Port December 4 by a meeting of the minent personalities and war AND tion for the current term. Moresby, T.N.G. Commission for the Defence of veterans' associations not repre Mr. Elliott H. Newcomb, Sec —GW.S. Peace, which defined its pro sented at the Assembly, and from retary-General of the W.V.F., gramme of work for the future. many more who had sent ob expressed a warning against vete TATO»S This is to include the study and servers. rans" groups formed for political H.M.S. 'BELFAST RETURNS Aims and Objects of advancement of measures calcu In his opening address. Lord motives arid urged that "peace" Association. HOME FROM KOREA. lated to remedy economic and Alexander said: "The aims of should not be handed over to the social unrest, objective analysis of enemies of peace. IT MUST IE GOOD (a) To unite ex-Naval person H.M.S. "Belfast," the British your Federation are based on the provocative propaganda which un principles of the United Nations nel for their mutual benefit. cruiser whose "fast firing" and "Although organisation of ex dermines international goodwill, Charter, and indeed they must be M.rch. I*. II menu coulj and should do as habilitation programme in some of much. the countries which had sent men AARONS "We have made it clear repeat to fight for the United Nations in edly, unlike some other inter' Korea were "regrettably inade EXCHANGE national groups which claim to quate." work for peace, that we will not The Assembly agreed to offer HOTEL interfere with internal affairs of full use of its research informa nations. We cannot, on the other tion, experience and facilities to STOREY & KEERS I GRESHAM STREET hand, permit petty or false the United Nations, so that, as far nationalism to Hock our efforts to as possible, all U.N. disabled SYDNEY establish an international rehabili should receive medical treatment 2-10 SHELLEY STREET, STDNET tation programme or to detract and rehabilitation of the same from attempts to lessen tension quality. • among nations." It was agreed further that a Only tfi* B«t (rands draft oi an International Statute Decisions Taken. fat Veterans should be laid before Resolutions approved by the the U.N. to define the right to Dining Room Assembly had been submitted by reparation for U.N. veterans, their MARINE &, GENERAL BOILERMAKERS & ENGINEERS. Unturpastad. three main committees on policy, widows, parents or orphans. It internal affairs, and rehabilitation. was also decided to request repre All Classes of Ship Repairs. Among those in the first of sentation at international meetings these groups were decisions defin of organisations called to discuss 1 the fate of war victims, recalling ing the W.V.F. attitudes on ex- Shipyard: Woodwork Section: that the Geneva Conventions Head Office: AARONS enemy countries, Korea, ex- LOUISA ROAD. LOUISA ROAD. covering the status of war pri SHELLEY STREET. EXCHAN6E prisoners of war and under BALMAIN soners were drawn up and adopt SYDNEY. BALMAIN developed territories. WB2151 WB1066 HOTEL ed in 1949 without consultation BX1924 Hope was expressed that con with either veterans or prisoners BX1925 WB2166 WB2621 tact would be established between (if war. the International Confederation of Ex'Prisoners of War (a mem ber organisation of the W.V.F.) and representatives of Soviet and Polish former w a r prisoners. Another resolution affirmed W.V.F. support of the principle of universality of membership of it you are TIDED the United Nations. Decisions were taken to re and affirm the main task of the W.V.F. as being to represent the interests of veterans and their dependants, DEPRESSED to point out the important role of Europe in safeguarding world peace and to urge acceptance of a Korean truce plan as contained in the resolution presented to U.N. by the Indian Government. Resolutions implementing the '• HIST by Tn# MTMf HDCOCt fllMN^' W.V.F. 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