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MAY, l*4» No. 5 I. OVAL AUSTRALIA* XAVY [DITORIAl Pago Letters to the Editor! S • Editorial 10

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British Antarctic Activities 12 Tha Port Jackson Pilot Service Jamas A. Stewart 15 Anniversaries of tha Month John Clark 21 Cover: During March, H.M.A.S. carried out Gunnery School Firings in Port Prise Money John Clark 27 Phillip Bay- Mere "B" Gun has just Art and the Sea . . John Moiley 31 fired at a towed surface target. The Navy and the Future Captain Taprall Oorling, O.S.O., R.N. 31

Editor: PERSONALITIES 6. H. SILL, Commander K. E. Oom, O.I.E.. R.A.N. IB Captain H. M. L. Waller, D.S.O. and Bar, RAN 44 A.sociote Editor; ENTRY OF 13-YEAR-OLD BOYS AS Chief Petty Officer Telegraphist D. M. Bowdan. R.A.N 45 Captain W. 6. LAWRENCE. M.I.E.

OVERSEAS NEWS. Managing Editor: Meritime News of the World 24 BARRY E KEEN. CADET-MIDSHIPMEN News of the World's Neviai 36 Incorporating the "Navy League Jour­ nal," Official Organ of the Navy League of Australia, end "The Merchant Navy," SPECIAL FEATURES Journal of the Merchant Service Guild Sees, Ships and Sailors ApplicKions .ire invited from boys, A >|it.iliK mi; i ijiu .iiii-n.ii examination ;••••• of the crew .md working the ship. of Austrelesie. 20 will he held in September. i'J • " On passing out from the training whose 1 tth birthdnv is in 1949, Successful candidates will nn Naval Circuiting through the Royal Austra­ General Cargo 2= t-ntrv into the Royal Australian Medical Officers about NmaWTi and Battleship or Cruiser for about IA then, if passed a* medically fit, inter­ months* Fleet Tr.iining. lian end New Zealand Navies, the Mer­ Naval College, where they will viewed by an Interviewing Committee. • A Cadet-Midshipman ,iJ!, tied to the chant Service end to the general public. commence their training as the fu­ Selected candidates will enter the Royal I MLm. Branch is oromoted to Australian Naval College at FBoMfi ture officers in the Navigation, Midshipman iB) on completion >f his NAVAL OCCASIONS Gunnery. Tornedo-Anti Submar­ Naval Depot, Victoria, in (he latter training in tht training cruiser -ind nan of January, l'''i' ihen goes to (ht Royal Naval Hrnuneer- Published by The Nevy Leegue, Royel ine, Aviation. Communications. i While at the I llHlJW. every essential ing College, LH .'nport, for two vears. Exchange Building, 54a Pitt Street, Syd­ What the Navy is Doing at See and Ashore 32 Engineering or Electrical Branches. need "I Cadet-Midshipmen is provided ney, N.S.W. Telephone: BU SS08. by the Navy. They receive, entirely • On completion of Reel Training, a Details of educational and medical free of cow to their parents, an edu­ Midshipman is promoted to Acting Sub- standards required, conditions of cation which reaches Matriculation Lieutenant and gcu-s to the Royal Naval Subscription Roto: standard, text books, uniform ind College, Greenwiih, for H months for service, rates of pay and pensions, general education n.J War Course, fol­ BOOK REVIEWS prospects of promotion, etc., may other clothing, food, quarters, pocket 12 issues post free in the British Empire, money, and medical and dental treat - lowed by 1 month.** service in snt.il I he obtain*-a on application to The ships and then technVal courses at 12/6: foreign, 16/-. "Three Decodes" PortsmcHith foi 10 months. At this Resident Naval Officer. Naval Staff •Mi', he is confirmed as a Suh-l-iruten- Office, Melcher Street, Birkenhead. i On passing out from the Naval Col­ lege, a Cadet-Midshipman goes to ling- SJBJt. Wholesale Distributors: The following are the principal land for training with the Royal • On his return to Australia at the sjjs. GENERAL points relating to the entry and Navy. He joins the training cruiser [irnMin.ifi age of 21 or 22 years, he is 60RD0N S GOTCH (A/sie) LTD.. training of Cadet• Midshipmen:— (H.M.S. DEVONSHIRE) for two appointed lo a ship of the Royal Aus­ cruises. Cadet-Midshipmen (orming tralian Navy. Australia and New Zealand. The Nevy for Nert Month ?..... J Neuticel Ouii It "THE NAVy" is published monthly. Literary communications, photographs and letters for Obituary B insertion (which should be short) should be APPLICATIONS. TO BE ADDRESSED TO THE SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT oddressed to G H. 6111, 251 l.ocomfi.ld Neval Appointments 42 Parade, Middle Part, Melbourne, Vic The Editor does not hold himself responsible for manuscripts, though every effort wilt be made OF THE NAVY, NAVY OFFICE, ST. KILDA ROAD, MELBOURNE. S.C.I. to return those found unsuitable with which a ASSOCIATIONS. CLUBS. stamped end addressed envelope is enclosed. The opinion! expressed in signed ortlcles are The Nevy Leegue • those of the writer, end not necessarily these CLOSE 15th JUNE, 1949. of the Navy League. Ei-N.val Men's Association of Aestrelie 43

May, 194? r/rf F0R NEXT MONTH 25<> volts in NAVY IN the current issue of "The NaVy" we start a new monthly M.V. ••DUNTROON''—10.500 torn feature, "General Cargo," in which it is hoped that nauti­ MELBOURNE cal—or once-nautical—readers, whether of the Navy or the her Viand Merchant Service, will help us to write the magazine by STEAMSHIP sending along short paragraphs telling of some sca-happening CO. LTD. within their experience. This month's selection of paragraphs will give you an idea of what we are after, and we hope that HEAD OFFICE: as many of you as have an interesting yarn to spin and we 31 King St., Melbourne. all have at least one-will not fail to send it along. %»« BRANCHES OR AGENCIES AT ALL PORTS. ALBANY TO ALDGATE. AV# Vn*"* MANAGING AGENTS a* The initials "LB.™ as those of one of our contributor*, for HOBSONS BAY DOCK will be familiar to most of you, who will remember his "Bits >hr i. probabl? thinking of a ne» hat, About Old Shiny," and other articles. We heard from "IB." AND ENGINEERING and mil she may—for her eonfidenee in the recently, and he says that he has another article on the stocks, COY. PTY. LTD. SHIP REPAIRERS, ETC. in.ulalinf propertie* of the tte\ in hi-r hand this time "'Albany to Aldgate', which is of 1910 vintage, and Work*: i, backed b> 100 >nt> of re.eareh li> is about ships, sailors, Charlie Brown's, Jack's Palace, and WiUionutown, Victoria. the member firm* of (i.M.A. the Docks, with photographs." He has promised us this Rubber ianUalrd cable. were finl «landardi.ed article at an early date, and we arc in hopes that it will reach us in time for the June issue of "The Navy." b> the Cable Maker-' A..i>eialion in 1900. Sinn- the Inception of lho«e standards the DESTROYER LIFE PRE-1905. Time for m preitiae of C.M.A. h«. «lood «o hi«h thai lhe» have represented. a. lhe> represent lo-day, The present-day destroyer approximates more to the light cruiser of a tew years ago than to her "T.B.D." for­ the world'* eriterion of eable qualit?. bears. Size, speed, and armament have all been increased. CAPSTAN SPECIFY But, says "Scahawk," who has memories of life in the small boats of the early years of this century, "wc were a happy crowd in those destroyers and I'd like to have it all over again, but all good things come to an end." But they do not end altogether. They can remain in recollection. And in an article that "Se.ihawk" has written for our next issue, he tells us of life in the T B.D.'s in the days when they had a turtle- back fo'c'sle and had a main armament of one 4"-gun "and the usual torpedo tubes." C.M.A. GENERAL. All the usual features of "The Navy," "What the R.A.N, WIRES • CABLES • FLEXIBLES is Doing," Maritime News of the World, News of the World's

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Til* N-vy M.f, IV49 "KE LETTERS TO THE EDITORS

COPPER, BRASS AND TECHNICAL BOOKS issue of "The Navy," is interesting Sir, and informative. There is, how­ OTHER NON-FERROUS I read with interest your maga- ever, on page 18, third column, a :ine "The Navy," the latest issue passage which is not in accordance WIRE CABLES & TUBES to come my way being that of Feb­ with the facts. The Navy League ruary, 1949. I send here one or Sea Cadet Corps in New South two questions I hope you might Wales was not originally estab­ be able to answer for me. I would lished at Drummoyne, but in Bal- METAL MANUFACTURES LTD. like to know if there is a book, main. The Executive Committee PORT KEMBLA, Navy or Mercantile Marine, pub­ of the Navy League in March, lished on "Steamship Steering" 1920, adopted the Secretary's (Theory and Practice) and where (Captain W. W. Beale, O.B.E.) it is likely to be obtainable. I recommendation that a Sea Cadet Corps, similar to that already ex­ TUBES * BRASS WIRE would also like to know where one i.ould obtain a book on Lifeboats, isting in England and Canada should be established in New Tha future of rtaani for marina purpoio. KNOX SCHLAPP PTY. LTD. BRITISH INSULATED and one on Searchlights. It ma* by tha tatast Bibcock da.alop CAIAENDER'S CABLES South Wales. Mr. W. L. Ham­ Tt Yours, etc., manh, which, in turn, ar« bactad by Collins House, Melbourne + >. mer (now deceased), of Cockatoo ovar 50 yaart' na aiparianeo. At taa, 84 Wipiam St., Melbourne A. CUSHMAN, Island Dockyard, expressed his ai on land, tima has provad tha sarvic. KemfcU Bunding, Sydney 44 Uatg/uet Si, JSyapjtcy:'. Hughenden, willingness to co-operate in form­ of labcock loilar Plant North Queensland. ing the first unit of Navy League Sea Cadets in New South Wales, BABCOCK A WILCOX Enquiries have been made on OF AUSTRALIA PTY. I IMITF.B your behalf, and the first book for and he was appointed to the com­ mand, being the first man to oc­ INGINIIFII AND CONTHACTORS which you ask is at present obtain­ Hud Wfict I Hirks. Rtgtnt. Park. N.S.H. able in Melbourne from Messrs. cupy the position. The ages of the IVMCh Offfc-i and. Af)*ne1«t In all StatM. ©ia John Donne y Son, 372 Post Cadets at that time were from 10 Office Place, Melbourne, C.l. to 14 years; later the age limit was That book is at present in stock, raised to 18 years. In April, and is "The Theory and Practice 1920, the unit, one hundred strong, of Steering," by G. F. Leechman, held its first parade in public. On THE published by Brown, Son & Fergu­ the 28th. April, 1921, the Navy JS| League Sea Cadet Corps was offi­ son. The price is six shillings and sixpence. Another book, "The cially launched at the Royal Naval FLEET-FORGE For the best protection money can buy Ship's Lifeboat," by Layton, also House, Sydney, in the presence of published by Brown, Son & Fergu­ a distinguished gathering. PTY. LTD. son, it at present out of stock, but Yours, etc,, INSURANCE copies are expected within a few 9-13 IORIMER ST. weeks. Its price is one shilling and W. W. BEALE, sixpence. As to a book on Search­ Secretary, STK. MELBOURNE lights, it would appear that your The Navy League, best chance there would be the Ad­ New South Wales Branch. VICTORIA miralty Seamanship Manual. It Royal Exchange Building, Q&mi^m is understood that copies of this Bridge Street, ENGINEERS ; arc awaited. Should you wish, Sydney. copies of "The Theory and Prac­ STRUCTURAL tice of Steering" and of "The Thank you for your letter. The . MECHANICAL THROUGH THE OLDEST AND LARGEST BROKERS Ship's Lifeboat" will be obtained error in fact which you have IN AUSTRALASIA EFFECTING INSURANCES WITH for you and forwarded to you on drawn to our notice is very much MARINE j THIS ORGANISATION . . . receipt of your advice. regretted, but we much appreciate —Ed. "The Navy." your having made us aware of it, Quotations given for all and are glad to use this opportun­ classes of work. NAVY LEAGUE SEA ity to make this correction. We CADETS must here say that the error was TELEPHONE: Sir, not that of our contributor, Mr. MXJ2J1 (« line.) EDWARD LIIMLEY & SONS PTY. LTD. John Clark's article, "The Navy John Clark, the author of the 1 r.H i; I o H i. V STREET. SYDNEY S3 WATT STREET. NEWCASTI. '• League Sea Cadets," in the March article. He was, in respect of in- Til* Navy 4 May, r*#

• .- - • • ; LETTERS Good luck to .your magazine and the R.A.N. TO THE EDITORS Yours, etc., Tattersall's £10,000 (1st Prize) W.P.T., Putney, S.W.15, formation regarding the Sea Cadet London, CASH CONSULTATIONS Corps in New South Wales, de­ England. pendent upon basic material made are a weekly affair. available to him from our records In repling by post to the above for use in writing the article, and letter, W.P.T. was advised: "In­ —Well and Widely Known— the error was in that basic mate­ cidentally, since you desire to get ria). photographs of warships, and since THE TICKET 5/-. -Ed. "The Navy." doubtless a number of our readers may have photographs that may be Postage for ticket and result, 3d. WARSHIP PHOTOGRAPHS of interest to you, I am publishing your letter in a forthcoming issue "To Win You Mint Be In." Sir, of "The Navy," so that any who Not yet available In full variety, Through the kindness of a friend may have photographs possibly of You can write from any ship or any port! in Australia (Mr. John Bastock, Joyce Biscuits n*v«rth«l«ss offer interest to you may get in touch The Address . . . flavour! to pleaie alt t«tt«l. Ask for of Kogarah, who has often illus with you. Thank you for your tratcd some of your articles) I am good wishes for "The Navy.'" GEO. ADAMS (TATTERSALL) H0BART JOYCES BISCUITS a regular reader of your excellent Should any of our readers have magazine. It is a wonderful medium photographs that they feel might for keeping one au fait with Aus be of interest to W.P.T., and wish tralian naval news in which I to get into touch with him, if they and a number of others in this write to me, I will see that W.P.T. country are intensely interested. 1 is advised. The Breakfast Food am now wondering if you will be —Ed. "The Navy." good enough to get me in touch with "IB.," the writer of an article H.M.A.S. "TOBRUK" THAT tt A FOOD ! called "Bits About Old Shiny" in your December, 1948, issue. 1 Sir, The name is Uncle Toby's Oats. Not only is Uncle Toby's am a collector of photographs ot Has your Magazine any photo­ a really delicious breakfast food, it is an important food warships—I have over 10,0fJ0 dat graphs of the new destroyer FOSTERS factor in the diet of children and adults alike. Uncle ing back to the middle ot last cen H.M.A.S. "Tobruk" for sale? If Toby's Oats provides all the Vitamins of the Vitamin B tury—and I am very intrigued by so, would you kindly let me know Group, and also Vitamin A. See that every member of some of the illustrations in thi? the price. Any position of the the family obtains this vital nourishment every morning. article. Views of the "Fly" das5 ship will do. I had two photo­ Serve Uncle Toby's Oats. gunboats arc very hard to come by graphs of her taken at the launch­ SOLD IH PACKAGES—NEVER I\ BULK in this country, and the picture of ing, but unfortunately they were the stern-wheeler "Shuscn" was destroyed. Best wishes to "The also unknown to me. It has occurred Navy" Magazine. Yours, etc., LAGEE to me that "I.B." may have a num­ UNCLE TOBYS OATS ber of such photographs and that A. W. H. LOVEJOY, MEWED iY Corit** ft U»tNd •(-•wartef LM. he might be prepared to sell mc 2 Nanbarre Street, A PRODUCT OF CLIFFORD LOVE (f CO. LTD., SYDNEY. prints. For instance, the sloop Ryde, "Odin" went to the Persian Gulf Sydney, N.S.W. from South Africa in 1910 armed MORT'S DOCK with six 4-inch guns, but we know Thank you for your letter and & ENGINEERING CO. LTD. that some time later this armament for your good wishes. It is un­ WkM • Mpt of MM Mmwy SHIPBUILDERS was reduced to four 4-inch. When derstood that the Department of "kw to" tftft MARINE ft GENERAL ENGINEERS this was done it is impossible to the Navy has photographs of holds fo«f.' IRON ft BRASS FOUNDERS discover, but very often questions H.M.A.S. "Tobruk" for sale, the BOILERMAKERS ft BLACKSMITHS of this nature can be settled by cost being one shilling and six­ Established 1834 photographs of a ship at a particu­ pence for an eight-inch by six- HEAD OFFICE * WORKS: lar date. I shall, therefore, be ex inch print. Your letter has been tremely grateful if you will ask handed in to the Public Relations MORT'S BAY, BALMAIN your contributor if he will be kind Division at the Department of the SYDNEY, N.S.W. enough to sell me prints of all the Navy with the request that they warships which he has, or at any communicate with you in regard ' Phone: WB 1991—6 line.. rate as many of them as I to this. ANCHOR BRAND • he is able. . _, .. .-".fek-llKNavy." . n»Na*Tj - The Navy League Patron: H.M. The King. 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Commander (S) J. D. Bates. V.R.D., WllVrlll** — AllC+rA IJt'c INDUSTRIAL expansion at Whyalla, S.A.. Is dearly illustrated in this R.A.N.V.R. »T II V OHO >~VU»M Ollfl 5 '.ml pho.ogr.ph sr,o»inK the Broken Hill Proprietary', shipvard and fining Vice Pmidwt: n . _. . . •>•»« furnace plant (on left). The photograph ml taken prior to the Commander R. A. Nettlefold. Ir KTOareSSIVU C e e ShlDV<%rd S"™"!* •»•»•* " <"> Yampi" (arm in the centre foreground) on D.S.C., V.R.D.. R.A.N.R. JOHNSON'S TYNE FOUNDRY 3 "" JllipyarU September I, 1947. Four ship, of thi. 12,500-ton ore-carryuxVtypewill Honorary Secretary and Treasurer: be built. The yard has completed sixteen vessels to date. For ambitious Lieut. (S) J. H. H. Paterton. and enterprising young Australians, splendid opportunities (or remuner­ M.B.E., R.A.N.R. PTY. LTD. ative employment exist at Whyaua. NEW SOUTH WALES. Patron: Kil Excellency the Governor of N.S.V.

T. H. Silk, M.I.C.E.. M.I.KA. Hon. Treasurers: D'Arcy M. Shelley C. M. C. Shannon. Hon. Auditors: Robertson, Crane and Gibbons. MFG. ENGINEERS, SHIP BUILDERS, SHIP REPAIRERS, Etc. ZINC Hon. Secretary: Comdr. F. W. Hiison. OB E. Without this .tWial m.tal tW« wot*, b* Secretary: Cnr. LORIMER 8C TYNE STS.. \V. \V. Beale. O.B.E. SOUTH MELBOURNE. NO GALVANIZED PRODUCTS and VICTORIA. 'Phone: MX 2189. NO MASS. (Incorporating Navy League Sea Cadet Corps) ZINC is also used extensively in lead-free PAINTS and in DIE CASTING and is a basic require­ 'tis Excellency the Governor of ment for many industries. Victoria High-grade ZINC is produced in Australia, using zinc concentrate from Broken Hill, N.S.W., and Commander (S) J. D. Bates. V.R.D., R.A.N.V.R For the best Soft Drinks from Rosebery, Tasmania, and electric power generated by the Hydro-Bectric Commission of Hon. Treasurer: Tasmania. C. \V. Lucas Secretary: Always say . . . Sole Australian producers L. S. Digby SOUTH AUSTRAUA MABCHANTS ELECTROLYTIC ZINC COY. of AUSTRALASIA Ltd. His Excellency The Governor of Head 0*ce — 360 COLLINS STREET. MELBOURNE S.A. PLEASE! E. A. Brooks Works —MSDON. TASMANIA Hon. Secretary: L. T. Ewens

Ms,, l?« r TW Navy I • . ^-*:- • of the moment should be pursued, and this is un­ doubtedly a step in the right direction. And, more than that, they had gained a know- Commission—and its subsequent development and It was announced some time ago that the Navy . -Lie of, and appreciation of, the Navy itself, present and projected expansion—is traced direct­ *'NAVY ly to that dependence.* Lacking deposits of black League had been afforded official recognition by rich they could not have gained within a limited Australia's Maritime Journal the Naval Board, which recognition was extended :;:-.c in any other way. coal of any extent, Victoria, still largely dependent to the Navy League Sea Cadets, and that as op­ upon supplies of black coal from "New South Vol. 12 MAY. 1944 No. S Such occasions should prove a much-needed portunity permitted some practical assistance -tunulus to recruiting in the Navy League Sea Wales for the production of town's gas, for-rail­ would be given to the Sea Gidets to enable thcni 'adets. The recent war period put the move­ way's locomotives, and for industrial purposes, better to carry out the object! of the organization, ment—so far as Victoria is concerned—in the dol was, previous to the creation of the State Electric­ THE SEA CADETS the training of the boys. The opportunity given irums. Membership of the Victorian Companies ity Commission, almost entirely dependent on those to the twenty Victorian Sea Gidets to travel in :c*L and a number of Companies went out ot supplies for all purposes, including the generation H.M.A.S "Australia" is one of the first fruits of v.stcncc altogether. But now a drive is in pro of electricity. N the voyage of the Flagship of the Austra­ this policy, and should produce good results. It was the series of industrial disputes, includ­ O lian Fleet- H.M.A.S. "Australia" from _ress to revivify the Movement, and with the of Certainly, so far as the boys themselves arc icial encouragement—and especially with the help ing shipping strikes, following the 1914-18 war, Westcrnport Bay to Melbourne and on to Sydney and the consequent hamstringing of Victorian in­ last month, twenty Sea Cadets from the Vietorian concerned, there is no question that the results .liven by the Ship"s Company of "Australia" are good. They were given a great time in the dustry by shortage of coal supplies -allied to the Branch of the Navy League were by courtesy of .vhich is now forthcoming, the Movement should ship, where every possible facility for learning jo ahead. enhanced cost of imported coal due to rising the Naval Authorities concerned accommodated freights—which led the Victorian Government of something of the organization of, and life in, a It is to be hoped that it docs so, for it is one on board, and were given an excellent opportunity modern cruiser, was made available to them. The the day to establish the State Electricity Commis­ of learning at rirst hand something of the great vhich is not of interest to the Navy only, but to sion in the first place: as it is the continued recur­ members of the Ship's Company of "Australia" the Nation in general, in sowing the seeds of that Service by which they have been attracted, and to spread themselves to make the experience or.e ring shortages and interruptions to the State's •ctter citizenship which is so great a need with us which they are devoting some of their leisure which would be valuable to the boys, and which needed supplies of some 1,200,000 tons of New- hours in training to develop themselves as better would remain with them as a happy and profit­ •••Jay. South Wales coal annually which is causing the citizens of their country. able memory; and they succeeded. The twenty Commission today to endeavour to extend its This is a most encouraging innovation, and all Victorians enjoyed themselves thoroughly; and ability to meet as much as possible its require­ of those associated with arranging it arc to he after spending a week in the Flagship they return­ SEA POWER AND AUSTRALIA ments in solid fuel from its own resources of congratulated. In these days, when so many coun­ ed to Melbourne by train from Sydney more than brown coal, and thus make Victoria as little de­ ter attractions for youth exist, any encouragement ever convinced of the value of their association pendent as possible upon sea-borne supplies. that can be offered to promote a lasting interest with the Navy League Sea Cadets, and gixnl "r: In this issue of "The Navy" there is a review Under existing conditions, with the lack of in something above the gratification of the mood cruiting sergeants" for their various Companies • the book "Three Decades," recently published stocks of gas coal in Melbourne and the constant : behalf of the State Electricity Commission of threat to the continuity of supplies by sea from Victoria, and recounting bricBy, in picture and New South Wales, wc have seen the progress of text, the story of that undertaking. colliers along the coast reported almost hour by The story is one of a great achievement, and hour in the newspapers and on the wireless as • present developments in a large-scale project though they were—-as in effect they have been • immense value to the State of Victoria in par relief ships steaming to the aid of a.bclcagured T.jlar. One aspect of interest is the part that outpost. • . • • -. power has played in the State Electricity Com It is a striking object lesson in the dependence i.fsion's being, providing, as it docs, one of the of Australia upon sea communications. But it is i^ny illustrations of the dependence of Australia also an example of how. necessity being the :n whole and in it? several parts—upon sea mother of invention, substitutes may be found for v -.ver. what was, and should remain, a flourishing and The original conception of the State Electricity profitable trade. HOTEL PLAZA WYNYARD STATION, GEORGE STREET. SYDNEY. N.S.W.

DRINKS AVAILABLE WITH MEALS. • HOTEL PLAZA 1* TtM Navy II M.y. 1*4* ^— ' -heltering beneath their upturned sports which always follow see large lumps of blue ice se­ -oats after drifting north from Christmas Day at Port Stanley, cured alongside, sailors industri­ :he Weddcll Sea. and the "Sparrow" was only able ously chipping off pieces and When the "John Biscoe" re- to be present for the Srst days shovelling them inboard to fill r^rted that she had taken sound- •I horse racing, as on the morn­ buckets. ngs in this previously unehart ing of the 29th. December she "For eight days of fickle winds, sailed for Monte Video. L-d area, the Governor of the bright sunshine and cold nights, Falkland Islands, * (Mr Miles She was, however, soon on her the pack ice moved about the (!:fford) cabled to London re­ way south again, and it was on harbour, sometimes withdrawing questing permission to name the this second visit to the South to the distant inlets,- and at Elephant Island-ComwaHis Is- Shctlands that she ran into her others descending on the 'Spar­ and channel after the infant son difficulties with the ice. row* in mass formation, putting i Princess Elizabeth. This pro­ The story is told in an Admir­ great strain on the cable. posal was approved by His alty message made available to "During this time the Ship­ Majesty the King, and the chan­ "The Navy" by the United King­ wright and his team were busy nel has been named Prince dom Information Office, in which building a hut ashore, originally Charles Strait. it is recounted how the "Spar­ designed for the Falkland Islands Following this December visit row" escaped from "cold stor­ Dependencies Survey Base but :,, the South Shetland*. H.M.S. age" in Admiralty Bay only after now, perhaps, for the use of a "Sparrow" returned to the Falk­ 10 anxious days, in which the ship keeping party. land Islands, arriving at Port prospect of a long period of re­ "On the 9th. February, with Stanley on the 19th. of Decemb­ frigeration was faced. an eye to the future, the Ship's er. Incidentally, it was then 51 Ice and weather were excep­ Company went on half rations. Jays since she had gone south tionally severe for the time of the On the morning of the 8th. Feb­ from Bermuda, and 41 days out year, and eventually it "became ruary, the 'John Biscoe,' a tough if that period had been spent at necessary to eke out the remain­ and hardy little vessel, had come sea. ing fuel to the utmost, and ulti­ through eight miles of pack ice After her spell down in the Ant­ mately to plan for the day when which remained across the en­ arctic, she needed a little "face­ the ship could no longer steam. trance. lifting" to restore her pristine "Heat and light were cut to a "At noon on February Uth.. A Mirv.y p.rty from M Ul.nd b«i« facing Gr«tW, L.nd. Evoti thl. northern p.* of if. som« 1550 mil., from th. South beauty, but after some days of degree of austerity beside which luck appeared to change, for a **©!•. ii an unhoipit«bU l*nd •Imott •ntlrtly covarod with .now and !c«. hard work on that task, it was the winter of 1946/47 in Eng­ fresh northerly breeze sprang up possible for her Ship's Company land pales . . . all washing was which cleared the inlet of pack to concentrate on Christmas Fes­ done in salt water, or if you ice and swept it towards the sea. tivities, to which the Falkland Is­ could get it, melted glacier ice. The 'John Biscoe' went out but landers contributed the hospitality BRITISH ANTARCTIC ACTIVITIES It was no uncommon sight to found the wind lower down the '*f their homes. bay was far lighter. She tried Healthy exercise ashore was THEY INCLUDE THE SURVEY AND NAMING OF THE PRINCE CHARLES STRAIT again later, reporting that there provided by riding, and shooting was a chance for herself but hares. Afloat, a regatta was or­ IN THE SOUTH SHETLANDS, AND THE REDISCOVERY OF NORDENSKJOLDS HUT little hope for the 'Sparrow'; and ganised, and in this the Navy then 91 members of the crew, and OF THE 1901-4 SWEDISH EXPEDITION. failed to break the sequence of all the ship's pets, were trans­ victories that had been establish­ ferred from the 'Sparrow' to the ed by the locals. In a whaler's W7H1LE the Royal Australian 'John Biscoe." beat the Antarctic ice only by "a phant and Cormvallit Islands, :inJ r/ice, the "Sparrow's" champion W Navy's H.M.A.S. "Lahuan" short head.™ ran the first lines of soundings in crew of the last year's squadron "Later, however, the 'John Bis­ was traversing southern seas and H.M.S. "Sparrow" (Command- these waters. The echo-sounder recatta was decisively beaten by coe' reported an easy passage getting down almost to the Ant­ er J. V. Watcrhouse, D.S.O.. recorded depths varying between i local crew which had an un­ once the hay was cleared. All arctic Circle in her voyage to R.N.) is one of the ships of the 112 and o76 fathoms. At the broken record of victories over buildings activities ceased, boats Heard Island with the relief America and West Indies Squad­ same time, photographs were tak­ their last 12 Naval visitors. were recalled and hoisted, and party of scientists of the Austra­ ron, and has been carrying out a en of the north, south, and west Dances were held ashore, which the 'Sparrow' made for the en­ lian Antarctic Research Expedi­ routine annual "summer cruise" sides of Cornwallis Island, and *ere merry affairs of the old- trance to the bay as a fresh tion, the Royal Navy, some four in the Falkland Islands area. of the east and south of Ele­ fashioned barn-dance variety, hreeie started to drive the pack to five thousand miles to the She spent part of Decc-mber phant Island. being, as the "News Summary'" ice out. westward, was away down within down in the South Shetland Is It is pointed out, in the Admir­ says: "of an energetic type most the Antarctic Circle, where one "After threading her way lands, and while there, with the alty News Summary, that it was lppropriatc to the local climate." of its ships H.M.S. "Sparrow" through a belt of pack ice lying Falkland Islands Dependencies under the forbidding cliffs of Unfortunately, the weather --became icebound in Admiralty off the entrance, the 'Sparrow" Survey vessel, "John Biscoe,' Cape Valentine, Elephant Is­ stepped in to the programme, and Bay, South Shetland Islands, found clear water away to the sailed through the hitherto un land, that Sir Ernest Shackleton rain and wind caused a postpone­ west, and shortly after, open south-east of Gipe Horn, and charted channel between Elc and his men spent four months ment of the traditional races and A m**toroloqic«l obtarvtr «t worfc. water north of the islands."

Tk« Navy M.y. mt I] _ Then, in the bleak harbour of ing table. This lamp was re­ Antarctic season, apart, of course. Desolation Island, men, year and moved, with the intention of re­ from routine movements SWTI 'a* THE PORT JACKSON PILOT SERVICE pets were re-embarked in the turning it to Sweden, hut it was - have beep customary for a num­ 'Sparrow ' from the "John Bis lost in a fire which destroyed the ber of years." The Falkland Is IT IS A STORY THAT IS AT ONCE ROMANTIC AND. AT TIMES, TRAGIC. AND IN coe," and rbe "Sparrow" was Base Hut last November. lands and South Georgia ar* soon proceeding northwards, THIS ARTICLE THE AUTHOR BRIEFLY RECOUNTS ITS OUTSTANDING POINTS. Nils Otto Gustaf Nordenskjold, both north of Latitude 60 'de­ once more enjoying unlimited by the way, came from an explor­ grees, but the greater part of the by JMMS A. St«w«rt water, full rations, and a sense ation family. His uncle. Baron Falkland Islands Dependencies of security which had been lack­ and all continental Antarctica arc Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskjold on the landward side would seem ing for 10 anxious days. who was born in I8?2, and died south of this latitude. HE pilot service today is re­ Gap, and two months later the to have been near the present Dunne, other recent Antarctic in the year in which his nephew garded as a matter-of-fact foundering of the "Catherine T Police Station, which is built on the activities in the Falkland Islands built the hut of which we have List August the United States adjunct to the port of Sydney, but Adamson" in a southerly gale in­ site of the old pilot station. The Dependencies, .1 visit was paid been writing w-as an Arctic ex­ Government proposed that the it has behind it a romantic and side the Heads, in which the pilot pilot boats were usually kept at by a sledging party from the re­ plorer of note. In 1861 and seven Governments claiming Ant­ sometimes tragic history. lost his life. As a result of these Gibson's Beach. cently-abandoned Falkland Is­ 1864 he made expeditions to arctic territory should create a happenings, serious misgivings were Spitsbergen, and in 186S he made limited form of international The earliest record of this service felt as to the efficiency of the lands Dependencies Survey Base in 1861, the earlier suggestion .1 polar expedition in which he regime, designed to settle conflict­ is to be found in the "Sydney Pilotage Service and its method of at Hope Bay, North-East Ora- as to the use of schooners instead reached latitude 81 degrees 42 ing claims between them. Britain Gazette" of May 29th., 1805, operation, and the outcome of the ham Land to the south of the of whalcboats was adopted. A South Shetlands Islands - to a minutes North. He accomplish­ accepted this proposal in prin­ which mentions the appointment general concern was the appoint­ ed the North-East passage in the ciple, but the Governments of of a Mr. W. Bowen as pilot. ment of a Royal Commission to in­ three-masted schooner was built hut built in 1901 by the Swedish locally for this purpose, and was explorer. Otto Nordenskjold. "Vega," 1878-80, and died at France, Norway, New Zealand. vestigate the whole system. Re­ However, no mention of charges commissioned in June, 1862. This The sledging party included S. Stockholm on the 12th. August, Australia, Argentina, and Chile, sulting from one of the recom­ for pilot service appears until Sep­ vessel, the "Scawitch," had a crew St. C. McNeilc, general assist­ 1901. found themselves unable to send mendations of this Royal Commis­ tember, 1813, when a scale of consisting of Master, Mate, and 10 ant, of 12. Summer Place, South equally favourable replies to the sion was the establishment at the His son. Baron Nils Erland charges was gazetted which was seamen. The following year a Kensington, London, and B. Jet- State Department. Heads of the light now known as Nordenskjold. was an explorer based on the draft of each vessel. the Hornby Light. Another recom­ second pilot schooner was put into ford. Surveyor, of Stanley House, Britain, Argentina and Chile service, but was little used before, ; and noted ethnologist who took mendation was that the use of I. Stanley Crescent, London. part in many expeditions to un­ later began talks to find out The rates were: Under seven in July, 1864, the system was The hut was occupied for nearly whether they could not agree that rowing boats for the pilots be dis­ explored regions of Central and feet draft, £4; over seven feet, but continued, and schooners substi­ abandoned, due to discontent three years by Nordenskjold, and South America, and was an naval visits to Antarctic waters, under twenty feet, £14; for all over among the pilots. This discontent apart from purely routine visits, tuted. This suggestion, however, its construction is described in <}*:• authority on that region. twenty feet, the charge was £15. arose from the fact that they ob­ were unnecessary during the was not adopted at the time. In­ tai* in his book "Antarctic!." Ships not owned by the East India jected to living on board the pilot The explorations of Nils Otto present season. As a result or stead, heavier whale boats were vessels, and missed the big money The sledging party found the Oustaf Norkenskjold include a these conversations declarations Company or British subjects, were used which required a crew of six earned under the old competitive hu: in fair condition, although scientific exploration of the of intention were exchanged be­ charged 25 per cent, more than the rowers. There were at this time the entrance was completely Straits of Magellan and Patagonia tween the Governments con­ ordinary rate. For the pilot fee six pilots, the senior of whom re­ system of working. fr< ;en in. The floor was covered in 1895-97, and of Alaska in cerned. ships were allowed to retain the ceived the princely salary of £150 in solid ice of 12 t.i IS inches 111 1898. He commanded the services of the pilot for three days a year, while the ordinary pilots New regulations were then thickness, and was littered with An Argentine official an­ Swedish Antarctic Expedition in in board. For any period in ex­ were paid at the rate of £100 a drawn up, which provided that broken china, glassware, lamps, nouncement has stated that the 1901-4 during which the hut cess of three days the pilot was en­ year, plus a kind of bonus based each pilot had to provide a whale- torn books and papers, broken was built and discovered Oscar agreement was the result of con­ titled to charge 8'- r>er day deten­ boat, with sails and a crew of four boxes, fossils and laboratory ap­ versations initiated in London by on the tonnage handled by each II Land. He died on the 2nd. tion money. man. This extra remuneration men. The system of basing fees paratus June, 1928, four years earlier Dr. Bramuglia with President on the draft of ships was then Compulsory pilotage was not in varied between £25 and £40 a In the galley, a stove was than his cousin, Baron Nils Erland Pcron's express authorisation, to abandoned in favour of a tonnage troduced until 1833, in which year month for each pilot. found in good shape. Each cabin Nordenskjold. avoid naval demonstrations. basis. The fees were fixed at the several pilots were licensed. Each contained a bunk with linen, rate of fourpencc for each regis­ In regard to this matter of pilot had to provide his own boat blankets and eiderdown. These tered ton. For each ship under 300 Antarctic Expeditions, an agree­ and crew, and competition between The boat crews were paid by the would nor have been of much tons the entire fee was retained by ment has been reached between the pilots was very keen. Follow­ Crown, the coxswain receiving £84 value as warm sleeping cover­ the pilot. For ships greater in ton­ the Governments of the United Are Yiu a ing the erection of the South Head a year, and the men £72. They ings, for they disintegrated on nage, he got half the fee. Kingdom, Argentina, and Chile, Signal Station in 1S40, pilots also received a bonus similar to being touched. Bunks, found in­ designed to "avoid any misunder­ boarded ships requiring their ser­ that of the pilots, only in their tact, were firmly packed in ice standing in Antarctica which Subscriber ft The regulations were very strict, vices at night. Previously they only case the money, which ranged usu­ and snow, and each bore the might affect the friendly rela­ and provided that to earn his full worked during the daylight hours. ally from £100 to £150 each name of its one-time occupant, tions" between the- three coun­ fee a pilot must board the vessel The pilot boat usually anchored month, was divided among the neatly engraved, probably with tries. The Nmcfff outside the Heads. For ships alongside the Sow and Pig reef, in three boats' crews. hammer and chisel. Most of the On the 17th. January this year boarded inside the Heads, he was furniture was broken and rotten. readiness to board ships entering In February, 1860, the Crown paid only half his fee. If any ship the Foreign Office issued a state­ W leaving at night. One item of special interest ment saying that "in present cir­ Onfor Ytur purchased land at Watson's Bay came right inside the Harbour that was found was an oil lamp, cumstances they (the three Gov­ In 1857, two shipping disasters for the erection of a pilot station. without having received a pilot, an illustration of which may be ernments) foresee no need to at Sydney occurred within two This land would appear to have and it was proved that she had found in Nordenskjold's hook, send warships south of Latitude Otpy Niw months of each other. There was extended from Gibson's Beach to signalled for a pilot, the pilots with the author seated at a read- 60 degrees during the 1948-49 the loss of the "Dunbar" at The Watson's Bay, and its other limit were fined twice the amount which

14 M*y, 1*4* . $ wuukl have been paid in pilot fees. The first "Captain Cook" re­ seded and replaced by the Mari­ BATAAN" EXERCISES A/A GUNS This fine was deducted equally mained in service until 1893, when time Services Board, which was from each pilot's monthly earnings she was replaced by a steel vessel formed in 1936 ti. take over all This system continued in use for of the same name with a gross harbour work, including the pilot three years, until another great tonnage of 396 tons. service. tragedy brought the pilot ser In 1897 the Pilot Service was In March, 1939, the second vice into the limelight of pub­ again the subject of a Royal Com­ "Captain Cook" was replaced by lic opinion again. In July. mission, which was instructed to the present fine vessel, which car­ 1867, a pilot was attempting to investigate the management of the ries the figure head of her prede­ board a ship inside the Heads in a service, seek ways of economising cessor. The new ship had a very southerly gale when his boat was the financial side of the business, busy time during the recent war capsized, and he and his crew of and also to seek means of raising when, in addition to pilot work, four were drowned. Two men set the efficiency of the service as a she also acted as naval examination out in a small rowing boat to at­ whole. vessel at the Heads for a time. tempt a rescue, but they also lost The outcome of this investiga The present pilot staff consists their lives. Two other pilot boats tion was that the Marine Board of ten sea pilots and three harbour then attempted a rescue. One of was superseded by another body, pilots. Their wages and conditions them capsized and the pilot was the Navigation Department, which are governed by the State Arbitra­ drowned, the crew being picked up took over the control of all New tion Court, which recently granted by the other boat. The surviving South Wales pilot services. This .in increase in salary from £910 to pilot was so distressed that he organisation was in its turn super £1000 annually. suffcred a severe nervous break­ down, and died the following year As may be imagined, this disaster aroused great public emotion and NAUTICAL QUIZ renewed the demand for an im­ mediate improvement in the pilot service. Nothing was done about (I) Do you know how many fathoms there arc between the matter, however, until 1871, shackles of cable in (a) the Merchant Service, (b) the when moorings were laid in Wat­ Navy? son's Bay for a pilot steamer. (?) The Aberdeen Line clipper "Samuel Plimsoll" commem­ The first vessel used was the orated in her name a man whose association with the "Thetis," a steam tug used by the Merchant Service is famous. What was that association? Public Works Department for tow­ ing spoil barges in the dredging (}) The three-masted ship "Sobraon," one of the fastest service in the Harbour. When sailing ships ever built, was, at 2,1 ;i registered tons, the storm warnings were hoisted at largest of composite construction. What other claim to th. R.A.A.F. co-a*ara»ad in "Balaam's" Gunnary School Firings in Marcli. and MM •om-»oms Ka»a iust firad in tka Cuta South Head, the "Thetis" aban­ fame has she? Rang. A/A firings at a l\*m targat towad by an aircraft. doned her normal work and stood by at Watson's Bay as pilot (41 Mention is made in "News of the World's Navies" in steamer. this issue, of the old "Implacable," which fought at VICTORIAN NAVY LEAGUE SEA CADETS IN FLAG SNIP Trafalgar as the French "Duguay-Trouin." Do you In 1875 the "Thetis" was com­ know why the French so named her? Twenty Victorian members ol board, and to show them as much Cadets McKenzic, K., Reed, —., missioned as permanent pilot the Navy League Sea' Cadets had as possible of what goes on Smith, —., and Warhurst, —. steamer and at the same time the (5) Who were the following sea captains of fiction? (a) an enviable experience last month aboard one of H.M. Australian (Black Rock Company). first permanent pilot steamer was Captain Ahab: (b) Captain MacWhirr; (c) Captain when they travelled round i" Cruisers. Those who made up Cadets Blakeley, K., Coles, V., ordered from Mort's Dock. This Kettle: (d) Ciptain Cuttle: (e) Captain Dodd. H.M.A.S. "Australia" from Wes the party were drawn from the Robb, D., and Maher, —. (Port ship was the first of the three (6) James Lylc Mackay was a big figure in British shipping. tcrnport Bay to Melbourne and Port Melbourne, Ceclong, Port­ Melbourne Company). "Captain Cooks," and was a land, and Black Rock Companies How, and by what name was he better known? Sydney, the privilege being afforded S/C Trainee Petty Officer Milli- wooden vessel of 185 tons gross. of the Navy League Sea Cadets, by arrangement with the Naval ken, R., Cadets Cowton, E., She was commissioned early in (7) Where is Watling Island, and for what is it noted? Victorian Branch, and were under Board and by the courtesy of the Swaync, v., and Wood, R. (Gee- 1877, and the "Thetis" went back Flag Officer Commanding the Aus­ the charge of S/C Warrant Offi­ (8) Do you know whether the greatest height of land and long Company). to the dredging service. tralian Fleet (Rear-Admiral H. B. cer G. Scott, of the Black Rock greatest depth of sea on the earth approximate, and if Famcomb) and the Commanding Sea Cadet Company. * With the exception of Patter­ Another change made at that the same applies to the average height and depth? son (19 years) and Egan (13 time was the abandonment of the Officer of "Australia" (Captain H. • They were: years) the above personnel are be­ competitive system of pilotage. The (9) Do you know where arc the world's two greatest rivers? M. Burrcll, RAN.). S/C Trainee Petty Officers Pat­ tween the ages of 14 and 18 yean. pilots now came into the employ The boys had a most interesting terson K., and Smith, J. H., Cadets (10) Which is the longer, the Panama or Sue; Canal? of the Marine Board at a salary time, the members of the ship's^ Lawler, F., Harman, G. D., *Egan, Egan is a candidate for the Royal Australian Naval College and was of O50 a year, with no commi- (Answers on paga 441 company going out of their way P., Cain, K., Logan, N., and Fox. sion. to make them comfortable on —. (Portland Company). included for that reason.

Tk« Havy May, l«4* '

NAVAL PERSONALITY OF THE MONTH

COMMANDER KARL ERIK 00M, O.B.E., R.A.N.

ARL Erik Oom, the present Officer-in-Chargc the winter survey—carried out with sledge parties K of the Hydrographic Branch of the Royal and dog teams during the period of the year Australian Navy, was born in 1904 at Sydney. when the vast area of swamps and water inlets on the coast are froicn. New South Wales, the son of Mr. G. P. L. A. Oom, who was formerly of Stockholm.'Sweden. In 1934 he arrived back m his native land, and exchanged the cold of the Arctic for the heat ot Young Oom entered the Royal Australian Naval Northern Australia, proceeding straight away or College as a Cadet Midshipman in 1918, and pass the resumed survey of Northern Australia!- cd out four years later as a Midshipman, proceed­ waters in H.M.A.S. "Moresby." Five yeais were ing overseas to his first seagoing snip, H.M.S. spent by him in this work. "Moresby" being based on Darwin, Thursday Island and Townsville, and "Caledon," with the 2nd. Light Cruiser Squadron. carrying out a survey of the North Coast and alone While overseas he took the usual • courses, and as far as Mackay on the East. was promoted Lieutenant in 1927, received his Half-Stripe in 1935. ,md attained his present rank In 1939 he returned to the United Kingdom. erf Commander, R.A.N., in 1942. being first engaged on survey work in the Thame.- Estuary, and then returning to Labrador, where Following that initial period in the United King­ ' a survey was being carried out to open timber dom, he returned to Australia as a Sub-Lieutenant harbours on the Atlantic coast. in 1926. and was appointed to the survey ship, With the outbreak of war, Commander Oom H.M.A.S. "Moresby, commencing a long period was withdrawn from this work, and returned t« of survey work with thj Royal Australian Navy, the United Kingdom, being first engaged in the and with the Royal Navy, work which, with few- operation of laying minefields in the English breaks, has continued throughout his naval career. Channel, where strong tides made accurate sur An early break was brought about during the veying for the laying of the fields a matter of depression years oi the early Nineteen-Thirtics. great importance. There followed—with the ad when shortage of funds caused the temporary vent of the German magnetic mine—the job of abandonment of surveying work in Australian surveying alternate channels through the Thames waters, and the paying off of "Moresby." It was Estuary: and later a surveying job in the Faroes. at this period that Commander Oom made his Then came a brief spell from surveying. First a first acquaintance with the Antarctic, being one job at Admiralty, where GimmarWer Oom was of those in the "Discovery" on her Antarctic ex­ standing by in readiness for employment at the pedition in 1950. Azores, should the likely German attempt at in­ vasion of those islands have materialised: and The following year. 1931, he returned to the later an appointment in command of the sloop United Kingdom and to surveying, being in H.M.S. "Gleaner," engaged .in United Kingdom H.M.S. "Challenger" engaged in surveying the East Coast convoy escort work. coast of Labrador. The work carried out by In 1942 he returned to Australia, travelling COMMANDER K. E. OOM. O.I.E., R.A.N. "Challenger" was that of surveying a route to as did Commander Gatacre- out in "Ceramic" on Port Churchill for the grain ships. The period her last Australian voyage before she was torped­ on this work included a spell of some four months oed in the Atlantic. in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where "Challenger" went Cape Leeuwin," H.M.S. "Challenger," four Unit­ his acquaintance with the Antarctic, being Com­ for repairs following damage caused by going Back here in Australia, Commander Oom was ed States YMSs, two U.S. lighthouse tenders, and manding Officer of H.M.A.S. "Wyatt Earp," which ashore on the Labrador coast. The route was suc­ appointed Officer - in - Charge. Hydrographic various small craft. The surveys included those went down to the Antarctic Barrier in connection cessfully surveyed, but in those days, before the Branch, and in charge of Task Group 70.? with •f assault beaches while action was in progress, with the work of the Australian Antarctic Re­ development of radar, the weather conditions were the Seventh Fleet, engaged in the wartime survey md extended north to the Philippines, and took search Expedition. Now, as Officer-in-Chargc unsuitable for a development of the trade. A - often under enemy attack of the South West n Borneo—in fact, everywhere where the Allied of the Hydrographic Branch of the Royal Austra­ number of the grain ships using the route were Pacific. •.'..ivies and assault forces had to go in the area. lian Navy, Commander Oom has his headquarters lost as a result of fog and ice conditions, and the on Garden Island, and manages, whenever pos­ The composition of Task Group 70.5, starting For his services in these duties. Commander route was abandoned. sible, to indulge his favourite recreations of sail­ off with H.M.A.Ships "Whyaila" and "Sheppar- Oom was awarded the O.B.E., and the U.S. ing and tennis, in between whiles of supervising Commander Oom's recall to Australia defeated ton," expanded to conclude with H.M.A. Ships Legion of Merit. the present Australian coastal surveys. his project to remain on the Labrador coast for "Warrego," "Lachlan," "Shepparton," "Benalla," Following the war. Commander Oom renewed

It M.y, l*4t ' _ ANNIVERSARIES OF THE MOUTH SEAS, SHIPS AND SAILORS fuinifbiijfiiiikj v/i MIL inv/ii i n HERE ARE RETOLD SOME EVENTS OF THE MONTHS OF MAY THAT ARE PAST— AND NO DOUBT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO THINK OF- MORE. FISH CUE ATP. D by John Clark THPi DOCTRINE QFiW ' F6.SC0OM OF TM6 SCAS VWtEN IN THE Xfwk CCNTURV THE TN writing <>f some of the aniu Dover from the ship Charles at trial at the Old Bailey being re * vcrsancs of the month of May. the Restoration He had rcchns garded a- the finest way of hitting MiCBATED FltoM THE DUTCH COAST TO the c do not pretend to he hy any tened that ship two days earlier. ,it the Lord Chancellor. Actually, ENGLISH SIDE OF leans complete. You. dear reader, changing her name from \asehy it was Kidd's killing his gunner in TVJQ NOBTHS6A. Cocriufi.Me DUTCH vill no douht he able to enlarge Dryden wrote of it: the Adventure in which Kidd FOOMOGC OF •ur list to our confusion We T(](, j^ ^ „„ ,()n £ held Letters of Marque from Wil- IfsiTCfaNATlOfMAl. LAW, m tl> rout ut ,ratcs arK OECRF,eO THAT here comment upon only a tew oi land's \liame " P . > ">Ji L SEAS WEKC *A££ those incidents in the Sea Calendar Bu| ^^ ^ ^ ^ m Q,^ |m to run down the French and their 70 THOBe WMO coiun SA/L THCM~ unong the many ot interest. But. name friends whenever he met them- THUS EMABUNK: :ven so, we hope that here is some- which gave the Lord Chancellor's the DUTCH TD CONTINUE THBie thing not without interest Samuel Pepys writes with gusto enemies the chance to make Kidd thc PISHING IKI ENGLISH May is a month that saw the "'A, Kings landing at Dover: their unfortunate instrument CLAiMCD/'yMAA.jy AG Me MOST WATEttS. nrt of Drake's expedition to About noon (though the bngan- against him. kidd laid the gunner BEAUTIFUL 4-rvtASTeD SAJL'NG tme tnat SHIPS EVER BUILT, i/W FIVE Nombre de Dies." On Whit Sun , Beale made was there out with a bucket, when the gun- 'BAVS"O/TWE Baja.a(t>i£CK] read to c,irr hlm et hc would ner LIME VECE M0O0OO-60 A*L**0&1 Jay eve 1572 the Paslw and >' >' ) >' insisted that the only way Kidd 'OOw THE BaTdt-«KJIhJ€,ANO Slum sail'ed from Plymouth Sound, g? \" my Lord's barge with the two would do any good was in straight- EVERT ONE MET DISASTER »J Duk es ur C apUm p,raC5 MV5TEOIOLI3 CiBCUMStANtCES manned by 73 men and boys, only , , ° , "«» «? ""' ' m Jw 44 >- a/'S/satr "VENT M issi WG one of whom had reached the age y Lord went along bare with him. IN I8SO, "Aur- *• CADIZ LEFT ,N &J2AMTHAN SSA NEO^CASTLE NSV. IM I8S9 ANO CAPTAIN WAS THE FOUNDS* Mansc and nc c VU: d ul ,rac •WAS Isi^veB AGAJKI H6ARO OF. ,f JO. It was 15 months later, on * f"^' the K,v .S footm/ e "an' d d° at h,"s c *?1 *u "' "that t !i P >: O/UAPAM'S NAVY. HK NVAS the morning of the 9th. August. °. 31 th, e "K . »/ » ?S ™ ' \ \ . ^'"K moved '&AY afrAAtAMA "TAS SMASHED WILL. Ar.\M*,, i?-- _. cT.„,u„ ,. .r „>.. tiin,- t" King loved, in a boat by and seduced bv the instigations UP ON TUe CCOM5H COAST IKI 1373. on Sunday at sermon n time. . », , ' - , _. ^, t., . » 1991. 'BAY of NAPLES'{sous TO \^MO,iM )&Oa.LAKU?BO AT .u— u . „„•„ ,|„..„, .,1 .,.-h,, i,i ourselves, and so got on shore of the Devil he did make an assault EUSSIAI DISAPPEARED 1895-, kSuSHU ANO BBCAMB A that he again dropped aanchorr in , -_. ...» , . , ...... <*W 6*e 'S#r o/ BSNCAL :«M6 'GOM PU LSORY <5U EST " AT i>i .. c i k,.;.,.. i.,=. ID „i when the King did. who was re- in and upon William Moore upon rOSTeo MiaSl»^3 •«» '90B - SOME jAPAWBse Coucrr. 1 Ivmouth Sound, having lost 4t) ol •• . , ' t~" •MWOCdGBWAS FOUND Off teElAND LATen VA6 MAD6 A • ' . ,1 .•,• m_ i,,,, ceived by t.enera Monk with all the high sea s with a certain woodenrTIn N0BLBMAN -AKJINSAMA; those who Sillied with him. hut . ' , J", , On"HoNOBABL& PILOT" ... LI. .... i • ur. imaginahle love and respect at his bucket, hound with iron hoops, of BUILT TWO MODEJ-TJ VAB*Hl». winging back treasure and a last- * v ™ o, w. anc/BSGAME" LORODlCGCTO« H OF 6*W WANDeaNG NeeoLE' mp renutation entrance ujwn the land ot Dover, the value ot eightpencc. giving the L.TH« COMPASS], // " Infinite the crowd of people and said William Moore one mortal Another 15 years were to pass to the horsemen, citisens, and noble- bruise of which the aforesaid that May which saw- the start ot men of a|, ^^ Thc Mayor of v/illiam M.nire did languish and an expedition which was to be the town comc and 8ave hjm hif djc •• piracy vvas l,rought in as a BLUE.V/HITC aa/REo disastrous for Spam. In May, white staffe the badge of njs p|acc rijer aftcr nc nad lieen found guilty BAAS OF FRANCES I5RR. the Armada sailed from Lis- which the King did give him again, and condemned to death. And he TRICOlOO AR£ NOT e^EN -£*tf RATIO IS bon. It was dogged with misfor- -j^e Mayor also presented him was hanged—in painful circum- BO BUJe, 33 xn-HTE tunc from the start. Although it from the town a ver>. rich Bib|Ci dances, f„r at the first attempt thc «*Tk/ ST ie£0. sailed from Lisbon on the 18th. wmch hc took anj ^j it was the ropc hroke and dropped him into May, it was still not clear of Finis thing that he loved above a!1 thjngs ^ mul]„as a common pjrate m terre on thc 9th. June, and Medina jn thc wor|d « Ae ^^ ()f thc Thames, anended - McTr^o^J-jT^W Stss^ss: ATS J±ref< ™chari- e JANEIRO. m Ice PATROL HOLO <* MBMOWAL in due time the Armada resumed L)ianst died. Finisterre on the 3rd. May, 1747, OR TME"£/l^f* OF JAMUASrr',' SERVICE so© MILES SOUTH CV ISN'T A Rives AT ALL. WEVPOUNOUWD.OVER W^sror its ill-fated voyage. That was two years aftcr Cap- and became Baron Anson of Sober- BUT A BAY CEACHIMG YJHCJta THE WHITE. STAR JJKJCJR It was on the 29th. May, 1630. tain Kidd was hanged, he being ton. • Not only a fine seaman, he IS MILES INLAND. "r/wy/c'aAHUviTHA i»mc. that Charles II was born at St. executed on the 23rd. May, 1701. was a notable administrator, being 30*2 4-CtNTUBY-OlD MATH-HOLL 0^1494 LIVCS^ "MISTAKtt "STILL STANOS// James' Palace, London. And it Legend has painted him as a notori- a friend of the LdWer Deck, the was in May, 1660, on the 25th. ous and wicked pirate. He was, organiser of the Marines in their of the month, that he landed at in fact, the victim of politics, his present form, and the reconstruct™-

If) M«y. 0ft 21 of the Articles of War in a form with the idea of destroying the lock line in war. It was in that month which lasted until 1865. gates to block the canal and pre­ that Sydney arrived in the Meda •cross the Pacific The battle was commanded Australia's force afloat. Rangoon fell to British forces, and Where Anson won his peerage vent the passage of large numbers terranean to join the fleet of Ad the first in which major surface Six days later that force, compris­ Hobort. Arunta, Warramunga, in May, John Byng lost his lit.- of craft which were being built at miral Sir Andrew Cunningham 'orces took part without coming ing Shropshire, Australia, Warra­ Sioan, Colac and Dubbo covered as the result of .1 May n.ival en­ Flushing for the invasion of Eng­ within sight of striking distance of munga and Arunta, was support­ the landings at Wewak, while It was that month also that saw each other, all the blows being de­ ing the landings on Biak Island. Australia, badly damaged by air gagement, that against the French land. The weather was bad for the evacuation of Dunkirk begin off Port Mahon, on the 20th. May, the venture, but the troops- under livered by aircraft. An Australian attacks earlier in the year at Lin- "Operation Dynamo," in which, Twelve months passed, and in gayen Gulf, sailed for England for 175ft, as a result of which Minorca (icncral Sir Eyre Gx>te — were rorce took part, the squadron, led as Mr. Churchill said in the House by Australia wearing the Flag of May, 1945, came the unconditional repairs. was lost to Britain. Vice-Admin! landed, and destroyed the lock of Commons on the 4th. June. surrender of the main enemy in John Byng who had been given gates and sluices, but they could Rear-Admiral J. G. Crace, eover- 1940, "The Royal Navy, with ths ng Port Moresby. the war of 1939-45—Nazi Ger­ There, then are some of the an­ an inadequate force with which to not be rc-embarked owing to the willing help of countless merchin; many. Here in the Pacific the niversaries of past Mays. Now, in relieve the island- -was superseded, weather, and had to surrender to seamen, strained every nerve tc May, 1942, saw also the hunt tides of the Axis Eastern partner May, 1949, another anniversary tried by court martial, and sen­ a superior French force. embark the British and Allied or, and the sinking of, the great were running out also, and in May is in preparation, with the arrival tenced to death, being shot on the It was in May, 1805, that the troops: 220 light warships and 65C German battleship Bismarc\ in the of that year the Australians landed in Australian waters of the first of quarterdeck of the \ionarch on the uneasy truce of the Peace of other vessels were engaged. They Atlantic; the occupation by British at Tarakan, North Borneo, with the aircraft carriers of the Royal 14th. March, 1757. He again was Amiens ended with the formal de­ had to operate upon the most dim forces of Madagascar in the In­ Warramunga, Westralia, Lachlad. Australian Navy, and the creation a victim to politics, and ot a mis­ claration of war against France on cult coast, often in adverse wea dian Ocean—in which Australian Barcoo, Haw\csbury. Burdeirin. of a modern, balanced fleet, head­ carriage of justice as great as that the 18th. of the month. There ther, under an almost ceaseless destroyers played a part: and the Manoora, as members of the escort­ ed by the new Flagship—H.M.A.S. in the case of Kidd. then commenced the long struggle. hail of bombs and an increasing Japanese Midget submarine attack ing, supporting and surveying Sydney, third of a doughty line of May is an important month in which included Trafalgar, and concentration of artillery tire. Nor on Sydney Harbour, when the at­ naval force. That month alio that name. the list of anniversaries of direct went on to the final defeat of were the seas, as I have said, them­ tackers sank an old Sydney ferry Australian interest. It was on the Napeleon .11 Waterloo. selves free from mines and or steamer which was being used as 13th. May, 1787, that the First On the 2nd May, 1829, Cap pedocs. It was in conditions such a depot ship, and themselves lost OBITUARY. Fleet sailed from England to es­ tain Charles Howe Fremantle. as these that our men carried .-n. three submarines. A number of tablish a settlement in New South R.N., in H.M.S. Challenger. t,>ok with little or no rest, for days and Royal Australian Navy ratings Wales. The Fleet consisted of 11 possession of the west coast of nights on end, making trip after lost their lives in the depot ship. CAPTAIN "CHARLIE" COX. ships— two King's Ships, the Sinn* Australia. trip across the dangerous waters, In May, 1943, occurred the final jUHWS of the death of Captain Herbert S. Cox, of the Shaw and the Supply; six transports. In May, 1911, the Royal Aus­ bringing with them always men -urrender of all Axis forces in *-^ Savill Line, which occurred on board his ship, the Alexander, Scarborough, Prince o,' tralian Naval Reserve came into whom they had rescued. The num­ N'orth Africa, and the way was "Tamaroa," in Auckland Harbour, New Zealand, in March, Wales. Charlotte, Lady Penrhyn being, taking the place of the bers they have brought back at paved for the assault on the soft will have come as a shock to his many friends in Australia and and Friendship, and the storcships Naval Militia. the measure oi their devotion and Fishburn. Golden Orove and Bor- courage." underbelly of "Fortress Europe." the Dominion. Six years later, it was a day in Nearer home, there took place in rowdale. H.M.S. Hyaena escorted The following May, that ot May that saw one of the earliest hat month of the torpedoing by a "Charlie" Cox—as he was known to his old shipmates of the Fleet for some 200 miles from 1941, saw another evacuation, that fights between surface vessels and Japanese submarine of the lighted his Aberdeen Line days,—was a war casualty; for there can St. Helens, and then returned to of Crete. Ships of the Royal Aus an air vessel, when the first Australian hospital ship Centaur, be little doubt that his death was hastened by his experiences Plymouth, while the Fleet con trahan Navy took part in that, and H.M.A.S. Sydney, on the 4th. of •vhich sank some 40 miles east of as a prisoner-of-war in Germany for four years. tinued its voyage of eight months the cruiser H.M.A.S. Perth suffer May, 1917, in the North Sea in Brisbane with heavy loss of life. and a week to Botany Bay. company with the cruiser H.M.S. ed a direct hit from a bomb which Captain Cox was Master of the "Mainioa" when, one It was the month of May, tint, Dublin, and four destroyers, did some damage and caused some By the following year the Allied morning crossing the Indian Ocean from Australia to South that marked the calendar with the N.epean. Obdurate, Pelican and casualties. assaults on the Japanese positions Africa late in 1940, an aeroplane was sighted flying towards Mutiny at the Norc in 1797. The Pylades, engaged the German Zep­ Two other units of the Roya": n the South-West Pacific were in the ship, with little white splashes spattering the blue calm of mutiny had flared up the previous pelin L43, in a contest which lasted Australian Navy were engaged full swing. In May, 1944, the the sea in its wake. The cause of die splashes quickly became month, but had been quietened some three hours, until Sydney elsewhere in the Middle East ir. Australian forces landed at Wakde: apparent. The aircraft was trailing a hook on a wire, with with promises of redresses of having fired all her anti-aircraft that month, H.M.A. Ships Australia. Arunta, Shropshire. which it tore down the "MaimoaV" wireless aerials as it flew grievances, which redresses were ammunition and the L43 having Kan'mhla and Tarra, which took Warramunga, Manoora, and over her. Kanimbla took part in this opera­ delayed, so that a more violent expended all her bombs, "the com­ part in the operations against The next thing was the appearance of the aircraft's tion. Further to the westward, the mutiny broke out in May, being batants parted on good terms." Iraqui forces in the Shatt el Arab, raider mother-ship over the horizon, and the "Maimoa" was Eastern Fleet raided Sourabaya in especially serious at the Norc Another two years passed to that at the head of the Persian Gulf. shelled into submission, and sunk by the German. Her people 1 carrier-born air attack, the Royal where, for a time, the Fleet under 29th. of May, 1919, when the In the May of twelve months were captured and taken to Germany, and the four years in a Australian Navy being represented the mutineers* ringleader, Richard battlecruiser H.M.A.S. Australia later, that of 1942, the Battle of prison camp there severely taxed Captain Cox's health, ageing with the destroyers Adapter, J^epal. Parker—a man of education who arrived at Fremantle on her return the Coral Sea took place, when him and whitening his hair. ^uiberon and ^uic\match. It was had served as a Midshipman, had to the Commonwealth after her the Japanese suffered their first m important month in the story been disrated, and later pressed service wijh the Grand Fleet. set-back in a hitherto "walk-over" He returned to sea with Shaw Savill's after his release on • the Royal Australian Navy, for blockaded London. With the even­ Much happened in the years advance into the South-West and Germany's capitulation in 194?, first as Master of the "Wair- •n the 21st. May, 1944, Captain tual collapse of the mutiny, Parker following the 1914-18 War, lead­ South Pacific. It was an important angi" and later of the "Tamaroa," in which ship he collapsed I. A. Collins, C.B., R.A.N., was was arrested and executed. ing up to the May of 1940, the month for Australia, for the Battle and died. Promoted Commodore First Class Operations in the two recent month in which another Australian of the Coral Sea baulked the in Command of the Royal Aus­ A good seaman, a good officer, and a sincere friend, his World Wars were foreshadowed in ship—the second H.M.A.S. Syd­ Japanese sea-borne attempt on tralian Naval Squadron, and for death is one of the many post-war losses suffered by the May, 1798, when an expedition ney—arrived overseas to take her Port Moresby, and maintained the he first time a graduate of the Merchant Service. was undertaken against Ostend, place in the Navy's far-flung battle integrity of our sea communications Royal Australian Naval College It* Navy • M.y, 1144 . economical limit. Some of the gear with the fourth. The balance funds raised by Pumnptiillll company's cargo ships were over­ of "Port Brisbane's" crew had Sunday School children in Britain MARlT ME NEWS OF T] due for replacement. The Com­ been picked up by the raider, and and the Dominions. The fust monwealth Shipping Bill, when made prisoners of war. "John Williams," a small barque, proclaimed, would necessitate re­ was launched in 1844, the name placement of this tonnage by ships "MAUNGANUI'S" NEW commemorating John Williams, an built in Australia. But, Mr. Par­ NAME ironmonger's apprentice, of Lon­ ker pointed out, unless there was don, missionary, pioneer and ex­ some reduction on indicated prices A ship which was well-known plorer, who was klled by cannibals of Australian-built ships it would in the Pacific trade for many years, in Erromanga, on the 20th. Novem­ not be possible to operate profit­ and which did duty as a hospital ber, 1839. Since 1844 there has ably until means had been found ship and transport in the two always been a missionary ship to reduce present working costs. world wars, returned to Australia carrying his name, and each time last month from overseas under a that a new one has been built, a new name. Originally the "Maun- "WANGANELLA" AND special appeal has been made Co ganui," which except for the war "WESTRALIA" the children to bear the expense. years, traded for four decades be­ The "John Williams VI," which Discussing passenger services at tween Australia New Zealand, cost more than £80,000, was chris­ the annual meeting of Huddart and Canada, she is now the "Cy- tened by Princess Margaret at Parker Ltd. in March, Mr. T. J. renia," of Hellenic Mediterranean Tower Pier, London, on the 5th. IN Parker said that passenger patron­ Lines Ltd., who bought her after August last. age to the "Wanganella" since her the war and have refitted her to resumption on the Trans-Tasman carry 600 passengers. As "Maun- service in December was gratifying, ganui" she performed her original MAN OVERBOARD but restriction of her cargo carry­ war service in 1914, when she led Under the above heading in our • ing imposed by waterside working the first division of the 10 New issue of June, 1948, we published Zealand transports in the first k§Bjc«5l conditions, both in Australia and in this column the report of the rv\pondent\ nd NEW YORK New Zealand, reduced net earn­ convoy which left Australia in loss overboard from the American ings severely. The "Westralia" November of that year. ship "Santa Clara" of her carpen­ was now on her last voyage under ter, Tomas Montanej. He was not requisition to the Navy, and would CHINESE BANDITRY missed for nearly two hours, but shortly be refitted for service on JAPANESE MERCHANT Northern Ireland. The "Empress gold ingots. At the depth at which The "Protection Racket" is be­ when his absence was discovered, SERVICES of Britain" was first bombed and they will be working, each diver the Australian coast. the ship put about and found him, ing used against N British and According Co a report published set on fire by German aircraft in will not be able to spend longer Chinese merchant vessels trading after he had been swimming for in the "New York Times," the re­ an attack on the 26th. October, than an hour and a half on th: THE "PORT BRISBANE" on the Pearl River to Canton, and some three hours. Now an even constituted Japanese merchant ser­ 1940, when about 50 miles north­ lob each day. The "Empress • •! companies owning the vessels have, more surprising story comes. In vice will be enhanced by the addi­ west of Erris Head, County Mayo. Britain," which cost £3,000,000 The most striking feature in a March of this year, a Singalese ship of striking appearance—the during recent months, received de­ tion of 47 ships this year, with a The badly damaged ship was mak­ to build, was one of the most mands for "protection money"; a fisherman from Ceylon found Mr. total tonnage of 153,570 tons, says ing a bid to return to Scotland luxurous vessels afloat. She visited new "Port Brisbane," of the Cun- John James Morphea (53), of ard Australasian service—is the report from Hong Kong states that Shigeru Taniguchi, President of when, two days after the bomb­ Australia on a world cruise shortly demands received total over Adelaide, swimming in the ocean the Japanese Shipping Corporation. ing, when she was some 60 miles before the outbreak of the war. bridge, with its sheer, semi-circu­ 75 miles south of Colombo. Mr. lar front of five decks with oblong £200,000. The loss during March The ships will be new additions to from Bloody Foreland on the of the British registered steamer Morphctt had apparently fallen the fleet of coastwise vessels on Donegal coast, she was torpedoed, DISCOURAGING SHIPPING windows, which gives it the ap­ overboard from the P. & O. liner pearance of a block of modern "Miss Orient," which struck a which Japan increasingly relics to and became a total loss. Of her YEAR mine six miles from Canton, is be­ "Strathaird," although he could supplement her war-damaged rail­ 645 passengers and crew, 598 were At the annual meeting of streamlined flats. The new ship re­ not account for his being in the vives on the company's list the lieved to have been due to "Pro­ ways and road highways. Allied rescued by British warships. Messrs. Huddart Parker Ltd., held tection" bandits in an attempt to sea. He had been a passenger in authorities recently estimated that on the 25th, March, the Managing name "Port Brisbane," the previ- the "Strathaird"—which was on its our bearer of which was sunk by enforce acceptance of their "pro­ about 50,000,000 tons of cargo DIVERS' SURVEYS Director, Mr. T. J. Parker, de­ tection." The explosion killed 40, way to Australia—and was wear­ would be moved from port to port Preliminary surveys of the wreck scribed the vear 1948 as the most a German raider in the Indian ing one of the ship's lifebelts when Ocean on the 21st. November, and injured many more of "Miss in Japanese territorial waters dur­ have already been made by divers, discouraging year experienced by Orient's" 500 passengers. picked up. ing the coming year. who found the ship lying at an ?thc company since the 19JO-31 de­ 1940, when England-bound from Australia, 27 survivors from her angle of 55 degrees, deep in mud pression. Investment income had PACIFIC MISSION SHIP "GOTHIC" AT PORTLAND "EMPRESS OF BRITAIN" and covered with seaweed and offset shipping losses, these last being picked up in one of the During the coming Northern barnacles. About 10 or 12 divers Iving due to high running costs, ship's lifeboats the following day Sixth of her line and name, the Portland, Victoria, had the summer months, attempts are to be will take part in the actual salvage slow work in handling cargo, and by H.M.A.S. "Canberra." The London Missionary Society's mis­ largest ship ever to berth at the made to recover gold worth several operations. It is hoped that, by delays to ships — most resulting raider, which had just previously sion vessel, "John Williams VI," port lying alongside there in millions of pounds from the wreck the means of heavy steel hawsers, from industrial disputes. In the sunk the Shaw Savill steamer "Mai- arrived at Melbourne late in Marcii March, when the Shaw Savill of the 42,000-ton liner "Empress it will be possible CO heave the aggregate, these factors were mak­ moa," opened fire on "Port Bris­ on her way to the Gilbert Islands. "Gothic" called to load refriger­ of Britain," which became a war wreck on to an even keel, after ing shipping unremunerative; and bane" at 2,000 yards, destroying Of 380 tons, the "John Williams ated cargo for Britain. "Gothic," casualty and now lies in 30 which the divers will cut their way fares and freights had been in­ the wireless room with the third VI" is a smart, Diesel-powered a modern cargo-passenger motor fathoms of water off the coast of into the strong-rcxim to get at the creased to what appeared to be the round and wrecking the steering vessel, which was bought with vessel, is of 15,700 tons.

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• . -.... tribution came along, one NAUTICAL transport. Some rime later an imagine. Argentine gunboat found four PRIZE MONEY bodies of men from the starboard The question of how the prizes It Was For Long The Main Incentive To Men To lifeboat on Staten Island. They made by armed merchant ships— QUESTION BOX had starved to death. The fifth- Brave The Perils Of The Sea War, But Now That which in those early days largely man was found in a cave and constituted the Navy in time of CONDUCTED BY Other Rewards Have Taken Its Place It Has Had Its proved to be insane, though later war—should be divided was always Captain R. C. C. Dunn, A.I.N.A.. London he recovered, to tell a horrible story Day a thorny one. King John granted Readers are invited to land in any queries en nautical matters, and we shall of privation. By John Clark the owners of the ship half the endeavour to answer them in these columns. J.E.h. (Croxton), asks if the spoil, and this was done on other steamer "Domala," burnt out in HE decision of the British waist of the ship would have occasions, but only when it became "Paringa", of Narrabn, asks On arrival in Belfast Barnes was 1940, was a total loss. T Government to abolish prize come home with their pockets necessary in order to get any ships for any details of the mutiny in charged on four counts at the The "Domala" was the first money and prize bounty "in re­ stuffed with gold." at all. More generally—says Frank the four-masted barque "Dunfcrnv Police Court. It was alleged that motorship built for the British spect of any war in which His Bowen in "The Sea, Its History "In 1R08 a Royal Proclama­ line." the Captain was intoxicated most India Steam Navigation Co., and and Romance"—it was twenty-five Majesty may become engaged tion defined the distribution of of his time, but the Magistrate, in at about five o'clock in the morn­ after the commencement of this per cent. In early days the owner This was really a peculiar affair. prize money as follows: to the divided his portion equally with committing Barnes for trial said, ing of 2nd. March, 1940, was pro­ Act"—that being the Act pro-, "Dunfermline" was 2,902 tons captain two-eighths; to the officers the crew, the master taking a "I saw the Captain in the box for ceeding down channel, when an viding for the distribution of gross, built by Potter in 1890 for two-eighths: the remaining four- double share. In the Black Book six hours. He was exposed to a aircraft was sighted flying towards prize money from the sale of cap­ McVicar, Marshall ii Co., dimen­ eighths to be distributed among of the Admiralty, however, which scathing cross examination, and I St. Catherines Point. Nearing tured enemy vessels and cargo sions 308.6 feet long by 45.2 feet "Domala" the aircraft switched on the rest of the crew, every mid­ was compiled about 1351, the King am bound to say that he appeared, during the recent war—breaks a beam by 25.1 feet deep. She its lights, and was mistaken for shipman receiving four half- could only contrive to get a .quar­ in my opinion, to be a thoroughly line of tradition which stretches tailed from Tacoma for Belfast reliable witness." a R.A.F. machine. shares and the volunteers half a ter, the owner a quarter, and the with a full cargo of grain on 28th. hack into the earliest days of sea share each. In 'Pereival Keene," crew a half— although whether the However, when the case came November, 1905, in very Kid The plane flew over the ship warfare. Marryat gives i7,400 as the value last-named ever got their share was for trial before the Recorder of weather. Ten days out, her master. and dropped bombs which burst in of five prizes taken by a frigate: a matter of circumstance. Belfast, the Crown could not get Over a period of centuries Captain John Woodward, was lost the engine room, setting the super of that the leading warrant offi­ sufficient evidence and entered a prize money was the main re­ overboard. The 25-year-old Chief structure on fire. This fire im­ cer received £1,700. No wonder "nolle prosequi." The full story ward of shipowners, private ven­ Officer, David Bailie, took charge mediately got out of control, and he says that in those days 'sail­ The prospect of prize money was never disclosed. turers who gave their backing to of the ship and announced to the the Captain gave orders to aban­ ors going into action always be­ was the great inspiration of the expeditions against the enemy, crew that he intended to proceed A.T.A. (Geelong), asks when don the ship at once. The boats gin to reckon what their share Elizabethan seamen. "I have and the officers and seamen who on the voyage. The bosun's mate, the four-masted barque "Swan- were got away just before a second of prize money may be, before a brought you to the mouth of the manned the ships—as well as the Arthur Barnes, protested that the hilda" was lost. He recalls that stick of bombs burst over her. The shot is fired*." Treasure of the World, and if you monarch under whose flag the ship should put into port because Frank Britton, alias Wheeler, the Captain was probably killed at this want it (that is to say, if you do ship sailed. Until comparatively of her damaged condition. murderer, was arrested on board time, for he was never seen again. not take it) you must henceforth recently, the prospect of prize Prior to the outbreak of the blame nobody but yourselves," her on her arrival in San Fran­ The German plane was mean­ On 20th. January, as the ship money was the great incentive Great War in 1914, the distribu­ Drake told his men that night in cisco. time flying up and down, machine- was approaching the Horn, trouble for men to enlist in the Navy, tion of prize money was confined 1572 at Nombre de Dios. Even "Swanhilda" made her last voy­ gunning the boats and rafts, many flared up. All hands, including the and especially to get into ships to those ships actually making during the Armada Battle, as the age in 1910, when she sailed from people being killed or wounded at Captain, were aloft shortening sail, which offered the opportunity of the capture. In August, 1914, Spanish ships lumbered up the Cardiff for the west coast of South this time. The Dutch vessel "Jong when the young third officer fell securing prizes. this system was suspended, and English Channel and the threat of America, under the command of Willem" stood by to render assist­ overboard. The ship was rounded the whole of the prize money invasion was weighing heavily, the Captain Pine, a young man wlv> ance to the survivors, drawing the to, lifebuoy s were thrown over­ "Whatever may be the ideas was paid into a common fund, thought of possible plunder pre­ had his wife with him on their attention of the enemy plane Co board, and after some argument, of - modern statesmen," wrote from which general distribution occupied many in the English ships, honeymoon. About five p.m. on herself. She was machine-gunned, in which Barnes complained of the Thomas, Lord Cochrane, as was made, as is the case with the including Drake himself. May 6th. in misty weather, land and a bomb burst close to her with­ boat tackles, a boat was got over­ Christopher Lloyd tells us in prize money accruing from the was suddenly sighted dead ahead, out causing any further casualties. side and, an hour later, the third "Captain Marryat and the Old recent war. distant about half a mile. The ship There was no panic amongst the Navy," "prize money formed It was the thought of plunder officer was picked up. Onlookers, according to popu­ immediately wore on to the star­ personnel, and of the 143 pas­ then, as it will ever form, the that led Drake—who had been lar fancy, sec most of the game. Soon after, another argument oc­ board tack, but stranded on Cane sengers and 148 British and In'- principal motive of seamen to entrusted to guide the fleet by the In the reign of King John, they curred between Barnes and the St. Anthony, Staten Island. dian members of the crew, 108 encounter the perils of war." light of his great lantern on the Captain in the saloon, whereupon The starboard boat, in which were lost, while others died from not only saw the game but par­ poop of the Revenge as he kept in Barnes rushed for'ard and called on there were the Captain, his wife, exposure in the ice-cold water. That was in the early days of ticipated in the profits, so far touch with the Spaniards during as prize money was concerned. the night—to dowse his light ana the crew to overpower the officers and fourteen of the crew, was up­ The "Domala," still burnine; last century, and Cochrane him­ It was then enacted that any go off on his own after the ~N.ucitra and seize the ship. Captain Bailie ended in the boatfalls, and onlv fiercely, was towed into harbour, self did his best to further that ship which intimidated the enemy Senora del Rosan'o, who had lost issued firearms to the second offi­ five men reached the shore through Jier fires extinguished, and the motive among his ship's com­ by being in sight should have her her foremast and fallen behind the cer and the steward, and ordered the surf. The port boat, with thir­ ship reconstructed. She served the pany. "Nobody ever captured share, even though she did not take Spanish Fleet. The Commander- that Barnes be put in irons, in a teen men in it, pulled out to sea Navy until the end of the war, but so many prizes in so short a time part in the action. This must in-Chief, Lord Howard of Effing struggle with Barnes, a pistol was and reached the lighthouse on New her days are numbered. as he did. Had it not been for fired, the bullet just missing Bailie's Year's Island, from whence they jobbery in the Admiralty Prize have given rise to much argument ham, did not censure Drake's de­ B.H. (South Brisbane), asks when the time for division and dis- fection The fact that Drake cap- head. were rescued by an Argentine for word of the steamer "Canas- Courts, even the boys in the Contlrtu.d or pea* 4S

• • tured the Rosano, the Spanish sume their proper positions in the the survivors profited according to fore the days of the change in Admiral, Don Pedro de Valdes, battle of Gravelines." their rank." GENERAL CARGO steering orders—and jammed the 460 men, a great many guns, am­ starboard telegraph to "Full Mr. Mason observes that "From munition, and treasure, was ap­ Prize money; They certainly Here is a new feature of "The Navy." astern." Someone even thought to a modern point of view, such an earned it. "The survivors pro­ parently enough to atone. "General Cargo" will appear each issue, and you are invited to hang on to the whistle lanyard episode seems a frank impossibility. fited." But for every survivor and give a very wheezy prolonged Drake deserting the fleet, which his there were many to whom no profit send along paragraphs, descriptive of incidents in your experience, Frobishcr. however, was not short blast lantern was guiding, to secure a came. Entries in Anson's private for publication. Paragraphs should be kept short—not more than pleased about Drake and his ex­ prize is a shock, but a Commander- record of that voyage read: "1741, SOC words. Those used will be paid for cm publication. Tlie ship swung. But the light ploit, as A. E. W Mason points in-Chief dropping out his best 8 M^y. Heavy flaws and danger­ Write—or type if possible—your paragraphs, using a pen name, remained under the bows, while* out in his "Life" of Drake "He ships from what was meant to be ous gusts, expecting every moment and post them, together with your name and address, to: The Editor, we stood there in the teeming rain thinketh," abused Frobisher, "to a decisive battle, mst before the to have my masts carry'd away, •The Navy." 258 Beaconsfield Parade, Middle Park, Melbourne, S.C.6. waiting for the inevitable crash Cozen us of our shares of fifteen engagement began, in order to having very little succor, from the Then a vivid flash of lightning thousand ducats, hut we will have There are few of you have not a nautical "short short" story that pick up and make certain of an­ standing rigging, every shroud momentarily photographed every­ our shares or I will make him will interest your fellow readers—and we shall be pleased to publish other prize, is hard to believe. Yet knotted, and not men able to keep thing — and there was nothing spend the best blood in his belly, it if suitable. he relates the incident quite the deck sufficient to take in a top­ ahead. With the succeeding black­ for he hath had enough of those simply." sail, all being violently afflicted ness the light reappeared shining cozening cheats already " DIFFERENT SHIPS- needed something of the order of as brightly as ever. with the scurvy, and every day DIFFERENT LONG SPLICES. that through the Pentland Firth to The biggest prize ever brought lessening our number by six, eight have set us such a distance. It was the Old Man who was A few hours later we have the to England by a single ship was and ten . . ." "1741. 1st. Sept. X.M.N. We were coming the first to wake up to the fact that spectacle of the Commander-in- that carried by the Centurion un­ I mustered my Ship's Company, Jowm the West African coast to­ We had our solution the follow­ it was St. Elmo's Fire on the end Chief himself hauling out of the der Anson, the spoils of his victory the number of men I brought out wards Cape Blanco, outward bound ing day. The Second Mate hap­ of the bowsprit —and we all re­ English line of battle -on the im­ over the Acapulco galleon, ^eu.stw of England being five hundred, arc irom Cardiff to Noumea with a pened to be in the radio room when laxed. mediate eve of what was apparently Senora de Cabadonga. now reduced by mortality to two cargo of coal. Sights at noon had the time signal came over. To his to be the decisive engagement of hundred and thirteen, and many placed us well on our course, which amazement. Sparks, making his the battle—to ensure the capture John Masefield, in his Introduc­ of them in a weak and low condi­ had been set to take us about thirty second voyage in his second ship, A FISH LOCKER STORY of the huge galleasse of Hugo de tion to Richard Walter's "A Voy­ tion." miles from the light. I was Third gave the signal on the 59th. minute. Moncada, which was endeavouring age Round the World, 1740-4," Mate, and had the usual eight to He swore that was how they had "Freezo." It was one morning done it in his last ship. to escape by running ashore under quotes from the Centurion's log And Pascoe Thomas, in his ac­ twelve watch that night. in Cape Town that one of our the guns of Calais Castle. Lord regarding the transfer of the gal­ count of the voyage, tells how "I At ten o'clock I thought I could I have often speculated as to apprentices became tongue - tied. Howard sent off Captain Amyas leon's treasure after her capture, have seen four or five dead bodies -ee the outline of the low sand just where we would have ended We were outward bound from the Preston with a hundred men to the entries being for Tuesday, 21st at a time, some sewn up in their Junes which form the coastline up had we remained in ignorance United Kingdom to Australia, and seize her, and stood by to watch June, 1743, and following days. hammocks and others not, wash­ hereabouts. The moon was rising, of the true amount of our chrono­ were loading a consignment of events. The Spaniard ran on the "Reced 112 baggs and 6 chests of ing about the decks, for want of making observation difficult, while meter error. I do not think that it boxes of frozen Shetland cod in the beach, and a hand-to-hand fight silver" . . . "11 baggs of virgin help to hury them in the sea." several hasty glances at the chart would have been Noumea. fish locker. One of the apprentices developed on board her between silver, 72 chests of dollers and >nly increased my uncertainty. It was in the locker, supervising the her own men and those of Pres­ baggs of dollers, 114 chests and No wonder men needed a strong was very hard to doubt the noon LIGHT RIGHT AHEAD stowage of the boxes, and over­ ton, who attempted to tow the 100 baggs of dollers, 4 baggs of incentive to go to sea in those position, so clearly marked on the looking the labours of the Kaffir galleasse off. wrought plate and virgin silver.' days. No wonder, little over half chart. When in doubt, call the "St. Elmo." The rising or set stevedores. a century later, Cochrane wrote "Old Man." 1 did so, and he made ting star which is mistaken for a some remarks about imagination ship's light is quite a common For some unknown reason, he At this stage the Governor of On the 2nd. July of the follow­ that prize money formed the prin decided to lick some of the ice off Calais Castle, Monsieur Gourdan. ing year, when the Centurion was cipal motive of seamen to encoun­ and poor eyesight over the bridge thing, but 1 remember a night some years ago when St. Elmo fire gave the ice and snow coated brine pipes took a hand. "He sent a polite lying moored in Portsmouth har ter the perils of war. telephone. At midnight, the Second Mate was as sceptical as us an unhappy moment on the lining the locker. His tongue im­ message to the captors of the gal­ hour, the entry reads: "Fresh gales bridge. The steamer I was in at mediately froze, and he was stuck and cloudy sent away the Treasure But now prize money has had the "Old Man" had been, but leasse, that looting was permitted the time had a bowsprit. We were by that member to the pipe, and in 32 waggons to London with 139 its day. Times have changed, and when he picked up Cape Blanco unquestionably, but that the ship, running down the African coast could not release himself. For­ officers and seamen to guard it." with them the treatment of seamen, light fine on the port bow at twe having run ashore at Calais, was from Durban to Cape Town in the tunately, one of our engineers was It must have been a triumphal who are to-day fed, accommodated, o'clock he was inclined to change as unquestionably his. The captors Agulhas Current, and during the passing through the 'tween deck procession. "An old print," says and cared for in a way that has his mind. had not waited for Monsieur Gour- eight to twelve watch the first above, and was attracted by the Masefield, "represents an officer of robbed the sea of many of its past Came eight o'clock the following dan's permission, they took the night out, ran into a severe electric general hullabaloo set up by the the Centurion dropping booty into perils. And to-day they are paid morning, and a very puzzled gather­ treasure chest of twenty-two thou­ storm, with a tremendous down Kaffirs at the plight of the unfor­ the apron of a lady friend. Behind —and receive their pay. What ing in the chart-room. We plotted pour of rain which reduced visibil­ tunate captive, and he hopped sand golden scudi and everything him the waggons and their guard they have gained offsets to an im­ our course hack from the fix ity to zero, a condition which the down into the locker and slid a else of value upon which they proceed, with a great display of measurably greater degree such loss abeam of Cape Blanco light and frequent blinding flashes of light knife between tongue and pipe and could lay their hands. They then flags. The passing of the treasure as might have fallen to them from •.;azcd at the result in horror. We ning splitting the darkness did released the victim. made a final effort to drag the gal­ was acclaimed with much enthu­ the British Government's decision had apparently sailed over several nothing to alleviate. leasse into deep water and were siasm both upon the road and in to abolish prize money and prize- shoals, rocks and other impedi­ But his tongue was frost-bitten, driven away by the castle guns. London. It was no doubt the big­ bounty "in respect of any war in ments to progress. The whole Suddenly a bright light appeared and we had to sail without him, For some time Lord Howard and gest prize ever broueht to England which His Majesty may become business was beyond explanation. right ahead, seemingly almost un leaving him in hospital ashore to his comrades watched the proceed­ by a single ship. Anson's share engaged after the commencement Even a mysterious current was a der the bows. The Third Mate ruminate on his luckless ings^—for well over an hour cer­ made him a rich man. The rest of of this Act." dubious answer. It would have yelled "Hard-a-port"—it was be­ linguae." tainly—and then sailed on to re­ al TW Navy May. \U*

. — _^_ 1 •" TRUE TO TYPE tion to the man at the wheel and to Java without special dispensa­ "The Fighting Temeraire Being > others on the bridge, it was realised tions and permits. These wen not ART AND THE SEA Tugged to Her Last Berth." He "Bristol Fashion." Recently 1 that the wharf was stacked with forthcoming, and those on board painted many sea pictures—"Hast­ bales of raw rubber, and that these had to set to forthwith and dis­ had a refreshing example of a In Which The Author Comments Briefly On The ings," "Plymouth Hoe," "Yacht tradesman running true to his could be made to perform a dual mantle their bridge protection and Racing in the Solent," "Stormy training in a way that is rare purpose—to build bridge shelters, return the bales of rubber to the Relation Of One To The Other Sea with Calais Pier," and the wharf. The ship sailed without nowadays. We had occasion to and to get out of Singapore a By John Moxley beautifully romantic "Ulysses De­ call in a plumber to carry out some commodity vital to the Allies. any form of shelter on the bridge riding Polyphemus." against air attack, and two days small repairs in the bathroom. He N few of her many aspects does "Mediterranean Suite" given to us From the earliest days of paint, They accordingly got to work, later the Japanese were in Singa­ came—untrue to joke-column type by Sir Arnold Bax. artists have chosen the sea and brought bales of rubber on board, pore with the rubber there all ready I Nature present so varied a in this regard—complete with his •cene concentrated in any one area ships as subjects; and it is to them tools, and did his job efficiently and set to building bridge shelters for them. The music of the sea has in­ is she does ori a stage in which the that we owe much of our know­ and well. He made some small with them. The work was well spired many composers. One would -ea plays a prominent part. The ledge of the ships of different mess in the process. under way when some official This was a case of stretching the expect it of Debussy with his de­ periods, their method of propulsion, vale and the mountain, the cham­ ashore discovered a regulation for­ applications of regulations—if not scriptive genius, and finds it, and the fighting of sea battles; nor bidding the exportation of rubber paign and the city street, each has among other of his works, in his When he had finished, he asked the rubber — too far. is it to the painters and draughts­ its moods which vary within limi­ "La Mer," written for chorus and men alone that we are indebted, my wife for a bucket, scrubbing tations. But the sea—whether in orchestra. As an interpreter, brush and cloth, and proceeded to but also to those early workers in the great spaces of the ocean, in Rimsky Korsikoff benefited from dean everything up, and to leave bronze, and in pottery, relics of the narrower waters which are yet his experience as an officer in tin- whose work remaining to us have the place as he had found it Russian Imperial Navy, and some shipshape and Bristol fashion. ..pen, or in the arms stretching up thrown much light on the appear­ into the land with beaches and thing of his accumulated impres­ ance of ships in the cradle days of cliffs—offers, almost hour by hour, sions remain in "Scheherazade," the sailing of the seas. My wife commented on the fact allied to those of that earlier writer an infinite variety to tempt the that this concern on his part was who gave us "Sinbad the Sailor." With their lack of perspective in HARDY'S muse of the artist. unusual. He explained it: "1 did drawing, and the magnifying of . twelve years in the British Navy. the human figure in relation to the In the passing fancies of light The legends of the sea have, in I suppose the training sticks." ships, many of these works of the and shade; in the call to the some cases, received wider recogni­ Speedily Relieves tion through the composers, as in early sea artists appear quaint to­ imagination to go voyaging across day, but much of what we know it to the unknown; in the song that of the story of the Flying RUBBER—BUT INELASTIC Dutchman, made popular in opera­ of the ships that sailed among the . if the wind and the ceaseless mur­ tic form by Richard Wagner. And Isles of Greece; of the vessels of" , "Red Tape." In March, 1942, INDIGESTION, ACID AND SOUR STOMACH mur of its own voice, the sea offers the contributions of composers in those ancient mariners who ven­ when the exodus from Singapore countless themes; and as the high­ tured on the unknown in the cir­ had taken place and Frem.intlc AFTEREATING DISCOMFORT songs of the sea are many. Charles way and the battleground of ships Dibden, with his "Tom Bowling" cumnavigation of Africa; of the was chock-a-block with all sorts of md men its stories are without end. and many other songs—for he was ships of Marco Polo; of William ships that had escaped just in time. Little wonder, then, that it figures a prolific writer; Villiers Stanford, the Conqueror; and of the later I was over in West Australia and THAT "MORNING-AFTER" FEELING -i i largely in works of art, those of with "Songs of the Fleet"; while cogs, carracks, galleases, and other boarded a steamer lying in Gage the painter, of the musician, of Edward German's excellent music designs, we owe to them. Roads among the motley collection the writer and storyteller, whether to Rudyard Kipling's "Just So lying at anchor there. in prose or poem. Stories" includes that of one or two Among those who painted sea battles, the names of the Dutch In itself, it cries out for the in­ sea songs, such as "Rolling Down She was a not-so-large freighter to Rio," and the lesser known Maris Brothers rank high, and which had got away from Singa­ • • * terpretation of the descriptive among our English painters, that writer, and many have responded. "The Riddle," which lists the pore the day before the capitula­ names of shipping lines, many of of Benjamin West, whose "Death tion, had been bound for Java, but With Mcndelsohnn we hear, in of Wolfe" was so much admired Fingal's Cave," the surge of which have now lost their identi­ had come on to Australia at a maxi­ ties in this age of mergers. by Nelson, and who later painted mum speed of five knots. She had ocean in its age-old and ageless his famous picture of the death of been in a number of air raids, and rhythm; the swirl and chatter of McDowell interpreted the spirit the hero of Trafalgar. looked like a porcupine with HARDY'S the expended wave retreating over of the sea very well in his "Sea Nor are we lacking in contem­ wooden plugs plugging splinter the shingly shore, the gathering of Pieces," and among present-day porary painters of the sea, with holes in her sides, the size of the trcsh strength and the boom and composers, Vaughan Williams such artists as Cecil King, Oswald holes varying from a foot or so in roar of a new advance echoing in INDIGESTION AND ULCERATED STOMACH writes of the sea. Birley, Charles Pears. Charles diameter to an inch or so. She the sounding cavern; the wailing, Dixon, and, one who did much to had over seventy on one side, and (luting wind playing in the pipes One could go on with many REMEDY record the ships of the Golden about thirty on the other. i >f rock left by the wearing waters. names. The sea has, of course, called with effect to painters. To Age of Sail—the great clippers of The run of the tides, the mew­ one whose work was so much a the Nineteenth Century—Spurting. She had an open bridge, with no ing of the gulls, and the misty study of light as that of Turner, The writers of the sea are many, protection whatever. Her master 2/9 per 8oz. Carton from all Chemists and Stores loveliness and longing of the north it offered an irresistible attraction. for it offers a rich field in drama, told me that the day before she weaves through McEwen's "Solway One of his best known pictures, in in humour, in the exercise of de­ tailed from Singapore, seeking for Firth," contrasting with the bright­ which his genius for portraying the scriptive powers; and it is natural some means of affording protec­ ness of the sunny waters of the effect of light is well evidenced, is Conlinu»d oft ftftfjft 4t ' TW Mil) M.», J*4t II , 1 WHAT THE NAVY IS DOING at Sea and Ashore

the 4th. of this month, and to ac- HIS month marks what is. in the words of the Minister for the The Cruiser: 1st. Frigate Flotilla: 10th. LS.T. Flotilla: - H.M.A.S. Australia (Captain H. •' mipany the Flag to West Aus- H.M.A.S. Culgoa. Senior Offi­ H.M.A.S. Tarakan (Lieutenant- T Navy (Mr. Riordan), an historic occasion, with the arrival in tt lia. Her subsequent pro- Australian waters of the Navy's new aircraft carrier, H.M.A.S. Sydney M. Burrell, R.A.N.) wearing the cer (Commander J. Plunkett-Colc, Commander H K. Dwyer, jrajune is: Bunbury (W.A.), R.A.N.R.) has been employed Her arrival will, said the Minister, mark the development of the Roya! Flag of Rear-Admiral H. B. Fam- RAN.) returned from her period from the 10th. to the 13th. May: shipping stockpile of material and Australian Navy into a modern, balanced lighting force. comb, C.B., D.S.O., M.V.O., Flag of duty in New Guinea and arrived Officer commanding His Majesty's Fremantle, from the 13th. to the in Sydney on the 5th. of last equipment for the construction of All experts are agreed that no present-day navy which lacks air­ Australian Fleet, arrived at Wes- :3rd.; Adelaide, from the 28th. month, departing in company with die Advanced Naval Base at craft carriers and naval aviation can provide the fighting strength neces ternport on the 23rd. March, fol­ May to the 6th. June, arriving H.M.A.S. Australia for Jervis Bay Minus, and in the transfer of men sary to meet conditions which might arise in the post-war world. The lowing the period of Fleet exer back in Sydney on the 10th. of on the 20th. April. SIM! is due to and stores from the Royal Aus­ acquisition of a carrier will give the Royal Australian Navy tremendously rises in Tasmanian waters. On that month. She is expected to leave Jervis Bay on the 4th. of this tralian Navy's base at Dreger increased striking power and very widely increased mobility, two factors the 28th. and 29th. March, in com­ sail from Sydney on a cruise late month for dockyard refit, and Harbour, New Guinea, to the which are essential to success in this age of scientific warfare. pany with H.M.A.S. Bataan, the in June. will be granted 50 days availa­ Admiralty Islands. H.M.A.S. Sydney, formerly H.M.S. Terrible, was accepted at Devon Flagship carried out a ^eries of H.M.A.S. Arunta (Commander bility for leave and urgent de­ H.M.A.S. Labium (Lieutenant- port on behalf of the Commonwealth Government on the 16th Decem­ training exercises with the Royal F. N. Cook, D.S.C., R.A.N.) is fects. It is anticipated that she Commander G. M. Dixon, D.S.C.. ber last by the Australian High Commissioner (Mr. J. A. Beasley) and Australian Air Force in Fun m Sydney. will depart Sydney about the R.A.N.V.R.) sailed from Port was renamed by Mrs. Beasley. She is the third ship of the Royal Phillip Bay and at Westernport. 10th. August for Japanese waters, Melbourne for Macquari? Island H.M.A.S. Bataan (Commander Australian Navy to bear the name Sydney, her predecessors being the Both ships carried out a number there to relieve H.M.A.S. Bataan on the 19th. March. She was em­ A. S. Storey, D.S.C., R.A.N.) light cruiser of the First World War which, commanded by Captain of exercises against air attack, in- with the British Commonwealth ployed carrying relief staff of eluding dive-bombing by aircraft, arrived in Melbourne following the Occupation Force. scientists, who took over the J. C. T. Glossop, R.N., sank the German raider Emden in the Indian exercises in Tasmanian waters on Ocean on the 9th November, 1914: and the cruiser of the Second and the detection by radar of at­ scientific and research work on the tacks by Beaufighter.- and their the 23rd. March, and berthed at H.M.A.S. Condamine (Lieuten­ island, remaining there for twelve World War which, under the command of Captain J. A. Collins, Williamstown Naval Dockyard. R.A.N, (now Rear-Admiral J. A. Collins, C.B., First Naval Member interception by Mustang aircraft ant-Commander J. H. Dowson, months. H.M.A.S. Labium ar On the 23rd., 24th. and 25th. R.A.N.) is in company with the of the Australian Commonwealth Naval Board), sank the Italian which were controlled by the ships. rived back in Melbourne in March she carried out Gunnery Flag, and remains with the Fleet cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni in the Mediterranean on the 19th July. April, departing about the middle On the 31st. March the Flagship School Firings in Port Phillip Bay, until she detaches for Williams- of the month for Sydney for refit. 1940. proceeded to Melbourne, and and on the 28th. and 29th. March town Naval Dockyard, where she The present H.M.A.S. Sydney was laid down at the Royal Naval berthed alongside at Princes Pier, she participated with H.M.A.S. is due to arrive on the 6th. of this Australian Minesweepers: granting leave to the ship's com­ Dockyard, Devonport, England, in 1943, and was launched in Septem­ Australia in a series of training month. She will be granted 50 These two vessels, which arc ber, 1944, by Mrs. Duncan Sandys, a daughter of Mr. Winston Chur­ pany and allowing Melbourne citi­ exercises with the Royal Australian days' availability for leave and 45 zens an opportunity to sec over the based on Flinders Naval Depot, chill, who was at that time the British Prime Minister. Air Force in Port Phillip Bay and days for refit as from the 9th. comprise the Training Flotilla: ship. Australia sailed from Mel­ at Westernport. Bataan departed May. It is anticipated that she H.M.A.S. Sydney is fitted with improved ventilation, air-condition­ bourne on the 4th. of April, arriv­ Melbourne on the 2nd. April, H.M.A.S. Gladstone (Lieuten­ ing and laundry equipment. Some of these improvements are the result will proceed to New Guinea ant-Commander R. A. H. Millar, ing in Sydney on the 6th., where arriving Sydney on the 4th. of waters about the middle of July. of experience gained in earlier ships in the closing stages of the Pacific she remained until her departure last month. She departed Syd­ R.A.N.). War. She has the latest galley equipment, and has been provided with for Jervis Bay on the 20th. April. ney with the Flag on the 20th H.M.A.S. Shoalhaven. (Lieut.- H.M.A.S. Latrobe (Lieutenant a full cafeteria system for ratings. H.M.A.S. Sydney's complement will Her future programme is: Departs April, returning to Sydney from Commander Keith Tapp, R.A.N.) R. J. Scrivenor, R.A.N.). be approximately 1,100 officers and men. Her aircraft will be Sea fury Jervis Bay for West Australia on Jervis Bay on the 29th. of the is in Japanese - waters with the Survey Ships: fighters, and Firefly anti-submarine and reconnaissance aircraft. the 4th. of this month, arriving month. Her future programme is: British Commonwealth Occupation Fremantle on the 11th., and re­ Departs Sydney on the 4th. of this H.M.A.S. Warrego (Com­ Forces, having relieved Warra­ mander G. D. Tancred, D.S.C., maining there until the 23rd. of month for Cairns, where she ar­ munga on that duty in February. May. She is due at Adelaide on rives on the 8th., Darwin on the R.A.N.) is employed carrying out FLEET DISPOSITIONS Shoalhaven will herself be relieved survey work in Bass Strait, work­ the 28th. of May, sailing thence for 13th., Tarakan on the 18th., Hong at the end of this month by Bataan. Sydney on the 6th. June, and ar­ ing at the eastern end of the Strait. Kong on the 23rd, and Sasebo, She will call at Hong Kong on her The Aircraft Carrier: Jervis Bay, her aircraft and the riving at Sydney on the 10th. On She makes periodic visits to Mel­ Japan, on the 30th. She relieves passage south, and is due at Wil­ members of her air group will be arrival at Sydney she will com­ bourne to fuel and store. It is H.M.A.S. Sydney (Captain R. H.M.A.S. Shoalhaven in Japanese liamstown Naval Dockyard early disembarked for the Royal Austra­ mence 50 days' availability for anticipated that the operations in R. Dowling, D.S.O., R.A.N.) waters for a period of duty with in July, where she will be granted lian Naval Air Station at Nowra, leave and 45 days for refit, sailing the British Commonwealth Occu­ Bass Strait will be completed in sailed from Devonport (England) 50 days' availability for leave and May. on the 12th. of April, and is due some 22 miles to the north-west of from Sydney on a cruise about the pation Forces, remaining there un­ 5th. of August. 45 for refit. at Fremantlc on the 12th. of this Jervis Bay. Leaving Jervis Bay on til early September, when she will H.M.A.S. Barcoo (Lieutenant- month. She is due to depart from the 2nd. June, Sydney will arrive at he relieved by H.M.A.S. Culgoa. H.M.A.S. Murchison (Lieuten­ Commander D'A. T. Gale, D.S.C., Fremantle on the 13th. and to ar­ Sydney on the same day. After 10th. Destroyer Flotilla. ant-Commander W. F. Cook, R.A.N.) has been engaged on sur­ rive at Melbourne on the 18th., re­ the air group has undergone re­ H.M.A.S. Warramunga (Cap­ H.M.A.S. ^.uiberon is in Syd­ R.A.N.) is carrying out training vey duties in South Australian maining there until the 23rd., when fresher training at Nowwtt includ­ tain (D) 10, Captain W. H. Har­ ney undergoing refit. exercises under the control of the waters, having carried out surveys , she sails for Jervis Bay. It is an­ ing dummy deck-landing practice, rington, D.S.O., R.A.N.) is at H.M.A.S. Sluic\match (Lieuten­ Flag Officer - in - Charge, New of Investigator Strait and Spencer South Wales. Murchison will ticipated that she will remain at H.M.A.S. Sydney will join other Jervis-Bay, where she arrived from ant-Commander R. R. Brown, and St. Vincent Gulfs, and surveys R.A.N.) is in Sydney, due to commence 45 days' refit on the 7th. Jervis Bay from the 25th. May un­ units of the Royal Australian Fleet Sydney on the 20th. April. She of the approaches to the Outer commence refit June. til the 2nd. June. While she is at for Fleet exercises. is due to sail from Jervis Bay no Harbour. Port Adelaide, and the 4 Mm. 1949 lb* Navy , -.,, and the change-over had been car­ Macquarie Island Landings. Island, -and the. same team which ried through, the Officcr-in-Chaxgc April, while at the same time a The landing stretches in Buckles operated tbi'm-lkere waajji charge of the island party was Dr. Royal Australian Navy Ratings' Bay, Macquarie Island, present i at Macflthrie, those comprising the Arthur Gwynn, an Irishman, who •dance was.held in nearby\t£M.A.S5 difficult problem to those who have team tjetng Captain Troy in charge; will couple his duties as Command­ Lonsdale. tlie Port Melbourne) to put the stores ashore. There with Warrant Officer Jack

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heavy cruiser "Salem," the light according to officials of the Lock­ which at present lies in Portsmouth cruiser "Roanoke," the destroyer heed Corporation. " Harbour, was originally a French escorts "Epperson" and "Basilone," warship, the "Duguay-Trouin,^ THE "CONSTITUTION" News off the Worlds Navies the hunter - killers "Carpenter" who fought at Trafalgar, and was and "Robert A. Owens," while Here are some particulars of the captured by the British after the "Constitution": When it took off USED TO LAUNCH ten reserve fleet destroyers are be­ battle. HELICOPTER LINKS SHIPS "prang," that being when a pilot ing converted for "anti-submarine from San Francisco with its 90 overshot the deck barrier and MISSILES passengers and crew, and petrol on Soon after ships of the Home readiness," and one light carrier NAVAL PAY Fleet had left Portland Harbour smashed up two aircraft without The new rocket will be usee in and 14 small craft are being put board, it weighed close on 90 tons. injuring anyone. Long may she It has two decks, connected by two Discussing the pay of the Royal i«i the commencement of the re­ launching supersonic missiles re­ hack into active service. On the Navy in a recent debate in the cent Spring Cruise, a demonstra­ maintain this high standard. lying on the ram-jet engine of the other hand, ships scheduled to be spiral staircases. Its passenger quarters are large enough to dwarf House of Lords, Lord Ailwyn con­ tion of the speedy transmission of Navy for a propulsion unit. This put in mothballs are the carriers trasted the low pay of the Navy important documents between H.M.S. 'ROYAL engine, which has no moving parts, "Princeton," "Antietam". and those of any type of craft except an ocean-going vessel. Its wings with that of other callings. Since ships at sea was given by a heli­ SOVEREIGN" must he boosted to spocJs close to "Tarawa"; the cruisers "Provi­ 1816, he pointed out, an Admiral's copter from the light fleet carrier that of sound before it will oper­ dence," "Little Rock," "Hunting­ can hold 10,000 gallons of petrol. When H.M.S. Royal Sove­ pay had risen by only 65 per cent., "Vengeance." The Helicopter flew ate efficiently. After that, the ton," "Portsmouth," "Dayton," Its upper deck seats 92 persons. reign" was officially handed back though civilian wages had risen from the carrier some eight miles faster it goes the more efficient it "Astoria," "Topeka," "Duluth" Its motors are 28-cylinder Pratt y to the Royal Navy by the Rus Whitney engines. It can fly non­ threefold since 1914. "Why," he to the Home Fleet flagship, "Duke becomes. Missiles and test vehicle:- and "Atlanta"; and the anti-air­ asked, "should a National Health of York," and hovered a few feet sians on the 9th. February last, she powered by ram-jet engines have craft crusiers "Fresno," "Oak­ stop from San Francisco to Lon­ was received at Rosyth by Vice- don. The original specifications Service dentist be allowed to earn above her deck while a midship­ attained speeds of 2,000 miles an land," and "Tuscon." £4,800 when the Commander-in- man from the "Vengeance" was Admiral Sir Ernest Arehei, hour in Navy tests. Dr. Ralph E. were written by the Pan-American K.C.B., C.B.E., Admiral Com­ World Airways in 1942, but the Chief of the Home Fleet gets lowered by winch to deliver the Gibson, Director of the Applied FLEXIBLE FUGHT DECK £2,925? Why should the chair­ documents for Admiral Sir Rho- manding Scotland and Northern Physics Laboratory of the John war put a stop to development. With the object of saving weight man of one of the nationalised in­ derick McGrigor, K.C.B., D.S.O.. Ireland, who was Commanding Hopkins University, who told oi Then the work initiated at Lock­ and improving the performance >f dustry hoards get twice the salary the Commander-in-Chief. Officer of the "Royal Sovereign" the devlopmcnt of the Navy's new heed drawing boards by Pan- naval aircraft, the Admiralty has of the First Sea Lord? So long is from 1929 to 1952. In a speech rocket, said that "if scientist' American was carried on for the been carrying out experiments in it remains more remunerative to which was interpreted to the Rus­ wished to emulate Puck in Shakes­ Navy, to help that service to solve ADMIRAL U.S. ATOMIC the use of a flexible landing sur­ be an area gas manager than to sians, he said that when another peare's 'A Midsummer Night's its problem of personnel transporta­ "DIRECTOR OF SECURITY" face on which aircraft can alight command the Fleet of England, so "Royal Sovereign" came to be Dream' and 'put a girJlc rouni! tion. Now, at a cost of $29,000,000 Rear-Admiral John Gingrich, without the need for the conven­ long will you have difficulty in built those who formed her ship's about the earth in forty minurcs.' two Lockheed "Constitutions" will U.S.N., is commander of the tional undercarriage. The idea of getting men, at least to re-engage." company would be proud of the they would employ ram-iets." have been completed by the end of forces which the U.S. Atomic this flexible deck has been de­ fame of this one, and of her record, this year. It is estimated that the Energy Commission has guarding veloped at the Royal Aeronautical H.M. (A). S "NEPAL" cost of future similar aircraft to its installations. These forces total unique in her class, of having Establishment, and an experimental When the First Sea Lord, Ad­ private airlines will be about about 6,000 men in all, specially served under two flags; and he "deck" was constructed at Farn- miral of the Fleet Lord Fraser, of 3,500,000 dollars each. trained and picked to guard the wished the Russian Commodore, horough, Hampshire, for the initial North Cape, C.C.B., K.B.E., made n. DMuT 6t dim Commission's plants, materials and his officers and men good sailing trials. Equipment has since been a cruise of the east coast of Britain FLUORESCENT LIGHTING secrets. The figure of 6,000 in­ for their return to Russia. The fitted on the flight deck of H.M.S. up to Rosyth in March, he did so FOR H.M. SHIPS 211.213 BEAMISH ST., cludes the factory guards of con­ Russian Commodore did not make "Warrior," in which further land­ in a one-time H.M.A. Ship—now Fluorescent lighting systems are CAMPSIE. tracting companies. At the three a speech. ing trials are in progress. The H.M.S. "Nepal." "Nepal" was being developed for installation in great producing installations arc aircraft used for the trials is a N.S.W. one of the "N" class destroyers new ships of the Royal Navy. The some 2,000 men ready and armed U.S. NAVY'S BOOSTER specially modified Vampire jet manned by the Royal Australian compartments to receive first con­ The largest and moat to repel intruders, equipped with fighter. ROCKET Navy during the war, and was sideration will be mess spaces, up-to-date Shoe Store pistols, carbines, machine-guns, and employed very largely in the In­ wardrooms, recreation rooms, sur­ armoured vehicles. The function It was revealed in February that CHEAPER AIR TRAVEL in the district was dian Ocean and Pacific, first with geries, workshops, and offices of these major armed detachments the United States Navy has flown established by us in the Eastern Fleet, and later with FORESHADOWED where the advantages of better is to hold their ground in the "twi­ successfully the world's largest 1920. the British Pacific Fleet. During The flight of the U.S. Navy's illumination and less heat dissipa­ light period" between the begin­ solid propellant rocket, designed for his March cruise in her. Lord giant air transport, the "Constitu­ tion will be most beneficial. The ning of an attack and the time use with guided missiles. It is Fraser visited Harwich, Hull, New­ tion," from San Francisco to scheme is part of a general one when the Army and Air Force said of the new rocket that it "has castle, and Rosyth. Washington in nine hours 35 to improve the habitabdity of His can send reinforcements to their a ground-level thrust considerably minutes non-stop with 72 pas­ Majesty's Ships. REPAIRS? YES! aid. in excess of that developed by the German V-2 rocket weapon used VS. NAVY MEETING 1950 sengers and a crew of 18, marks THE OLD "IMPLACABLE" the feasibility of trans-continental A committee, representative of Best of leather and "SYDNEY'S" SAFETY to bombard London during World BUDGET ii r travel at prices within the the Admiralty, the London County RECORD War II." The German V-2 ex­ In order to enter the fiscal year workmanship range of bus fares, according to Council, and others interested in The Royal Australian Navy's erted 58,000 lbs. of thrust to get 1950 with the operating forces and U.S. aviation authorities. A one­ the old "Implacable," recently guaranteed. new - aircraft carrier, H.M.A.S. off the ground, and, at its acceler­ establishments planned to be main­ way passage—2,557 miles was the visited the ship at Portsmouth, in "Sydney," brought back a good ated speed of 3,500 miles an hour, tained during that year, the U.S. distance covered by the "Constitu­ connection with a suggestion that safety record with her from her developed the equivalent o f Navy is having to make some ad­ tion" at 268 miles an hour—such she might be moved to the River sea-going trials with her aircraft. 600,000 horse-power. The new- justments. New ships entering the as that completed by the aircraft Thames and preserved as an his­ 'PHONE: LF3183. The carrier's air group made 686 rocket, then must be something active fleet during the year are the would cost only 75 dollars a seat, toric relic. The "Implacable," deck landings with onlyone major very powerful. 27,000-ton carrier "Oriskany," the

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1943, dated 31st January, 1946. John Ferguson Bottomley is ap EX-NAVAL MEN'S Naval Appointments, Etc. pointed Lieutenant, with senior ity in rank of 9th October, 1944 NAVAL FORCES OF THE erick William Purves is loaned dated 26th February, 1946. Keith COMMONWEALTH. to the Royal Navy for service Brownscombe is appointed Sub Association of Australia .ind training, dated 1st January, Lieutenant, with seniority in rank His Excellency the Governor- 1949. Allen George Harrison of 8th May, 1944, dated 8th No r«*».-i.-cn.» HI, Mefetfy T». Kht General in Council has approved and Raymond William Clark- vember, 1945. Keith James Cam of the following changes being Smith, Gunners, are loaned to the eron is appointed Sub-Lieutenant made:- Royal Navy for service and train­ with seniority in rank of 4th De Federal Council President of St. George S-S. re­ in the festivities. The Committee ing, dated 1st January, 1949. cember, 1945, dated 14th May turned after a short but enjoyable of the Southern Suburbs Sub-Sec­ PERMANENT NAVAL FORCES Cadet Midshipmen Michael Cald- 1946. Charles William Blunt DVICE has been received holiday spent in Western Aus­ tion have now secured suitable OF THE COMMONWEALTH er, Francis Oliver Eliason, David appointed Lieutenant (S), with A from the Secretary to the tralia. Mr. G. A. Hewlett, a Past premises for members' meetings. (SEA-GOING FORCES). Wilmot Falconer, Charles Leslie seniority in rank of 25th Sep Trustees of the Services Canteens President of the N.S.W. Section, Promotions.—Lieutenant Robin Falkiner, John Marshall Harries, tember, 1946, dated 12th Janu Trust Fund that the Chairman has has been on official duty at New­ Mr. H. Simons has been elected Angus Harvey Millar is promot­ Ian Blyth James, Rodney Wil­ ary, 1949. Claud Geoffrey Ken reported on the considerable castle until recently and now re­ State Secretary of Western Aus­ ed to the rank of Lieutenant- liam Lang, John Edward Cecil nedy Smith is appointed Lieuten amount of misunderstanding exist­ turns to Sydney S-S. on transfer; tralia in place of Mr. J. Saunders Commander, dated 1st February, Williams, Ian Keith Wilson, ant (Special Branch), with sen ing amongst ex-Service organisa­ he was present at the last monthly who was unable to carry on the 1949. Cadet Midshipman (E) James Alexander Woodgcr and iority in rank of 12th December tions upon the policy of the Trust­ general meeting and warmly greet­ office owing to ill health. Mr. Colin William Middleton is pro­ Frank Russell Woods are loaned 1942, dated 26th January 1946 ees; he has recommended that a ed by old friends. Miss M. Flem­ Simons was previously Hon. Sec­ moted to the rank of Midship­ to the Royal Navy for service and Promotion.--Surgeon Lieuten statement upon the administration ing, of 75 Archer St., Chatswood, retary of Perth S-S., which office man (E), dated 1st January, training, dated 1st January, 1949. ant Henry George Rischbieth of the Fund should be prepared is the newly elected Hon. Secretary has since been filled by the election 1949. Sub-Lieutenant (S) John Lieutenants Kenneth William promoted to the rank of Sur and distributed to the various ex- of the W.R.A.N.S. Sub-Section in of Mr. L. M. Kelly, whose postal Leslie Mill is promoted to the Shands, Maurice Conrad Reeves geon Lieutenant - Commander Service organisations. The Sec­ N.S.W. Congratulations are ex­ address is Box H. 587, G.P.O., rank of Lieutenant (S), dated 1st and Alan Antony Willis arc loan­ dated 18th January, 1949 —(Ex retary also reports that Regional tended to Miss V. E. Gissing on Perth. Another change that has December, 1948. ed to the Royal Navy for Service Min. No. 12—Approved 16th Committees have been estab­ her recent engagement. Mrs. E. L. taken place is that of Mr. L. A. Redman has left Sydney with her Confirmation of Rank.—Act­ and training, dated 17th January, March, 1949.) lished in England and New Zea­ Parkinson, who has been elected husband to reside in Darwin; Mrs. Hon. State Treasurer of Western ing Sub-Lieutenants (S) John 1949. Frank Harold Smith, Petty land; these Committees have W. J. F. RIORDAN, Redman was Hon. Treasurer of St. Australia. The regular dances, Leslie Mill and Keith Alwin Gall- Officer, official number 24527 are power to investigate cases that are Minister for the Navy. George S-S. before leaving the dis­ which are a feature of the Associ­ asch are confirmed in the rank of loaned to the Royal Navy for submitted to them by Australian Sub-Lieutenant (S), with senior service and training, dated 17th trict. Ex-W.R.N.S. Eileen Rogers ation in the West, and which are ex-Service personnel. A summary and Grace Lane recently arrived held in the Perth Town Hall, are ity in rank of 1st May, 1947, dat­ January, 1949. The loan of Cap­ of proceedings of the 11th and ed 8th May, 1949. Thomas tain David Hugh Harries to the in Sydney and are taking up per­ ably handled by Mr. Jock Mackay, 12th meetings of the Trustees manent quarters. Miss Rogers is a very energetic and Stirling work­ Henry Fisk, Boatswain (Acting), Royal Navy for service and train­ have since been promulgated to ing is terminated, dated 14th De­ renewing old friendships amongst er for the Association; Mr. Maclcay is confirmed in the rank of Boat­ all State Secretaries of our Asso­ swain, with seniority in rank of cember, 1948. the girls she served with whilst on was recently the recipient of the ciation. 6th October, 1947, dated 12th duty with the staff of F.O.N.A.S., Association's Diploma of Merit. January, 1949. PTY. 111. Sydney, during the War. Miss The Federal President, (Mr. F. Lane joins her sister who was ser­ CITIZEN NAVAL FORCES OF Federal Council is awaiting ad­ Loan to Royal Navy for Service 424434 l.ml.y St. F. Anderson) was invited to be ving in the Fleet Mail Office. THE COMMONWEALTH. vice of the new President of the and Trailing.—Acting Lieuten­ ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVAL present and represent the Ex-Naval ants John Frederick Todrr n, RESERVE (.XA-GOtNG). •URNLIY Men's Association of Australia at Mr. Alf. Smith, who was at­ Australian Capital Territory Sec­ Gordon McPhee, John Mac- Promotion. — Lieutenant (S) VICTORIA the Anzac Day Commemoration tached to the retinue of Admiral tion; the office was vacated by Mr. Quarie Wade Brown and Robert Bruce Llewellyn Olifent is pro­ Service held in Canberra on the Lord Fraser during his last period Les. Ivey, who resigned owing to < Evans Smith are loaned to the moted to the rank of Lieutenant- 2 5th April. of Pacific service, has been ap­ pressure of official duties. Royal Navy for service and train­ Commander (S), dated 1st Jan­ Specialised pointed to the staff of the Bank of ing, dated 5th November, 1948, uary, 1949. The Royal Naval Benevolent N.S.W. at Sydney, since his ar­ Queensland members must have Manufacturers the urge to travel long distances Acting Lieutenants Harry Lewis Transfer to Retired List.—Lieu­ in all types of Fund Trustees have informed Fed­ rival back in Australia two months Mortlock, Harold Edwin Bailey tenant-Commander Colin Camp­ eral Council that a list of our ago. for their leave, because reports Petrol, OH and other from Adelaide and Melbourne Sub- and Bruce Collett Sellick are loan­ bell Good is transferred to the Storage and Dispensing State Secretaries, together with ed to the Royal Navy for service Membership of the Association Sections indicate that quite a few Retired List, dated 31st January, Equipment. their postal addresses, will be pub­ and training, dated 11th Decemb­ 1949. lished in the forthcoming, issue of in South Australia has increased have attended meetings of these er, 1948. Lieutenant (E) Peter the Quarterly Review. by over eighty during the past three Sub-Sections from time to time. Terrington Edwards is loaned to ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVAL T«l«pboMs: months; this steady increase indi­ Mr. Colin Stevens, who, until the Royal Navy for service and VOLUNTEER RESERVE. JA5251 Victorian State Council has in­ cates that quite a large number recently, was on the staff of N. O. training, dated 51st December, Appointments. — Richard J A 5252 vited the Federal President to at­ of applicants are desirous of retain­ I.O. at Byford, W.A., has resigned i 1948. Captain Herbert James Charles Thurman is appointed tend the next State Conference at ing the comradeship gained in the the Navy and gone back to his j Buchanan, D.S.O., is loaned to Lieutenant, with seniority in rank Melbourne. Mr. F V. Avery, a Service. Another visit will soon home town, Brisbane. Messrs. A. the Royal Navy for service and of 13th January, 1942, dated 4th former member of Sandringham be paid by the various Sub-Sec­ Beashal, G. M. Arber and E. C. training, dated 1st January, 1949. April, 1946. Joseph James Dolan Telegrams: Sub-Section, has now transferred tions' members to Victor Harbour; Child have been transferred from | Lieutenant-Commander (E) Fred­ is appointed Lieutenant, with sen­ Eppeel, Melbourne to Sydney S-S. Mr. E. A. Lane, the Ex-Naval Band will again join N.S.W. to Queensland Section. iority in rank of 16th September, May, 194* NAUTICAL QUESTION KW "PERTH" SINKING Cvtnwwaw wa paws 2* CAPTAIN H. M. L. WALLER, D.S.O. and Bar; R.A.N. VICTORIAN C.P.O. TEL. WITH FINE RECORD.. ANNIVERSARY. ton." The "Canastota" was built His Most Distinguished War Career Earned Him Five as the "Falls of Orchy" in 1907 Awards Including A Posthumous Mention in Despatches. On Sunday, 27th February, sixty by Napier (f Miller, Glasgow, and With 24 Yean Continuous Service In The R.A.N. He ECTOR Macdonald Laws Waller joined the Royal Aus­ odd members of Fremantle Sub- was of 4,904 tons. In 1916, she Earned A Mention In Despatches For "Whole Hearted H tralian Naval College as one of the second year entries, Section, accompanied by sixteen was sold to C. S. Swan, of Glas­ Devotion To Duty." in December, 191 J. He passed out as Midshipman and received survivors of the H.M.A.S. "Perth," gow, and chartered to the United his first seagoing appointment in 1918, proceeding overseas mustered at the Navy Club, Fre­ States and Australia Line, New A Rating who returns to Australia this month as one of and joining H.M.S. "Agincourt." mantle, prior to attending the York. She left Sydney, N.S.W., ^^ the Ship's Company of H.M.A.S. "Sydney," and who Promotions followed as Suh-Licutenant in October, 1919, Church Parade held in commemor­ for Wellington, N.Z., with a cargo distinguished long and commendable service in the Royal Lieutenant in March, 1921, Lieut.-Commander in March, of case oil on 13th June, 1921, and ation of the sinking of "Perth" on Australian Navy by his service during the war, is Chief Petty 1929, and Commander in June, 1934. 1st March, 1942. The Parade was has never been heard of since. There were no survivors of her Officer Telegraphist Daniel Mark Bowden, R.A.N., who was At the outbreak of war in September, 1939, Commander led by the Fremantle Highland Pipe ,rcw of 49. awarded a Mention in Despatches "For outstanding leal, Waller commissioned H.M.A.S, '"Stuart" in command, and as Band. The memorial service was Commander (D) Australian Destroyer Flotilla. held in St. John's Church, Fre­ patience and cheerfulness, and setting an example of whole In May, 1940, the Australian Destroyer Flotilla, with the ART AND THE SEA mantle, and was attended by many hearted devotion to duty" during his period in H.M.A.S. addition of four of H.M. Destroyers, became the 10th. De Continued from pOQO 31 members of Sub-Sections. "Perth," especially throughout her trying days in the Med stroyer, Flotilla, with Commander Waller as D. 10, his promo­ that, from its long association with iterranean during the time of the battles of Greece and Crete tion to Captain (D) coming the following month. A very touching incident occur­ the sea, the writers of the British With the emergence of the Mediterranean as a major red during the General Meeting of race should have given us a rich Chief Petty Officer Bowden, who entered the Royal theatre of war following Italy's declaration of war in June, the Fremantle Sub-Section, held on heritage of sea literature, from Australian Navy as Boy 2nd. Class in May, 1925, has had 1940, the 10th. Flotilla, in common with the rest of the Med­ the evening following the success­ that of the collections of Hakluyt, just on 24 years continuous service. iterranean Fleet, had a period of ceaseless activity against the ful Church Parade and Commem­ on to our present-day writers to enemy. oration Service, when Mr. Arthur whom the sea serves as the' main At the time of the outbreak of war in 1939, he was a As a result of his service during this period. Captain inspiration of their work. Kiesey called his ex "Perth" sur­ Leading Telegraphist, and was appointed to H.M.A.S. Waller was, in September, 1940, awaided the D.S.O. for vivors (there were fourteen present And in all branches of Art, the "Orara," one of the Fleet Minesweepers, being appointed to "Courage, enterprise and devotion to duty in recent opera­ at the Navy Club on this night) Sea will continue to provide inex­ H.M.A.S. "Perth" in April, 1940. He remained in "Perth" tions." and on their behalf thanked the haustible inspiration. For it is During the first weeks of the attack of the Army of the State President, (Mr. Norman limitless in its moods and in to until his transfer to "Stuart" in July, 1941, going from her 12 Nile on Libya at the end of 1940, Captain Waller was ap­ Bicker) and the Sub-Section Presi­ variety; it is not of an age, but of months later to "Penguin," and later to "Swan," thence pointed in command of the British Naval Forces afloat in the dent, (Mr. Murphy) for their very all time, and will so continue while Shore Establishments. In June of last year he went overseas conjunct operations with the Army, and in July, 1941, was warm welcome, and for arranging the winds blow and the waters in "Kanimbla" on passage for H.M.A.S. "Sydney." awarded a Mention in Despatches "For courage skill and and getting together so many of roll on the face of the earth. devotion to duty in operations off the Libyan Coast." the survivors of the "Perth" for Promotion during this period was: Acting Petty Officer There followed the campaign in Greece, and his award of their first re-union in the West. THE NAVY AND THE FUTURE Telegraphist, October, 1940; Petty Officer Telegraphist, a further Mention in Despatches for "Good service in Greek Fremantle Sub-Section will greatly Continued from paqi 31 October, 1941; Chief Petty Officer Telegraphist, October, waters." miss Mr. Kiesey from amongst their weapon; but is it certain that 1944. The "Stuart" was one of the destroyers in the Battle of members, as he has been transferr­ Mime defence cannot be devised Matapan in March, 1941, and of her services there the Com­ ed in his business to Manjimup. against it, possibly by its own The story of his award of the Mention in Despatches is mander-in-Chief, Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, wrote: Mr. Jim Ward of the R.A.N A.D., jse? best told in the words of the Recommendation. "H.M.A.S. 'Stuart' performed distinguished service in this Byford says "thanks, Fremantle Whatever may be the answer, duty of a standard which I have come to expect from ships of Sub-Section, for giving the "Perth" the advent of the atomic bomb "Acting P.O.Tel. D. M. Bowden, of H.M.A.S. Perth" the Royal Australian Navy." Captain Waller was, in Febru­ survivors the opportunity of get­ has not relieved the Common­ was in Seagull A2-17 on 28th. April, 1941, when she was ary, 1942, awarded a Bar to the D.S.O. "For bravery and ting together for the first time since wealth from the possibility of fu­ attacked by two J.U.88 dive bombers. He operated his gun enterprise in the Battle of Matapan." the sinking of the ship. The ture wars if the United Nations coolly and efficiently. His fine discipline was admirable and In 1941, he returned to Australia, and on the 24th. Church" Parade and Memorial Ser­ organisation fails in the purpose he fired approximately 300 rounds. After the port tank was October of that year was appointed in command of the cruiser vice, together with the function for which it was created. We set on fire, the marine distress signals were ignited. With H.M.A.S. "Perth." He and his ship took a distinguished part that followed on the Monday night must be prepared for eventuali­ flames from the fuel tank passing over his head and the dis­ in the fight for the defence of Java against the overwhelm- reflects great credit on the mem­ ties. A Navy or an Army or an tress signals going off in the confined space, he coolly kept up inly powerful forces of the Japanese Navy in February, 1942; bers of Fremantle Sub-Section, and Air Force cannot be improvised his fire until the enemy had passed out of range, and then and on the 1st. of March of that year, "Perth" went down for the wonderful night you gave when emergency arises. That we pulled the signals from the stowage and threw them, burning, fighting gallantly against a superior Japanese force in Sunda us — thanks again." Mr. Ward must bear in mind; and also the over the side. This P.O. throughout his service in this ship Strait. voices the sentiments of his fellow tact that in modern war the three has shown himself to be a man of outstanding personality and In this, his last action. Captain Waller was missing, pre­ shipmates who enjoyed the enter­ Fighting Services and the Merch­ example, and an excellent influence in the ship." sumed killed in action. tainment provided that night, and ant Navy are interdependent, and In March, 1946, he was posthumously awarded a Men­ we hope that they will he spared indivisible in their operation. Chief Petty Officer Bowden is a Victorian, with his home tion in Despatches "For gallantry and resolution whilst serv­ to come along for many years to And they must have behind them at Black Rock on Port Phillip Bay. ing in H.M.A.S. "Perth" lost by enemy action in the Far East come. --v the whole strength and industrial on 1st. March, 1942." power of the nation. —G.W.S.

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H.M, SHIPS "CHALLENGER," LETTERS "RINGAROOMA." TO THE EDITORS Sir, One of our Navy League mem­ bers recently visited Karori Ceme­ Battlecruisers. tery, and there happened to see Hood" D.N.C/A/8/169 headstones erected to Chcnoweth, "Renown" 170 H.M.S. "Challenger," and Lewis, Aircraft Carriers. H.M.S. "Ringarooma," and the FOSTERS 'Illustrious" D.N.C/A/8 /171 graves, like many thousands more, "Nairana" 172 in a state of decay. Mr. R. C. "Colossus" 173 Addison, the Chairman of our 'Ark Roy;.l' (1958) 174 Executive, and father-in-law ot 'Art; us" 175 Gimmandcr Storey, H.M.A.S. 'Unicorn" 176 "Bataan," asked me to write to "Eagle" 177 your splendid paper and enquire 'Furious" 178 ii anyone knew anything about Hermes" 179 these two men, whose graves we LASER 180 propose to repair. Neither Mr. "Glorious" BREWED BY Carlton & United Breweries Ltd. * 'Courageous IS! Addison nor I have yet seen the Cruisers. graves, but we propose to go out before the 28th. April, when Mr. Bellona" D.N.C/A/8 /182 Addison is leaving for Australia. "Euryalus" 183 With very kind regards and 'Uganda'4 184 1 hearty congratulations on the ex­ 'Arethusa' 18 " cellent publication ot "The London" 186 Bardsley's TATTERSAIX'S Navy." 'Devonshire 187 Yours, etc., 'Lcander" 188 R. Darroch, 1949 189 SHAVING Hobart" Secretary, 190 Kent" Wellington Navy League, MELBOURNE CUP 191 CREAM 'Southampt< n 2i2 Lambton Quay, Belfast" 192 Opposite Kirkaldie's, 'Hawkins" 193 • CONSULTATION Wellington, For > quicker Exeter" 194 New Zealand. IS NOW WELL ON THE WAY 195 •nd 'York" Thank you for your letter. Wc 'Sydney" 196 £50,000 FIRST PRIZE—£1 (plus postages) are making enquiries regarding more comfortable 197 (Halves and Quarters Available) "Ceres" these graves, and will advise you Diomcde" 199 R SSSrnS- xi.Z*-;':.. ^ if we obtain any success. Your YOU MUST BE IN THIS Delhi" 200 kind remarks regarding "The "Emerald" 201 ALSO WEEKLY THE £10,000 CASH CONSULTATIONS Navy" are much appreciated. ESiVin^i3 fc*s§x SHAVE ARE BEING DRAWN. C•estroyers . Meanwhile, it any reader can as­ The address— Battleaxc" D.N.C/A/f 1/202 sist the Wellington Navy League GEO. ADAMS (TATTERSALL) HOBART 'Barflcur" 203 by throwing some light on this ^^•^^^ "Saumarez" 204 matter, we should be very glad to Paladin" 205 hear from them, and grateful for 'Eggcsford" 206 the assistance. Wfceji ship* of tin Navy Ashanti" 207 Ed., "The Navy." "Hotspur" 2 OS K. L BALLANTYNE PTY. LTD. "heave to" this rope "Lookout" 209 ^ holds fast! "Janus" 210 BACK NUMBERS WANTED. 295 -299 Grant Street, South Mel lourne. Victoria, *SJ^v^v^BH D. •p<>t Ships. Sir, 'Maidstone" D.N.C./A/I i/211 I am a comparatively new "Tyne" 212 reader of "The Navy," having FCX3 D CANNERS, WHOLESA LE GR OCERS, nMinelayer . come across one in a bookseller's EXPORTERS. 'Ahd.el" D.N.C./A, '82 1 3 some eight months ago. I can tell you I did swoop down on it Monitors. when I saw the cover, and I im-' Telephone MX 4657 (13 lines). Roberts" D.N.C./A/R, '8214 mediately placed a permanent ANCHOR BRAND 'Abercromb e 215 order for it with my stationer. Ed., "The Navy .

n* N»«|t .. 19 Tho Navy League LETTERS Patron: TO THE EDITORS H.M. The King. Head Office: Grand Buildings, THE UNITED SHIP Unfortunately they were arriving Trafalgar Square. very irregularly and I missed one LONDON, W.C.2. or two copies. Have you back Branches: SERVICES PTY. LTD. numbers available? Perhaps some Great Britain, New South Wale. of my fellow readers have got Victoria, South Australia, Ta? back numbers that they have mania. New Zealand, Ceylon, finished with and might be pre­ Rhodesia pared to pass on. I am a collect­ or of naval photographs and have Affiliated Leagues: put them in albums in their re­ The Navy League of Canada spective classes. My collection The Navy League of South Africa goes right back to the days of sail. I would like to contact any THE COUNCIL OF THE other warship enthusiasts among NAVY LEAGUE IN AUSTRALIA. Box 1555, 6.P.O., Sydney the readers of "The Navy," and Wort,: Par,am.lt., M.lb.. Ad.I.id. anybody who has magazines con­ President: taining naval photographs, or Commander (S) J. D. Bates, V R D., naval photographs that they R.A.N.V.R. would sell. Your "Nautical Ques­ Acting Vice President: Commander R. A. Nettlcfold, ALL CLASSES OF tion Box" fills a long-felt want. DSC, V.R.D, RANK. I find it most interesting. Best Honorary Secretary and Treasurer: WAILES DOVE BITUMASTIC PRODUCTS Lieut. (S) J. H. H Patcrson, of luck for the future. BITUMASTIC BLACK, RED. GREY. SOLUTION SHIP REPAIRS AND FITTINGS Yours, etc., M.B.E.. R.A.NR BITUROS SOLUTION R. M. Watt, NEW SOUTH WALES. BITUMASTIC HARD ENAMEL J5 Moana Crescent, Patron: UNDERTAKEN BITUMASTIC ALUMINIUM SOLUTION Mangakiro, His Excellency the Governor of New Zealand. N.S.W. President: FOR PROTECTION AGAINST CORROSION. ROT DECAY Thank you for your letter, and T. H. Silk. M.I.C.E.. M.I.N .V for your good wishes for the fu­ Hon. Treasurer.: ture of "The Navy." You share- D'Arcy M. Shelley C. M. C. Shannon. J. WILDRIDGE & SINCLAIR PTY. LTD. with many other of our readers Hon. Auditors: 97 PITT ST., SYDNEY. N.S.W. 88-102 NORMMBY RD„ STH. MELBOURNE, VIC. an interest in and appreciation of Robertson, Crane and Gibbons. the "Nautical Question Box." If Hon. Secretary: MELBOURNE BRISBANE any of our readers have back Comdr. F. W. Hixson, O.B.E. Telephones: MX5231 (6 lints). Secretary: Agents: numbers of "The Navy" to spare, W. W. Beale. O.B.E. ADELAIDE Gibbs Bright & Co. or are interested} in ship photo­ VICTORIA. graphs, it would be much appre­ PERTH Flower Davie, 4J Johnson (Incorporating Navy League Sea ciated if they would communicate HOBART R. L. MUbgan Cadet Corps) with Mr. Watt at the above ad­ Patron: dress. His Excellency the Governor of Ed., "The Navy." Victoria President: Commander (S) J. D. Bates, V.R D, R.A.N.V.R. M. FITZGERALD For the Best Soft Drills Hon. Treasurer: C. W. Lucas. Boiler Scaler and Cleaner. Keep a Good Secretary: Always say . . . L. S. DiRby. Lime and Cement Washing. Lookout SOUTH AUSTRALIA All kinds of Engine Room ft Stokehold Work done. MARCHANTS FOR THE NEXT ISSUE OF His Excellency The Governor of Oil or Water Tank*. S.A. PLEASE ! 210 MONTAGUE ST., STH. MELBOURNE, VIC E. A. Brook. The Navy H™. Secretary: 'Phone—Day or Night: MX 3680. L. T. Ewen..

J.".. 1*4* 1U - - " cided, "after considerable reflection, to adopt what was decidedly the more satisfactory course, though TRADITION ""NAVY at the same time much the more expensive one, Australia's Maritlae Joaraal namely, the establishment of an Australian Naval College where, concurrently with the necessary With the establishment of a Royal Australian ( 5ENALE)< Vol. 12 JUNE. 1949 naval training, an Australian spirit would be fos­ Naval College, the Australian spirit has been tered and the traditions of an Australian Navy fostered in the Service, and today the traditions Quality RADIO would be built up." of an Australian Navy are being built up, as THE R.A.N. COLLEGE was envisaged. Among the boys who, thirty-six Results have shown, also, that the Common­ years ago, were First Entry Cadet Midshipmen TN this issue of "The Navy" there is a review wealth Government of the day was right in its and among boys of later Entries, were those who of the recently published book by Mr. Frank departure from the then Admiralty practice, by were to become the fathers of boys who are now Burgess Eldridge, a former master at the College. making the basis of entry thoroughly democratic, Cadet Midshipmen at, or graduates from, the Col­ and ensuring that the country should be able to "A History Of The Royal Australian Naval Col­ lege: and who are establishing and carrying on V lege." draw upon all ranks of society for the most suit­ the tradition of family service in the Navy. The able officers for its navy, and that no boy with -\WV •** This is a timely publication. It is now thirty- names of Waller, Burnett, Spurgeon, Calder. the necessary qualifications should be hindered * six years since the College was first established Dowling, Gatacrc, are among those which art- in its original home at Osborne House, Geelong. from entering the College because of the lack of being handed on in Australian naval tradition in It has more than come of age, for, as Mr. Eld- either financial or social standing by his parents. a second generation. ridge points out, it is now four years ago since That, by the adoption of this method, the right "Commodore Farncomh took up the command of raw material was obtained: and that the subse­ Flinders Naval Depot, which includes the Cap quent training at the Naval College was efficient, taincy of the College, and became the first RAN UNWANTED CREEDS Commodore Superintendent of Training. In this has been shown time and again by the successes way the College, which had been founded just of graduates of the College in open competition The New Console, 5-virvr, Duel wave Motlit ­ before the 1914-18 War, had by the close of the with brother officers of the Royal and other Do­ There have been strong indications over recent t BCI131 .€51/9/- 1939-45 War run, as it were, a complete cycle and minion Navies in technical courses and examina­ weeks that Communism is one of the present-day Gen ilex radio:- arc noted for unuirpii.-j.et, re- a leading member of that first original Entry of tions in the United Kingdom. creeds that is not wanted by the very great ma­ cept ton. They incorporate post-war imp rove- 1913 had in 1945, as Commodore First Class, jority of Australians. They have no more time for men f and those unique feature?: instant -oiler fresh from outstanding service to his country and Nor have the experiences of war in any way it than they had for Nazism or for Fascism, or turn >E and concealed controls. Ava table in Console. Table. Mantel and IV •flu- Empire, taken over the command of the College lessened the justification of the College and the for any other of the "isms" which, foreign to our ture Portable Models the Genalex tange inee u which he himself had entered as a Cadet-Mid­ training there imparted. That training has been whole outlook, from time to time arc offered to ever y need and the most fastidious taste. cw shipman nearly thirty-three years before!" us as panaceas. sole and Mantel Models, specially designee for and still is—Subject to criticism,- both within battc ry operation in country areas, give note* Since then, two of the First Entry Cadets of and outside the Service. It has been held—and Disclosures as to Communist methods in this wort hy reception. 1913, have realised the vision of the then Minister perhaps with some justification—that the early country, made by the ex-Comrade Cecil Sharplcy, for Defence and Chairman of the Naval Board age of entry, and the subsequent engrossment in have opened the eyes of unionists and others to —Senator Pearce- when, at the selection of the matters Naval, tends to cloister the Naval Officer the way in which they arc being used for the pur­ first Cadet-Midshipmen in 1912, he described from the world, to narrow his outlook. But one poses of a few who have no Australian interest the occasion as one on which, among the boys Co I eels that that is a shortcoming which is to-day to serve. With the danger thus made clear to be selected, there might reasonably be supposed to being overcome, when circumstances are forcing them, the large majority are" anxious that such be a future Australian admiral. Those two boys a greater, and reciprocative interest, between the action should be taken as would enable them to —Harold Bruce Farncomb, a New South Wales Navy and those outside. And in any case, such put their own house in order, and there have entry, and John Augustine Gillins, a Victorian narrowness of outlook is, where it exists, largely been requests among unionists for secret ballots in entry—are now Rear Admiral H. B. Farncomb. individual, and would probably obtain in the in­ union affairs to that end. C.B., D.S.O.. M.V.O.. Flag Officer Commanding. dividual in other walks of life were he to be His Majesty's Royal Australian Fleet, and Rear equally preoccupied with his profession. The It is regrettable, but none the less a fact, that Admiral J. A. Collins. C.B., First Naval Member many of us are not capable of self-discipline. We The Ueppvr Mantel 4 oe ^-vsswe, A.C. «r prf of the pudding is in the eating, and the bet*.T V ocwrmd from /I9/ nt- of the Australian Commonwealth Naval Board. record of the graduates of the College in the re­ incline to the easiest road, which is why unionists, cent war shows the efficiency of their training. although they have the power voluntarily to pro­ tect themselves by regular attendance and voting tU&iAm*£§btk& ^j < t FULL JUSTIFICATION As to the democratic method of entry into the at their meetings, fail to do so. In that case it would seem most desirable to them personally College, it is of interest that the British Govern­ ftAt Auttralua Rrrrrarfiuim i i»t f as well as to the country at large- to protect them k ment has recently introduced a similar method m r.„ml EWctnc Co. Lai. . In its thirty-six years of life and experience. by legislation governing their union affairs, in the 1 k the College, by the results it has achieved, lu for entry into the Royal Naval College. Austra­ wb«w ml lian experience should allay any qualms that might same way as the general citizen is legislated -for SYDNEY - NCWCASTU Fff m fully justified its existence, and the decision of in the matter of Parliamentary elections. Those MBJOIJIM - HUMAN. W< pi those who, confronted with alternatives when the be felt as to the effect on the officer efficiency in AD HBmAKT w the Royal Navy. who desire help -and discipline should be given •^•^BRU *1H question of its establishment was to the fore, de­ it.

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It was in 1910, on the 51st. ALBANY TO ALDGATE March, that the crack steamer THIS AUTHOR KNOWS HIS SUBJECT WELL AND HE GIVES TO THOSE OF YOU .' ' I "Pericles" — Gfptain Alexander ("Sandy") Simpson, of George WHO KNOW THE ROAD HE FOLLOWS, MANY MEMORIES AND MUCH Thompson's Aberdeen White NOSTALGIA; AND TO THOSE OF YOU WHO NOW TREAD IT FOR THE FIRST Star Line, was wrecked off the Leeuwin. The "Monaro," Cap­ TIME, INTEREST IN PLENTY. by "I.B." tain Neale, who was discharging cargo at Bunbury, was rushed to ET us take a trip back some other 1899 ship. Captain Morgan. Flinders Bay to pick up survivors. L forty years, to the peaceful was Transport A54. "Runic," Captain Neale gave a most gra­ days of King Edward the Captain Steivy, was built in phic account of the wreckage Seventh, when it was the custom 1900. In 1922 she was sold to strewn for miles over the ocean. to worship God, honour the King, Charles Salvesan and Co. of The "Monaro" was stopped, and over a hundred cases of butter ' salute the flag, confound the Leith, and converted into a whal­ alone were salved, passengers and enemy, and for landlubbers to ing mother ship and renamed "New Sevilla." She met her end crew hooking cargo out of the give the rollocking Jack Tars a in the Second World War, being sea with fishing lines and ropes. wide berth. torpedoed on the 20th Septemb­ On the red-splashed map of er, 1940. "Suevic," Captain It seems incredible, on look­ the British Empire, the defended Starck, built in 1901, made his The famous steamer. RMS. "Ferret," of the Adelaide Steamship Company. ing at a chart of the Leeuwin, seaport of Albany, Princess Royal tory when she ran ashore on that the "Pericles" should have Harbour, King George's Sound, rocks near the Lizard on the 17th Anderson and Co., who, in con­ been within so short a distance "Wotlami," Captain Gabriel, and of a shore bristling with unknown was a mere speck in the far-flung March, 1907. Her bow was junction with Bethel Gwyn and "Rachel Owen," for the carnage realm of His Majesty. blown off, and the after part Co., also chartered some of the reefs when rounding a cape well- of ore from Hopetoun to Albany, known to have a set towards land In 1910, regular overseas ves­ towed to London, and Harland "Straths" of Burrell's of Glas­ for transhipment to overseas in all withers. sels calling at the port represent­ and Woolf built on a new bow. gow. The "Straths" were sold in steamers. The A.U.S.N. Co. ran ed many famous House Flags. It was early in 1910 that the 1917 to the Hughes Common­ the "Kanowna." Captain Watt: Early in 1910, the West had a They included the Liverpool White Star announced the wealth Government Line, and re­ "Pilbarra" and "Kyarra," Cap­ visit from the Navy, when H.M. White Star ships of the Oceanic equipment of "Medic." "Persic," named with the prefix "Austral." tain M. M. Osborne- who later Ships "Powerful" Flagship of Steamship G>. Built by Harland "Runic." and "Suevic" with wire­ commanded "Indarra " Of Mc- Vice Admiral Sir Richard Poore, and Woolf of Belfast, they were less telegraphy with a range of The Black German* G.A.S.— Ilwraith, McEacharn and Com­ Bt., K.C.B.. C.V.O., C.in-C. large steamers. round about The Schooner "Grace Da-ling.' of 2,300 miles. were regular callers at Albany; pany's ships, the "Karoola," Cap­ Australian Station —and "En­ 12,000 tor.-. 5*0 feet in length, Frementle ( 1816-19 I 6 I. She traded the "Zargin," "Varan." "Biele­ tain McDonald: and the "Koor- counter." Captain P. H Colomb, to Melbourne end Hobert. Other regular Albany visitors feld," "Worms," "Duisbcrg," single-funnelled four masters of inga" and "Ashbridge" called arrived on a cruise. were Alfred Holt's Blue Funnel "Ottenscn," "Goslar," "Oberhau- 13 knots. pedocd on the 15th. February, ships "Jason," "Telcmon," "Moy- regularly. A new Orient liner arrived in sen," and "Hagen." And in Australian waters in March, There was "Afric." built in 1917, with the loss of 22 of her ene," "Tclemachus," and "Patro- 1910 the four-masted barque Melbourne Steamship Company 1910. She was "Orvieto." fifth 1899, Captain Howarth, R.N.R. crew. "Medic" was built the clus." Then there were Lund's "Beechbank," Captain Brcbncr, same year, Captain Lobe:, Tran­ Blue Anchors, the "Wakool," was represented with the "Ho of the latest mailboats, who be­ She was Transport A19 in the visited the port. hart," Captain Millar; 'Kapun first A.I.F. Convoy; and was tor- sport A7 in 1914. "Persic," an- "Wilcannia," "Geelong," and the came Transport A3 ip the first ill-fated "Waratah." In 1910 There were many interstate da," Captain Leask; "Monaro." A.I.F. Convoy, and carried the Lund's sold out to the P. tr" O ships on the run. The Adelaide Captain Neale; and the then late Major General W. T. who promptly announced that Company had the "Dilkcra," new "Heina " Huddart Parker Bridges, K.C.M.G.. and his staff. four new vessels of between "Winfield," "WolLr.i." "Lam. and Co. ran the "Rivcrina." Cap From King George's Sound to 14,000 and 15,000 tons would be mcroo"—Captain Butcher; "Mar- tain Sheriff. the Leeuwin, a good offing is built to replace the old Lund loo"—Captain Rose; and the steamers. newly-purchased " Kurnapli " Constant traders were William Captain A. E. Dougla;. who was Milburn's Port Line vessels, engaged on the Fremantle-AI "Port Chalmers," "Port Caro bany-Espcranee mail and passeng­ line," and "Port Hunter." liter er run. The Adelaide Company sold out to Cunard. AnJ there also employed the notorious were the ships of Watte Watts, RMS. Ferret." Captain W.ilden of London; the "Hford," 'Dul on that run. "Ferret" was wich," "Greenwich," "Willes wrecked in November. 1920, on den," and "Hampstc.id". Nor Yorke Peninsula must we forget the "Ashhurton," "Australind," "Armadale." 'Aja The Phillips River Gold and na," and "Arrino," of the Aus Copper Mining Company chart tralind Steamship Co.. Trinder, ered the schooners "Grace Darl The Whit* Ster liner "Suevic." ashore ing," Captain Fred Douglas; Where is hoard "tho muttering of the Lionets." Capo loeuwrn. Wott Autfrolj*.

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kept by vessels. It is a coast of passengers and Tommies, heading reading. He once challenged an commenced work at six in the no harbours, no shelter, on a East through the Gate of Tears, opposite number to a toast in the morning, and the winches never dead lee shore; the bays and on the road to Mandalay. Here huge Regimental silver salt cellar, ceased to rattle until the last case capes named after bygone Dutch' is the cradle of civilization. Lost in neat whisky. The challenger was stowed. men. Frenchmen, and English cities, lost ships, frankincense and remained on his feet; hut the Then, the green plush seats in men. It is a coast where is heard myrrh, Arabia Felix, the Lion of other had "gone with the wind." the dock train, leaving Gallions the ominous muttering .of the Judah, Queen of Sheba. The Sir George White died in 1912. Station, via Manor Way, Central, ' Lioness—named after the Dutch Timeless East. • Commander Lambton, R.N., of Connaught Road, Custom House, ship "Leeuwin" in 1622 .1 low, How travellers and seafarers H.M.S. "Powerful" — Captain Tidal Basin, and through Bow to forbidding landfall, ever danger all dreaded the Red Sea, from Percy Scott—led the Royal Naval Fenchurch Street. What memor- ! ous to the mariner. Perim to Suez Bay. Twenty Brigade in the defence of Lady- ics that old station must bring to smith under him. Never shall I forget that morn­ thousand slaves dug the Canal. countless seafaring men. One can ing in 1910 when, a thing of The Empress Eugenie, of France, Remember the old Black Sea never forget that dapper, best of beauty and a joy for ever, the opened it in 1869. England, un­ tramps wallowing across the Bay, good fellows, Mr. Tharm, the rep- I lovely old Aberdeen White Star der Palmerston, stood aloof de­ ploughing and bucking in the rcsentative of the old firm of I "Miltiades" slowly overhauled us spite the intrigues of all the Euro­ heavy seas which poured over George Haysom and Son, Naval off the Leeuwin. With the pean Courts, until "Dizzy" them as though they were half- Tailors and Outfitters, of 109 gleam of her green hull, the red bought the bankrupt Khedive's tide rocks? Fenchurch Street, or the thrill of - shares in 1875. A ditch of gold. being measured for one's first i hoottopping flashing as she lift­ Pennyfieldi. the London thoroughfare which runt from Weit India Dock Road to Channel Watches! Most over­ ed her clipper bows to the long High Street. Poplar. A Celeitial'l paradise. The Mediterranean. Highway seas companies insisted that their brass-bound uniform. The cost? I swell, her graceful lines, tall tap to the East. From time immem­ ships, approaching Ushant, insti­ A mere four guineas, with enough cring masts, and buff funnel- - no bridge casts a weather eye on him, often quaver out a shanty. "When orial, Phoenicians, Romans, tuted double watches on the gold buttons to make even Nel­ wonder ships are called "She." as one bell in the first dog is I was a'walking down Paradise Greeks, Venitians, and the French bridge. Usually the Old Man son jealous: the waistcoat a mas­ struck. Street." I visited Paradise Street under "Boney," vied for its trade. terpiece of small gold buttons, And so we take the long slant and the Third, and the Chief and one voyage to Liverpool, and In 1910, the Mediterranean Fleet, with eight large on the coat and > across the Indian Ocean, crossing A flying leap! And the Chin­ the Second, kept watch and watch never forgot the School of An­ based on Malta—H.M.S. "Eg- three large on each cuff. i the old track of the lumbering ese fireman clears the rail and dis­ until the Dover pilot was em­ atomy. mont"—kept the Empire's vital Dutchmen running from the Cape appears overboard. The Officer barked. The officers entertained Mr. The dog watch! All hands highway free to all. to the Isles of Spice centuries of the Watch is galvanised into All large seaports, such as Ant­ Tharm royally on Johnny Walker busy dhobying, proofing oilskins, past: Mynheer anxiously scan action. Hard over goes the helm. Somewhere east of Alboran Is­ werp, Hamburg, New York, at four bob a bottle, which an j dubbing seaboots. overhauling ning the eastern horizon for th: Over goes a calcium flare buoy. land, a wintry gale dying down, 'Frisco, have a great fascination apprentice bought at a dockside ' gear, making model boats. The dreaded Abrolhos of Houtman. The engines are stopped, and the and a small Spanish brig flying for globe trotters and sailors alike. pub, and carried on board in a usual dog watch arguments with and the inhospitable shores of whistle blares to the cries of "Man distress signals. Heaving to close But no seaport can compare with leather bag called a "growler," Sails, Chips, and the Boatswain. Endracht and De Witts lands. overboard." The Old Man, in to the brig, all hands crowd along that of the Thames from the with strict instructions to keep a Always the last ship was the weather eye open for the Old The Doldrums! Not a ship in his pyjamas, is on the bridge in the rail, speculating as to what is Norc to the Pool of London, for best, and always, like all dog Man. The old-established firm of sight. The horizon cut clear as a flash. The Mate sprints from wrong, as the Spanish skipper history, scenery, ships and tradi­ watch yarns, they returned to George Haysom and Son is now crystal. Porpoises play round the his cabin amidships, calling away boards us to confer with the Old tion. — the inevitable. Woman. Haysom Ltd., with the associate forefoot: there is the steady heat a boat's crew; and away goes the Man on the bridge with much In 1910 the old 74-gun wood- firm of Miller, Raynor and Hay­ of the engines, the protesting port gig, manned by men from Ships that pass in the night "Si, si Senor," and hands and cap cnwalled "Worcester," lay in som Ltd. The late Sir George, creaks as she rolls lazily in the the starboard, and half-dressed How many Arab dhows, flying waving. Blown to sea, the brig Greenhithe Reach. Over 5,000 born in London in 1862, a mem­ swell. On the bridge, the Officer port, watches. Despite every-ef­ before the Trades, passed un­ had run out of provisions and cadets for the Royal Navy and ber of the Aldgatc Ward since of the Watch paces back and fort, nothing was ever seen of seen, running to and fro from water. On being supplied, the Merchant Service had been train 190}, Sheriff of the City of Lon­ forth. GPhiladelphia watches bring. Old Sails, sitting up north of False Guardafui: and ernorship is a reward to some dis­ Watts, Harrison's, The Aberdeen hang on a bunk board, for l/6d. Lawyers, pierhead . jumps; and on the fore hatch, yarning of the story goes that much steam tinguished soldier. From 1902 to White Star. There is a Clan tur­ It slopped its contents over the the firemen Chinese from th: the ships of the -1880's. Running was used to keep the bloodthirsty 1906, Field-Marshal Sir George ret ship; and the big russet-sail' unsuspecting occupant of the low­ bunds of Shanghai to Hong the Easting down; Taltal; Val­ Somali's at bay, before the crew White, V.C., the heroic defend­ cd barges, and the Watkin's tugs. er bunk when she rolled. Kong. paraiso; Hell's Kitchen: 'Frisco were rescued. er of Ladysmith, was Governor. The Royal Albert and Victoria The "Three Nuns," near Aid- A Chinese fireman, dressed in days. I recall his weather-beaten, Aden, simmering in the heat Sir George won his V.C. whilst Docks. It was in 1910, on the gate Pump, was a clearing house his best blue suit and straw boat­ wrinkled old face, the inevitable away to the north. And the pow­ serving in the 75th. Foot--Gor­ 11th. May, that His Majesty- for ships' officers, and a port of er, and clutching his brolly, comes quid munched with about three erful, four-masted Bihby boat, don Highlanders at Kandahar in King Edward the Seventh died; call for those ladies who loved a up from below to pace the fore­ teeth, his marvellous aim clean in­ "Worcestershire," 717? tons. 1880. The personal stories of his the son of Victoria and Albert. sailor. Kipling's "If might have castle head. The Officer on the to the scuppers. Old Sails would Captain A. 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George Dempster, of Jack's Pal­ wide fame. Charlie died some rolled in the gutter, and his peak ace, who died recently in Lon­ years ago, and receiyed the hom­ cap used as a football. One very don. Many a sailor must have ut­ age of countless mourners. To­ B.B.C. Cadet arrived back on THE U.S. MERCHANT FLEET tered a silent prayer on the pass­ day, both taverns are merely board in a filthy pair of old dun­ THE UNITED STATES, FOLLOWING ITS REMARKABLE WARTIME EFFORT IN ing of that great Christian. pubs; and Pennyfields is a by­ garees, two black eyes, sundry What a home from home Jack's way. bruises, and only his own socks BUILDING "LIBERTY" AND "VICTORY" SHIPS, NOW RESUMES THE PRE-WAR Palace has heen to apprentices The "Queen Palace of Varie­ on. Tate's girls had done the PROGRAMME TO BUILD AN ADEQUATE MERCHANT MARINE — AND BRINGS sitting for the Second Mate's; ties" in High Street, Poplar, was rest. the well-worn leather chairs, the no credit to the Queen. A visit It is fitting that, as fellow voy­ THAT PROGRAMME UP TO DATE. excellent cafeteria, the billiard to the gallery opened one's eyes. agers, those old artists of bygone room. 'Arry and 'Arriet-- all "fevvers" days, whose names will live for After more than a decade's de­ than 5,500 oceangoing vessels, an American troops overseas at the Across the way was a horse of with ruddy remarks and good ever, should here be remember lay caused by the war and its average of one vessel every six end ' of the war were brought another colour, where Will Me.id blunt Cockney, amused one much ed. The incomparable Marie after effects, the United States hours, night and day, for four home by ship, an operation that more of the "Eastern" kept open more than did the artists. But Lloyd, Albert Chevalier, Harry has now embarked on a long- years. This round-the-clock ac­ required considerable tonnage. house, and the old penny-in-the care had to be taken that no Lauder, Harry Tate, Little Tich, range programme to build an ade­ tivity brought the American Transport of displaced persons slot piano jangled out "My Silver donah was ogled or admired, un­ Gertie Guana, Gus Elen, Florrie quate Merchant Marine called Merchant Fleet to 6,200 ships, and of American war brides con-' Bell" to the tapping of feet and less one wished to be well beaten Ford, Wilkie Bard, and many for by Congress in 1956. totalling 57,000.000 tons. tinued to keep war-fitted "auster­ the clatter of beer mugs The up. others who played at the old ity" ships moving that should The Merchant Marine Act of Wartime losses, post-war sales "Eastern" catered for all tastes, Tate's famous sugar factory at Tivoli and Oxford Music Halls in have been converted to civilian that year created the United to buyers in the United States colours, creeds and classes. One Silvertown was a place to be avoid­ the early Nineteen Hundreds standards. When conversion fin­ States Maritime Commission. One and other countries, and scrap­ could he robbed, go a-.vooing, ed at all costs, especially when They portrayed the love and pat­ ally got under way, it reduced of its principal tasks is to admin­ ping, have reduced the fleet to pick a good fight or, if just paid the five o'clock whistle blew. A riotism of Englishmen for "The yard space for new construction. 1 ister the Government subsidies fewer than 5,400 ships. In De­ off, be laid out horde of CtKkncy girls then Old Dart. " whether they were Of the total tonnage under con­ for both the construction and the cember, 1948, 1.S45 vessels were poured out, and woe betide the on land or sea, and brightened struction in the world in 1947, Nearby, the Popular Hippo­ operation on world trade routes in the Government-maintained : Brass-bounder who fell into their with anticipation the long road only about five per cent. w as be­ drome put on turns twice lightly. of passenger and cargo liners reserve fleet. These ships rest clutches. In a Hash he would that led halfway across the world ing built in the United States. the proprietor being Walter Gib­ deemed necessary "to promote side by side in estuaries whose be downed, his trousers torn off, from Albany to Aldgate. This proportion is expected to the commerce of the United frcsh water corrodes the hulls less bons. One budding comedian of grow under the new programme. States and aid in the national than salt water. They can be the day sang of "Winston's The subsidies given by the defence." The subsidies cover brought into commission quickly Funny Hats." The great British Maritime Com mission are design­ the margin between the cost of if needed. The active fleet con­ Statesman was then just coming NAUTICAL QUIZ ed to remove from American ship construction and operation sisted in December, 1948, of along, the Sydney Street Siege of lines sailing world routes the com­ by other countries and the much 1,550 vessels. Many of the 1911 bringing him. as Home Sec petitive disadvantage that they (1) What is the difference between a naval pipe and a spurl- higher cost for United States vessels in both the reserve and retary, very much in the public have worked under for decades. ing pipe? vessels. the active fleet are war-built and eye. This disadvantage, possibly more (2) "Displacement" refers to the weight of water theoret­ do not represent advanced de­ A favourite port of call for the The construction programme pronounced today than before the ically displaced by a ship -equal to her weight in tons. signs. "Liberty" ships account music hall artists was the "Stains- started in 1948 by the Maritime war, is the product of the sub­ What is "Standard displacement"? for 76 per cent, of the reserve by Arms," run by Maudie Lunn. Commission actually is a revival stantial difference between living (5) Who discovered Westernport, Victoria, and when? fleet, and for 34 per cent, of the We young bloods considered it of the pre-war programme with standards in the United States Why was it so called? active. "Libertys" are of 10,500 indeed an honour to pay for sun­ changes to meet new needs. Af­ and those in many other coun­ (4) Dii you know the meaning of the gunnery expression tons, and have a speed of 11 dry "doubles" for future stars. ter the passage of the Merchant tries. The high wages paid in "to open 'A' arcs"? knots. "Victory" ships, another One, at any rate, has since learn­ Marine Act, the Maritime Com­ American shipyards lift the cost (5) One of the early merchant ship losses in the 1939-45 type of vessel built during the ed sense. mission had hardly concluded a of ship construction, on the aver­ War was the "Africa Shell." When, where, and by war, were of equal size but faster survey, laid out construction age, 45 per cent, above those in An old vulgar ditty ran: "I've what was she sunk? (17 knots) than the "Liberty" schedules, and produced 28 ships, comparable yards in other coun­ Been Out To Charlie Brown's." (6) What is the manoeuvre known as "Crossing the TV"? ships. They account for 13 per when Europe was plunged into tries. To balance this inequity, a What a notoriety was achieved (7) The sloop was reintroduced in the 1914-18 war for cent, of the reserve fleet and 10 war in 1939. The Maritime "construction differential sub­ by the old "Blue Posts," at the anti-submarine warfare and mincsweeping. Do you per cent, of the active fleet. Commission considers it fortunate sidy" is given by the Maritime corner of King Street and West know when it first appeared in the Royal Navy, and that the programme was in exist­ The American overseas pas­ Commission. This subsidy is de­ India Dock Road, when Charlie whence its name was derived? ence then. It was quickly chang­ senger fleet has shrunk. By the termined for each ship after a Brown, senior, ran it: whilst (8) Merchant ships adapted for warfare play variations on ed into an emergency pro­ end of 1947 it consisted of about careful study of costs of similar young Charlie ran the Railway the letters A,C, and M. What, for example, are gramme. 50 vessels for 8,741 passengers. ships in similar yards of other na­ Tavern at the corner of Garford A.M.C s, CA.M.'s, and M.A.C.'s? Before the war there were 57 tions. For example, for the pas­ Street and West India Dock Rd. (9) The cruiser H.M.A.S. "Australia" comes of age this In 1940 and 1941, a total of ships with accommodation for senger ships ordered in. August, The upstairs saloon at the "Blue year. Do you know who built her? 185 ships were built When, 22,000. Moreover, while other 1948, the subsidy amounts to 45 Posts" was full of curios from all (10) An aircraft carrier in the Royal Navy is named after late .n 1941, the United States countries, foreseeing increased per cent.; for the passenger- parts of the world. Its piano, its an Australian passenger ship long well-known in the were drawn into the war, the traffic, launched big construction cargo ships to 44.05 per cent. women, its old Victorian air, and Bass Strait trade between Melbourne and Tasmania, and existing plans formed the basis programmes soon after the war, The remainder of the building the extraordinary prestige which now laid up for sale in Hobson's Bay. Do you know her? for an even more intensive con­ American yards were waiting to cost is borne by the operating Charlie Brown gave to a mere (Anlwors on p«q* 47) struction schedule. From 1942 reconvert war-fitted ships for use line. sailors' tavern, earned it world­ through 1945, shipyards in the United States turned out more in peace. Nine-tenths of the Continued on pog* 42 I* TIM Navy J

And it was in June of the folI-- Ihom e and out of danger, yet in a ANNIVERSARIES OF THE MONTH lowing year that the Dutch werre \plac e doing the King good service." in the Medway, a result of falssee An, d he tells how the Dutch took QUITE A LOT HAS HAPPENED IN \HE VARIOUS MONTHS OF JUNE THAT economy on the part of Charles II Ith e ship "Royal Charles" at Chat- MARK THE CALENDARS OF THE CENTURIES, AND HERE OUR AUTHOR TELLS in "laying up his great ships anid Iham . They "did take her with :i keeping only a few frigates on thICe Iboa t of nine men. who found not OF SOME EVENTS OF NOTE. cruise." On the 14th. June, 16677., ;a man aboard her (and her laying a force of 60 or 70 Dutch ships of ! by John Clark ;l so near them was a main tempta- the line under De Ruytcr went up I ous meeting with Francis I o: ip tion to them to come on), and What h.is happened "t interest was decisively defeated, nearly all the Thames as far as Gravesend, | France at the Field of the Cloth d, presently a man went up and and significance during the cen­ of the French ships being taken or destroying ships at Chatham and i of Gold. id struck her flag and jacke, and a turies in the month of June? Wcli, destroyed and some 15,000 of the in the Medway, and taking pas«- ttrumpete r sounded upon her 'Joan's quite a lot of things. June figures enemy slain. It was also the first It was in June, 1645, on the session of Shcerness, the light oif jplacke t is torn.' " in an impressive inimhcr ot events. occasion yt> ireading . example, that King John set his sent in the cog "Thomas," and Battle of Naseby. His fate was much worry. "The people that when the French ships were sight­ linked with another famous ship, at In June. 1672 the English suf seal to Magna Charta at Runny- come hither to hear how thinggss tfere d another loss in the Battle of mede, in the year 1215. It is the ed — their masts and streamers, the "Sovereign of the Seas," which get," he wrote in the diary on the I says Froissart, appearing like a was also built at Woolwich in ic Solebay on the 7th., when the foundation of our liberties. "T.i 14th., "make me ashamed to bxe- Duke of York was caught by De wood—the King exclaimed: "Ha! 16J7, and the money for whose Tho "Sovereign of tho Soot." one of found unable to answer them, for 1 the Englishman of modern times," tho masterpiece, of Phinooi Pott. A >r Ruytcr on a lee shore, and in a I have long desired to fight the construction was undoubtedly a I am left alone here at the office; < says an historian, "the event of model made by Mr. H. 8. Culver. e: drawn battle the balance was in French, and now I will do it, bv contributory cause to Charles Nov York. and the truth is, I am glad my sta- i that day hears a deep and solemn a- favour of the Dutch. The greatest the grace of God and St. George." losing his head. In her days the tion is to be here, near my own I interest, far surpassing that of m loss to the English was that ot battles or of conquests." It has its Sluys was essentially a soldiers' finest ship afloat, she cost iqst over June figures largely in the Dutch bearing upon ships and seamen, for battle fought in ships, but it gave £40,000, of which nearly £7000 Wars. It was in June, 1653, that by one of its clauses the ports of the English command of the Chan­ was spent on the gilding anJ Monck gained his victory over the Kingdom were freely thrown nel, and had an appreciable effect decoration which gave her such a Tromp at the Battle of the North open to foreign merchants, and on the history of the sea. splendid appearance, and caused Foreland, when the Dutch lost 11 they were permitted to come and A hundred and fifty years later, the Dutch to refer to her as "The ships captured, and it was belicvc.l go as they please. Its breath is on the 28th. June, 1491, Henry Golden Devil." that six more were sunk and two blown up. It was a victory that that of the British, as Kipling said: VIII was born at Greenwich, usher­ Evelyn speaks of her building, "And still when mob or Monarch having gone to Chatham to see her enabled England to maintain a ing in the golden age of Tudor rigid blockade of Holland. lays naval ascendancy. He was 25 on the 19th. July, 1641: "A glori Too rude a hand on English ways. years of age when, m June, 1514, ous vessel of burden lately built In the second Dutch War, on The whisper wa\es, the shudder the "Great Harry" was launched. there, being for defence and orna­ the 13th. June, 1665, the English Her building was an event, for she ment, the richest that ever spread had another decided success in the plays battle off Lowestoft, in which the founded Woolwich Dockyard, hav­ cloth before the wind. She carried Across the reeds at Runnymede." Duke of York was opposed to the ing been laid down in an open a hundred brass cannon, and was The 24th. June, 1540, saw the 1200 tons; a rare sailer, the work Dutch Admiral, Opdam. Fircships first of England's great naval vic­ space near Enth, and the dock played a Dart in this fight; and the yard growing up around her slip. of the famous Phineas Pert, inven­ tories at the Battle of Sluys, when tor of the frigate-fashion of build­ Dutch Admiral's flagship was one Six years later, in June, 1520, the French Fleet of 400 sail, man­ ing, to this day practised. But el those which blew up. Henry sailed in her to France, ned by Genoese sailors, and con­ what is to he deplored as to this when he went to attend the fam- In June of the following year, taining an army of 40,000 men. vessel is, that it cost His Majesty another North Foreland kittle t'xik the affections of his subjects, per­ place, and was fought for four verted by 'the malcontent great days, from the 11th. tp the 14th. ones, who took occasion to quarrel of the month, in the Straits of for his having raised a very slight Dover. The English 'made the tax for the building of this, and blunder of dividing their forces, equipping the rest of the Navy, ^ending a strong detachment under % without an act of Parliament." Prince Rupert to intercept a The "Sovereign of the seas" was French squadron coming from the in almost all the great engagements Atlantic, while Monck engaged the fought between England and Holl­ Dutch Fleet under De Ruytcr. As and, but met her end at Chatham a result, the victory went to the on the 27th. January, 1696. when Dutch, who lost three Vice-Ad- she was accidentally burned mirals, 2000 men, and four ships: through the negligence of a ship- while the English loot 5000 killed keeper while laid up for rebuild­ ind 3000 prisoners and 17 ships, H.nry Villi departure from Dover, May 31 it. '520, to qo «« tllO Field of the ing. of which the Dutch captured nine. Cloth of Gold. Tho "Greet Horry" ii in tho foreground. George., Lord Anion, 1697-1762(697-1762, 01 First Lord Commiuioner of tho Admiralty,

TIM Navy Juno, 1*49 It Pepy' patron. Lord Sandwich, carried a four-pound ball. She And never to fight with Britons who was lost when his flagship, the very well furnished with small more. "Royal James," was destroyed by arms, and was particularly provid­ Let each Jill his glass a tireship. Evelyn wrote of him: ed against boarding, both by her To lus favourite lass: SEAS, SHIPS AND SAILORS "Deplorable was the loss of one of close quarters and by a strong net­ A health to the captain and the best accomplished persons, not work of two-inch rope which was ojficers true. only of this nation, but of any laced over her waist, and was de­ And all that behngs to the jovial other. He was learned in sea fended by half-pikes. She had 67 crew. affairs, in politics, in mathematics. killed in the action, and 84 wound On hoard of the 'Arethusa.' " and in music; he had been on ed, whilst the Centurion' had Seventeen Hundred and Ninety- divers' embassies, was of a sweet only two killed, and a lieutenant four—and the Glorious First of and obliging temper, sober, chaste, and 16 wounded, al! of whom but June, when Howe, then a man of very ingenious, a true nobleman, one recovered; of so little conse­ 68 years of age, defeated a French and ornament to the Court of his quence are the most destructive fleet under Villarct-Joyeuse some Prince; nor has he left any behind arms in untutored and unpractised 400 miles off Brest, taking six line- him who approach his many vir­ hands." of-battlc ships, while two more tues." Eight years after his victory over struck, but were retaken by the The following year saw the the Galleon, in June 1751, Anson French, one of them the 74-gun carrying of the fight to the Dutch became First Lord of the Ad­ ship "Vcngeur du People," foun­ coast, and in June, 1763, the battles miralty, and Britain's naval suc­ dering after being retaken, the of Schooneveld, leading up to the cesses during his period of office majority of her company being Texel in August, and the end of were largely to his credit. It was rescued by the British. The battle ®M6 oAvce S£AS MOST the naval war against the Dutch. in June, 1762, that he died, still in was fought so far out to sea that —#MWI OCEAM Bacis In these engagemnts, De Ruyter, TOOK PLACE IN wmm office, and "a striking example of it was impossible to give it :i W'OMUWIM; WD THE. OPS BATING OFF tha CHINA OWET by his successful defence, "openeJ one of the best types of seaman we geographical name—hence "The "ETMIOe'lAMVBOVH OFM me U.S.9UBMA\niNE"llAMo" the Dutch ports, which were en­ ABERDEEN LIMB. FIBtSD A TORPEDO ^WHICH "HAH ever had in the British Navy." Glorious First of June," a title BOTH SHIPS CAST OFF THEIR AMOK ' CIRCLED, 9nd GPStUCK THE tirely blocked up, and put an end TUSS SIMULTANEOUSLY OFF You know the old song— against which Howe always pro­ 9IONVY HSADS. SUGHTBD CMC TAN5.BLOW15 U6B UP. . vlAPG to all thoughts by removing the tested. AVOIMBB OFF COPS HOHM. •escuED SURVIVORS possibility of invasion." "Come, all ye jolly sailors bold. BOTH >L/S*6 BECALMBO SIDE The series of naval engagements £ysit=e B4 thaDOLDRUMS., Whose hearts are cast in honour's MBTAOAIN OFPCT>EVteSTTSBM In the next June battle in which of the Napoleonic Wars reaped .JOSHED' the English were involved with the mould, V EAC—rsH, OWE**/THENE IN A^ FOG M tnm While English glory I unfold. their reward in June, 1815, when Dutch, they were allies against the "(ETHIOPIAN" SOT INTO t/v Hurrah for the 'Arethusa.' " Napoleon was finally defeated b\ EAST ITSCXAOOCK.LONDON, French. That was the Battle of Wellington at Waterloo. ONBTIOS BEFORE "©WOWTES. It was in the year 1778, on the VIKHSUMC- BOTH RACE J^VAGCOS V Beachy Head, on the 30th. June, But before then there were two 17th. June, that the "Saucy Are­ 1690, when Admiral Arthur Her­ more June dates of note—that of thusa" fought her action with the bert—Earl of Torrington-—opposed 1812, when war was declared be­ FIRST EECO-ZDCO STOWAWAY a much stronger French Fleet un­ frigate "Belle Poule" off the ON AMY STfLArvlBJa VAS ONWMD tween Britain and the United the CuKiAQoca' BBJTANNIA "IM »*? French coast. Admiral the Hon. HE VAS ALLOW-D to CONTINUE der the Count de Tourville. After States, which, in June of the fol­ Augustus Kcppel was Commander- THE VOYAGE to HA l-< FAX , OKLA O,. an' action which favoured the lowing year, gave us another song, ON KAMCHNG OVER HIS MONEY, in-Chief of the Channel Fleet, and £*0,\-3L,0, AM© MIS GOLD WATCH French, Torrington withdrew to one which tells how — the Thames to recondition. He was at sea with a British fleet was court martialled, but honour­ when his frigates sighted two "The 'Chesapeake' so hold, out of ably acquitted, but King William French ships, which Kcppel order­ Boston, I am told. would not accept the verdict, and ed to be hailed. One answered Came to talie a British frigate dismissed htm from the country's civilly, but the 36 - gun "Belli neat and handy, O.'" service, an action long recognised Poule" gave a reply the reverse of The British frigate— as a gross miscarriage of justice. courteous to the 32-gun "Are­ "Was the 'Shannon.' Captam thusa"—herself a captured French It was in June, 1743, that An Bro«;e. with his crew all ship—and straight away they were son, on the 20th., captured the hearts of oa\, .Ml* VvOCLO'-S at it hammer and tongs. The fight FOStSIBrST PLACC _ IOAL IAXZO Rff>ff*.ev, Acapulco Galleon "Neustra Sig- And in fighting, you must ^noir, ~~ ""•ttUIM. lasted for four hours, after which QT.a-r7»a3.*fl» B«IU.IANT nora de Cabadonga" with her rich he was the dandy, O!" . IE.USA., the "Belle Poule" sheered off with vweca, IN 1907. B»T1»M KiAVAL ETEATBGlST. treasure in the Pacific. The Gal­ This, again, was a First of June AN ABSOLUTE T^OtS A MIWW-W UNLUCXY heavy casualties, the "Arethusa" MAXIMUMS* OF PSCS SlfH, ONTrCEvfOf leon, under the command of Gen­ action, the two ships meeting about OCCUCR6D. %AT>* n»VM*Ce IN I77». MB being too much damaged to follow. eral Don Jerinomo de Meniere, midday off Boston. The gun duel 373-* Houttc, or Both sides claimed the victory •o peectNT. OF •TWftSTHC MONEY LENT HIM was, says Padre Walter, of th- opened at 5.50 p.m., and at 6.5 in an indecisive action marked by THE VHOLE YEA©. "Centurion," "much larger than the the British carried the ship by great gallantry in both ships. As 'Centurion,' and had 550 men and boarding. The last words of Cap­ the song puts it— 36 juris mounted for action, be­ tain Lawrence, of the "Chesa "And noio we've driven the foe sides 23 pedreroes in her gunwale, to shore, pcakc"—who was shot as the two quarters and tops, each of which Continued on page 46

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PERSONAL! went so quickly that out yam Turtle-Back Destroyer Days cut short by the noise of our • a signal for departure. I made Life In The Early Destroyers Was Rough And Tumble dash with the mail bag, and an —But It Had Its Moments, As Our Author Describes on the quay just as the last of CAPTAIN DAVID HUGH HARRIES, RAN. flotilla had hauled through the In This Article. hour mouth. CAPTAIN-IN-CHARGE, BALMORAL, SYDNEY. By "Seahawk." "I'm for it now," says I. But I received a signal 1~VAVID Hugh Harries was horn in Mclhournc. the cruiser until she was paid off for recondition­ ESTROYERS of tdday are mile, to test some new anti-foul- to join the ship at Inverg- *-' Victoria, on the 27th. June, 1903. He had ing in 1938. That was the year of his promotion D glorified cruisers compared ing composition on the vessels' bot and reported to the Naval his initial education at Melbourne Grammar to Commander, and the year in which he once with the pre-1905 vintage. toms. who supplied me with cash more proceeded to England, this time as Navigat­ rail fare and told me the train School, and entered the Royal Australian Naval In those days they were long, We carried out this job for sev College at Jervis Bay in 1917. ing Officer of H.M.A.S. "Albatross"—which had at 8 a.m. next day, and he'd been taken over by Admiralty: returning to Aus­ narrow-beamed coal burners with eral days, often at full speed. Then His College record earned him "maximum time" a low freeboard and they'd chew me off. tralia as First Lieutenant of H.M.A.S. "Hobart." we would tie up in Dover Har­ Whack. ! Off I went, and on passing out, and the Grand Aggregate and up coal like a flapper consuming bour far the night, and were well History prizes: in addition he was first in physics. • the second of the 6"-gun cruisers to be added to a good day with my A the Squadron as part of the Australian naval ex­ ice-cream, which meant we had to entertained by the people, especi­ chemistry, English, French, and seamanship. He coal ship after every few days at friends, arriving aboard next pansion programme. ally at a pub called the "Barley with no dog. Why? Please gained his colours for tennis. sea. Coaling was our pet aver­ Mow," where beer at fourpence a Becoming a Midshipman on the 1st. January, On his return to Australia, Commander Harries sion. A dirty job, but one which, plain! was for some time in temporary command of the quart caused us to sing the com­ "No time. Sir." 1921, he proceeded to the United Kingdom and like many others in destroyers, pany rollocking songs until closing was appointed to H.M.S. "Warspitc," with the sloop H.M.A.S. "Yarra," but in 1939 he again was done with a smile. Both the Skipper and I got returned to England, in the Blue Funnel liner time, when we all trooped aboard wigging from our Flotilla Atlantic Fleet, being promoted Sub-Lieutenant in —perfectly sober—and turned in. 1923 and Lieutenant the following year. He "Autolycus." which took the Ship's Company of Among the many inducements so I reckon I got off light, gained all first-class certificates in his Lieutenant's H.M.A.S "Perth"—third of the expansion pro­ to belong to a destroyer were— The mess decks were about the keep it dark, I don't know examinations, and was awarded a £10 Prize. gramme cruisers over to commission the ship. 6d. extra per day, called hard lay­ fuggiest joints you could imagine, that dogs' home, is yet. ing money, and your grog is­ Returning to Australia early in 1925, he was He was in England at the time war broke out. and we were always glad to get on During 1904,'our flotilla sued neat, instead of the three- appointed to H.M.A.S. "Sydney" -the first cruis serving on exchange duty with the Royal Navy, deck again. to manoeuvres with our first watered rum of the larger ships. er of that name, then Flagship of the Royal Aus­ and was appointed in command of H.M.S. "Sea­ ish submarine, the A.I. We Also, a free issue of sea boots, During 1903 we were recalled tralian Naval Squadron: and after a year in her. gull" with the 1st. Minesweeping Flotilla, and as making runs in the "Solent," oilskins, muffler, coats, etc., from leave, to find out what a Rus­ he was appointed to the destroyer, H.M.A.S. Second-in-Command of the Flotilla, which was we were the last to spot her. which were very welcome and sian Admiral meant by firing on, "Tasmania." as No. 2. employed sweeping on the Scottish coast. From and sinking, some of our fishing on arrival at Portland for September to December, 1940, he was in com­ necessary in dirty weather. In 1927 he again went overseas to the United trawlers which he had mistaken for night it was reported that the mand of H.M.S. "Niger" as Senior Officer. 4th. Kingdom to take his specialist course in Naviga­ Jap destroyers—in our North Sea, was missing. Minesweeping Flotilla. Our flotilla, based on Harwich, tion In the Long Navigation Course he came was composed of eight destroyers, mind you. However, the bigger Later it was announced she top of his class, qualifying as Lieutenant (N) in There followed a short spell in the Plans Divi­ the "Racehorse," 30 knots; ships of the Navy were left to deal been struck by the Union 1927. He was then appointed to the Persian sion, Admiralty, and then, in March, 1941, Com­ "Swordfish," 27 knots: "Roe­ with him. steamer, "Berwick Castle," Gulf, where he was tor a year Navigating Officer mander Harries crossed to the United States to ward bound from African buck," 30 knots. "Salmon," 27 .We then made our annual of H.M.S. "Lupin." followed by a year as Navi­ take up his appointment as Australian Naval At­ and had, been lost with all knots; "Greyhound," 30 knots; Scotch cruise, calling at Granton, gating •"Officer of .the yacht H.M.S. "Dryad," the tache, Washington, a position he occupied until "Sunfish," 27 knots, and "Usk" St. Andrews, Dundee, Arbroath, She was located later, and Senior Naval Officer's ship. October, 1942. and "Esk." bodies recovered. Mr. W,' At this time the British Government had. pre­ Aberdeen, and away north to Returning to Australia early in 1930, he was Wick, where the girls sleep in Churchill came to Portsmouth sented the cruiser "Shropshire" to Australia, to The writer served in H.M.S. the time, and we heard he appointed for a year each to three of H.M.A. "Racehorse," and with his ship­ fishing nets when the destroyers replace H.M.A.S. "Canberra," lost at the Battle dip in the next submarine that Ships, first as Navigating Officrr in H.M.A.S ' mates was very proud of their 30 are in. On the way south again of Savo Island in the previous August, and Com­ to sea. He would. "Anzac," secondly, as Navigating Officer and knotter, which was speedier than we spent a few days at Aberdeen First Lieutenant of H.M.A.S. "Tattoo," and then mander Harries returned to the United Kingdom and was appointed in command of her for three many trains we had ridden in. Our Never tell me the Scotch are mean, After the sad affair of the as Navigating Officer of the seaplane carrier H.M. armament was one 4in., five ft- and a Jew can't live in Aberdeen! we returned to Harwich for A.S. "Albatross." , months while she was refitting at Chatham. Upon her commissioning, he was appointed Executive pounders, and the usual torpedo We were given a most wonderful and to prepare for something By this time Lieutenant Commander, there Officer, remaining in that appointment until May. tubes. Our fo'c'sle from the nose time there. pleasant. The ''Racehorse, came another period in the United Kingdom about of her to the gun platform. Was other destroyers and cTuuers, 1944, during which period "Shropshire" took I nearly made tajuble for my­ the middle of 1933, and he took the First Class covered with a turtle shaped detailed to escort the Royal Yi part in a number of the assaujt operations against self there by missing my ship-, ow­ Ship Course, which he passed at the end of the structure, which threw off any "Victoria and Albert," with the Japanese in the South West Pacific. ing to the following episode: I was year, remaining in England to take the Royal seas coming aboard, though the Edward VII on a visit to 1 Following the period in "Shropshire," Com- sent ashore for the mail on sailing Naval Staff College Course at Greenwich. At bridge was always spray-swept After a rough passage a the end of 1934 he returned to Australia, and rtiartder Harries took up his appointment as Dep­ during any head sea. day, with instructions to call at the uty Chief of the Naval Staff, Navy Office, 'Mel­ Dogs' Home to collect a terrier for North Sea, we arrived at spent the two succeeding years on the Naval buttel, and entered the Kid Staff at Navy Office, Melbourne. bourne, with the rank of Acting Captain, being 'We and our sister ship. "Roc- the Captain. promoted Captain at the end of June, 1945, in Some canal, I assure you, In 1937 came a further spell at sea. when he buck," struck a cushy job, and After collecting the mail, I October of which year he proceeded to England scenery, buildings, and was appointed to H.M.A.S. "Australia" as Navi­ were detached to carry out a series thought I had time to visit and Continued on p«9« 41 wonderful. 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ensive cargo ships ever con­ below the waterline. As to fire, fixed, but it is reported that it will tracted, and is claimed to be the a single lever will set all fire- be within the next few months, orld's most modern, in equip- fighting appliances going, and and before the Federal election ent, fitting, and appearance. Of gas, automatically released, will late this year. 2,500 tons, she is streamlined, make it impossible for a fire to as motor-driven lifeboats, every spread. JAPAN'S EXPANDING nown and tried navigational aid, TRADE. he most modern cargo refriger­ WORLD SHIPBUILDING. ation plant yet installed in a ship, According to a report in the After a progressive rise over "New York Times," more liberal nd air conditioning throughout the last three years, shipping be­ s supplies and materials, and the er accommodation for her ship's ing built in British yards for own­ iompany is particularly luxurious, conclusion of foreign exchange ers abroad has begun to fall, ac­ agreements with additional areas, atings have two-berth cabins, cording to figures as at the 51 st. nd special dining saloons, and have begun to expand Japan's March given by Lloyd's Register. export trade. Exports in 1948 recreation rooms furnished with With construction in overseas omfortable lounges, settees, and aggregated only 255,000,000 dol­ yards increasing, shipbuilding in lars, but in January of this year riting desks, and the bulkheads Britain is slightly declining, al­ re lined with pictures by leading validated contracts reached 82,- though it is Still 47.7% of the 000,000 dollars, and those of the ritish artists. The deck and en- world output. 'ineer officers are similarly pro- first 15 days of February reached 45,000,000 dollars. If this in­ ided for. Behind the Captain's FOREIGN INCREASES. •at in the dining saloon is a crease is maintained, the total igned portrait of Queen Eliz- In the shipbuilding figures as 1949 figure will almost quadruple heth, who launched the ship last at the ? 1st. March last given by that of last year. 'car. The "Port Brisbane" has Lloyds, the British figure is ccummodation for 12 passengers. 2,075,910 tons gross on that date, INSURANCE OF "THE as compared with the overseas QUEENS" JAPANESE SHIPBUILDING. total of 2,279,595 tons. The in­ crease abroad includes, for the Complete figures on the cost With delivery set for May, first time since the war, 144,182 and insurance values of the two 952, and the cost at about tons building in Japan. But even British "Queens" was made avail­ .500,000 dollars, Japan is setting THE "MAGDALENA." BROKE IN HALF. Warsaw quoted in the "New without the Japanese figure, ton­ able by English sources to Amer­ bout her first big post-war ship- There is an echo of one of The "Magdalena," a X2-million, York Times." Poland now has a nage under construction abroad ica recently, when the question uilding lob; Allied Headquart- ding's songs in the story from 17,000-ton luxury liner, ran coastline thirty times as long as passes that of the United King­ of the insurance of the proposed rs having approved a contract x> de Janeiro of the loss there aground and was holed by rocks its pre-war ten-mile strip on the dom, increases over the first U.S. super North Atlantic liner f ndcr which the Kawasaki Heavy the Royal Mail Steam Packet at Rio de Janeiro on the 26th. Baltic, and the new seaboard con­ quarter of this year being report­ was bcim; debated. The "Queen Pndustry Company of Kobe will npany's new luxury liner in April. She was being towed into tains ten harbours which figure ed from the United States. Elizabeth" cost £6,000.000 Sterl­ uild an 18,000-ton tanker for She was the^ "Magdalena," Rio Harbour when she split in largely in the country's economic France, Holland, and Sweden. ing when completed at the out­ [lie Fcrnley Steamship Company d Kipling wrote: two, the bow portion sinking, plans. With the task of rehabili­ German and Russian figures are break of war. She his been in­ I Norway. I've never sailed the Amazon, while the stern portion—the tating the harbours—including not available. sured for £5,600,000, although ve never reached Brazil, most costly part of the ship, con­ now it would cost £12,000,000 Gdynia-Danzig, and Stetin—the BRITAIN'S UNSINKABLE ut the "Don" and the "Magda- taining the propelling machinery Ministry of Navigation is turning COMMONWEALTH to £15.000.000 to build her in the lena," and boilers, and most of the pas­ TANKER. United Kingdom An additional towards shipbuilding. Poland's SHIPPING LINE. ey can go there when they senger cabins and public rooms— fleet now numbers 39 vessels of The claim to have designed an "total loss" insurance of about will . . . floated. At first it was hoped to an aggregate tonnage of approxi­ unsinkablc ship has often been Applications for the position £500.000 has also been obtained. ^o rolling down to Rio, be able to salvage the after part, mately 200,000 tons, and carrying made, and has sometimes been of Chairman of the Common­ In each case the open market has and tow it to Britain for the ad­ f 11 down, roll down to Rio) some eight per cent, of the coun­ disproved. The "Titanic" is a wealth Shipping Line closed on underwritten about 58 r of the dition of a new bow, but last I'd like to roll to Rio, try's commerce. A six-year plan pas; in point, claimed to be un- the 16th. of last month, after bc- total premium and the British month it was reported that Lloyds me day before I'm old." calls for the construction of at pinkahk, but lost in collision with ipg advertised in this country Government holds the rest. The It is especially sad that the loss and British marine insurance jiii iceberg on her maiden voyage. and overseas. The post carries "Queen Mary" was insured for companies had abandoned hope least 400,000 tons in Polish ship­ the "Magdalena" only dcliv- yards, and considerable expansion pJcw devices in a British-built the salary of £5.000 a year, with £4,800,000, of which the market ed from the builders, Messrs. of doing so. The "Magdalena" nker. the 15,000-ton "San Syl- a tenure of five years. The took up £3.196,970 and the Gov­ was insured for £2 -million Sterl­ of the Danzig yards arc planned. rland and Wolff, to the Royal Construction of ore and coal car­ kestre" would appear, however Board over which the Chairman ernment XI. 603.030. An addi­ ~il Company in February last ing. ccordmjSj to a report in the Mel will preside will be a permanent tional "total loss" policy of POLISH MERCHANT FLEET. riers of 2,500 deadweight tons "hould have occurred on the has already begun. ourne "Argus" last month to body similarly to the National £450,000 was divided between voyage of her Master, Cap- With the aim of carrying at THE " PORT BRISBANE." ffer justification for the claim. Airlines Commission, and is ex­ the market and th.- Government Douglas Lee, prior to his re- least 55% of its foreign trad: in The Port Line's new refriger­ Invented by 58-year-old William pected to have under its control in the same ratio. The "Queen "tnent. It is a bitter end to a Polish bottoms, the Polish Gov­ ated cargo ship, "Port Brisbane," pielson, the "San Sylvestrc" is at first about 40 ships, ranging Mary" cost X4.500.000 in the g and successful career, and ernment plans to possess a fleet which arrived in Melbourne from quipped with a compressed air from small vessels to 10,000-ton mid-Thirties, and a replacement sympathy of all his brother of 600,000 tons by the end of Britain last month on her maiden levicc which will keep out the ships. No starting date of opera­ would cost about the same as a 'arers will go out to him. 1955, according to a report from voyage, is one of the most ex- va even if the vessel is holed tions of the Line has yet been new "Queen Elizabeth."

|luit«, 1949 TYPE CUT OFF Tfc* Navy PAGES STUCK TOGETHER • press upon you its great import- through 16 inches of steel, was / ance I make this appeal by means formally dedicated at the Naval of a personal letter. Today the Ordnance Laboratory, White News of the World's Navies Navy is in good heart but, should Oak, Maryland, recently. The COCKATOO DOCK! an emergency come again, and un­ large 10,000,000-electron volt fortunately that possibility can­ * iNommiNo FOUR-NAVY WAR GAMES labour saving devices for clean­ for "Operation Torch" in No­ machine was supplied by the Gen­ ing ship. Her electrical installa­ vember, 1942. The ships of the not be ruled out, it would be ne­ eral Electric Corporation. The CO. PTY. LTD. From the end of this month cessary for us to expand the until the 8th. July, joint naval tion will differ from previous combined fleets were: Battle­ photographs it takes reveal the practice in ships of the Royal ships, "Vanguard" and "Duke of i Royal Navy and find trained men internal structure of metal, and exercises will be held by the I far more quickly than we did in Western European Union Powers. Navy in that it will be an Alter­ York"; Cruisers, "Liverpool," show up hidden defects or weak­ C«ntr««too to . . . Ships of the British, French, nating Current installation, oper­ "Newcastle," "Euryalus," "Sup­ 1939. It is with this object that nesses. It is estimated that the Dutch and Belgian Navies will ating at 440 volts, three-phase, 60 erb," "Sirius," "Cleopatra," "Di­ the Royal Naval and Royal Ma­ machine could produce a photo­ H.M. AUSTRALIAN NAVY. participate in tactical manoeu­ cycles. adem"; Fleet Aircraft-carrier rine Emergency Reserves have graphic impression through six­ Ship-builders. been formed to supplement the vres. The British ships are con­ "Implacable"; Light Fleet Air­ teen inches of steel after thirty Marine ducting their own exercises at NAGASAKI FETE. craft-carriers "Triumph" and other Reserves, which consist of minutes to an hour of exposure. present, before meeting the other "Theseus"; Destroyers: "Agin- Long Service Pensioners, the and This month, Nagasaki—the ( Royal Fleet Reserve, the Royal ships. court," "Alamein," "Aisne," General Engineers. second city to feel the blast of the Naval Reserve, the Royal Naval CARIBBEAN DEFENCE atomic bomb—is celebrating the "Barrossa," "Cheviot," "Cheq­ FORCE. InquiriM Invited. uers," "Childers," "Chieftain," Volunteer Reserve and the Royal RESIGNATION OF U.S. quadricentennial of St. Francis Marine Forces Volunteer Re­ The formation of a naval local NAVY SECRETARY. Xavicr's arrival in Japan, in 1549, "Chivalrous," "Corunna," "Jut­ volunteer force for the defence land," "Solebay," "St. James," serve. If you are not a Long Ser­ Late in April, Mr. John L. as the first Christian missionary. vice Pensioner or not already a of British territories in the Carib­ Seventy-four and a half million "Sluys," "Troubridge," "Venus," bean was discussed recently in Sullivan, U.S. Secretary for the "Verulam," "Volage,"; Submar­ member of one of these perman­ COCKATOO ISLAND Navy, handed his resignation to yen have been spent on a cam­ ent Reserves, I am asking you, as Trinidad. *£hose present includ­ paign of city beautification in ines, "Andrew," "Tantivy," "Ta­ ed Sir John Shaw, Governor of SYDNEY President Truman. In letters ex­ bard," "Templar," and "Teredo." a man who has been trained, to changed between the President preparation for the celebration. offer your services by forwarding Trinidad; Brigadier Page, who and Mr. Sullivan, which were your name as a candidate for one commands the South Caribbean Phona: WB 1941 area; and Admiral Sir William made public by White House, it U.S. NAVY'S HELICOPTER. ATOMIC NAVAL WARFARE. of the Royal Naval or Royal Ma­ (lOlim) is made clear that the immediate According to a report publish­ As a result of war games car­ rine Reserves." Tennant, Crin-C. America and cause of the resignation was the ed in the "New York Times," ried out in the Caribbean recent­ West Indies Squadron. The existence of such a defence force action of the Defence Secretary, the U.S. Navy claims to have de­ ly, the United States Navy re­ FIRST US. WAVE TO SEA. Mr. Louis Johnson, in halting veloped the world's fastest heli­ ports that it definitely is learning based on Trinidad would not af­ construction of the 65,000-ton air­ copter. Designed specifically for how to defend itself against an The U.S. Navy set a precedent fect the duties or zone of influ­ craft carrier. Mr. Sullivan said operational use with the fleet, the atomic bomb, according to a re­ recently when the Wave Reser­ ence of the America and West Indies Squadron, which operates that Mr. Johnson's action repre­ streamlined XHJP-1 transport port in the "New York Herald vist, Lieut. Clarice Pierson, sailed AARONS sented the first attempt ever helicopter will carry five passeng­ Tribune." Full details were not on sea duty. Lieut. Pierson, who from Bermuda. It would act in made in the United States to pre­ ers, or three litter patients, in given because of security reasons, was formerly private secretary to a purely local capacity. The EXCHANGE vent the development of a pow­ addition to the pilot and co-pilot. but the Commanding Officer of Rear Admiral John R. Redman, squadron, which has been erful weapon. It recently made a world-record the invasion fleet in the Games— when he was deputy commander brought up to strength, consists HOTEL trial speed run of 131 miles an Rear Admiral Jerauld Wright- of the Western Sea Frontier, sail­ of two cruisers, four frigates, and auxiliary vessels. H.M.S. "DECOY." hour, thus surpassing the present is quoted as saying: "Although ed to Pearl Harbour as one of the world record at 124.315 miles an a large-scale amphibious opera­ ship's company bf the U.S. tran­ I GRESHAM STREET Larger than any destroyer now hour for rotary wing aircraft, held tion remains highly vulnerable to sport "General H. W. Butler." FIRST WOMAN A.D.C. in His Majesty's service, H.M.S. by the British Fairey "Gyrodyne." atomic weapon attack—we are Her training on board consisted SYDNEY "Decoy" was launched recently of administrative duties. Miss Jocelyn May Wooll- M It has also performed the first making definite progress along combe, Director of the W.R.N.S., from the Scotstoun Yard of the road to minimizing the effects Messrs. Yarrow and Co. Ltd. known loop by a helicopter. The has been appointed an Honorary XHJP-1 is an all-metal craft, built of such attacks." ! CANADIAN A/S SHIPS. Aide de Camp to the King. She Her length is 390 feet overall, The Canadian Defence Minis­ and her beam 43 feet. She will by the Piassecki Helicopter Cor­ is the first woman to receive this Only ft,. Basf Brandt poration, at Morton, Pennsylvan­ THE R.N. RESERVES. ter, Mr. Claxton, has announced honour. Miss Woollcombe, who mount six 4.5"-guns, six other that Canada will begin this year Stodad. guns, and two torpedo tubes. Of ia. As Second Sea Lord and Chief is 50 years of age, is a daughter to construct three anti-submarine of the late Rear-Admiral M. Dining Room all-welded construction, she is of Naval Personnel, Vice-Admir­ vessels "of a new high-speed type powered by geared steam tur­ LARGE FLEET AT "THE al Sir Cecil H. J. Harcourt, Woollcombe. She joined the Unsurpastad. not yet in production anywhere W.R.N.S. in July, 1939, and be­ bines. Special arrangements are ROCK." K.C.B., C.B.E., has made an ap­ else." The vessels are a Canadian being made to ensure that habit- The recent arrival at Gibraltar peal — by personal letter — to came Chief Officer at Plymouth. modification of British and Unit­ From May, 1940, to January, • ability and layout of accommoda­ of the Mediterranean Fleet and 200,000 ex-Naval ratings and ed States designs. tion spaces are the best possible; units of the Home Fleet to carry Royal Marines of World War II. 1943, she was Superintendent of with all-electric cooking fn the out combined exercises known as to join a Naval or Marine Re­ Personnel at W.R.N.S. head­ AARONS galleys, a modern laundry, mod­ "Operation Twostep," gave the serve. The letter points out that US. NAVY'S X-RAY. quarters, and afterwards Deputy EXCHANGE ern bathrooms with stainless steel people on "The i Rock" sight of "This is no routine request, but What is claimed to be the Director of Manning. She was HOTEL basins, fluorescent lighting, and the greatest concentration of Brit­ a special one concerning the de­ world's most powerful X-Ray gen­ made a C.B.E. in the 1944 Birth­ pastel colours in living spaces and ish warships since the assembly fence of our country, and to im- erator, capable of taking pictures day Honours List.

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ifci! i . . • ' . conditioned, and with new fur­ 'I noon he invited my wife and me nishings in the passenger accom­ '] along to his room for afternoon GENERAL CARGO modation. tea. We were just sitting down COT mlMh "General Cargo" will appear each issue, and you are invited to I was standing talking to the j to it, when he was called away *WBBr send along paragraphs, descriptive of incidents in your experience, Chief Steward in the Saloon En­ J] for something or other, and I for publication. Paragraphs should be kept short—not more than trance, which was fitted out with started to browse along his book­ Legal Service Bureau 300 words. Those used will be paid for on publication. new comfortable lounge seats shelf. Ml. Flaar. NrrciailU H.I.,1 Balldlaaj. 117 rill Una, S.dnr, Trlrpk.a. BW 1MB Write—or type if possible—your paragraphs, using a pen name, and settees, nicely upholstered. "Hello!" I said to my wife, >>-«rrh tulldlna T. and C. Hulldlna Nearby was a woman passenger FlltiE STREET. ADELAIDE QUEEN STREET. RRISBANE and post them, together with your name and address, to: The Editor, "Here's an old Todd and Telephone Central 6117 Trlrr.h.nr B 9134 "The Navy," 258 Beaconsfield Parade, Middle Park, Melbourne, S.C.6. with a small son of about six, to Whall's' Seamanship. 1 haven't A.VA. Haaaa D*pM7 Crown Solicitor". Utrr whom someone had given a ST. CEOBCE'S TERRACE, PERTB A.V.C MollHIn, There are few of you have not a nautical "short short" story that | seen one for a long time." • B 6S11 B 47*7 CLEVELAND STBEET. TOWNSVILLE pocket knife with which he was Saaan Houir Trlrphonr 1972 will interest your fellow readers—and we shall be pleased to publish busily engaged hacking at the up­ I took it down, opened it, and «SO LITTLE COLLINS STBEET. CaMMcrcUl Banking Campaa, af Svaanr, it if suitable. MELBOURNE. Talapkana BUHM EAST STREET. BOCKHAMrTON holstery of one of the new settees. behold—it was the old original, Pali** Balldia* Talaphaa* 3169 The Chief Steward spotted with my name written on the fly­ FRANKLIN V'HABF, HOBABT Cmwn Solicitor'. Ofnrr THE "CHARACTER" word—my name. Crossing to the leaf, together with the list of ships Tclrphonr Crnlril 64.3S COMMONWEALTH OFFICES him. He—the Chief Steward— WEST BLOCK. CANBERRA other wing, I timidly knocked on in which I sailed when it voyaged Trlrpkor.. Ml E.F. Although officially recog­ the "Old Man's" door, and in was a Cockney, with a Cockney's nised as an apprentice, after six turn of humour. More in sorrow with me, written -in my own fair Under Part il of the Re-eslablisbment and Employment Act 194S, answer to his raised eyebrows ut­ hand. members and ex-members of the Forces are entitled to preference in months in a shipping company 1 tered a respectful "Sir?" than in anger, he walked across certain circumstancea in engagement for employment. They also have to the boy and, disregarding the When our host returned, 1 other special rights—for example, in relation to housing and tenancy, found myself on the bridge in After fixing mc with a cold lad's mother, said, as he took the confronted him with my discov­ and moratorium and re-establishment benefits. charge of the cight-to-twelvc stare, he bellowed: "What the pocket knife from the industrious ery, at which he was as surpris­ The Commonwealth Atlorney-Gciir-ral's Legal Service Bureau advises, watch, but, of course, answerable do you think this ship is? A wiihr.ni charge, on all legal matters affecting servicemen or their infant: "Half a mo., son. You're ed as I. The book had been to the Master, whom I had found grasshopper?" % dependants. Any member or ex-member of the Forces who believes not getting a fair go. Come along given to him by a shipmate some he has not been given the treatment to which he is entitled, under the to he a bit of a "character," par­ I was stammering an explana­ with me, and I'll get you a butch­ years previously—not the chap to Re-establishment and Employment Act or otherwise, is invited to place ticularly in his addiction to fire­ tion about bearings when 1 was er's knife, and you can do the whom I had lent it—and it had the fad* of his case before the Legal Service Bureau, either by letter arms. cut short by his pointing to his or by personal call. job properly." been up in his bookcase ever One lovely, subtropical morn­ desk, where three revolvers lay B. V. EVATT, since. ing, we were plodding through the on the blotter. Their And the mother was highly in­ . Attorney-General of *b« Common wealth. famed Whitsunday Passage at a "See those revolvers?" dignant about the whole affair— It is not there now, for that but not with her darling child. leisurely 1'J knots: Dent Island "Yes, sir!" ship and bookcase lie somewhere light was practically abeam on "How many are there?" at the bottom of the North At­ the starboard side, and I was gaz­ "Three, sir!" HAPPY RETURNS. lantic, for she was the "Jervis ing in .< daydream at the lumin­ "Well! One at least, should Longshoreman. Longer ago Bay." X ous phosphorus which cascaded shoot?" than I like to think of, I bought Old "Todd and Whall" is with over the wavelets pushed aside "Yes, sir!" myself a copy of that old timer me here, for my host recognised HOTEL PLAZA by our blutf bows. Bearings "Then, watch your - self!" "Todd and Whall's Seamanship." my claim and returned it to me. every fifteen minutes was the It was when I was swotting away Otherwise it might now lie at order, and a casual glance at my ANYTHING TO HELP. for Second Mate. It helped me the bottom of the Indian Ocean, watch brought me back to real­ G.C.B. I once heard the cap­ through, and subsequently I por­ for he was subsequently in the WYNYARD STATION, ity, and at a minute past the tain of a ship which carried emi­ ed over it along the stony path "Maimoa" when that ship was quarter hour I descended to the grants out here, hearing of com­ to my Mate's and Master's Cer­ sunk by a German raider in GEORGE STREET, SYDNEY, chart room to lay off the latest plaints which had been made re­ tificates. 1940. ' bearing. garding the condition of a ship Then, some few years later, I N-S.W. For no apparent reason, the similarly employed, say that you swallowed the anchor, but old position plotted was in sharp con­ could give some people Bucking­ "Todd and Whall" remained on trast to the straight line of bear ham Palace, and they'd wreck it my bookshelf. One day I met by ings obtained earlier, it placed before you could say "Jack Rob­ chance a young chap who had An You a DRINKS AVAILABLE WITH MEALS. the ship about half a mile to port inson." been an apprentice with me. He was now after a Second Mate's of the course track. Having There was something in his ticket, and in a burst of generos­ Subscriber to checked it and ordered a suitable contention. I came out to Aus­ ity I offered to lend him my change of course to starboard, I tralia as a passenger in one of the "Todd and Whall's." He accept­ walked out into the port wing, ' Bay" Class steamers, which ed, promised to return it next The Navy? just as the "Old Man" climbed were originally built for the Com­ voyage, antf away he sailed. I the starboard ladder and disap­ monwealth Government Line, but have not seen him since. peared into the chart room. had been taken ovor by the Ab­ Some five minutes later a erdeen and Commonwealth Line. More years passed. I went to Order Your ' thunderous roar rent the air. This one Was making her first England as a passenger, and came HOTEL PLAZA shattering the otherwise peaceful voyage for her new owners, and, out again as passenger. During Copy Now morning, and an echo rebounded with passengers just embarked in the voyage I became friends with •from South' Molle, bearing one / London, was spicjc and span, re- the Chief Officer, and one after- / Ta* Naw IHt II

b£^ —JL. — • . ' . '. ''". ' • at Sea and Ashore WHAT THE NAVY IS DOING • • • • Survey Ships: be engaged in carrying out survey engaged -on survey work with the HIS month, applications close—on the 15th.—for entry into the ity for leave and urgent defects. H.M.A.S. Wdorego (C o m- work in Dominion waters. Pakistan Navy. When this period is completed, it T Royal Australian Naval College. Boys born in the year 1936 arc mander G. D. Tancred, D.S.C., H.M.A.S. "Lachlan." eligible to apply, and to sit for the qualifying education examination, is anticipated that she will depart R.A.N.) is in Sydney, having com­ Air Observers. from Sydney about the 10th. of The announcement of the ap­ With the acquisition by the which will be held in September next. Details of educational and medi­ pleted the survey work on which proval of the Commonwealth Gov­ cal standards required, conditions of service, rates of pay and pensions, August, to relieVe H.M.A.S. she was engaged at the Eastern end Royal Australian Navy of an air­ Bataan in Japanese waters. ernment of the loan of H.M.A.S. craft-carrier, the training of skilled prospects of promotion, etc., may be obtained on application to the of Bass Strait. "Lachlan" to the Dominion Gov­ H.M.A.S. Condamine is under­ and efficient naval air observers Secretary, Department of the Navy, Navy Office, St. Kilda Road, Mel­ H.M.A.S. Barcoo (Lieut.-Com- ernment was made by the Minis­ going refit, having been granted 50 will become one of its important bourne, S.C.I. This month, also, H.M.A.S. "Sydney" arrives at her mander D'A. T. Gale, D.S.C., ter for the Navy last month. The days' availability for leave, and 45 functions. The observers in "Syd­ name port, the principal naval base in Australia. The frigate, H.M.A.S. R.A.N.) having completed the sur­ Minister went on to say "that the for refit. It is anticipated that she ney" are all officers of the Royal "Lachlan" has been made available on loan to the New Zealand Govern­ vey work on which she was en­ ship would be placed at the dis­ will leave for New Guinea waters Navy who have been lent to the ment, to carry out surveys in Dominion waters. gaged in South Australian waters posal of the New Zealand Govern­ about the middle of next month. Royal Australian Navy until it is in Sydney. ment for a period of three years, H.M.A.S. ShoaJhaven (Lieut.- can train and provide its own. Ap­ FLEET DISPOSITIONS GENERAL. during which time she would be plications were recently invited to Commander Keith Tapp, R.A.N.) employed in the Dominion waters has returned to Australia from her H.M.A.S. "Sydney." fill 12 appointments as Lieutenants on Hydrographic Survey work and to specialise in observer duties, a The Aircraft Carrier: Sydney, where she is due to arrive period of duty with the Allied During her visits to Fremantle Oceanographic Research." Mr. on the 10th. On arrival at Syd­ Naval Forces in Japan, having and Melbourne on passage to Syd­ stipulation being that applicants H.M.A.S. Sydney (Captain R Riordan explained that the "Lach­ must already have qualified as ob­ R. Dowling, D.S.O., R.A.N.) ar ney, she will commence 50 days' been relieved there by H.M.A.S ney after her arrival in Australian lan" would be manned almost en­ availability for leave and 45 days Bataan. She has been granted 50 waters last month, the public were servers or navigators in one of the rived in Australia at Frcmantle on tirely by officers and men of the armed services. Selected applicants the 12th. of last month, departing for refit, sailing from Sydney on -i days' availability for leave, and 45 able only to see the new aircraft New Zealand Navy. An advance cruise about the 5th. August. for refit. carrier from the exterior, as it was will train both in the United King­ from the West Australian port on party of officers and men would dom and Australia pending th; the 13th.. and arriving at Mel­ 10th. Destroyer Flotilla: H.M.A.S. Murchison (Lieut.- not possible to arrange for the ship take over the ship, and it is antici­ Commander W. F. Cook, R.A.N.) to be open for inspection. In ex­ time when most of the training of bourne five days later. She re­ H.M.A.S. Warramimga (Cap­ pated that the main body of the observers will be done at the Royal mained at Melbourne until the tain (D) 10, Captain W. H. Har­ is in Sydney, and commences 45 plaining this, the Minister for the ship's complement would join her days' refit on the 7th. of this Navy (Mr. Riordan) said that Australian Naval Air Station at 23rd. of May, when she sailed for rington, D.S.O, R.A.N.) sailed in August of this year. Nowra, N.S.W. Jervis Bay, where she arrived on from Jervis Bay on the 4th. May month. H.M.A.S. "Sydney" was carrying Previous Activities. the 25th. While at Jervis Bay her to accompany the Flagship to West 10th. LS.T. Flotilla: a large amount of Aircraft Stores, H.M.A.S. "Lachlan" was built aircraft and members of her air Australia. She was at Bunbury including spare aircraft, and this Dunes—And Aircraft. H.M.A.S. Tarafcm (Lieut.-Com- in Australia as one of the frigates group were disembarked for the from the 10th. to the 13th. May, precluded the normal facilities to Observers in the Royal Austra­ mander H. K. Dwyer, R.A.N.R.) in the Commonwealth's naval ship­ Royal Australian Naval Air Sta­ Fremantle from the 13th. to the the public being made available. It lian Navy will fly in Firefly air­ was recently in Australia for leave building programme. She was tion at Nowra, 22 miles to the 23rd., and arrived at Adelaide on is, however, hoped that at a later craft containing two seats, one for and refit after being employed commissioned in February, 1945, north-west of Jervis Bay. The the 28th., whence she is due to sail date arrangements will be made to the pilot and one for the observer, shipping stockpile of material and and until the end of the war was who will also do die navigating. Sydney is due t( leave Jervis Bay on the 6th. of this month* for Syd­ equipment for the construction of afford the public an opportunity to employed as a survey vessel in The observer's function is not on the 2nd. of this month for Syd­ ney, arriving on the 10th. She is the Advanced Naval Base at visit the ship. New Guinea, the Halmaheras, only to navigate the aircraft for ney. After the air group has un­ expected to sail from Sydney on a Manus, and in the transfer of men H.M.N.Z.S. "Pukaki." the Philippines and Borneo. The the pilot, but also in addition to dergone refresher training a t cruise late in this month. and stores from the Royal Aus­ The New Zealand frigate ship carried out surveys in danger­ keeping a look-out for enemy sur­ Nowra, including dummy deck- H.M.A.S. Arunta is in Sydney. tralian Navy's base at Dreger Har­ H.M.N.Z.S. "Pukaki"—one of the ous waters on occasions, and the face ships, to seek out submarines landing practice, Sydney will join H.M.A.S. Bataan (Commander bour, New Guinea, to the Ad­ six Loch Class frigates transferred laying of buoys at Tarakan and either below or on the water. All other units of the Royal Australian F. N. Cook, D.S.C., R.A.N.) -s miralty Islands. to the Dominion Navy from the Brunei Bay prior to the landing of the time he is in contact by radio Fleet for Fleet exercises. in Japanese waters, where she re­ H.M.A.S. Labuan (Lieut.-Com- Royal Navy, and formerly H.M.S. Australians in May and June, with the big air-defence room in lieved H.M.A.S. Shoalhaven for a The Cruiser: mander G. M. Dixon, D.S.C., "Loch Achanalt"—arrived in Mel­ 1945. After the Japanese had sur­ the carrier, in which the location period of duty with the Allied H.M.A.S. Australia (Captain H. R.A.N.V.R.) has returned to^Aus- bourne last month on a very brief rendered, the ship was engaged for and movements of his own aircraft Naval Forces. She is to remain M. Burrell, R.A.N.) wearing the tralia after carrying out her work visit, reaching the Victorian capi­ a time transporting the Australian and all other aircraft belonging to there until early September, when Flag of Rear-Admiral H. B. Farn- at Heard and Macquarie Islands tal on the 7th. May, and sailing Army surveillance parties in the the carrier arc recorded, as well as she will be relieved by H.M.A.S. comb, C.B., D.S.O., M.V.O., Flag in connection with the Australian again for New Zealand on the Moluccas for the apprehension of the movements of all enemy ships Cnlgoa. Officer Commanding His Majesty's Antarctic Research Expedition. 9th. While in Melbourne, war criminals. Later, the frigate which he reports, or which have Australian Fleet, departed Jervis H.M.A.S. ijuiberon is in Syd­ Australian Minesweeper*: "Pukaki" disembarked two officers was employed in survey work in been picked up by radar. The Bay for West Australia on the 4th. ney. These two vessels, which are and 27 men of His Majesty's New King Sound, on the west coast of primary duty of the Firefly being of May, arriving at Fremantlc on H.M.A.S. <£uid^matcli is in Syd­ based on Flinders Naval Depot, Zealand Navy, who will form the Australia, 600 miles south-west of anti-submannr work, the aircraft the 11th., and remaining there un­ ney. comprise the Training Flotilla: advance party of the ship's com­ Darwin; and in the Spencer Gulf, is able to strike heavy blows if re­ til the 23rd., when she sailed for 1st. Frigate Flotilla: H.M.A.S. Gladstone (Lieut- pany of H.M.A.S. "Lachlan," South Australia. During there two quired, and it equipped with four which has been lent to the New Adelaide. She is at present in H.M.A.S. Culgoa. Senior Offi­ Commander R. A. H. Millar, surveys, the ship was commanded 20-millimetre cannon, and it can Zealand Government for three Adelaide, where she arrived on the cer (Commander J. Plunkett-Cole, RAN). by Licut.-Cormnander G. C. Little, cany eight rockets, each with a years, during which time she will 28th. May, and is due to leave 'R.A.N.) is undergoing refit, hav­ H.M.A.S. Latrobe (Lieutenant D.S.C., R.A.N., who is at present 601b. head, and several bombs of there on die 6th. of this month for ing been granted 50 days' availabil­ R. J. Scrivenor, R.A.N.). CMKMW e» p*«» *t -U., If* II . • t 'miHimO* H^P^H^H^PJP ~ This book is a labour of love— ly the more satisfactory course, and it reads as such. college was raised in any detail, BOOK REVIEWS though at the same time much and another two years before A History Of The As the author of an article in the more expensive one, namely, the Royal Australian Naval Col­ Admiral Sir Richard Henderson's the establishment of an Austra­ report advocating a Naval Col­ •y C.H.a. lege Magazine wrote on the oc­ lian Naval College where, con­ casion of Mr. Eldridge's retire­ lege with a form of training "at' ROYAL AUSTRALIAN "A HISTORY OF THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVAL currently with the necessary in the Mother Navy . . . This ment: "If his first book, 'The naval training, an Australian COLLEGE—From Its Inception In 1913 To The End Of World War Background of Eastern Sea-Pow­ meant a four years' course be­ NAVAL COLLEGE II. In 1945." By F. B. Eldridge. Published for the Author by spirit would be fostered and the ginning at the age of 12 or 13 er,' published in 1945, gives some traditions of an Australian Navy Georgian House, Melbourne, 1949. idea of the extent of his know­ at a College on shore followed would be built up." This was by six months at sea in J speci­ (From its inception in 1913 to the ledge of the naval side of history, N writing this History of the very good thing that this story of a decision with which, in spite ally selected vessel and three years his forthcoming work, 'A History of the added expense, few Aus­ end of World War II in 1945) I Royal Australian Naval Col­ the College is put on permanent Of The Royal Australian Naval and four months in the Fleet." lege, Mr. Frank Burgess Eldridge record. tralians would quarrel. College,' shortly to be published, At this time, Captain B. M. By was inspired by the purpose "to As to the feeling that the num­ Training at the College has not only reflects the mind of the Chambers arrived on loan from place on record the main events ber of serving officers produced throughout been modelled upon F. B. ELDRIDGE trained historian, but also reveals the Royal Navy to take up the in connection with the College was not at all in proportion to that of the Royal Navy. That it the characteristic which touches post of Second Naval Member Author of "The Background of Eastern during the first thirty-odd years the number trained at the Col­ did not suffer by being adminis­ us most closely here, his know­ of the newly-constituted Naval of its existence, from its founda­ lege, that was not the fault of the tered in Australia, and that the Sea Power," and for many years ledge of, and interest in, the in­ Board, and he was directed to in­ tion at Geelong in temporary College, nor of the individuals local atmosphere was right, has dividual Cadet Midshipmen who spect certain sites which were Senior Master, R.A.N. College. premises in 1913 to the end of who graduated but did not re­ been illustrated from time to time have come under his charge." considered as suitable or possible World War II. in 1945, and in main in the Service; but rather throughout the years of the life Now that the book has been pub­ for a Naval College. These In this magnificent production limited doing so to do honour to those the outcome of the whittling of the College by the way in lished, the truth in that Magazine were varied, including sites at * gallant officers of His Majesty's down of the Navy so that a num­ which graduates, when taking to 750 copies, the author's purpose has article is apparent. Barrenjoey, George's River, Port ! Australian Navy who fought so ber of the graduates who had various courses in the United been to place on record the main Hacking, Altona, on the Derwent well during the cataclysmic gone some considerable distance Mr. Eldridge rightly takes us Kingdom, have topped their events in connection with the College River in Tasmania, and at Jervis struggle through which thr Brit­ in their chosen profession found back to the early days of the classes in competition with offi­ during the first thirty-odd years of its Bay. Eventually, after much ish Commonwealth has just that profession denied to them. naval defence of Australia in cers of the Royal Navy and other time and many conferences, the existence, from its foundation at Gee passed." Even in their case the College order to see the Naval College in Dominion Navies. long in temporary premises in 1913 to schooling and its expense to the its right setting, and in a brief Jervis Bay site was decided upon. . the end of World War II in 1945, This reviewer feels that he has taxpayer was not wasted, for they and lucid review deals with the "In one respect," Mr. Eldridge but not until the necessity of succeeded admirably in that pur­ reminds us, "the Commonwealth starting the College before the and, in doing so, to do honour to "came back at the call of their three phases which led up to its pose and, in doing so, has per­ Country's need and gave of their establishment; the first phase, Government determined on a pro­ accommodation at Jervis Bay those gallant officers of His Majesty's formed a work of great service cedure which was a drastic de­ could be provided caused it to Australian Navy who fought so well best. These shared with the that of the purely British period to the Royal Australian Navy, Permanent Officers, and ably of naval defence; the second, the parture from the Admiralty be established temporarily at Os­ during the cataclysmic struggle through and to Australia generally. supplemented, the absolutely in­ era of auxiliary squadrons and practice. It was decided that in borne House, Geelong, the which the British Commonwealth ha? Australia the basis of entry Cadets of the First or 1913 Entry As he further says in his Pre­ valuable work of the Royal Aus­ subsidies; and the third begin­ should be thoroughly democratic; arriving at the College on the just passed. face to this work, there may have tralian Navy." ning with the decision to estab­ that the country should be able 13th. February, 1913—spending been times in the past when the lish an Australian squadron With extensive biographical supple to draw upon all ranks of so­ their first few days "in all the taxpayer has wondered whether Then, although they had drift­ which should be separate from, ment. Profusely illustrated with over ciety for the most suitable officers nakedness of mufti" because uni­ the great expenditure involved in ed off into other walks of life, yet an integral part of, the Em­ for its navy, and that no boy forms had not yet been receiv­ 100 photographic illustrations, includ­ training Australian officers for their College training, and years pire Navy. with the necessary qualifications ed, "though when some lanyards ing a full'page portrait of His Majesty- the Navy was justified; and has as Midshipmen, Sub-Lieutenants The decision to establish and should be hindered from entering were unearthed, these added the King (by special permission). felt that the number of serving and Lieutenants, paid dividends. maintain such a squadron, the College because of the lack of 'some little touch of uniformity officers produced was not at all , For lessons so learned are never manned as far as possible by Aus­ either financial or social standing to otherwise heterogeneous incon­ A book that is indeed worthy of a in proportion to the number train­ forgotten, and they were worth tralians, naturally caused the by his parents." In this particu­ gruity'." place in your library. ed in the College. There is no that much more to Australia question of training to be consid­ lar Australia led Britain, which question that the taxpayer has so when they returned to the Navy ered, and that of the future of­ has only recently instituted a Mr. Eldridge gives us the pic­ wondered and has so felt. Any for war service. ficers was a problem of the first similar basis of entry into the ture of the selection of these doubts he may have had regard­ There is probably no one as importance. As the new squad­ Royal Naval College. First Entries. There were one . ing the value he got for his well equipped as is Mr. Eldridge ron was, although separate from, hundred and thirty-eight appli­ Price: 42/- (post 104) The earliest suggestion regard­ money, should have been dis­ to have written this History. In to be an integral part of, the cants for the first examination, of ing the founding of an Austra­ pelled by the work done by the the first place he is, by training, Empire Navy, it was essential that whom thirty had qualified and lian Naval College seems to have ANGUS & ROBERTSON Royal Australian Navy—largely an historian. In the second, he training should he on the same been approved by the Selection' been made in March, 1906, when led, and as to permanent Naval was on the professorial staff of lines as that in Great Britain. Committee, a number in excess the Council of the University of LIMITED officers, officered, by graduates of the Royal Australian Naval Col­ The proposal that Australian of the vacancies. On the 4th. Melbourne sought information as the Royal Australian Naval Col­ lege since 1914—when it was at boys should be sent to England December, 1912, the Naval Booksslkn ft PuUiihtn to the best method of establish­ lege—durmg the recent war. But Osborne House, Geelong—until to train in the Royal Naval Col­ Board met at its central office in 89 CASTLEREAGH ST., SYDNEY ing a School of Naval Science in memories are short once a war his retirement- last year. In the lege was considered, but, "after Lonsdale Street, Melbourne. A MA 6111 the University; but it was some and its changing fortunes'from third place, his heart has been considerable reflection it was de­ representative of the Melbourne three yean later before the ques­ day to day are ever, so that it is a with the College throughout. cided to adopt what was decided­ "Argus" was invited by the Min­ tion of establishing a purely naval ister to be present "on the occa- i4 n> Nan J»M. IWt II _. . . . , Commodore First Class, fresh Public School. He give* u», also, sion of the actual selection of the Naval Member; and Rear Ad­ from outstanding service to his a background history of Western' first batch of cadet-midshipmen miral H. B. Farricomb, C.B., country and Empire, taken over port, and writes fully of the life among whom might reasonably D.S.O., M.V.O., the Flag Officer the command of the College BUCHANAN & BROCK and progress of the College in its be supposed to be a future Aus­ Commanding, His Majesty's Roy­ which he himself had entered as PTY. LTD. al Australian Naval Squadron. new setting. tralian admiral . . . Captain a Cadet - Midshipman nearly ENGINEERS, BOILER MAKERS, PORTABLE The war of 1939-45 brought Chambers explained something of For two years the College re­ thirty-three years 'before!" ELECTRIC ARC AND OXY-ACETYLENE new problems to the College—in­ the principles upon which the mained at Osborne House, Gee- WELDERS. choice was made. The Selection long; and Mr. Eldridge deals in cluding the possibility, which at The book is completed with Board had visited each capital some detail with its period there. one stage appeared to be some­ fourteen Appendices giving stat­ Manufacturers of: city and had interviewed person­ Meanwhile, arrangements were thing more than a probability— istical details concerning the Col­ Marine, Stationary, HoistingHoiating, Pumping I& Winding Engine*, ally every boy nominated. No going ahead for the establish­ of yet another change of situa­ lege, the Staff, and the Cadets; Steam Wiachea, Boiler*, TaTank*i " , See. social prejudices were permitted ment at Captain's Point, Jervis tion, owing to the fact that "it and a most excellent Biographical to enter into the selection and Bay. Two years later, at the was felt that the whole of the Supplement containing a potted TAR DISTILLING PLANTS. FACTORY REPAIRS. the last thing that the Board took commencement of the third year, Mornington Peninsula might pos­ biography of each of those who SHIP REPAIRS. into consideration was the social the Cadets moved into their new- sibly become a combatant area." have passed through the College. status of the lads who were home in New South Wales. Happily such an eventuality did Registered Office: known to the members of the "... the first Cadets to arrive not arise, but at the time there "The History of the Royal LORIMER STREET, SOUTH MELBOURNE, S.C.5. Board only by numbers, and in was considerable searching for an Australian Naval College" is in at the College"—at Jervis Bay — Telephones: MX 2281-2-3. fact, the actual names would only "were not impressed by the view alternative site for the College. every way a first class job, and be known when the final ballot -they did not see it, for they But the College remained at this reviewer would like to offer After Hour* Ring: T. Buchanan—WF SOW; J. Brock—U 3787. was taken. Senator Pearce stated came at night and a pouring wet the Depot, and "Life is very his congratulations to its author. that for seven positions allotted one at that. It was February much the same as it was at Gee- It is a workmanlike piece of to Victorians, sixteen had quali­ 10th., and at 10.30 p.m., in driv­ long or Jervis Bay and the rou­ work, and one on which no pains fied; in New South Wales, seven ing rain, the Third Entry of tine has changed but slightly have been spared. It is a valu­ had qualified for nine places, but Cadet-Midshipmen arrived in the . . . "The Cadet's day begins in able contribution to Australian C. EBELING & SONS PTY. LTD. two others had yet to be passed usual variety of rigs, cold and summer at 7 o'clock. After a naval history, for which we as medically fit. In Queensland wet and quite ready to do justice hot 'splash' followed by a cold should be grateful to Mr. Eld­ one boy had qualified for three to the hot cocoa and cold meat shower they fall in on the quart­ ridge; for, had he not done this places, in South Australia, with which was waiting for them." er deck at 7.30 and in winter go book now, the probability is that for a smart double of about five two vacancies, one; in West Again our author gives us an much that is now preserved in it hundred yards to warm up be­ Australia, with two vacancies, excellent historical background to would have been lost. fore breakfast. In summer the three had qualified, while in Tas­ Jervis Bay, from the time Captain before-breakfast exercise takes It is a book that should be ac­ mania, with one vacancy, two Cook christened what we now the form of signals or drill." And quired by all those who are in­ had qualified." know as Point Perpendicular the day goes on with sundry terested in the Royal Australian "Longnose Point on account of "It had been decided that "chores" such as boot cleaning, Navy, and most certainly every SHIP REPAIRS, MARINE ENGINEERS, BOILERMAKERS its figure'." where the number of approved etc.. Divisions, Prayers, Studies; naval officer who passed through AND WELDERS. candidates exceeded the number Space does not permit of de­ with Sport in the late afternoon, the College will desire to possess OWN FOUNDRY AND LABORATORY. of vacancies the question of al­ tailing here the story of the Col­ followed by a second "splash" one. Works: 7040 STEPHEN ST., YARRAVILLE, VIC. lotment would be determined by lege at Jervis Bay. You will have and shower, and, after supper, 'Phone: MW225J. ballot, the deficiencies in other to go to the book itself for that, evening classes to 8.30; the It is well illustrated by photo­ States being made up in the same and there you will find the story "turn-in" being sounded at 9 graphs—many of historic inter­ CABLES * TELEGRAMS: "EBELING," MELBOURNE. way from the Hst of qualified told in excellent manner. One p.m. est—and by most delightful and Reg. Office: 1 CASTLEMAINE ST., YARRAVILLE, W.I3, candidates who remained. Hav­ could quote at length, and is artistic drawings made for the VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA. ing thus explained the procedure, tempted so to do; but it must be And so Mr. Eldridge takes us author by Commander F. R. the Minister then placed all the left at that to whet your appetites. on, with the College, to the day, James, R.A.N., and Lieut.-Com­ numbers in a hat and the 'Argus' In 1930, afte. many vicissitudes at the end of the Second World mander G. C. Ingleton, R.A.N. representative was invited to do - feeling the icy bkst of econom­ War, when, Commodore Farn- (Retd.), the work of both these the drawing." ic gales among other things—the comb took up the command of "fficcrs, by its authenticity and * o £ & m i$ & i3 a a ii College had its second change of Flinders Naval Depot, which in­ artistic quality, contributing large­ And so the members of the cludes the Captaincy of the Col­ ly in charm and interest. There First Entry into the Royal Aus­ venue, to its present home at Flinders Naval Depot. Mr. Eld­ lege, "and became the first are also two characteristic ex­ tralian Naval College were R.A.N. Commodore Superin amples of the excellent humorous KINNEAR'S BRAND chosen, "among whom might ridge tells of all the moves and EMU counter moves that preceded the tendent of Training. In this way naval drawings by which Lieut- reasonably be supposed to be a the College which had been Commander N. M. Sherlock, ROPE, CORDAGE, 7 IM.Vf. and LINBN THREADS future Australian admiral." That transfer. Of the proposal to combine the Naval and Military founded just before the 1914-18 R.A.N. (Retd.) -"Lock" of the reasonable supposition has been War, had by the close of the Sydney "Bulletin",-has estab­ Manufactured by Geo. Kinneer tc Sons Pry. Ltd., 116 King St, Mdbomna justified. To date there are two Colleges; of the suggestion to send the Cadet Midshiprnen to 1939-45 War run, as it were, a lished a deserved reputation. Australian admirals who were complete cycle and a leading among the First Entry Cadets England, to Dartmouth; of the proposed opening of the College member'of that first original En The book is well presented and then selected -Rear Admiral J. try of 1913 had in 1945 as a produced. A. Collins, C.B., the present 1st. to paying pupils on the lines of a 1W Na*r June, mi 17

. - -^ i iniriAiliMi WHAT THE NAVY IS 0OIN6 ^oofioood from Does 33 Naval Appointments, Etc EX-NAVAL MEN'S various sizes. All these weapons are controlled and fired by the pilot. NAVAL FORCES OF Lieutenant (A) Edward Amson Association of Australia Cadrt-Midshipnifn. THE COMMONWEALTH. Barnes is appointed on loan from As was stated earlier in this AFTCHNTMENTS, ETC. the Royal Navy, with seniority His Excellency the Governor- Ptfni'li-CUal HI, M./.t*r n* K'«f column, the Royal Australian in rank of 24th June, 1946, dated Navy has invited applications from General in Council has approved 20th December, 1948. boys whose 13th. birthday is in of the following changes being have been accepted into the As­ Commander (E) Charles Wil­ Federal Council Federal Assistant Secretary to the 1949—that is, those born in 1936 made:— sociation, and South Australian liam Gordon Ham is appointed on Federal Council, to fill the vac­ —for entry into the Royal Aus­ PERMANENT NAVAL FORCES In response to a recent request State Sub-Sections have joined loan from the Royal Navy, with ancy caused by the resignation of tralian Naval College, where they OF THE COMMONWEALTH. from the Ex-Naval Men's Associ­ up 76 new members for the same seniority in rank of 30th June, ation of Australia, the Federal Mr. J. B. Warner. will commence their training as the (SEA-GOING FORCES.) period. It is expected that many AFfOrNTMENTS. 1947, dated 16th December, Messrs. J. H. Jamison and R. future officers in the Navigation, Council has now been advised hy more applicants will join the As­ Commander Robert John Hil­ 1948. D. Middleton of the ACT. Sec­ Gunnery, Torpedo-Anti-submarine, the Prime Minister that the Gov­ sociation through meeting our ary Stephens is appointed on loan tion and Western Australia re­ Aviation, Communications, En­ Lieutenant - Commander (L) ernment has declined to increase members and other old "ship­ from the Royal Navy, with sen­ spectively, have both been ab­ gineering or Electrical Branches. Bryan James Castles is appointed war pensions to a rate that would mates" at various re-unions and iority in rank of 31st December, sent from recent meetings of A qualifying examination will be on loan from the Royal Navy, compensate for the lowered pur­ Marches held in all Australian 1946, dated 16th December, Council owing to their lecture held in September of this year. Suc­ with seniority in rank of 22nd chasing power of the Australian States on last Anzac Day. 1948. pound. Copies of correspondence nights at the Sydney University cessful candidates will undergo a July, 1947, dated 28th March, to and from the Prime Minister clashing with those of the Fed­ Port Adelaide Sub-Section has strict medical examination by Naval Lieutenant - Commander John 1949. have been promulgated to all eral body. now become an Incorporated Medical Officers about November, Robert Lang is appointed on loan Sidney Victor Collins, Com­ from the Royal Navy, with sen­ State Councils and their respec­ Miss Margaret C. McLcod, a body; this Sub-Section being the and then, if passed medically fit, missioned Aircraft Officer, is ap­ iority in rank of 16th May, 1946, tive Sub-Sections. Federal Coun­ Scotch lass who served in the first to act since the last Federal will be interviewed by an Inter­ pointed on loan from the Royal dated 16th December, 1948. cils of ex-Servicemen's and Wo­ W.R.N.S. in Egypt during Conference advised and recom­ viewing Committee. Selected can­ Navy, with seniority in rank of men's organisations would wel­ World War II., has obtained a mended that Articles should be didates will enter the Royal Aus­ Lieutenant-Commander Basil 1st October, 1946, dated 16th come the creation of an alj part position in the Head Office of applied for to safeguard their tralian Naval College at Flinders Edward Boulding is appointed on December, 1948. Parliamentary Committee to in­ the Bank of N.S.W. Miss Dorcen own property. Naval Depot, Victoria, in the lat­ loan from the Royal Navy, with Paul Andrew Ryan, Tempor­ vestigate this oversight. Lack of ter part of January next year. seniority in rank of 1st August, Orr, of Belfast, another ex- Recent deaths of members re­ ary Warrant Aircraft Officer' engraving recipients' names on While at the College, every essen­ 1945, dated 16th > December, W.R.N.S., has undertaken to in­ ported to Federal Council are (Ordnance), is appointed on loan war medals, sent out by the De­ tial need of Cadet-Midshipman is 1948. troduce Miss McLeod to Miss those of Messrs. D. Barr and R. from .the Royal Navy, with sen­ partment of the Navy under reg­ provided by the Navy. They re­ Lieutenant Frank William Ena Land, Hon. Secretarv, and Urry, of South Australia, and iority in rank of 4th March, istered cover, has caused many ceive, entirely free of cost to their Hunt, M.B.E., is appointed on other members of the W.R.N.S. Messrs. P. Brooks and F. Willey, 1946, dated 16th December, 1948. members to complain of the pol­ parents, an education which reaches loan from the Royal Navy (Ex­ branch in N.S.W., at their next the last named being a founda­ Joseph Jago, Temporary War­ icy to the Association. The sub­ Matriculation standard, text books, change Officer), with seniority in monthly meeting. tion member of N.S.W. Section. rant Engineer, is appointed on ject has been taken up by Federal uniform and other clothing, food, rank of 16th August, 1942, dat­ Mr. G. W. Rayncr, Life Mem­ loan from the Royal Navy, with Council with the Minister for the Miss Edna Park is now carry­ quarters, pocket money, and medi­ ed 17th June, 1948. seniority in rank of 23rd June, ing out the office of Hon. Sec­ ber, who recently arrived back Navy. cal and dental treatment. On pass­ Lieutenant John Francis Ho­ 1944, dated 16th December, retary of Queensland Section un­ from a trip to England, attended ing out of the Naval College, a ward Wheeler is appointed on 1948. til the Annual elections which the funeral of Mr. Willey, a Mr. F. F. Anderson (Federal Cadet-Midshipman goes to Eng­ loan from the Royal Navy (Ex­ takes place in August. Miss Park former member of the Royal Ma­ Douglas Royston Matthews, President) is at present on a land for training with the Royal change Officer), with seniority in can be contacted at the State rines. Temporary Warrant Engineer, is short business trip to the United Navy. He joins the training cruiser rank of 16th January, 1943, dat­ Stores Department, William St., The Director of the Common­ appointed on loan from the Kingdom and Norway, and will (H.M.S. "Devonshire") for two ed 17th January, 1949. Royal Navy, with seniority in represent Australia, as Common­ Brisbane. Applicants for mem­ wealth Employment Service cruises, Cadet-Midshipman form­ Lieutenant Ian Beresford Hart rank of 28th January, 1945, dat­ wealth Director of Fisheries, at bership are advised to attend the wishes to advise members of the ing part of the crew and working nell is appointed on loan from the ed 16th December, 1948. the first meeting of the Interna­ Brisbane meetings which arc held Association that the 30th June, tiie ship. On passing out from the Royal Navy, with seniority in tional Whaling Committee in in the Alice St. Naval Depot, on 1949, is a significant date as far Charles Beresford Britton, training cruiser he is promoted to rank of 1st December, 1944, dat­ London. Whilst in England Mr. the first Monday each month. as serving members of the Forces Midshipman and Appointed to an Temporary Warrant Engineer, is ed 1st March, 1949. appointed on loan from the Roy­ Anderson will endeavour to call Victoria State Council has re­ are concerned, as Reinstatement Aircraft-carrier, Battleship, o t Lieutenant - Commander (A) al Navy, with seniority in rank on officials of ex-Naval bodies, ceived the nomination of Mr. rights may be exercised in ac­ Cruiser for about 16 months' Fleet John Kelsey Cannon is appointed of 13th March, 1946, dated 16th and may have time to visit some Wm. J. Pearce for Life Member­ cordance with the provisions of Training. Subsequently he takes on loan from the Royal Navy, December, 1948. of the Royal Naval Old Com­ ship of the Association;, the re­ the Re-establishment and Em­ courses in the United Kingdom, with seniority' in rank of 12th rades' Associations' meetings. The commendation will be dealt with ployment Act, hy those persons success in which brings his confir­ Ian Fyfe Bathgate, Raymond December, 1946, dated 16th De­ Federal President is expected to at the second State Conference of who are discharged on or before mation as Sub-Lieutenant; and he Campbell Beartin, Howard Paul cember, 1948. return to Sydney about the end Sub-Sections, which opens at the 30th June, 1949, providing returns to Australia at the age of Berger, Philip Graham Brook, of June. Melbourne on Saturday, 23rd they enlisted previous to ?0th. -1 or 22 years for appointment to Lieutenant (A) Arthur George James Brian Campbell, Robert June, 1947. Full particulars of Johnson is appointed on loan Thomas Mitchell Chandler, John Mr. John K. Stafford, a form­ July. Sub-Sections in the South­ # •i ship of the Royal Australian Re-establishment Rights may be from the Royal Navy, with sen­ Barrington Collins, Harry Dean er Chief Yeoman of Signals, ern State have entered 197 new Navy, well launched on his career had on application to the Central iority in rank of 1st January, Cook, Anthony Russell bowling, ' whose last ship was H.M.A.S. members for the first quarter of as a Naval Officer. 1949; N.S.W. State Council has Ex-Servicemen's office in each 1945, dated 16th December, Michael Ernest Harold Earlam, "Hobart," has been nominated 1948. Alan George Ferris, Haliburton for election to the office of Hon. advised that 75 new applicants State. CoMinuad Oft polo 41 Juno, I too Tie *•»» i " Charles Findlay, Keith Ronald Forsey, Reginald Galfry Ormond 1947, dated 24th October, 1948. Gatacre, William Edward Roger (Amending Executive Minute Hawke, Peter John Hocker, Mal­ No. 6 of 17th February. 1949.) PORT LINE LIMITED colm Douglas Jackson, Edwin LOAN TO ROY At NAVY FOR SfcRVTCfc Trenchard Keane, Michael John AND TRAINING Acting Lieutenants Kenneth Regular —**•«•%« for: Stanley Keay, GeofFrey Thomas Douglas Gray, D.F.C., Albert Kennedy, Edward Alfred Mark UNITED KINGDOM and CONTINENT, Leslie Oakley, D.F.C., Keith Fred­ Mortensen, Henry Francis Od­ erick Wilson and Noel Stewart TAXING WOOL, REFRIGERATED and GENERAL ium, Robin John Rex Pcnnock, Ferris are loaned to the Royal CARGO, ALSO LIMITED NUMBER SALOON John Davidson Reece, Malcolm Navy for service and training, PASSENGERS. Stewart Unwin, John Hamilton dated 20th February, 1949. Watts, Brian Hoard Wilson and TRANSFERRED TO RETIRED LIST. For further particular* apply: WHEN IT'S AN Terence Edwin Kevin Wishart Charles Edmond Yarham, Act­ arc appointed Cadet Midshipmen, ing Commissioned Writer Officer, PORT LINE LTD., 1-7 BENT ST., SYDNEY. dated 1st January, 1949. is transferred, to the Retired (Inc. in England) Philip Graham Newman Kc List, dated 10th February, 1949. Or Agents: Hxibe * nedy and Donald Procter Weil EMERGENCY LEST. arc appointed Cadet Midshipmen TRANSFERRED TO RETTRED LIST. GIBBS BRIGHT & CO., 37 PITT ST., SYDNEY. Shipwright Lieutenant - Com­ (Special Entry), dated 1st Janu­ Abo at BRISBANE, MELBOURNE, ADELAIDE, PERTH, YOU START mander William John Thomas ary, 1949. White, M.B.E., is transferred to and NEWCASTLE. Ian McLean Crawford, Francis the Retired List and re-appointed Houston Lang and John Charles for temporary service, dated 19th Todd are appointed Cadet Mid­ February, 1949. shipmen (S), dated 1st January, TERMINATION OF APPOINTMENT SHERATON 1949. The appointment of Captain "MAIN" COALS PROMOTIONS. Ernest Clifford Rhodes for tem­ FROM THE MAITLAND (N.S.W.) COALFIELD Lieutenant (E) John Frederick porary service is terminated, dat­ PELAW MAIN—RICHMOND MAIN FURNITURE POLISH Bell is promoted to the rank of ed 11th February, 1949. ABERMAIN—STANFORD MAIN Lieutenant-Commander (E), dat­ CITIZEN NAVAL FORCES OF for Gat, Railways, Manufacturers and Householders. ed 1st March, 1949. THE COMMONWEALTH. This amazing American invention, ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVAL RESERVE STOCKRIN&TON COALS Geoffrey Thomas Gafford, (SEAGOING). Chief Petty Officer, Official Num­ RETTRED LIST. unsurpassed for Bunkers. ber 19585, and Donald Moreton RESIGNATION. RESTORES FURNITURE LOVELINESS The resignation of Thomas FIRST GRADE STEAM COAL FROM THE Holmes, Petty Officer, Official Hartley Smith of his appointment "BOREHOLE" SEAM, NEWCASTLE (N.S.W.). Number 23231, are promoted to as Lieutenant is accepted, dated the rank of Gunner (Acting), Apply tot • 25th January, 1949. dated 5th March, 1949. ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVAL RESERVE. Conolly Peter William Bryant, TRANSFER TO RETIRED LIST. lift.BROWN & ABERMAIN SEAHAM SHERATON is procurable Chief Shipwright, Official Num­ George Henry Valentine ber 24655, is promoted to the Smith, Commissioned Bandmast­ rank of Warrant Shipwright er, is transferred to the Retired CMJJERKS UMTED List,,dated 13th February, 1949. at all leading stores (Acting), dated 23rd February, Head Office: Shipping Office: 1949. ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVAL VOLUNTEER RESERVE. SYDNEY. NS.W. NEWCASTLE. Kenneth Bain Armstrong, APPOINTMENTS. Chief Petty Officer Writer, Offi­ Harold Frederick Irwin, Tem­ cial Number 21561, is promoted porary Engineer Lieutenant-Com­ to the rank of Warrant Writer mander, Royal Australian Naval Specialised Officer (Acting), dated 25rd Feb­ Reserve (Sea-going), is appointed THE POETRY OF MOTION ruary, 1949. Engineer Lieutenant-Commander, Engineering CONFIRMATION IN RANK. with seniority in rank of 1st Sep­ Acting Lieutenant Reginald Al­ GREYHOUND RACING tember, 1947, dated 5th January, conducted at Service! bert Wild, D.F.C., is confirmed 1949. Supplying you with all fh« btit in mjUriJi and maffiodi from horn* And in the rank of Lieutenant, with Jack Miscamble Shaw is ap­ HAROLD PARK ovtnt«i. Th«M include revolutionary protaiwt iueh at, tKe tclonca of seniority in rank of 16th Decemb­ pointed Lieutenant (Special m»t«l tprsyincj and tha fachmqu* of C*rboloy Cam«nt*d Carbidai- er, 1944, dated 14th February, Take Balmain, Birchgrove, Lilvfield and Forest Lodge Trams. Wafch for ttia word "Wotfaolt," lymbol of onginoartng dovotopmairt. Branch), with seniority in rank 1949. of 9th May, 1945, dated 11th 10 RACES 7.30 P.M. Acting Sub-Lieutenant John May, 1946.—(Ex. Min. No. 15 ALL AMENITIES FOR THE PUBLIC. WESTCOTT HAZELL Alexander Matthew is confirmed —Approved 4th May, 1949.) NEXT THREE MEETINGS: ENGINEERING & STEEL LTD. in the rank of Sub-Lieutenant, W. J. F. RIORDAN, with seniority in rank of 1st June, SATURDAY, JUNE 11, JUNE 18, JUNE 25. Minister for the Navy.

T»« Navy "

THE U.S. MERCHANT FLEET iod of 10 years, earning;* exceed classes of accommodation. The Continued from p«g, 17 10 per cent, a year, half the ex­ keel of the first of these two Under a Presidential ruling of cess goes to the Government. vessels was. laid on the 29th. POOLE & STEEL LTD. THE April, 1948, the Maritime Com­ Tramp ships, coastwise and inter- March last at the Bethelehem mission must complete the sale of coastal (Atlantic to Pacific) ves­ Steel Company's shipyard at a new ship to the operating line sels, and other ships not operat­ Quincy, Massachusetts. The sec­ ing on foreign routes, are ex­ ond ship will be started next before ordering construction. The 43 STEPHEN ST., BALMAIN, CARLTON law permits the operating line to cluded from subsidy. Their con­ month. make a 25 per cent, down pay­ struction and operation are left entirely to the private operator. The new liners will be fully N.S.W. HOTEL ment on its part of the cost and air-conditioned, and will embody to pay the remainder in 20 an­ The present post-war building modern styling and stream-lining, nual instalments. Should the programme is the result of long- with raked stems, masts, and fun­ United States Navy, which range studies by the United nels. Eight decks will be provid­ General Engineers, Boilermakers, Shipbuilders, Dredge Builders 56 CASTLEREAGH ST., checks on emergency service­ States Maritime Commission, be­ ed for passenger staterooms, pub­ ability, require defence features, gun before the war had ended. lic rooms, and recreational areas. the cost of these is fully borne Plans, Specifications and Estimates prepared SYDNEY, N.S.W. The Commission's recommenda­ The ships will have a speed of by the Government. tions were adopted by a commit­ mor. than 25 knots, and a cruis­ for Mining Dredges and Plant of all kinds. tee of citizens, appointed by The wages paid to American ing range of about 22,000 miles. Electric Welding and Oxy-Acetylene Work. President Truman for a further The two ships will also incorpor­ seamen require the second type study of Merchant Marine re­ THE of subsidy, that for operation. ate a number of important de­ quirements. Findings were finally fence features which will permit While not higher than those paid endorsed by a committee of Cab­ to many American workmen, their conversion, if necessary, into Telegrams: inet Members and by the Na­ two of the fastest troop carriers wages for American seamen are tional Military Establishment. CARLTON much higher than those paid to at the country's call. Each will be "POOLSTEEL," BALMAIN, N.S.W. About the work of the Commis­ capable of handling 5,000 troops. seamen of most other nations. sion and the committees, Presi­ Living conditions for American When they are completed—' HOTEL dent Truman said in August, which is anticipated at the end of crews have to conform to stand­ 1948: "This ship building pro­ ards set up by the Government. next year—they will be operated gramme ... is developing as the by American Export Lines, and These are high. The "operating result of co-operation in the Gov­ " differential subsidy" is based upon will run in the Mediterranean ernment and between the Gov­ service. the difference between costs of ernment and industry." The pro­ labour, repairs, upkeep and food gramme is carried out by the on American vessels and on non- Three other liners contracted KEEP HIM FIT Maritime Commission, which for in August are of the combin­ FOR all Machinery Sc Equip­ American vessels. It varies great­ sets each year's production quota ly with the routes traversed. In ation passenger-cargo type. Of ment required in the Pressed as Congressional appropriations 11,453 gross tons each, these will all instances the subsidy is meas­ become available and shipping Metal, Canning SC Cannister ured so that the American ship­ be 536 feet long and will have a' Health is his Trade, consult . . . companies can arrange for paying beam of 73 feet, a speed of 19 builder ana operator is put on an their part of the construction equal footing with the builders knots, and accommodation for greatest asset! costs. It is designed to create 228 passengers in one class. They and operators of other nations and maintain an American Mer­ without gaining an advantage. are being built at a cost of 10,' W. G. GOETZ & chant Marine capable of living up 500,000 dollars each, and are Naturally you dream of his That is the limit set by law. With­ to its commercial and defence out subsidy, American lines scheduled for delivery in mid- future and the position you hope functions in the post-war world, 1950. They will operate in the' would be at a forbidding com­ and to stimulate shipping gener­ he will win in the world; but SONS LTD. petitive disadvantage. American President Line's ally. be sure his health will stand the (EM 1875) around-the-world service. strain by giving him Cornwell's Subsidies are bound to a set The largest passenger vessel DIEMAKERS & ENGINEERS of conditions. Construction con­ With the first contracts it let in under the American flag is to be Extract of Malt. There is nothing tracts go to the lowest bidder. August, 1948, the Maritime Com­ HALL ST., SPOTSWOOD a new high-speed liner for the like it for building sound digestive organs, Yards must report to the Mari­ mission attacked the most con­ North Atlantic. It is intended MELBOURNE time Commission on coats, pro­ strong bones and healthy tissues. spicuous shortcoming of the that it shall be the most modern fits, and salaries of yard officials. American post-war Merchant passenger ship afloat. Its chief SOLD EVERYWHERE. Earnings in excess of 10 per cent, Fleet—the lack of passenger lin­ designer, William Francis Gibbs, on the contracted price go to the ers. One contract is for two pas­ Government. Operating subsidies of Gibbs and Cox, Naval Archi­ senger ships, costing more than tects and Marine Engineers, of CORNWELL'S go only to liners on 31 essential 25,000,000 dollars each. The de­ world routes. The Commission News York City, is confident that For all enquiries nleioe sign calls for vessels of 20,500 the ship will be capable of main­ sets the routes, the schedules, the gross tons each, with a length of 'Phone WW 7695 numbers of sailings, the quality taining schedules comparable to 638 feet, a beam of 80 feet, and those of the fa'test passenger lin­ NATURE'S TONIC FOOD of service and other standards for a speed of 23 knots. Each ship FOB YOUNG AND OLD private operators. If, over a per­ er in the North Atlantic. will carry 972 passengers in three The Maritime Commission, and n» na«r June, |O40 4} . _ -

next fiscal year. During .this per­ the United States Lines, the the Newport News Shipbuilding iod the Maritime Commission ex­ prospective owner-operator, have and Drydock Company will be pects that 17 vessels will be built Members are reminded that agreed on the new liner, which for 67,350,000 dollars, and the under the programme. Among nominations for office-bearers for will be of 48,000 tons, and is es­ addition of costs for furnishings, these are three more combination the 1948-49 financial year close A. BAGLEY & SON plans, specifications and other timated to cost approximately 70,- passenger-cargo ships, and two at the monthly general meeting 000,000 dollars; and the New­ items not normally included in a prototype freighters. The pro­ WATSON'S 211-213 BEAMISH ST., on July 4. The election will take port News Shipbuilding and Dry- shipyard bid will bring the total totype freighters will serve as CAMPSIE. dock Company, of Virginia, has to 70,373,000 dollars. models for ships to be built in place at the annual meeting the N.S.W. been notified to proceed with The completion of the ship will quantity in case of national env following month. construction. The new ship will ergency. Their outstanding char­ PARAGON The largest and moat provide an entirely new under­ Illness has compelled Mr. J. be 980 feet in length, will carry writing problem for insurers, acteristic would be high speed up-to-date Shoe Store about 2,000 passengers, and have since the maximum insurance on and improved loading gear. Nixon to temporarily relinquish in the district was about 1,000 of a crew. Extreme any single hull at present is no­ the secretarial reins. Miss E. HOTEL established by us in secrecy surrounds the planning where near the value of the new Also included in the Maritime Park is carrying on during his and cost analysis going on in 1920. liner. The only comparable in­ Commission's construction sched­ absence. Washington regarding the new surance situation by which the ule are 20 tankers. In the case ship, but the use of newly de­ steamship company and the Gov­ of tankers, Government financings A new social committee has veloped alloys capable of with­ ernment may be guided involves is limited to the cost of certain' been formed consisting of Messrs. standing higher temperatures and "Defence Features," sometimes REPAIRS? YES! the Cunard liners "Queen Mary" C. G. Jessen (chairman), G. C pressures than in previous marine and "Queen Elisabeth," the pres­ required by the United States propulsion units is said to be the ent premier ships of the world in Navy. In most cases, the defence Brown, G. Arber, T E. Power, CIRCULAR QUAY Best of leather and key to the plans. cost, size, and earning power. feature is added speed. Defence B. Harris, P J. Barnett, and Miss workmanship Neither of these vessels is insur­ tankers will make 20 knots. Of S. Hope. The ship will be expected to ed at anywhere near actual re-' 24,000 deadweight tons, they will guaranteed. surpass the 31-knot average made placement value. be 623 feet long. They have a Because of last»year's fiasco, SYDNEY, N.S.W. by the "Queen Mary" on her re­ beam of 83 feet, a draft of 32 due to heavy expenditure for or­ cord passage, and to carry 12,000 In his Budget Message early feet, and 20,000 shaft horse ganising, catering and amusement troops as a transport if necessary. this year, President Truman re­ power. tax, etc., the Annual Ball will not 'PHONE: LF3183. Delivery is expected in three commended to Congress new allo­ be held this year. cations for shipbuilding in the years. The building contract with EX-NAVAL MEN'S ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA Continued from p.g. 38 Vacancies still exist in the >' Naval Dockyard Police, and ap­ WINNS plications are invited from ex- Naval men and Naval Reservists. Minimum rates of pay are £8/6/3 per week, with higher KEEN MERCERY VALUES commencing rates according to SPLENDID QUALITY "CRYSTAL" STRIPED BRITISH those with previous service. Full SUEDE FINISH FLANNELETTE PYJAMA SUITS. particulars can be obtained from ill our State Secretaries. A good wearing medium weight quality, in bright coloured striped designs in colourings of Blues, Fawns, Pinks and The Association still requires Greens. vacant houses, fla.s or other ac­ • <*v -1 The Sydney Steel All size* commodation for its members and PRICE _ .._. _ 25/6 prospective migrants: informa­ tion concerning housing facili­ ties will be gladly welcomed by ! Co. Pty.Ltd. State and Sub-Section Hon. Sec­ HEAVYWEIGHT ALL WOOL SLEEVELESS • retaries. MANUFACTURERS OF PULLOVERS. ALL CLASSES OF A;tractive fancy stitch design in plain shades of Green, Mr. Ken Coonan, Australian STEELWORK Grey, Maroon, Brown or Fawn. Official Observer with the Japan­ • All sizes ese whaling fleet, who was attach­ Edinburgh Road, ed to the "Nissin Maru," and was MARRICKVILLE PRICE 35/- taken off this ship after develop­ e ing an eye infection, is still un­ OXFORD STREET, SYDNEY der hospital treatment which we WINNS LTD. REDFERN, ASHFIELD, AUBURN, HURSTVILLE «c NEWCASTLE trust will effect a permanent cure.

Tk. H.vyJ Jun.. 1944

• _ 1 ANNIVERSARIES OF THE MONTH In 1943,.the month of June saw Answer» to Nautical quiz Continued from p.g. 20 the Allied attacks well under way in the South-West Pacific, with (1) The difference is in the or them. It was carried NETTUFDLDS vessels came together — were: landings at Nassau Bay in New term, which is for the same out with success by Ad­ "Don't give up the ship." PRODUCTS Guinea, and at Rendova in the thing, the pipe through miral Togo against the Rus­ SCREWS which the chain cable sian fleet at the Battle of PTY. LTD. Coming up towards our own Solomons; and H.M.A.S. Ships passes between the fore­ Tsushima in 1905, and by times, it was in June, on the 2 3rd. "Australia," "Hobart," "Arunta," castle and the chain lock­ Admiral Jellicce against the ARE 426-436 ItimUy St. and "Warramunga" covering land­ of the month in the year 1913, er. In the Navy it is known German fleet at the Battle USED ings on the 30th at Woodlark, as the naval pipe, in the of Jutland in 1916. In the •URNLEY that the first apointment to com­ Kiriwina, and the Trobriand Is­ Merchant Service as the 1939-45 War, it was most IN VICTORIA mand His Majesty's Australian spurling pipe. effective against the Japan­ lands. On the 10th. of that month, EVERY Fleet was made, Rear-Admiral Sir ese ships at the Battle of • the corvette H.M.A.S. "Wallaroo" (2) "Standard displacement," George E. Patey hoisting his flag ' Surigao Strait in 1944, Specialised was sunk in collision off Western which was brought into be­ when the U.S. Admiral, BRITISH in the battle cruiser H.M.A.S. Manufacturers Australia; and on the 25th. the ing at the Washington Admiral Oldendorf, execut­ in all types of "Australia." cruiser "Shropshire" was transfer­ Naval Conference in 1942, ed the manoeuvre. SHIP is the displacement of a Petrol, Oil and other red from the Royal Navy to the Storage and Dispensing On the 3rd. June two years vessel complete, but with­ (7) Sloops first appeared in the Royal Austalian Navy. Equipment. later the Royal Australian Navai out fuel and reserve feed Royal Navy in the reign of • Bridging Train embarked for ser­ water on board. Charles II. They were then Telephones: vice overseas in the 1914-18 War. June, 1944, was a red-letter (3) Westernport was discover­ single masted vessels with month for the R.A.N., for it was ed by George Bass on. his a smack sail. The name NETTLEFOLDS JA5251 On to the Second World War, in that month that a graduate of whaleboat voyage from was probably derived from JA52S2 and in June, 1940, with Italy's the Royal Australian Naval Col­ Sydney, from which port the small, shallow draught PTY. LTD. entry, the R.A.N, began a very lege, John Augustine Collins, as he sailed in December, Dutch "sloops," or possibly busy time. It was on the 12th. of Commodore J. A. Collins, C.B., 1797; entering Western- from the French "chal- SUNSHINE oupe." T.I.grams: the month that the converted Aus­ assumed command of the Royal port on the 5th. January, 1798, he named it "from VICTORIA Eppcol, Melbourne tralian coastal passenger steamer Australian Naval Squadron. There (8) A. M. C.'s are Armed "Manoora," as an armed Merchant were happenings in many parts of its relative situation to Merchant Cruisers. In the Cruiser, intercepted the Italian the world. On the 6th. the Allies every known harbour on recent war, early attempts liner "Romolo" near the Solomons, invaded Normandy. On the 8th. the coast, Western Port." •) counteract enemy bomb­ the Itaiian ship scuttling to avoid H.M.A. Ships "Australia," "Shrop (4) "To open 'A' arcs" means ers included the catapulting capture. It was in June also, that shire," "Arunta," and "Warra­ to bring the ship on a of fast fighter aircraft from THE the first Italian surface warship munga" were in an Allied force in course on which all guns special catapults fitted on ALEX H. MACKIE was sunk, when H.M.A.S. "Syd­ a chasing action with Japanese de­ of the main armament will the after end of merchant ney" sank the destroyer "Espero" stroyers. On the 14th. the Ameri­ bear on the target. ships. Ships so fitted were ENGINEER FLEET-FORGE by gunfire on the 28th. of the cans landed on Saipan in the (5) The "Africa Shell" was "Camships" — C.A.M.'s — month. Marianas. sunk in the Indian Ocean catapult armed merchant­ 9-11-3 THERRY ST., PTY. LTD. in the Mozambique Chan­ men. These were followed by converted merchant es­ MELBOURNE, VICTORIA In June of the following year, The drive was gathering momen­ nel in November, 1939, by cort carriers, which carried 913 LORIMER ST. Australian naval units were operat­ tum and extending, so that 12 German raider "Graf Spee." months later, in June, 1945, we (6) The manoeuvre known as cargo in addition to air­ ing in the Syrian campaign, and on craft which they could fly find the Australian Ninth Division "Crossing the T"" was that STH. MELBOURNE the 30th. of the month Australia off and land on. These landing in North Borneo at Brunei for concentrating fire on a lost her first ship in action when ships were known as "Mac VICTORIA "Waterhen" was bombed and sunk Bay, with H.M.A. Ships "Hobart," part of the enemy's. fleet which was developed when ships," or M. A.C.'s — on the Tobruk Ferry run. "Arunta," "Manoora," "Westra Merchant aircraft carriers. METAL STAMPINGS ENGINEERS lia," "Kanimbla," "Lachlan," "Bar- the naval battle consisted OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS of the line ahead gun duel June, 1942, saw the Battle of coo," "Hawkeabury," and "Glen- (9) H.M.A.S. "Australia" was Cor the STRUCTURAL * with ships given mobility built by John Brown & Co., Midway, the second defeat suffered elg" among those present. MOTOR AND AIRPLANE by steam power. In the of Clydebank, Glasgow. MECHANICAL by the Japanese in the Pacific War. INDUSTRIES. That was during the period 3rd. And now we come to another manoeuvre, one line crosses (10) The "Nairana." During the MARINE to 6th. of June. On the 16th., June, that of the present year, ahead of that of its oppon­ 1914-18 War, she was tak­ H.M.A.S. "Nestor"—one of the 1949, and another "Sydney" arriv­ ent, the manoeuvre enabl­ en over by the Admiralty Quotation* given for all H.M.A. "N" Class destroyers— ing in her name port, H.M.A.S. ing the crossing fleet to and fitted out as an aircraft • i of work. was sunk by dive bombers in the "Sydney," the Royal Australian bring ail its guns to bear carrier, and did good ser­ Mediterranean; and on the 21st. Navy's first aircraft carrier. It on an enemy whose leading vice in the North Sea with TELEPHONE: Tobruk, for which the famous .will be an anniversary to remem­ ships could only fire with the Grand Fleet, which is Far all tnquiric. plnMe their forward turrets whilst why her name is now given M X 5 2 i 1 (6 lines) "Ferry Service" had worked so ber in the future, as marking yet 'Phoor FJ3C29. hard, was captured by the Ger­ another milestone in that Navy's the guns of the others were to one of the present car­ masked by the ships ahead mans. career. riers of the Royal Navy.

Tfc. Ha JVM. 1*4* 47 • . »iiftia&i rURTLE-IACK DESTROYER DAYS been six weeks preparing for us. After entering, my cap and mon­ ITiey looked it! key jacket were taken by a cove Continued from pag* 23 who turned out to be the butler/ The following day a signal from ?nd I was ushered upstairs, and, whole length of the canal, were the Royal Yacht told us that the entering a nice room, was intro­ lined with German troops, about Germany Navy were entertaining duced to Fader, who was a retired Consult Free . . . 10 paces apart. us, and every available man from Admiral. And next came big Brud- our ships was to rendezvous at a der, of the Navy. They wanted As we opened Kiel Harbour, we palatial hall. to load me up with eats and drinks, lower deckites got the surprise of Prior to landing, we were or­ but I just could not take it. We HERR RASSMUSSEN our lives to find the splendid ships had a good yarn about our respec­ of a German fleet anchored in re­ dered to be on our best behaviour, tive Navies, and they drove me THE Celebrated Danish Herbalist, Blood, Skin and Nerve Specialist, view order, with the Kaiser's yacht and to salute all German officers, down to my 30-knotter, and that "Hollenzollern" among them. We whom we should know by their who has had over 40 years' experience In the treatment of all was the last I saw of my beautiful had thought we were the only uniforms. " diseases of men and women. Fraulein. Navy in the world. But alongside Darn it all, they all looked like these ships we knew we looked officers to us. So. to be on the sub­ Herr Raismuisen specialises in the treatment of al! Skin DUI'DSPI Nervou. After a week at Kiel we depart­ Weaknesses, Indigestion and Dyspepsia, Rheumatism, Neuritis, Spondylitis, drab and dirty after our crossing. side, we saluted everybody in uni­ ed, with a good send-off by the But that was soon remedied after form; and as it was usually acknow­ Arthritis, Gallstones, Kidr.ey and Liver Diseases, Varicose Veins, Duodenal and Germans, some of whom we were ,i Gastic Ulcers and Bladder Weaknesses. we anchored, spit and polish ledged, we were O.K. to meet again 10 years later. quickly bringing us up to the The hall was nicely decorated, So back to our base, and a few Treatment by Post a Speciality. mark. and we had to admit that the Ger­ days' leave in London, where the man Navy did us well. What ALL KINDS OF TRUSSES AND MED.CAL NECESSITIES STOCKED. Our destroyers were signalled to girl friend wanted to know what with Frankfurts, Sausages, and moor at the torpedo boat haven, happened at Kiel I told her every­ Lager Beer, we were soon down to 603 GEORGE STREET. SYDNEY (near Goulburn St., Opp. Anthony Hordernt) which we did. And what a sight! thing—I dem't thm^! Plimsoll Mark. We found 26 German destroyers To conclude, I must say we Phone: MA 5708 After a while, two German lined up abreast, stems, masts, fun­ were a happy crowd in those de­ Navy Petty Officers approached nels, all in line, and beautifully stroyers, and I'd like to have it all me, and in perfect English wanted dean. We learned later they had over again. But all good things to know was it permissible for me come to an end. to leave the hall. If so, Cney'H A 0 LINE C.N.C0., show me round. CAPTAIN DAVID HUGH HARRIES Yes! we were on leave. Continued from pegs 22 JOINT SERVICE Righto, then! Come on. to assume command of H.M.A.S. Regular frequent sailings from They hailed a carriage, drove "Australia"—which had gone to /vForsw Australian Ports to me to all the show places (not the United Kingdom for repairs MANILA, PHILIPPINE IS., HONG KONG, JAPAN, Krupps), through a forest on the and refit after being damaged at maintained by the well known outskirts, and finally to a dance Lingayen Gulf—and to bring her popular: hall. out to Australia, where she paid KEEPS YOU S.S. "CHANGTE" off. S.S. "TAIPING" Did I dance? My oath. Miss Weston. They even knew that From April, 1946, until Decem­ in service after complete ber, 1947, Captain Harries was refitting: saying, and I was soon stepping out with a lovely Fraulein, but she had Commanding Officer H.M.A.S. no English and I no German. W; "Hobart," during which time he M.V. "CHANGSHA." got on well enough, and after a had two spells as Senior Officer "Force T," the Allied Naval NEW LUXURY LINER few dances, and squeezes on m> A cloudless sky ... a sunlit sea . . . Suites—Rooms with private bath part, we ran into the Petty Offi­ Forces in Japan. a long cool swim when you wish! And Air-conditioning—veranda cafe, In 1948, he again went to Eng­ etc cers again. of course, at the end of it ... a delicious land, where he took the Imperial refreshing Peters Ice Cream. Peters, Full particulars from: I said the girl was O.K. Yes, Defence College Course, returning quite apart from its health-giving vita­ AUSTRALIAN-ORIENTAL of course, they said. And after LINE LTD., to Australia this year to take up mins, is an excellent talking to her, they told me she his present appointment as Com­ energy food. CHINA NAVIGATION CO., would like to take me home. LTD., manding Officer, H.M.A.S. "Pen­ Joint Service What O! I'm on velvet! guin," Balmoral. * G. S. YUILL Sc CO. Another carriage, and driving Captain Harries married, in De cember, 1933, Margaret, daughter PTY. LTD. near the town we pulled up at a t*G* fine-looking mansion, and I thought of the late Mr. and Mrs. Edric EH Managing Agents, "My word! They do things fine Street, at Camden, N.S.W., and is 6 BRIDGE ST., SYDNEY here." the father of two sons. THE HEALTH FOOD O F NATION • Th. Navy «8 fl ildin* Publiarun* Co. Piy. Ltd., 20 Loftua Stnet, S\dn*>.

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