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May 7, 1993

The RAN's tralnmg ship HMAS JERVIS UA V. commanded by Commander Glenn Cur­ran has sai led Crom Sydney for Somalia - her sec­ond deployment to Africa in support or OI'ERA· TION SOLACE.

The 8,900 IOnne AustralhlO-buil l JERVIS BA Y ar­rives in Mogadishu . Somolin in mid· May 10 load Army equipment for return 10 AuStralia .

011 leaving Sydney. JERVIS BAY embarked her normal complement of 11 0 personnel as well as a number of Midshipmen under training.

The 45 CRESWELL trainees disembarked prior to Ihe ship departing AuStr31ian waters.

After loading Army equipment in Mogadishu. JER­VIS BAY will rellJrn to Austmlia With HMAS TOB­RUK ,Irrwing late June.

All equipment will be disembarked at To ... nsville and the ship will then re,'ert to h("r normal training rol(" .

COMMAND CHANGE Our correspondent r("ports that ... ·hen Commander

Errol Morgan han-dc:d the ship o,'cr to Commandcr Glenn Curran on Apr.1 14 he had completed an unsur­passed number of pilotage runs (o,'cr 700) in his two )eaf tenure as caplain of JER VIS BAY.

For only a fraction of thattimc haslERV1S BAY been on exercise because she has performed her prim­ary and secondary roles on deploymcnt completing the tasks she was originally destincd for i.c. as the RAN's principal training ship fi~t and .1 logi~tie ~upport ship second.

CMDR Morgan led J E}(VIS BAY through 6.00) hours of steaming - a great proportion of thm conduct­ing pilotage training at the Whitsunday Island group and Marlborough Sounds in the norlh of the South Is­l,md of New Zeal,md.

He oversaw the training of 374 junior officers in bolh their b,lsic training and navigation cmiscs.

Most arc now in the "'eet pulling mto action the les­sons learnt on those cruises.

CMDR Morgan ( it/I) hands Q,·trrommand to CMDR Curron. (pit:turt by AUPII Marry Sammut) .

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BAND WARMS UP (By Brian Noonan)

Music nO~'ed rrom the 19305 era into the modem theatre scene at a recent rree concert by the Queensland Na,'al Band in Suneorp Piazza at South Bank Parklantb.

The performance. which preludes 1993 Navy Week activities. fea tured members of the ON Band of Naval Reservisu. vocal ist Able Seaman Musician Petra Fairweather. 2\. law student. her brother s,l)(ophonbt Recruit r.l usician. Doug Fairweather . 19. sci­ence student. bolh of St Lucia and trombonist Recruit Musician Adrian Head. 20. music student of Keperra .

All three allend Oueensland University and to offset study enjoy music with the Band of Reservists. based at HMAS MO RETON. New Farm. which has members aged from latc teens to late 40s with

occupations including civi t engineer. apprentice painter. discoun t stores owner. chemist and doctor.

The group of 24. led by Bandmaster. Petty Officer Musician Jeff Mcil roy. the only fu ll-time Navy musician in Queensland. pre­viewed the music they will play during performances for Navy Week. August 7-15, ranging from Big Band tunes 10 soft rock in the one·and·a-quarter hour concert.

(Picture by Warrant Officer Terry J)cx A RM V).

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WESTRALIA's 'at home' in Newcastle

Ilaving arrived in Newcastle to re fit in J anuary this year, the Ship's company o r HM AS WESTRALIA (Commander W.F. Garner), can now call themselves NovaCllsl rians.

The people of Newcastle have gone to a lot of trou­ble to ensure the crew have not gone wan ting fo r any­thing. reports our corres­pondent .

"With most of us being West Austral ians - a long way from home - this has been ve ry .... elcome. W

While the ship has been sitting high and d ry in For­gacs noating dock , the troops have been silting just as high but not so dry in the friend ly surrounds of the RadiS$On Newcastle lIo tel.

The hotel sta ff ha"e coped exceptionally well in catering for some 70 sui lors and the unique demands they can make.

TIle involvement of WESTRA Ll A 's officers ~nd senior sai lors as guests.

ABCKs Sheppard and Thorjusson in l he kitchen and II n i ne·picce Navy con· cert band at a recent rune­lion wcloomins the ne .... ly­named Radisson Newcastle into the Radisson chain, demonstrated the strcnglh of the relalionship between lhe hotel and the ship.

The ship's company also had the fo rtune \0 be in­vited 10 a ba r~e hosted by Mr Stcven Fo rgacs. the owner o f the floating dock.

Held on his property just outside Neweastle , WES­l :RALIA mixed with work­ers and managers doing the refit work.

Goulash. made accord­ing 10 Stevc'S mum's secrci recipe, was one of the highl ights.

Spending such an unusu·

a lly long time in the East has allowed the ship's com­pany to participate in some otherwise predominantly ell5tern·based ship ac­tivities .

One example was the Old Windsor Cup Rugby Sevens competition.

Fielding a Rugby team from a ship full of Aussic Rules players was no small feat. but fortunate ly only a -sevensW team was re­quired.

Despite their inexperi­ence. the WESTRALlANs progressed to the second round . comfonably defeat­ing J E RVIS BAY in the first .

Unfo rtunately success was to be shon-lived on en­counte ring BRISOANE III

the next round .

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(By Vic Jeffery. N/Jvy Public Affairs OfflC'er (WA}) Top sec::rel ,,'a r1 im e openllions o r Z-Forre minia­

ture submarine o perations at Garden Island off West­em A us tralia hal'e been shrouded in secrecy or fo r­gotte n in the mists or lime fo r a lmost SO ye.ars.

Careening Bay. located on the $Outhcm end of the island. today the si te of I·IMAS STIR LING. was the ideal site for the top secret ope~tions of the seaborne ann of the Ser­vices Reconn3issancc De-panment, better known as Z-Force.

With its 1solation and l' ''nquil waters the area was an excellent training ground for clandestine op­erations against hpanese forces in South East Asia.

Apart from numerous aouy gun baltcrics sprink­led along ihe wcstern Side of the island facing the In­dian Ocean as part of the Pon of Fremantle's de­fences, Ihe only othe r in­habitants were the numer­ous tammar wallabies. car­pe t and tige r snakes, along wi th other varieties of fauna and birdlife.

On the open sandy shores of Careening Bay were located two jellies. va rious workshops , mess and Nissen sto rage huts .....hich housed Weiman midget subm~uines and the motor submersible canoes. bener known as MSleeping Ikaut ies-.

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voir at Hendon, North Lonoon before one of the glass viewing panels broke causing the di\'e to be abandoned.

The Weiman had a maximum diving depth of 90 metres with a normal operating depth of 23 metres with its 2.5hp elee· inC motor giving il an en­dumnee of 10 hours at 2.5 knots o r 20 hours at 1.7 knots .

l'. -A mini·submorin~ on rht sur/au in Corttning 80)'.

A sturdy timber wharf with a large steel gan try erected to a llow submersi­bles to be raised from. or lowered into the ocean pro truded out into Careen­ing Bay from the shoreline.

Today the ServiceJ; Re­connaissance Department memorial occupies a proud position on a raised grassed slope looking over Fleet Ba5C West .

Onc·man submorintS on rhcir rrollc)'s in rhe wartime Nisscn storage hut on the shorts of COlW'ning 8 0)'.

JOYSTICK In the latter stages of

World War I [ it is esti ­mated that the re were up to

e ight Weiman one-man midget submarines, two four-man Welfreighter transport submersibles and 12 motor submersible canoes being used a t Gar­den Island, ini ti3l1y with Brit ish instructors tra ining Australian frogmen in how to handle the unorthodox and secret ive craft .

The rarely seen and "ir­tually ullknown top secret Briti sh-built Weiman and Welfre ightcr craft had been shipped to Australia from England and were un­loaded in 1 ~ l rge packing cases at Fremanlle before being taken do .... n to Garden Island.

A four-man l'Ielfrtighrcr unckl'K'ay off Ganit n Island.

Steered by a joystick and tricky to control, ihe 6.2 met re long WeIman was de­signed to carry a 255kg ex· ternal charge in the form of n gigantic limpet mine with heavy magnets attached.

It is known that British admira l. Lord Louis Mountbatten when Briti sh Chief of Combined Opera­tions, took a Weiman down to 10 metres in Brent reser·

Some 60 Welmans were built in England during the war and they saw active ser­vice in European waters with Iheir major setbacks being thei r handling and not h:wing a periscope.

Two Welfreighters were seni to Australia in early 1945 for evaluation in trop­ical conditions, one bein~ damaged in transi t.

Not a lo t is known about Ihe targe r Welfreighte r other than the fact that it W3S designed to carry four men and thei r equipment .

The motor submersible canoes, "Sleeping

Gunfire struck ill-fated ML430

LCDR Boyd Fegan MBE RAN (Rid) has ,,-rinen to ' correct a n item of m isinfo rmation conlained in the a rtide " W a ters O eep a nd D iverse hold W a r Ships o r Yesteryea r" reatured in Na.", News Vol.J6 No.6of 09A PRl993.

" ML430 did not sink in a collision , but was hil by gun fire during and attack on an uniden tified submarine and subsequently burnt to the

waierline befo re sinking. ~ At th31 time I was an ordi­nary seaman submarine de­tector and a member of her ship's eompany.M he adds.

Beauties". were the well­known member of this trio, being powered by a 1.5hp heavy-duty vehicle e lectric sta rter molor.

Made of mild steel and almost 4m long, they were propelled by fou r standard 6-"oIt car batteries and had a m3J(imum range of )Skms with a top speed of 4.5 knots on Ihe surface. They were conside red virtually impossible to capsize.

"Sleeping BeautIes" a rc best remembered for Z­Force's highly successful Operation laywick raid against JapaotSe shipping in Singapore Harbour in 1943 and the ill -fated simi­lar raid . Operation Rimau raid the following year.

Weiman and WeI-freighters were seen train­ing in Darwin Harbour in mid-1 945 at the "Lugger Maintenan<:e Depot-, the cover for Z-Force's Darwin base which pre-war had been the qua rantine station.

1bese craft .... e re prepar­ing for opera tions against the Japanese in Sumatra when the war ended.

lnc fat es of these vesse ls and their very existence,

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has genera lly been un· known to many other than "Sleeping Oeauties", five of which were dumped off ROllnest Island in Weste rn Austra lian in 1946.

Ii is ironic thut these sec· ret submarines trained in the very waters in .... hich Austr~li a's future sub­marines will be based.

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The acquisi lion qui re menls will ''''';. lraining and equipment I mean ronsiderable sa"ings to t he Nny,a«oniing to the Minister for D efence, Senator Robert Ray.

lie was announcing Ihe purchase of the decommlSo siolleu DOG, fonnerly USS GOLDSBOROUGH, al a pna: of SUS2.2 million,

The ship will be lO",ed 10

Ausl ralia and stripped of equipment required for IralnInR·

" 11 should be obvious Ihat Ihis is nOI an addi t.on to Ihe Na"y's o rder of bat­tle," the Minister said. " It is a puchase being made sokly for training, equip­ment and spares.

"A nd al the price quoted, which includes 10-

"'illS 10 AUStra lia, the purchase will mean signlfic­anI savings .n terms of lraining, trainl11g equip­menl and equipment'" hieh can be used 10 suppon the th ree DOGs - HMA Shlr,s PERTH , HOBART and

BRISBANE _ and the fi\'e guided ml~lle frigates (FFGs) we have in seo',cc. "

5<'nator Ray said Iha t GOLDSBOROUGH was Ihe last of the US Navy DOG-2 class and one of only Ihree USN ships mod­ernised 10 a configuration similH 10 Ihat of Ihe RAN DOGs,

"Major equlpments fit ­ted onboard are applicable 10 the training needed for both our DOGs and our FFGs,M he said ,

MThe electronic ",'arfare (EW) equipment alone fit ­led to GOLDSBO ROUGH is "'orth SUS 1.8 mi llion, M

" However there :Ire other items also - the guided m.ssile launcher. radars. guns, chaff laun· ehers, torpedo lubes :lnd

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gyros which will suppon the conduct of technical training for the RAN in Australia.

Mit fits ra ther well w.th the continUing RAN prog­ram of Repatnation of US­based Training (RUST):'

Senator Ray explained thaI the Na,·y was continu­ing to bring to Australia Iraining ",hieh '" the past had been undcnaken over­seas.

"This is already well un­derway wilh submarl11e training. fomK: rly pro"ltkd wilh the Royal Navy in the United Kingdom, now being offered a t thc Sub­marine Trainmg Facil ity at HMAS STIRLl NG ,M he ~id.

"The establiShment of training facillt lCS OIl home makes us more self· re-, liant :'

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Alan l.et' Beaumont has laken o.-er liS Chier of the Odenn .-or«.

He suctteds General GraClOn who has reured

Admiral Beaumont. born 3t Ne,,'castle NSW in 19,1J ""as educated 31 Boolaroo Public School and Ne,,·custle Technic~1

High School. III' joined Ihe Ro)al Au­

~tralian Naval College .n 1948, gradunting in 1951.

H.s early craining .... .ts wich Ihe Royal Auslralian Na,·) and Royal Navy A~ a Junio r officer he

scl"\ed in liMA ShiP'S AU­STRALIA. BATAAN . SIIOA LHAVEN, VEN­GEANCE , FREfI.·1ANTLE and QUICKMATC H. ~ nd 10 [I M Sh.ps MAIOSTONE. AR-MADA and LEW ISTON

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cluOed 11MAS CER­BERUS. I·IMAS WAT­SON. HMS VERNON lind the USN Ael."l Anti -Sub, maTlne Warfare School. San Diego.

lie seo'cd as Executi'e Officer HMAS BRIS­BANE durmg Ihe sh.p·s .k· ploymenl in the Vicl11:,m Cooflict in ]969 and a, Ihe Orficer·in-Charge TAS School. HMAS WATSO\l ( 1969-71).

Bark by populi" demand is ufOptly Htinull .Jon~s.

Ue cumm:lOded U\]A Sh.ps IBIS (1962). YARRA (1972-73) :!IlU VAM PIRE (1978-79) and. in laller year.;;. ha~ held Senior DeCence pos.tion •.

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Control of shipping

• exercise Senior Australian Na,·. 1

offi«n are diredinj; and cunlrolling the intern lll­lion .. 1 12:-d .. y m~rit i Ule U;Crt"lse. BI-:U .. BUOY "93. inHlh'inK" pel"SOflnel frOnl se,en na"ies and m~r­chant ships operaling in the Pacific and Indian Ckeans.

The exercise, which began on May 3 IS designed 10 practise. test and evaluate naval control of shippmg (NCS) plans and pr<K:edures.

In addilion to Ihe Ruyal Au~trahan Navy. BELL BUOY '93 parliCipants in­clude pcrl>Onnel from the na~ie~ of the United Slales, United Kingdom . Canada. France. Republ IC of Korea and Chile,

Aboul 300 officers and ~i lofS - most of them re­servists _ ale III,olved in the Iwo-ocean excrcise.

In Au~tmJia. more Ih(1Jl 80 RA Rescrvisl~ (Ire panicipaling .

The largest group IS 10

Sydn",y with at leaSI onl." in eaeh of OUl""'m. Towns'i lle . Macka). Glad~tonc . Bmoane, Mel­bourne. POri Adelaide. Frcmantle and Oampler.

Thc), momtor the mO\C' ml."l11$ and board ml."fchant shiP'S vis.ting Ihe~1." majN Au~tralian pon<

ThC) arc ",mllllg ,uth AU~lrahan :lnd -.orne m'c,­!>CJS merchant shipping oompani<,s which ha\e \01-

unteered to be pi.,t of Ihe c\crcisc.

Naval control of shipping ;1I,o\ves na,al personnel ad"lsm!; merdmnt ships III :l period or tension : .~­

sociated wilh limited hos· tihue) in Ihe areas of re­sponsibility of the par­tic.p:mng nauons.

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During ~hrdl HMAS DURBO (LCDR A.C. Rankill) h.d • bruk rrom her normll l N)le of patrol. ling the Australian Fisheries Zone lind iuslead " "U employed in ht"o. more .nusual lo U ,

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in a 1..0 .... Frequenq ActIVe Sonar trial in company ..... ith the CSIRO Research Ves­sel SOUTHERN SU R­VEYOR .

The trial was sponsored by thc Defence Science and Technology O rganisation

and involved of the Bend.x

sonar in the rela­sha llo.... waters of

N~"h"" Australia. The Iwo vessels worked

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,,;::'~,"~~rial DU BBO sailed ~ 10 participate in

Army Reserve training """';~ with the Arnhem

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Squadron of NC .. " ( "'CIE based at Govc.

The exercise involved insert ion and extraction boat of several Army oonnaissance patrols in Melville Bay and Island area over II fi\'(' dars.

This was followed 48-hour surveillance lion on the west i Marchinbar Island in Wessels Island Group.

DUBHO's role was provide the main form transport as well as I' .. ",;;, and oommunications ~upport to the Anny personnel

The exercise progr~d without compl icallon and proved beneficial 10 both groups wilh some new pro­.ccdurcs being practised.

AI the end of the ';:~: rue DUBBO was I senlcd with an Squadron plaque by FORCE personnel in preciation of the and close

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HS816 Squadron the most efficient

In 1968 lite Grumman Aircraft Corporation pre· sented tlte RAN ~' itlt a magnificent troplty ttl be awarded annually to tlte .leet Air Arm Squadron ro, efficiency and the best Rying sart'ty record .

This year's recipient squadron is Ihe RA N's newest squadron , HSS16 (CMOR Brett Dowsing , CO).

Thc Mari time Commandcr presented the trophy on a visit to HMAS ALBATROSS.

Pictured below are (left) the Maritime Comman­der , RA OM R.A.K. Walls, presenting the McNicoll trophy to ( right) LCOR L.F.J. Costain, senior pi lol standing in for CMOR B.M. Dowsing, who is over· seas on course .

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The implementation or the Seaman Category Rationalisation has reached II number or milestones. The: finl was the policy lumecJ. Overall II 92% re- option for the ne .. · b3dge in ing this lauer option is yel

on amalgamation of prom- spcmsc rate "''3S reech'ed. the 8M and CSO 10 be decided. o lion lists. categories. Your viewpoint The implcmenlalion

The number of thrill seek- has assisted tremendously learn conlinue~ to be busy. The Seaman promotion

list due for release o n June I. 1993 will continue to be done by pre·SCRS categories.

From August t. 1993, however. all promotions will be decided from the combi nation of the June promotion lists wlthm the new SCRS categoncs, The first fully combined list for 13M and CSO categories will be issued 011 December I. 1993.

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ROSS, has now been added informcd o f their fUlUre tions of service in auxiliary category and cross training to the list ,md three estab· vessels. command tests and

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The promotion pre-re­qUisites III AIlR to ha\'c undergone tlle,r first reo view. While still some way off finahsahon they will cover t"o Me:.s , The first will be pre·SCRS catcgories promotion 10 the new category and second will fully encompass the three Ilcr traimng S}'5tem . The main addition to the promotion requirements will be a requirement for all ranks up to Chief Pctty Of­ficer to complete a minimum of 12 months Sea Time in each rank prior to promotion . The only ex· ception to this requirement in the Seaman Branch will be the NI'C ca tegory and possibly CPO & POPT. Consideration is however. being given to viewing time at sea in a Tug. TRY or COOP as Sea Time for promotiOIl purposes. The exact formula in determin·

Boatsw~ins to some major neet auxilianes, ANZAC frigate scheme of comple­ment. stand~rdlslllg of manning by platform type and the implementation of cross trammg as courses de· wlopment reaches a stage where Stan dates c~n be Identified .

While the team ap­preciates th~re may be some anxiety as to when various traming will Sian and how the standarisa tion of manning by platform type may affect individuals. there remains D considera­ble amount of ","ork 10 be done In Navy Of lire , MHO. COMTRA IN . ' ·IMAS WATSON and CERBER US before a clear path can be determined. The team asks for everyone's patience and co­operation as the processes are long and complex and need 10 be carefully thought 01,1\ in order 10 en· sure they achieve benefits for all concerned.

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:-.-"!~- , C.uDR B. 51aplty (O IC MES) pratnlinK SBI. T 8 . f'umtSS wilh Iht I'tllt Milrht/I Prht

lor MEA C f.I lIS LEUT G. McCoy and I~EU'" R. Roylt "'auh on,

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lbe MEAC b a 4.5 month course which "navalises" junior Marine Engineer Officers in order to prepare them for their first sea posting and the completion of the Marine Engineer Officers' Certifi­call' of Competence (MEOCC).

SBLT Fumcss has been posted to HMAS HOBA RT and S8LT Mak is currently serving at F1MA (Sydney) wai ting to join HMAS BRISBANE.

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HMA S WATSON has played host 10 Sydney's Dural Primary School siIClh gnlde.

just by sea.

Fo rty-three students, two teachers and two parents visited and loured W A T­SON for the morning. The class is studying the

theme of 'Trnnsport ~ and soon discovered that the Navy has to transport things ill more ways than

A group of students is shown below at the W AT­SON transport section

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ers where the pupils sawall the vehicles ably run by POMTD Smith and his team.

The class also visited the bridge simula tor and Navi­gation Facility as part of the more traditional naval methods of transport. '

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Recruits win walk

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Recruit School CERBER US has

" '00 its third cooM'cuti.-e Ballarat Two-Day Walk.

The annual walk was over two days and covered 60 kilometres .

Aim of the event is to foster walking as a healthy activity and at the same time raise much needed funds for Ballarat charities.

The teams' event in· volved more than just com­pleting two 30 km courses.

Points were deducted for dress , drill. conduct. timing and behaviour.

The win. however, could nOI have been achieved without the professional support party drawn from the School of Cookery, wardroom and medical cen tre at CERBERUS.

The ship's company of "MAS O UBBO (LCDR A,G. Rankin ) has defi · nitely got something about which to smile,

For the second consecu­tive year the Darwin-

based pa,'~ro{~' ~bo::at has won Flee t Silver III the

Minor War Vessel eateg­

o:~.;"f~or excellence in food : s management.

achievement is due to the cffons ship's cook, Able Troy Fuller, who

maintained the excel­standards sct by his

slllce )Ollllllg in April 1992.

Silver Platter was established

years ago as all IIlcen­to improve food ser· standards throughout

Fleet.

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a,,,,I_ for sec<Jt>jary _Is from ..... !>ego~ 01 1994

This SchoIarsllp is in memory of an Old Boy of the School, Ueutenant James Laidley Dowling, RAN .. who was killed in the Voyager disaster on February 10th, 1964. Under the conditions of the Scholarship, H may be awarded to !he son of a serving member, or of a retired member, or of an honorably dOOwgerl member of any one of the Austral~ Armed Services. The Scholarship provides for lull tuition fees subject to !he red­pient's continued satisfactory progress arx:f conduct. The Scholarship may be awarded \0 a boy at any stage of tis sec­ondary sct.ooI career. The applicant 'NiH be judged on tis amen! performance arx:f, if he is a non-Cranbrook appficant, on the results 01 an interview with !he Headmaster. Application forms are available from !he Registrar's ob at CooOOoook Sdooo<. Completed applications, together with a confidential reference from !he student's current School Principal and a copy of his latest sct.ooI report shouk:! be addressed 10: The Headmaster

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cri~ff ,,'hil~ digniraria look on.

It also recognises the Institute of Australia ceremony Able Seaman vita l importance of high Nonhern Territory Divi· Fuller was rewarded for standards in meal presen- sion, was then on hand 10 his cffons with tea and tation to the health , well- offer the first words of cream eclairs served by ,,"~ being and morale of seago- congratulations to Troy Commanding Officer ing personnel. and the ship's company. Executive Officer

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three categories: fleet units, minor war ",. scls and submarines.

At this year's presenta­tion ceremony, the Com­manding Officer HMAS COONAWARRA (Cap­fain I.M. Watts) , madc short speech on the 't and importance Silver Platter Award.

H, "co Northern ter for Tourism, Coulter, who p;,,,;~,;, the Silver Platter trophy Able Seaman Fuller.

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Golf finale next week

The grand linal of the ,",'ills Cup midweek golf compelil ioll will be plaYl'd at the Rugby League Country Club Nanlla" on Wednesday, May 12.

The w ason has been a major success and congralUlatlons must go \0 CPO Craig Gi lbertson for h is capta incy o f the WATSON team which reached the fi nal fi\'c this year.

Also to NJRIMBA which. a fter a poorslart , just missed the do uble chance in Ihis its fi na t yenr.

The dcwils of the Naval G olf Associatio n champio nships arc still being o rganised . however. the evenl will a lso be played at Narellan Rugby League Club on Wednesday, June 2.

Detai ls of the champio nships and the Wills Cup champ­ions will be published in coming editio ns o f Navy Ne ws.

WilLS CU P GOLf<" The home and away series of the Wills Cup has been

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Th~ Na l'af Mat~rid Di~ision Dragon boat t~am n turns 10 sJwnfolfo~ing a "~aI ,.·in. :: balmy Canbt-rn A utumn i Sunday mo m iug (Can. :: be rra Mobil Man thon) he § sho" 'ed his ml'tt1e. De­§ monslral ing disda in for :: the fact tha t he ..... as com­! peting in the 45-50 years

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The 1993 Callbt-rn t' esti­val has brought out the competit ive spirit in some of the Nava l Materiel divi­sion members of the Defen ce organisatio n.

The lure o f the victor'S dais and the prospect of having some fun prompted a few 10 emer a team in the D ragon boal raeing carni­val on Lake Burley-Griffin a~ part of the Canberra Day celebrations.

Cheered on by a la rge contingent of supporters and the social d ub patron RADM Hammond, the team won all four heats and gained second place in the final in the open Govern­ment category behind a team Imm City Parks.

The NAYMAT team's best time for the 500m course was two minutes 19 seconds, which was not bad eon~idering Ihe top h:am's tim.:s w.:re 2-06 through to 2-14.

After some h.:ctic prac­tices at an un-Godly hour o n Sunday mornings in the preceding weekends, the NAVMAT Social aub team put in a creditable performance in both the hea ts and the fin al.

The competition was both fie rce a lld fu n-fi lled. One hundred and three teams fro m all over Au­stralia and overseas com­peted in hundreds of heats and a dozen fin als.

It was the biggest Dragon boat carnival he ld in Australia.

n le Singapore men's team which won the in ter­national final gave a lesson to a ll on how it should be done.

Each team was given four heats in which to race, with the averaSe time to complete all four detennin­ing which teams would compete in the fina l.

The NA VMAT team was gillen a JO s.:oond boost (ie time reduced by to sec) after being rammed b) a compe1l1or in their first heat.

Thc final heattimcs were 2-19 (.Idjusted) . 2-28. 2-30 and 2-19 (actual) .

They had the best ave r­age tim,· of any Govern­mem team and most of the r':SI of the field o f teams.

A fe .... t('ams hOllc\'er either h,,,,1 bad luck or " lost It"" on the day_ A couplc of teams capsized their boat (thankfully without mjury); a few had collisions and many sweeps (coxswains. helmsman) couldn't quite get the knacl.. of st.:cring. which gave the spectators

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= me ud!lble time of Ihree § hours 43 millS. Should he § be posted back to his = hume town he should he

Po licc Gam('s will be oon- § ducted at ALBATROSS : on Wed nesday. June 16 § commencing at 0900. Thcy § arc open to the NPC § branch d ue to the large : amount of inte res, expres- § sed . Purpose of this event § is to raise mo ney fo r John : G ardiner. the three-year- § old son of LSSN G ardiner :: of HMAS JE RVIS BAY E. who suffcrs from cerebral E. palsy and requires lre,lI - : mcnt fro m a special clinic E. in WA . The foHowing E. sports will be contested by : each team of sevcn: biath- § Ion. pistol shoot. vol- ~ leyball. pentathlon. flag :

some laughs. The NAVMAT team'S

o rganiser. conch and sweep, Ray Sung. has been a member o f the Chinese Austra lian Associat ion's D ragon Boat team for many years.

It was th rough his gUi­dance and expertise that the team d id so we ll .

The team's skipper _ LEUT Adam Goodall -had also paddled for the CAA team and he provided both power and ballast amidships and a foghorn like voice that commanded obedience - or ('Ise!!

Meanwhile, HMAS C RESWE LL entc-red a team of 22 personnel into a Dragon boat regalia at Syd­ney's Darling H arbour.

The aim of the event was to promote community awareness and appreciat ion of o ur multi-eul tural

socie ty_ The C RESWE LL team

was ente red in the interna­tional corporatc teams' section.

In its first race the te~m came third. which took it in to a second heat where it came third again.

With thes(' two fin ishing positions this enabled the team 10 compete in the finals.

C RESWELL's team wen t in this event against five other crews and came a respectable fifth .

Out of the 30 teams en­tered in the corporate teams' event CRESWE LL finished fifth overall.

The team was sponsored with t-shirts by a scrcen printing shop at Jervis Bay called Screaming Blue and were provided with caps by a Sydney dive shop. Vis Design. from Bondi.

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Water polo upset

Wille, polo pillyer$ rrom around Ausl ... 'ia haH' 1::IIIhered al Ihe Allsl ... I'ao Inslill:le of Sporl 10 fighl for Ih"i. slllle's supremacy io Ihe ,,'iller ,

Teams from the ACT, Victoria, NSW and Queensland played out a three·day competillon, with the " Banana Benders" winning the ADF water polo championships from NSW in an Upse l.

About 65 participants from four men's teams played in the compelit ion and a composi te women's team lackled a women's side from ADFA .

According 10 L T·COL Joh n Robbs, associatio n president, Ihis years com· pelilion had the largest par· ticipa tion by players for a number of seasons. ~A lot of young players

ha" e come along through Ihe ranks to boosllhe stan· da rd of polo to Ihe highesl il has been for years, - LT· COL Robbs said.

"NSW were strong from Ihe first d~y and went Illrough the competition undefe:llied . Queensland were strong ;: , the starl and Victoria and the ACT were proportionalely weaker.

"The Queenslanders bea, lhe ACT side 8-4 in Ihe semi,final with :II sensi· ble approach to Ihe game usiog thei r younger, filler swimmers to tire Ihe ACT team.

MACl' wasled oppor· tunmes. nU SSlng Iwo 4m penall ies and not capitalis· ing on an ex tra two-man at· tack:' L T·COL Robbs said .

In the grand final. Queensland matched up against NSW. The game was played at a fu rious pace and afle r a scoreless firsl quarter, Queensland led NSW 4-2 a t Ihe half·lime break.

PO Brett Livennore, ADF women's coach, said Queensl~:nd played out a major upset, bealing NSW 6-4. after the "blues" went through the competition undefeated.

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:: A Deparlm~nl o r Dt'-§ (('nee bll5ketball tum has :: won Ihe 1~3 Oberon § Shield Imuckout competi· , . : tlOn . § Twenty·three teams :: contested this year's com· - . . . :: pc11110n whlcb was held at § the Alexandria Basketball :: Stadium in Sydney. § Defence took the final § by nano .. ly beating :: RAAF Glenbrook 14- 12. § In Ihe early rounds of :: the sh ield WATERH EN § started with a bye and then § look o n a depleted :: NIRIMBA nol 10 W10 a § close tussle 24-20. § WAT ERli EN then :: struck RAAF Glenbrook § and in one of the better :: games of the day lost nar· E mw'y 14- 15. =: BRISBANE and E PERTH also played well :: io the carly rounds bUI E were evenlually knocked § o ut o f the compelil ion by :: Defence and Glenbrook E respectively. -:: 'fllc final of the shield § was fiercely conlested with :: both teams displaying § excellent sl.:iIls. :: The closeness of the first § half was reOecled in 'he 7-:: 4 half·time score which E favou red Defence . -:: Defence managed to reo :: lain the advantage and at § the final whistle Ihe side :: left the court with a two­E point lead and Ihe shield . E In the I'LATYPUS § tro phy (for beaten teams) :: semi·final i, was a batt le o f E the FFGs with DA RWI N :: and SYDNEY (its Aussie E Rules side) meeting with E the forcme r running out i Ihe winner 22·12. , :: The final between § DARWIN and C RES· E WELL was played at a :: hectic pace with both E teams going goal for goal. E But in the second half :: CRESWELL gOt on top E and outclassed DA R WIN

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A.;t.; ; have mounted a pWih to ensure the best Combined Sen 'ices team is available rur selection in June and July,

The Services Auslralian FOQtb~LIl A§socialion (SAFA) management is taking the inillative to advise COs early of the planned program.

Past problems with player availability at the carnival and the following combined·service tour have meant many con· tenders often missed out .

SAFA chairman. LCDR Adrian Casso said playen oflen missed selection through lad: of nolicc 10 supervisors and COs or because they did nOi want to miss the local compet· ilion.

- The intention in the future is to draw from all available personnel and form a fo rm idable. motivated and deter· mined combination," LC DR ClbS said.

SAFA decided the national in te r·Service carnival " 'ould be held at Wagga be tween June 18-25, with the Combined Services tou r from lune 27 10 J uly 10.

LCDR Cass said the Combined Services squad. includ· ing officials and umpires, would be selected for the tour after a seven·day training camp and competition .

"Come lime 10 advise CQmmands of a Soort list of playeR for the national compelition. all necessary individual and organiSii l ional preparalion should be completed - includ· ing availabi lity of playen and orficials.

He said to achie"e this aim , involvement was sought from Service officers in charge. pla)'ers of fint grade stan· dard and also advice and support from non-players.

SAFA is asking for people intereSled in taking part in Ihe national championships and the Combined Services tou r, if selected, to register now.

LCDR Cass said personnel inlerested in join ing a Ser· vices traini ng squad should hold current sta tus in an A· grade team in a local competition.

Non·playing posilions ::vailable "'ilh the team are assis· lanl coach. manager. trainer/runner and physiolmedic.

LCDR Cass said SAFA e)(ecutlve was delighted to an· nouoce that Maj-Gen Murray Blake, Land Commander. had accepted the role as the SAFA palron,

NIRIMBA I-S HOST Mumohile, Navy Nl'wS

Rule~ correspondenl LElJf Graham Thur.;lans, rcpus1li ,hat the winter inte r·S(' .... i« !>tries kicks off in NSW III NIRI1\IUA onMllyJI.

MBeing the last year Ihat it will be staged a l NIR IMBA it is planned to make it a memorable one; 1 St rongly suggest that even if you are nOi participating in a sport you make the effort to get there for any eve", over that carnival week," Graham said.

" I was very pleased 10 see Billy Veale pick up the

trophy for the best p layer al the Father Mac carnival.

" Bi lly is a long standing sta lwart of Navy foOly and well deserving of all the ac­colades Ihat CQme his way.

MHe is curren tly attached to RAAF Wagga Wagga and making his prescnce felt in the local compo tum· ing oul for Too"ey Park. ~

The 1993 season has the Ilarman lIogs keen 10 es· tablish themselves again, as a power in the Canlx'rra· Monaro Le~Igue.

The quirks of postings sees only five of last year's grand final team remaining on the books.

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Responding well to lhe methods and ideas of new coach. Allan Conway. the Bogs ha"e thus far o,'e r, come ,he disadvantages of lack of height/size and ex· perience to comfortably win lheir firs t two games of the season,

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Any player o r supponer, posting into the Canberra area woo wishes to ge t in· volved in the H oggs' 1993 queSI for glory is invited to conlaa AI Conway or Mark Pepper on ONATS (8) 6S 608 1.

All playen , adminis· ' ralOrs lind supporte rs of Navy Rules should keep an eye on their notice boards, as ,he signals regarding leam selections for all the seasons carnivals will be an· nounced short ly.

Yours in sport . Graham Thurslans.

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