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VOLUME 39, No. 21 Navy News. LodIed Bag 12,Pym1ont2009 Phone: (02)95631202Fax:(02)95631155 Advertising Phone: (02) 9563 1539 Fax: (02) 9563 1344

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November 4, 1996

• Hl\IAS SHOALWATER .•. has been in\'oh'ed in e\'ery major MCM exercise on the sOlllh, easl and north coasts of Australia.

MAJOR PERFORMERI H~~!dS~e~~~~~A~i;~J;~~~hB:~~~n::~e~~~;I:; Sydney's Garden Island.

Currently in refit, the ship was commi ss ioned on October 10. 1987.

During the intervening period she has steamed 52080 nm in 9207 hrs. For the mathematically minded that is an average speed of 5.6 kts.

This may not be spectacular but it is significant when it is remembered the ship perfonns its role at 2-3 kts.

During her time in commission the ship has visited most major pons on the south. east and north coasts of Australia and participated in every major MCM exercise in the area.

SHOALWATER, along with her sister ship RUSHCUT­TER, form the backbone of Australia's MCM capability and will con tinue to do so until the Huon-class mine-

hunters enter service.

During the brief ceremony a binhday cake was CUI by LCDR Jones and the ship's company's youngest member, ABCSOMW Boody.

Coincidently, the ship's o ldes t serving member, CPOMT Young, celebrated his binhday in the same week, being more than four times the age of the vessel.

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T;~:?;~~r~=:g~o~ ~~;~~~~aa ~~:~~o~~gl~~ Navy Band playing in Garema Place during Navy Week. Would Harkin be in a photograph with his beloved tuba?

Harkin, Leading Musician , thought il would be great publicity for the band. But he thought that the photo would be vastly improved if only the charming woman in red. on a bench. could possibly be persuad~

lObe part-of the picture, Musial, a legal assistant working on the

of the old MLC build ing, had heard to her desk as she worked. As time

decided to seek its source.

same digs. But Harkin had a second chance when the phl?to turned up on the front page of The Canberra 1imesthe next day.

He decided it was a sign he should track down the woman in red. There weren't too many Musials in Canberra and he found the name immediately. It was about 8am and he knew unless he rang soon that she would be on her way to work. In fact, Danuta's moth­er. Irena, answered the phone. Her daughter was half· way out the door when Mrs Musial called to her.

This time, he asked her out to have a drink at a bar in what is now the Hyatt Hotel. It was, says Danuta, the least public place, somewhere where she felt no one would know her.

She turned up , blushing, in a little blue mini. thoughts of her then boyfriend quite distant. "1 felt an instant attraction. it's not often you meet someone you feel so comfortable wi th," says Danuta now.

Col. then a young sailor, had met dozens of girls who had hung around the Navy Band - but he says

She had noticed the cute sailor musician with the beard playing the tuba. So when The Canberra Times pho­tographer asked her to be in a photo with the musi­cian. she readily agreed. As she sat down for lhe pic. ture, Harkin whispered; "Will you come out with me?'"

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Miss Musial never turned up at the sailor's lodgings that night. Nice gi rls would certainly nOI do that kind oflhing, particularly not with 49 other sailors at the

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Danuta and Col celebrate their 25th wedding anniver­sary. They lived in Canberra until 1992 when Col. an oil representative for Mobil. was tran sferred to Sydney. The Harkins live in Baulkham Hills with their three daughters. Melissa. 21. Kellie, 19, and Karen. 15.

• Leading Musician Col Harkin exchanges notes with Danula Musial on the refinements or a tuba at the lu nchtime coocert by the Navy Band in Canberra on Tut!Sday, October 13, 1970_

Sleeping over In VAMPIRE The National M~ti.me

Mu seum is inv ltlflg children to a great night out ... sleeping over o n the old des troyer VAM­PIRE in Sydney's Darling Harbour.

You'll have to make a quick decision ! The first opportunity is Saturday night , November 9, with a second chance o n Saturday, November 23.

"We've had a couple of sleepovers on VAMPIRE already and they've been a huge s uccess,"says museum spokesman Bill

Richards. The over-nights are

designed for kids aged 8 to 14 (and parents, if they want to take parI) . The "crew-for-the-night" have organised activities in the early part of the evening, then bunk down in the original crews quarters.

Bookings are nonnally $85 per person (child or parent), but they are available for $75 per per­son. All inquiries to John Glenn at t he National Maritime Museum on (02)95527555.

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From the Gulf with love T~~e~ lk~~t::~~a~~~ Ship VANDEG RIFT have decided Sydney is just about the beSt place away from home.

LEUT Doug Brophy. LEUT Rusty Longley and LCD R J im Sperbeck came llShore 31 Fleet Base East last week to find their wives Kim, Kristin a nd Na ncy had fl ow n from their homes in San Diego. California, to spend the five days VAN DE­GRIFT was visiting Sydney

with their husbands. And the captain of the

4 100-10 0 ne O l ive r Haz.ard Perry c lass frigate. CM DR Joseph Corsi. did the right thing by his officers.

AsSOOfl 3.S she t)ed up at Woolloomooloo. the three v.cregramedshorele:l\'e.

More than 220 person­nel in VAN DEG RIFT have been away from the US in a six-month deploy­ment to the Arabian Gulf.

She worked with the US Navy's Fifth Fleet

• Lad en wit h love ... LE UT Rus ly Lon gley is welcomed ashore by his wife Kristin,

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enforcing United Nations sanctionsagainst lroq.

"Five days in more than five months isn't long, but it's great to be here in Sydney to see Rusty:' Kristen said.

Old friendships were renewed. too, when the Americans came into town,

HMAS MElBOURNE served with the Fifth Fleet whcn shc was in the Gul f and scveral of her company cross-decked to VANDEGRIFT.

The VAN DEG RI FT returned from the Gulf In company with th e des t royers USS RUS ­SELL and USS HEW ITr and visited Albany before crossing the Grea t Austra lian Bight and around to Sydney.

In Adelaide, Navy News' Colin Blair reports the Arleigh Burke-class USS RUSSELL ~pent four days in POri AdelaIde .... hile the VANDEGRIFT headed for Sydney.

One of :!8 wa~hlp, of herciassellh..-rln~f\lce

or ordered for (omml~­sioning by 1999, the 8500-tonnne DOG IS more than 150 metres in length wuh a complement of 30l

She was open for the public inspection for th ree days in Port Adelaide and thousands of South Australians took. the opportuni ty to look over one o f the USN's newest warships.

From Melbournc, Mik.e Marley reports that the US guided missile cruis­ers US Ships ARKANSAS and CALIFORNIA visit­ed, without an ellpected anti·nuclear protest in POll Phillip Bay.

Good will was the haJJ­mark of the visit. the sec­ond to Melbourne by ARKANSAS ... and her las t as the ship is to bt' decom missioned nex t October. although she is only 16 years old.

The two cruisers have also been opernting in the Gulf as part of the UN sanctIons

After four months WIth· out vis iting a western port, sightseeing and shopping were the order of the day for the ship's companies.

AR KANSAS' XO. LCDR Lang Reece. sailed with more than $150 .... orth of AustralL.lll bl~' CUllS and confeCIIOnCTleS, he bemg under in~truc­tlOn, from home nOt \I)

return \\.lIhout them. II I' understood the

'hIp's denllst appJted for long \ervlCe leave a~ soon a~ he heard of the pur­chase!

The visit to Melbourne was declared the mosl successful by any American ships.

The cruisers are on pas' sage to Hawaii. from .... here they will return to Bremerton.

Meanwhile there were

Charts to go on T ~y~&~ in Wollongong will call tenders early next year for a unified infoffil ation managcmenl and process­ingsystem.

computer The system will sup­

port a n in creas ingl y sophi s t ica ted range o f navigation products and serv ices to support safe navigation in Austra lian waters.

As we ll as tradi tional paper charts, tide tables in book fonn and printed Notices to Mariners, sea­farers will be abl e 10

obtain their information from el ectronic chart s. comp uter ba sed t ide tab les and get the ir updates from floppy disk. CD or modem.

Th e Hydrographic Office will be supporting mi litary operations with

s tand ard ised D IGEST data and products.

The wa y ahead was out lined by Austra lia 's Hydrogra phe r, CORE RobertWi11is.

"The Hydrog raphic Service mus t now pro­vide standardised hydro­graphic data and informa­lion for a range of elec­troni c c hart sys tems. ranging from Elec tronic Cha rt Di spla y and Informati on Systems (ECD IS) to ras te r chart imagery." he said.

"At the same time we must also satisfy the ever­increasing sophistication of military systems which need sp3tial d:lla.

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"Ou r curre nt paper chart methods cann ot provide for all th is: '

Under the name Project SE A 1 430. I h e Hydrographic Office is seeki ng hardware. soft · ware and the initial popu­lat ion of an in tegrated hydrographic database from which all of its prod­uctscanbegenerated.

These wi ll include tra­ditional paper charts and emerging digital prodUClS such as ras te r charts and ENCs for ECD IS plat. forms.

"As we move in to a digi tal age. draw ing information for all-ou r products from a common. validated source is a fun­damental requirement of any new system that we put in place." C DR E Wi11 issaid.

He sa id Project 1430 would provide a di gilal hydrogrnphlc dalabase and associated data manage­ment syslem with could;

• receive and slore hydrograph ic dat a and information;

o access, archive and retrieve data and informa-tion;

• provide quality assur­ance: and

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At its heart wi ll be a validated. non·confl icling digi tal data base capable of supporting:

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• military standardised DIG EST data and prod-

o update info rmation. both in the tradi t ional Notices to Mariners form. and a lso in more nove l ways for electronic prod­ucts; and

• other navigation prod­uct s such as Sa il ing Directions.

CORE Will is said the requirement had drawn upon many ye ars o f Hyd rographic Office devdopmen! experience.

He said te nders for Project 1430 would be called next January and close about three months later for evalualion.

three shades of Mist Grey at Fleet Base Enst as the French frig:lIe FNS NIVOSE made a five-day good ..... ill visit.

And like the Americans earlier in the week. three .... omen fle .... to Au~tr3lia to be .... uh theIr husband~ wit h the Captain', '-;a\;galor's Jnd anoth~r of the 12 officer~' wj\es In-dousl~ wamngashore.

Wearing Iheir di~tinc ­live red-pom -pommed caps. the 78 French sailors headed fo r the

sights of Sydney almost as soon as the NIVOSE berthed outboa rd of HMAS TOB RUK for her third trip to Australia.

NIVOSE, under CMDR Denis Triolalre. is based ~t Noumea. She IS

93.5m long, displaces :!950 tonnes and i ~ eqUIpped .... lIh Aloucnehelicopter.

Hun d red S 0 f Sydneysider~ toured thc ~hip in th ree open days before she sailed.

T~ee ~e::nec~ a~~:c~ Tribunal has appro,"ed a t ... o percent incrt'ase in salaries and ullo ..... anccs ro r perm a ne nt a nd R i!Sf"fl't personnel.

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CO WASN'T PAYING ATTENTION D wM"m.

Do you remember when I came home once festooned with garlands of frangipani and bougainvillea? You said I had become a slave to flower power and that you didn't think my CO would like thaI. And you thought wearing a hibis­eusbehind my ear might be mi su nderstood (not Ihescdays.Mum!).

That was the night I returned to nature, Mum

We were on a sover­eignty patrol in New Guinea. Fead Island is a s mal l alOll one day's steaming (at mackerel trolling speed) nonh eaSt of Rabau1. It was an idyl­lic tropical paradise near the equator, used for coconut production . It was operated bya planter who lived on ano ther is[l1ndand the only inhab­itants were an a ll malc indigenous labour crew.

The lagoon was very deep but the approach was difficult. bcingclosc­Iy bounded by reefs. To gain the ben h the ship had to round a two fath­om shoal and almost

immediately swing the bow sharply to Starboard through 180 degrees. This meant a lot of wheeL and reversing the outboard engine with some enthu­siasm. The wharf was about 14 mCHes long (less than halfourienglh) and of light construction su itabl e for the Government trawler. but less so fora patrol boat.

My CO could nOI have been paying aUcnt ion this day because he suggesu~d I benh the ship

As was my practice in anything thaI n oated. I met the whlarf with a resounding thud. scatter· ing the bert h ing party. who did not reappear for someume.

Having been guided by the CO as 10 my intellec­tual arrears, we proct:ed­cd to deal with OUT dulies The planter being away. the CO decided that calls were paid and returned and that we cou ld all have a make 'n' mend instead.

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Our crew was mixed RAN and PNG and as luck would have it there was a local from t he Nuguria Group among our crew and friendship

with the island's worker.i was readi ly eSlablished. As there now appeared 10 be an abundance of kin­dling on the wharf it was suggested that we alt get together. light a tire and have a banyan. Funhcr­more. they suggested that in exchange for some of the ship's stock of SP Lager, they would do the cooking and prol'ide us

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The p roduel;on of loddy appears to involve punching a hole in a coconut, putting In some fermenting agent. reseal­ing the hole and burying the coconut

My understanding of the rules on barter were a lillie vague and, besides. the CO was still beyond

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Armed with our baner we trudged to a nearby coconut grove and watched the horizon. Wc sat on cloth made from bark and watched the tine sand run through our lOes. As the sun sank below the palm fronds. an outrigger returned from the reef and the fire was iiI. The feast was wrapped in banana lea\'es and buried among the hOi coals of the tire. Kimiam coral fish. squid - all fresh from the lagoon -were cooked with yams. sago, banana and mango

The hum of the ship's diesel generator floa ted softly across the water from thejeuy. 1lleexcite­men t of the forenoon faded from my mind. Permanent loan li sts, evening quaner.i and bathy dips all seemed discordant dreams in this setting. I sipped on my toddy.

Palm toddy is a smOOth drink and who needs a glass? An oozing melan­choly e nve loped me Swampy, the leading

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sioker with a scraggy red beard. noted curiousl) that my eyes appeared to be looking in different directions and he asked if that helped when being Officer of the Watch. I wondered why S"'ampy now had the third nose­after all he was ugly CflO\Jgh",ithonlyone.

A crested pigeon per­fonned its courting display among the leafli1ter. much like a PNG ceremonia l dance. Or was it the other way round:' Some fruil batschallcredinthetreeS.

The islanders danced together oblivious to the hangups and inhibitions of western behaviour; members of our crew joined in. More coconuts were recO\'ered from their sandycellar ..

Maybe it was the still, warm tropical night and the smell of coconut oil. or perhaps it was the lap of the waves on the beach in the si lvery moonlight. Or could it have been the palm toddy? But ife\'er I was going to desert and become a beach bum this was the night. Mum

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Businesses win awards for support

Defence Forcr Employers played a vi lal role in the

support and maintenance of our Reserve Force. ~-t rs Bishop said.

• L EUT C hris Waktfie ld and LS Trevor G olding gel to know Wa te r Rats stars Colin Frie ls and Ca ther ine McC lements. Picture: AftPH DeanMcCorkeile.

Thirteen.victorian o~anisations ",ere recogmsed for theIr support of the

Australian Defence Force Reserves when they received employe r awards from the Minister for Defence Indu~try. Science and Personnel. Mrs Bron",yn

" Without thei r suppor!. Reserv i ~ts would nOI be able 10 meel their training and ~eT\' ice commitments and continue to make a substantial contribution to Australia'~ Navy. Army and Air Force:' she said The Rats of Gowrie

Bishop. in Mrlbourne The organisations presented with

awards included Vic Road~. Telstra. Shell Australia. Southcorp Wines and HydroChem.

Each week more than 3.500 Reservists in Victoria and almost 30.000 across the cou ntry down tools to don a uniform as part-time members of the

'The services benefit from the broad range of ski lls and t;l lentthat Reservists bring with them and these: add to the pool of e.~pe rti se within the Defence Force "

M:;irO~f ~~~ ~~~i~: Lady Gowrie House will be glued to thei r lelevi­s io n sets when episode 31 ofWaler Rms screens on Channel Ninr

After all. there's a chance thatthcir cars or they will be in the back.­g r o und during t he episode·slirstfewscencs.

The crew of Water Rats gained permission fro m the Command ing Offi cer of HMAS KUTTA B U L. C M D R

Guy Thomson. 10 use the RAN premises at Bondi in Sydney for sewml pool-side scenes

LElITChris Wakelield. who kept an eye on pro­eeedings.said the Water RalS crew had asked to use Lady Gowrie House bccause it was originally a

motel and "h3d the look the director wantt.'<i for the episode",

" It'squict and mosl of the senior s3ilors are at work. so it was perfect for filming," L EUT Wakefield said

"Watching thcrn repeat the same scene over and over again and shooting

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LEUT Wakelield and RA N with seven trans· in the ..... orld. the USN has

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241 new sailors T~~tt~?':r~d~~~i~~:~a:~: ~~l~~~:; General Entry classes at HMAS CER­BER US

The graduating c lass of GE 131 ( Rankin) s aw 134 you ng men and women become full members of the RAN and 107 members of OE 132 (Moran) passe<i their inili:1I training

From Rankin. the Recruit of the Intake was RcrCSO Katherine Griffiths. who was praised for conducting her training in a manner well above that expected o f a newemryrecrull.

Katherine. 21. is from Mooroolbark in Victoria

T he award for academic excellence

went to RCTATA Nigel Porter. 22. of Quirindi. NSW. who gained 99.2 per cent

Sportsperson of the in lak e was RCTMT Joel Booge rs. 18. from Paddingtonin Brisbane

In Moran. IWO of the awards went to Nonhern Territorians

With 982 o ut of a possible 1000. RCTATA James Ritchie. 23. of Alice Springs won the award for academic excellence. while sportsperson of the intake was RcrMT Cameron $cats. 22. of Nightcliff in Darwin,

The Moran Recruit of the Intake was RCTSN Cameron Parse ll. 21. of Glenorchy.Tasmania

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Covering their shoes. the bell-bottoms mea­sured 42 inches on the old scale - four' inches

bourne and Bri sbane and a hosl of other port s, sa il ors of the fleet knew tail oring

and really ''liddly'' step­ping-out uniforms.

The Navy, for ilS parI, might on occa -

that o ld Navy men. especially from WW2 warships of our neet. read Ihatlhe RAN has finally scrapped bell ­bottom uniform trou· sers. replacing them with the new·style slraighl.legged "Slove­pipes".

"Old SailS" never were given much credit for it. bullhe spic and span appea rance and reputation of our Navy men when theysteppcd ashore lay largely in the factthutthrough their own ini t ialive and al their own expense, they sported good-fitting. tailor-made. bcll-bot­tom trousers and well­cutunifonnjackcts

Twinge of nostalgia more at teast over the Navy's "Pusser issue" unifonntrousers

In Sydney. Mel -

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made uniforms. But it was warlime - and without doubt, the sailors of the RAN CUi

a neat and nice appear­ance when they wenl ashore.

The seven creases of the bell-bottoms always were something ofa problem . Not the least of which was ironing . Big ships had electric irons. So many smaller unih of the fleet sport­ed only spirit-heated iron~ - not always the best to be using in rough seas. a~ Ihose ~maller ships bucked and bounced Iheir way across the ocean, al times with crew mem­bers dragging uniforms oul of lockch in high hope of a run ashore even if ever so brief.

BUlthen again, the seve n creases folded concereina-fashion into a nice tidy package for stowage inlO the awful­Iy limited stor.lge space any sailor had aboard those wanime ships so many of which we re carrying crews far in excess of the numbers

common-place to see a sai lor put his kJlce into a shipmate's midriff as. bent over, his pal skinned offhistight-fit­tingjacket in much the same style as you would skin a rabbit.

It was a sighl com­mon-placeon the mess­deck of every warship. Or. ashore. at such places as Sydne y's Royal Naval Bouse "Johnnies" - the ho~tel­ry in Gro~vcnor Street which for so 'man) decades ga\-e sheller and food for na\y men having a night ashore off their warship.

Taking a tilt at authority always. sOl ilors chose to put the bow of their cap tally close r 10 the left eye than above thc 1cft ear as per regUlation, This gave their navy cap a whole new spe<:uum of appearance _ Even though. forsecurilyrea­sonsduring WW2, only the letters HMAS were identified on Ihose cap tally bands rather than a warship's name as of today.

Across the land. in Navy. RSLandalll>Orts of other clubs. sailors

Contrast provi e a rare sight in A~~:~eS~~h~r~~~~~~e.~ heavyshipliftfaciJity in WeslcmAuslralia.

Two ships whose fore­bears hold significa nt roles in Auslralian hislory sal toge ther on the hard stand undergoing maimc­nan ce. Adding to the sight was the contraSt in the ships with one from the days of saiL the other a modem front line n.'lYal vessel.

The o ldes t. but mosl mode rn. was HMAS CANBERRA who was on the slip for her fifth Ship Restricled Ava]labilily (SRA ). She was named after the original HMAS CANBERRA who was sunk during the Battlc of Savo Island ill the Second World War.

She gained greal renown throughou t the world when her crew cheered as rescuing ships were forced 10 pull away to engage the enemy. T his was despite the majority oflhe surviving crew. including wounded. were still aooard.

Hcrcrew's courage led to the naming of the USS CANBERRA s hortly afler. the firs! USN war­

the name of

a fo reign capital city or of aforcign wanhip

The more recently built HM Bark Endeavour is a repli c a of Sir James Cook's HMS Endeavour. HMS Endeavour is the ship in which Cook dis­covered Aust ralia and is therefore one of the most sig nifica nt s hips in Australian history.

The builders of the HM BA RK ENDEAVO UR have tried 10 make hcras authentic as possible. right down to the colours and fumishings.e ven the quills and weaves of cloth.

The H M BARK ENDEAVOUR attained a quick paint j ob before being retur ned to the wate r. She is now con­ducting fundraising for a major overseas trip. including ports in South Africa.

If you wanttobea part of the adventure there is still a cabin going which would make today's stan­dardsseemlikeluxury.

The six month trip will cost you $50.000. It would help if you were less than 5'8" so you will fit the bunk provided. but you do ge t you r own attendant for the duration

• Aoo\'e: M r Beazley and CMDR Sinclair in the tor­pedo compartment d uring the tour of HMAS COLLINS. Photo: LSPH Peter Lewis

Mr Beazley vis its sub M~e~~~~ B:rl~:~ Opposition and Federal Member for Brand. has visited the newest addi­tion to the A us tral ian

HMAS COLLINS. I her home pon in WA.

HMAS STIRLING.

Opposi tion Leader on a tour of COLLINS where he met crew members and lunched aboard Ihe ooat.

of the voyage. HMAS CANBERRA is

no w back in the water and continuing mainte­nance along side Fl ee! Base West before her Lighting Off Examination and POSt SRA Irials later this year.

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~~~~~§§~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~====~~~~~~~~ Cat visits West RAN catches last Starfish T~:st:oU:!;d-~~S~; :~;~ ~~~!~rulEv~~dt~ ~~~h ~h:WR~;~I~~S~~i~~ BRISBANE has compiet- Port Hedlund from Air Force. RNZAF and ed a nine-day visit to October 21 1023, during Republic of Singapore HMAS STIRUNG. which she represented the Air Force.

The Steel Cat. under CMDR Simon Hart. car­ries a complement of 327 officers and sailors.

Returning from a South East Asian deploy-

RAN in the town's cenlt- Two WA-based ships, nary celebrations. the guided-missile frigate

Earlier she took part in HMAS ADELIADE and

~XeerCisem~il~~::~~O~~~ the replenishment oiler ' Darwin, which involved HMAS WESTRALIA the navies of Australia also were participants.

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The two-week Exercise Starfis h 96 in volved the defe nce fo rces of th e

FPDA members Austral ia. Great Britain. New Zealand, Malaysia a nd Singapore.

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patrol aircraft. Other ships taking pan

were Britai n 's Type 42 destroyer HM S EXETER. RSN Ships PERSEVER­ANCE. VENG EAN CE, VI CTORY. SEA ORAG­ON and SE AHAWK . RMN Ships LEK IR. GANAS. PEROANA and SRI INOERA SA KTI and HMNZS MANAWANUI.

T he he li co pters o f A DELAIDE. EXETER and LEKIR also played Iheir roles.

The exereise was run in six phases. challenging all facets of naval warfare. It ended with a freeplay, in which the traditional foes . the Blue an d O ran ge fo rces vied for sea supre macy. wi th the Purple force submarine thro wn in 10 di srupt everyone·splans.

Kill s were scored by both sides ... and even a few local merchant ships and fishing vesscls received some battle dam­age but the overall result was decla red a draw.

The ovcrJl1 effect of the exe rcise was 10 increase the inter-operabililyof the FPDA navies.

Exercise Starfi sh was followed by the Integrated Air Defe nce Exe rcisc (lADS ) in vo lving the same countries.

Afle r Starfis h, partic i­pan ts gath ered o n th e Malays ian island of Palau Tiomann to contest the Perth Cup. CO MFLOT. CORE Tim Cox, present­ed the cup to the winni ng nation, Austra lia.

Foll owi ng the Perth Cup . AD ELA IDE and EXETER remained in the area fo r the lADS. while BRISB ANE. ONS LOW and WESTRALIA contin­ued on their ways sepa­rate ly 10 conti nue their deployments.

The 1997 ve rs io n o f Exercise Starfish will be combined with the lADS in a new Five Power exer­ci se to be known as Flyingfish.

• Sec Perth Cup Story page 14.

Brian's day as skipper a rea I winner

Commander Australia. vis­ited HMAS AD ELAIDE while Ihe ship was sail ing fro m Singapore fo r Exercise Starfish off the west coast of Malaysia.

Du ri ng Ih e pa ssage RADM Oxenbould visited each mess on board and

T~: ~1~~Sf~!I ~ro~l:~ti~~ over, but that was forgot­ten when "LCDR" Brian Moss (formerly A88J\.1), beca me ca p tain of HMAS TOWNSVILLE aftcr winn ing a hotly contested ' CO for a day ' rame. The ship's fund bene­fited from t he hot competition to the tune of $89 , a n excell ent re.sul t conSidering there are on ly 2S in TOW NSV I LLE. there were dis tant grumblings from those who did n ' t

Commendations to th ree of the ship's company. in addit ion to three Defence Force Scrvice Medals and a Cert ifi cate of Appreciation.

Personn el rece iving Commendati ons we re LCDR Michael Van Balen

get a look in. 1\'los l notabl e were

PONI'C Chris Apperley and t\8J\.1 T J us t ing Nicholls, who eolle<: ti\·e· Iy tried to s tack t he result in thei r fal'our:

The re was a lso a covert a tt empt to le t SMNMT Callaghan win the ram e toct'lebrale his 18th birthday.

But a ll attempts failed and the bloke who only bought two tkkels pre­vailed.

On assuming his com· ma nd . LC DR i\l oss prompt ly ord e red Ihe

(TASOIOPSO ) for hi s hard work in preparing for the ships work-up a nd ORE, POCK Mark White for innovations in cxtend­ing Ihe life of storcd fresh produ ce on FFG s and designing a proposal fo r a FFG galley modi fication and LSMT Crandon for displ ayi ng grea t knowl -

rounds programmed for Ihe day and to conduc:t a Sunda y sea routine in lieu.

L C DR Moss a lso enjoyed the sil ver dining p r ol'idcd in t he Wardroom ... and hav ­ing ever yone on boa rd satisfy his whims.

It wa s over all too qu ick ly however, and after receiving the many reports from the OOW during the night, LeDR Moss was glad to ha nd the reigns back to LCDR Greg Da,·ies.

cdge and professionalism during the ship's LOE.

DFSMs were issucd to POMT Wayne Kavanagh. POATV David Farrar and LS C K Unwi n. wh ile LEUT Wa yne Coo ke

IWho pinched the engines? I F~:A~ai:~a~~~~:~ technical personnel has conductcd a simultaneous double engine removal from WHYALLA during her current Assisted Maintenance Period.

Most aspects of an evo­lution of th is magnitude arc covered durinJ; the

planni ng stages, but the old age that something will be overlooked proved true when,just before lift­ing the second engine it was rcalised that there was only one cradle ... already occupied with the first engine.

After a quick brain­storming session. a solu-

tion was achieved by us ing some bulk timbers.

LCDR Mike Rashleigh. OIC FIMA-C said accord­ing to records the exercise was a first fora Cairns­based Fleet Unit.

--While it has proved a strain on scarce resourccs ami skillcd manpower, the evolution providcd an

excellent oppor! unilY to boost the expericnce level of junior personnel.

--FIM A Cairns is going IOberatherbusy'tilthe end of this year with 11'0'0

further AMPs in 1996. both involving main machinery removals and main enginc ovcrhauls." he said.

T~:"~$a~a:_~;~:::~ the sv.ift and spony nev. Probe. so when we were offered the new XR6 util­ity. v.e e)!;pected jusl another utility !ruck. albeit v.ith sedan com­fons.

Well.v.ewerev.rong. Despite being a vehicle

ostensibly built to work. the top-of-the-range

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Longreach is quick and running around in Sydney spons-like, good looking traffic. we sent the XR6 in a slightly strange way to LS Peter Durrant of the I and it does have all the TranspOrl Di vision at comforts of a sedan. HMAS KUTTABUL for

After a few da s of his view. Nav)' News staff

already had found out that the four-li tre engine is a responsive and pow. erful unit deve loping 164kW at 5000rpm through a five speed box. lOp an o\'erdrive with a ratio of 0.72. The in-line si)!; makes a nice throaty roar too.

The clutch is a liule heavy at first and intypi­cal spons car slyle takes up quickly. but il takes lillie time to become comfonable with it and Ihe gearstick gives a good solid feel through a fairly shonthrow.

II handles remarkably well for a ute. but the business-like Longreach suspens ion is lowered and with uprated springs and shockies in the XR6 version.

It suffers a little in the load department. with a capacity of about half·a· tonne. but to be fair it is not stric t ly a rock and rubbish carrier like ilS forebears.

LS Durrant agreed wilh most of our thoughts.

"I did find il a very comfonable car to drh·e." Peter said

"It has very good power for whcn you need it.

Handles "I did not get 10 take il t

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We found the interior well laid out. with instru· mcnts and controls easy 10 see anJ reach.

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allied ex-servicemen and women, both regular and reserve. and to Civilian Volulllecrs (Police. Fire Service. Essential Services. Emergency Services, Officers of Cadets. Coast Guard. Merchant Navy. Home Guard, Womens Land Anny. Ambulance. Red Cross, etc.). These superb medals and their miniatures are STRUCK (not cas!) and have a high grnde bright nickel finishlhat will nOlrtquire poliShing. The medals and suspender bars are a [w()o-piece assembly. (This is not some inexpensive casling.) 1bc design is deliberately reminiscent of the by-gone days of ~Empire~

In civilian dress these C"ommemorath 'es should be displayed after or below Official Awards. COSI - Medal @ $95. Clasps @ $40.

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However. Peter found some minor problems.

"The window winders couid be a lillIe funherup I the door. because people with big hands will keep hilling their knuckles on the top of the speaker:' he said.

"And the door pockets make it hard to adjust the seats when the doors are closed because there is no space between "

If nothing else. the XR6 is a smart vehicle. idea l for someone w ho wa n ts the torq ue a nd powerof a ut ili ty and the performance of a sporty sedan .

AI about $28,000. the Longreach XR6 is an optioned·up. custo mised good buy.

But I doubt many will be seen in outback Queensland. - LEUT Aaron Mattl;o"" s

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Once Up To~ in 6 years ~:re n:~e t~et:o~f~~~~e:~ I":kSa~oo •• oor.t:n,~os,.gh.i~ COLLI NS' endu ran{:c Ja nuary. CDRE Geoff " ... ~ .. ~. and wea pon systems to Earley will take up the men! tha t extends across the lest before the subma-position of Commandant the broad spectrum of eli- rine sailed for her new of the Joint Services Staff males and conditions in home in the west. College: CD RE Mitk which the RAN operates. The tria ls program is Dunne becomes Director But thai was t he relentless for both subma-General of Naval Policy deployment from which ri ne and trials' ship and and Warfare; CDRE HMAS P ROTECTO R. so important is the timely

~~il~~wM~i~:~~ G~~le~~ under new CO LCD R commissioning of the of Military Information Paul Fryer- Hornsby. has class that companies Policy: CORE Simon just returned to her home rare ly have a night or a Harrington becomes pon of Adelaide. wcekend off. Director General of Thc Navy's submarine After sensor tri3ls. Recruiting: CORE P3ddy trials and re,cue ship look PROTECTOR began her Mitchell wiil be po~led 10 the opportuni ty to under- pas sage sou tho f the N3tional Def;:m;:e take a significalll deploy- K3ng3rOO Island to College. India: CORE Jim /lIen! that cucompassed Hobart. O'Hara will become sensor trials. surveillancc Those few who have

~~~i~~:A a~~e1~~~,ih~ and suppon ta~k... s ailed in the Southern College of Defcnce and between completing trials Ocean west of Tasmania Strategic Studies: CDRE with HMAS COLLINS agree it LS a lonely part of Geoff Smith is po~ted to and starting those for sUb- Au~tralia. be Commandant of the marine number two. The icy condittons Australian Defence Force FARNCOMB. wert" probably Ihe rea~on • H!\.1AS PROTECTOR ... from s nowy Ilobart to tropical Vila. Warfar~ Centre: CAPT It was the ship's first the only contacts wcre

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Others skied in the although being one of the tributed 10 the efforts of surrounding hills and most spectacu lar d iving CPOMTP Greg Oaebeler claimed viclOry _______ ___ and his team.

over 3 prolific A busy week

]",,] rugby ,ido. F,' rst to re,' 9 n i.d,di" P"P'-Tasmani a's rations fo r her win I e r Seacheck ended

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After clearing the Derwent and one day in Sydney. she tumed north­e3St for Vanuatu.

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The personnel are conducting tbe cbarity bike ride to ra isf money for the Ashfield Childrtn's Home in Sydney,

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Navy gyros handed over Two restored gyros ~ have been handed

over 10 the RAN by Mr Jack Hannan,fom-.erlythe senior technical officer in c harge of t he Naval Dockyard Williamstown (NOW) Gyro \\'orkshop.

The gyros were handed over during a visit 10

RSNES-Melboume by the Naval Support Command Chief or Logistics (COLOG), CORE Nick Hel yer. and Mr Peler Lozan.the Superintendent of Genernl Logistics (SGENLOG).

The Mk 14 Spcny Gyro was built by the Ford Factory USA in 1940 and delivered to NOW and installed as the flcci spare. The gyro was set to work by Chief Electrical Artificer Tnbner.

led on ships throughout the fleet, the raulty com­ponents were then refur­bishedalNDW.

class destroyer HMAS ANZAC in 1950. Some years later it was remo\'ed during refi t and held by the G yro Work shop al NOW. It was later saved from the scrap heap and restored by Mr Jack Hannan. Thi s gyro will fitlinglyfealllreinlhe entrance foye r of Ihe ANZAC class log istic office.

The Mk 14 was the fiTlit commercial gyro to be used by the RAN and it will go OIl pcnnanem dis­play at the Technical Training Facility HMAS CERBERUS.

Chapel's golden jubilee N ayyceremonialchurChSerY iCeS

have been held at H:.o'IA S CER­BERUS to commemorate Navy Week.

I! ""as of partieualar imporlanee for the Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Chapcl. as it marked the golden jubilee or the laying or the foundation ~lOne or the chapel.

The Chapel. costing 30.000 pounds, can accomodate 300 peoplc and is built in the Gothic style of Tall HoStone. The foundation stone was bid and blessed on October 6. 1946. by the Archbishop of Melbourne. the late Daniel Mannix .

The c hapel is the national Catholic memorial chapel commemoratin g [he sacrifices of all members of the RAN whoSt'rvedinWW2.

The principal celebrant was Ihe Most Re\erend Geoffrey Mayne:, Bishop of thc Auslralian Defence Force.

Before the service, the opportunity was taken to launch a book dedicalcd to all RAN personnel who served in Vietnam. The book titled Mostly Sailors was written by Mrs Carla Evans. The launch was aucnded by Vietnam veler­nns both servinging and ex-scrving.

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Samurais take on southern footballers The Japan Samurai Australian Rules Football learn

has been touring and playing different football clubs within Victoria for the pasl 10 years.

The team first played CERBERUS in 1995 and mem­bers enjoyed themselves so much that Ihey decided to retumthisyear.

The team's bus pulled up al the CERBERUS pavilion 10 see a pumped up local team provided by the engi­neering faculty and coached by CPOMT "Wheels" Wheeler.

TIle Samurais filed into their change rooms and pre­pared Ihemselves for the game ahead. Their manager

Chris King informed Ihe CERBERUS tcam that the learn was on a high afler ils win against Nagambie the week before.

Both teams ran onto the field and welcomed each other. The Samurais won the toss and decided to kick with the wind.

This was good decision, with Ihe fi rst goal going to the Samurais. There was some hard hilling from both sides which paid off for CERBERUS. which was up by a few points at the first break.

CERBERUS came out firing after quarter lime and ran away with the game. winning by 76 points.

Navy chases hard i inter-service running der have contributed to Navy's second place in the NSW Inter-service Cross Country Running Champion s hips at Centennial Park in Sydney.

Army won the evenl for the founhconsecutive year with 73 points. It was followed by Navy

with 123 points and RAAF with 176

Forty-eight ADF per­sonnel entered the cham­pionships. wi lh the majority of runners from the Navy and Army.

MIDN Baxter. who travelled from Canberra 10 compete in the compe­tition.came second in the men's opcn category with a time of 27"44. He was

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defeated by Corporal third in the male velerans' Ambler. who smashed las\ year's 8.5km record by almost two minutes was only four seconds withatimeof26'12 behind the veterans' win-

MIDN s O'Shea and Cam. also from the ACT. took firsl and second places respectively in the women 's open category. with times of 17'55 and 19'17.

Sailors voted best new baby-sitters [!0;1~:~!aiaCcil

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POPT PCI(~r Swifl. of the centre at Rushcutter'~

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The centre. which Ira­ditiona[]yholdschildren's sailing activity weeks at the end of lhe ChrislillaS holidays. decided to extend the program to the September/October holi­days.

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in\'olves 30 children . aged 10 to 16. Apart from leaming 10 sail lasars. lhe children are taken on excursIons

"We give them (the children) a swimming lest when they arrive. specifi­cally so we can keep a closer eye on the weaker swimmers and put them with the better saili ng instruetors:·hesaid.

"Every day. the chi l­dren are given different things to do - they don 't just sail. In the morning they play spon and in the aftern oo n they go on excursions.

"This time they did a harbour crui~e on Lady Penrll),lI. wenl to the movie s and Time Zone and visi ted HMAS SYD­NEY and the Young Endeavour:'

POPT Swift will send a s ignal to all personnel later this year \0 advise them of the next chil­dren'ssailingactivity ..... eek

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RAN powers to Perth Cup win T:~n~~~ ~~se w;;wu;;

Defence Agree men t (FPDA) Penh Cup sporting event on the Malaysian island of Palau Tiomann.

The event, held at the Ti omann Resort after Exercise Starfish 96. also involved naval personnel from Great Brilain, New Zea land. Malaysia and Singapore.

An old SOCCt'rfield at the resonwa5lr.lllSformr:dinto a tug-o-wararena. ascven· a·side soccer field. a non· stop cricket area and a grass \'olleyballCOtlI1. The e\cnt"s biathlon was held 100 metres away. starting at the rcsoI1·s landingjcny.

The AUSlralian~. from HMA Ships ADELAIDE. BRISBANE. ONS LOW and WESTRALlA, per· formed well in all of the event .... bUlexcelled in the tug·o·war. biathlon and thcnon.Slopcrickel.

The New Zea landers Involved. from the dive lender HM NZS MAN· AWHANU I, managed 10

make it into the tug·o-war and volleyball finals,even Ihough Ihey on ly had a pool of 17 people available tocompele in all e\·ents.

However. the New Zealanders were unable to defeat the Australians inthe lug·o-war. lnacon­troversial final. the fi rsl

• LEUT Ar nold. o r II i\l AS ADELAIDE. competes in Ihe soccer healS.

pull went \0 the New Zealanders and the sec­o nd 10 the AuStralians. The third pull was won convincingly by the New Zealanders. who had moved behind a hillock in the fie ld , placing their huge anchorman in an

immovable posilion. The New Zealanders

were reprimanded, before being beaten by the Australians.

In the biathlon. team mates LSCD Rub and A BCSO Barran placed second. while the othe r

Australians placed founh andscventh

The Australian non·stop crickettearn\\'aSundefe:alCd throughout the competition.

The fina l point scores were RAN 19.5. RN 17, RNZN 14.5. RMN 12.5 and RSN I I .5.

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WATERHEN the reluctant win R~a~ g~~u~e~f ;~O~I~ home after only a couple of games, the HMAS WATERHEN softball team has done amazingly well 10 win the Naval Support Command Softball Knockout Competition.

The WATERHEN team defeated HMAS PLATY­PUS· 19-5, while HMAS SUCCESS defeated FIMA 23-4 in the conso­lationfinal.

WATER HEN captain LSPT Andrew Cross said the team did not have faith in its ability, to win the competition and planned wleave the Lin1e Ba y sports complex in Sydney at midday.

However. the team was still winningat2pm and thoughts of relaxing with a cold refreshment quick­ly disappeared.

·'1 kept telling them I didn't want them to go ho me ... and they k.ept winning,"said LSCross.

"They were the most reluctant winners I'd ever seen. Then we gOt to the final and they became a totally different team.

"For example, ABET Brad Lahey was the most strident supporter of going home early, but when he got a taste of victory, he became more and more gung-ho.

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the team like a profes ­sionalcheerleader'"

LSPT Cross said while he was impressed with the entire team's perfor­mance, a "big thumbs up" went to his pitcher POCK Tony Bond.

LSPT Cross said naval pe rsonnel at WATER­HEN often played soft­ball at Waverton Park as their inter-departmental sport and he encouraged more people to join in.

For further details, con­tact LSPT Cross on (02) 99262295.

• WATERHEN's winning team .•• (back I·r) ABMT Felton, POCK Kelly, LSPT Cross, SMNSN Hall, ABSN Condran, LSSN Garbutt, ABET Lahey, SMNSN Grea\·cs, ABC K McKenziew with team mascot "Ella". (Front I_ r )

POCK Bond, SMNSN Walker. Pictures: ABP" Simon Melcalfe

Touch title for'TROSS Adefeat in the finals

last year has spurred HMAS ALBA· TROSS to a decisive

team. which formed in lune. had made so li d preparations for the final.

··1 think we did our passes a lot better than they did. We were con­stantly looking for holes in their defence and seemed to find them when we really needed them ." said Martin. an elated captain.

··We were able 10 gain our advantage there and were on a roll after thaI."

In a quick and enter­tai ning game. FI MA tried to hold off ALBA-

TROSS' push. but was unable to co ntain the tcam. which managed to score its fourth try after the final siren.

ALBATROSS' team spirit was so strong that its link player Ellis Higgins played on after breaking a bone in his hand only four minUles into the game.

Martin said he was proud of hi s over 30s team because it worked well together for the entircgame.

··It was a decent effort." he said

--F IMA had all the attributes of a winning team-they were young, t:llland lean.

·'But the team was only together for the fh'e games toda y. I think they would have been a much different team if they had some training under their belts"·

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