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3/41 Crisp Circuit, Bruce, 2617 Australia Phone: Home: 02 6161 8034
Email:[email protected]
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Nautical Institute Wreath at the Merchant Navy Memorial
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Another year has come and gone – where does the time get to? As you read through this newsletter you will find articles on the final events of 2009, including the Merchant Navy Memorial Service. This annual event provides an opportunity to remember those who laid down their lives for our freedom. It is a lovely, solemn occasion, and it would be wonderful to see more NI members participate. I hope to see you there in 2010…
In addition, there is a ‘readers digest’ version of an exciting talk given by Kate Linley on how she came to a maritime profession. Anyone who can survive a shipwreck before her 10th birthday, and still want to go to sea, certainly has my vote! There are only a few images included in the article, but there were many more in her presentation.
Sometimes the oldies are the goodies, as you will read in the ‘I wanna be a captain’ article that a colleague looked out. If only…
For those of you who were not able to attend Patrick Kennedy’s presentation on the wreck of the Malabar, I am sure you will find the article provided by Mike Bozier an interesting read.
Looking ahead to 2010, we will be honoured to welcome the President and Senior Vice-President of NI to Australia. It isn’t often that the NI HQ folks get to travel from the UK to Australia, and I hope you will be able to participate in the various events in your area. This is your chance to find out more about the work of the institute, to provide ideas and thoughts on the direction it should go and look towards the future as professional mariners.
So, goodbye to 2009 and hello to 2010! I wish you all the very best and look forward to your contributions to NI in the coming months.
Jillian Carson-Jackson
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Chairman – Mike Drake [email protected]
Vice-Chairman – David Bendall [email protected]
Treasurer – John Harding
Secretary – Jillian Carson-Jackson
[email protected] or [email protected]
Mailing address for the Secretary:
28 Hodgkinson St., Griffith, ACT 2603
Canberra Liaison – Iain Kerr
Victoria Liaison – Ian Liley
South Australia Liaison – Howard Pronk
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Ken Edwards – [email protected] Greg Hill – [email protected]
Mike Bozier – [email protected]
Justin Jones – [email protected]
Barclay Ross – [email protected] Richard Toone – [email protected]
Chris de Jong – [email protected]
Ashley Papp – [email protected]
WWWhhhaaattt dddooo yyyooouuu ttthhhiiinnnkkk ooofff yyyooouuurrr iiinnnssstttiiitttuuuttteee??? What are you looking for from the NI? Don’t be shy – send in your thoughts and ideas! Do you have a comment on a specific article? Is there a niggling issue that you feel the NI should be addressing?
We look forward to your thoughts and comments on articles that are presented in the newsletter. Please forward by e-
mail to [email protected]
Carnival Australia is proud to support the Nautical Institute and in
particular the NI's commitment to help drive continuous
improvement of professional marine standards.
3/41 Crisp Circuit, Bruce, 2617 Australia Phone: Home: 02 6161 8034
Email:[email protected]
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What milestones are being reached by our members? I can’t be aware
of them all, so please send them to me for inclusion in the newsletter.
To be included in the next newsletter, make sure they are received by
e-mail at [email protected] not later than 15 April, 2010. I’m sure I am
not aware of them all!
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The presentation to a combined meeting of members of NISEA and COMMA was given by Patrick Kennedy, Managing Director of Kennedy Communications. Pat has 25 years public affairs’ experience, working as the Public Relations Manager or Media Manager in a range of government departments. He was also employed as Press Secretary to a state government minister for several years. Since 1999 he has been undertaking full time media and presentations training, as well as writing his third book – “From Long Bay to Malabar – a Village by the Sea”. The suburb of Malabar was called Long Bay until 1933, a title that was used by the Aboriginal people in their own language as well as by Governor Arthur Philip.
Pat’s parents worked as nurses at the Coast Hospital, the old name for the Prince Henry Hospital and at Long Bay Gaol. Pat did his nursing training at the Prince Henry before becoming an intensive care paramedic in the ambulance service. He lived in Malabar until he was 24 years old, moving then to Heathcote after marrying in the Coast Chapel in 1980.
The “Malabar” was not the first vessel to come to grief at the entrance to Long Bay. Previously, the “Albany” and a smaller boat “Try One” had grounded at Boora Point, at the northern side of the entrance to the bay. Subsequently, the Castle class trawler “Goolgwai” (ex “Almeria”) also grounded there, as well as an un-named barge. “Goolgwai” had been built in Canada in 1919, was fitted with a triple expansion steam engine and was bought by Red Funnel Fisheries of Sydney in 1928. She was requisitioned by the Royal Australian Navy in September 1939 and fitted out as a minesweeper. On conclusion of hostilities she was returned to her owners and resumed fishing. In May 1955, when returning to Sydney after an 11 day fishing trip, the trawler ran into a bank of dense fog and grounded. The crew was able to jump on to a rock platform and was helped to safety by local people.
The “Malabar” was a steel cargo passenger liner, built for Burns Philp & Co. in Glasgow in 1925. It was 106.9 metres long overall, 14.8 metres beam and was the first ship with a diesel engine that Burns Philp acquired. It was used in a service from Australia to Singapore and Java, being named after a town in West Java. In April 1931 on Maundy Thursday, the vessel was en route from Melbourne to Sydney. At 0645 Cape Banks was 1mile abeam to port. The relief master, Captain George Leslie may have been hugging the coast to avoid the southerly setting East Australian current. Shortly after passing Cape Banks the vessel encountered a bank of dense fog and ran ashore at Boora Point. The engines could not free the vessel so the master abandoned ship. The 28 passengers, 108 crew and three stud race horses were saved by the ship’s lifeboats and local boats.
The shipwreck was a spectacular sight for Sydney residents and police estimated there were about 300,000 spectators over the Easter weekend. There was a heavy swell on Good Friday and the “Malabar” started to break up. The cargo of timber, flour, tinned food and meat carcasses started to wash ashore, first in Long Bay and subsequently all along the New South Wales coast as far as Newcastle. Of prime interest were barrels and kegs of whisky, rum and beer. One Victorian keg of beer needed six men to rescue it from the rocks and subsequently dispose of the contents, with some help from bystanders! The wreck was sold for salvage but this was frustrated to a large extent by heavy swells and seas. The position of the wreck was very close to the outfall of Sydney’s largest water treatment plant and until 1990 diving on the wreck was impossible. When the sewage plant’s deep-water ocean outfall was commissioned in that year scuba diving on the wreck of the “Malabar” became possible, although there is not a great deal remaining.
There has been some discussion on whether the grounding of the “Malabar” was partly caused by a misunderstanding of a helm order given by the master. It used to be that if it was needed to turn the bow of a vessel to port the helm order was ‘starboard helm’. This was left over from the days when the helm was a tiller and had to be put in the opposite direction to which the bow had to turn. The “Malabar” was fitted with wheel steering so if the order ‘starboard helm’ was given the wheel would be turned to port. This system of helm orders was changed by article 41 of the SOLAS Convention that was signed in London on 31st. May 1929. The Convention required that the change-over was to occur on 30th. June 1931 however the required number of ratifications by countries was not reached until October 1932 and the Convention came into force on 01 January 1933, nearly two years after the loss of the “Malabar”.
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(The wreck of the Malabar, con’t)
It could be inferred that the name “Malabar’ was not lucky. A Royal Navy, 4th rate ship of the line of that name foundered in 1796. A P&O steamship was lost in Point de Galle harbour in May 1860. A barquentine was lost to fire in 1870. A schooner grounded in 1922 and a Brocklebank steamship was torpedoed in 1939. Not too unlucky however – no loss of life has been reported in any of these events.
Pat’s presentation included some historical photographs of La Perouse, Long Bay and the “Malabar” wreck. It also included some revealing photographs of how some people, including politicians, react when being interviewed under stressful conditions. If in doubt keep your hands apart and still. More information about Pat’s book can be found at www.kennedycommunications.net or by calling him on 0408 206 773
After the talk Mike Drake, the current chairman of NISEA, made a small presentation with his vote of thanks.
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On a lovely Sunday morning, 25 Oct. 2009, mariners gathered at the MN memorial on the shores of lake Burley Griffin, Canberra to commemorate the valiant actions of the Merchant Navy. .
The following is a précis of the address given to those gathered at the service by Brigadier W Rolfe AO (rtd), Repatriation Commissioner. The subtitle of the address is: An address by an ageing soldier, with respect and admiration for the men and women of the sea.
I am honoured to have the opportunity to speak to you on behalf of the Minister and the Repatriation Commission. The Minister particularly regrets that he was unable to accept the invitation from the Merchant Navy War Memorial Committee, the company of Master Mariners and the Merchant Navy Association to be here with you today on a day some 20 years after the unveiling of this memorial, 70 years after the outbreak of WWII – and not long after the national day of observance of 3 September.
It is a small service, close to a body of water, conducted at a quiet time in Canberra on a Sunday morning under leaden skies – possible storms out to the North West. To a land lubber like me who has rarely been out of sight of land, it seems an appropriate time to reflect on the dangerous, ‘unseen’ and ‘silent’ service of the Merchant Marine – that brotherhood of men who went down to the sea in ships and stood in harm’s way to ensure supplies to armed forces and people in every corner of the globe.
We can close our eyes and imagine – but only imagine – the solitude of vast oceans, the dangers that lurked beneath the swell and in the air, the possible tempest that lay behind a squall on the horizon, and the days and weeks of searching those horizons for tell tale signs of enemy activity – the only constant being the throb of engines, the smell of burning coal and the threat that if attacked you could be thrown into that sea with help far away.
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From the safety of our freedom, won at the cost of so many lives, we can now look back with gratitude on the basis of what we know now.
We know that in the war at sea some 5,000 allied ships were destroyed, more than 50,000 seamen killed, 4,000 wounded and 5,000 taken prisoner. In the early years of the war allied merchant ships were lost at a greater rate than replacements could be built. But then between 1942 and 43, allied merchant ship construction more than doubled to 14,500 ships. And then they had to be manned. They were often multinational crews – men caught by the war in one port or another. And they served around the world, sometimes defensively armed – but without the protections offered by ships of war. Sometimes they were passenger or cargo/passenger ships taken up for service, and later the “Liberty” or “Parks” or “Fort” or “Empire” ships constructed in record time. Close to home in the Indian and Pacific Oceans between 1941 and 43, Japan deployed 58 submarines and sank 186 ships. Some 50 ships were sunk by aircraft and another 53 damaged.
The Centaur was one such passenger ship taken into service as a hospital ship, and when sunk without warning by a torpedo off Brisbane in 1943, only 64 of the 332 persons on board survived. Other coastal transports such as the BHP ships Iron Knight and Iron Crown were particularly vulnerable and when torpedoed, sank within a few minutes with the loss of over 50 lives.
Ashley Papp after laying the NI wreath
But as well as that knowledge of the terrible cost, we now know the value of the service they rendered. The lifeline they provided in maintaining war supplies of food and oil and goods kept our forces fighting and people in far flung, isolated locations eating. They would appear from the vastness of the oceans, disgorge their supplies, and quietly slip away to do the job again. They arrived and departed without fanfare, as quickly and as quietly as they could. Thanks were rarely offered, the sentiment overtaken by relief. And that was understood by the brotherhood. They simply returned to supply more – if they could.
Now we know the debt we owe them, and it is with gratitude that we gather and reflect on that unsung service of the brotherhood of the Merchant Marine – and honour those who have only a watery grave, honour those who waited and waited for a mariner who never returned, and honour you who survived those dark days.
Our silence in reflection conveys our gratitude for that silent service.
Lest we forget.
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The NI SE Aus Branch is pleased to receive sponsorship from our members – from financial sponsorship and provision of teleconferencing facilities (Carnival) to maintaining the website (Maritrade). If your organisation would be interested in sponsoring NI SE Aus branch, please contact the secretary at [email protected]
www.maritrade.com.au
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FFFooorrr SSSaaallleee......... Beautiful Pilsner Glasses engraved with the NI logo
Cost of $25.00 per pair. Please send an e-mail to the branch secretary ([email protected] ) if you’d be interested. As they are quite fragile, we will try to arrange for pick up at an NI event. If we need to ship, there could be an additional fee to ensure safe arrival!
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Excerpts of a talk given by Kate Linley, AMSA Surveyor, to NI luncheon in Adelaide.
For the last twenty years people have been telling me that being at sea is no longer what it used to be. More worryingly they also tell me that they wouldn’t recommend going to sea to others or that they would stop their own children from going to sea.
Perhaps I have been lucky but I believe that going to sea is a good place to start a career in the maritime industry.
Out of forty companies that I applied to for a cadetship I had interviews with two and an offer from one, Cunard Ellerman. When I finally got my indenture papers I was seventeen and needed a parent to sign them for me.
Who knows what my story might have been if my parents had opposed me going to sea? As it happens they were very supportive and my Dad certainly signed the papers with a flourish that indicated that he was very happy about the whole thing.
I think in order to understand why they were so supportive about me starting a career in the merchant navy it’s helpful to look at my childhood and how I came to want to go to sea.
In the late 1960’s and early 1970’s my parents got married, built their first boat ‘Felicity’ in the garden of their terraced house in London, put my grandparents on a boat to Australia as £10 emigrants and then had me.
Throughout the course of my life there have been three significant and recurring themes – moving, boats and maintenance. During my childhood, if we weren’t actually out on the water sailing it appears we were never too far from a boat. Whatever house we lived in it seems that there was always a dinghy in the garden.
Eventually, with two parents, four children and two dogs, Felicity was just not big enough and we upgraded to a bigger boat.
Unfortunately bigger boats require more maintenance before you can go sailing each season! But we did get to go sailing and the evidence clearly shows that we enjoyed it.
By the time I was 8 my grandparents had made a number of trips back to the UK to visit and they were now pressing mum and dad hard to bring us out for a visit. We were all growing and now that the dogs had passed away mum and dad wanted to buy a bigger boat and maybe sail a bit further afield than our current area of the south east coast of the UK. If we flew to Australia there wouldn’t be much money left for a new boat and there wouldn’t be much holiday time left to go sailing in. The employment forecast was not looking good and dad was concerned that with whole departments being laid off at work he might be next. I’m told what came next seemed to be a clear and logical step to take!
My parents decided to buy a bigger boat, take us out of school and sail to Australia.
Dad took a redundancy package and he and mum scoured the country for a bigger boat that they could afford that would be suitable. They found ‘Dorothy Ann’, a 50 year old 36 foot wooden gaff ketch. She had been with the same family from birth and although she needed a bit of work to fit out for our purposes she was what we needed.
And so the fit out began. We did a bit of maintenance before she came out of the water and once out of the water she was completely refastened and re-caulked and following the re-launch we just had to complete the interior fit out
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(Kate Linley presentation Con’t)
We moved once again so that we could be closer to the boat yard and cut down on the commute and the resultant maintenance on the cars. Mum and dad were working non-stop on the boat.
In addition to fitting out ‘Dorothy Ann’ we also needed a dinghy to go with her. So when friends arrived in the UK, having sailed their boat from Australia, what better excuse for a break than to take them with us to a huge second hand boat jumble sale to look for a dinghy.
Back on the boat dad was trying to finish off the interior rebuild so that we could move aboard. Meanwhile with a single line rigged mum hoisted herself up the mast and, with advice from the friendly people at the boatyard, proceeded to rig the standing and running rigging.
Mum also re-caulked the entire deck area as well. In fact due to faulty advice and being sold what, at the time were cutting edge but ultimately incompatible caulking and paint products, she redid the deck coatings three times but the deck never really was watertight and the seams tended to take on the properties of chewing gum in hot weather.
Finally we were getting close to maybe being ready soon, but winter was also drawing closer and with the lease on the house due to expire it was time to move aboard.
With the weather worsening mum and dad decided that they didn’t want to spend the winter alongside finishing off the fit out and that if we left now, in October 1982, we wouldn’t have to face the worst of the Atlantic in winter.
So we loaded up with stores, navigation equipment, fuel, spares, our schooling materials and all the other things necessary for an ocean trip in a sailing boat to Australia and off we went - and sailed smack bang right into the worst weather we had ever seen!
26 days later we made our landfall in Spain.
Not where we had anticipated, not when we had anticipated.
And certainly not in the state that we had anticipated, having broken a few spars and torn a few sails along the way.
Most of us were violently seasick at lot of the time and contrary to the experiences of most mariners I still get seasick on boats and ships alike in heavy weather!
But we were on our way and there was no looking back. We patched ourselves up and set off again. Through the straits of Gibraltar, across the Mediterranean and on to Egypt and the Suez canal.
We arrived in Australia! We had achieved our goal! Having got that far it only seemed logical that of course we would carry on and complete the circumnavigation. Our schooling continued on board and in the Pacific we had some of the best times of the trip. We sailed to New Zealand through the Cook Islands, the Gilbert and Ellis islands and onwards up to Hawaii before arriving in Alaska where geography lessons took on a new, if somewhat cold, meaning.
At this point there seems to be some evidence to support the idea that by now I was already leaning towards a career at sea. We left California and then Mexico behind us and set off for the Panama Canal. It was now, four years after we had started our trip that our luck ran out.
We ran into bad weather.
It was not the worst weather that we had experienced but we caught a wave and ‘Dorothy Ann’ didn’t respond as we knew she ought to. We knew that she had sprung a plank but we were fully loaded with stores to get us round to the other side of the canal and we couldn’t get to the skin to plug the hole.
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We fought for as long as we could to save our home but ultimately it was time to move once again!
18 hours later, to our great relief, we were being rescued - the weather was still bad but we were lucky. Although the vessel that found us was unable to pick us up because of the heavy swell there was another vessel in the area which could.
Having been rescued we returned to the UK and started to slot back into a more conventional lifestyle.
Although it wasn’t the ending we had planned as far as the liferaft company was concerned they couldn’t buy the sort of publicity we had just provided them with!
Did it put us off sailing, no it certainly didn’t and I decided that if this was to be my lot in life then I might as well join the Merchant Navy where I could be paid for being cold, wet, hungry, seasick and in bad weather!
[This article will be continued in the next edition of the NI SE Australia Newsletter – stay tuned…]
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(written by a 10 yr old boy, article provided by Guy Anderson)
I want to be a captain when I grow up because it’s a funny job and easy to do. Captains don’t need much school education, they just have to learn numbers so they can read the instruments. I guess they should be able to read maps so they won’t get lost.
Captains should be brave so they won’t be scared if it’s foggy and they can’t see, or if a propeller falls off they should stay calm so they will know what to do. Captains have to have eyes to see through clouds and they can’t
be afraid of thunder or lightning because they are closer to them than we are.
The salary that captains make is another thing I like. They make more money than they can spend. This is because most people think that captaining a ship is dangerous, except captains, because they know how easy it is.
There isn’t much I don’t like, except girls like captains and all the girls want to marry captains so they always have to chase them away so they won’t bother them.
I hope I don’t get seasick because I get car sick and if I get seasick I could not be a captain and then I would have to go to work.
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2010 will be a very exciting year for NI in Australia – we will welcome NI President Capt. Richard Coates, FNI and Senior Vice President Capt. James Robinson, FNI, and their partners.
Arriving in Australia from UK on April 18th, the tour will begin
with the IHMA Congress in Perth, April 19-23. The visit will continue with a few days in Brisbane, and then onto the NI SE area:
Adelaide: Apr 27th to 29
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Melbourne: Apr 29th to May 1
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Hobart / Launceston: May 1st to 4
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Canberra: May 4th to 6
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Sydney: May 6th to 10
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The key purpose of the Tour is to promote the work of the Institute and the benefits of membership to existing and potential members as well as to the wider maritime community. Events are being planned to enable NI members an opportunity to meet our guests, learn more about the direction of our institute and ask questions / provide input into issues of key importance for our area.
Please watch your e-mail for announcements as the schedule is finalized, and feel free to provide ideas for events. In addition, to help minimize the costs of the visits, Philip Wake has suggested that any offers for hospitality would be welcomed. Please contact the main ni se e-mail address [email protected] if you might be able to help out on the days indicated.
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WWiinn aa bboottttllee ooff wwiinnee!! Australia has lots of great wine to offer, and the NI has lots of great advantages to offer its members. So, why not join the two? YES, for every new member that you bring to the NI family (as confirmed by NI HQ) you will win a bottle of wine (red or white, your choice). This is in addition to the existing incentive for membership offered by NI HQ.
Remember – when you sponsor a member, send a note to [email protected] so we can follow the process and make sure you get your bottle of wine when the membership is confirmed through notification on Seaways!
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Wednesday of the month 1830 hrs
Sydney Branch of the Company of Master Mariners Of Australia Standing invitation to members NSW Sports Club, Hunter Street, Sydney Contact Barclay Ross (02 9975 5578) or Jillian Carson-Jackson ([email protected])
2nd
Wednesday of Feb, May, Aug and Nov – 1830 hrs
Joint NI / CoMMA meeting NSW Sports Club, Hunter Street, Sydney Contact Barclay Ross (02 9975 5578) or Jillian Carson-Jackson ([email protected])
4th
Wednesday of the month 1830 hrs
Melbourne Branch of the Company of Master Mariners of Australia Standing invitation to members RACV City Club, 501 Bourke Street, Melbourne Contact Ms. Alex Evered ([email protected]) or phone 03 9699 3332
Last Wednesday of the month 1230 hrs
South Australia Branch of the Company Of Master Mariners of Australia Standing invitation to members
Largs Pier Hotel, 198 Esplanade, Largs Bay
Contact: Howard Pronk (08 84475924 / 0417 714 649)
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Wednesday 11 February 2010 1800 for 1830
CMMA / NI special meeting combined with Institute to Navigation – presentation by Derek Luxford, senior partner with Hicksons Lawyers, Sydney on Piracy off the Horn of Africa – International Issues NSW Sports Club, Hunter Street, Sydney
Bookings essential, please contact Barclay (02 9975 5578 or [email protected] ) or Jillian ([email protected] ) on or before Thursday, 4 Feb 2010.
Thursday, 18 Feb 2010 1145 for 1200 start
Big Brother is watching… Developments in vessel tracking NI Special event – speaker Jillian Carson-Jackson, Manager, Vessel Tracking, AMSA.
Following the implementation of the SOLAS Chapter 5, Regulation 19-1 on Long Range Identification and Tracking there has been increased interest in the concept of ‘vessel tracking’. But what, exactly, is vessel tracking and what can it do to enhance safety of navigation, protection of the environment and shipping efficiencies. This presentation will be based on a presentation provided to the IALA VTS Symposium, in Bergen, Norway. (concepts presented are those of the author, and do not represent those of any organization or authority) Note – location to be confirmed.
Wednesday 12 May 2010 1800 for 1830
CMMA / NI meeting – Cliff Beazley presenting on the work of Port Ash Port Ash has come a long way since the last presentation to NI in, was it 2002? This includes not only the training of masters, mates and pilots but their involvement with the RAN. With 2010 the year of the Seafarer, a timely presentation! (note, this presentation will be a good way to keep up the pace of NI events, following the visit of our NI HQ guests, who will be leaving Sydney on May 10
th )
Bookings essential, please contact Barclay ([email protected]) or Jillian ([email protected] ) on or before Thursday, 5 May 2009.
Note – if you have an event or date for calendar, please provide prior to the deadline for input to the next newsletter. Remember, this is your newsletter!
Please be aware that the NSW Sports Club not only wishes to have advance notice of numbers attending meetings but will also charge for any “no shows” – cost for the excellent, fully served three course meal is $35.00. The Sports Club is quite strict about this and so, please, if you would like to attend a meeting advise Barclay Ross ([email protected]) or Jillian Carson-Jackson ([email protected]) by the 1200 on the Thursday before the meeting. Realizing that unforseen events often arise, should you find that that you cannot attend please advise Barclay by 0930 on the Monday before the meeting and the “no show” charge should be avoided.