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BLEAK DAY IN W.A. T~eu~:;i,~a~a~:y~as a bleak day In the history of the Royal ~~~~~o~~::~~~.~n~~f~~~:i~\:~s~e~~r~~~ ~r:n~~ ~h:~~~ ~:ere;;;~~~~se::~~l t~:~~~~a~~a:::'~~d by medical ofllcers for

It was aOOut 1100 Western Austra lian lime and the RAN's st3r\cd the blaze of oxygen. minor bum~. smal e inhal;Ulon and ~hock and were then mcde-Unuerway Replenl sh- Regretfully. 1\ was dis- nced [051 Joh n of

WE~Ti~~~A (~~~~ 'I "al'e beell proJo/llully saddened to Jeam of the ~;~.~~~;~a;a\~~:s '~~~n~ .,W~ ~hollg"ts a~e with the ~'''ip '~ compally alld ~o~e~~~:~~~h~~ t~~; : Stuart Dietrich), was death of fOllr members of the crew of HMA S junior supply officer had fa/miles oj WESTRALIA jollow"'g ,lie tragedy conducting Irials eight lVESTRAUA. I ask thatYOlI pass Oil to the relatil'es died ill the lire. that has occurred. If IIot for the resourcefulness The fire was finally n:lulical miles off Fre· allil partners oft/lOse who died alld to all members Kille d were MIDN and courage of those 011 board t"ere may well ext inguished at 1 ?~5. IlJant [e in Ihe vici llity of the ship's compally my profound sympathy 011 Megan Anile Pe lly, 22, of have been evell greater canlOlties. Th e day 's A RAN C ritI c al

Of:il~~:eabr~~~y~ut In their loss. I ask that )'011 pass OIl my best wishes to g::~r~n ~~;~~. i;~~~ eve~lIs serve to confirm th e daIJge~~lls ~~~i~~~\ S~ee:~ ~~~; the engille room of Ihe all who were injured for a complete, speedy Perlh, LSMT Bradley ellVironment ever presellt afloat. '- MaTltulJe nOW" o ut 10 WES . ship. recol'ery. ' -ChiefofNalry, VADMChabllers. John Meek, 25. of Cam- CommalJderAlistralia, RADM Ritchie, T RA LI A 10 counsel

Whe n it was detect- de n near Sydney and thc: ship 's company. ed the ship 's standing firdighting pany went into action. ADMT Phillip Johll Car-

However. lhe pan y was dnvcn back by the fe rOCity of [he fire roll , 23. o f Carrum Downs near Melboume. • lJoa rd or inquiry C()n\'ell~'(I, page lh~.

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A sea of sorrow

- Th e stricken HM AS W ESTRALIA under tow back to STIRLING .

M~?r~, ~~:~ana~!~~~ lragically.""ashcriasl M~gan. 22. of Dalby

011 Queen!>land'~ Darhng Do .... ns. al .... ays wanled to Join the Navy and was a recent graduate of Ihe Australian Defence Force Academy.

She Joined WES -TRALIA as part of her continulJIg trainlllg as a junior suppJy ofliccr and was on a famihartsmion tour of t he ship when. just a (ew hoursafter~hc s tepped aboard. Ihe expJO!>ionhappened.

All four people I.JIJed III theuagedylovoothcNavy.

Inquiry convenes T~~q~~:;1 Bo~a;~a~~ ~~.~~:;~t~~~~i~~i~~ ~a~:c~aft~ If~r~~:J~ lished to look inlo the stances relevant to the ANZAC Ship Projec t WESTRALIA accid~nt death and injury of per- Director and no" of the convened a t HM AS sonnel.the Involvement DireClor.:l1coflntelhgeoce S T IRLING las t wed.. of the s h lp's company Ope rations. He IS a and is expected to last includlllg their tra in ing M arine Eng lneen n g another week. and competence. the Officer with 34 years'

The Mariti lIle materiel \late oflhe ship naval experience. Commander. RADM at the lime and the The Other RAN mem-Chris Ritchie said the involvement of other bers are ('A PT Russell board would IIIve~tigatc naval units and external S, hedlich. a meJI!:al all relevantcil\:umstances agenc ies. officer for 22 year,. and including the fi re's cause T he board president is C MDR Ed wanJ Wal~ h

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Headquarters for more than three years.

Two independcm civil· ian experts also have been appointed 10 the board in a break from tradition.

They are Assistant Chief Offi cer Lindsay Cuoeo of the WA Fire and Rescue Service and Ihe Commom .. eallh Inspector of " 'Iarine Accidents. Mr Christopher Filor.

The legalofficerassi~t· ing the board will be CA PT Peter Callaghan. Senior Counsel.

The Defence Minister. Mr McLachlan. said the Board of Inqui ry. in another break from past prac tices. would be open to relatives. the comrnu· nity and Ihe news media.

MrMcLachlansaid he hoped the board would be able to detennine the facts surrounding the tragedy so any addilional precautions which mighl be identified cou ld be swiftly I into action.

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ABMT Phillip Carroll. 23. of Vic toria jOined i n 1995. co m p leted his Initial traIni n g and initial technical

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CO of the R AN's largesl sh i p. C M D R Stuart Dietrich wasdosc to tears when h e addressed the crowd. including Ihe companies of liMA Ships ADE-LA IDE. SYDNEY. DAR-WIN. ANZAC and SUC-CESS.

"We as a crew deeply feel the loss of Br.td. Phil. Megan and Shaun and our thoughts and hearlS are with theEf families who afe with us today." he said.

"We have fought and won a mighty baltic but we have lost four s hi p. mates from our family."

He continued: "To each membe r of W ES-TRALIA. [ wish 10 stale the bravery and courage which I saw last Tuesday ma kes me p ro ud to be your Commandi n g Officer.

" It is my privi lege to have served III such a gal. lamship·scompany."

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Two RAN personnel accompanying the team afe linguists PDEWL Vandcrklasborsl from DSD and LSEWL Jensen from NORCOM.

Tbe Iri-service personnel will work with Aus-tralian Agency for International Development (AusAlD) and are expected to be deployed for three months.

'They left AuslTalia late last month. LTCOL Geofr 1\fulht'rin is in command of the..-

team. It is supported by three Black Hawk helicopters

and a Cari!)ou transport. RAAF H('!"toles were used ill the jIJWal stages to

take personnel and equipment from Townn ille and Dano,inandtopre-position avialionfueJ.

The task of the team \till he to distribute food and medical suppli('s from the isolated township of Wamena to even more remote communities in risk orramine.

Wamena is in the most seHreJy drought alTected area and the mountains mean supplies have to be airlifted.

The ADF support builds on the $3.3 million assis· tanee already provided by Australia 10 Irian Jaya since the crisis began and follows simila r assistance to drought arrected a reas of PNG.

ADF experience in high a ltitude n ying gained from the challenging PNG terrain will be put to the test in the new operatioD.

Primary aim ror Ihe Australians "'iII be to kw p communities fed until thei r own crops grow.

Water purification, light engineering a nd malaria oontroileams ..... ill accompany the pilots, loadmasters and maintenance people tasked for the o peration.

T~;~ ';:'i ~~r~~~a;:~ TLE and HMAS WHYALLA. have pulled out all stops to take 10 tonnes of rice to the South Pacific island of Tanna. facing famine as the re~ult of tropical cycioneZuman.

With their ooab at ncar capacity with 25kg bags of rice anll other ~tore" lashed to their decks. LCDR Riano Gargiulo (FREMANTLE) anll LCDR Mal Parsons (WHYALLA) lleparled Port Vila at Ilpm on April 22 anll travelling at 18 knot" entered Tanna's Lcnakel Harbour 140 nm away at 6am the next llay.

"Because of a one metre swell. fears that there wa"a barge sunk at the wharf and the fact that the wharrwa~ not ill good condition. we anchored 400 yards off the beach." LCDR Par-sons ~aid

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" In a really combined e ffur t officers worked with junior and senior sailors to lifllhe bags of rice from the deck of first FREMANTLE and then WHYALLA. down inlo the small craft as they came alongside.

"Once the boats nullg ed into the ,and about 20 locals. super-vi . .,ed by the police. waded Into ankle deep water to carry the bags up the bcach to trucks.

"The rice was ta~en to [he police st:ltion for dis-tribution.

"We finished the unloading by 9.45am and for the nexl hour hall about ' 40 schoolchildren on board fora visit.

"We gave them some s()uvenirs but had wgct away by IlambccauM:we had COmmittllCll~ III Noone} for ANZAC Day." LCDR Parsolls said.

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MrMauriceWrightson. deputy general manager for re tail. aCl:epling on behalf of Australia Post. said that lhe aviation theme recogmsed the role played by the Navy In Australia's defence.

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Reserves celebrate ill:~r:~:rs ~~ e~;:c~~ cd to j 0 i n fe 1I0w Reservists from the Arrny and Air Force in a special Reserve Forces Day march through the streets of Sydney on July I.

l"epamde is aimed at commemorating the 50th nnniversaryoftheforma-tion of military Reserve forces in Australia.

A special commi llee. working in close cQ-{)pcra-tion of the National Ser-vice men's Associa tlon of Austra lia, is organisi ng the special day.

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Shouti ng ··welcome, welcome" in Mandarin and Cantonese the crowd lined Fleet Base East to gree t the gu ided missile des troye r QINGDAO (CA PT Fu Guosen). the replenishment ship NAN-CANG (CA PT Liu Wan-glin) and the training ship SHICHANG (CMDR Yao Liqiang).

The three ships carried 676 officers and sailors.

Aboard the destroyer was Rear Admiral Han Fangrun, the Deputy Com-mander of the PLA- N North Sea Aeet.

RADM Qu lichun, the deputy commandant of the: Oal ian Naval Academy wa s abo a r d the SIIiCIIANG.

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QINGDAO was along-side just after9am where the RAN Band. the Syd-ney Standing Guard and a large group of RAN offi· cers waited.

They were led by the Ma ritime Commander Austra lia. RADM Chri s Ritchie.

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RAOM Ritchie told the large crowd of the visit by Austnlian ships to China last year and the hospitali· ty and we lcome their crews had received.

"We hope: that you will feel equally at home in Sydney."

He said the vis it reflect-ed the bilatera l relations between the: two nations.

"Your visit will strengthen the bonds."

Training ship. CO: CMDR \'ao Liqiang.

Wr:=~~Pc~~~~t~7! 800 people in 24 hours he knew that 100 many cooks were t1()( going to spoil the: broW.

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"Of course we had to have Australian Pavlova," hc: said.

Cao in for long haul T~;:t~.:~u~-~j~-:~~ the Peoples Liberation Anny - Navy for the long haul.

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PNG relief effort winds up A~:I::~ I~~;;rt ~~o~~~ offiCIally wrapped up last month with a tn-service filia l parade at t he Au Transport Squadron head-quar1ers III Port Moresby.

Commander lSI Aust-rahan Di" s ion and Deployable JOint Force lIeadquarter~. Major Genera l Peter Cosgrove, was in POri Moresby to rev,ew his troopS on their

'':-_'''''''. final parade and RAAF

·",,:u.-"'::ll ~~~d~;.f~i?~:~m~:~ Doug Chipman. a lso attended.

Corporal John Korala. ~"' • .IiI11 a nulltary policeman

from Port Moresby. and \\1i!'\;;;:=~~~~:=~~~1 1 Pnvate Peter Ford, a

logistics clerk from Townsville's 5th Aviation Regiment. received pre-sentations for outstanding sen'lce durlllg the re lief effort. Dawn in Hell

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Force was formally diS· sol\(~d Apo13.

While air aid de ]j"ery was the main focus of the drought relief operation. many ADF and PNGDF personnel were hard at work on the ground assisting the PNG com-munity.

A number of ADF pro· Jects provided baSIC ser-,ices. training and equip-ment In a range of fields. MediCS. signallers, finance and even public relation s personnel were involved in key projects throughout the operation. while some PNG soldiers had t he 0pp0rlunity of visltlllgAustralianumts.

Medical teams camed out four missions into remote villages. By the end of the relief effort. A DF medics had treated more than 1200 villagers.

Med ical Ireatment included disease preven-t ion ed ucation. imlll uni· sat ion of children. dental Ireatmem and education and hea lt h assessments. Specialist care included obstetrics. paediatrics and dentistry.

left With the problem of The Sh i p met heavy transporllng I I Toyota weather belween Pori four-wheel-dri,e ,'ehicles Moresby and Townsville and tl'oO shipping coma,"- and although some tie · ers (rom the operallon downs parted, the load from Port Moresby back caused no concern in the to Townsville. rolling swell.

HMAS BALlKPAPAN LCDR Sorby said the and her company were Sea State 5 was the most idemified as the experts challenging the ship had to undertake the move. experienced In recent

BALlKPAPAN. under memory. LCDR Marl Sorby sailed After unloading in from Darwin laSI month Townsvi lle, BALlKPA-directly to t he Lancon PAN began preparations wharf at POri Moresby. for Exercise Inillal But because of her tight Landing, involvlllg joint schedule t he company amphibious activities at was unable even to step the Cowley Beach

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Naval iandlllg craft I·IM AS LA BUAN a nd HM AS TARA KAN moved 330 tonnes of freig ht to remote areas and more than 3.2 million ki lograms of emergency food aid was delivered by Army and Air Force air-craft during the s ix-month- long operation.

T he Combined Task

As Australi a's fami ne nR~~~~~~~]~i~fl relief effort came to an end in Papua New Guinea Joint Task Force 105 was

The highlight of the visit ..... as thedawnserviceallhe notorious He ll fire Pass. part o( llie Thai-Burma railway built by Allied PoWs during World War II .

A 100ai of 45 NEWCAS-

ment and senior Australian and foreign military officers at a moving ceremony at the Kanchanaburt War Ceme-tery.

NEWCASTLE personnel also participated in the olli-cial openingofa war muse-um al Hellfire Pass on the Death Railway.

- A nlem ber ofth e lri -sen'ieegua rd a lthe The visi l tO Thailand was

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Kaneha na buri War Cemetery. part of a 10-week deploy-

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Charity award T~a~~~~~~a~fM'i:ehs~~~nJe~f~~a~i:~ presen ted H MAS ANZAC wit h t he Navy League o f Australia Perpetua l Trophy.

ANZAC was awarded the trophy for her co mpa ny's charity ( unu ra is i ng effor1s.

ANZAC. under her previous CO CAPT Les Pataky and now CAPT Marc Bonser. won the community award from fierce competit ion from other f1ec t unils and sho re estab lis hm e nt s around Australia.

The shield rema ins in the west. as

HMAS STIRLING won the 1996 trophy. ANZAC's nom inat ion was for her

work for the Albany Children's Cancer Care Group. the ship's adopted charity.

More than $8000 has been raised in the 12 months since hercommissioning.

The money was raised through innov-ative fund raising ac tivities including a sponsored "shave off' which saw 60 people go under the clippers from the commanding officer to male and female sailors.

HM AS ANZAC was adopted by the Town of Albany last year and there is a close bond bet ween the two.

the fi nal time. Captain Brian Roben-

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Highl ights of his 2 1-month tenure II1c lude leading the first RAN taskgrouplO visit the People's Rep ub lic of China in I I years. being task group commander for Exercise Kakadu 3 and taking part in Ex~rcise Valiant Usher with the American Amphib ious Readiness Task Gmup.

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BOBART (CMDR Simon Woolrych) has returned from a four-week goodwill tour of New Zc313nd which took in four pon visi ts. a neet concentration period and a multin3tional muill-forceexercise.

After an uneventful crossing of rhe Tasman Sea HOBART arrived in New Zealand waters a day eMly and went to anchor In the picturesque Queen ChMlotte SouncJ.

The evening me31 was replaced with a steel beach b3rlxcue and entenainment supplied by the ship's band. on loan from the RAN B3nd Sydney.

She weighed anchor before sunrise in order to make the pilotage into Wellington for five days a long~ide al Queens wharf. practically in the middle of the city.

HOBART's te3ms played rugby. soccer and basketball against local Defence Force teams. going down only narrowly 10 a much bigger Kiwi Anny side in rugby.

Two open days were major successes, with many locals visiting Ihe shi p.

Before depanlng for the New Zealand Exercise Area, HOBART hosted a COF cocktail party with the guests IIlctuding eDF Australia. cor NZ and a number of digni-taries from the Defence commumtjes of the ,y,u nations.

After some ligh t navigation traimng in the beautiful Queen Charloue sound in the north of the South Island. HOBART met up with I-IMAS MELBOURNE. HMNZS WELLINGTON and the French FNS LA G LORIEUSE for th ree days of intense exercising during [he second week of the NZ Fleet Concentration Period.

The next port was Napier. wh.:re she berthed under

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On route to Auckland IIOBART 'l;join .. d the rep for liS Ihml week with umts mcludm~ the RNZN"~ oller ENDEAVOUR were workmg up for the multl-nalional w-scrvice Excrclsc Malakrri .

Emering Aud.land hamourtheship wasf'cercl" h) a school of dolphins. the Italian America's LIt> luad conducting thelT pre-challenge series trials a .. J Ihe RNZN band at [he wharf.

In Auckland the shlp's comp:Hly enjoyed the clty's social scene as well as a ~pons day ho~ICd by IIMNZS CANTERBURY :and a tour of the Royal NZ Yacht Squadron. present home of the America's Cup and ~lIe of the 2000 cup challenge.

On depanmg BOBART tr.ln~ited the Bay of Plenty and passed through the very narrow and spectacular passage known :I) the Hole 111 the Wall rejected by IIMNZS WELLINGTON.

Back in the NZ Exercise Area, HOBART went to busi-ness with Exercise Matakiri , an amphibious lodgment of 80 special force troop" uuo the port ofTaur,mga.

The landing was successfully undertaken despite heavy allacks from Orange Force Macchis. The air threat was easily dispensed with by HOBART and an FA-18cap.

Heading to her next pan I-IOBART entered the narrow na\igation waters of the Otal,'O Hamour - depths below the ship as low as twO metres - that lead to Dunedin.

The first call wa~ at Dunedln's refuelling wharf before a cold move to Victoria wharf where she would rcmainfurthe remainder of the visit.

The cold move to HOBART'S benh proved the pro-fel>sionalism of the seaman department when a wind squall ufu p to 45 knots hit w ithout warning causing both lines on HOBART's twO tugs to pan, leaving her with no protcction frornlhe " 'harf.

1lle ship drifted onto lhe wharf and if flO( for the courage of one of the rug dmers, who p.1I his vessel between the ship and the whalf. HOBART would ha\'e SUSiained much more serious dam;lge th.an the 4():m-square lk:nt and sm;lll pullClureofthc ship's hull at the transom.

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HMAS SYDNEY 1 not forgo tten A s a InbUle to the gallant men of HMAS SYDNEY I a memonal In the fonn ofa leadlight feature has been Installed al the entrance 10 the Warrant Officers' and Senior Sailors' Me~ at HMAS CERBERUS.

"Teddy the One'. as he IS affectionately kn o wn by members of the Sydney Association, serw:d In SYDNEY I in 1926.

The feature wall was planned and designed by Mess Manager POSTD Neal and installed by local anisi. Mrs Cathy Clifford.

• POSTD Neal (d esigner ), Mrs Cathy C1ifTo rd (artist), Mr 8 i11 Hells (Cathy 's rather ). Mr Ted Dicki nson (SYDNEY I) in front of the memorial.

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