The ones that perished are not listed. Additional medical officers were embarked by aircraft from Nowra, and members of Subsequent reports and inquiries noted the exemplary behaviour, absence of panic, and the quiet and calm courage displayed by all involved in the aftermath of the tragedy. The race, over 5½ cables, proved that the apprentices were fit and very well trained and that our team have plenty of guts. Already tagged. She arrived in Sydney the following day where the Trackers were landed.She departed Sydney for Asian waters on 5 May and visited New Guinea before continuing on to the Philippines to participate in the SEATO exercise, SEA SPIRIT.In the early hours of 3 June 1969, in a manoeuvre almost identical to the near-miss with A joint USN/RAN Board of Inquiry into the tragedy held Captain Stevenson partly responsible, stating that as Commanding Officer of ...never seen a prosecution case so bereft of any possible proof of guilt.She went on to visit Kobe, Manila and Singapore where she participated in Exercise BERSATU PADU involving defence units from Australia, the UK, New Zealand, Malaysia and Singapore in May and June. They were the first prefabricated all welded ships to be built in Australia, and used light alloys extensively both in the superstructure and in interior sub-divisions and fittings. Already tagged. The skyline seemed to change almost daily, not only because of new construction, but because hilltops and small mountains, which were whittled down and returned to the sea in the process of reclamation, until they were leveled sufficiently for new buildings to be erected.From the ship's ROP, during this long period in Hong Kong, For the first two weeks in Hong Kong, the ship's company was occupied in completing the 'paint ship' begun the previous month, a task made difficult by the abnormally heavy rains that curtailed upper deck activity. Highlights of the visit included visits to Colombo and Kandy.Following their visit, the ships cast off and passaged east back to Singapore, taking part in Exercise JET 63 en route. The actions required of Melbourne’s ship’s company called for individual initiative at all levels, and calm resolve to an extent that is not often required in peace time.A large proportion of this ship’s company had only recently joined the ship and some 25% were ordinary seamen, barely accustomed to wearing naval uniform. Not Shunned By The Navy - … TheTokyo proved to be a city with its arms open wide to embrace us and its hands outstretched to catch the thousands of yen that were flowing from the sailors' pockets. The pretty girls standing beside the bottom of the escalator bow and murmur, "Thank you for riding on my escalator." The size of Hong Kong was increasing daily, not by encroaching into Communist China, but by reclaiming land from the sea. Left: A Royal Navy Westland Whirlwind. She departed for her annual South East Asian deployment from Darwin on 7 April, and visited Singapore before proceeding on to Manila to participate in Exercise SEALION. On 10 April she visited Colombo before crossing the Indian Ocean and arriving in her first Australian port, Fremantle, on 23 April 1956. He was probably the last to escape.Alan Hellier’s watch stopped at 8.54pm on 10 February 1964 as it was submerged by water.Hellier gave evidence to both of the royal commissions that were held into the disaster: the first within months of the collision, in 1964, and the second in 1967.A picture of HMAS Voyager, displayed on the wall of Alan Hellier’s home. I just said, ‘Go! So it is that in An integral part of the ship's efficiency as a fighting unit is her communications. Quite often the coconuts were sold in the husk, and it was amusing to the natives to see the sailors struggling to remove the husks from them...On Sunday, Bar-B-Que hampers were packed, and our Banyan parties landed in force with a great array of sporting equipment...Congratulations must go to Bob Claridge and Butch Verco for the job well done in the culinary department.According to Navy News, the main phase of Exercise SEA SERPENT saw the ships "assailed by subs, planes, missiles and atomic attacks while standing closed up continuously in three watches, before escorting the largest convoy most of us had ever seen into Manila Bay." Melbourne ' s aircraft were performing flying exercises, and Voyager was tasked as plane guard, positioned behind and to port (left) of the carrier in order to rescue the crew of any ditching or crashing aircraft. The Gannet’s crew, Lieutenant David Farthing, RAN, Lieutenant Graham Bessell-Browne, RAN, and Petty Officer Frederick McCreanor, were quickly recovered by helicopter, somewhat shaken but otherwise unhurt.