Aug-Sep-Oct 1967 - Navy League of Australia

NAVY PERSONNEL LKTEasicut High SpeedSteel Cutting ToolsSolve your tooling problem Drills. TapsMilling Cutter. Reamers. CountersinksCounterborcs. SR Boring Cutters. Tools BitsButt-welded Tools. Files. Hacksaw Blades100T Cutter For technical assistance,special tooling design and quoteCONTACT HFAD OFFICF250 Princes Highway, Dandenong, Vic.Phone Dandenong 2-9351N.S.W. OFFICE22 Mandible St., Alexandria, N.S.W.Phone 69-5566Greetings to all H.M.A.S. Cerberuspersonnel and families from . . .THE DIRECTORS AND STAFF OFYour AMP SocietyLife AssuranceRepresentatives:Messrs. Ashton and John Latham12 RITCHIE STREETFRANKSTON, VIC.KOR A'.L YOUR INSURANCE NEF.DSLIFE F1RF. — ACCIDENTPhone Fronkston 78-32822AVIATION ENGINEERINGSUPPUESPeriscope on AustraliaMAM S ISLAND R.A.N. BASECONTRACT LETThe Federal Government has letthe first contract in a plan to improvethe Royal Australian NavalStation at Manus Island, NewGuinea.Improvements costing $3.5m arebeing made over a number of yearsto accommodate the 100 foot patrolboats which will be used by thePapua-New Guinea division of theR.A.N.SURGEON REAR ADMIRALCOPLANSThe Medical Director-General ofthe Royal Australian Navy. ActingSurgeon Rear Admiral R. M. Coplans,has been confirmed in the rankof Surgeon Rear Admiral.Surgeon Rear Admiral Coplansjoined the R.A.N, in 1948 afterhaving served ten years in the RoyalNavy. He is a specialist in aviationmedicine and hygiene and has heldappointments in the Navy's mainmedical establishments.by Cjrommet -VISIT BY JAPANESE SERVICEOFFICERSA small group of senior JapaneseService officers comprising GeneralYoshifusa Amano, Chairman JointStaff Council; Rear Admiral K. Sekiand Lieutenant Colonel A. Chida,visited Australia from June 26 toJuly 3.The improvements will include a500-ton slipway, a crane, barracks,workshops and headquarters building.The purpose of the visit was tohave informal discussions and enablethe Japanese to see certain ofAustralia's Defence installations. Thevisitors inspected Service facilitiesin the Canberra. Melbourne andSydney areas.H.M.A. SHIPS "BASS" AND"BANKS"taken delivery of their training ship,H.M.A.S. BASS (see photo) andReserves from Adelaide (H.M.A.S.ENCOUNTER) have receivedH.M.A.S. BANKS.Tasmanian and South Australianmembers of the R.A.N.R. commissionedtheir respective vessels inSydney on July 8. before sailing fortheir home ports.DESTROYER CAPTAINAPPOINTEDCaptain A. A. Willis. R.A.N., adirection specialist, has been postedas commanding officer of Australia'sthird guided missile destroyerH.M.A.S. BRISBANE.Members of the Naval Reserve His former commands have ininHobart (H.M.A.S. HUON) have eluded H.M.A. Ships WARRA-H.M.A.S. ANZAC AT TONGA(Late A.E.S. Trading Co. Pty. Ltd.)MELBOURNE AIRPORT MATTHEWS AVENUENIDDRIE, VICTORIATAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO EXTEND BEST WISHESTO ALL MEMBERSANTI-SUB SCHOOLThirty representatives from theUnited Kingdom, the U.S.A., Canidaand Australia, attended the fifthinnual anti-submarine warfare•chool which opened at the R.A.N.\ir Station, Nowra, on Monday,iune 5.Delegates to the R.A.N. —R.A.A.F. Australian Joint AntisubmarineSchool were welcomedty the Flag Officer in Charge, East\ustralia Area, Rear Admiral T. K.Morrison. C.B., C.B.E., D.S.C.During the week long conference,information was exchanged on thelatest developments and tactics aswell as anti-submarine trainingmethods.The destroyer H.M.A.S. ANZAC mode on official visit to Tonga from 3-7 Julyfor the Coronation of King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV. During her stay the wasopen for public inspection.fog. Sixty-.ighl THE NAVY Augult-S.pl.mb.r>Octob«r,August-September-October, 1967 THE NAVY Page Sixty-nine