Navy History- A little warrie and some very salty 15 &16 year old Gents- 35 years on

Ah yes, Tradition.

I remember the storm & I don't think he would have had much control over the behaviour of his ship.

"Right Lads, fingers crossed,Bum holes tight"

Odd, because where I live now, residents here at the time told us some years ago that they didn't even know there was a storm let alone one with this severity.

Some photographs, including Barcoo aground.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/413115...th/5688662267/

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Some photographs, including Barcoo aground.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/413115...th/5688662267/

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Some great photos here , thanks for the trip down memory lane . [bigrolf] .

Hissing in the snake pit. Johnnies, its story. The wonderful history of Royal Naval House.

2006_September2006_DoyourememberJohnniesandtheSnak epit

Captain John Phillip Stevenson. Gone but never forgotten.

Distinguished officer gone but not forgotten | Navy Daily

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Some great photos here , thanks for the trip down memory lane . [bigrolf] .

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Yep, thanks for those bob, I don't think we own a Bucket Dredger anymore & all that we had are probably in the Ship's Graveyard down river. behind our also 'Garden Island'.
I hadn't seen most of those, only the one I had saved as a Newspaper Cutting from back then.

Mind you, they would have been in deep dooda if it had been Sydney.[biggrin] I know, I know, she wasn't around then.[bighmmm]

I wonder why the beach had opened up /caved in , in one of those shots near the bow? Wave action around Barcoo or whether she got swept in a bit far by the waves & brought the house down so to speak.???

Going through the Birkenhead Bridge (Jervois Bridge) took some excellent pilotage judgement.

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Captain John Phillip Stevenson. Gone but never forgotten.

Distinguished officer gone but not forgotten | Navy Daily

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"He was subsequently cleared by Court Martial for any responsibility for the tragedy and in 2012 received an official apology from then Defence Minister Stephen Smith for having been tried. The apology letter acknowledged the unnecessary stress the Court Martial caused to Captain Stevenson and his family."



I had a lot of esteem for Stephen Smith & always thought of him as a decent & fair minded bloke.

Most unlike me, I contacted his office when he packed it in & told him so.

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Can you remember his name ? Just curious, I may have served with him. Patrol boat Ardent, where ever she may be now, has a large dent on her starboard side tumbledown, [ top of the hull where it meets the deck, ], where Aware hit her when we were working up Aware's Skipper. Very nearly pushed Ardent over on to her beam ends. Every one froze for what seemed for ever. I was on Ardents throttles, and said to our skipper " I think we are going over " . Things happened in a hurry after that. Our RO got into trouble from NOCNA, Darwin, when he kept using the callsign " AR- DENT " after the incident. :eek2::Rolling:

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Finally remembered the name of the bloke I knew who'd been on the Vampire. Duncan Dodd (or Dodds). Ring any bells?

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Finally remembered the name of the bloke I knew who'd been on the Vampire. Duncan Dodd (or Dodds). Ring any bells?

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Dodds rings a bell, but not loudly. It's going to annoy me , I can tell.

Back to the future!

Last night we had a Tingira Tea party

Tingira association gave the 110 year old Plaque from HMAS Tingira to the HMAS Cerberus Recruit school.

Each ship has a few unique items. Ships Bell and plaques. Navy memories are hopefully not all being moved to Australian War Memorial which is both wonderful and overloaded with stuff that never sees the light of day sadly. For that reason some of our association historical treasures are now at the RAN recruit school which started after HMAS Tingira became to small.



Each time I do this I meet people who honestly blow me away. Doug was from the first HMAS Leeuwen Division in 1960. He Survived the HMAS Voyager tragedy in 1964! A current very High-level brass type asking if Tingira was "cadets" was educated happily.

Meeting so many people who know my crew and the Captain of Cerberus who is about to be the Captain of one of our mightiest current warships. She and a recently Promoted Petty Officer are both going to my personal Favorite warship HMAS Hobart (3). Forgive me Vampire[bigrolf]


After our Teaparty we stayed as VIP guest for 70 new graduated sailors from Taylor Division which also gave me insight to the current Navy. Very pleased to chat with several of the 10 about to try the BAD assed Clearnce Diver training. Taylor Division
Acting Leading Seaman Ronald 'Buck' Taylor 20863
(KIA 04 March 1942)

Attachment 188146 Leading Seaman Ronald 'Buck' Taylor


Some days I feel a bit old. Then I meet legends older than I am still serving our country. Also noted most of the New Recruits where 7 years to significantly old than when I joined at 15 years old [biggrin]

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“Of all the great ships of Her Majesty’s Australian Navy, the ship which has possibly received the least acclaim, and yet the one which should receive high honours, is HMAS Tingira.
Tingira, an aboriginal word for ‘open sea’, was originally the clipper sailing ship Sobraon, built in the yard of the famous shipbuilder, Alexander Hall of Aberdeen. Sobraon was launched in 1866 and was the largest composite ship ever built in her time”.

RAN Historical Society

Trivia- I may get an invite to run there next year. The Army has been winning a run. I offered to restore the Navy at a short run they do every year which some army runners have been winning recently [biggrin]