Joined: Mon Oct 13, 2003 8:09 am Posts: 4542
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Mystery of the Ships Bell
When HMAS BRISBANE commissioned in Boston, 16 Dec, 1967, there were a couple of babies christened via the ships bell, and their names were engraved in the bell. Some years later, when the ship was in Melbourne, the commissioning DMEO, John Dunlop, took his daughter on to the ship to show her her name in the bell, and, lo and behold, no engraved names in the bell.
Joined: Mon Oct 13, 2003 8:09 am Posts: 4542
City or Town: Lake Munmorah State: NSW
For those who were aware of the style of fold-up bunk used in Head of Departments cabins in the DDGs PERTH, HOBART & BRISBANE, the attached article outlines the problem of over-use!!!
I was aware of the incident as reported – the story spread like wildfire throughout the Fleet at the time.
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I was the WEEO in HOBART at the time and we were conducting an Air Defence Excercise. It came over the net that this had happened and that was it - everyone cracked up and all the bogies flew straight through. It took about 10 minutes before we were getting sent cartoons through the system from Fleet.
_________________ Peter Gorman S then O 115662 Ex-CMDR ENWE (ex CPOETS) JR 46th Marks then Phase training at Nirimba Jan 74 to Jan 2009 Vendetta, Hobart X2, Perth, Stalwart X2, Coonawarra, Cerberus X2, Leeuwin, Kuttabul X3, CDSC/Harman, Nirimba X2
Steel cable parts after being fully paid out, diesel hose parts shortly after (at 2:04) Notice "sparks" when cable parts. DDG HMAS Brisbane could not maintain station in heavy seas. Quality of vid a bit dodgy, it was shot on Video 8, then copied to VHS and is nearly 18 year old. Weather is from a typhoon in the area just south of Japan. 24/10/1994 From memory the DDG was really low on fuel, so we had no choice in the matter.
Phffft ....that's nothing. In Success, as Cargo Officer, about 20/21st April 86, we had departed Darwin and were carrying out a RAS with Perth and Canberra simultaneously. Fuel to Perth and a solids transfer to Canberra. All was hooked up, delivering fuel to Perth and sending over a test weight on the Cargo Drop Reel to Canberra. Doing about twelve knots. Canberra had a full power failure and stopped dead in the water. All winch lines to her were being ripped from the winch bloody fast and smoking. I had allowed the XO to be at those controls when it happened. Tossed him away from the control station and started to haul in the heavy solids transfer weight. Perth did an emergency breakaway. I got the weight and Cargo Drop Reel and her inhaul cable back onboard just in time to see the highline and outhaul transfer cables part the winch and fall into the water alongside Canberra who by now was way, way astern of us. Exciting times.
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