Navy News, August 05, 2002

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August 05, 2002

		FIMA Sydney makes light work Royal Australian Navy electrician LS Shane Bartlett (pictured right) and his team of electronic technicians have overcome "different" technology and made sparks fly.

		$32M Lands Craft deal Two of the RAN's 'can-do' ships, Manoora and Kanimbla are to get new landing craft so they can do their jobs even better. Last month the ADF and ADI Limited signed a $32.73 million contract for the production in Newcastle of six of the craft, dubbed "watercraft".

		Heavy lifter to take Notts home Salvage teams, are making final preparations to tow the crippled Royal Navy destroyer, HMS Nottingham backwards to Australia.

		NSW firies honour Hammond's memory The NSW Fire Brigades has honoured the action of an RAN sailor who went to the aid of a woman being robbed at a Sydney ATM on April 25, 1999.

		Daddy's home from The Gulf at last

		Manoora welcomed home Three-year-old Mackenzie Morrison ran to the door of her family home the other day and shouted with delight, "my Daddy's coming home soon".

		Weight changes at Maritime Command The RAN's new Maritime Commander, RADM Raydon Gates warns that he expects the present hectic operational tempo of the Navy to continue.

		Nine boardings in one night The 150-member ship's company of HMAS Arunta got a real taste of what's to come when it conducted nine boardings in just one night, last month.

		Penguin celebrates 60 years She sits, serene, on her headland, her harbour view perfection in agent's terms. Her era almost that of ocean liner architecture, a curve here an angle there, hinted at, never fully expressed. She shares a jubilee with her sovereign Elizabeth, of happy memory, an early visitor.

		Ever watchful Past and present crew members of the second Fremantle Class patrol boat to be built in Australia celebrated HMAS Townsville's 21st birthday this month in the city where she was launched.

		Albatross out-shoots A penalty shoot-out win to the HMAS Albatross soccer team saw it take victory in the 2002 Albatross/Nirimba Cup Soccer Knockout at David Phillips Field in Sydney on July 3.

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