BON VOYAGE
The bell has tolled … and the bell tolls for 15 much-admired and loved little ships.


Kiwis to update fleet
Australia’s Tenix Defence Pty Ltd has been chosen as the preferred tenderer for seven new warships for the Royal New Zealand Navy.


Lucky escape for Indonesian fishing crew
Five Indonesian fishermen were in plenty of trouble hundreds of miles west of Darwin earlier this month.


Navy phots shoot to win
Able Seaman Photographer Joanne Edwards of the Navy Imaging Unit-West has taken, officially, the best Navy picture of the year.


Urge to travel leads to Iraq
When former Goomeri resident Georgina Carlile joined the Royal Australian Navy in 2002, she wanted to travel.

BRIEFS

Sailors say aloha to Hawaii
Close to 700 Royal Australian Navy officers and sailors are preparing for one of the world’s largest regularly-held naval exercises, RIMPAC.

Manoora gets five month overhaul
One of the RAN’s “can do” ships, HMAS Manoora has entered the Captain Cook Graving Dock in Sydney for a five-month-long refit.

Mercurial blend of scenarios
An armed group took over a floating oil platform on the North West shelf, an explosion in Port Melbourne destroyed a bus and South Australian Police foiled the kidnapping of a foreign delegate.


Gestapo claim lives of Aussie men
Thousands of their compatriots fell victim to fighters and flak in the air battles of World War II, but five Australians who broke out of Stalag Luft III in the Great Escape on March 24-25, 1944, met pitiless deaths at the hands of the Gestapo, along with 45 other airmen.


DEEP MEAT
When a team of civilian divers descended 96 metres to the wreckage of a large ship off Green Cape, NSW, a few months ago they knew immediately they had found their target, the steamer Cumberland.


Puzzling dilemma
A girl calls her boyfriend and says, “Please come over here and help me. I have a killer jigsaw puzzle, and I can’t figure out how to get it started.”


Grass not always greener
Looking for a different career? If the hip pocket nerve is a significant factor and you think the grass may be greener elsewhere then read on.


Anzac on the move
Contractors wasted no time getting on with the job of relocating the Anzac Ship Support Centre.

Bulletin Board
Notices on various Navy events.