The sailors and officers of HMAS Success have passed the half way mark of their RIMPAC 2014 experience, and so far, they have given the world’s largest naval exercise an excellent report card. They arrived in Sydney after a very unpleasant delivery voyage in August 1919. They were in fact brand new.The three minesweepers were units of the Flower class of single screwed ships classified as ‘fleet sweeping vessels’ and were designed to act as sweepers and escort sloops. At 1220 the Flagship received a signal from the destroyer After visits to various seaside resorts in January 1920, the First Battle Squadron made rendezvous off Plymouth with the Atlantic Fleet for the Spring Cruise, which was planned to cover northern Spain, Gibraltar, Las Palmas and Algiers, but for the First Battle Squadron the Cruise actually extended for more than a year. Sold for £1,800, ANZAC was sunk off Sydney on 7 May 1936 as target practice for RAN ships.The other five S Class Destroyers – HMA Ships STALWART (1), SUCCESS, SWORDSMAN, TASMANIA and TATTOO were of 1,070 tons, 276ft in length, beam 26For these ships, the majority of their service life was spent in port, and on the east coast, the only exception being TASMANIA, which visited New Guinea in 1924.These S Class were famous ships, and over sixty more were built for the Royal Navy to replace WW I ships, and though many were scrapped between the wars, eleven still served in the Royal Navy during WW II.The RAN’s five were built in the UK 1917/18, and commissioned into the RAN 1920. The three ships allocated to Australia were Although of one basic class, they represented two distinct types and with three schemes of gun armament. Herbert was appointed as navigating officer to HMAS After the War, they had their own commands before being demobilised in 1926, at the age of 45. Preamble and Table of Contents [352KB] Executive summary [1.16MB] Chapter 1 – Introduction [3.96MB] Chapter 2 – The behaviour of … Those of Rosenthal’s year missed the War, but were able to gain valuable experience in its aftermath. At least – they claimed – TATTOO never broke down.Next, after service with the Royal Navy from 1918 to 1932, STUART transferred to the Royal Australian Navy in October 1933, along with four V & W Class destroyers (to replace the old S Class destroyers).HMAS STUART (1) was a Scott Class Destroyer Leader, with displacement of 2,000 tons, length 332ft, beam 31With the declaration of war in 1939, STUART (Cmdr H.M.L. Commission of Inquiry Report Part One. Landings were also made at Trebizond on the southern coast of the Black Sea. Financial difficulties played a very large part in the break up of the Gift Fleet, unfortunately denying Australia a group of ships that could have been very useful in 1939.ALVORD SYDNEY ROSENTHAL was born in Sydney on 16th January 1901. General reductions in both men and ships soon got under way, the bulk of the ships would have to be placed in reserve or sold. The midshipmen were to see the grim aftermath of war in the Middle East and to witness at close hand revolution, fire, famine, and wanton slaughter, before they returned to Devonport.Rosenthal’s first taste of action took place when the First Battle Squadron was ordered to the Bosphorus and the Black Sea to protect Allied interests against the Turkish Nationalists, and also to protect the White Russian Army retreating from the Bolsheviks. He was ordered to leave Singapore on the last ship to escape from the colony. River Class HMAS Parramatta. Allegations of Unacceptable Behaviour and the Management Thereof. Taken all round, the J Class submarines were not a very spectacular group by any means. With a length of 274 feet, a beam of 23 feet 6 inches and a draught of 14 feet, they were almost as big as our present boats, although the standard surface displacement of 1,260 tons is much smaller than the 2,030 tons of the Oberons. Leaving the remaining hull weighing approximately 3600t. This latter course was adopted, the main recipient being the Commonwealth of Australia.In 1919 a well balanced squadron of three minesweepers, six submarines, one flotilla leader and five destroyers were presented to the Royal Australian Navy in recognition of the assistance given by that service during the Great War. This process, called underway replenishment, extends the length of … The smaller of the two types was known as the Acacia type and was represented in the gift fleet by Her sister ships were of the slightly improved Arabis type. The other boats had their gun one deck higher, being carried on a platform on the face of the conning tower. Temporary Grandstands, Scaffolding & Events Infrastructure She was originally purchased to form a breakwater for the yacht club and in this role she was quite successful. They had been hurriedly designed on the strength of faulty intelligence, it being understood that the German Navy had submarines capable of 20 knots on the surface. Reginald was captured when Japan entered the War, and spent the rest of the campaign in Japanese prison camps.Herbert took his flotilla to Singapore, where he was a Port Defence Officer when the Japanese began their drive south.