The Navy Vol_37_Part1 (Feb-Mar-Apr, May-June-July 1975)

AustralianPortlandCement LtdManufacturers of High Quality Cement for over 70yearsHead Office"ARC" Brand Geelong CementNormal Portland Cement—Low Heat CementHigh Early Strength CementGeelong WorksDepots41YARRA BANK ROADSOUTH MELBOURNETelephone: 62 4575FYANSFORD ROAD, GEELONGTelephone: 9 1661WODONGA Telephone: 24 1074ECHUCA Telephone; 82 1933Emergency equipment will becomprehensive and some of thegear will be identical with thatcarried by big ships. Liferafts have toconform with SOLAS InternationalConvention on Safety of Life at Searegulations. Liferaft radio sets arerequired, of the type which can beeffective over very long distances,and which are normally operated bycranking handles.Each crew member is required tocarry a personal light or flare, andthe organisers recommend thexenon type — a powerful electronicflare which in ideal conditions canbe seen at ranges of up to ten miles.These requirements reveal themeticulous planning and attentionto detail which the Financial TimesJ & H CARPET SERVICEO'KEEFE AVENUE, NOWRAComplete Carpet and Lino Service fore Homes e Clubs e Offices e ShopsCall at our Showroom to »ae a full range ofcarpal* and vtnyta orPhone Nowra 24182Free Quote and Inspection ServiceClipper Race Committee has putinto these regulations. The Committeegratefully acknowledgesassistance from many quarters, inparticular from those who havealready sailed and raced through theSouthern Ocean."The Great Escape"At the beginning of the year.London was visited by a Dutchentrant in the Financial TimesClipper Race. The Great Escape is anappropriate name for the sturdysteel-welded vessel which rates at55ft and which will be skippered byEngineer Henk Huisman. Henk Huisman.is the owner of WatersportsTwellegea. a Dutch sailing schoolwhich also specialises in yachtcharters. Huisman intends to take acomplement of 12. and has alreadyestablished the backbone of thiscrew through a tough training programme.Two years ago he took asister ship through a force 12 gale inthe North Sea. He has already nominatedanother skipper for the secondleg. The Great Escape will not. however.be an all-male affair since threewomen have already signed on thecrew list.First Prize CommissionedThe first prize for the FinancialTimes Clipper Race is to be an 1/8"to a foot (1.96) scale model of theClipper Ship Patriarch, which holdsthe record for the fastest everpassages between London andSydney and back again. The model isbeing built by Bassett-Lowke ofNorthampton, one of the fewremaining firms of specialist modelbuilders. They have built models forthe leading maritime museums ofthe world and their work probablysurpasses in quality and accuracythe beautiful models produced bythe old-time ship-wrights and sailors.Bassett-Lowke has achieved this byapplying the finest traditions ofcraftsmanship to modern technologicalinnovations. The model ofPatriarch will measure 38 inchesoverall and will be sealed in amahogany and glass case. It will bepresented to the race winner — theyacht with the fastest aggregatetime over both legs, and will be ofexceptional value both as a personalmemento and as an historical document.Patriarch was built in 1869 for theWhite Star Line of Aberdeen whichhas long since disappeared togetherwith all original records andplans of the ship. For over two yearsthere has been intensive researchinto the ship and its record-breakingmaiden voyage to Sydney. With theMILTRAC PTY LTDfor> Hardwoods e Softwoods e Mouldings • AllInternal FixingsNo Order too BIG or too SMALL at MHtracPRINCES HIGHWAY, NOWRAPhone: 2 3098Paga Twenty-twocTHE NAVYFebruary/March/April, 1*75February/Ma reft/AprU, 1975 THE NAVY Pf.ji Twenty-three