[1][3] After re-entering service, Voyager and HMAS Warramunga were assigned on 13 January to the Far East Strategic Reserve (FESR). HMAS Voyager was a Daring class destroyer of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), that was lost in a collision in 1964.. The status of nearby Australian wreck HMAS Perth is less clear. On February 10th, 1964, the HMAS Voyager bungled a routine exercise and passed under the bows of the aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne. [1] The refit was concluded on 14 November, and after working-up exercises and a short period of Christmas leave for the ships' company, departed on 28 December with HMAS Quickmatch for another FESR deployment. The Australian War Memorial acknowledges the traditional custodians of country throughout Australia. [1], Voyager's operations in 1960 began with a promotional visit to Port Kembla, New South Wales in late January, before participating in exercises with ships of the RAN and Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN). Constructed in Melbourne following the loss of HMAS Voyager, Swan entered service in 1970, and remained in commission until 1996. Accession Number: He was sent with an Australian army military history team to collect material and record the significant battle sites in Timor. [5], Following the refit, the destroyer was involved in a "Shop Window" exercise on 20 February—a day-long fleet exercise used to demonstrate RAN capabilities to politicians and media. Memorials were also erected at the RAN training establishment HMAS Cerberus and the Devonport Maritime Museum. Up until Bush’s deployment there was no official artistic record of Australians fighting in Timor, and there was little opportunity to visually document the chaotic HMAS Voyager resupply operation. HMAS Swan Wreck Dive Join us for 2 dives on the HMAS Swan Wreck! It is 133 meters long and 43 meters high! The remains of HMAS Voyager (I) at Betano Bay in late 1999. Constructed between 1949 and 1957, Voyager was the first ship of her class to enter Australian service, and the first all-welded ship to be built in Australia. During the night of 10 February 1964, Voyager and the aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collided off Jervis Bay, when the destroyer passed in front of the carrier during post-refit sea trials. 10 am to 5 pm daily (except Christmas Day), Get your ticket to visit: awm.gov.au/visit, Copyright [7] The two Darings returned to Sydney on 3 August. While there he wrote to Lieutenant Colonel John Treloar, Officer Commanding the Military History Section and later Director of the Australian War Memorial, stating he wanted to contact as many of the Timor campaign veterans as possible, to gather their recollections to make his paintings as accurate as possible. HMAS Voyager was a Daring class destroyer of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), that was lost in a collision in 1964. His work leaves us with a permanent pictorial record of the burning of HMAS Voyager, without which these events may have been recorded only in the pages of history. [1] A few days later, the Squadron was assigned to escort the aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne during a cruise to New Zealand, with the ships returning to Sydney on 4 December; Voyager immediately entering a maintenance and leave period. [4] During construction the cost of Voyager nearly tripled to AU£7 million. However, the men of the 2/2nd Independent Company melted into the mountains to wage an effective guerrilla war against the occupying Japanese. ROD EVERETT, the communications yeoman on MELBOURNE'S BRIDGE that fateful night, explains the signals that went to VOYAGER before the collision [20] The Royal Commission and its aftermath were poorly handled, and following pressure from the public, media and politicians, combined with revelations by Voyager's former executive officer that Stevens may have been unfit for command, a second Royal Commission was opened in 1967. [9] At 8:52 pm, Voyager was ordered to resume the plane guard station. The HMS Voyager lies in two pieces in approximately 2000m of water. A series of works of HMAS Voyager that followed illustrates the artistic working process of Charles Bush, reconstructing events that he had not witnessed. Ex-HMAS Adelaide Dives - Double Boat Dive. The ex HMAS Perth is a former missile Destroyer. [7] Voyager then sailed to Williamstown Naval Dockyard in Victoria for a major refit, which lasted from 12 August to 31 December. Constructed in Melbourne following the loss of HMAS Voyager, Swan entered service in 1970, and remained in commission until 1996. [1] The Australian ships participated in SEATO Exercise Sea Serpent in late April and early May. HMAS Canberra lost 84 of her crew in her final action and received her fourth and final Battle Honour for her actions off Guadalcanal. [1], Voyager left dock on 11 January 1962, before joining the carrier Melbourne and the frigate Queenborough for a deployment to the FESR. Dive one the world's best wreck sites, the Ex-HMAS Brisbane, a decommissioned guided missile destroyer. Tabs Group. Further reading 'Scrap Iron Destroyers: The Story of HMA Ships Stuart, Vampire, Vendetta, Voyager and Waterhen' by LJ Lind and A Payne - published by the Naval Historical Society of Australia, Garden Island, 1976. IT was around sunset on February 10, 1964. The collapsible boats, made from canvas and plywood, were rapidly filling with troops directly above the portside propeller. The wreck site would loom five or six metres overhead, that’s almost two stories tall, standing proud of the sea floor. [1] The destroyer was made to collect replacements in Singapore before sailing to Hong Kong to have them installed before the start of SEATO exercise Sea Lion in May. [8] The trials involved interactions between both ships, and when Melbourne performed night flying exercises that evening, Voyager acted as the carrier's plane guard escort. This was most likely owing to the fact that by the time Bush sketched the hulk of the Voyager in 1945 the ship had broken into a number of pieces. This would prove to be a fatal mistake for the Voyager; within minutes it was realised that a strong tidal current was pushing the ship parallel to the shore. [7] The destroyer underwent refits until early October, participated in SEATO Exercise Seascape later that month, visited Fremantle for the 1962 Commonwealth Games in November, and returned to Sydney for maintenance in December. Like First World War official artist George Lambert’s expedition to Gallipoli in 1919 to produce sketches of the battlefield and later reconstruct paintings of the campaign, Bush was set a similar task. 1 Construction 2 Operational history 2.1 … HMAS Cerberus (48) Watch the video slide show of the Museum of HMAS Cerberus on YouTube: Royal Australian Navy celebrates 100 years. We recognise their continuing connection to land, sea and waters. The navigation … [1] On 19 June, the ship commenced a refit which lasted until 1 November. [1] On 28 March, Voyager and the carrier Melbourne departed for the FESR. [5], In late 1959, Voyager was sent to the Far East for a two-and-a-half-month deployment. Watch the video slide show on YouTube: A day with master model engineer Max Montague and the cadets of TS Voyager: HMAS Sydney & KSK Kormoran memorial Laboe. In December 1945 official war artist Charles Bush found himself sketching in the crashing surf of Betano Bay, Timor, recording the rusting hulk of HMAS Voyager. On February 10th, 1964, the HMAS Voyager bungled a routine exercise and passed under the bows of the aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne. The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) initially ordered four Daring-class destroyers, which were to be named after the ships of the "Scrap Iron Flotilla" of World War II. Little of the wreck remains and what does is exposed at low tide. [16] Melbourne launched her boats almost immediately after the collision to recover survivors, and the carrier's wardroom and C Hangar were prepared for casualties. Accession Number: Welcome Shipmate -You are visitor number . The team’s movements around Timor were hampered by climatic conditions, but this did little to dampen Bush’s enthusiasm to record the landscape of Timor: rain pinned us down here [Dilli] for a while but as these conditions coincided with those of 1942, my colours as well as subjects will be of value in bringing these places back to the memory of those who were there. The collision of HMAS Melbourne and HMAS Voyager remains the Royal Australian Navy’s (RAN) worst peacetime disaster.Occurring off the New South Wales coast in 1964, the aircraft carrier Melbourne and destroyer Voyager were engaged in night flying exercises when Voyager inexplicably … [1], As Voyager was the first ship of her class in Australian service, she underwent an extensive program of sea trials after commissioning, which lasted until September. [1] On 3 March, the ship was assigned again to the FESR, and sailed for Singapore via South and Western Australia. It is located in Western Australia near the town of Albany. Charles Bush was following in the traditions of the Official War Art Scheme established during the First World War to record and reconstruct paintings of historic military events. Monday 10 February 2014 marks the 50 th anniversary of a momentous event in Royal Australian Navy (RAN) history, the loss of the destroyer HMAS Voyager II following a collision with the aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne II.. With many new crew members aboard, HMAS Voyager sailed from Sydney to Jervis Bay on 6 February 1964 for a series of post re-fit trials and exercises with HMAS Melbourne. The Voyager was sliced in two and sunk with the loss of 82 men. [1] On 30 April, burst tubes in the "B" boiler damaged the ship, forcing her to limp to Hong Kong for six weeks of repairs. Keith Davis photographed the wreck as Bush was completing the ink and oil sketches. [1], A Royal Commission into the events of the collision was held in 1964, and found that while Voyager was primarily at fault for neglecting to maintain an effective lookout and awareness of the larger ship's location, Melbourne's bridge crew was also at fault for failing to alert Voyager and not taking measures to avoid the collision. This operation was hampered by a number of Japanese air raids. HMAS Australia. [28], 1957-1964 Daring-class destroyer of the Royal Australian Navy, List of disasters in Australia by death toll, List of destroyers of the Royal Australian Navy, Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in 1964, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HMAS_Voyager_(D04)&oldid=996238197, Daring-class destroyers (1949) of the Royal Australian Navy, Use Australian English from February 2014, All Wikipedia articles written in Australian English, New South Wales articles missing geocoordinate data, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Sank following collision on 10 February 1964, 2 × Foster Wheeler boilers, 2 × English Electric geared steam turbines, two shafts, 54,000 hp, 3,700 nautical miles (6,900 km; 4,300 mi) at 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph), 2 × 5-tube 21-inch (530 mm) torpedo launchers, This page was last edited on 25 December 2020, at 10:40. This was the largest loss of Australian military personnel in peacetime, and the subsequent investigations resulted in the holding of two Royal Commissions—the only time in Australian history this has occurred. The efforts of the independent companies and Voyager’s crew were now diverted to emptying the ship of all supplies and anything else that could prove useful. [7], On 10 February 1964, Voyager was performing trials off Jervis Bay, under the command of Captain Duncan Stevens, following the Williamstown refit. MERV EASTGATE PO Elect. 10-2-1964 Remembering our 82 Shipmates . [1] Voyager and Quickmatch were ordered to Bangkok for a goodwill visit at the end of January, with the two ships performing a Shop Window exercise for Royal Thai Navy officers. More than three years after the burning of HMAS Voyager Charles Bush made a pilgrimage to where it had foundered. The rest of the night and the following morning were taken up with frantic attempts to dislodge the ship, but to no avail. The HMS Voyager lies in two pieces in approximately 2000m of water. Captain Robison urgently needed to manoeuvre the ship into deeper water using the port engine, but he waited 17 minutes for the troops to get clear, as he feared if the port engine were to start it would suck the men into the propeller. WELCOME ===== ===== LEST WE FORGET. This series of photographs, sketches, and paintings clearly demonstrates the artistic process Bush went through as a war artist to reconstruct historic events. Site last updated 4-11-2019 (Home) Hit Counter . On 9 May she reached Suda Bay to join Flamingo and Auckland as convoy escort to Alexandria, departing again on 18 May, escorting Glengyle which was carrying reinforcements. Print Ex-HMAS Tobruk—from Wreck to Reef. This was published 1 year ago. Upon his return to Australia, Bush met with Major Baldwin from the 2/2nd Independent Company, and “received a good account of the burning (deliberate) HMAS Voyager at Betano”. [11] At the same time, Stevens, returning to Voyager's bridge from the nearby chart table, gave the order "Full ahead both engines. HMAS Voyager was a Daring-class destroyer of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), that was lost in a collision in 1964. [17] At 9:58 pm, Melbourne was informed that search-and-rescue boats from HMAS Creswell, helicopters from HMAS Albatross (Naval Air Station Nowra), and five Ton class minesweepers had been despatched to assist in the search. Our collection contains a wealth of material to help you research and find your connection with the wartime experiences of the brave men and women who served in Australia’s military forces. Within a few minutes the bow section sank and 82 sailors went to a watery grave. [15] Messages were sent to the Fleet Headquarters in Sydney immediately after the collision, although staff in Sydney initially underestimated the extent of the damage to Voyager. 1 talking about this. This would prove to be a fatal mistake for the Voyager; within minutes it was realised that a strong tidal current was pushing the ship parallel to the shore. A NEW book details the greatest political and military cover-up in Australian history — the HMAS Voyager … These albums contain information and photos of events and memorial service relating to HMAS Voyager (II) 25 Albums Recently Added: HMAS Voyager service Feb 2015 - Kallangur. John Jess MP fought for justice for dead and living following HMAS Voyager tragedy. [8] This required Voyager to maintain a position 20° off Melbourne's port quarter at a distance from the carrier of 1,500 to 2,000 yards (1,400 to 1,800 m). Bush’s visit to the wreck was brief, and he completed only two works. Her wreck was discovered in August 1992 by Robert Ballard lying on an even keel in 2,500ft of water, with all four gun turrets still trained out to engage the Japanese Cruisers which had sank her 50 years prior. Lofty recalls a dreadful evening in February. ART26325, Charles Bush photographed by Keith Davis while painting the wreck of HMAS Voyager, 1945. Flowers and rosemary leaves were sprinkled onto the waves off Jervis Bay on Monday in the place where, a kilometre below, the wreck of HMAS Voyager rests. All rights reserved. HMAS Voyager (Lt.Cdr. Wreck certification is not a requirement to dive this site Depth ranges from 6 – 28 metres Workplace Health and Safety Queensland advise a certified diver should not dive in excess of the depth to which they have been trained or have logged experienced to. One of the main events on Monday will be a memorial service at the wreck site of HMAS Voyager, about 20 nautical miles off Cape Perpendicular. R37264 80 yrs DoB 11/9/1928 14th Auguat 2009 22 Topics 33 Posts Mon 15 Feb 2016, 05:54 Admin ; Sick Bay Sick Bay area to post information on health issues of shipmates and thier families. HMAS Swan (DE 50), named for the Swan River, was a River-class destroyer escort of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). the First World War, lost off the south coast of England, a representative sample of sites were selected for more detailed study, analysis and interpretation. Click Here. [11] Both ships' measures were too late to avoid a collision; Melbourne hit Voyager at 8:56 pm. Constructed between 1949 and 1957, Voyager was the first ship of her class to enter Australian service, and the first all-welded ship to be built in Australia. HMAS Voyager events gallery . We pay our respects to elders past and present. [1] During this deployment, Voyager participated in several SEATO exercises, became the first RAN ship to visit Tacloban City in the Philippines, made multiple port visits to Japan, and cast a wreath in the Lingayen Gulf to remember those killed by kamikaze attacks aboard the World War II heavy cruiser HMAS Australia. Scuttled off Timor, in position 09º15'S, 125º45'E after being damaged by a Japanese air attack. 25 Topics 42 Posts Sat 16 Jan 2016, 01:28 site is spread over an area approximately 600 x 600m long, which includes the debris field which lies to the east of the site. [14] The aft section did not begin sinking until half an hour after the collision, and did not completely submerge until just after midnight. [3] She was launched on 1 May 1952 by Dame Pattie Menzies, wife of the prime minister. [1] After participating in several other exercises, Voyager returned to Australia, escorting the carrier Melbourne as far as Townsville, Queensland before sailing to Jervis Bay and rendezvousing with nine RAN ships, two RN submarines, and three small military watercraft for a ceremonial entry to Sydney Harbour on 15 June. HMAS Voyager service Feb 2015 - Kallangur; 23 Photos | Updated February 15, 2015 Hard a-starboard. [9], During the early part of the evening, Voyager had no difficulties maintaining her position during the manoeuvres both ships performed. The ex-HMAS Tobruk site is a designated area (PDF, 418KB) – (‘Ex-HMAS Tobruk area’) in the Marine Parks (Great Sandy) Zoning Plan 2017. As Bush alluded to in his letters, the composition of the final HMAS Voyager painting was constructed with the assistance of an unattributed photograph taken during the month Voyager was scuttled. [21][22] This is the only time in Australian history that two Royal Commissions have been held for a single incident. Voyager was operating as 'Plane Guard' for HMAS Melbourne in excersies (night flying ops) off the East Australian coast, just south of Sydney, and was sliced in two by the impact. (9) Diving the HMAS Hobart. Back in Australia the decision was made to maintain the harassing guerrilla force on Timor, and a regular program to resupply the troops was established. The distance to HMAS Voyager bow from HMAS Australia wreck is To make the most of the fading light, the troops were ordered to disembark immediately. The HMAS Hobart lies within the Rapid Head Sanctuary Zone in the Encounter Marine Park and offers spectacular diving opportunities.. 3 (left) left the ship after the disaster and joined his soldier brother in the 2/2nd Commando. HMAS Voyager (D31/I31) (formerly HMS Voyager (G36/G16/D31)) was a W-class destroyer of the Royal Navy (RN) and Royal Australian Navy (RAN). When the Japanese invasion force swept across Timor in February 1942 the defenders of the island outpost were quickly overwhelmed by the rapid Japanese attack. site is spread over an area approximately 600 x 600m long, which includes the debris field which lies to the east of the site. From the Archives, 1964: Hope Fades for 85 Missing Men The collision of HMAS Melbourne and HMAS Voyager is the Royal Australian Navy's worst peacetime disaster. 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