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The Insouciance of the Sea, 1930s - RAN.
6204. The RAN Archives caption says simply: 'Auxiliary Minesweeper prior to the requisition, name unknown.'
Well, we should be able to resolve this. She's not Red Funnel Fisheries, so... she's one of Carlo Caminitri's trawlers by the cut of her jib.
Yes. She's S.S. OLIVE CAM, plain as the nose on your face [ her funnel band in the Cam fleet was distinctive], and seen here heading out of Sydney.
Built as NODZU , 283 grt, in 1919 for Neale and West Ltd of Cardiff, Wales, acquired by Cam and Sons Pty Ltd of Sydney in 1929, requisitioned for RAN service Oct. 6, 1939, she served with Minesweeping Group 53 based in Fremantle WA, and paid off from the RAN in 1945. Returned to her owners, she was sadly lost with three crew when wrecked off Green Cape Lighthouse, NSW, in Nov. 1954.
She looked a little different in RAN service, with a sheltered upper wheelhouse deck, and we had a moment of panic about this identification. But it is OC. We saw her in RAN service at Pic 355 and 356, here:
www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/3903235447/
FOOTNOTE: we learned some way back, from Graeme Andrews [in relation to ex-ferry HMAS KARA KARA ], that those immensely tall funnels on small ships of the late 198th-early 20th Century created a natural air induction method to the boilers, obviating the need for fan-fed air.
This photo: RAN, Navy Heritage Collection, image ID 04023.
The Insouciance of the Sea, 1930s - RAN.
6204. The RAN Archives caption says simply: 'Auxiliary Minesweeper prior to the requisition, name unknown.'
Well, we should be able to resolve this. She's not Red Funnel Fisheries, so... she's one of Carlo Caminitri's trawlers by the cut of her jib.
Yes. She's S.S. OLIVE CAM, plain as the nose on your face [ her funnel band in the Cam fleet was distinctive], and seen here heading out of Sydney.
Built as NODZU , 283 grt, in 1919 for Neale and West Ltd of Cardiff, Wales, acquired by Cam and Sons Pty Ltd of Sydney in 1929, requisitioned for RAN service Oct. 6, 1939, she served with Minesweeping Group 53 based in Fremantle WA, and paid off from the RAN in 1945. Returned to her owners, she was sadly lost with three crew when wrecked off Green Cape Lighthouse, NSW, in Nov. 1954.
She looked a little different in RAN service, with a sheltered upper wheelhouse deck, and we had a moment of panic about this identification. But it is OC. We saw her in RAN service at Pic 355 and 356, here:
www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/3903235447/
FOOTNOTE: we learned some way back, from Graeme Andrews [in relation to ex-ferry HMAS KARA KARA ], that those immensely tall funnels on small ships of the late 198th-early 20th Century created a natural air induction method to the boilers, obviating the need for fan-fed air.
This photo: RAN, Navy Heritage Collection, image ID 04023.