NOTICES

THE FOLLOWING ARE NOTICES OF INTEREST TO THE NAVAL AND EX-HMAS PERTH COMMUNITY

Charles F Adams class US Reunion  -  2011
Lets Get Together
A number for Adam's Class ships have decided to hold their next reunion in Jacksonville, Florida in 2011.  Looking forward to the possibility that the class name sake, exUSS Charles F Adams, DDG-2 may be on its way to Jacksonville as a naval museum.  The City Council of Jacksonville, Florida passed a Resolution supporting the establishment of that Naval Museum in Jacksonville.

More information may be found here:    http://www.adams-reunion.us-sailors.com/index.html

They will be extending an invitation to the 3 Royal Australian Navy and 3 German Navy ships of the class.  What a great opportunity to have an international reunion!

So far (at 14-Jan-09), the following RAN registrations are listed:
14  -  HMAS Perth DDG-38
23  -  HMAS Hobart DDG-39
17  -  HMAS Brisbane DDG-41

Posted by Les  FIGG

Belconnen Naval Transmitting Station (BNTS or "Bells")
– social history project
Call for interested participants

BNTS, ACT (‘Bells’), is being decommissioned following the transfer of Navy HF radio operations to a joint service modernised high frequency communications system. The historical significance of BNTS has been recognised by the Commonwealth Government and the National Trust. BNTS is significant also for its associations with Navy personnel and members of the local community.

The Department of Defence is commencing a study for a social history interpretive project on the BNTS. The project will record memorabilia, and capture social and intangible values and stories of life and work at ‘Bells’, by means of research and oral history.

If you are one of the many Navy, former Navy or contract personnel who maintained, operated or lived at the ‘Bells’ facility and are able to contribute to a project to record the social heritage of the BNTS, please contact the Department of Defence to register your interest.

Interested parties can respond to the address below by email, post or fax providing contact details and a brief description of your connection with BNTS, ACT.

Kate Leane                                                     Email:     Kathleen.leane@defence.gov.au
A/ Senior Environmental Adviser                     Fax:         02 6266 8731
ACT/ SNSW DS
Department of Defence
BP9 – 2 – 29
Brindabella Park
Canberra, ACT 2600
 

THE NEXT RAN VIETNAM REUNION

The next RAN Vietnam reunion is to be held in either 2011 or 2012 somewhere else in Australia, possibly ACT.  As the people in Coffs Harbour announced that they felt it was time to hand over to some other organisers.