FBGW Monthly Sail Day December 2018

26 November 2018 Jim Warren 0

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When:

22 December 2018 @ 09:00 – 13:00

2018-12-22T09:00:00+10:30

2018-12-22T13:00:00+10:30

Where:

Bonython Park Boat Pond
Port Rd
Thebarton SA 5031
Australia

Cost:

Free

Contact:

Jim Warren

419814617

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HMAS Stalwart was an Australian-designed and constructed Escort Maintenance ship of the Royal Australian Navy.

This model is not yet completed but already shows all the signs of being a sensational model.

The ship was designed by Navy Office in Canberra to provide afloat support for the RAN, primarily by providing maintenance and minor repairs to the navy's destroyers and frigates.

75 percent of the ship's company were geared towards the maintenance role. Stalwart could perform repair and maintenance at sea and could operate out of minor ports or forward bases around and away from Australia.

Up to four ships could be assisted simultaneously, with Stalwart providing power, water, communications, and personnel facilities for the ships' companies of those alongside.

Stalwart commissioned on 9 February 1968 and served for over 22 years, decommissioning on 9 March 1990. ...

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For something a little different, we've been asked a few times as to how our Task Force 72 Motto came about and what does it actually mean.

Our motto is "Quis Habes Crepundie Maxime Victor" which is of course Latin.

When Task Force 72 was established in early 1995 we wanted something to sum up the fun that we wanted to have but we didn't want to just come out and say it so we decided to have what we wanted translated into Latin, given so many of the Royal Australian Navy ships badges motto's are also in Latin.

The only contacts we knew that still use Latin were the clergy, fortunately the Navy has it's own clergy, so we got hold of one of the Royal Australian Navy Chaplains and asked if he could come up with something for us. He kindly got back to shortly afterwards with the Latin translation which you see here.

So ever since 1995 the Task Force 72 motto has been "Quis Habes Crepundie Maxime Victor" or "He who dies with the most toys wins". 😂 ...

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HMS Brilliant was a Type 22 frigate of the Royal Navy. She is seen here being modeled by Task Force 72 member Bob of Fleet Base Perth.

Brilliant was part of the Task Force that took part in the Falklands War to recapture the islands from the occupying Argentinan forces.

During the war, her two helicopters were involved in unsuccessfully attacking the Argentine submarine Santa Fe, and she was the first Royal Navy warship to fire the Sea Wolf missile in action when, on 12 May 1982, she shot down three A-4 Skyhawks.

On 21 May 1982 HMS Brilliant came under Argentine air attack outside San Carlos Water and was slightly damaged by cannon fire. On 23 May Brilliant took part in the only ship to ship engagement of the war, when she and HMS Yarmouth chased the Argentine coaster Monsunen, in the Battle of Seal Cove, her cerw running her aground to escape destruction.

n 1987 she became leader of the 2nd Frigate Squadron. In October 1990 she saw the first members of the Women's Royal Naval Service to serve officially on an operational warship. In January 1991, HMS Brilliant deployed to the Persian Gulf as part of the Operation Granby Task Force, in the First Gulf War.

She decommissioned from Royal Navy service in 1996 and was sold to the Brazilian Navy on 31 August 1996 and renamed Dodsworth.

F47 Dodsworth was sold for scrap and broken up at Aliağa, Turkey, during July 2012. ...

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Task Force 72 is a single scale club, all our models are built to the same scale of 1:72 or 1 inch on the model being equal to 6 feet on the real thing.

That said, we appreciate the work that goes into exceptional models of any scale, and this one of the first Chinese aircraft carrier, Liaoning by Kostas Katseas is very, very impressive. ...

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On this day, December 7 in Hawaii, we pause to remember the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbour that truly made the second great war of the 20th century a global one.

On that day, in concert with other sneak attacks across the Pacific and Asia, the Imperial Japanese Navy launched waves of attack aircraft against the US Pacific Fleet resting quietly at its morings on a peaceful Sunday morning.

By the time the Japanese fleet withdrew, eight battleships, three cruisers, four destroyers and five auxilliaries were either sunk or damaged.

Casualties were high.

Two thousand and eight sailors were killed, and 710 others wounded; 218 soldiers and Army Air Force airmen were killed and 364 wounded; 109 marines were killed and 69 wounded; and 68 civilians were killed and 35 wounded.

The battleship USS Arizona, her magazine's penetrated, exploded during the attack and sank quickly, taking 1,177 officers and crew with her.

Today the ship is a National Shrine, a lasting memorial to the start of the Pacific War. Fittingly, the battleship USS Missouri, upon which the Japanese surrender document was signed, is moored behind Arizona, symbolising the start and finish of the Pacific War.

Several models within Task Force 72 represent ships present at Pearl Harbour during the attack, in particular USS Arizona and the heavy cruiser USS San Francisco.

We in Task Force 72 sincerely hope that never again does the scourge of war engulf the Asia-Pacific, and that the 36 million peope who died in the Pacific War did not die in vain.

Lest we forget. ...

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