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As an artist I like my artworks to tell stories and I often use discarded materials. I have been collecting old pearl necklaces from boot fairs and junk shops for a few years knowing that one day I was going to build a couple of huge galleons from them! I was inspired to make the galleons after watching a documentary about a factory in China which manufacturers every kind of conceivable pearl adornment in colossal quantities. I decided to make two Chinese sailing junks cruising on a tangled never ending sea of wedding tiaras, chokers and earrings! Eventually last Spring I had enough for my project and I got to work! First of all I built a metal structure on which to hang the necklaces and then over the course of the year I slowly threaded and weaved the beads to build up my galleons.
For more than 45 years Noel Mackin from Sydney's west has dedicate most of his spare time building model planes and boats.
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4693. This is another ship story with a very sad ending. Built by H. Robb at Leith, Scotland in 1929 for the NSW State Metal Quarries public enterprise, the 540 ton SS BOMBO arrived in Sydney in 1930 and commenced delivering gravel for State roadworks from various quarries along the coast to Sydney. Requisitioned and commissioned into the RAN on May 28, 1941 as an auxiliary minesweeper BOMBO was armed with a 12-pounder gun, two 20mm Oerlikons [visible above] and four depth charges on the stern, along, one presumes, with sweeping gear. HMAS BOMBO worked between Sydney and Hobart from 1941 to mid or late 1944, at some point being based South and doing rotations between Hobart and Port Arthur with another auxiliary minesweeper on every second day. In the latter part of 1944 she moved north and was used as a stores carrier and sometime target tow out of Darwin. On September 11, 1945, HMAS BOMBO was present when the Japanese surrender at Koepang, Timor was signed on HMAS MORESBY. BOMBO paid off on Feb. 25, 1946, but was not returned to her owners until July 25 the following year, when she resumed work in the gravel trade. Michael McFadyen's carefully researched Scuba Diving website mentions reports that some of that some of BOMBO's ballast had been removed during her alterations for naval service, and that she was said to have a tendency to list when heavy laden during her service as a stores carrier later. In any event, back under her old pre-war Master, Captain Arthur Bell, S.S. BOMBO was in trouble on what was to be her last voyage, as she beat her way back up the NSW South Coast from Kiama fully laden with some 650 tons of blue metal on February 22, 1949, when a 'southerly buster' hit somewhere off Wollongong. At 4pm the struggling ship was hit by a huge wave, and failed to come fully back up again as her gravel cargo shifted, and she developed a 5 degree list. Captain Bell decided to beat towards shelter in Port Kembla Harbour, and was within 10 miles of his objective and perhaps half a mile from shore at 10 pm that night when her load shifted further, and her list suddenly increased to 30 degrees. Captain Bell urgently ordered everyone on deck and the boats lowered when the ship suddenly turned turtle and sank, plunging towards the bottom in an undersea rain of spilling gravel. Four men went down with the ship immediately, leaving 10 in the rough water - including Captain Bell - clinging to planks. Two men made an initial attempt to swim ashore, but never made it. When dawn broke, Captain Bell and another crewman had passed away. The remaining six survivors decided to swim for shore at 15 minute intervals, but only two of them reached separate beaches, fireman Michael Fitzsimmons and crewman Thorveld Thomsen. Remarkably, the ship's dog also made it to shore. In all, 12 of BOMBO's complement of 14 had perished: Captain Bell's body, and that of a crewmen named Charles Barhen were recovered by a Wollongong trawler, the PACIFIC PEARL. On advice from local fisherman, the wreck of the BOMBO was discovered by two divers, Donb Morrison and Bruce Hammon in 1978 - 29 years after her loss, and the site was made public in 1983. Within months of its location being disclosed, Don Morrison later recalled, the wreck was virtually stripped. *Most facts here are from Michael McFadyen's Scuba Diving Website, andMichael's full webpage on this wreck, with further details and other photos, can be found here: www.michaelmcfadyenscuba.info/viewpage.php?page_id=81 We had a starboard side view of HMAS BOMBO, clearly taken at the same time as the image above, and it can be seen way back at pic NO. 7, here: www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/3807495137/ This photo: RAN Historical, Navy Heritage Collection image NO. 02339, it appeared in John Bastock's book 'Australia's Ships of War' [Angus and Robertson, Sydney 1975] p224; Ross Gillett's 'Australian and New Zealand Warships, 1914-1945' [Doubleday, Sydney 1983] p174; and it has also appeared in other reference sources.
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Description So, this is first chart for the Kanto Republic ships, second chart will feature several more ships, but for now, this is what i get so far. There is no technical specifications since i already do that with most of the ship classes, with only Ariake class corvette remains but i still have some plans for it to do. Second there is three Alliance class ships that were in service with Kanto Defense Force(or Kanto Defense Fleet if you like) Three classes were Chimera class battlecruiser, Soryu class carrier and Raptor class assault destroyers, this ships were first ships to enter in service with newly established KDF. There is no much dfference between Kanto variants and Alliance ones with exception of the paint job, some small weapon changes and stats, nothing to important at this moment. Chimera become Tsuchigumo class battlecruiser, two ships were given to KDF by Alliance, although Alliance offer more ships(this time to be buyed) KDF refuse, since this massive ships were very expensive, Tsuchigumo and Isonade remains in service and were most powerful ships in the KDF. Soryu become Hayataka, while all four of legendary WWII carriers, Soryu, Hiryu, Kaga and Akagi serve the Alliance navy, Kanto Republic didnt want to name their ships after this four since they already exist and Kanto was part of Alliance, so they get new name, Total of fourteen of this massive ships is in service with KDF, two were given by Alliance (Hayataka and Hosho), two more were buyed as part of Batch I (Zuiho and Unyru) while rest were buyed as Batch IA (Shokaku, Zuikaku, Taikaku, Renkaku, Ryukaku, Aokaku, Sokaku Kamikaku and Taiho), with last of the fourteen ships was buyed as transport variant (Senkaku), all ships were capable of evacuvating large number of people if needed, this is one of reason why KDF spend so much to buy so many of this ships, during the war with Vaaygaari this ships carried lots of fighters and even drone fighters which manage to overhelm enemy in many battles. Raptor become Yamazuki class heavy destroyer, unlike other two classes, Alliance gives ten ships to the KDF, with option of ten more, however KDF slowly start to built its own ships and additional ships were never buyed or recieved free. Ten ships are: Yamazuki, Isoshima, Setoyuki, Yamayuki, Uzushio, Takashio, Kuroshio, Kasado, Atada and Yashiro. These ships served as command destroyers for smaller groups of Akizuki class destroyers during the war. Originally few more of the Alliance classes were suppose to join but that plan was cancelled.
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