Adele (1906)
| 300px HMAS Franklin | |
| Career | |
|---|---|
| Name: |
Adele (1906-1915) HMAS Franklin (1915-22) Adele (1922-39) HMAS Adele (1939-43) |
| Owner: |
Henry Dutton ( -1915) Royal Australian Navy (1915-22) Administrator of Papua-New Guinea (1922-29) Commonwealth Government of Australia, Department of Home & Territories (1929-32) W L Buckland (1932- ) C H Relph ( -1939) Royal Australian Navy (1939-43) |
| Port of registry: |
 Australia (1907-15) Royal Australian Navy (1915-22)25px Territory of New Guinea (1922-29) Port Adelaide (1929-39) Royal Australian Navy (1939-43) |
| Builder: | Hawthorn & Co Leith, Scotland, United Kingdom |
| Yard number: | 116 |
| Launched: | 18 October 1906 |
| Completed: | November 1906 |
| Identification: |
UK Official Number 123022 Code Letters HJRW 30x15px30x15px30x15px30x15px |
| Fate: | Wrecked |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Steel screw steamer |
| Tonnage: | 288 gross register tons (GRT) |
| Displacement: | Net tonnage (NT) of 131 tons |
| Length: | 145 feet 0 inches (44.20 m) |
| Beam: | 22 feet 4 inches (6.81 m) |
| Draught: | 13 feet 2 inches (4.01 m) |
| Propulsion: | 1 x 68 horsepower (51 kW) triple expansion steam engine (Hawthorns & Co Ltd, Leith) |
| Sail plan: | Yacht |
| Speed: | 12 knots (22 km/h) |
| Armament: | 2 x •303-in Vickers machine guns (HMAS Adele) |
| Wreck Event | |
| When lost: | 7 May 1943 |
| Where lost: | Port Kembla |
| Deaths: | 0 |
| Wreck Location | |
| Discovered: | No Approximate Position |
| Position: | 34°28′04″S 150°55′01″E / 34.4678°S 150.9170°ECoordinates: 34°28′04″S 150°55′01″E / 34.4678°S 150.9170°E, |
Adele was a steel screw steamer that was built in 1906 as a yacht. She was twice commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), firstly as HMAS Franklin and later as HMAS Adele. She was wrecked at Port Kembla, New South Wales on 7 May 1943.
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Design and construction
Adele was built in 1906 by Hawthorns & Co Ltd, Leith, Scotland[1] as yard number 116. She was launched on 18 October 1906 and completed in November 1906.
Originally built as a yacht, she was later converted to steam power.[2]
Propulsion
By 1930, Adele was powered by a 68 horsepower (51 kW) triple expansion steam engine with cylinders of 12 inches (300 mm), 19 inches (480 mm) and 33 inches (840 mm) bore by 22 inches (560 mm) stroke. The engine was manufactured by Hawthorns & Co Ltd. Adele was capable of 12 knots (22 km/h).[1][3]
Official Number and Code Letters
Official numbers were a forerunner to IMO Numbers. In 1930, Adele had the UK Official Number 123022 and used the Code Letters HJRW.[3]
Operational history
In 1915, Adele was purchased by the Australia Government for £21,500 from the estate of Henry Dutton of Kapunda, South Australia.[1]
On 14 September 1915 she was commissioned into the RAN as HMAS Franklin.[4] HMAS Franklin served as a tender to the Royal Australian Naval College.[5] She was paid off on 31 March 1921 only to be recommissioned on 21 September.[1]
Franklin was decommissioned on 18 September 1922 and gifted to the Administrator of Papua-New Guinea, serving there until 1929.[1] By 1930, she had reverted to the name Adele and was owned by the Commonwealth Government of Australia and operated by the Department of Home & Territories. At the time she was homeported at Port Adelaide under the British Flag.[3] In 1932, Adele was laid up at Rabaul. She was sold for £1,652 on 7 December of that year to W L Buckland of Melbourne, Australia who refitted her as a private yacht and used her for cruising. Adele was later sold to C H Relph of Sydney and was laid up for some years at Rose Bay Port Jackson, Sydney.[1]
On 24 October 1939, Adele was requisitioned by the Royal Australian Navy as HMAS Adele. She was armed with two •303-in Vickers machine guns and employed as an examination vessel. From December 1941, HMAS Adele was attached to HMAS Maitland.[6]
Loss
On 7 May 1943, Adele struck the breakwater at Port Kembla and was subsequently declared a total loss.[7] The wreck of Adele is protected under the New South Wales Heritage Act, 1977.[8]
Legacy
Franklin is remembered in the naming of two other sail training yachts associated with the RAN College:
- a yacht in the 1960s and 1970s, which took part in several Sydney to Hobart races;
- a 25 metres (82 ft) Hunter yacht acquired in 2005[9].
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 John Ware (December 1972), "Millionaire’s Yacht’s Naval Service", Naval Historical Review, http://www.navyhistory.org.au/millionaire%E2%80%99s-yacht%E2%80%99s-naval-service/
- ↑ ""1123022"" (subscription required). Miramar Ship Index. R.B. Haworth. http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz. Retrieved 10 October 2009.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "LLOYD'S REGISTER, NAVIRES A VAPEUR ET A MOTEURS". Plimsoll Ship Data. http://www.plimsollshipdata.org/pdffile.php?name=30b1342.pdf. Retrieved 10 October 2009.
- ↑ "AWM Collection Record: 300647". Australian War Memorial. http://cas.awm.gov.au/photograph/300647. Retrieved 10 October 2009.
- ↑ "HMAS ADELE EXAMINATION VESSEL ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY". Peter Dunn. http://home.st.net.au/~dunn/ran/hmasadele.htm. Retrieved 10 October 2009.
- ↑ "NEW SOUTH WALES SHIPWRECKS". Encyclopedia of Australian Shipwrecks. http://oceans1.customer.netspace.net.au/nsw-main.html. Retrieved 10 October 2009.
- ↑ "Adele (+1943)". Wrecksite. http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?55205. Retrieved 10 October 2009.
- ↑ New fleet addition, RAN "Navy News" paper, edition V48, No22, 2005-12-01, accessed 2009-10-18
Further reading
Online Database's
Australian National Shipwreck Database[1]
Australian Shipping - Arrivals and Departures 1788-1968 including shipwrecks [2]
Books
- Wrecks on the New South Wales Coast. By Loney, J. K. (Jack Kenneth), 1925–1995 Oceans Enterprises. 1993 ISBN 9780646110813.
- Australian Shipwrecks - vol1 1622-1850, Charles Bateson, AH and AW Reed, Sydney, 1972, ISBN 0 589 07112 2 910.4530994 BAT
- Australian shipwrecks Vol. 2 1851–1871 By Loney, J. K. (Jack Kenneth), 1925–1995. Sydney. Reed, 1980 910.4530994 LON
- Australian shipwrecks Vol. 3 1871–1900 By Loney, J. K. (Jack Kenneth), 1925–1995. Geelong Vic: List Publishing, 1982 910.4530994 LON
- Australian shipwrecks Vol. 4 1901–1986 By Loney, J. K. (Jack Kenneth), 1925–1995. Portarlington Vic. Marine History Publications, 1987 910.4530994 LON
- Australian shipwrecks Vol. 5 Update 1986 By Loney, J. K. (Jack Kenneth), 1925–1995. Portarlington Vic. Marine History Publications, 1991 910.4530994 LON
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