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The Weekly 'All-Round Look' Newsletter
The weekly SIA All Round Look Newsletter editor uses a Meltwater media analysis tool to filter media articles of interest for distribution to SIA Members and ARL Newsletter recipients. A synthesis of information of interest. The operational term ‘All Round Look’ applies to the use of the periscope to conduct a 360 degree sweep of the sea surface to establish the proximity – and potential threat to the safety of the submarine, of vessels visible through the periscope. A gathering of information of critical interest.
An article, by Dr David Parry (a perisher graduate and author of ‘Perisher: A Hundred Years of the Submarine Command Course’) looks at the genesis of the operational ‘All Round Look’, via this link.
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VALE LCDR KIT MORGAN RAN (Rtd)
29 June 1951 – 11 October 2024
Kit Morgan died on 11 October 2024 after a short illness. He joined the Navy in 1970 and qualified as a submariner in the early 70s. Kit subsequently returned to General Service and qualified as a ‘Dagger’ Navigator, serving as the Fleet Navigator in the late 80s.
On leaving the Navy, after 21 years’ service, he followed a very successful 30 year career in Defence Industry before retiring earlier this year. His great sporting passion was Rugby Union: he was an avid organiser of teams in the ships on which he served; his playing career lasted until his late 30s. He was also a member of the Brumbies support team from its inception and strongly involved in the club’s affairs.
Kit had an abiding interest in defence strategic affairs he was always ready to engage in a robust and detailed discussion on current issues. His wide circle of friends, together with naval and business associates, provided him with an incisive grasp of military – and particularly naval – global developments. As was unsurprising, there was standing room only in the church at his funeral. Farewell Kit.
AE1 Project Touchstone
Objective
The objective of AE1 Project Touchstone is to
recover a relic from HMAS AE1 to provide the centre piece of a national memorial/display in the Australian War Memorial (AWM).
The Current Situation
The Project is being managed by a not-for-profit organisation, the Australian E Class
Submarine Foundation Ltd, the same team who led the search for, and detailed
examination of, AE1 in 2017 and 2018.
The immediate priority is a Check Survey of AE1, utilising an ROV to obtain still and video footage to provide information on her. More details via this link