HMAS SYDNEY 1965 (question)
Can anybody help out with this one?
Hi Cliff,
The following is posted on HMAS Sydney messageboard, and I wonder whether it might be
appropriate to cross-post on the Cooks forums.
I cross-posted it on the Greenies messageboard.
Regards,
Les Figg
I am an Advocate representing one of your Ex-Sailors.
Recently at a Veterans' Review Board hearing he was knocked back on a
pension. The basic details are that as a 17 year old
en route to Vietnam in 1965 he was locked in the meat freezer for
around four hours whilst checking the temperature gague inside the
freezer during the middle watch.
The Services Member of the Board stated that there was an electrical
emergency release button inside the freezeer, even though it was a
manual mechanical release arm and he stated that he never saw it or
even knew of it's existence.
What I would like to know is:
(a) Was there an electrical emergency release button inside the meat
freezer on board HMAS Sydney in 1965?
(b) If not, then was there ever an electrical emergency release button
inside the freezer and if so when was it installed?
(c) Was there ever an emercency alarm button inside the meat freezer
in 1965?
As an ARMY Artificer I can't imagine that a mechanical release arm was
also an electrical release arm, although I can imagine there may have
been an emergency alarm button.
As I am appealling this matter to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal
an early response can be posted to this forum or email me at
BrianFONe...@bigpond.com and please put HMAS Sydney in the subject box
or call on 02 6680 2299.
Thankyou in anticipation.
Brian O'Neill
