Destroyer Disaster May
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Cut Naval Visits
The Royal Australian Navy may have to curtail exercises by its ships in the South Pacific this year as a result of the loss of the destroyer HAAAS "Voyager" on the night of February 10 in Australia's worst peace-time naval disaster.
The "Voyager" sank after she was cut in two by the aircraft carrier HAAAS "Melbourne" off Jervis Bay, about 100 miles south of Sydney.
Eighty-two men in the "Voyager" lost their lives and 239 were saved.
There were no casualties in the "Melbourne" although the ship was badly damaged. The two ships were exercising together when the disaster occurred.
The Australian Government has ap pointed a Royal Commission to in quire into the loss of the "Voyager'’ and "to bring to light all the facts relating to this most tragic event".
The Royal Commissioner is Mr.
Justice Spicer, Chief Judge of the Commonwealth Industrial Court.