AUSTRALIAN NAVY.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17437, 24 April 1922, Page 9

AUSTRALIAN NAVY.

NEW COMMANDER ARRIVES. (By Cablo— l 7re=s Associationr-Copyxigiit.) (Australian and N.Z. Cahle Association.) FREMANTLE, April 21. Captaia A. P. Addison, who succeeds Rear-Admiral J. S. Duniaresq as commander of tho Royal Australian Navy, has arrived from lingland.

Captain Albert Percy Addision, C.iU.u., ii.N., is a distinguished onuer who nas Been service on practically every navai station within the ii/inpne, as well as having nad muoh experience in organisation, administration, and staff service, both asnoro and afloat. joining tho Jttoyal i\avy as a cadet in Juiy, iStia, he specialised in torpedo worK, gunnery, ana signalling, and got his lieutenancy in ibo7. lie aiso specialised in submarine boat work, and long before the war was m command of one attached to the old Thames in Homo waters. He was promoted to the rank of commander in 1910, and captain in June, 1013. When the war broke out in 1014, Captain Addison was chief assistant .to Captain (now viceadmiral) Sir Koger lieyes, then commodore of the submarine services in. Home waters. In that capacity he rendered very fine service till February, 1915, when he was appointed to the command of the light cruiser Carysioot. Ho was later posted to the command of tho light cruiser Dartmouth, then enfaged in blockading operations in the driatic. .... In this work, his very fine initiative had good scope, and in the attacks made by the Austrian naval forces on May 15th, 1917. when the enemy bore down with all his available strength of mine cruisers and destroyers on the Allied line of minesweepers, drifters, and patrol boats, it was the gallant fight put up by the Dartmouth and her sister cruiser, Bristol, which drove tho enemy at full-speed back to his lair, at Cattaro, to the very gates of which the two cruisers pursued therh, 'sinking several of the destroyers en route, and shelling the cruisers with much effect. For this gallant achievement—now almost forgotten—the Italian Minister of Marine conveyed to the Admiralty his. "warmest admiration for the way in which H.M.B.' Dartmouth, ' fighting against superior _ forces i nobly upheld the finest traditions of the British Navy." The Admiralty also warmly commended Captain Addison for his excellent judgment in handling his ship, and the manner in which he brought her back after she had been hit by an enemy torpedo. A few weeks later, Captain Addison took over the command of the Maidstone and submarine flotilla at Harwich, and was at their head till the close of the war. He was mentioned several tunes" in despatches, created C.M.G., and awarded the 1914 Star e,nd other decorations. After the armistice, Captain Addison had the distinction of receiving the surrender of some of the German U-boats at.Harwich. During th* past two years he had been employed as Director of Torpedoes and Mining at the Admiralty.