Submarine Telemachus Arrives In Lyttelton

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28746, 18 November 1958, Page 6

Submarine Telemachus Arrives In Lyttelton

H M.N.Z.S. Kaniere and H.M. Submarine Telemachus arrived at

Lyttelton yesterday morning from Auckland and berthed at No. 4 East, the submarine being moored outside the Kaniere. They had fine weather from Auckland until off Cook Strait on Sunday when they ran into a strong north-west wind and heavy seas. When nearing Lyttelton yesterday morning, they ran into a strong southwest wind, accompanied by a sharp drop in the temperature. The crews were interested to see a light coating of snow on the top of Mount Herbert.

Later the Kaniere left Lyttelton to go to the assistance of the disabled Port Waikato. The Kaniere is scheduled to leave Lyttelton tomorrow for 'Dunedin, where she will take aboard five scientists and oceaniographists. members of the ! National Institute of Oceanjography. The ship will sail from Dunedin on Monday and will [cruise towards the Antarctic as far as 62 degrees south. The party will make a survey of ocean currents and temperatures. The Kaniere will return to Wellington where the party will disembark and the Kaniere will sail to Auckland, where she is due on December 10. Submarine Not Open

During the stay of the Telemachus at Lyttelton, members of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve will be given training aboard and parties of Sea Cadets and of the Girls’ Nautical Training Corps will be shown over the vessel. The submarine will not be open to the public. The Telemachus is one of three submarines from the Royal Navy stationed in Australia. The

I others are the Andrew, now fully operational at Sydney, and the j Ankorite. which recently replaced ! the Aurochs, now on her way I back to the United Kingdom. The Telemachus carries six officers and 65 ratings. She is a sister boat to the Tactician, a former visitor to Lyttelton. A T-class submarine, the Telemachus is the fourth of that name. She was built by Vickers, Armstrong at Barrow-on-Fiirness and launched in June, 1943. On her first patrol she sank a Japanese submarine in the Malacca Strait on July 17, 1944. Four days later she suffered her first and only depth charge attack. After the war, the Telemachus spent a year in reserve. She was then refitted and in October, 1949, sailed for Australia. Since then she has been based at Sydney, with the exception of a refit at Singapore every 20 months. The Telemachus will return to the United 1 Kingdom next year. The commanding officer of the z Telemachus is LieutenantCommander J. M. Haigh-Lumby, who entered the Royal Naval College. Dartmouth in January. 1942. He joined the submarine service in 1949 and has served in the Seneschal. Artful and Tactician as first lieutenant and in the Sturdy and Telemachus as commanding officer. On Friday morning the Telemachus and the Kaniere will carry out sea exercises outside Otago Heads. The Telemachus will remain at Dunedin until Monday when she will sail for Sydney. On arrival at Sydney, the submarine will be dry-docked for cleaning.