Australian sub. bumps bottom
NZPA Canberra The Australian submarine Onslow is sailing back to Sydney apparently after scraping the seabed during the Tasmanex military exercises off East Cape. . An Australian Navy spokesman said last evening that there were no casualties in the incident and no obvious damage. The Onslow has completed its scheduled part of the exercise, and is due to reach Sydney today. She will be moored at the Garden Island dockyard and skin-divers will inspect the outer hull.
! The Tasmanex exercises have been expensive for Australia. An R.A.A.F. Fill jet crashed while taking off from Ohakea on Saturday. The Australian Navy’s flagship, the aircraft carrier H.M.A.S. Melbourne, lost a $60,000 radar antenna during a fierce storm in the Tasman during the exercises. Last year during the an-j nual multi-national exercise, | the R.A.A.F. lost another Fill when the crew had to eject and the jet crashed and sank in the Hauraki Gulf.
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