SYDNEY HARBOUR

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 124, 28 May 1928, Page 8

SYDNEY HARBOUR

MEMORIAL TO NAVY MEN (From "The Post's" Representative.) SYDNEY, 16th May/ At the entrance to Sydney Harbour, and just after one passes through the Heads, is a reef known as the Sow and Pigs. There are few Sydney&ide'rs who do not know it, and few visitors by sea to whom it is not pointed out. Of several proposals which have this reef as the site of a memorial to the men of the Royal Australian Navy and of'the mercantile marine who served in the war, the latest has as its essential feature the tripod masi of H.^VI.A.S., Sydney. Theoretically al though actually obsolete, the hero of the Emden fight will, in retirement and under the care of a maintenance crew, be assumed to be capable of putting to sea at fourteen days' notice, but actually, for defence purposes, thia is regarded as a' doubtful possibility. In making use of the tripod mast of the ship as a national sea memorial, it 'is now suggested that, the money involved in tile cost of maintaining the Sydney on the reserved list, namely, more than £10,000 a year, could be better spent-on the active units of the fleet. It is suggested that as a base for the mast on the reef there should be a massive concrete deck on which services could be held. The lofty mast, flashing out at night from its pinnacle alternating red, white; and blue lights, would, it is believed, bo a fitting memorial to those who have crossed the bar. v