Australian steamer Adele
{{Short description|Steamer of the Royal Australian Navy}}
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image = HMAS Franklin.jpg |Ship caption = HMAS Franklin }} {{Infobox ship career |Ship name=*Adele (1906–1915)
|Ship owner=*Henry Dutton ( –1915)
|Ship registry=*{{flagicon|United Kingdom|civil}} Australia (1907–15)
|Ship route= |Ship ordered= |Ship builder=Hawthorn & Co Leith, Scotland, United Kingdom |Ship original cost= |Ship yard number=116 |Ship laid down= |Ship launched=18 October 1906 |Ship completed=November 1906 |Ship christened= |Ship acquired= |Ship maiden voyage= |Ship in service= |Ship out of service= |Ship identification=*UK Official Number 123022
|Ship fate=Wrecked 7 May 1943 |Ship notes= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Ship type=Steel screw steamer |Ship tonnage=*{{GRT|288}}
|Ship displacement= |Ship length={{convert|145|ft|0|in|m|2|abbr=on}} |Ship beam={{convert|22|ft|4|in|m|2|abbr=on}} |Ship draught={{convert|13|ft|2|in|m|2|abbr=on}} |Ship sail plan=Yacht |Ship propulsion=1 × {{convert|68|hp|kW|abbr=on}} triple expansion steam engine (Hawthorns & Co Ltd, Leith) |Ship speed={{convert|12|kn|km/h}} |Ship crew= |Ship armament=2 × .303-in Vickers machine guns (HMAS Adele) |Ship notes= }} |
Adele was a steel screw steamer that was built in 1906 as a yacht. She was twice commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), firstly as HMAS Franklin and later as HMAS Adele. She was wrecked at Port Kembla, New South Wales on 7 May 1943.
Design and construction
Adele was built in 1906 by Hawthorns & Co Ltd, Leith, Scotland{{citation |url=http://www.navyhistory.org.au/millionaire%E2%80%99s-yacht%E2%80%99s-naval-service/ |title=Millionaire's Yacht's Naval Service |author=John Ware |journal= Naval Historical Review |date=December 1972}} as yard number 116. She was launched on 18 October 1906{{cite magazine |title=Adele |department=Launches and Trial Trips: Launches—Scotch |url=https://archive.org/stream/marineengineer29londuoft#page/136/mode/2up |magazine=The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect |volume=29 |date=1 November 1909| page=137}} and completed in November 1906.
Originally built as a yacht, she was later converted to steam power.{{csr|register=MSI|id=1123022|access-date=10 October 2009}}
=Propulsion=
By 1930, Adele was powered by a {{convert|68|hp|kW}} triple expansion steam engine with cylinders of {{convert|12|in|mm}}, {{convert|19|in|mm}} and {{convert|33|in|mm}} bore by {{convert|22|in|mm}} stroke. The engine was manufactured by Hawthorns & Co Ltd. Adele was capable of {{convert|12|kn|km/h}}.
=Official Number and Code Letters=
Official numbers were a forerunner to IMO Numbers. In 1930, Adele had the UK Official Number 123022 and used the Code Letters HJRW.
Operational history
In 1915, Adele was purchased by the Australia Government for £21,500 from the estate of Henry Dutton of Kapunda, South Australia. On 14 September 1915 she was commissioned into the RAN as HMAS Franklin.{{cite web |url=http://www.navyhistory.org.au/category/navy-day-by-day/1914-1918/page/3/ |title=On this day:1914–1918 > WW1 |publisher=Naval Historical Society of Australia |access-date=10 October 2009}} HMAS Franklin served as a tender to the Royal Australian Naval College.{{cite web |url=http://cas.awm.gov.au/photograph/300647 |title=AWM Collection Record: 300647 |publisher=Australian War Memorial |access-date=10 October 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120806095032/http://cas.awm.gov.au/photograph/300647 |archive-date=6 August 2012 |url-status=dead }}
Franklin collided with the Sydney Harbour ferry, Vaucluse in 1916 injuring two passengers. Franklin's sharp bow smashed halfway through the wooden ferry's hull almost sinking her, however, the ferry was towed to nearby Garden Island where the dock's pumps kept her afloat.
Franklin was paid off on 31 March 1921 only to be recommissioned on 21 September.
Franklin was decommissioned on 18 September 1922 and gifted to the Administrator of Papua-New Guinea, serving there until 1929. By 1930, she had reverted to the name Adele and was owned by the Commonwealth Government of Australia and operated by the Department of Home & Territories. At the time she was homeported at Port Adelaide under the British Flag.{{Cite web |url=http://www.plimsollshipdata.org/pdffile.php?name=30b1342.pdf |title=LLOYD'S REGISTER, NAVIRES A VAPEUR ET A MOTEURS |publisher=Plimsoll Ship Data |access-date=10 October 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303165518/http://www.plimsollshipdata.org/pdffile.php?name=30b1342.pdf |archive-date=3 March 2016 |url-status=dead }} In 1932, Adele was laid up at Rabaul. She was sold for £1,652 on 7 December of that year to W L Buckland of Melbourne, Australia who refitted her as a private yacht and used her for cruising. Adele was later sold to C H Relph of Sydney and was laid up for some years at Rose Bay Port Jackson, Sydney.
On 24 October 1939, Adele was requisitioned by the Royal Australian Navy as HMAS Adele. She was armed with two .303-in Vickers machine guns and employed as an examination vessel. From December 1941, HMAS Adele was attached to {{HMAS|Maitland|Naval Depot|6}}.{{cite web |url=http://home.st.net.au/~dunn/ran/hmasadele.htm |title=HMAS ADELE EXAMINATION VESSEL ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY |publisher=Peter Dunn |access-date=10 October 2009| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20091005213658/http://home.st.net.au/~dunn/ran/hmasadele.htm| archive-date= 5 October 2009 | url-status= live}}
Loss
On 7 May 1943, Adele struck the breakwater at Port Kembla and was subsequently declared a total loss.{{cite web |url=http://oceans1.customer.netspace.net.au/nsw-main.html |title=NEW SOUTH WALES SHIPWRECKS |publisher=Encyclopedia of Australian Shipwrecks |access-date=10 October 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091002083826/http://oceans1.customer.netspace.net.au/nsw-main.html |archive-date=2 October 2009 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }} The wreck of Adele is protected under the New South Wales Heritage Act, 1977.{{cite web|url=http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?55205 |title=Adele (+1943) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=10 October 2009}}
Legacy
Franklin is remembered in the naming of two other sail training yachts associated with the RAN College:
- a yacht in the 1960s and 1970s, which took part in several Sydney to Hobart races;
- a {{convert|25|m|ft}} Hunter yacht acquired in 2005.[http://www.defence.gov.au/news/NAVYNEWS/EDITIONS/4822/sport/story02.htm New fleet addition], RAN "Navy News" paper, edition V48, No22, 2005-12-01, accessed 2009-10-18
References
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Category:Shipwrecks of the Illawarra Region
Category:Merchant ships of Australia
Category:Iron and steel steamships of Australia
Category:Auxiliary ships of the Royal Australian Navy
Category:Maritime incidents in May 1943
Category:1901 – World War I ships of Australia