Description
Title: Postscript to Voyager – The Melbourne Voyager Collision
Author: Vice Admiral Harold Hickling CB, CBE, DSO
Condition: Near Mint +
Edition: 1st Edition
Publication Date: 1969
SSN: 589004042
Cover: Hard Cover with Dust Jacket – 192 pages
Comments: The detailed account of the HMAS Melbourne–Voyager collision.
The Melbourne–Voyager collision was a collision between two warships of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN); the aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne (R21) and the destroyer HMAS Voyager (D04). On the evening of 10 February 1964, the two ships were performing manoeuvres off Jervis Bay, when Voyager sailed under Melbourne’s bow. She was cut in two and sunk, and 82 of her crew killed.
Two Royal Commissions were held to investigate the incident. The first studied the circumstances of the collision, while the second focused on claims by a former Voyager senior officer that the destroyer’s captain was unfit for command. It is the only time in Australian history that two Royal Commissions have been held for a single incident.
