THE EASTERN FLEET 14^ 



by Petty Officer Long on a Gestetner duplicating machine in early 

 May 1944. 



By the end of June the shore Hydrographic organisation was 

 well established. The Admiralty had taken over a large yacht in 

 England called the White Bear, which was being fitted out with 

 the latest in chart printing and production apparatus, and she 

 was shortly to sail to become the hydrographic vessel with the 

 Eastern Fleet. Captain Wyatt, although still the Fleet Hydrographic 

 Officer, was now able to return to his ship and to sail in her for 

 Sydney, where she was to undergo a refit which was well overdue, 

 and where she arrived on 26th July. 



