WORK HINDERED
SIX STORMY WEEKS IN TASMAN.
RELAYING OF THE CABLE.
DAMAGE TO THE LIFTING GEAR
(United Press Association —Copyright.) (Received This Day, 10.20 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day.
When the cablo ship, Recorder, reached port the officers told of six stormy weeks spent in the Tasman Sea, which for the last month has been in one of its worst and most variable moods.
In addition to a number of heavy "blows” the Recorder encountered three separate cyclones, all of great severity, and on each occasion she was hove-to for a number of days while mountainous seas often swept over the bridge. On occasions the crew would be engaged in lifting cables from the ocean bed when the storm would work up in •less than an hour, damaging the lifting gear before the crew had time to cast it off.
Very little of the work the crew set cut to do—tho relaying of portions of cablo between Sydney and Auckland ]has been accomplished in the six weeks 'since the vessel left Auckland-, as it has been impossible to work in the extreme weather conditions. Another attempt will be made after a short stay at Sydney.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 171, 3 May 1937, Page 5
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