ANTARCTIC STORES
Arneb Arrives From U.S.
Fully laden with stores and equipment for the Antarctic, the United States Navy cargo ship Arneb arrived at Lyttelton yesterday afternoon from Davisville. Rhode Island.
The Arneb’s cargo includes bulldozers, a helicopter, an aeroplane, building material and one ton of gramophone records—“for the boys wintering over”—an officer explained. Trouble with one of the boilers was experienced by the Ameb on her way to New Zealand and finally the defective boiler had to be shut down. This reduced the vessel’s speed from 15 to 10 or 11 knots. The ship’s boiler makers, in relays, worked 24 hours a day for five days to effect repairs and the vessel then resumed her normal speed. The Arneb will make three trips from Lyttelton to McMurdo Sound this season. She will call at an Australian port and at Wellington before returning to the United States. The icebreaker Atka will sail from Lyttelton tomorrow for McMurdo Sound and the Glacier and Arneb on Saturday afternoon. The latter two ships will take south 70001 b of mail which will arrive at Christchurch Airport by plane from the United States early on Saturday afternoon.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29068, 3 December 1959, Page 16
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