WEAK HULLS CONCRETED
Common Method Of Repair
(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, October 14.
Concrete was often used as a temporary measure to strengthen weak patches in hulls of ships until the hull could be replated, the naval officer in charge at Auckland (Commodore J. O’C. Ross) said today.
He was commenting on a report by Mr A. R. Mackay at the annual conference of the Navy League at Dunedin yesterday that two New Zealand frigates were reported to have holes in their bottom stopped up with cement. Commodore Ross said that the New Zealand Loch class frigates were getting old. They were built during the last war. “In some cases areas of the hull of ships have been repaired with concrete,” he said.
“A concrete pour is given to ensure stability until the plates can be replaced. "It is a perfectly common and legitimate means of strengthening weak hulls. However, we certainly don’t go tearing round the ocean like that,” he said.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29336, 15 October 1960, Page 14
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