REPAIRS TO ICEBREAKER

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31230, 30 November 1966, Page 22

REPAIRS TO ICEBREAKER

Delay To Trip South Repairs to the engine room ventilation system of one of the Staten Island's main engine rooms and a defective diesel compressor on one of her six main engines will delay the departure of the United States Coast Guard icebreaker for McMurdo Sound, until approximately December 6. The Staten Island. which arrived at Lyttelton from Pearl Harbour on Sunday morning, crossed the Pacific at reduced speed because of her engine defects. A goodwill call at Hobart was not made. Last February the Staten Island was transferred to the Coast Guard from the Navy and underwent an extensive refit. The icebreaker gained a new flight deck and cylindrical hangar which houses two Navymanned helicopters. The Staten Island is commanded by Captain R. T. Norris and has 21 officers and 186 enlisted men. The Staten Island will join the Glacier and Eastwind to share icebreaking duties as soon as possible, but is due back at Lyttelton early in January. After that she will make an anti-clockwise circuit of the Antarctic continent as far as the Weddell Sea, undertaking exploration and photographic work. She will return home by way of Puenta Arenas in the Magellan Straits and the Pacific coast of South America. The United States Navy’s weather picket destroyer Mills, which has been refuelling and storing at Lyttelton after a spell on Antarctic ocean station, sailed for Dunedin last evening. Shipping Telegrams (N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, Nov. 29. Arrived.—Oriana (1.25 a.m.), Sydney: Cap Colorado (11.50 a.m.), Los Angeles; Parera (S p.m.), Gisborne. Sailed.—Athelviscount (8.45 a.m.), Marsden Point; Orcades (5.15 p.m.), Brisbane; Monterey (6 p.m.), Sydney. NEW PLYMOUTH, Nov. 29. Sailed.—Holmdale (3.50 p.m.), Raglan. WELLINGTON, Nov. 29. Arrived.—Konda (5.35 a.m.), Nelson: H.M.N.Z.S. Lachlan (4.3 p.m.), Bluff. Sailed.—Kokiri (noon), Greymouth; The Portland (12.20 p.m.), Motueka: Cumberland (4.1 p.rn.i, Gisborne; Golden Bay (4.25 p.m.). Tarakohe; Konanda (6.15 p.m.). Nelson. DUNEDIN, Nov. 29. Arrived: Komata (6.30 a.m.), Coffs Harbour, U.S.S. Mills (11 a.m.), Lyttelton. Sailed: Squall (4.25 p.m.), Oamaru. BLUFF, November 29. Sailed: Rhine (9 a.m.), Wellington.

Climbers Killed.— Six mountaineers were killed and seven others were injured yesterday while attempting to climb Japan’s tallest mountain, Mt. Fuji, in bad weather conditions.—Tokyo, Nov. 28.