Research Vessel Given New Name
(From Our Own Reporter)
WELLINGTON, May 6.
The Government’s new fisheries vessel, formerly known as Sea Harvester 11, would be renamed James Cook, the Minister of Marine (Mr Scott) announced today.
The vessel, now at Nelson, is New Zealand’s first modern ocean-going research ship.
Minor modifications are nearly finished and arrangements for manning the vessel are well advanced.
The James Cook will soon sail for Lyttelton, where she will be repainted and undergo survey. Then she will sail to Wellington, from where, after the commissioning ceremony, she will begin immediately her research programme.
The vessel will be based at Nelson until the Marine Department’s permanent fisheries research laboratories, with wharves and berthage,
are built at Evans Bay, Wellington. The James Cook’s first research cruise will be off the east coast of the North Island, and from then on she will be working both coasts of the North and South Islahds on studies of snapper, tarakihi, gurnard and albacore.
Catch-sample technicians will join the vessel in the relevant areas to make observations, and a visit to the Chatham Islands for crayfish studies will be made.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31981, 7 May 1969, Page 32
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