Storm-warning device
A storm cone to warn boat owners of approaching storms has been erected on the Lyttelton Harbour Board’s signal tower.
The cone was built and erected by the Harbour Board at the request of the Canterbury Close-to-Shore Search and Rescue Committee.
The cone is painted black, and is 3ft high and 2ft in diameter at the base. It will be raised, apex ..p, whenever the signal tower is advised by the meteorological office of an imminent storm. Lyttelton Radio will continue to broadcast storm warnings on 2182kHz. The cone will be hauled down once the storm arrives or when the storm warning is cancelled.
The committee’s secretary (Mr Neil Pipe) said the cone was mainly for smaller yachts and boats not equipped with radio. Most of these did not venture far from the inner harbour area and would remain within sight of the tower. Larger craft venturing further out towards the heads were generally equipped with radio and could cope with rougher conditions — although smaller, illequipped craft which persisted in heading well down the harbour would continue to be a problem, said Mr Pipe.
Storms could descend on Lyttelton very quickly, mainly from the south-west and north-west
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Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34127, 13 April 1976, Page 23
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