Trawler refloat
PA Kaitaia The ■ big . Canadian-built trawler Recovery has been hauled off Ninety Mile Beach by three salvage trawlers and taken beyond the breakers. Her bow had been pulled round seawards and most of her diesel fuel was pumped
out into a tanker. A bulldozer cut a trench seawards, and she came off at the top of the tide to a chorus of car horns from the sightseers on the road a few metres away. The Recovery, a sophisticated vessel valued at $1.5 million, is only five years old. She appears to be un-
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Press, 29 October 1981, Page 15
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