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Shipping news Antarctic supplier on last trip

The U.S.N.S. Southern Cross is expected to leave McMurdo Station for Lyttelton tomorrow on her last round trip before the onset of the Antarctic winter. It was feared that bad weather and the disintegrating ice wharf at McMurdo might make it too dangerous to work the supply ship, but off-loading had already been completed, said the executive administrator of New Zealand affairs with the United States Naval Support Force. Antarctica. Mr Trevor Grice, yesterday. Some ingenious rigging had to be used to get the cargo ashore on the crumbling ice wharf, part of which has broken away and turned completely over. The United States Coast Guard icebreaker Glacier also acted as a “bridge.” The Southern Cross is nowloading. If the weather holds, she is expected at Lyttelton next Thursday, before returning to the United States via Panama. * ♦ * The Hawke's Bay Harbour Board's tug Maungatea is on her way from Napier to go into the Lyttelton Dry Dock for her annual survey. The 251-torr tug is expected to arrive on Monday. Also due to go into the dry •dock this week is the Timaru Harbour Board's suction dredge. W. H. Orbell. for a lengthy survey which is expected to take about a month. Small-boat forecast Today's inshore marine forecast from Lyttelton to the Waimakariri River mouth was for smooth seas and a slight easterly swell, with northeasterly winds of 15 to 20 knots later in the day. The seas further offshore were' expected to be light to moderate. ARRIVALS Samuel H. Armacost (6 a.in.). 21.580, Sydney (U.M.S.). Union Nelson (10 a.m.). 4950. Nelson (U.M.S.). Camia (7.30 p.m.). United States (N.Z.P.C.). DEPARTURES Union Nelson (7 p.m.). 4950. Nelson (U.M.S.). EXPECTED ARRIVALS Macedonian Reefer. Auck. todav (6 a.m.). Holinduie, Cnaiiiaiiis. today U p.m.). United Enterprise. Melbourne, today (6.30 p.m.). Elbe. Auck. tomorrow. Ngapara. Auck. tomorrow. Coastal Trader. Auck. February 21. Star Castor. Canada. Februarv 21. Union Lvttelton. Wgtn, February 22. ’• Angeliki, sea. February 22.

Coastal Trader. Dndn. Februarv 23. Union Hobart. Wgtn. Februarv 23. Wellington Star. Auck. Februarv 23. Willowbank. Brisbane, February 23. Southern Cross. Antarctica. February 24. Kweilin. Auck. February 24. Petordovrets, Napier,. Februarv 24. PROJECTED DEPARTURES Samuel H. Armacost, Wgtn, today. Olga S’adovskaya. Wgtn. today. Macedonian Reefer, Bluff, today. Coastal Trader. Dndn, Februarv 21. Camia, Dndn. February 21. Union Lvttelton. Dndn,' Februarv 22. ' Elbe. Napier. February 23. United Enterprise, China, February 23. Coastal Trader. Wgtn. Februarv 23. Wellington Star, United States. Februarv 23. Union Hobart. Dndn. Februarv 24. Kweilin. Mt. Maunganui. February 26. Southern Cross. United States. Februarv 26. VESSELS IN PORT Waitaki. Breastwork. Camia. No. 2 East. Olga Sadovskaya. No. 7 East. Samuel H. Armacost. Oil Wharf.

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Press, 19 February 1983, Page 18

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Shipping news Antarctic supplier on last trip Press, 19 February 1983, Page 18

Shipping news Antarctic supplier on last trip Press, 19 February 1983, Page 18