Thank-you cruise by Tui

Press, 21 April 1984, Page 28

Thank-you cruise by Tui

H.M.N.Z.S. Tui, an oceanographic research vessel, recently made her first visit to the dry dock at Lyttelton where essential maintenance costing about $170,000 was completed. As a gesture of thanks for “a very successful job,” staff of the Lyttelton-based firm, Sinclair Melbourne, Ltd, and its sub-contracting staff were taken on a four-hour cruise aboard the Tui before she sailed for Devonport. DAVID ALEXANDER, of “The Press” photographic staff, also went on the cruise, and took the pictures on this page.

TOP LEFT: H.M.N.Z.S. Tui leaves the wharf at Lyttelton. She is now on an acoustic research trip round the New Zealand coast. TOP RIGHT: Leading Seamen David Hone, rear, and Dean Te Rita in an inflatable rescue craft during a “man overboard” exercise. MIDDLE LEFT: Able Seaman Evan Tates, of Christchurch, tows a line to the lifebuoy which represented the man to be rescued. MIDDLE RIGHT: Junior Cadet Sean Patterson, aged 14, of T.S. Cornwell, holds a mooring line. BOTTOM RIGHT: The commander, Lieutenant Commander Derek Swann, of Auckland, on the bridge. At right Sub-Lieutenant Richard Blundell, of Auckland, the officer on watch, checks the ship’s radar while entering Port Levy. BOTTOM LEFT: Able Seaman Michael Rolfe, of Wellington, at the wheel.