WHALERS' MOTHER-SHIP
NOT TO BE DOCKED.
(IT IILIGRAPB.—SPECUt TO THI POST.)
;• ; DUNEDIN,' This - Day. I The whaling steamer Sir James Clark, Ross, will not go into dry dock at Port \Chalmers before leaving for Norway. I The vessel was docked at Barry, in England, before/ she left on her present] cruise to the Southern Seas. The low temperature in the icy waters of the Antarctic, regions doss not stimulate marine growth' on a ship's bottom plating to anything like the extent experienced in more temperate latitudes. The workshops on board the vessel are capable of dealing with the wear and. tear, and the steamer escaped serious/ dam?, age: down South; therefore docking has been postponed. ' The vessel will probably be at Port Chalmers-.for a. week or longer, as she/ is taking over 2000 tons of bunker coal from the Karori, which is not yet here. the whalechasers have been laid up at Stewart Island, where they will' await the return of the Sir James Clark Ross for another vwhaJing expedition next summer. '.--..
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 87, 11 April 1924, Page 3
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