LONG TIME IN DOCK
THE HAURAKI AND OTHERS
So long has the red funnel of the Union Company's motor ship Hauraki been poking up from Calliope Dock that folk, who cross the harbour daily have almost come to regard it as a permanent, part of the works (states the "Star"). The motor ship, which is to be refloated today, has been in. the dock for 59 working days, but the impression that the job of repairing the vessel is the longest ever undertaken at Devonport is not collect. One ship was in dock half as long again as the Hnnraki.
Ir addition to the Hanraki, there are four ships that have spent long periods in the ship repairers' hands at Devonport. Easily the longest work undertaken was that of repairing the Colonial Sugar Company's well-known steamer Houa in 1922. The vessel's bow was extensively damaged, and it was 90 working days before she was able to float unaided. Next in order comes the old Kaipara, which spent 72 working days in the dock in 1910, while the Port Hacking, with 64 working days in the last year of the. war, ranks third. Tlie 59 working days already spent in the. dock by the Hauraki entitles her to fourth place, in the list, while the Northumberland, 'which was delayed at Auckland for several months in 1927, was out of the water for -18 working days.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 120, 23 May 1931, Page 15
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LONG TIME IN DOCK
Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 120, 23 May 1931, Page 15
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