ROUGH TRIP
CABLE STEAMER IN STORM
•>■■■ : (By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evenina Post.") , AUCKLAND, May 12» The cable ship Recorder, which has been absent from Auckland for 16 days doing cable repair work four miles off Bondi, Sydney, returned to Auckland latjo last night after a rough .trip. Members of the crew stated; that the ship struck the tail-end of the'hum-' cane raging in the Tasman between Sydney and Wellington. For six days great seas swept the decks clean, and the crew went around with trousers rolled up beyond the knees. "To show;you whaf; we struck," said one, "it took three men. to get bread from the bakery into the galley.J' .' The only port called at was Newcastle, where coal was taken aboard. Seventeen miles of cable were picked up off Bondi, and faults repaired.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 111, 13 May 1933, Page 13
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ROUGH TRIP
Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 111, 13 May 1933, Page 13
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