CABLE SHIP LEAVING

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 151, 23 December 1935, Page 11

CABLE SHIP LEAVING

RECORDER FOR SINGAPORE

After having been stationed for nearly 34 years at Auckland, the -ole means of'maintaining 15,000 miles of cable in the Pacific Ocean, the cable steamer Recorder is to sail today for Singapore, via Australia, states the "New Zealand Herald." Her stay at Singapore will be indefinite, but pro-< bably not less than three years.

If repairs are required to cables in the Taxman Sea in future the Recorder will be sent,from Singapore to carry them out. If necessary she may call at Auckland to pick up spare cable, which will still be stored at Devonport.

From Aucklanfi the Recorder will proceed to Newcastle for bunker coal, thence to Sydney, where she will pick up a master and officers and a crew of 62 Malays and, Chinese. A temporary crew will be signed on at Auckland to take the vessel to Sydney where they will be paid off and returned to Auckland.

The only officers now iri the vessel who will continue service in her on her new station, will be Mr. T. A. vickers, .the chief officer, Mr. W., Foster, the chief engineer, and Mr. W.. Kelly, the second engineer. Mr. L. Gamble, the cable jointer, will probably proceed to Singapore with the vessel and then return to New Zealand. '■ -.' . --.-••

• The Recorder will probably leave Sydney about January 6 and before she proceeds to Singapore she wiil make a further attempt to repair the No. 2 Auckland-Sydney cable, near the New South Wales coast. During her previous attempt to carry out the repairs she was unable to locate the cable, which is thought to have been broken by a volcanic} eruption.