DOCK'S BIGGEST LIFT
SHIP AND CARGO 15,000 TONS
Last week the Union Steam Ship Company's new trans-Tasman liner Awatea established a record lift for the Jubilee Floating Dock when she went on the blocks for painting and fitting out, but this lift of about 13,000 tons was surpassed today when the Union Company's trans-Pacific freighter Limerick was docked. The docking weight of this vessel was about 15,000 tons, for, although her gross tonnage is only 8724, she had. a considerable amount of general cargo aboard for discharge at other, New Zealand ports. The Limerick encountered a heavygale on her voyage to Auckland from Los Angeles, and part of a wire hawser was swept overboard and got foul of her starboard propeller. The efforts of divers at both Auckland and Wellington failed to clear the wire, and it was therefore decided to dock the vessel to disentangle it.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 62, 10 September 1936, Page 10
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147DOCK'S BIGGEST LIFT Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 62, 10 September 1936, Page 10
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