SIX STORMY WEEKS
CABLE SHIP IN TASMAN
VERY LITTLE WORK DONE
(EStsived May 3, 10.15 a.m.) ' '-'. SYDNEY, This Day. ; When the cable ship Recorder reached port the officers told of six stormy weeks spent in the Tasman Sea. which for the past month : has been in one of its worst and .most variable moods. In addition to a number of heavy blows, the Recorder encountered three separate cyclones, all of great severity, and on each occasion she hove-to for a number of days while mountainous seas often sv;ept over the bridge. On occasions, when the crew were engaged in lifting cables from the ocean bed, the storm would work up in less than an hour, damaging the lifting gear before the crew had time to cast it off. Very little of the work the crew set out to do —the relaying of portions of the cable between Sydney and Auckland—has' been accomplished in, the six weeks since the vessel left Auckland, as.it was impossible to work in the extreme weather' conditions. Another attempt will be. made after a short stay-at Sydney.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 103, 3 May 1937, Page 9
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181SIX STORMY WEEKS Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 103, 3 May 1937, Page 9
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