BAD WEATHER

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 141, 17 June 1938, Page 10

BAD WEATHER

TANKER'S EXPERIENCE thorshm arrives The worst weather which they had experienced since the ship was launched two and a half years ago was reported by officers of the Norwegian tanker Thorshov, which arrived from San Pedro last night Although the Ship was about 1000 miles from New Zealand last Sunday she faced a west-, south-west gale which reached a velocity of about 68 miles per hour. Speed

had to be reduced from the ordinary J® rate of 12, knots to 8J knots, and tha !r vessel was labouring! As she beared h New Zealand the storm gradually felL B > No damage was done to any part of the ship, and because she has no high )f superstructure she did not have such :- an uncomfortable time as another ship '■ might have had. The Thorshov, which was launched & e at Vegesacjc towards the end of 1935, y is on her first trip to rfew Zealand, e She is under charter to the Union n Steam Ship Co. of New Zealand, Ltd., i- and shte brings a cargo of some 13,350 ) tons of bulk fuel oil. She is owned t . by Bryde and Dahles, Hvalfangerseld skap, Sandefjord, Norway. ,t Like a good number of other Norn wegian tankers the ship has not beeii !- home to her port of registry, and in ? her short career she has already done s 61 voyages and travelled over the Mes diterranean Sea, the Atlantic Ocean, y the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, l_ and the Antarctic Ocean. t The Thorshov has made trips to the company's three factory whaling ships o in the Antarctic and discharged fuel . oil and loaded whale oil. These opt erations took about a month and wera 2 done on the high sea. .. After completing her discharge in Wellington, which is her Sole port in New Zealand, the Thorshov will leava about Monday for Sumatra to load • * fresh cargo and feturn to Wellington.