600 MILES TO GO ON RECORD TOW
1P.A.1 AUCKLAND, October 8. The liner Palana, which has the disabled freighter Fernmoor in tow in the Pacific, is now about 650 miles from Auckland and is plodding along at about six knots an hour. The ships have now been in for 16 days and have covered about 1.550 miles of their 2,200- mile journey to Auckland. Reporting another 24 hours of steady progress, Captain Spurr, of the Palana, says that the run up to noon today was 110 miles. The Palana advised tonight that the weather was partly clouded, and that a light westerly wind and slight southwesterly swell were being experienced. If favourable weather continues, the two ships should end their recordbrea king tow on Tuesday or Wednesday.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 October 1948, Page 7
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