ALWAYS AT SEA

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 12140, 30 December 1933, Page 7

ALWAYS AT SEA

MONOTONOUS LIFE ON OIL TANKER. FOURTEEN TRIPS TO N-.-Z. IN TEN MONTHS. ONLY 2d DAYS IN PORT TUTS YEAR. (Press Association) WELLINGTON, Dec. 29. When she arrived in port last night, after a passage of ‘2S -days from Pedro, California, the Noi we.gian mptor tanker, 0- A. Knudsen. completed a two years’ rccoid of sea- voyaging that probably is not equalled by any other ship in the world. The 13,000 tons of crude oil y' ll -- wliich she is.laden is the fourteenth cargo brought by her from San Pedro- to Wellington since February, 1932. Since the beginning of. last v;-ar, the 0. A. Knudson lias travelled well over 150,000 miles, and ,has spout a- total of little more t'luuu six weeks in port in two years. H tn company are probably the loneliest seafarers on the Pacific. About three days in port out of every 54 is as much as they average. A ‘ few hours in loading at San PMro, varied once o L - twice during the year by an extra day or two for dry docking, 25 to 28.’ days afc sea either way, and 48 hours in Wellington; is tile monotonous round that the tanker and her company have bad for the last two years. The D. A. Jvnudsett, when, she arrived at Wcl ingtou last night, had actually spent about 315 days at seaout of the 362 days which had elapsed since the beginning of the year, she has 13-;00d toils'of oil ‘to pump ashore here, and alter taking ill several thousands of tons of sea watei here a s ballast .slid will-probably sad again for San lt-diu on Sunday morning, so that her company will have had tally 20 days in port fids yeop.