SHIP BUFFETED

Grey River Argus, 4 May 1937, Page 2

SHIP BUFFETED

“RECORDER” IN TASMAN. SYDNEY. May 3. When the cable ship Recorder reached .port, 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. Tn 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 swept over the bridge. On occasions, the crew would be' engaged in lifting cables from the >ocean bed when a storm would work up in less than an hour, damaging the lifting gear before the crew had time to cast it off. Vehy little of the work the crew set out to do—the relaying of portions of th c 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 win be made after a short stay at Sydney.