CABLE SHIP
HAS ROUGH SIX WEEKS
(Australian Press Association).
SYDNEY, May 3
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 was hove to for a number of days while mountainous seas often swept over the bridge. On occasions the crew would be engaged in lifting a cable from the ocennbed when a 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 tfi'cNvork the crew set out to do—the relaying of portions of cable between Sydney and Auckland—has been accomplished in six weeks since the. vessel left Auckland, as it is impossible to work in extreme weather* conditions.
Another attempt ...will be made after a short stay at Sydney. ,
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 May 1937, Page 6
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174CABLE SHIP Hokitika Guardian, 3 May 1937, Page 6
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