WHALING FLEET ARRIVES
FACTORY-SHIP AND CHASERS OVERHAUL FOR SMALL CRAFT [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON, Wednesday The whaling factory-ship Anglo Norse, and six chasers arrived in the stream at Wellington at 8.30 o'clock to-night from Norwaiy. The Anglo Norse will; remain in the stream for sev-eral days, as she has neveral tons of ex- . plosives on board. The six chasers are to go on the patent slip in Evens Bay for cleaning, painting and overhaul. The explosives will then be transferred to them, and the j Anglo Norse wi II come to a berth to take in Water and stores. The Anglo Norse is a single-screw steamer of 7957 tons gross register. Built in 1914 at Newcastle-on-Tyne, she traded for years tinder the name of Maricopa as an oil-tanker. Some years ago she was converted to a whaling factory-ship and given her present t'.- narne:" Considerable structural alterations wero made, including a slipway built into her stern up which to haul ther dead Whales.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22538, 1 October 1936, Page 14
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164WHALING FLEET ARRIVES New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22538, 1 October 1936, Page 14
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