CABLE SHIP HINDERED
M - STORMS IN THE TASMAN ill. • • II , SIX WEEKS OF BAD WEATHER II " " SYDNEY, May 3 "j! . When the cable ship Recorder reached $i Sydney to-day, her officers told of six j stormy weeks spent in the Tasman Sea, which for the past month has been in j|:| one of its worst and most variable $ | moods. | : In addition to a number of heavy winds, the .Recorder encountered three 'k. ' ■ !( f; separate cyclones, all of great severity, (|! and on each occasion she was hove-to 'i| ! for a number of days while mountaini ous seas often swept over her bridge. '»! On occasions the crew was engaged i in lifting cables from the ocean bed and 'I! e storm would work up in less than iijjl an hour, damaging the lifting gear ■;!j before the crew had time to cast it off. Very little of the work the crew set •j' • out to do—the laying anew of portions of the cable between Sydney and Auckland—had been accomplished in the six weeks since the vessel left Auckland. | as it was impossible to work in extreme si| weather conditions. [;1 Another attempt is to be made after ~.ji' a short stay at Sydney. '
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22719, 4 May 1937, Page 12
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