BREAKDOWN OFF COAST
THE TANKER BULYSSES ; TJje Shell Company's motor-tanker. Bulysses, which reached Auckland from Wellington late on Sunday night after a slow voyage of more than 100 hours, was delayed through an engine breakdown off East Cape. Repairs occupied 40 hours and the . engines will require 110 further attention here. . . . - One of a number of tankers visiting Auckland to be similarly safeguarded against possible attack in war zones, the Bulysses has , large Union Jacks painted on her sides. Before coming to New Zealand the tanker had m , two voyages with oil for Japan, i Bulysses, which is at Western Wii > will sail to-morrow, for Balik Papau«. ■
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23401, 18 July 1939, Page 8
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