REPAIRING THE BARQUE
WORK PROCEEDS NIGHT AND DAY'. Excepting at meal hours -work never ceases, night or day, at tho Patent Slip, where the refloated barque is being repaired. Tho men now operate in two shifts, so that tno work is continuous throughout tho twenty-four hours. Up till last evening eight of the damaged steel plates had been removed from the hull, but it .will be another week before the other eleven badly dented plates are out. A few of the plates have alreadv been rolled at the Patent Slip Co.’s works at Evans Bay. but a. number are too badly damaged to be straightened for use again. Some other plates which are slightly dented are being straightened without removal from the hull. Portions of the damaged frames are being out out, and new pieces are to bo put in. . The repair work will occupy fully, a month yet. If the weather ho favourable a large number of people will visit the slip during to-day and to-morrow.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9718, 21 July 1917, Page 2
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