SHIP SURGERY
INTERESTING BRITISH FEAT BOW GRAFTED ON TANKER (Rec. 8.30 p.m.) RUGBY, May 6. An interesting feat, of ship surgery carried but at a British north-east coast dockyard which resulted in the saving of 1500 tons of steel and the putting into service again of a badly damaged 12,000-ton tanker in twothirds of the time that it would have taken to build another vessel of the 'same size.
The tanker was so badly damaged by a mine that it broke in two and the fore part sank. The after end was towed to port and it was decided to build a new forward part, 200 feet in length, and join it to the salvaged section. The new section was constructed in a shipyard and launched. It was then towed to a dry dock, floated in. and successfully grafted on to the original after end. The result was a better ship than ever. Women are now in the shipbuilding industry, and they helped in the work.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24910, 8 May 1942, Page 5
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