FLEET OF WHALERS
WELLINGTON REACHED PLANS FOR OVERHAUL (Per Pross Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The whaling factory ship AngloNorso and six chasers arrived in the stream at Wellington at 8.30 p.m. last evening. The Anglo-Norse will remain in the stream for several days, as she has several tons of explosives aboard. The six chasers tire to go on the patent slip in Evans Bay for cleaning, painting and overhaul. The explosives will then he transhipped to them and the Anglo-Norse will come to a berth to take in water and stores.
She is a single-screw steamer of 7957 tons gross register, and was built in 1914 at Nowcastle-on-Tyno. The vessel traded for years under the name of Maricopa as an oil tanker. Some years ago she. was converted to a whaling factory and given her present name, considerable structural alterations being made, including a slipway built into her stern up which to haul dead whales.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19134, 1 October 1936, Page 5
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