CYCLONES IN TASMAN
CABLE SHIP'S ORDEAL STX STORMY WEEKS SEAS SWEEP OVER BRIDGE (Elec. Tel. CopyT'ght—United Press Assn.) (Meed. May 3, 11.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, May 3. When the cable ship Recorder reached port, officers told of six stormy weeks spent in the Tasman Sea, which for the past month lias been in one of its worst and most variable moods. In addition to a number of heavy ''blows," the Recorder encountered three separate cyclones, all of great severity, and on eaeli occasion she hovc-to for a number of days, while mountainous seas often swept over the bridge.
On occasions, the crew would be engaged in lifting the cables from the ocean bed when a storm would work up in less than an hour, damaging the lifting gear before the crew had time to cast it off.
Very little of the work the crew set out to do—the re-laying of portions of the cable between Sydney and Auckland —has been accomplished in the six weeks since the. vessel left Auckland, as it was impossible, to work in the extreme weather conditions. Another attempt will he made after a short stav at Sydney.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19314, 3 May 1937, Page 5
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191CYCLONES IN TASMAN Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19314, 3 May 1937, Page 5
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