SHIP IN HURRICANE
o Rough Trip Across Tasraasi CABLE VESSEL RETU~ 5 Auckland, May Is. The cable ship Recorder, which hpq been absent from Auckland for 1-i clays doing cable repair work four miles off Bondi, Sydney, returr -.1 to Aucklan 1 late last night after rough trip. Members <C th» crew stated thit the ship ":k the tail-end of, ■ ie hurricane : " >g in the Tasmau between Sydney and Wellington. For six days great seas, -wept the decks clean, and the crew went around with trousers rolled upon beyond the knees. "To show you what we struck,'' said one, "it took three men to get bread from the bakery into the galley.'' The ouly port called at was Newcastle, where coal was taken abroad. Seventeen miles of cable were picked up off Bondi, and faults repaired.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 242, 13 May 1933, Page 6
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