STORMY TASMAN
CABLE SHIP BUFFETED. (Received Monday, 10.20 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. When the cable ship Recorder reached port officers told of six stormy weeks spent in the Tasman Sea, which for the past month had 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 each occasion she was hove to for a number of days while mountainous seas often swept over the bridge. On occasions the crew would be engaged in lifting cables from the ocean bed when a storm would work up in less tlian an hour, damaging the lif ting gear before the crew had time to cast it off. Very little of the work the crew set out to do—tho relaying of portions of the cable between Sydney and Auckland—had 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 be made after a short stay at Sydney.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 3 May 1937, Page 5
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