STORMY TASMAN
IN ANGRY MOOD. CABLE BHIP’B ROUGH TIME. THREE CYCLONES ENCOUNTERED. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received May 3, 11.20 a.m.) SYDNEY, May 3. When the cable ship Recorder reached port the officers told of six stormy weeks spent in the Tasman Sea, w-hich for the past month has been in one of its worst and most variable moods.
In addition to a number of heavy “blows” the Recorder encountered three separate oyclones, all of great severity, and on each occasion she hove-fo for a number of days, while mountainous seas often swept over the bridge.
On occasions the orew would be engaged in lifting 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 orew set out to do —the relaying 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 be made after a short stay at Sydney.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20184, 3 May 1937, Page 7
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