TANGLED IN BOOM
Ship’s Anchor Cut Free (N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, Jan. 12. The berthing of the Tasmania Star at Auckland was delayed for an hour last night while workmen disentangled her anchor from part of the boom defence system set up in Auckland harbour during the Second World War. When the Tasmania Star raised her anchor to shift from a temporary mooring out from North Head at 8 p.m. huge coils of wre rope and netting were raised from the bottom. Workmen on a passing Auckland Harbour Board transporter freed the anchor with acetylene torches, but had to drop the tangled hawsers back into the harbour. i The boom defence system !was an anti-submarine wall of I wooden piles and wire cables and netting, stretching from | North Head to Orakei.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30957, 13 January 1966, Page 3
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131TANGLED IN BOOM Press, Volume CV, Issue 30957, 13 January 1966, Page 3
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