WHALER AND CHASER ARRIVE
[Pee United Press Association.]
AVELLINGTON, September 30. The whaling factory ship Anglo Norse, with six chasers, arrived in the stream at Wellington at 8.30 p.m. The Anglo Norse will remain in the stream for several clays, as she has several tons of explosives aboard. The six chasers are to go on to the patent slip in Evans Bay for cleaning, painting, and overhaul. The explosives will then be transferred to them, and tho Anglo Norse will come to a berth to take in water and stores.
The Anglo Norse is a single-screw steamer of 7,957 tons gross register, built in 1914 at. Neweastlc-on-Tyne. She traded for years under the name of Maricopa as an oil tanker. Some years ago she was converted to a whaling factory and given her present name, considerable structural alterations being made, including a slipway built into her stern, up which dead whales aro hauled.
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Evening Star, Issue 22458, 1 October 1936, Page 18
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153WHALER AND CHASER ARRIVE Evening Star, Issue 22458, 1 October 1936, Page 18
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