NEW WHALER

Hokitika Guardian, 2 October 1930, Page 3

NEW WHALER

A. 20,000,..T0NNE It. WELLINGTON October l.’ , Iphe now .motor whaling tactqiy ship “Sir J. ‘C, . Ross,” reports . by 'wireless that she expects to arrive'jat Well} rigton about the 9th of October. After, staying at Wellington oydV in,g week end, . she wilt sail for the whaling grounds in the Ross Sea. ( : It is believed that' she will be accompanied by three chasers. The vessel will load 100 tons of coal. for‘t|ie. Mawson in the' Antarctic,. The new' “Sir J. C. Ross” launched in April of this year from the Haverton-Hill-onTees yards of the Furness Shipbuilding Company, Sandefjord, Norway. The ship is built to earn- 20,000 tons, and she is therefore the largest motor tanker afloat. She replaces the “Sir J. C. Ross” which was a‘regular visitor to Wellington on her whaling expeditions in the past. This is the new vessel’s maiden trip to New Zealand waters; ' ‘ ’ - “TCOSMOS” IN STORM. • WELLINGTON; October-1. ■Since she left Wellington 1 the whaler r “Kosmos” : has been seridirig daily • wbather rieports', : which have -i‘ been much appreciated' by the Goverriirient Meteorologist, and of great assistance in' preparing the forecasts. To-day the Kosnios was iri latitude 64 south, longitude 372 eiist. Her barometer was at 28.27, a fall of over'" an inch since yesterday. There was a north-north-east gale of a force of nine. The tompera--11 re was 32 degrees. Tlio seas' were very heavy. It is evident that . the ship is near the centre of a most’intense Antarctic cyclone.