DAY & NIGHT WORK
REPAIRS TO DAMAGED TANKER. AUCKLAND FIRM'S CONTRACT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, August 20. With a large wedge-shaped hole gaping above the water line of her badly-damaged bow, the Norwegian tanker Ole Jacob which collided with the British motor-ship Armadale off Cape Campbell on the night of July 31. arrived under its own power from Wellington today. Work was done on the damaged ship as soon as she berthed by about. 50 employees of an Auckland engineering firm, which secured a contract for repairs. The work of cutting away the damaged parts was begun and cranes removed large parts to the wharf. Men are working in shifts all day and night, and later their numbers will be made up to about 100. As the ship was of welded construction, probably as a war time economy, most of the repairs will be done by welding, a new departure in shipping repairs in New Zealand.
Working 24 hours a day except Saturdays, when they will finish at 5 o’clock in the evening and-on Sundays, when no work will be done, the men are expected to complete the repairs in about five weeks. New plates will be required to repair the bow.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 August 1940, Page 8
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