SHIP SURGERY.
RIPAIII To lANGA‘I‘IRA. LEAVING DOCK SHORTLY. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. Thursday. Extenslva repairs to the inter-island steamer Rangatlra. a remarkable feat of ship surgery, are rapidly nearing completion. The vessel has been in the Jubilee floating dock 95 days and it is expected that she will be floated out it not this week—end. then early next week. She will thus have been in dock for a round hundred days‘ work. which involved the virtual reconstruction of a large section of the bottom of the ship from the forefoot to 11 line approxi—mately as for an, as the forward tunneli Practically the whole of the plates are now in position and the work of riveting the last or them should he completed by the week-end. There is, however. a good deal of internal work mainly in the engine—rooms. to he done still. and it will probably be some weeks yet before the ship goes into commission.
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Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19886, 15 May 1936, Page 9
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157SHIP SURGERY. Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19886, 15 May 1936, Page 9
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