Post by Dave Homewood on Mar 20, 2022 20:37:35 GMT 12
MYSTERY OF AN ANCHOR
Discovery At Naval Base
(NZ Press Association) AUCKLAND. March 21.
An anchor has posed the New’ Zealand Navy a weighty problem, and a puzzle. The anchor is buried in the mud of the reserve fleet basin at the Devonport Naval Base. The problem is how to remove it. It weighs some six or seven tons. The puzzle is how it got there.
It is about 10ft long—far larger than any anchor used by New Zealand warships Lying about 8ft down in the mud. the anchor was found when the dredge Paritutu struck it last week.
No ship of a size requiring such a heavy anchor has ever been moored inside the basin or even near it.
PRESS, 22 MARCH 1962
Discovery At Naval Base
(NZ Press Association) AUCKLAND. March 21.
An anchor has posed the New’ Zealand Navy a weighty problem, and a puzzle. The anchor is buried in the mud of the reserve fleet basin at the Devonport Naval Base. The problem is how to remove it. It weighs some six or seven tons. The puzzle is how it got there.
It is about 10ft long—far larger than any anchor used by New Zealand warships Lying about 8ft down in the mud. the anchor was found when the dredge Paritutu struck it last week.
No ship of a size requiring such a heavy anchor has ever been moored inside the basin or even near it.
PRESS, 22 MARCH 1962
