RAISING THE SUNKEN FLEET.

Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 94, 21 April 1924, Page 5

RAISING THE SUNKEN FLEET.

METHODS OF THE SALVORS. GERMAN SOCK TO BE USED. LO2?DO2T, April 20. The huge German submarine dock •which -was surrendered to Britain after the war -will be used in the salvage of the sunken German fleet at Scapa Flow. It trill be cut in halves,.and each section ■will be fitted as a large floating -workshop. From these dork sections the cruiser Hindcnburg will first bo raised, after all the holes in that vessel have been stopped and the water emptied out of her. The Hindcnburg will then be used as a pontoon for the raising of. her sister ship, SeydlitK. Operations -will begin on Wednesday. Tugs will tow the dock from Queensborough to the Orkneys. It is expected that it will take nine rears to raise, the 71 sunken vessels.— (A. and K.Z. Cable.) , The majority of the ships of the Gorman fleet which surrendered under the armistice terms on Xnvemher 21, and was interned at Scapa Flow, were scuttled under the orders of Admiral yon Reuter in the followiris .Tune, the sunken ships including the battleships Baden. Bayern, Friedrich der Grosse, Grosser Kurfiirat, Kaiser, Kaiserin. Kronprinz Wilhelm, Markgraf. and Pr.inzrefrent'LuitpoUl; the tiaUle-cruiem Hiiulcnbnrs, Derftingcr. Seydlitz. Moltke. and yon der Tann: and the light cruisers Emden, Frankfurt, Xurnljerjr, Coin. Dresden, Karlsruhe, , Brummer, and Brcmse. Four ships were then salved—the Baden, Emden, Frankfurt, and Xurnberg. The salvage operations are the largest of their kind ever undertaken. The salvors have made nn: arrangement with r the Government for the use of an im- ■ -pbrtarit pier, and they have also bought the German floating dock for use in ! raising the larger vessels. The sunken i German warships, numbering sixty- • eisht ' in all. lie in waters where no I tide runs and which are land-locked. s so that no heavy surge reaches them. ! -Many are lying on their side?, but none • are in very deep water, to the ealvaee ■ should not present insuperable diffieultiee, -