LOST SUBMARINE.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19670, 13 July 1929, Page 17

LOST SUBMARINE.

♦ ■ SALVAGING ABANDONED. DECISION OF ADMIRALTY. f. (ItUTtSH OFFICIAL WIHUSa.) RUGBY, July 11. fk« Secretary of the Admiralty an- »,. it** that, after full consideration & >\* /-Srcttmstances attending the loca-i'-i ni.S salvage of submarine H 47, it in .voa iteculed to abandon all furU l t; i J'tiC'ltK'TlS. '•',f. following facts have guided the i'-n.ril'v in reaching thla decision:Th'.- cm tainty that all those who s-» >m*lni» perished almost imnwdiate.l > vei-ip! sank. I'll- depth of water and the •i*-* from tuleiH and weather in the ■,; 'v where she was sunk would rent!e ».ilvag»» of the vessel, even • - •. - 'ilti'nate possibility, a long and t-i ."j'* taak, involving the divers and -, on the work in great and c- •■ ■ ■ i! < ! :i.rifj^r c, Kven if 1147 were salved, the wstained from pressure and r i,» wnuM render her unfit for furitwi ."r\K'<\ and salvage operations of ivj dimcilty would not be justified. \j H>i«.i*>t this evening H.M.S. Rodlev flying tho fla<» of the Rear-Admiral domsnnnding the submarines, and att* - ',.,? hv an escort of destroyers, and s'-\<>t araft on the spot, paid the Navy's list respeefs to those who lost their (•-mi 'rx H 47.