THE LUSITANIA LOCATED.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20729, 14 December 1932, Page 11

THE LUSITANIA LOCATED.

SALVAGE OPERATIONS TO BE UNDERTAKEN. USE OF LAKE SUBMARINE I TUBE. (UXITED ?EBS3 ASSOCIATION— BI ELtCTJUO i TELEar.APH— COPYRIGHT.} (Received December 13th, 7.55 p.m.) LONDON, December 13- I Tho Lusitania is definitely located where sho sank eight miles off the OW Head of Kinsale. Salvage operations start early in the New Year. Tho expedition expects to retrieve the liner's safes by means of divers descending a ladder through tho Simon Lake steel tube. A New York woman has commissioned the expedition to recover a pearl necklace worth a million dollars. [lt was announced in November of lafci; year that the British Admiralty and the .Board of Tratio bad no objection to the salvage of tho sunken liner Lusitania (31,600 tons), which w;b torpedoed by u. German submarine on the Old Head of Kinsale on May vtli, 1915, with the loss of 1198 lives. The purpose of tho oxx>editiou was to demonstrate tho Lake subniariue salvaging tube of steel, enclosed in which ; is a stairway permitting entrance to the sea at any depth, and enabling submarine operations under normal atmospheric pressure. The operating and diving chamber of the apparatus is attached to the stairway, and can be quickly filled with compressed air, permitting access to tho sea without water flowing into the tube. Divers are able to work for longer than the customary periods. Captain Jlailoy (one of the commanding officers), stated thai; he intended, as a demonstration of the efficacy of tho steel tube, to raise safes and miscellaneous articles of actual or historic worth. Another objective was an under-sea motion picture and other photography at record depths. Lieutenant A. A.Bestic, tho solo surviving deck officer of the Lusitania, was appointed salvage-, master of the Lake-Railey expedition in March last, and has been directing tho sweeping operations to iind the wreck. Tho officers were confident that they would quickly discover tho l-usi-tania in 48 fathoms. 8.1 miles south ot | tho Old Head of Kinsale.] ]