CHEST OF GEMS
RECOVERED FROM BELGIAN STEAMER TORPEDOED Z BY GERMAN SUBMARINE ("’rimes” Cables.) London, August 1. The Paris correspondent of “The Times” states that Italian divers have recovered a steel chest containing 13,000 carats of diamonds and quantities of other precious stones, valued at a million and a quarter sterling, from the wreck of the Belgian steamer Elizabethville, sunk by a German submarine in 1917. The wreck Ims been lying in forty fathoms off Belle He, and it was known that the precious stones were in the captain's cabin. French, trawlers undertook to search for the wreck last May, but were unsuccessful, whereupon the Italian salvage ship Artiglio, specially fitted for deep-sea work, was ordered from the base at Genoa. Au Italian diver located the wreck on June 20 and traced the captain’s cabin a week later.
It was necessary to pierce the deck and force a way through iron debris 1:, means of submarine charges, one of which ” ’ 'ged the chest, which, it was feared, was lost irretrievably. The divers, however, continued directing the Artig”o’s electro-i..agnetie lifts of 30 tons,- and discovered the chest yesterday.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 260, 3 August 1928, Page 11
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187CHEST OF GEMS Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 260, 3 August 1928, Page 11
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