SUNKEN TREASURE
DARING SALVAGE OPERATIONS THE LINERS EGYPT AND ELIZABETHVILLE (United Service.) London, June 2. One of the most daring and romantic salvage operations was begun to-day, when Italian tugs were buoyed to an area whence it is hoped to recover £230,000 worth of silver ingots on board the P. and O. liner Egypt, which was sunk in the Bay of Biscay in 1922. The Italians who are undertaking the operations will use six great caissons moored above the wreck, the position of which has been definitely identified. Genoese divers, specially selected for their powers of endurance, will use 20,000 candle-power lamps to light the sea bottom, and will place dynamite charges to shatter the hull, after which sections will be drawn to the surface by powerful magnets. If the attempt is successful the divers will endeavour to secure £3,000,000 worth of diamonds from the wreck of the Belgian liner Elizabethville, which was sunk off Belle Isle by a German submarine.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 212, 4 June 1929, Page 11
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161SUNKEN TREASURE Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 212, 4 June 1929, Page 11
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