TYRONE SALVAGE

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 92, 15 October 1913, Page 8

TYRONE SALVAGE

SYNDICATE'S TENDER ACCEPTED. PART OF CREW LEAVING FOR HOME. {press association.} DUNEDIN, 14th October. It is understood that the tender of the Port Chalmers syndicate (known as the Koputai Syndicate) has been accepted for salvaging the gear and cargo of the wrecked steamer Tyrone. E. Miller, the well-known diver, is one of the principal members of the syndicate. The terms of the tender, it is said, are that the salvagers will receive about three-quarters of the net value of whatever is saved from the vessel. The sea is gradually accomplishing its work of destruction. All the cabin doors on the starboard side have been stove in, and the sea has started to rip off the hatches at hatchways 1, 2, and 3. The waves are to be seen washing up on the deck and then finding their way down the hatchways into the holds. This afternoon thirteen officers (deck and engine-room) and nineteen seamen from the Tyrone sailed by the Monowai for Wellington, where they will embark on the Ruapehu for London. Captain Beaumont, Superintendent of Mercantile Marine, has been very busy in the past few days arranging passages. When London is reached the officers and men will be distributed to their homes by the Board of Trade.