THE RAISING OF THE WALKURE.

Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 107, 6 May 1916, Page 10

THE RAISING OF THE WALKURE.

Mention has already been made in these columns regarding tho particularly unusual piece of marine salvage work in connection with the raising from the bottom of the bay in the harbour at Papeete of the sunken German steamer Walkure, which was 3old to an American firm, Messrs. Sudden and Christensen, by the French Government in accordance wjth tha order ot tho Prize Court, with tho stipulation that they raise her, as she was considered a menace to navigation. Some private photos of how the work of lifting tho vessel was performed have found their way to _ Sydney, and it is _ clear that the difficulties of tho undertaking were by no means overestimated. ' One, shows the steamer resting inside the 'coffer dam, specially built around, her after a lot of the water had been pumped out, in another the vessel is beginning to show out of the water and the salvage steamer Chehalis alongside supplying steam for the pumps at work.. The third discloses the vessel fully afloat, and after the major portion of the coffer dam removed. She has steam up, and when the photo was . taken was within a few days of sailing for San Francisco, where permanent repairs have since been effected. Before the vessel left Papeete, the Republic, the name selected by Messrs. Sudden and Christensen for her, had been fixed to load on the Pacific Coast for the East at. a particularly good figure. . .