SALVING THE MOLTKE
(British Official Wireless:.)
RUGBY, 11th June.
One of the greatest salvage feats over undertaken was successfully accomplished yesterday; *"\yhen the ex-Oer-man cruiser Moltke, of 23,000 tons, was raised after eight'years' immersion in seventy feet of water in Scapa Plow, Throughout the previous night air compressors pumped 600 cubic feet of air per minute into the hull to float her. and ultimately her keel stood thirty feet over the surface. When the entanglements have been cut away t", Moltke will be removed on her last journey to Cava Island, a quarter of a mile away, where she will bo beached.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 137, 14 June 1927, Page 9
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