GERMAN FLEET

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 114, 16 May 1934, Page 4

GERMAN FLEET

THE vypR.K ,pF SALVAGE

EFF,ORT§ CONTINUE

The task of raising the ships of the .German il.e.et sunk iv Scapa Flow is being .continued by Metal' Industries, Limited, who arc using for the purpose the salvage steamer Mertha, fitted yfi.th a p,ow.evful sdr-eoniprcssi.ng plant, says "Tha Tinies.'? Work ia now being .carried out on tlie battleship B.ayern, Which lies bottom up with a list of 9deg to starboard in t.wenty j f'attpms .of water in an exposed ppsi-; iion l3et>y t een pava and Houton IJead. The metliods in use are much the sainc as those employed by Messrs. Cox and Danks, who', between June, 1927, and July ? 1931, successfully raised by airpressure from a maximum of .sevpn'teen* * f athonis,' '.two*"bat,tlqshj.ps,ipjii"""" ■batti.e.-crujsers, and .p'n'e .cruiser. This firm had also previously salved ijyenty-^ye' d.estroyers lying, in and around ,Gutter Soun,4.

The e^t'ra d<jptli in j^hich. the Bayevn j lies "majies tb.e^ .^>re.s,ent salvage inOro | jdifficult, as jie'.pl.e^sui-e ' iriside thp sunkQn hull ißr!,dpnsjd,e'r'a.bly hjgh,ev than before and the to work felpw f.^r l.ong perio.dg.' '• The tubular; ajr.-lpe^s for cpjjjrnunic'ating : wj'th ,ihe surface must' also "be Jengthier, ' tlio s^rt^st being -7.oftipngiand the longest ij)Of !•'■ 4're"already -bolted in.' plsiee _a"iidHji"op^)ration, and the"'air pressure jnside the .wreck "is .up to 401b tcf the "s^ujire". inc.^.. 'T,o jiyoid risk fit explppi.p'n g, '^emj-gt is,feeing employed to take' .eonstait • 'analyses; of the ■ air f Tfl.ni "th^' yari"o,us Imjnediately ajiy'pois'oiipus '.91" eonjbus|.iblo gas is located the section concerned -is exhausted and' recharged .with fresh air.

Even, in mp^t favpurable conditions it is apt .expected !.that r ; tlie Bayern jyjij be ready for fipailifHng until the end" <bf *J|W. 'Remaining^on the 'b'ot-, '|om ther.e will t,h r cn. seyep'-ibattlb-. jsiips, oae .battle>,criiiser, and four cruisers, ; "' ' -, "