GREATEST IN HISTORY
RAISING BAYERN AT SCAPA
TWENTY FATHOMS DEEP
(British Official Wireless.)
(Received September 4, 11 a.m.)
BUGBT, September 3,
Following nine months of arduous preparation by 80 workmen and divers the former German 25,000-ton, cruiser Bayern, one of tho German warships scuttled in Scapa Flow after tho surrender of the fleet, was raised :IO
fathoms in 30 seconds on Sal unlay, representing the greatest feat ever accomplished in salvage history. The ship was then towed into shallow water.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 56, 4 September 1934, Page 9
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