SALVAGE FEAT
DAMAGED FREIGHTER
BERTHED AT SYDNEY
(Received March 14, 2 p.m.)
SYDNEY, This Day,
After one of the most remarkable salvaging feats performed in Australia the Union Company's freighter which collided with a Blue Star liner in Sydney Harbour, was freed from the wreckage which was holding her and was berthed safely. Two divers, at a depth of sixteen feet, cut through thick steel plates for twenty feet with a special under-water oxy-acetylene plant.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 63, 14 March 1940, Page 12
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75SALVAGE FEAT Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 63, 14 March 1940, Page 12
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