WORK OF SALVAGE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 125, 23 November 1943, Page 5

WORK OF SALVAGE

GREAT VALUE DURING WAR Rec. 11 a.m. RUGBY, November 22,

Since the war began agents of the Admiralty salvage departments, salvage bases, and contractors have carried out successful salvage on merchantmen and cargoes of a total value of nearly £70,000,000 sterling, states the Select Committee on National Expenditure.

Rescue tugs operating under the Admiralty in the same period have given towage and assistance to other merchantmen valued at nearly £25,000,000. In addition a large number of worships have been salvaged or assisted prior to being repaired and put back into service. ■ :

The committee recommended that Admiralty salvage should continue after the war, and that the Government should examine the question of use of its radio-location apparatus after the war to increase the safety of navigation. Continual developments have been taking place in the possibilities of locating invisible objects by radio, and these developments, if generally applied for navigational purposes, will almost certainly greatly decrease strandings and collisions in fog or thick weather, the report says.—B.O.W.