FREIGHTER SALVAGED
TOWED TO SYDNEY FROM NEW GUINEA
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright (Rec. 8 a.m.). SYDNEY, July 12. A rusty freighter with holes in her sides covered with wood and concrete patches and welded steel plates has reached Sydney towed 1,750 miles—the greatest distance a damaged ship 'lias ever been towed. The vessel had been sunk by shells from a Japanese cruiser in Milne Bay, New Guinea, and was raised 15 months later by Commonwealth Salvage Board officers. More than 40 apertures had to be plugged up by divers before the vessel could be pumped out. Depth charges had to be exploded to frighten off sharks before the men descend.
The ship, with its funnel sliced away level with the decile and one mast snapped off, was raised in 11 weeJcs. In spito of storms on the long journey to the repair depot, all the emergency patches held fast. It is expected that the ship will be ready for recommissioning in about three months.
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Evening Star, Issue 25226, 13 July 1944, Page 4
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163FREIGHTER SALVAGED Evening Star, Issue 25226, 13 July 1944, Page 4
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