AUSTRALIAN DIVERS
GOOD WORK IN CALCUTTA HARBOUR SYDNEY, April. 15.' Ships worth more than £1,000,000 were salvaged in Calcutta Harbour by the Australian divers T. A. Lovell and H. P. Chadwick, who have just returned to Sydney by air. They are members of the Commonwealth Marine Salvage Board's team of nine divers and three specialists which left early last year for Calcutta, headed by Captain J. P. Williams, who was in charge of the Niagara salvage operations. The team went specially to raise the 8,000-ton British troopship Santhia, a job which had been refused by prominent Empire salvage firms. The Santhia was raised in nine months at a cost of. £150,000. Subsequently the team cleared Calcutta Harbour of other shipping obstructions. The riots were at their height during the operations, and divers frequently worked _ among corpses of Indians thrown into the harbour by rioters.
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Evening Star, Issue 25769, 16 April 1946, Page 6
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