SUNKEN TREASURE

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2400, 9 April 1931, Page 7

SUNKEN TREASURE

HKAZiCH TO COXTI.NTi: FBKXCH THAW I. Fit FOB WOHK Tin; Sorijna Coiupauy of Genoa, owners of (lie Artiglio, which was lilown mi after looming the wreck of tile liner Kg.vpt. has <lesj>at( Insl a .successor to Brest, win-re she will he 1 illl,i' equipped to resume ojierations on the vl'ig.vpt iu -AliiyTlU' vessel is a French trawic - of '"•ih tons, 130 ft. long, under Captain Carli. commander of the liostro, the Article's consort last year. The liostro is to go to Belle Isle to recover as much as possible of the Artiglo’s valuable equipment, including tile jointed diving shell, winches, steel mast and derrick and specially plaited cables. The remains of the Artiglo will then he blown up. Recently fishermen at Sables. Do. Inline, So miles from the scene of the disaster, picked upa closed whitepainted steel cylinder Rift, long and 4ft in diameter, with circular glass % windows at one end. 'this turned out to lie the observatory diving shell from the Artiglio. The discovery ted to an anxious message from the family of Alher o Bargelline. one of the Artiglio’s lost di\ ers. ’ll icy had heard a rumour Unit be haul been found unhurt inside tlie shell. This was impossible. '1 lie shell had floated empty from the Artiglio after the explosion.