AUSTRALIA
SHIP SALVAGED. (Recd. 12.40 p.m.) SYDNEY. June 15. The biggest salvage feat ever attempted in Australia has been completed. An Allied freighter, after colliding with a collier at an Australian port, sank in more than thirty feet of wgter, and then settled in twenty feet of mud. Before the attempt could be made to raise the ship, a huge hole, made by the collision, had to be patched. A single steel patch was made ashore and welded over the hole in three days. The feat is believed to be without precedent anywhere in the world. Coffer dams were erected around the vessel, which was raised to the surface at the rate of two inches an hour. The whole job took five weeks, it was directed by the chief officer I of the Commonwealth Salvage Board, who salvaged the bullion fortune 1 from the sunken Niagara, last year.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 15 June 1943, Page 5
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