AUSTRALIANS’ FEAT
SUNKEN SHIP RAISED CALCUTTA PORT SALVAGE (3 p.m.) SYDNEY, Jan. 17. Australian salvage officers have raised the 6,500-ton steamer Santhia from the bed of the Hooghy River beside the Calcutta wharf, according to a cable received in Sydney. In charge of operations, which other salvage organisations refused to undertake, is Captain J. P. Williams, chief salvage officer of the Commonwealth Salvage Board who salvaged the gold from the mined liner Niagara. Experts say that the raising of the Santhia was one of the most difficult port salvage feats ever accomplished. The vessel was lying on her side embedded in silt and covered by 40ft. of water at high tide. The salvage operations which cost £85,000, were necessary to avoid the silting up of the docks.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21923, 18 January 1946, Page 3
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127AUSTRALIANS’ FEAT Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21923, 18 January 1946, Page 3
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