SHIPS SALVAGE
AUSTRALIAN SUCCESS. (Rec. 6.30.) SYDNEY, Dec. 17. Australia had built up a marine salvage organisation which could rival in efficiency the methods of improvisation much older and more experienced salvage bodies in other parts of the world, said the Minister of Shipping, Hon. J. Beasley, to-night. The value of the ships and cargoes saved by the Australian Marine Salvage Board now totalled many millions of pounds. Cargo worth three million pounds has alone been.saved from an Allied freighter which was driven aground off Brisbane, and broke in halves while on its maiden voyage. Salvage crews, working in weather which was at times dangerous, saved eleven thousand tons of war material from this ship, while, in addition, the forepart of the ship was recovered, and now is being used as a store ship. The Board has also refloated bombed and sunken ships, and has performed astonishing towing feats.
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Grey River Argus, 18 December 1943, Page 2
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