SHOCK FOR SALVAGERS
SAFE RECOVERED, BUT NO DIAMONDS. THE. ELIZABETHVILLE WRECK. [United Press Association—By Cable— Copyright.! {Australian Press Assu.—United Service.) (Received 9, 11 a.m.) Paris, August 8. The Elizabethville s diamonds proved to be non-existent. The salvagers worked for months to recover the safe in which the diamonds were reputed to be carried, and they neglected every other part of the ship in order to secure the safe, which, when opened, was found to contain an equivalent to £lO in Belgian francs.
A cable on August 1 stated that Italian divers had recovered a steel chest containing 13,000 carats of diamonds and quantities of other precious stones valued at £1,125,000 from the wreck of the Belgian steamer Elizabethville, sunk by a German submarine in 1917 and which has been lying in 40 fathoms 01 water of Belle Isle. It was known that precious stones were in the captain’s cabin, and French trawlers undertook a search of the wreck last May but were unsuccessful, whereupon the Italian salvage ship Artiguo, specially fitted for deep-sea work, was ordered from its base at Genoa, and succeeded in salvaging the chest.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 202, 9 August 1928, Page 5
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