SCAPA FLOW SCRAP

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 148, 8 June 1936, Page 8

SCAPA FLOW SCRAP

Used for British Ships

(Own Correspondent—By Air Mail.) LONDON, May 1.

The old German Navy is helping to build the new British Navy and Merchant Fleet, says a special correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph.” Steel plates are now being made at various places in the West of Scotland and Sheffield out of the scrap from the German warships salvaged at Seapa Flow which were scuttled by their crews in June, 1919. A representative of Metal Industries Ltd., of Glasgow and Rosyth, who took over the work of salving the sunken fleet, told me yesterday that similar steel plates form part of the great new Cunard-White Star liner Queen Mary, which begins her maiden voyage to New York on May 27.

Brasswork salvaged from the warships is also being converted into various articles.

The latest warship to be salvaged is the 25,003-ton battleship Koiiig Albert, which left Seapa for the 250-mile journey to Rosyth on Wednesday, but has been held up by bad weather at Long Hope Bay. This great ship is being towed upside down by the most powerful tug in the world. It belongs to a Dutch company. The salvage feat is a repetition of the achievement a year ago when the 28,000-tjn battleship Bayern was raised from the oeean bed with 90ft. of water above her hull—establishing a new record.

Seven or eight more warships remain to be salvaged. The company estimate that the work will not be completed for six or seven years.