SALVAGE OPERATIONS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 1 September 1919, Page 5

SALVAGE OPERATIONS

VERY INTERESTING REPORTS

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION-COPYRIGHT Ine Daily Chronicle states that Rear-Admiral PhUlpotts had completed ja 7X' ars' saW*gs operations and salved 440 vessels, valued at £50,000,000. JJie Adirural has wholly relied upon steamers with . extraordinary pumps and six lifting lighters, converted' from hopper dredgers, which, wath nine-inch wire, will support a strain of 2000 tons In one instance he salved the collier Rosyth, of 2700 tons. She was missioned Avithin three months, a , mS^ WaS submei 'Sed for seven

*rJ^Vv 7 S °l £1>W0 000 in bullion ,rom the Laurentic involved the foiling tL rong IrOoms1rOoms with explosives^ the divers working at a depth of 9y

.In some cases, patches, like the lid of a roll top desk,.were placed over torgado wounds and the vessels refloated, but sank before they reached hai-bor ~nd vveeks of arduous work > were wa<Si<?Q. .

Salvage craft, within ten days, refloated a convoy of three merchantmen ffo- 1W TT? rSj Which ewanded in a tog. Iwo of these were recovered by the novel method of a destroyer racinaround at. top speed creating a wash and lifting the stranded veils clear i-^Vr 1' methocl wa« used in-the case of the Naa-raga-nsett, which was in dan! wight. nng r back off theMe of' Salvage workers raised .some "L ri> th°: Ttf^ one. sunk 35 miles off W YS' ,^th a^displacement of 700 fr£\ lile T f uthontlef desired to examine -he submarine closely, so she w'is of £ W '*» mouth ot the Tyne where she wa s held ui> for four- hours before being allowed t$ InsVmnP<?T nS % c dGI- ay ' **« ■slipped from the wires, but she was |gam grappled up and brought into S-\

When the armistice wa s signed the pagers were engaged in^-xaSining a V boat which \ra s entangled in i defensive net and then mined ThS ft* s<*iang papers, di sco ,4! eri the crew ana all the officers and found protruding from the hatchway ?i pan of hands whose lifeless fingers clutched, the documents he sought