SUNKEN TREASURE
LAURENTIC'S BULLION PRIVATE SALVORS' SUCCESS DIVERS' STRENUOUS WORK (Received August 17, 6.25 p.m.) LONDON, August 17 The Londonderry correspondent of the Daily Mail states that after three months' hazardous work on the treacherous Donegal coast a private party of salvors has recovered part of the £1,000,000 worth of bullion left in the torpedoed liner Laurentie, from which Admiralty divers salved £5,000,000 worth in 1924.
Recently the salvage steamer Attendant was fitted with special pumps, which enabled the operators to clear the mountains of sand that covered the Laurentie. Divers fought both weather and eea. Often they worked only a few minuteß at treacherous depths in the liner.
The exact amount of bullion recovered is not known.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21882, 18 August 1934, Page 11
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