SALVAGED WARSHIPS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22434, 2 June 1936, Page 6

SALVAGED WARSHIPS

;metal for new vessels USING OLD GERMAN NAVY [from: our own correspondent] By Air Mail LONDON, May 13 The old German Navy is helping to build the new British Navy and merchant fleet. Steel plates are now being made at various places in th« West of Scotland -and Shefliold out of the scrap from the German warships salvaged at Scapa Flow, which were scuttled by Jheir creWs in June, lyl9. A representative of Metal Industries, Limited, of Glasgow and liosyth, who took over tho work of salving the sunken fleet, said similar steel plates form part of the great new Cunard,White Star liner Queen Alary. Brasswork salvaged i'rom the warships is also Jjeing converted into various articles. The latest warship to be salvaged is the 25,000-ton battleship Kcnig .filbert, which left Scapa for tho 250-milß journey to Rosyth on Wednesday, but has been held up by bad weather a'> Long Hope Bay. This great ship is being towed upside down by the most powerful tug in the world. It belongs to a JDutch company. The salvage feat is a repetition of tho achievement a, year ago when tho 28,000-to'n battleship Ba.yern was raised from the ocean bed with 90ft. of water above her hull—establishing a new record. Seven or eight more warships remain to be salvaged. The company estimates that th€> work will not be completed for six or seven years.