THE LAURENTIC WRECK
SALVAGE OPERATIONS. I Press Association— By Telegraph-—Copyrigiht. LONDON, May 13. Tho salvage steamer Racer lias gone to the North of Ireland to salve £3,000,000 remaining in the hold of the Laurentic, whir/! lies 20 fathoms deep, where the pressure is 50!b to tho square inch, and divers can remain below only half an hour.' The Racer contains a pump capable of lifting seven hundred tons of mud per hour. It will be necessary to explode the ship's plates until the safes are reached. The decks of the liner are .so crushed in that the height of the wreck is now only 10ft, and tho hull is so battered out of recognition that it took two months to 'discover it. Tho locality of the gold is in tho strong room, which was 12ft high, and is new only a few inches in —A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17935, 14 May 1920, Page 5
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