GOOD PROGRESS MADE
CLEARING WAR-TIME SHIPPING WRECKS Rec. 11 p.m. PERTH, May 24. Travelling to Wellington by the motor ship Sarpedon, is Commander L. Tvenden, Royal Navy, retired, who previously held the post of assistant director of wreck disposals. Over 500 war-time wrecks littered the English shipping lanes at the end of the war, but when he left the United Kingdom more than half had been cleared, he said. the war Commander Tvenden was a convoy commmander on the Clyde.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26780, 25 May 1948, Page 5
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