TOON MILLIONS FROM SEA

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 234, 22 December 1927, Page 11

TOON MILLIONS FROM SEA

DEATH OF FAMOUS SALVAGER “YOUNG OF LIVERPOOL” By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright LONDON, Wednesday. The death occured to-day in the London Hospital of Sir Frederic Young, the Salvage Adviser to the Admiralty. By his efforts over £ 50,000,000 was saved from the sea. The Admiralty recognised him as the world’s greatest salvager. For more than 30 years he was known as “Young of Liverpool.” Before the war he recovered £750,000 in specie from the ship Ocean, which was sunk off Eastbourne, and £500,000 from the Minnelianna, off the Scilly Islands. In war time the Admiralty secured his services to salve warships. Under his direction no fewer than 400 ships were saved for the Allies. He was the first to raise a German U boat. Another great feat of his was to block Portland Harbour by sinking the old battleship Hood. His most thrilling exploit was the raising of the British submarine K 13, which was sunk through the ventilating arrangements being accidentally left open. Sir Frederic raised her after she had been submerged for 56 hours, and saved the lives of the crew of 43 men.— A. and N.Z.

MANY FRIENDS HERE WIFE A NEW ZEALANDER Apart from his naval exploits, the late Sir Frederic Young was a popular man socially, and had many friends in New Zealand. Lady Young herself was a New Zealand girl, and it was during a trip of several months’ duration through the Dominion in 1924 that both Sir Frederic and his wife became so well known among the people of the country. Many expressions of sorrow were voiced in Auckland this morning when the news of Sir Frederic’s death was received. He was of lovable temperament, and his fondness for children was one of his chief characteristics. That he could not forget the sea even when among his friends ashore is shown by a quotation from Masefield which he wrote on the back of the last photograph taken of him in New Zealand:— “Out beyond the sunset, could I but find the way, Is a sleepy blue laguna which widens to a bay: And there’s the blessed city—so the sailors say.

The Golden City of St, Mary.” Among the exploits of Sir Frederic Young were the salvage operations on the Belgian coast for the removal of the Vindictive and the blockships sunk in the Zeebrugge Canal.