LUSITANIA WRECK LOCATED
SALVAGE EARLY NEXT YEAR. DIVERS TO DESCEND STEEL TUBE. By Tclesraph—Pres» Assn.— Copyright. London, Dec. 13. The Lusitania has been located eight miles off the Old Head of Kinsale. Salvage will start early m the new year, Courtney’s expedition expeering to retrieve the liner s safes by divers descending a ladder .through the Simon-Lake steel tube. . A New York woman has commissioned the expedition to recover a. pearl necklace worth £200,000.
The Lusitania was launched at Clydepedoed by a German submarine on May 7, 1915, while off the Old Head of Kinsale on the coast of Ireland, and nearly 1500 of the 1255 passengers and 651 crew were drowned. ' The Lusitania was launched at Clyuacbank in 1906. She was 785 feet long and 88 feet wide, had a displacement o 40,000 tons and a speed of 25 knots and was fitted to carry 2800 passengers. Over 100 Americans lost their lives in the disaster and the American Government sent a Note of warning to the Germans regarding their methods of submarine warfare.
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 December 1932, Page 4
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