GIANT FROM THE SEA

Taranaki Daily News, 19 July 1935, Page 5

GIANT FROM THE SEA

BATTLESHIP WRONG WAY UP. Sixteen years ago the German battleship Bayern steamed slowly into the Firth of Forth with all her guns and panoply in position. The great ship of 20,000 tons was hauled even more slowly bottom upward along the same seaway a week or two ago. ,i ' Both journeys Were sad ones, for on the first the Bayern formed part of the Armada surrendered to the Allies at the close of the war. Sent from the Forth to Scapa Flow, her crew scuttled her there, and for all these years she had lain on her side 20 fathoms deep. . j / Her smaller companions of the German fleet, which were scuttled with her on that memorable June morning, have been raised and broken up, and, greatly daring, the salvage company lndustries) decided to try to raise the Bayern too. No such monster had ever been raised before, 'but by raising her keel upward success was attained, and four tugs towed her down the 250 miles of the North Sea to Rosyth. The journey took 90 hours, arid a very depressing spectacle was this of steel gliding under the FortidMMMl