SAI JVI XG AIIJLLIOXS. 3>ivers have recovered coins and gold bullion to the value of £-1.000.000 from the wreck of the liner Laurentic, sunk in 1917 about fifteen miles off Lough Swilly. The arduous tasks of the divers attached to the salvage ship H.M.S. Racer were rendered dangerous by the fact that they were frequently attacked by giant dog-fish. The Rgger returned to port each night with its burden of gold When suffieent ■VS4 tt put on hoard a destroyer and landed At Chatham, from whence the bullion wns sent under armed guard to the Bank of Kngland. All the bullion recovered will, 'of course, benefit the taxpayer.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17171, 15 October 1923, Page 6
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