STORY OF SALVAGE
The White Star liner Laurentic sailing for New York in January, 1917, her strongroom filled with gold and silver worth about £5,000,000. She was struck by German torpedoes off Lough Swilly, and sank in 120 ft. of water. For two years there was no effort at salvage, and then when a diver descended he found, drooping from the Laurentic's mainmast, a faded flag with several rents in it—the Union Jack. That is one story of sea salvage during the war. Another with a grim touch to it relates to the recovery of a U-boat sunk off the North of Scotland. It was known that there were important papers on board which the British Admiralty was anxious to recover. When the divers went down, they found a hand protruding from the conning tower and clutched in the stiffened fingers were the secret orders which the commander had been trying to throw away when he saw that capture or destruction was inevitable. —Glasgow Herald.
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Waipa Post, Volume 36, Issue 2147, 21 April 1928, Page 2
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