TWENTY FATHOMS DEEP
THE LAURENTIC’-S £3,000,000. ATTEMPT AT SALVAGE. A DIFFICULT UNDERTAKING. (Australian and N.Z. "Gable Assn.) Received May 14, 12.5 a.m. LONDON, May 13. The salvage steamer Racher has gone to the North of Ireland to salve £3,000000 remaining in the hold of Ihp Lauren tic, 20 fathoms deep, where the pressure is 50)b to the square inch and the divers can only remain below half an hour. The Racher contains a pump capable of lifting 700 tons of mud ner hour. It will he necessary to explode the. ship’s plates until the safes are reached. The decks of the liner are so crushed in that the height of the wreck is now r only 10 feet, and lire hull is so battered out of recognition that it took two months to discover its locality. The gold is in a strong room which was .12 feet high, but is now only a few inches.
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Waikato Times, Volume 92, Issue 14363, 14 May 1920, Page 5
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