SHIPPING SALVAGED
, r ... — SYfiNEY, April 15. Ships worth more than a miilitin potindS w'ere salvaged is Calcutta harbcur by the Australian divers, T. A. Lovell and H. Gr. GHadwick, who have just returned to Sydney by air. They are members of the Commonwealth Mafine Salvage Board 's team of ninfe divffg aiid three specialiStS' Which left early last year for Galcutta; headed by Captain J. P. Williams, wiio was in charge of the Niagara salvage operationg. The team went specially to raise kn 8000-ton Bfitish troopship, the Sahthia, a Work which had heen refused by pro-, mihbnt Empire salvage firms. The Sahthia was raised in nine months it a ddst of £150,060.- , Subseqtietitly, the team cleared Calcutta harbour of other shippin^ obstructionS. Eiots were at their height during the.. Opfefations and thd divers frequently worked among the corpses of Indiahs thrown into the harbour by the-xiOterS.
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Chronicle (Levin), 16 April 1946, Page 5
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