3000 SHIPS TO BE SALVED
MILLIONS THAT LIE AT BOTTOM OP THE SEA. One of the greatest problems t.lmt is brought near by the end of hostilities is that of salving over 15,000,000 tons of shipping that lie on the ocean's floor. This, colossal tonnage, which is equivalent to something like 3000 vessels of various size, includes moro than one argosy that would have driven Captain Kidd and his confreres of the Spanish Main into insanities of greed. In the depths of the Atlantic there lie one ship that went down with a large consignment of.bullion; another sank with a large amount of paper money; while in the region of the Mediterranean lies a boat laden with pearl? from the East worth many thousands of pon.nds. . Before navigation and the fishing industry can be resumed with complete safety all these wrecks, especially those in the shallower waters around Britain, must-be raised. Trawlers cannot work efficaciously when their nets catch sunken .vessels instead of fish; and the clanger of these submerged wrecks to other vessels* is obvious. The work ofsnlvage has already begun, but progresses slowly because of the scarcity of salvage ships.
The kissing of the hilt, which forms a part of the sword salute, is a relic of the Crusaders, whose sword-hilts were in the form of a cross.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 155, 26 March 1919, Page 7
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2203000 SHIPS TO BE SALVED Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 155, 26 March 1919, Page 7
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