THE LAURENTIC'S GOLD
EFFORTS TO SALVE IT. (Rec. May 13, midnight.) London, May 13. Tho salvage steamer Racor has gone to North Ireland to salvo three millions sterling remaining in the hold of the Lnurentic. which is. twenty fathoms deep, where the pressure is fifty pounds to the square inch, and divers can only remain below half an hour. Tjie Racor contains a pump capable of lifting: seven hundred tons of mud per hour. It will b 0 necessary to explode the ship's plates 'until the Mies are reached. _ Tho decks of the liner are so crushed in that the height of tho' wreclc is now only ten feet. The hull is so battered out of 'recognition that it toot two months to discover its locality. The sold is in the strongroom, which was twelve feet high, but is now only a few inches—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. TTlie British auxiliary cruiser Lau.rentic was mined off the Irish coast on January 25, 1917. There were 400 persons on board, and 280 of them were lost. ' Tho vessel was manned by Navy ratings.!
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 196, 14 May 1920, Page 7
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180THE LAURENTIC'S GOLD Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 196, 14 May 1920, Page 7
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