VALUABLE CARGO RECOVERED
WRECKED AMERICAN FREIGHTER (Rec. 10 a.m.) SYDNEY, Sept. 8. Ten heavy bombers, ■worth £50,000 each, 12,000 tons of war equipment, and 1,000 tons of fuel oil were among the salvage recovered recently from a 10,000-ton United States freighter which had piled up and broken in two in rock-strewn water a mile and a-half off the Australian coast. _ In addition to the entire cargo being recovered half of the freighter was towed into port, where it will bo reconstructed for use as a lighter. The work took seven weeks, and -was performed by 200 men specially selected from the A.I.F.
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Evening Star, Issue 24294, 8 September 1942, Page 4
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102VALUABLE CARGO RECOVERED Evening Star, Issue 24294, 8 September 1942, Page 4
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