SALVAGE GAMBLE
YICTOIIY FOR CONTRACTOR. LONDON, July 22. The greatest salvage, gamble, of modern times, on which.Mr H. F. Cox, of Messrs Cox and Danks, Ltd. staked £350,000, was won to-night. A diver telephoned that the former German cruiser Hi n den burg, sunk at Seapa Flow after the armistice, was clear of the bottom, and had graduallv risen to the surface. The after turrets are both, clear of the water, and the flag, mast at the stern is also 4ft. above the surface, (reports a special correspondent- of the Daily Mnil). The vessel is rising 6in. each quarter of an hour. The Hindenhurg presented a weird sight, being covered with mussels and seaweed. Mir Cox had worked at the salvage for six years, and failed three times. He raised the cruiser on June
—<«2aw*«i •••** 21st. but she took a dangerous list, necessitating the building of a concrete excrescence beneath the stern, which took a month to harden.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 August 1930, Page 5
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