CRUISER MAY BE SAVED
STRANDED DAUNTLESS GOOD PROGRESS AT SALVAGE British Official Wireless Reed. 10.17 a.m. RUGBY, Tuesday. Good progress in moderately favourable weather is being made with the efforts to salvage the cruiser Dauntless, which is aground outside Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Air is being forced into the flooded compartments, and the guns and most of the other moveable fittings have been taken off. Unless the weather deteriorates the Dauntless may he refloated in a few days. The United States Government, at the request of the British Government, sent pontoons to Halifax to raise the stranded cruiser.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 403, 11 July 1928, Page 9
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97CRUISER MAY BE SAVED Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 403, 11 July 1928, Page 9
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