SALVAGE TASKS
RAISING GERMAN FLEET The 25,000-ton battle cruiser Seydlitz, one of the vessels of the German fleet scuttled in Scapa Flow, Orkney, was docked upside dow n in Rosyth Harbour, in the Firth of Forth, last month. She was raised last November. The Seydlitz, which will now be handed over to the shipbreakers, was one of the German warships which took part in the bombardment of Scarborough in the early days of the war. The vessel was to-wed the 260 miles from Scapa Flow to Rosyth upside down at a speed of about three miles an hour.
There are still IS German battleships and cruisers awaiting salvage, but Messrs. Cox and Danks, the London salvage firm, have already raised 25 destroyers and three battleships.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 703, 1 July 1929, Page 13
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