NEW SALVAGE APPLIANCE.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3651, 13 December 1920, Page 4

NEW SALVAGE APPLIANCE.

Mr A. H. Salinger, of New York, has perfected a new device (states sin exchange) which is being tested and which he asserts will be effective in salvaging the thousands of 'valuable ships and cargoes which were sunk during the war. Mr Salinger, who manages a 5,000,000-dol-lar corporation, began operations recently at St. Augustine, Florida, to raise the steamer Iris, formerly fthe private yacht of Mr Cleveland Paulding, which sank off Anastasia Island last February, The device has an electric control operated from the surface. This directs its passage to the floor of the sea and under the ship, clearing the keel by 8 feet and emerging on the side of the vessel where it is attached to a cable, When enough cables are placed under the ship to attach to pontoons of a

special collapsible type, anr is pumped into the pontoons and the ship is raised to ' the surface. The inventor asserts that his method is much less costly than those at present employed, and that the time required to complete the task is greatly reduced.