RAISING SUNKEN LINERS.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 January 1919, Page 2

RAISING SUNKEN LINERS.

EXTENSIVE SALVAGE WQKK. British shipping losses in connection with the war are likely to be considerably reduced by the salvage operators now working in English waters. Already several sunken vessels have been .raised by ingenious appliances round the'coasts of Britain, and, according to reports received by Sydney underwriters, there is still a large percentage of those still submerged in the immediate neighborhood of land in comparatively shallow waters waiting their turn to be salved. Aa a number of Australian ships have been sunk in and about the English Channel, it is possible that some of the old traders to the Commonwealth will again return to familiar waters when the salvors and repairers have completed operations upon them. From the list of vessels of Australian associations sunk in and about the Channel during the war it cannot yet be definitely ascertained how many are total losses. Among other vessels know that are liable to come into the hands of the salvage operators are several P. and 0. liners, including the Moldavia and the Marmora, at least one Orient liner, thu White Star liner Afric, the Port Nicholson, Port Hardy, and other vessels of the same line, and the Cr>nargo, Australbush and others of the Commonwealth fleet. The Kyarra, one of the A.U.S.N. fleet, is also said to bo within the sphere of British coastal salvage operations.

It has been stated that the salvors are not confining their work to the British coasts; the Mediterranean and the Eastern American coasts have also come under their sphere of influence, with good result 3..