GOLD FROM THE SEA.
SUNKEN SHIP'S TREASURE. WAR DISASTER RECALLED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received May 14, 12.5 a.m. London, May 13The salvage steamer Racer has gone to the North of Ireland to salve £3,000,0000 remaining in the. hold of the Laurentic, twenty fathoms deep, where the pressure is fifty pounds to the square inch, and divers can only remain below for halt an hour. ihe Racer contains a pump capable of lifting Riwen hundred tons of mud per hour. Jt will be necessary to explode the ship's plates until the safes are reached. The decks of the liner are so unshed in that the height of the wreck IS now only ten feet;'. The hull is so battered out of recognition that it took two months to discover its locality. The gold is in a. strong room which was twelve feet high, but is now ofily a few inches.r-r-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. - [The Laurentic, which was one of the laetst White Star liners in tie Liver-pool-Canada service, was a victim of the German submarine campaign during the in the Irish Sea she was attacked bv two submarines, and rapidly sunk with the loss of ecveral lives.]
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 May 1920, Page 5
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195GOLD FROM THE SEA. Taranaki Daily News, 14 May 1920, Page 5
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