THETIS SALVAGE
ATTEMPT TO LIFT VESSEL FAILS. OPERATIONS SUSPENDED TEMPORARILY. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. LONDON, July 22. The Admiralty announced that an attempt to lift the Thetis was unsuccessful. Two lifting bulks of the Zelo collapsed when she began towing the submarine to shore. Operations were temporarily suspended. It had been hoped that the vessel would be raised in a crade of eight wires and brought nearer the beach. It was estimated that 10 lifts would be necessary to get the submarine into shallow water.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 July 1939, Page 5
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85THETIS SALVAGE Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 July 1939, Page 5
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