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TASK FOR EXPERTS. ADMIRAL GRAF SPEE WRECK. The career of the German battleship Admiral Graf Spee is ended, but she is providing a different kind of news from her resting place on the bottom of the sea. The task of breaking-up and removing the Admiral Graf Spee will tax the ingenuity of the experts in Montevideo. A start has not been made on the work, as necessary permits have still to be obtained from the Uruguayan authorities. The Franco-Uruguayan firm of Regusci and Voulminot,’ leading engineers and ship repairers in Montevideo, has been given the contract. The firm owns a dry dock capable of taking a 7000-ton tramp steamer. Divers on the spot have no experience in using oxy-acetylene gas apparatus for cutting metal under water, and it is doubtful whether there is any t plant available there for such work. It will be a difficult and tedious process to blow up the under-water part of the wreck into pieces weighing less than 80 tons. But this is essential, since the maximum lift of the' largest floating crane available is 80 tons. Uruguayan marine law prohibits the employment of craft, equipment or labour from another country in salvage work in Uruguayan waters.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 July 1940, Page 9
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204BREAKING=UP RAIDER Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 July 1940, Page 9
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