GRAF SPEE SALVAGE
THREE BRITISH DIVERS DIE TRAPPED IN WRECKAGE. Three British divers lost their lives while working on the wreck of the sunken Nazi pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spec off Montevideo. The men—William Boyd. Herbert Recce and Harry Williams —wore trapped when a bulkhead door jammed under the pressure of the water. Two other divers went down and found they had to burn a hole through a steel door to release their trapped comrades. It took them 86 minutes. By that time Boyd was dead. Williams and Recce were placed in a decompression chamber, but Williams died after 10 minutes. Rceee succumbed some hours later in hospital in Montevideo. Reece was married only five months previously and Boyd four months previously.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 June 1941, Page 5
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