SALVAGE FEAT
BIG TANKER CUT IN TWO RAISED FROM SEA BOTTOM. WILL SOON BE IN SERVICE AGAIN. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.25 a.m.) PHILADELPHIA. May 13. One of the largest tankers in the world has returned from the depths and will soon again be serving the United Nations, carying oil. The Ehblurn, of 19,400 tons, which was torpedoed on February 16, has been salvaged. Although salvage experts thought the wrecked vessel, which was broken in two, should be destroyed as a menace to navigation, engineers thought otherwise. Despite heavy seas, the dangerous and difficult task was accomplished. Engineers cut through the deck plates of the ship holding the two sections together and towed the unharmed fore-end to port. Although the keel of the stern section had sunk in sand to a depth of twenty feet, holes were plugged and the section was refloated and also towed to port. The two ends will soon be welded together and the machinery reconditioned, and the tanker will shortly be serviceable again.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 May 1942, Page 4
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171SALVAGE FEAT Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 May 1942, Page 4
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