GREAT SALVAGE FEAT
COMPLETED IN AUSTRALIAN PORT FREIGHTER BADLY HOLED IN COLLISION. RAISED FROM DEEP WATER & MUD. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) SYDNEY, June 15. 'The biggest salvage feat ever attempted in Australia has been completed. An Allied freighter, after colliding with a collier at an Australian port, sank in more than 30 feet of water and then settled in twenty feet of mud. Before any attempt could be made to raise the ship a huge hole, made by the collision, had to be patched. A single steel patch was made ashore and was welded over the hole in three days. The feat is believed to be without precedent anywhere in the world. Coffer dams were erected around the vessel, which was raised to the surface at the rate of two inches an hour. The whole job took five weeks. It was directed by the chief officer of the Commonwealth Salvage Board, who salvaged the bullion fortune from the sunken Niagara last year.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 June 1943, Page 3
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161GREAT SALVAGE FEAT Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 June 1943, Page 3
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