The wonders of salvage

With eyes gazing fixedly ahead, the man, tense and alert, sought to penetrate the blackness. Squalls of rain swept down and lashed his face, the flying spume of spray shot up to...

From earliest years our imaginations are fired by the mere mention of treasure. Who has not heard of that fabulous treasure of the bloodthirsty pirate, Captain Kidd, whose booty...

Whatever doubts there be about the treasure of Tobermory, there can be none about the treasure of the _Lutine_, for official records prove that when she came to grief she must h...

Without the diver, treasure-hunting beneath the waves would be impossible. The salvage expert may make the most brilliant plans, collect the most up-to-date and scientific plant...

It was in 1891 that the steamship _Skyro_ pulled out of the port of Cartagena, in southern Spain, and set her course for London. The coast of Spain glided by as she proceeded th...

For months at a time during the past few years, a little ship may have been seen floating around a particular spot just off the coast of Donegal. Barges lay in her vicinity, bar...

British salvage experts have performed extraordinary feats; the American Navy has produced divers excelling even our own; but it has been left to the Italians to accomplish the...

Before the Great War the number of concerns specializing in salvage work were so few that probably all could be numbered on the fingers of both hands. Sweden had a fine salvage...

During the days of the fateful German submarine campaign, the divers of the Admiralty Salvage Section played their part in many a drama, ferreting out clues of vital importance,...

Although we live in an enlightened age, superstition is still rife, and not many people would care to dive for the first time in a submarine bearing the unlucky number 13. Yet i...

Quite as thrilling as the experience of the men who went down in the K.13 was the adventure which befell the crew of an American submarine, the S.5, and it is doubtful if any po...

The resources of the salvage experts in fighting for the life of a ship are amazing. They will cheerfully run the gravest risks, do the most extraordinary things to get her into...

Of the many remarkable salvage feats performed during the war, that concerning the s.s. _Araby_ is of more than passing interest. Driven ashore on the French coast on December 2...

A ship cast ashore always reminds me of a hospital ward and the men and women who are deprived by illness of the power to carry on the struggle of life. The ship, too, is a crip...

There have been few pluckier fights for a ship than that waged over a great, camouflaged merchantman torpedoed by the Germans off the Cornish coast during the war. She was badly...