Methods and Examples of Shipping Salvage in 1903
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Title : Ships and their Saviours in 1903
Author : Richard Colman
Source : Royal Magazine
Year Published : 1903
Page Count : 8
Image Count : 16
Word Count : 3,330
File Size in MB : 5.64
File Type : PDF
"Very drastic means are necessary to recover a ship under certain circumstances. A very fine ship was the Milwaukee, wrecked on Cruden Scars, Aberdeenshire, in 1898. Impaled upon a huge sharp pointed rock, it was impossible to move her by any of the usual means. A charge of dynamite was put into her, and she was blown into two sections, which were floated separately, and subsequently rejoined. When it is not possible to save the ship.."
