. Marine Engineer . h the water in the boiler will a! sel should prove a valuable asset to Shanghais fire-fighting plant. 128 THE MARINE ENGINEER AND NAVAL ARCHITECT. November i, 1907. THE SALVAGE OF THE TWIN-SCREWWHITE STAR LINER SUEVIC. BY the time these lines are in print an unique featin salvage and shipbuilding combined will havebeen almost completed in connection with theabove vessel, and in the present short article we pur-pose giving a description, illustrated by actual photo-graphs of this work, showing the magnitude of the Suevic was originally launched at Belfast on the 8thDecemb
. Marine Engineer . h the water in the boiler will a! sel should prove a valuable asset to Shanghais fire-fighting plant. 128 THE MARINE ENGINEER AND NAVAL ARCHITECT. November i, 1907. THE SALVAGE OF THE TWIN-SCREWWHITE STAR LINER SUEVIC. BY the time these lines are in print an unique featin salvage and shipbuilding combined will havebeen almost completed in connection with theabove vessel, and in the present short article we pur-pose giving a description, illustrated by actual photo-graphs of this work, showing the magnitude of the Suevic was originally launched at Belfast on the 8thDecember, 1900. On her last homeward voyage the Suevic ran ashoreon the Stag Rock at the Lizard, on the Cornish occurred on the 17th March last during a densefog. As is well known, the Stag Rock is one of themost, if not the most, dangerous place round theBritish Isles, and it was considered by the majorityof experts that the vessel would be a total loss. Ourphotograph shows the position the vessel was then in,. After-portion of the Suevic in the Trafalgar Dock, Southampton. task which faced the Salvage Association and theshipbuilders. rhe photograpl <\ the period from the strand-ing 1 in . I to the arrival of the new bow atSi in hampti in. Suevic, a n crew steamei I 12,500 tons,of five vi 1 Is specially de 1 tied and builtfo b \\ hite St,11 Australian trade b) MiI! [& Wolff, oi Belfast. She was 550-2 ft. I beam, and 1 ft. deep. The 1 ithi 1 fouiwere the Afrit a Persii and Runic. Th< from which her serious position will be easibj gathered. The forward portion was immovably wedged onthe rocks, but alter examination by the owners andbuilders, together with the Liverpool Salvage Asso-ciation, it was decided to commence salvage operaticmswith a view of salving the greatei portion of the«1, and, to effect this, to sevei the two portions bythe aid of dynamite and gelignite. Our second photograph distinctly shows where it de< ided to sever the vessel, and is marked at t
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