Great many floundered vessels around Britain's coasts have been refloated and towed into harbor, but rest are beyond repair and are being disintegrated with high explosives to clear sea routes; though work of refloating wrecks is practically complete, there are still some 500 wrecks to be dispersed; war time technique; between Sept 1939 and Dec 1944 salvage and rescue tug service saved more than 5, 000,000 tons of merchant shipping.
Five million tons salvaged
Pac Mar Rev
Pacific Marine Review ; 64 , n 3
1947
Article (Journal)
English
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