A. wonderful piece of wreck salvage has been effected in
the case of the 'Suevic,' the liner which ran ashore in the fog near the Lizard nearly three weeks ago. As it was impossible to get the whole vessel off the rocks, dynamite was employed to cut her in two, and on Tuesday morning at the top of the tide powerful tugs, aided by the Suevio's ' own engines, succeeded in floating three-quarters of the hull, which was then towed off to Southampton, where she arrived on Thursday. Modern methods of naval construction render feasible the building-on of a new forepart, and the return of the Snevie ' to active service is now only a question of time. The fine weather of the last fortnight greatly facilitated the operations, but in any case the salvage of the • Suevic,' as Mr. Bullen notes in a striking account in Wednesday's Daily Mail, has made a record in salvage work under modern conditions.
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