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SALVAGE AND DIVING WORK.
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The Salvage-Steamer the Neptune.
Since its formation, the company has saved: 4 iron-clads, 1 torpedo-boat,
101 large steamers, 127 coasting and passenger steamers, 448 sailing vessels,
> dredging machines, 1 lightship, 1 pilot steamer and 1 pontondock and 881
niscellaneous, cargoes, rigging, etc., or in all 1,989 successful salvage operations,
he goods thus saved representing, in their damaged condition after salvage, a total
alue of 131,539,000 kronor. Among the above operations the following may be
pecially mentioned: the English steamer the »Easington», in 1899, in the
neigh-ourhood of Constantinople; the English steamer the »Coningsby», in 1890, near
’ape Finisterre; the German emigrant steamer the »Eider», in 1892, off the coast of
be Isle of Wight, in the British Channel (a particularly fine performance); H.
1. S. the »Howe», a British iron-clad, in 1893, off Ferrol, an achievement that
ained the Company a worldwide celebrity, and obtained for them and their
mployees superlative praise from the British Admiralty. The salvage of the
English steamers the »Willysike» in 1898, off the Canary Islands, and the »China»,
i the same year, in the Red Sea, were also very notable performances.
During recent years efforts have been made in Sweden to find a means of
orking at a greater depth than formerly, when 30 meters was the deepest to
hich a diver could descend. Deserving of special notice here is the Waller
nube, a diving-apparatus constructed in 1895 by a Swedish engineer P. A. Waller,
t consists of a sheet-iron tube in several sections fastened together; towards the
ottom it widens out so as there to form a fairly roomy compartment for
work-lg in, the instrumental equipment of which is of ingenious construction. Passing
irough the working room are, on tjie one hand, vertical iron bars, which are
lovable up and down through hermetically closed apertures and capable of being
lrned into various positions from inside the chamber, and, on the other,
instru-lents that are made to project horizontally by means of wall-bearings and which
in be moved in and out through the walls of the tube from inside and can be
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