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■582 ix. shipping and navigation.
hydraulic jacks, lifting 100 tons each, and a number of sea-going hulks with
steam cranes, sea-going barges with hoisting cranes, submarine rock-blasting and
rock-boring apparatus, tackle, and so forth.
The Salvage-Steamer the Neptun.
Since its formation, the Company has salved 4 ironclads, 2 destroyers, 1
cruiser, 1 submarine, 1 torpedo-boat, and 1 371 steamships and sailing-ships, 4
dredgers, 1 lightship, and 1 366 cargoes, riggings, and other sundries.
Altogether 7 008 successful salvage operations have been carried out, representing
in value after the salvage, and in allowing for the damaged condition of the
objects rescued, an aggregate of 181 423 000 kronor. Notable cases of wrecks
raised by the Neptun Company are those of the Easington in 1889 near
Constantinople, of the Coningsby, a British steamer, in 1890 near Cape Finisterre, of
Eider, a German emigrant, in 1892 off the Isle of Whight (a brilliant
achievement), of the Howe, a British ironclad, in 1893 off Ferrol, a world-renowned
achievement which elicited from the British Admiralty the most lavish
encomiums on the Company and its officials. The Company also achieved great
notoriety by its raising of the Willysike, a British steamer, in 1898 off the Canary
island, of the China, likewise a British steamer, in the same year off Perim
in the Red Sea, of the Chile, a French steamer, in 1903 off Bordeaux, of the
Cyclops, a British steamer, in 1910 in the Red Sea, and of the Minehaha in
the same year off the Scilly islands. A remarkable instance of a wreck having
been raised from a considerable depth is that of the steamer Bore, which in
1901 sank off Kapelskär north of Furusund at a depth of 35 meters, and in
the teeth of enormous difficulties was brought up to the surface. Many other
difficult cases of wreck-raising were successfully tackled by the Neptun Company,
as for example that of a pontoon dock which in 1901 sank off Dar-es-Salem on
the east coast of Africa, the British submarine AI which foundered in 1904
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