Working for a Salvage Co 1970

During 1970 we were asked by a scrap metal company to work for them for a period of a month, working wrecks laid off the East Coast of Yorkshire, they wanted to salvage, anchor chains, anchors, boilers, prop shafts, condensers, and non-ferrous materials.
We first started working the HMS FALMOUTH light cruiser, sank on 19th August 1916, by the U-BOAT U-66.
The torpedo tubes,turbines,weir pumps were salvaged, then the ship moved to various other wrecks in the area, salvaging props, chains etc.
This was a good period for us to learn about explosives, and salvage methods.


		click here to play sound During 1970 we were asked by a scrap metal company to work for them for a period of a month, working wrecks laid off the East Coast of Yorkshire, they wanted to salvage, anchor chains, anchors, boilers, prop shafts, condensers, and non-ferrous materials. We first started working the HMS FALMOUTH light cruiser, sank on 19th August 1916, by the U-BOAT U-66. The torpedo tubes,turbines,weir pumps were salvaged, then the ship moved to various other wrecks in the area, salvaging props, chains etc. This was a good period for us to learn about explosives, and salvage methods.



		Eddie Kirkpatrick on deck of "DORINDA" Lifting shaft from a wreck						Ex Grimsby Fishing side-winder (MFV "DORINDA")which was used by the Salvage Company Ready to dive on the "FALMOUTH"





		Peter Foney Hunt was a ex safecracker who convinced scrap metal merchants to invest money to buy a ex trawler, to carry out salvage work in the North Sea. We worked for him for a couple of months						Just lifted shaft, just trying it out with a sledge hammer Pete pacing the deck area



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