Eddie Kirkpatricks Diving and Family Pages
Working for a Salvage Co 1970













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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.





























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Eddie Kirkpatrick on deck of "DORINDA"







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Lifting shaft from a wreck
















Ex Grimsby Fishing side-winder (MFV "DORINDA")which was used by the Salvage Company







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Ready to dive on the "FALMOUTH"








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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







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Just lifted shaft, just trying it out with a sledge hammer







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Pete pacing the deck area
































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