Salvage operations are still being carried out on H. M. S, Dauntless, which ran aground on the Tribune Shoals, inside the entrance of the harbour, on July 2, and it la now: hoped that the cruiser may be refloated and repaired in a local drydock.
Salvage vessels are removing guns] and other armament, while efforts fare being made with air compressors to pump oyt the flooded compart. ments of the cruiser.
Boats are standing by to take off the fifty officers and men still on board if the weather threatens a complete breaking up of the ship.
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