Lug Refloated in Record Time of 49 Days Forty-nine days after being rammed and sunk by the Chinese cadet ship Ping An opposite the Shanghai Hongkew Wharf Company's Pootung wharves, the tug St. Aubin on Aug. 22 was dry-dock in the Shanghai Dockyards. Mr. J. K. Bayford, of the Eastern Salve undertook to raise the tug, was 41 ays ahead of Ils contract, inasmuch he had been given three months in which to accomplish this part of the work.
On the former occasion when the St. Aubin sank to the bottom of the Whangpoo, "the salvage operations took a total of six months and seventeen days. On that job, the tug was brought to the surface by having patch placed over the hull, and the water pumped out with the mud that had accumulated, whereupon she floated high enough to be towed to, dock.
This time, however, cables were slung' under the hull attached to three special lighters alongside. With the full moon and the corresponding extra high tides, it was found possible to lift her clear of the Dotto with her weight held by the lighters. She was then towed across: the river where she remained for 26 days before being put into dock.
Her hull was patched during this period, and the water pumped out, She rose then of her own accord and. was then towed Into the dock, An examination of the bull showed that the gash made by the collision was comparatively small, From this frst brief examination it is believed that she can be recommissioned without great diMeulty. Her engines fare still in good order.
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