'The bottom of the big white liner is badly. scraped, battered and holed places bythe' rocks on which lies. All the cargo in No. 3
One of the more interesting aids refloating the ship was the use of Box-like. vessels filled with air at tached tothe sides of the ship "at the surface of the water. As the tide rises, the alr-lied vessels also tend to. buoy up the Conte Verde. while salvage (igs pull for all they are worth.
About 7,000,000 lire had Just been spent on extensive impro the Conte Verde. A perm: pool was. Installed in the: ship and many of her cabins and public rooms were improved, during this summer in Healy.
'The 18705-ton Conte fouitt' at Glasgow in 1023 [Compagnia dlalia and. for many. years she. ran between Genoa and Buenos Aires. After being placed fon the Genoa-New York rin ime, she made her maiden ti the Orient lid Shanghat in 1833.
The Conte Verde boasts nf having! been the first ip im the Far East equipped jettisoned by the Inflow of water and {radio-telephone set
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