After five months of dimeulties the last of the wreck of the Shawshing, which sank within 80 feet of Hunt's Wharf following a collision with tre] Wan Hsiang on March 4, was raised on Tuesday (Oct, 2). The work which has been in the hands of the Eastern Salvage Company took slightly longer} than originally anticipated due to the excessive siltage in this part of the river, which made the work 1%- creasingly dificult.
Mr. M. L. Rubin, representative of the Far Eastern Salvage Com. any, who has been in charge of the Salvage operations, told the "Nort China Herald" that most of the gross tonnage of the vessel was taken from the river in the frst three months. The remaining portion proved more difficult to remove than anticipated. Before—dynamite charges could be laid, the accumul. ated mud had to be pumped out 'o ensure that the charges were direct contact with the iron. Aga fragments of scrap iron, which were blown off separately by explosions, slowed up the work as these isolated pieces had each to be removed independently. Nevertheless, Mr. Ru bin considered that the time taken for removing the wreck is a record for China waters.
The Far Eastern Salvage Company have now successfully raised. five vessels, which have sunk in the Whangpoo Channel and the Yangtze They raised the Ho An, Kittawa, and also removed the wrecks of tu: Pamiat Lenina at Nanking and che Ta Hsi at Tungchow.
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