A dramatic account of how the three deep sea divers had been rushed from Scapa Flow by fast motorboats, ears and aeroplanes, was given by Mr, Thomas Mackendie. their chief, who has been engaged for fourteen years in raising the sunken German feet.
He was working on the German battleship Derilinger at that time, he explained, and immediately offered his services to Messrs. Cammell Laird, the builders of the Thetis.
They first said that every "one aboard was safe, but later he was told that the situation was desperate, and the Admiralty accepted his offer.
Two divers were at the time working 23 fathoms below the surface. ordered them up, they removed their
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