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ENGINEERING PAGE HOW MARINE SALVAGE IS
AIDING INDUSTRY
By A.F. TINSLEY
|_The_well-organised salvage of stool scrap from obsolete or wrocked chips in various parts of the world is playing just as important a part in Britain's post-war industrial reconstruction as this operation did in the fight to win tho
wor:
Steel scrap, which is recognised as the finest quality scrap obtainable, is vitally, needed to help in- dustrial production, and approxima ely 400,- 000 tons of marine steel scrap is now annually reaching the foundries of Britain from obsolete naval and merchant craft in ship-breaking yards, or from merchantmen which are often broken up at the spot where they have been wrecked.
In
Long-Range Ship
To Shore Radio
By VERNON BROWN
This is the story of 10,000,000 words... Over wavebands ranging fax the Equator to the Arctic, from the Caribbean to Aden, these words will be flooding during this year to a new rodio nerve centre at Burnham-on-Sea, With this on the West Coast of England.
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giant voice ships everywhere can speak to their homeland; can send a message, if need be, within a few minutes to the most isolated ham- let.
This highly important work of,tain, and it is hoped that vihees salvage is carried out by the Bri- can also be brought back.
block ships tish Iron and Steel Corporation Scapa Flow, other (Savage) Lul, extablished In are being dealt with. Where pos
to Inciliate the sible they are being refloated to All types of message pass direct telprinter line flashes re- 1940, In order
radlo gular weather reports from ships recovery of ferrous scrap from Lacilitate the Bnal breaking up through this ship-to-share marine sources. The Corpora- process. So far three have been
estation- fire at sea, a changed at sea to the melorological fore- reacating is position owing
to bad weather, casting office at Dunstable, in the tion operates directly underrätsed, but the Iron and Steel Control of impossible, the ships are broken the birth of a son to a member of South of England, upon which the
up where they lie, by oxy-acety- the Ministry of Supply.
Britain which
where
Valuable Fittings
Recovered
ship's crew.
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daily prophecy of coming weather In taking pride in this new is basert.
not Co-operating with Burnham in achievement, the British do
phrases, the world-wide communications have to use their own
radio stations int Postmaster General network are As Britain's
our American Halifax, Nova Scotin; Vancouver; snys: "Some of Not only ferrous scrap comes
Ceylon; Capetown; Burnham Singapore: Such non- friends have seen the from ship salvage.
they
Wellington, New 897 Prince's Bldg, Sydney and enn and admitted they farrous metals as brass, copper, Radio manganese and bronze are re-teach us nothing about long dis-Zealand How do these
unication."the pattern? covered and sold to brass found- ries: cast-iron from ships engine beds is retrieved for Britain's iron
The Corporation is the oficial lene torches and explosives. organisation in purchases for the Gov
Goverument Ships que for breaking up and their allocation to various ship- breaking firms. The Corporation also supervises the dismantling et the vessels, the sale of the raw materials oblalged, And deal with all matters concerning the ship once she is condemned for scrup.
It operates Its own fleet of salvoge vessels, whose numerous Jobs include the highly-skilled operation of dismantling a wreck where it lies under dimcult and uften hazardous conditions.
Scrapping Programme Thic Corporation was callesi the special to deal with upon naval scrapping programme an- nouncel in 1948, which is now well advanced, which included the battleships Ramilles. Resulu- 1lon, Rodney at:ct Mulayu, as well as cruisers, destroyers and other
craft.
foundries: and other valuatule
ships Attings such as machinery, main bollers, and shaffing are recovered and sokl. Tak from the decks, and other timber, is
How It Works
it into
1 1'001-
tance ship-shore communication.
The new Burnhams station, an extension and improvement of the old опс, which has just closest
to Let us assume that down after 25 years service shipping, has 13 separate trans- telegram is handed in at Uristel. frequency. Enginnd, for a ship in the Indun mitters-eight high four medium frequency and one Ocean. It is sent over the lotut How
The service given line to Burnham. The index there frequency. by Ave transmitters working in quickly shows the ship's position, the high frequency band, how- and the telegram is radioed over doubled by the direct radio link to the "area", ever, is practically
on
also sold for re-use.
The war work of the Corpora- tion was as colourful as it was important. Government wartime priorities for operational purposes "Diplex" working, which enables station, nearest the ship-in this
be sent
thence to the Corporation's ag- two messages to
case, Ceylon-and provented the
ол each ship itself. In the reverse direc- quisition of specially-constructed separate frequencies
complete transmitter at the same time. tion, a ship may send her mes
sage direct to Burnham or park and equipped vessels
it on to any of the other seven High Frequency
brea stations tu sent to Burnham Operation
via the British Adriralty 1TC Wintchall.
with the variety of gear necessary for salvage work. Instead, second-hand ships hat to be ob tained and adapted for the in- cult work.
fleet of twenty salvage vus-
Refloating Giant Liner
At the receiving room
there
During the past two-and-a-half
Burnham was a pioneer station years 1,200,000 gross or displace-
sels was formed, and some 100 are 32 operating positions, nearly inent ions of obsolete flouting ves-
wrecks were dealt with between all of which are for high free when it opened in 1925, dealing sels have been scrapped, or are 1940 and September, 1945, which
quency operation. The equipment with only a few thousand words your. It is u ploneer still, Is modern. There are even re- in the process of belog broken
and though today.It can exchange onl
60,000 words with the up, the equivalent of a total af Produced more than 250,000 tons
of ferrous serap alone-sufficient ceptacles to inke tea cups and 900,000 tons of steel scrap. This
оп опр курде for the construction of 33 carnosaucers so as not to interfere with
At tea- Queen Elizabeth dealt does not include wrecks
ulone. passenger liners of 10,000 tons the operator's working with as scrap.
time. Each position has its own each.
There have been, many im. Since the war the Corporation's
morse key, aerial selector switch,
in normal activities have been mainly con
control panel, and gear for comprovements recently
equipment. ship-to-shore. radio corned with vessels in waters During the war the Corporation munication between operators.The United Kingdom Government
Six of the high frequency The round Britain and comparatively tackled the biggest salvage job ucarby waters, but its scope is ever carried out in Britain, the operating positions are known as has produced a new specification These enable for ships radio installations, and being extended, and it its now reflonting of the 86,000-ton liner, "search points".
now working
Malta, from which it hoped to
the "Caledonia" and bouds and pass on any calls heard on the designs.
By a link system any telephone recover aubstantial quantiles of into a naval training ship, to other operaturs.
Britain caitring steel scrup). Vessel have
been
With the apparatus now in use, subscriber in becue stranded in the Firth of towed to Britain from European Forth following a fire on board. record speeds in delivery of mes-up a trawler, for example, merely waters. Including the Mediterran- The refloating necessitated, among sages are being achieved. There by giving the name of the vestul.
for seropping, and it is pps- CAD
other things, the closing of 1,800 is a teleprinter service to every The last Offee locates the ship communication is usually. office in the United and sic that that Corporation may porthales blow the water line. large
The Corporation's activities extend its operations still further
Kingston. The station can talk to established within a few hours have not been limited to the re-over 5,000 British merchant ships or less. The Post Onco la res- afield.
Important work on wrecks covery of ships: cargoes, too, so that, say, the master of a ponable for the shore organisa-
con tion S
It is the responsibility of incapable of movement are have been salvaged on a conal- trawler in the White Sea
the so called, although the derable scale, so that, in addition have a metage delivered to his the shipowners to may not necessarily have gone to
to the scrap metals obialued, en-home In England within half-radio equipment on board.
the origina! The opening of cargoes un-hour. on the rocks, struck a reef, orgines, equipment and
of ships The-courses-
radio station provide Burahum become suck in the mudhaa valued at over £1,000,000 were
for on a world would-wide communication been carried out by the Corpora salvaged during the war-includ- nations or plotted tion since the WBI
ing, on one occasion, a cargo of map, with an area of 420 square chips for the first time. During
feet, hung on the Block ships sunk in French live bulle!
wall of the 2048 more than 334,400 massages: from ships by water for the D-Day operations, Must wreeks are very difficult alation. Within two minutes the ware received
last cunst stations. The 741,500 radilo cach averaging a yield of between to get at, but sometimes Nature oficials here can tell the 3,000 and 4,000 tons of raw ma- herself takes a hand and helps message" position of any one of telegrams totalled over 1,700,000 words. There were 10,520 radio- lerials suitable for the steel furto simplify the salvage job. Dur 10,000 vessels, naces, have been salvaged anding the war, for instance, small The job done here range from telephone calls, and 874 messages have produced nearly 50,000 tons vessel thrown high and dry upon "distress listening to accepting from aircraft: Last year, too, the the Lancashire coast came to rest messages from ship for hotel re-coastal stations dealt with 281- birthday
and 252 medical She Bervations,
greetings distress calls close by a railway siding,
Д messages from ships 'at se was carted away easlly-by rail and business, deals. Agpin,
ving wrecked shipping at eich having been operators to monitor the shipping manufacturers bra
often
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