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RADIO SUNK SHIPS THAT PLY
12.15 p.m.Short Service of Interces-
sjon.
His
12.30 p.m.-Benny Goodman · and
Orchestra. Fox-Trots-Roll 'Em; Afraid to Dream (Alm 'You can't have every- thing'): I Cried. for You; Memories of You;
Rosc Soft Winds:
of Washington Square; And the Angels ing: ' Always Be In Love With You Make Believe.
1.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal and Pro-
gramme.
London. Palladium and Jensio Matthews
1.02 p.m. - The
Orchestra
(Vooni).
'The Druid's Prayer-Wallz (Davson); (Joyce)....The Dreaming Waltz
London Palladium Orchestra, Say The Word and It's Yours (from 'First a Girl')....Jessic Matthews (Vocal) with Orchestra. Wedded Whimales (Humorous Fan-
tasy-arr
Alford)....The
Palladium Orchestra. Everything's In Rhythm
London
with
THE SEVEN SEAS
WHEN ENEMY SUBMARINES score a record week against our shipping, we read about it. But we hear little about the immerise tonnage of our shipping which is being brought up from the sea bottom.
In peacetime our Government-unlike some" others-does not support a national salvage service. Its Salvage Section lies dormant between two wars.
Hence the pre-war dominance, blow-lamps that burn under of German, Italian, and Dutch water, and then bolting hunks of My companies which used to work intimber across the hole-but one
our waters. The Admiralty faced which is often done. an immense task in rebuilding its Often, too, hundreds of open Salvage Section in September, portholes must be closed before 1939.
the ship can be pumped dry.
Heart: The Little Silkworm (both from First Girl')........Jessie Mat- thews (Vocal) with Orchestra. The Little Dog Laughed-Selection... The London Palladium Orchestra.
1.30 p.m.-Reuter & Rugby Press and
Announcements,
1.45 p.m.-Florence Desmond in Variety. VocalMar Time (im 'Gay Loye'); Monologue--A British Mother's Big Flight (Streamline'---A. P. Herbert)
Florence Desmond
Cinema Organ-Eric Coates Medley
Sydney Gustard. Comedian --Orange Peel-A Comedy
"Ode: The Tale of Hector Cramp
י.
Like Diving-Bell
It has succeeded admirably. Already a large number of ships sunk around our coasts have
Often a ship which has turned been salved. Ranging from smal! coasters to large
of turtle and sunk "bottoms up" can Vessels liner tonnage, their total value be raised more easily by cutting hull, attaching air with cargo was £11,000,000 of holes in her which ships represented pipes, and pumping the hull ful! £6,000,000 and cargo £5,000,- of air so that it rises like a div- 000.
ing-bell.
Much harder to raise is the ship
sinks
on
even keel so that her decks, with their
Scores
torpedoed, mined, doors, ventilators and innumer- and just plain "sunkable openings, are below water. bombed hulls have been raised, towed to Obviously she cannot be pumped port, repaired, sometimes re-dry as she is.
Such a case was the 10,000-ton liner Canada, sunk by engined, and are now sailing once more. Valuable cargoes of food, Danish fuels, machinery, cement, timber, mines last year in the North Sea. and general goods have been res-The North-east Salvage unit were all ready to use the coffer dam cued.
method.
A Comedy "Ode". .Cyril Flet £50,000,000 Salvaged
cher The Utterly Refained Enter- tainer')
Piano Charlie Kunz Plano Medley, No D 43-Intro: Goodnight again; When the Blackbird says Bye Bye: Ferryboat Serenade; Trade Winds;
Our love affair: Maybe... Charle
Kunz
Vocal--She Had To Go and Lose It AI The Astor 1 Doe-Donques),... Flurence Desmond with Orchestra.
2.15 p.m.-Close down
8.00 p.m.-Indian Programme.
6.45 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-
Bions.
6.47 p.m.-Bartok-Quartet No. 2 in A
Minor, Op. 17.
1st Muv: Moderato; 2nd Mov: Allegro molto capricioso; 3rd Mov: Lento
The Budapest String Quartet.
from 7.20 p.m.Excerpts
Act 17 01 Mozart's "The Magic Flute". Singers in order of
Scheppan.
Marherr,
gl
which
an
During the last war a total of
This involves building a strong 500 ships was dealt with of a total value of £50,000,000 and moderately watertight “wali (£5,000,000 of it In bar gold of heavy timbers around the up- taken from the torpedoed per-works so that all openings are This "dam" Laurentic sunk deep in stormy enclosed within it.
hull below can eas off Ireland). This time the and the flooded Salvage Section, armed with then be pumped dry enough for
the ship to lift, new scientific apparatus, Is cap. able of even greater figures, if unfortunately they should
necessary.
be
Heavy liners have been success- fully raised by this method, and so would the Canada have been
At present the salvage men are had her cargo of soya beans not appearance: concentrating on wrecks lying in swollen in the water until it burst not, open her steel plates and left her water with Berglund. fairly shallow
a total wreck.
them. Each
Husch. Roswaenge. Tessmer, more than 30 feet of water over Berger.
Bellke, Spletter, Lemnitz,
has salvage job Wonnel and Chorus with the Phil-
individually and to be studied harmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham
special methods evolved. are few rules.
7.45 p.m.-Violin Solos by Yehudi
Menuhin.
Legende, Op 17 (Wieniawski)
with
There
New Bows Fitted
Orchestre
Des Concerts Colonne
In many cases a sunken ship cond, by Georges Enesco. Minstrels Debussy): Flight of the can be raised without disturbing
Heavy Cargoes
Heavy cargoes have sometimes to be lifted from sunken ships before they can be made buoyant. The hardest to unload is the ship with her holds well under water. Then divers may have to toil for
Bumble-Bee (Rimsky-Korsakov). its cargo, towed into dock, dis-weeks fastening hoist-cables to Danse Espagnole (La Vida Breve' charged
De Falla).
8.00 p.m.-London Relay-The News. 8.15 p.m.London Relay "Questions
of the Hour", 8.30 p.m. - London
Relay
9.02 p.m.-Patricia Rossborough at the
Piano.
China Doll Parade (Zamecnik), 52nd Street-Selection.
for and repaired
sca
a
bars of steel or heavy machinery again. It is astounding what the so that cranes on the salvage ship
alongside may empty the holds. the dockyards can do with
When a ship is so badly knock- battered hull.
Ships blown clean in half haveed about that no amount of patch- Special
will lift her, joined togethering and pumping Broadcast to the British Forces in been raised and
again. the Far East,
Ships with their bows main force has to be used. Huge pontoons-cylindrical tanks 9.00 p.m.-Locul Time Signal, Pro blown off have been fitted with steel
gramme Summary and Announce-
new ones, and on one occasion which can be flooded and blown on either side of ments.
during the last war the stern half dry-are sunk of one destroyer was joined to the the wreck.
Divers burrow below the sun- bow half of her sister ship.
But even a ship which is ob-ken hull with "hose guns" pow- You're All I Need (film Escapade').viously too blasted for repair is ered by high-pressure water jets, In the Middle of a Kiss (film The now worth raising for the scrap and pass steel cables underneath
Clock Strikes Eight').
value of its metal. 9.15 p.m.-The Orchestra Mascotte and
Simplest case for the salvage Lucienna Bover (Vocal). Woodland Whispers-Waltz (Joost): men is the wreck with its deck The Flowers-Waltz (Waldtcutel); above water, Its hull not too badly Parlez-Mol D'Amour (Lenoir)... torn and its bulkheads intact: Lucienne Boyer (Vocal) with Orch. It may be necessary to patch Happened In Vienna Waltz the hull before the ship will lift. (Muhr); Castanets-Waltz (Rich No simple job this for the divers artz)....Orchestra Mascotte. Landerirette (Jamblan & Delettre);-cutting away the jagged edges
Ballade (Jamblan & Delettre)....of a forty-foot torpedo gash with gether to dock. Lucienne Bover (Vocal) with Orch. Tidings of
It
Spring-Waltz (Ebèrle);
Valse Basque (Wiltmann) Orchestra Mascotle.
9.43 p.m.-Local Sports Results.
9.45.10 00 p.m.-News in French (on
Short Wave only).
9.45 p.m.-Magyari Imre and His
Hungarian Gypsy Orchestra." Hungarian Czardas Dance.
Hungarian Quick Czardas Dances-
Potpourri.
Blue Cornflower (Kadan)
Tik Tak Tik Tak Ut Az Ora; Leanyok
Legenvek....with. Kalmar
(Vocal).
Pa
You Can't Forbid A Flower: The
Sleeves of My Jacket aro Tied Un 10.00 p.m.-London Relay The Now!
and Nowa. Summary. 10.16 p.m.-Dance Music.
Fox-Trot-Oh Johnny. Oh Johnny, Oh ....Orrin Tucker & his. Orchestra. Fox-Trots--The Last Time I Saw Paris: What Makes A Song........Leo Rélamin & his Orchestra. Tango So Blue the Skien... Maxwell
Stewart's Ballroom Melody, Fox-Tro's-It's 'Sad, But True: Varia- tions in G....Joe Reichman & his
Orchestra. Double or Quickstep-Smarty (film:
: nothinit?): Slow, Fox-Trot-Little Heaven of the Seven Seas..... Victor
·Silvester & his Ballroom Orchestra. "Tox-Trot-Simpatien: Amarista (both from Sim. They. Met in Argentina') ...Leo Reisman & his Orchestra. Pasadobia Alfonso; Romba-Caram
ba....Telada, & his Orchestrand Fox-Trot-Shaka. Down the Stars: Waltz I'll Be Waiting for Your Oscar Robin & his Band, za kval 11.00 p.m.LondonRolay 'Happi-
drome"... | 12.00 midnight-Close down.
So
cradle.
lifting
a sort of us to form These are attached to the pon- toons, which are then pumped dry by air-compressors. Their buoy- ancy-each can lift. 1,000 tons or the wreck, cargo, more-drags water and all to the surface, and pontoons and wreck are towed to-
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