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Shopkeepers

the first record-

by.

ed. date of the SPITHEAD

beginning

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be more or less

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in

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Cope, 1600 by Frutek konturi uzmesnate, tas,

"Her fiance leaves her here when he's out of town!"

BEATING

NAZIS DIVING

THE IN SUITS

Europe the port THE tanker Inverlane, or what half of her engine-room, 201t. deep was left of her, lay fast on in water, with loose pipes clanking as the swell washed in and out. A During that year a watcher became a centre for attack; even in on the foreshore would have those early days it was recognised the bottom two miles from few hundred yards away lay the.

power which conquered shore. The torpedo had sheared, other half, a mess of plates and pro- two tiny galleys sailing Britain's navy would command the off her stern, leaving the engine- pellers and machinery just showing.

above the water. over the rim of the Channel Channel and its trade. The port was room jaggedly open to the sea.

"Lucky the bulkheads held," said THE pratx "ápecial to the Talegraph”

the pu is used by the Hongkong Telegraph'horizon and eventually landing attacked, burned and sacked five Her bottom plates were split so

pumpman with me, "or we'd have ÁƑ indicate we which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommunion the shores of the harbour. times in a hundred and twenty years. that the water had risen in her had a devil of a job raising her.

more great tanks, which still held it is, it won't be so hard. Come and bears the Indiendon "up" is receivea They wore commanded by Porth It was not till 1445 that a

The load they had opened up the Hongkong on the date of pubication by and his two sons, Bieda and friendly atmosphere reigned, and 1,500 tons of heavy oil,

peace eventually established through high tide washed her main deck, heavy steel covers to the great oil serve all rights and forbid republication, Maegin, who founded the settle the marriage of the French Princess Her steel super-structure was tanks, lowered pipes, fixed the steam ment called Portes Mutha, or Margaret of Anjou, who landed. at twisted fantastically by fire. and air pumps, and already a stream

Fortshouth, with King Henry VI.

"Pretty, ch?" said the Admiralty of black oli, Portsmouth.

oli, looking like benvy Salvage officer with uniform buried. treacle, was cascading from two noz- Fortifications of the port were under two boller suits, who led me zles to the open bowels of the strengthened and the dockyard more silmed decks. "Just a hulk to be

skiddingly round the Inverlane's oil- hepper alongside,

"The hopper'll take 500 tons at n Armly established during the reign

normal times. But now, well three days. Then we'll just seal off Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, culted ROMAN galleys had discovered of Queen Elizabeth when Briinin's blown up as a danger to navigation time, so we should get the lot off it sea-power showed remarkable pro that off will be in storage ashore in the tanks, blow them up with com- the harbour long before this gress. The navy continued to prosper a few days, and by the time your pressed air, and tow her in."

article appears the Inverlane will be nation of shopkeepers," He had rea-time, sailing to its upper reaches and many of the largest war vessels son for his rage. His invincible and establishing themselves at were built in the dockyard. During

was. Aenting" In the tanks or armies and inspired marshals had Porchester where they built a the eighteenth and nineteenth cen-

fit a new stern to her and send her the sen-water which

As turles Portsmouth played a major to sea again. Anyway, she won't be through the split bottom plates. rolled at his feet the crowns of Ger- castle and fort which stands part in building ships which fald the wasted, even if she goes for steel the oil was pumped off, sea water rose in its pince, until eventually it many, Spain, Italy, and Austria, Sub-well preserved to-day.

foundations of the Commonwealth, scrap."

I had gone up to servient deputies had set on his brow

Britain attained mastery of the seas through the gallantry of Admiral East section of the watch the North- the crown of France, but between him and what was in effect world

Lord Nelson at Trafalgar, and has Admiralty Salvage domination stood-just a nation of shopkeepers in a foggy, grey island cords that Carausuls, a Belgic sea- of peaceful progress amongst the

mon, arrived in Spithead with a fleet nations of the earth. across the Channel.

EUROPE'S carlier Hiller, the

us, in the bitter anger of defeat, "a

To-day the page of history turns, and as Hitler stares out across a trembling world he sees once more the nation of shopkeepers putting their shop in order.

In the third and fourth centuries the harbour attracted ships belong- ing-to-races-inhabiting the shore.

in dry dock and the construction chaps THE oil cargo, lighter than water will be deciding whether they can

by

had come in

would replace the ollThe next move would be to allach air-pipes to The -closed-tank-

neross the Channel; and history re. Télained it ever since in the service Department-Andrew Combe hatches and pump

as early as 288 A.D., and fought an engagement with Roman - galleys sheltering in the harbour.

SINCE Nelson's time, through

work. As in the last war, the Ad- miralty has taken over the country's :-

air,

forcing

down the water again and turning existing salvage companies and set to the tanker into a giant diving-bell work to salve every hull, every cargo which would lift from the bottom and every ton of scrap steel which despite the riven plates. can possibly be raised.

"The stern bit over there's no use. Hundreds of years after this event

another century of amazing

Last time they dealt with about 500 All twisted to bits. Ilave to blow it Portsmouth became the centre of many stirring sea battles against in- economic expansion, Portsmouth ships, worth with corgoes £15,000,- up. But we might at a new stern on

her i

dock," said my guide. This time Britain herself is turning vaders from Europe. It was King has seen Britain's sen-power East section alone, which streiches 000. This time-well, the North-

He went on to talk of the iwin shopkeeper. She is taking charge of Alfred who first realised the neces- grow from strength to strength. from Holy Island to Scarborough, destroyers blown up in the last war and of how the salvaged stern of one has been work on 20 ships al-

to the job of feeding her 45,000,000 peo-alty of a navy, and in 075 A.D. Inld

the foundations of a fine fleet which navy invincible: the present war is pedoes.

The Great War found the British ready. A busy hection this for tor- was joined to the salvaged bows of of the broken-backed bombs, mines and

other: pic. First of all a national register won its Arst battle against the Danish enhancing its unbeaten prestige now hazards of un unlighted const have made fore end 170ft. long Atted to

Lochmonar,

onur, which had a new "tailor- wag taken. Then there WAS the Longships (wenty years later In

Our coasts are divided into seven an inch of her original length.

her so that she measured within half distribution of ration books to every Spithead. Alfred's stout ships built it has become the British Common-hese taken u heavy toll.

twealth's nnvy. Centuries' old Ports- sections. man, woman, and child within her of Hampshire oak won the day mouth is still the navy's home, and Portsmouth became the home of the the Commander-in-Chief hoists his flug aboard Nelson's old sailing ship, H.M.S. Victory, now permanently berthed in the Royal Dockyard.

shores.

Despite the recent immense move- ments of population, plans have been

navy.

mode which tils task Was doac THE fame of the port was en swiftly and easily. Eighty million hanced during the Norman B.B.C. Programmes:

ration books were distributed. Bul-invasion. when King Harold chers' meat, bacon, ham, butter,|sitled-out a fleet of ships. margarine, cooking fats, and sugor

even luxuries for many months, and

Britain's Royal House. In those days

food shops are arriving from overseas

No Change

•

the

the

I talked to Commander Smith WAS met by Commander C. F. another ship sunks with 1,130 tons Smith, R.N.I., who is Chief Sal- at another Vage Officer of the section. In pence he travels all over the

world on

of

salvage Jobs (ten months abroad out for the Inverlane's a fairly simanic

steel cargo in Robin Hood's bay. he said, "her oll tanks of 12 is his record), and during the ready made air buoyancy tanks. But. salvage in the Mediterranean. last war he was in charge of our when you get a ship with all her bulkheads smashed open and her of plates leaking it inoy take divers His company, with a couple divers, four pump men and an expert ontles to patch her up so that she or two, are responsible for all salvage can hold air and lift herself. Some Since that time the naval port has B.B.C. programmes will be con- down a long stretch of North Sea limes, when the mud has been stirred were the first foods to be rationed. always had an intimate connection fined to news only if the need arises, coast.

up, they have to work by touch There are ample supplies in Bri- with the Crown, and outside London but there is no

"You're lucky to have arrived just alone. Can't see # yard. prospect of that

now," he said. "We've been held up able to raise her as she is. But if This steel ship now. We may be tain to provide all necessaries and no other city is more visited by happening in. the near future. by bad weather for the last week she's too smushed up we'll have to Most French wireless stations have Weather' our chief enemy. The lift each bar of steel separately, with it was known as the "King's Port" aiready ceased broadcasting musical though they fly over us some days, tying, as it were. A mighty long Germans don't bother, us much divers down below wrapping and Dy Royalty embarked and dis- and theatrical programmes and préaut- to-day we may be able to reach embarked there either to battle with confining their broadcasts to news the Inverlane she's a typical salvage tedious job. But they need steel." or to visit oversens neighbours.

and eye-witness accounts of war job for you-and take off 500 tons of

FACH sunken ship presents an in- The first really big fleet to leave events. DODWELL'S MOTOR DEPARTMENT anything like as great as they were Portsmouth spiled under Richard

dividual problem to the salvage The pump men wtih whom I went An official at the B.B.C. told the out to the wreck In a motor bout, people. Sometimes it's just a matter electric in the last war: During the lost war

of lowering submersible Sunday Dispatch: "Our programmes swell, put it another way.

which tried to somersault at every U-bonts cost us over 9,000,000 tons, of essential foods of the outbreak of the are arranged for weeks in advance, certainly chosen & Jobs Bill here ful engines, these, which run with "You've pumps into a ship's holds (wonder- SERVICE STATIONS

shipping, and other nations, neutrals war,

and there is no indication of their had, three boller suits on t'ether day the water all round their Prices have not risen and supplies being changed.". and combatants, lost 6,000,000 tons,

and still his pants were black with oil when he got home." The Lustenla, Britannic, Laurentie, will not run out. We have already. Occonic, and Carpathia were among scen to that, Arrangements have been the victims...

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Inverlane was oily all right. 11.00%mes you get a Job like the so that lust November at the mouth of

The aboard from the hopper which the Humber. leaved on the rollera beside her. But are above water. upper works

Smith's Commander

unit hoped to that wasn't the worst, of her. It Appearing on remand at Clerk-

walked astern, over steel decks which raise the Canada by building a huge enwell on a charge of having in his had been stripped by fire of their "coffer-dam" structure upwards from wood planking, past the officers' her decks, so that her hull would Divisional Food Commissioners possession documents containing in- supervise the committees and advise formation which might be useful to saloon, where blackened furniture extend above water, and then pump- war with,Germany. Experts repre- them, and a legal staff talco charge the enemy, Frank Wheatley, aged 65, washed in, a bilge of water and oil, ing her day: That would.

worked if her cargo of soya beans a secretary, of Mijabel-road, Fulham,past the steel walls of her bridge, had not awollen and byrst apart.ne senting the frent importers, the dis of prosecutions against those who was remanded in custody for a fur came to an

She came to an end abruptly, hull tributors, the powerful wholesalers refuse to obey the new laws drafted ther week.

where the half-inch steel of her aides Sometimes brute force works, as it' and decks had been shorn off by the did when an armed, trawler went on torpedo's explosion.

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