INDEX

Aberdeen, Milwaukee wrecked near, 181.

Accidents rare in salvage work, 8.

Admiralty divers and Laurentic, 65–78.

Admiralty list of wrecks, 112.

Admiralty Salvage Section, formation of, 95.

Admiralty Salvage Section, ships salved by, 111.

Admiralty Salvage Section, work on Belgian Coast, 115.

Adventure aboard American submarine, 149.

Adventure of diver, 208.

Air bags, ships salved by, 206.

Air keeps back water, 85.

Air-lock, 85, 87.

Air-pressure blows man to surface of sea, 151.

Air versus water, 35, 36.

Allies and shipbuilding programme, 113.

Alphonso XII., treasure recovered, 57.

American Line, 165.

American salvage records, 156.

American submarine, discovery of drifting, 144.

American submarine F.4, tragedy of, 152.

American submarine O.5 sinks, 151.

American submarine S.5, ordeal of, 141.

Amsterdam, 31.

Araby, 174–179.

Argyll, Duke of, 21.

Armada wreck, discovery of, 17.

Arming merchantmen in war, 97.

Armistice, war wrecks salved after, 112.

Armit salves a ship in halves, 181.

Armit, Tom, 181, 205.

Atrocity, Belgian Prince, 118.

Audacious, H.M.S., 19.

Award of £22,000 for salvage, 184.

Bad weather foils treasure-hunters, 47.

Ballast tanks in submarine, 132.

Ballast, using sea as, 111.

Battle with sand, 30.

Battleship floating upside-down, 87, 90.

Battleship raised by compressed air, 90.

Battleship, salving a, 79–93.

Battleship, shells salved from wreck, 84.

Battleship sinks upside-down, 82.

Baulks of timber, 90.

Belgian coast, salvage work on, 115.

Belgian Prince, tragedy of, 118, 119.

Bell of Lutine, 26.

Blasting for treasure, 31.

Blasting through bulkheads, 169.

Blazing sea, 161.

Blazing ship shelled, 162, 163.

Blow-pipes melt submarine’s plates, 138.

Boilers as bollards, 191.

Bollards made from boilers, 191.

Bombay, 188.

Boulogne harbour, clearing of, 175.

Brave deed of salvage men, 199.

Breathing compressed air, 35, 36.

Breault, Henry, imprisoned for thirty hours in submarine, 151.

Britain’s food supplies restricted, 96.

Britannia, extent of damage to, 172.

Britannia torpedoed in Mediterranean, 173.

British battleship torpedoed, 173.

British diving record, 38, 68.

British Government and war wrecks, 112.

British Government insures all ships, 96.

British Navy’s treasure-hunt, 65–78.

British sailor escapes from sunken submarine, 149.

British salvage companies and Admiralty, 94.

British Salvage Section carries German submarine 40 miles, 158.

British Salvage Section fights U-boat menace, 97.

British Salvage Section, method of working, 97.

British submarine disaster, 133.

British warships and spontaneous combustion, 216.

Brown, Lawrence, imprisoned for thirty hours in submarine, 151.

Brussels, raising the, 159.

Bude, torpedoed ship beached near, 197.

Bulkheads, 107.

Bulkheads cause trouble, 169.

Bullivant’s cable, 191.

Burial at sea, 130.

Burning ship sunk, 162.

Business men and treasure, 11.

Butler, Charles, escapes from sunken submarine, 151.

Cables for carrying submarine, 125.

Cables, how placed under wreck, 125.

Calmness of British seamen in danger, 133.

Camera, how cinema man saved, 150.

Cape Finisterre, 46.

Captain Kidd, 11.

Carpi, General, 93.

Cathedral restored by diver, 213.

Chapman, R. E., 168.

Charts, concealed, 99.

Charts full of flags, 99.

Chinese pirates chase treasure-hunters, 62–64.

Cinema man sinks with submarine, 150.

City of Paris, wreck of, 182.

Clock, a maddening, 152.

Clothes of diver, 39.

Clovelly harbour, 199.

Clyde, 132.

Clyde, cost of deepening, 195, 196.

Code, diver’s, 40.

Coffer-dam round Maine, 213.

Coffer-dam, used on St. Paul, 170.

Coffer-dam, use in salvage work, 166.

Coincidence, the strange case of Gladiator and St. Paul, 167.

Collision between War Knight and O. B. Jennings, 160–163.

Collision mats, 205.

Collision that cost £1,000,000, 163.

Commander Kay, 111.

Compressed air and sunken battleship, 85.

Compressed air, breathing, 35, 36.

Compressed air raises battleship, 90.

Compressed air, tools worked by, 194.

Compressed air, used on H.M.S. Britannia, 172.

Concrete, ship patched with, 180.

Concrete, used to salve ship, 175.

Congress and loss of Maine, 214.

Conning tower, the protruding hand, 157.

Continental markets destroyed, 114.

Convoy, accident to, 161.

Cork packed into battleship to give buoyancy, 88.

Cost of salvage operation on H.M.S. Gladiator, 167.

Cradle of cables for U.44, 125.

Craft, lifting, 126, 127.

Crew drowned by Germans, 119.

Crime, a German submarine, 120.

Cunningham, Commander, 183.

Currents hinder salvage operations, 30.

Currents play pranks, 29.

Damage to H.M.S. Gladiator, 165.

Damant, Commander, 68.

Davis, Commander G., and U.44, 123.

Davis, Commander, raises minesweeper, 124.

Davis, Commander, wins D.S.C., 129.

Davis, R. H., 41.

Deepening channels, method of, 195.

Deepening Clyde, cost of, 195, 196.

Depth beats divers, 47.

Depth charge, 117.

Depth, greatest, ever reached by diver, 155, 156, 157.

Derricks, floating, 170.

Detectives, deep-sea, 117.

Diamond drills used on Clyde channel, 195.

Director of Naval Salvage, his calmness, 98.

Disaster of K.13, 132.

Diver and sea pressure, 35.

Diver attacked by octopus, 202.

Diver buried alive, 208.

Diver caught at 200 feet, 156.

Diver crushed by pressure, 154.

Diver, difficulty of movement at great depths, 155.

Diver explores flooded Severn tunnel, 54.

Diver Girvan, his fight on seabed, 200.

Diver, how clothed, 38, 39.

Diver Jones, his fight on seabed, 200.

Diver Lambert, 50.

Diver offers his hand to shark, 203.

Diver Penk helps to salve specie, 61.

Diver restores a cathedral, 213.

Diver Ridyard salves treasure from a depth of 156 feet, 61.

Diver, sea plays with, 72.

Diver, why he cannot whistle, 73.

Diver works in darkness, 214.

Divers and inquisitive fish, 202, 203.

Divers and mud, 204.

Divers beaten by depth, 47.

Diver’s boots, weight of, 39.

Divers breathe compressed air, 35.

Diver’s code, 40.

Divers communicate with submarine prisoners, 137.

Divers discover the lost K.13, 136.

Divers, fat and slim, 34, 35.

Diver’s feat in Severn tunnel, 50–55.

Divers feed submarine prisoners, 137.

Divers fight on seabed, 200.

Divers gassed, 178–179.

Divers lash pontoons to wreck, 89.

Diver’s luck, 15.

Diver’s palsy, its cause, 36.

Diver’s physique, 34.

Divers, risks of, 49.

Divers share nearly £6,000, 78.

Diver’s strange experience, 69.

Divers survey wreck of Leonardo da Vinci, 82.

Divers use hacksaws, 190.

Divers use pneumatic chisels, 165.

Divers wear masks, 170.

Divers work at 190 feet, 157.

Divers work in mud, 168.

Divers work on Belgian coast, 116.

Diving bell crushed by pressure, 154.

Diving code, 40.

Diving dress, 39.

Diving dress, all metal, 42.

Diving dresses, ancient, 41.

Diving, rate of ascent, 37.

Diving record, British, 38.

Diving record, British, date of, 68.

Diving, science of, 34.

Diving strains, 34, 35.

Diving to 304 feet, 155.

Diving tragedy, 178.

Donegal, 65.

Doubloons discovered, 18.

Dredger, salving a, 188.

Dredging a 1½-mile channel, 89.

Dress, diving, 39.

Drill worked by air, 194.

Drills, diamond, used on Clyde, 195.

Drink, a lucky, 64.

Duke of Argyll, 21.

Duncan, Admiral, 22.

Dutch claim Lutine, 24.

Dynamite, cutting ship in two with, 181.

Electric cable laid 1½ miles out to sea, 84.

Electric magnet, 210.

Electric pump, invention of, 103, 104.

Electric pump, weight of, 104.

Electric torch, wonder of, 169.

Electricity helps to salve battleship, 84.

Emergency patches, 206.

Enderslie Rock, 195.

Enemy buried at sea, 130.

Engineer patches ship with concrete, 180.

Engines raise a ship, 164, 165.

Ensor, Henry, 94, 186–194.

Entombed in submarine, 133.

Entombed miners rescued, 42.

Erostarbe, Angel, his diving record, 48.

Escapes from sunken submarines, 139, 145, 146–152.

Explosion off Waterford, 122.

F.4, American submarine disaster, 152.

F.4, discovery of, 153.

F.4, plans for recovery, 153.

Falmouth, City of Paris towed to, 183.

Faruffini, General, 93.

Ferrati, General, 81.

Fight on seabed between divers, 200.

Finisterre, Cape, 46.

Fire, disaster to oil tankers, 161.

Fire in sunken submarine, 151.

Fish and divers, 202, 203.

Fish scent death, 204.

Fishing for treasure, 24.

Flags stuck in maps, 99.

Fleswick, salving the, 187.

Floating dock proposed for raising Leonardo da Vinci, 81.

Flooding of Severn tunnel, 51.

Floor of gold, 61.

Florencia’s treasure, 19.

Fluess, 51–53

Flying Dutchman, 167.

Folkestone, 163.

Food supplies restricted in Britain, 96.

Fortune from a rumour, 15.

Fortune saved by a drink, 64.

Foundering ship salved, 197–199.

Fox, Francis, his work on Winchester Cathedral, 213.

French warships and spontaneous combustion, 216.

Fryatt, Captain, 159.

Funnels, folding, on British submarine, 131.

Furness Withy, 183.

Gale cheats salvors, 31.

Gale snaps cables, 154.

Gale stops salvage of U-boat, 126.

Gales baffle salvors of Laurentic, 75.

Gales stop salvage work, 108.

Gales, strength of, 8.

Gallantry of salvors, 199.

Gardiner, Captain, 28.

Gareloch, 132, 188.

Garonne, 181.

Gear lost, 7.

General Goethals, 143.

German mines off Waterford, 121.

German ships seized, 114.

German submarine campaign, 96.

German submarine raised from 190 feet, 158.

German submarine sinks oil tanker, 163.

German submarines netted, 116.

German submarines, risk of salving, 128.

Germans block Ostend harbour, 116.

Germans buried at sea, 130.

Germans drown crew of Belgian Prince, 119.

Germans fail to raise Vindictive, 115.

Germans miss lifebelts, 120.

Germans sink ships at sight, 96.

Germans torpedo British battleship, 173.

Germans torpedo merchantmen, 96.

Gianelli, Major, work on Leonardo da Vinci, 83.

Giant bollards made from boilers, 191.

Giant wooden frame supports battleship, 91.

Girvan, Diver, dramatic fight on seabed, 200.

Gladiator, wreck of H.M.S., 165–167.

Goeben, 180.

Gold, floor of, 61.

Goodhart, Commander F. H. M., D.S.O., 134.

Goodhart, Commander, his heroic death, 135.

Grain, action of sea on, 178.

Grapnels, 124.

Great War, salvage work in, 94–116.

Great War, ships salved and their value, 111.

Gun-turrets, detaching submerged, 87.

Gwynne pumps, 104.

Hacksaws, used by divers, 190.

Hamilla Mitchell, wreck of, 58–64.

Hammer worked by air, 194.

Havana harbour, loss of Maine in, 214.

Herbert, Commander Godfrey, D.S.O., 133.

Herbert, Commander, his escape from sunken K.13, 135.

Honolulu, 152.

Honolulu, tide at, 153.

Hydroscope, 210.

Hypatia, wreck of, 9.

Imprisoned in submarine, 146–152.

Incas of Peru, 11.

Inchkeith, 172.

Inquisitive fish, 202, 203.

Intrepid, wreck, 208.

Invention, an American salvage, 206.

Invention of electric pump, 103.

Invention of modern diving dress, 41.

Isle of Mull, 19.

Italian Naval Engineering Corps, 81.

Italian salvage feat, 79.

Italians dredge 1½-mile channel, 89.

Jackson, T. G., his work on Winchester Cathedral, 213.

Japan raises sunken Russian warships, 211.

Jellicoe, Lieutenant-Colonel R. V., 175.

Jones, Diver, his fight under the sea, 200.

Junks, chased by, 62.

K.13, loss of, 131–140.

K.14, 134.

Kay, Commander, 108.

Kay, Commander, and K.13, 137.

Kidd, Captain, 11.

Lagoons, scenes at bottom of, 204.

Lake Huron, treasure-hunting in, 154.

Lambert, Alexander, 50.

Lambert and Severn tunnel, 50–55.

Lambert explores flooded Severn tunnel, 54.

Lambert finds treasure of Alphonso XII., 57.

Lamps, submarine, 157.

Launchways, their use, 187.

Laurentic, blasting operations, 74, 75.

Laurentic crushed by sea, 72.

Laurentic, depth of wreck, 67.

Laurentic, difficulties of salving treasure, 72–78.

Laurentic disaster, 65.

Laurentic, length of time divers can work, 73, 74.

Laurentic, lives lost, 67.

Laurentic, value of treasure aboard, 66.

Leak stopped by oakum, 205.

Leaks obscured by oil, 86.

Leonardo da Vinci, loss of, 79.

Leonardo da Vinci, armament and cost, 80.

Leonardo da Vinci, plans for salving, 81.

Leonardo da Vinci floats upside-down, 90.

Leuconna Rock, 58.

Leverhulme, Lord, 13.

Lifebelts, concealed, 120.

Lifting craft, linked, 207.

Lifting methods, 125.

Lifting the Brussels, 159.

Lifting vessels, modern, 126.

Lighthouses, 2, 3.

Lightships, 2.

Lion, H.M.S., after Jutland, 96.

Liverpool Salvage Association, 94, 165.

Liverpool, treasure landed at, 77.

Lloyd’s and Lutine, 23.

Lloyd’s great loss, 23.

Locating leaks in battleship, 86.

Lodge, Captain, offers to salve specie of Hamilla Mitchell, 58.

London Salvage Association, 94.

Lucky escape of salvors, 128, 129.

Lucky treasure-hunt, 15.

Lundy Island, 172.

Lusitania, chances of salvage, 212.

Lutine, amount of treasure recovered, 26.

Lutine, blasting operations, 31.

Lutine buried, 29.

Lutine, capture of, 22.

Lutine rediscovered, 29.

Lutine, treasure shipped, 23.

Lutine, wreck of, 23.

Lutine’s bell, 26.

Macdonald invents electric pump, 103.

Magnet, electric, 210.

Maine, destruction of, 214–216.

Malin Head, 66.

Marine salvage in wartime, 94.

Markets destroyed, 114.

Marseilles, octopus attacks diver at, 202.

Meat, handling decayed, 171.

Merchantmen armed during war, 97.

Merritt and Chapman, 167.

Method of raising vessels from seabed, 125.

Methods of British Salvage Section, 97.

Mexiddo reef, 46.

Milwaukee, wreck of, 181.

Mine destroys U.44, 123.

Mine-laying from submarine, 121.

Mine-sweeping, 122.

Minefield, adrift in, 162.

Minefield at Waterford, 121.

Miners entombed, 42, 43.

Minesweeper, sinking of, 124.

Models for salvage operations, 83.

Montagu, wreck of, 171–172.

Montgomery, wreck of, 181.

Morse Code, 137.

Mud and divers, 204.

Mud grips battleship, 90.

Mull, Isle of, 19.

Mystery of Florencia, 19.

Napoleon, 25.

Naval divers and Laurentic, 65–78.

Naval Salvage, director of, 95.

Netherlands Government and Lloyd’s, 25.

New York, tanker caught off, 163.

Nitrogen, its effect on divers, 36.

Nordstrom, Captain, 161.

Norton, stranding of, 183.

O. B. Jennings, 160–163.

O.5, sinking of American submarine, 151.

Oakum stops leak, 205.

Oats cause tragedy, 178.

Oceana, blasting operations, 50.

Oceana, difficulties of salving treasure, 50.

Oceana, wreck of, 49.

Octopus attacks diver, 202.

Oil hinders divers, 84.

Oil obscures leaks in battleship, 86.

Oil salved from tanker, 163.

Oil tankers take fire, 161–163.

Onward, scuttling of, 163.

Ostend, 115.

Ostend, how Germans bottled up harbour, 116.

Overturned ship, methods of salvage, 164.

Ownership of war wrecks, 112.

Palsy, diver’s, 36.

Patch, standard, 100.

Patches, emergency, 206.

Patching battleship, 85.

Penk, Diver, 59.

Periscope, 137.

Peru, gold of, 11.

Peruvian treasure, 11.

Philadelphia, see City of Paris.

Phosphate, island of, 14.

Pino, Cavaliere, inventor of hydroscope, 210.

Pirates, chased by, 62–64.

Pit disaster near Falkirk, 42.

Pizarro, 11.

Pneumatic chisels used by divers, 165.

Pomeroy, Captain H., 176.

Pontoon raises 800 tons, 177.

Pontoons, 116.

Pontoons and Araby, 177.

Pontoons and salvage operations, 89.

Pontoons, assist to raise the Gladiator, 166.

Pontoons, how used, 89.

Pontoons used in salving F.4, 153.

Port Arthur, raising Russian fleet at, 211.

Portsmouth, 167.

Pressure and divers, 35.

Pressure crushes diver, 154.

Pressure, how it affects diver, 155.

Propeller shaft cut into bollards, 191.

Pumps, electric, weight of, 104.

Pumps keep ship afloat, 105.

Pumps, sand, 29.

Pumps, types of, 103.

Pumps versus torpedoes, 103.

Pumps, wonderful reliability of, 105.

Quay, threatened destruction of Folkestone, 163.

Queenstown, 94.

Racer, salvage vessel, 65.

Racing yacht salved, 204.

Railway engines raise a ship, 164, 165.

Recompression chamber, its uses, 70.

Record depth from which treasure has been recovered, 48.

Record, diving, 38.

Record, twelve-hour diving, 137.

Record weight raised, 158, 159.

Record, world’s diving, 155.

Redding pit disaster, 42.

Refloating H.M.S. Britannia, 172.

Refloating the Timbo, 186, 187.

Refrigerator, unpleasant task in a, 171.

Rescue of crew of submarine S.5, 145.

Rescue of survivors of K.13, 139.

Ridyard, Diver, 59.

Righting a battleship, 92.

Risk of salvage work, 8.

Risk of salving German submarines, 128.

Rock-cutter, 195.

Rock reveals a fortune, 13.

Rocks blasted away to salve ship, 183.

Ropes, breaking strains of, 192.

Ropes, giant, 192.

Ropes, steel, 191, 192.

Rosyth, 159.

Royal Exchange, 46.

Royal George, salvage operations, 200.

Rust handicaps divers, 190.

St. Bees Head, 105.

St. Helena, 25.

St. Paul, collision with H.M.S. Gladiator, 165.

St. Paul converted into troopship, 167.

St. Paul overturns, 167.

St. Paul, salvage operations on, 168.

S.5, discovery of, 144.

S.5, rescue of crew, 145.

S.5, strange accident to the American submarine, 141.

Salvage and Towage Company, 183.

Salvage award of £22,000, 184.

Salvage concerns, 94.

Salvage idea, a strange, 212.

Salvage invention, an American, 206.

Salvage lighter nearly founders, 128.

Salvage men, lucky escape of, 128, 129.

Salvage of Araby, 174–179.

Salvage of Seuvic, 182.

Salvage of the Norton, 183.

Salvage officer’s clever feat, 185, 186.

Salvage on Belgian coast, 115.

Salvage operations aided by pontoons, 89.

Salvage operations on St. Paul, 168.

Salvage operations on Westmoreland, 108–111.

Salvage problem, 4.

Salvage records, American, 156.

Salvage Section as detectives, 117.

Salvage Section, laying mines, 95.

Salvage Section, method of working, 97.

Salvage Section, nets English Channel, 96.

Salvage Section, ships salved by, 111.

Salvage stations round Britain, 97.

Salvage steamer, cost of upkeep, 184.

Salvage work, risk of, 8.

Salvage work stopped by gales, 108.

Salved by blasting operations, 183.

Salved five times, 10.

Salving a battleship, 79–93.

Salving a battleship by compressed air, 85.

Salving a racing yacht, 204.

Salving a ship in halves, 177, 181.

Salving battleship upside-down, 90.

Salving £500,000 from Laurentic, 73.

Salving H.M.S. Britannia, 172.

Salving H.M.S. Gladiator, 165.

Salving K.13, 131–140.

Salving Leonardo da Vinci, cost of, 93.

Salving oil from tanker, 163.

Salving overturned ship, 164.

Salving shells from sunken battleship, 84.

Salving ship with concrete, 175.

Salving the Fleswick, 187.

Salving the Maine, 214–216.

Salving the Silurus, 187–194.

Salving the Timbo, 186, 187.

Salving treasure, diver’s reward, 58.

Salving treasure of Alphonso XII., 57.

Salvors balance ship, 111.

Salvors carry submarine 40 miles, 158.

Salvors chased by pirates, 62–64.

Salvors foiled by bad weather, 47.

Salvors, gallant feat of, 199.

Salvors of Laurentic’s treasure baffled by gales, 75.

Salvors, tricks of, 205.

Sand, battle with, 30.

Sand-pump, 18-inch, used on Laurentic operations, 76.

Sand-pumps, 29.

Sand-pumps, when they choke, 76.

Sandbanks, submerged, 29.

Sandown Bay, 162.

Science of diving, 34.

Sea ablaze, 161.

Sea crushes Laurentic, 72.

Sea-growths, their beauty, 204.

Sea plays with diver, 72.

Sea pressure, effect on divers, 35.

Sea water as ballast, 111.

Secret German orders recovered by divers, 157.

Secret papers in U.44, 129

Seuvic, wreck of, 182.

Severn tunnel, cause of flooding, 51, 55.

Severn tunnel, diver’s feat in, 50–55.

Severn tunnel explored by diver, 54.

Severn tunnel, flooding of, 51.

Shanghai, 58.

Shark and diver, 203.

Shells protected by oil, 84.

Shells salved from Leonardo da Vinci, 84.

Ship ashore, method of refloating, 185.

Ship breaks in two, 177.

Ship kept afloat by pumps, 105.

Ship patched with concrete, 180.

Ship, question of balance, 111.

Ship salved by blasting away rocks, 183.

Ship salved five times, 10.

Ship surgery, 181.

Ship torpedoed three times, 101.

Shipbreakers buy wreck of Gladiator, 167.

Shipbreakers buy wreck of Montagu, 172.

Shipping, high cost in war, 113.

Shipping slump, 113.

Ships, how destroyed, 3.

Ships, increase in tonnage, 114.

Ships insured by British Government, 96.

Ships salved by Admiralty Salvage Section, 111.

Ships salved by air bags, 206.

Ships salved in Great War, their value, 111.

Ships seized from Germany, 114.

Ships sunk at sight during war, 96.

Ships, wonder of, 4.

Shot-rope, 37.

Shutter Rock, 171.

Siebe, Gorman & Company help to save Winchester Cathedral, 213.

Siebe, Gorman & Co. Ltd., 41.

Siebe invents diving dress, 41.

Sieve, giant, 30.

Sifting seabed, 30.

Silurus, cost of salvage operations, 194.

Silurus, plans to salve, 189.

Silurus, wreck of, 187–194.

Silver bars recovered, 48.

Sinking of K.13, 132.

Skyro, wreck of, 45–47.

Slings, U-boat carried 40 miles in, 158.

Slump in shipping, 113.

Smoke helmet, 42.

Soldier patches ship with concrete, 180.

Solent, 165.

Spain loses Cuba, 214.

Spanish-American War, cause of, 214.

Spanish doubloons, 18.

Spanish galleon, 15.

Spanish galleon destroyed, 20.

Spontaneous combustion and Maine disaster, 216.

Spy and burning troopship, 163.

Stag Rocks, Seuvic wrecked on, 182.

Standard patch, 100.

State as underwriters, 96.

Steel cable, giant, 191.

Steel cables, breaking strains of, 192.

Steel cables snapped by gale, 154.

Steel plates, cutting under sea, 169.

Steel tombs, submarines as, 118.

Storms defeat salvage, 5, 7.

Storms snap steel cables, 7.

Storms, strength of, 8.

Stranded ships, towing off, 186, 187.

Stranding of Norton, 183.

Submarine, an American adventure, 149.

Submarine campaign, 96.

Submarine carried 40 miles, 158.

Submarine carried over sandbar, 129.

Submarine commander’s dilemma, 150.

Submarine, dropping a, 129.

Submarine F.4, disaster to, 152.

Submarine flash lamp and K.13, 137.

Submarine lamps, 157.

Submarine menace and British Salvage Section, 97.

Submarine, mine-laying, 121.

Submarine O.5, sinks in 40 feet of water, 151.

Submarine S.5, her strange accident, 141.

Submarine scenery, 204.

Submarine sinks oil tanker, 163.

Submarine tragedies seen by divers, 118.

Submarine with folding funnels, 131.

Submarines as steel tombs, 118.

Submarines, netting, 116.

Submarines, wonderful escapes from sunken, 139, 145, 146–152.

Submerged gun-turrets, detaching, 87.

Survivors of Belgian Prince atrocity, 120.

Survivors of K.13, 139.

Taranto, 79, 84.

Taranto dry dock, depth of, 87.

Telephone, submarine, 40.

Telephone that floats, 142.

Temperature of 6700 degrees under water, 169.

Texel, 22.

Thermit bomb, 163.

Tide, how it helps lifting operations, 127.

Tides and salvage, 5.

Timber frame upholds battleship, 91.

Timber jackets for pontoons, 153.

Timber props to strengthen wreck, 110.

Timber structure, remarkable, 90.

Timber used in salvage work, 90.

Timbers support 20,000 tons, 91.

Timbers withstand 225 tons pressure per square inch, 91.

Timbo, wreck of, 186.

Tirpitz, 117.

Tobermory Bay, 20.

Tobermory treasure-hunt, 19.

Tonnage, increase in, 114.

Tools used by divers, 194.

Torpedoed ships, how their positions were noted, 99.

Torpedoes found in U.44, 130.

Torpedoing at sight, 96.

Torpedoing of Westmoreland, 106.

Towing battleship upside-down, 90.

Towing off stranded ships, 186, 187.

Tragedies of sunken submarines, 118.

Tragedy caused by oats, 178.

Tragedy of oil tankers, 161.

Trapped in sunken submarine, 131, 146, 152.

Trapping air to salve a ship, 85.

Treasure and business men, 11.

Treasure, Captain Kidd’s, 11.

Treasure-hunt at Tobermory, 19.

Treasure-hunt of British Navy, 65–78.

Treasure-hunting finance, 12.

Treasure of Alphonso XII., 57.

Treasure of Florencia, 19.

Treasure of Incas, 11.

Treasure of Laurentic, value found, 77.

Treasure of Lutine, 23.

Treasure recovered from Lutine, 26.

Treasure recovered from Oceana, 50.

Treasure-hunters beaten, 32.

Treasure-hunters chased by pirates, 62–64.

Tricks of salvors, 205.

Tripods, use in raising ships upright, 164.

Troopship, scuttling of a, 163.

Troopships protected by nets, 96.

Trunkway, 110.

Tug of war between wreck and railway engines, 164, 165.

Tugs tow battleship upside-down, 90.

Tyne, Milwaukee towed to, 182.

U-boat carried 40 miles, 158.

U-boat sinks oil tanker off New York, 163.

U-boat, why Admiralty salved it, 124.

U-boats and British Salvage Section, 97.

U-boats, netting, 116.

U.44 atrocity, 118.

U.44 carried three-quarters of a mile, 127.

U.44, depth of wreck, 124.

U.44, destruction of, 123.

U.44, its mission, 121.

U.44, method of finding, 124.

Umbrella patch, 206.

Underwriters lose £900,000, 23.

Vancouver, 32.

Vindictive, full of cement, 115.

Vindictive, German failure to raise, 115.

Vindictive, mines aboard when sunk, 115.

Vindictive, problems of raising, 115.

Vindictive raised, 116.

Vlieland, 25.

Wagenfuhr, Paul, 119.

War interrupts food supplies in Britain, 96.

War Knight, 160–163.

War wrecks and British Government, 112.

War-time salvage depots, 97.

War-time shipbuilding, 114.

Water as ballast, 111.

Water versus air, 35, 36.

Waterford, 121.

Weather, influence of, 5.

Weather prevents salvage work, 108.

Westmoreland, 105.

Westmoreland, depth of wreck, 107.

Westmoreland, extent of damage to, 106.

Westmoreland, fight to save, 106, 107.

Westmoreland, sinking of, 107.

Westmoreland torpedoed, 106.

Westmoreland, value of, 105.

Williamson, Mr., his invention for filming seabed, 211.

Winchester Cathedral saved by diver, 213.

Wireless mast shot away, 118.

Wireless romance, 145.

Work stopped by gales, 108.

Wreck, balancing a, 111.

Wreck, method of finding, 124.

Wreck of Alphonso XII., 56.

Wreck of Araby, 174.

Wreck of City of Paris, 182.

Wreck of Florencia, 19.

Wreck of Gladiator, cost of salving, 167.

Wreck of Hamilla Mitchell, 58.

Wreck of H.M.S. Britannia, 172.

Wreck of H.M.S. Gladiator, 165.

Wreck of H.M.S. Montagu, 171.

Wreck of Hypatia, 9.

Wreck of Intrepid, 208.

Wreck of Laurentic, 67.

Wreck of Leonardo da Vinci surveyed, 82.

Wreck of Lutine, 23.

Wreck of Maine, 214.

Wreck of Milwaukee, 181.

Wreck of Montgomery, 181.

Wreck of O. B. Jennings, 163.

Wreck of Oceana, 49.

Wreck of Onward, 163.

Wreck of Seuvic, 182.

Wreck of Silurus, 187.

Wreck of Skyro, 45.

Wreck of Timbo, 186.

Wreck of U.44, depth of, 124.

Wreck of War Knight, 162.

Wreck of Westmoreland, 107.

Wreck patched with concrete, 180.

Wreck uprighted by railway engines, 164, 165.

Wreck, working cables under, 125.

Wrecks, annual value of, 3.

Wrecks, destruction of, 3.

Wrecks, effect of sea on, 114.

Wrecks indicated by flags in maps, 99.

Wrecks, method of raising, 125.

Wrecks salved after Armistice, 112.

Wrestler, H.M.S., 77.

Young, Commodore Sir F. W., 95, 98, 115, 156.

Zeebrugge, 115.

Zogria Island, 183.

Zuyder Zee, 26.

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