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- 1959 News -
In order to salvage 25.000 tons of shipping sunk off the Australian coasts, a company has been constituted in Sydney.
The first job will be the recuperation of the William Dawes of 7176 tons, torpedoed and sunk off Merimbula, New south Wales in 1942 with a cargo of 10.000 tons of non-ferrous metals together with tractors, cranes and other heavy equipments. Two wrecks are also to be salvaged off Bathurst Island : the Don Isidro of 3261 tons and the Florence of 2638 tons carrying valuable metal cargoes.
