Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1919-08-03 | Page 19 | Reopening of Ostend and Zeebrugge Forms Titanic Salvage Feat

of Ostend And Zeebrugge Forms li Titanic I i t a n j Salvage e Feat f f z WELLES ELLES RITCHIE D t al service Staff Correspondent Corr oD Aug u The Tho Belgian TON TON-DO r omo ge and Ostend ill L port ports O of or i been opened with appropriate c t to the worlds world's commerce commerce- t has been x ro- ro Oto O- O tiM L now no as f II to shipping for months month l s of or war warr ports com com- ic tCO aspiration to be beIn bemore bet th tim t iP more In touch with Ith the worlds world's 0 c Commerce announcement of or the rc- rc e I nn the tho facilities M I S of oC commercial MJ e an and 1 Ostend Hoi n a won- won at toll and r of or patient d of C tho the 1 rl on tho part rt c effort r f department admiralty salvage h i command of oC Commodore F. F W. W 9 I v nc R. R N. N K- K Klor lor to him and the thu thern rn working under him have fallen cn n almost of oC naVI l cn engineering t in their magnitude In aI n a nd ing gerins d theirs was the tho job of of clearing I I fairways of or all tho wreck wreck- 1 o two which death dealing mantraps e Germans nj craftily laid laiti before their I the front from the Belgian el coast COlst last st I t October as well v as to r remove the tho hulls which the British sank Rank there thereIn l ships cf of efforts t to- to block oft oCt German In using Bruges cs a as lS a a. base I I. I Sen Sn Up When tho enemy retreated r tr from the thc Belgian coast COlst he ho did his utmost to bottle up tIP I its tea sea gates so that they be of or no ro use iso for Cor a a. long period ho Inflicted exten- exten nd in addition ho U SIre damn damage o on tho the canals which connect th the sc se places WIth Bruges i t The rho first lr t thi thing g Young Youn did was to make mako a t temporary channel chan- chan and partially Inel nel into Ostend harbor dear clear tho the Ostend Ostend Dru Bruges canal canal canal-a a heavy Y task For POl doing it the tho largest salvage ha e plant ever n assembled emble was as sent to to the Belgian coast by the admiralty Th The royal roya marine engineers under Sir Valentino Gibbs were also abo ret et to work worl there in repairing brid bridges es wharves f I. I etc etc cleo i J Many Found FoundS I S I the number of boob booby traps ond nd sunken mines which the enemy I had laid the R. R M. M i. i Es E.'s and the tho salvage sal sal- I age vage people too had to work wad warily I At the Beginning their job was as full ull I j of or dangers as 33 of or difficulties But from rom the first they made excellent progress with it Opposite the Vindictive tho the enemy had sunk a dredger with other hel heavy helY Y craft on top of oC It It in such a position that tho entrance to Os Ostend tend harbor harbe was ILS completely 1 sealed scale up Commo Commo- doro Young Youn firs cut a 3 temporary pas passage p 3 sage nago a o through obstructions so BO that the Belgian mail mall and anti relief relict ships could c enter ter at high tide Udo Then other sunken enemy-sunken wreckage was vas hauled aside and so a. a way into the basins and the canal was made All sorts or of obstructions had to to be fished out of the tho basins before belore shipping ship ping could uso them noon Boon Git Ghen en to Beldam Even now there thero remain seVer several craft crat to to- tobo be bo picked up from tho the water at Ostend as S well as 5 bridges s to bo be repaired But the channels have havo been so unblocked that a combined boat and train service can again bo be resumed and that means ns a great boon for the whole of or Belgium At where most of the salvage plant llant is tJ w no-w now operating R a larJ large e number nUmb r of oC cranes railway rall wagons wag wag- ons and sunken vessels have havo had to tobe tobe be hO hauled up from the tho water alon alongside along along- side sido the Mole Molo More remain to be hO I lifted but enough apace has been provided provided pro pro- vided to give berths to merchant ship ship- ping After this part of the tho Job is 11 completed tho work worl o lifting the Brussels Captain Fryatt's ship will begin Then the and much other wreckage mu must t be placed on the tho beach Roche noche Made Inde Thorough h Job b After British h sweeperS mine have hao taken up from the BrUge e can canal 1 tho thu many mines which the en enemy enemy on- on emy sowed in It tho the Belgians will and likewise like lik clear th the canal of or wreckage wise wise- i c cl clean cican up Bruges dock In which Germans S sunk nl all nil sorts Borts of ot craft Irom ri-am rom dredgers to destroyers As Au for the tho Vindictive r no attempt h has haz yet ct been cn made to lift h her r. r She brol broke e asunder in a I. I recent storm torm and andall andall all 11 of preserving her s seem sen n to have ha gone one She Is no Impediment to navigation na where she sho lies no to 0 that th thu th work worl of or removing mo in her shot riddled hull hut can bo to the last