She Lies on Her Side — But They'll Raise Her 



The "Washingtonian" foundered in ninety feet of 

 water. They are floating her with compressed air 



Ol'R ]3resent-day salvors, who no 

 longer hesitate to attack witli un- 

 daunled spirit sunken slii|)s which 

 have been given up as hopeless, will 

 watch with interest the bringing of the 



26, 1910, the Wasliiiigloiiiau sank in 

 ninety feel of water. Loaded to her full 

 capacity' with raw sugar brought from 

 the Hawaiian Islands for Philadelphia, 

 she sank in ten minutes. The sugar ab- 



RU6BER 

 l-.OSE TO 

 ijR PIPES 



LyinR fifteen miles out at sea under ninety feel of Wiitcr the "Washinnlonian" is brinR sal- 

 voEcd by compressed air. It is the most omliitious undcrtnUing of the kind ever attempted 



.^merican-Ilawaiian frciglil steamship 

 Wasliinyjoitidii to the surface. The 

 salvaging of the :hip represents a ncv/ 

 ch.nptcr in salvage history. 



After a collision with the .\meric::!i 

 fivc-mnslcd schooner Klizahrlli in a heavy 

 fog olT the Delaware Coa:;t on January 



sorbed the imushing waters and made 

 the vessel so t('phoa\y that she turned 

 r.nd went down on her side. Before 

 she coulil be located, the water dissolved 

 much of the sugar, thus saving tltc s;'.l- 

 vors the trouble of unloading her. 



I'rom the d.iv that the vessel sank 



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