Sunken
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Jap Interest In
President Goolidge
IT is rumoured that Japanei interests are interested in tt possible salvage of the £ President Coolidge which was sur in the Segond Channel, Santo. Ne Hebrides, during the war, when si was carrying US troops and suj plies for the Pacific theatre < operations.
The President Coolidge attempt* to negotiate the mined entrance ( the Channel without the services ( a competent pilot. She hit a mil bow-on and backed off to h another with her stern. She wi beached and an artillery captai went aboard to locate 20 missir men from his company.
While he was below, the ship si: off the ledge and sank in approx mately 200 feet of water with tt bow uppermost.
Should she ever be raised, we wi know if there really was a millic dollars in the strongroom, as loc: legend has it. And there probab will be some sort of moral to 1 drawn from it if the Japs do g< her—but what it is we do nc know.—V.W.