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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 June 1955Vol. XXV, No. 11

[?]ton Salvage of President

p. 51 · Read in the full issue

Taylor Continues

r ORK on the breaking up of the wartime wreck of the liner President Taylor at iton Island is continuing. The story of the operation was told PIM last September by Mrs. one Booth Johnson, secretary radio operator aboard the 296-

ton steel salvage yacht Caronia, operational headquarters of the American syndicate.

In May all hands were reported working hard at loading the freighter Great Oaks which had been chartered to call at the atoll to load a cargo of cut up scrap for Yokohama. On indications, the Caronia and her team are likely to be at Canton for many months yet, though work is said to be progressing satisfactorily.