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requested by the Bureau of Ships. Salvager began the 1960s in Chesapeake Bay where she completed the demolition of the wreck of the Texas, begun in 1958. Special...

exploded at the dock at the Port of Los Angeles. Salvage Chief was dispatched to salvage the wreck and pump out oil from the harbor. In the 1980s, the...

company with Salvager, began searching for the sunken patrol craft YP-387. She located the wreck and began salvage operations while Salvager returned to...

performed a variety of work for the navy, including icebreaking, salvage, wrecking, and tugboat services. She was loaned to Panamanian authorities after...

the wrecked Liberty ship, Samuel Huntington. The salvage vessel trained both monitors (large deck-mounted water guns) and a 2½-inch hose on the wreck and...

USS Curb (ARS-21) was a Diver-class rescue and salvage ship commissioned by the U.S. Navy during World War II. Her task was to come to the aid of stricken...

using material from the wreck of the battleship. Also included in this list of salvaged artifacts is a piece of steel salvaged from USS Arizona on display...

was no trace of the wreck. In June 1973, the Navy indicated that it would once again send the salvage ship Kittiwake to the wreck area in September 1973...

conditions, salvage work was difficult and attempts to provision the crew on board were sometimes impossible. The weather continued to hamper salvage work during...

Valve commenced salvage operations on the sunken LST-515 on 31 May, her divers making 225 dives in 41 days. She worked on the wreck, removing such items...

underway for Baie de la Seine, France, where she was attached to the Salvage, Wreck Disposal, Mine Disposal, and Hydrographic Survey Unit. She rescued 30...

Relief (ID-2170) was a salvage tug that served in the United States Navy from 1918 to 1919. Relief was a steel-hulled wrecking tug built during 1907 by...

addition to the 98 fatalities a five men crew from a salvage tug drowned trying to reach the wrecked ship.  This article incorporates text from the public...

Holden Beach and the surrounding area would row out to the wreck in an attempt to salvage anything of value. Neil Holden, a Confederate soldier and descendant...

Ocean and at Guadalcanal she was struck by a torpedo and beached. After salvage, towing, removal of engines and repair at Tulagi the ship served as a barracks...

to blast the wreck into salvageable pieces. In 1876, the relatives of the men lost on Tecumseh petitioned Congress to stop the salvage. Congress quickly...

rendering the wreck safer. The recovered oil was barged back to Singapore, where it was sold for $0.50/gallon to help cover the $11 million salvage costs. The...

salvageable and remained on the rocks until it was broken up in an October storm. It sank near the wrecks of Cumberland and Henry Chisholm. The wreck...

1955, Takeshita Hisao led an effort to salvage the loaded payment, as well as other artifacts from the Oneida wreck. Artifacts including coins, ammunition...

steel which were valuable as scrap metal. The Navy sold the salvage rights to the wrecks of ex-Alabama, ex-Indiana, and ex-San Marcos to Merritt-Chapman...