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SALVAGE BOAT AT SCENE OF WRECK
WORK TO START SOON ON RAISING OF THE SUNKEN TUG RIVAL
[The Welland-Port Colborne Evening Tribune, 13 November 1931]
The steamer “Champlain” arrived in Port Colborne yesterday to prepare for the raising of the tug Rival of the Sin Mac Lines. The Champlain is the salvage boat of this line and the chief officer is Captain Geo. Stitt. Following the arrival of the ship a diver was sent down to look over the sunken craft but because of oil seeping from the fuel tanks it was found impossible to see well enough to inspect anything. Captain Bolt Reid, manager for the Sin Mac Lines at Sarnia, was at the scene of the accident yesterday but said that no contact had yet been let for the raising of the tug.
The salvaging of this craft is not a difficult job, for those who know such work, say it can be floated quite easily again by placing pontoons to support it. It is probable that operations will be started in the near future.
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