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GATE LIFTERS FAIL TO RAISE SUNKEN TUG
YESTERDAY’S ATTEMPT FUTILE AND OTHER MEANS MUST BE EMPLOYED
LIKELY COFFER DAM WILL BE BUILT AND CRAFT PUMPED OUT
[The Welland-Port Colborne Evening Tribune, 17 November 1931]
An attempt to raise the tug Rival yesterday afternoon by means of the gate lifters which were useed on the old canal proved utterly futile and some other means will have to be employed. This tug, which sank after an explosion just north of lock eight in the Welland Ship Canal is resting with only a small portion of it’s superstructure out of water. It was believed at first that the tug could be raised by the gate lifters but this could not be done. It is quite likely that the coffer dams will now be placed around the tug and it will be then pumped out and repaired and floated again in this way, according to the men in charge of the work. This will probably be started within the next few days.
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