Marine salvage
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Marine salvage is the process of recovering a ship and its cargo after a shipwreck or other maritime casualty. Salvage may encompass towing, lifting a vessel, or effecting repairs to a ship. Salvors a
A fishing boat being salvaged off the Estonian coast, 1973
USS Regulus hard aground in 1971 due to a typhoon: after three weeks of effort, Naval salvors deemed it unsalvageable.
USNS Grapple, an example of a modern naval rescue salvage ship
Seawise University capsized after being gutted by fire in 1972
SS Egypt
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SS Egypt was a P&O ocean liner. She sank after a collision with Seine on 20 May 1922 in the Celtic Sea. 252 people were rescued from the 338 passengers and crew aboard at the time. A subsequent salvag
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