Remembering Etrusco- Part 14- On Board During the Salvage Work


Lets take a peek at some photographs taken while the salvage work was being done.

In the photograph above you can see quite clearly the lines that were attached to the sea anchors.

The admiral did not find it funny when the crew flew the pirate flag from Etrusco. That was something he did not applaud and it did not happen twice.

There was steam that needed to be blown off from time to time and walking the boom was one way to do that.

A US Navy blimp, likely out of the South Weymouth station, takes a look from above Etrusco.

One of the team salvaging Etrusco and the acting captain when the ship was back at sea, Gino Breuer. Mr. Bruer had escaped from behind the Iron Curtain in early fifties; he hid in the bottom of a small boat and drifted across the Adriatic Sea.