The problem of dealing with the water In
wrecks and In ships that have been holed but
-are still afloat has been advanced very far toward
solution during the war by the general adoption
i-f a uew Brltjsh Invention, which has been de
scribed as a Tnlrncle of modern electrical engi
neering. Described simply, it Is an electrically
i'., ven pump which run he entirely suNmerged
mid will stilt pump as efficiently as If It were
i.litne v.: -. The submersible pump, as It Is
ailed. things that no one ever believed
n pump iiiulil do. I saw one in the hold of n
WTuvk mvUy, covered with a black, evil sjiell-
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salvage waax Arixntroe
Ing coze, looking for all the world like a bit of
wreckage itself. But It had Just finished a long
bout of pumping under water In that hold, which
vas filled with floating barrels, beams, tangled
Ironwork and a sludge that was Indescribable;
and when It had been put over the side and bad
pumped a few tons of clean sen water through
Itself, that pump was ready to start work again
anywhere.
