ropes and camels. The firstof these plans could be, and had been, very successfullyapplied; and, excepting on the Thames, might be saidto be the only way in which attempts were made tosalve vessels of any size. The practice was, in the caseof a sunken vessel with no great depth of water on… … As regards the method of raising vessels by means ofcamels and wire ropes, he said that the method carriedlittle or no element of chance with it, and the only diffi-culty was in getting the ropes under the vessel. Hethought, if this method was more generally employed,most of the sunken ships might…
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