Field Coverage

UN Salvage Fleet Removees Tug "Edgar Bonnet"

25 March 1957

Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, Gen. Raymond Wheeler and other UN officials watched today as ships of the UN salvage fleet began lifting the ""Edgar Bonnet"", a 1,390-ton tug which had blocked the Suez Canal near Ismailia, some 46 miles south of Port Said.
The master of one of the floating cranes watches the ''Edgar Bonnet"" from the deck of his craft. Lining up the bank of the Canal are patients and members of the medical staff of the former French Hospital of Ismailia in front of which the tug was sunk.

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