Field Coverage

UN Salvage Fleet Removes 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.
""Edgar Bonnet"" emerging slowly from the waters of the canal.

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