Field Coverage

Salvage Work in the Suez Canal

1 January 1957

This picture is part of a series taken during the salvage operations in the Suez Canal, which has been shut down since hostilities began in Egypt late in October 1956.
Members of the Netherlands salvage team can be seen lowering one of their divers next to the sunken suction dredger ""Louis Perrier"", one of the most powerful dredgers of its kind in the world.

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