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. Here, vessels of the Netherlands salvage team can be seen with one of the wrecks that had been obstructing the Canal.

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