A settee in red plush, salvage from the smoke-room of a liner, ran round the walls, with the very mahogany tables before it which it knew when afloat.
I'll have very little time to spare after this," he said, "and I should like to spend a little of the salvage money going back to Boston to see my mother and the others before I begin.
The boys had been listening intently, and Frank broke in: "Harry and I have decided to go partners in a ranch some day, and there's the salvage money.
The schooner will be sold by auction, and if you are inclined to leave the matter in my hands you can give me a written claim for salvage services.
Thanks to the lightness and simplicity of my outfit, salvage operations were easily and expeditiously effected.
My boat was behaving so well that I couldn't resist the temptation to give her a baptism in some really rough stuff at a point where salvage operations would be so comparatively simple in case of grief.
On that head, then, there was no salvage to effect.
The whole area was further littered with the unburied dead and with salvage of every kind.
You and Jarvis are off to salvagethe auxiliary," the Captain said.
Listen, Dick--you and Leroy take the other auxiliary rocket and go out and salvage those films.
Had he been alone he might have refrained from a descent into particulars, but having laid so much stress upon the salvage of worthless flotsam, he could not in Miss Hamilton's presence ignore this large wreck.
The co-ordination of all Salvage work is in the hands of the Controller of Salvage at G.
They christened the General in charge ofSalvage "O.
Salvage" explained itself very clearly in its official publication: "The world shortage of almost every kind of raw material used for war supplies makes Salvage an important Administrative Service.
What the German submarines taught us--The Salvage Organisation--O.
It was the favoured sport of the humourist to devise new salvage dodges, one of which I recall as holding the record for sheer asininity.
The Salvage Organisation is not intended to take the place of, or in any way discourage, a consistent effort on the part of every supply department to recover for repair and re-issue its own articles and its own empties.
Without a well-organised and thoroughSalvage system, the full maintenance of our Force in the Field would be made difficult.
But perhaps the moral effect of the Salvage department was even more valuable than its excellent material results.
They then flooded the conning-tower and, lifting the upper door, swam to the surface, reporting that nothing could now be done without salvage plant to lift the boat.
Captain Waistell hurried to the spot, but realised that in such a position (close to enemy harbours) it would be impossible to carry out salvage operations.
It is said to have jurisdiction in salvage and over other maritime matters occurring within 3 leagues from the shore.
By an act of 1821 an arbitral jurisdiction in cases of salvage was given to certain commissioners of the Cinque Ports.
This" was the purchase of an old vessel, and the seeking of salvagejobs along the Caribbean coast.
The sallow face of the man who had so suddenly joined the party lit up again, while he regarded his brother in a manner somewhat different from that he had been accustomed to aboard the salvage boat.
I'll win out; one of these days I'll own a salvage plant of my own.
There were only Ching, Tom, and Sam, all three of whom had been employed on the salvage plant, and were old servants.
But you know him from de days when we were all on de salvage boat.
Jobs were few and far between, and that wretched Caribbean swell, together with a shifting, sandy bottom, made salvage work extremely difficult.
A diver by profession, Mr. Silas Partington had managed to save a few dollars, and had bought up a salvage plant, with which for a while he had done excellent business.
Been cruising in the Caribbean with a salvage plant.
Control for Irpex canker is the same as for other canker-rots--salvage of undesirable cankered trees.
Losses may be reduced by following proper planting procedures, and by salvage cutting.
Rapid salvage and utilization of dead or dying trees or green logs will reduce losses significantly.
Control includes rapid salvage and utilization of infested trees and piling and burning of infested material.
Pine sawyers render storm- or fire-damaged pines unfit for salvage and are also a problem in wood-holding yards.
Losses are minimized by salvage cuttings and by favoring loblolly and hardwoods in regeneration plans.
Control for Spiculosa canker is similar to other canker rots: salvage to remove undesirable cankered trees that may be later replaced by better quality trees.
Whoever performed the salvage was not required to turn the ship back to its owners until the fee had been paid.
They couldn't fire on him, but they could fake an accident that would cripple him and cost Consops millions of dollars in salvage fees.
Ha, ha, man, fancy the salvage calling the dead earth hungry, as if it were alive.
Naturally the poor brute knoweth somewhat of the place and its customs, seeing that he hath always lived here, and still it irks me to see a salvage giving lessons to his white masters.
You better get gas-masks and shrapnel helmets at the Salvage Dump over there!
We enter thesalvage dump--an empty front room littered with all kinds of implements, and ask for the apparently necessary gas-mask and helmet, which are carefully dusted by a whistling sergeant.
That made sense to all the ship captains, even Joe Kivelson, after Dad reminded him of how much the salvage job on the Javelin was going to cost.
Who, you perceived, had been in Afghanistan," I mentioned, trying to salvage something.
He was going to do something about raising the Javelin, and the salvage ship could stop here and pick everything up.
But after their first feeling of exultation had passed, they realized that they would be as well off on any other island, unless, indeed, they could salvage some of their diving apparatus from the sunken vessel.
Whoever performed the salvage was not required to turn the ship back to its owners until the fee had been paid, in whatever currency he cared to specify.
They couldn’t fire on him, but they could fake an "accident" that would cripple him and cost Consops millions of dollars in salvage fees.
Of course I have a share in the salvage too, but I'll take a cigar for mine.
Well, according to the law of the sea," said the captain with a twinkle in his eye, "he is salvage now and belongs to the men there who picked him up.
With growing caution he had been holding the situation unaided by the simple expedient of refusing to issue a salvage permit without which '58 Beta could not be touched.
Under the authority vested in this office I will issue instructions to have it picked up by a salvage ship tomorrow.
It may be within your jurisdiction tosalvage and all that, but I believe that the decision whether to salvage now rests with the legislature.
There was something about salvage----" But at the word salvage the sunburnt man exploded into language so extraordinarily horrible that I stopped aghast.
And the salvage people were mucking about with a chart he'd cooked up, as solemn as could be, at Starr Race, a hundred and twenty miles away.
Well, I think this is Perez Soto's last, desperate effort to establish his salvage rights to the Sea Islander.
Once we do that, there can be no doubt as to our salvage rights.
The thing to do now, and do it fast, was to get out to the sunken Sea Islander and stake his salvage claim.
All he wanted to do now was to establish his salvage rights, and do so in the shortest possible time.
As the giant breakers destroyed the upper works of the ship, much useful wreckage came ashore, and one calm day a visit was paid to her, which was rewarded by the salvage of several sails and a quantity of cordage.
All through the night the wind maintained a most unusual force, and hour by hour the work of salvage became increasingly difficult.
Making my way down to the beach I found the work of salvage in full swing, for the hull of the ship had broken apart so much that the floatable cargo was coming ashore in great quantities.
The hawsers being hauled taut at low tide, the vessel will lift off the bottom when the rise of tide lifts the salvage craft, and can then be {46} transported bodily elsewhere.
In his opinion salvage work presented no great difficulties.
And a ship which grounds in a locality affected by silt will have sand deposited against her sides much to the detriment of salvage operations.
Salvage operations must vary according to the circumstances of each particular case.
These general anti-salvage considerations, however, did not furnish us with all the data required.
Salvage is a highly technical subject, but a few {45} remarks at this stage are necessary if the reader is to appreciate the extent to which considerations of salvage affected the problem under discussion.
One of our main purposes in considering salvage operations was that of ascertaining the chief obstacles to salvage, so that we could provide the enemy with as many of those identical obstacles as lay in our power.
Thus, although the lock gateway, by reason of its small breadth, could be completely blocked by any suitable vessel sunk therein, the work of salvagewould be very much less difficult here than elsewhere.
Regarding the first-mentioned method, a small vessel can be lifted by passing hawsers beneath her and securing the ends to salvage craft on the surface overhead.
