Lesson 32

A lost ship

一艘沉船

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  • Lesson 32
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  • A lost ship
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  • Did the crew of the Elkor find what they were looking for? Why?
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  • The salvage operation had been a complete failure.
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  • The small ship, Elkor, which had been searching the Barents Sea for weeks, was on its way home.
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  • A radio message from the mainland had been received by the ship's captain instructing him to give up the search.
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  • The captain knew that another attempt would be made later,
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  • for the sunken ship he was trying to find had been carrying a precious cargo of gold bullion.
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  • Despite the message, the captain of the Elkor decided to try once more.
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  • The sea bed was scoured with powerful nets
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  • and there was tremendous excitement on board when a chest was raised from the bottom
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  • Though the crew were at first under the impression that the lost ship had been found,
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  • the contents of the chest proved them wrong.
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  • What they had in fact found was a ship which had been sunk many years before.
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  • The chest contained the personal belongings of a seaman, Alan Fielding.
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  • There were books, clothing and photographs,
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  • together with letters which the seaman had once received from his wife.
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  • The captain of the Elkor
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  • ordered his men to salvage as much as possible from the wreck.
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  • Nothing of value was found,
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  • but the numerous items which were brought to the surface proved to be of great interest.
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  • From a heavy gun that was raised,
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  • the captain realized that the ship must have been a cruiser.
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  • In another chest which contained the belongings of a ship's officer,
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  • there was an unfinished letter which had been written on March 14th, 1943.
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  • The captain learnt from the letter that the name of the lost ship was the Karen.
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  • The most valuable find of all was the ship's log book,
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  • parts of which it was still possible to read.
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  • From this
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  • the captain was able to piece together all the information that had come to light.
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  • The Karen had been sailing in a convoy to Russia
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  • when she was torpedoed by an enemy submarine.
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  • This was later confirmed by a naval official at the Ministry of Defence after the Elkor had returned home.
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  • All the items that were found were sent to the War Museum.