Diving bell used for salvage operations on the wreck of H.M.S.Thetis scandal 27th July 1952

27th July 1952

meeting on the pavement outside Brooks's Club

by Colonel Sir Henry James

the negative number: '34321'

Diving bell used for salvage operations on the wreck of H.M.S.Thetis scandal 27th July 1952Maritime scene showing a diving bell stage or platform suspended from a hawser and cables stretched across the cove at Cape Frio [Cabo Frio] in the State of Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, where H. M. S Thetis sank. The platform is manned by members of the crew of H. M. S Algerine, two of whom are operating a fire engine hand pump supplying air to a diving bell. The bell is being lowered through a trap door in the platform and the feet of a diver manning the