The Wingham Advance-Times, 1965-11-18, Page 16Page 8 Wingham Advance -Times, Thursday, Nov. 3.8, 1965
DETERMINED TO RAISE the Andrea Doria, Captain Don
Henry and his wife, Pat, stand by the helm of their tug,
being outfitted for the project. Sunk in the Atlantic in
1956 off Nantucket Island when in collision with the
Swedish freighter, Stockholm, the ship and cargo are es-
timated to be worth $60 million.
orn to the Purple
Purple was once a color re-
served for the Roman emperors.
Symbol of pomp and power,
this imperial color has a long
history.
Fifteen centuries B.C. the
Phoenicians made purple dye.
They had discovered the secret
of a Mediterranean shellfish.
When its jellow juice was ex-
posed to the sun it changed
through all the colors of the
spectrum till it finally remain-
ed a brilliant and unfading pur-
ple. But they had to crush so
many thousand shellfish for so
little dye that purple was only
for the rich and the mighty.
The high priests in the tem-
ples of the Israelites wore pur-
ple robes and so did the Greek
generals. The Roman emperors,
Caesar and Augustus both de-
creed that none but the emper-
or might wear the purple.
Under Nero, the wearing
and even the sale of purple were
punishable by death.
In those earlier centuries
there were only two authentic
shades of royal purple — a dark
bluish shade, and the deep red
Tyrian purple. Today the world
of fashion has at its disposal a
variety of shades from the pal-
est cyclamen to the most vivid
There's Gold in
Them Thar Hills
By Frank Ayerst
Like most mortals, Captain
Don Henry hopes to raise a lit-
tle money -- $60 million in
fact, give or take a doubloon.
Henry merely plans to refloat
the Italian luxury liner, Andrea
Doria, sunk in the Atlantic in
July, 1956, after a collision
with the Swedish ship, Stock-
holm.
This Captain Audacious is
prepared to gamble an outlay
of up to $4 million on the esti-
mated $60 million -prize, at-
tractive odds in most any game
of chance.
A Detroit -born seaman who
now calls Toronto his home,
the 43 -year-old master diver
and sea captain and his wife,
Pat, will guide his tug out of
Toronto harbor in mid-October.
Henry expects to have the
Andrea Doria floating like a
champagne cork after pumping
the sunken hull full of white
cellular plastic pellets, each
about an inch in diameter.
"Five days after she went
down, I made a dive to see how
she looked. She's on her side
in 225 feet of water off Nan-
tucket Island. I've made more
than 50 exploratory dives there
since."
Henry says the 29,760 -ton
Doria's cargo includes priceless
Michaelangelo and Rembrandt
paintings, an Italian bank ship-
ment of gold, industrial dia-
monds, $1,000,000 cash, neg-
otiable bonds and jewellery, a
$200, 000 Chrysler experimental
car by Ghia, a Rolls Royce,
eight other cars and 1,750 bags
of mail for the U.S.
"She'll appear at the surface
either bottom up or on her side
and we'll right her there before
towing her into port," he pre-
dicted. "I can only afford to
make one try and this is it."
fuchsia.
These modern dyestuffs are
synthetic, and are manufactur-
ed by an industry that owed its
foundation to William Perkin's
discovery of the first synthetic
dye — incidentally a purple
shade — Mauveine.
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