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Since tractor restoration seems to be the topic du jour, you might be interested in this:
<https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cedvz39g210o>
For those geo-blocked:
A plan to rescue a World War Two-era tractor from a sunken US Navy ship
has been hatched by a tractor fanatic.
The never-used International Harvester A-14 is chained to the deck of
the USS Hornet, which was sunk in the Pacific Ocean by Japanese bombers
in 1942.
The aircraft carrier lies 17,500ft (5,300m) below sea level, but school
site manager Tobias Wedgwood from Shepton Mallet in Somerset has plans
to retrieve it.
Bruce <07.013@scorecrow.com> wrote:
Since tractor restoration seems to be the topic du jour, you might be
interested in this:
<https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cedvz39g210o>
For those geo-blocked:
A plan to rescue a World War Two-era tractor from a sunken US Navy ship
has been hatched by a tractor fanatic.
The never-used International Harvester A-14 is chained to the deck of
the USS Hornet, which was sunk in the Pacific Ocean by Japanese bombers
in 1942.
The aircraft carrier lies 17,500ft (5,300m) below sea level, but school
site manager Tobias Wedgwood from Shepton Mallet in Somerset has plans
to retrieve it.
Wouldn't it be smarter to build a replica of the aircraft carrier
and the tractor, then sink them in shallower water, just to make it
a bit easier to recover?
Since tractor restoration seems to be the topic du jour, you might be interested in this:
<https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cedvz39g210o>
For those geo-blocked:
A plan to rescue a World War Two-era tractor from a sunken US Navy ship
has been hatched by a tractor fanatic.
The never-used International Harvester A-14 is chained to the deck of
the USS Hornet, which was sunk in the Pacific Ocean by Japanese bombers
in 1942.
The aircraft carrier lies 17,500ft (5,300m) below sea level, but school
site manager Tobias Wedgwood from Shepton Mallet in Somerset has plans
to retrieve it.
OTOH my father, who flew Swordfish torpedo bombers of carriers in the
Pacific in WWII also lost one of the Firth of Froth near the Bass Rock
which he always reckoned should be recoverable?
OTOH my father, who flew Swordfish torpedo bombers of carriers in the
Pacific in WWII also lost one of the Firth of Froth near the Bass Rock
which he always reckoned should be recoverable?
On 25 Aug 2025 15:25:23 GMT, Chris Deuchar <chrisnd@privacy.net>
wrote:
OTOH my father, who flew Swordfish torpedo bombers of carriers in the
Pacific in WWII also lost one of the Firth of Froth near the Bass Rock
which he always reckoned should be recoverable?
A Tractor, or a Swordfish?
Chris Deuchar <chrisnd@privacy.net> wrote:
OTOH my father, who flew Swordfish torpedo bombers of carriers in the
Pacific in WWII also lost one of the Firth of Froth near the Bass Rock
which he always reckoned should be recoverable?
My Icelander friend told me that in 1979, his father was among those
helping to recover a Northrop N-3PB Nomad from a river bottom in
Iceland where it had crashed in 1943.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_N-3PB_Nomad#Surviving_aircraft