H.M.S. Breconshire Raised Off Malta -- H.M.S. Breconshire completely afloat. Admiralty salvage experts have, by what is regarded as a classic piece of salvage, raised HMS Breconshire, the former merchant ship which made a a series of historic voyages under the White Ensign to supply Malta during the war years. Patched and bottom upwards but buoyant, she is now being towed from Malta to Genda where she is to be broken up.Three salvage ships under Captain O.T. Harrison, Chief Salvage Officer for the Boom Defence Department, Admiralty, in the R.F.A. Sea Salvor and a team of eight divers raise the vessel in the face of great technical difficulties and hazards which would have dismayed any but the most fearless underwater men. September 19, 1950. (Photo by Associated Press Photo)