Landing craft were deployed to a wooden vessel and six flimsy dinghies, teeming with passengers.

The sediment preserved the remains of the wooden vessel and without this the wreck would have been lost due to worms.

Originally done by hand much like wooden vessel caulking, pneumatic tools were later employed.

She was a wooden vessel, purchased from a private owner specifically for survey work.

The use of steel enabled the addition of another hundred feet to the two hundred foot effective maximum length of a wooden vessel.