This report is to make it known that the plans will stand as they were back in 1966 and amended in Jersey, Channel islands (Salvors International Limited) (Captain Kingsley, Brian Hamilton).
Further meetings were held at the Avoncourt Hotel (off Cromwell Road, London). The agreement of the salvage of the Queen Elizabeth was recorded, made and confirmed by Mr. Kingsley, Mr. Hamilton and recorded by Mr. Philip Slade on 17th April 1974, also on 9th April 1974. Both letters were witnessed. The letters are contained in a file in Hong Kong in both the Marine Department and The Public Records Office under personal data (privacy ordinance, ref 60 in MD/7/011/73-303).
These documents are from the confidential files relating to the salvage of the Queen Elizabeth (Seawise University), the information was provided by Miss Florence Chow for the Director of Marine and Bernard Hui from The Public Records Office and with the help of Mike Gapes, MP for Ilford from the House of Commons.
The right honourable Lord Malloch-Brown Minister of State and the Consulate General of Hong Kong. An appraisal was made by Mr. Robert MacDougall in one of his reports. They were also published by Mr. David Davis and Mr. Robert MacLeod of the Seawise & Titanic Society in Dagenham, Essex.
Under the survey that was made on the Queen Elizabeth, by a company from Coventry University. It waas found that the ship is still there in the Ramblers Channel in Hong Kong and the superstructure has been flipped over and rests alongside. A salvage company confirmed this.
She may be embedded in mud, but salvaging the remains will not be impossible.
As we understand, the Queen Elizabeth is a very important part of the project, and will remain so as a pilot project for the main event, the salvaging of the Titanic.
What has been done to date, is that a survey was made in 1978 by Seawise & Titanic Salvage Limited and Fathom Line Limited, in the persons of Mr. Philip Slade, Mr. Clive Ramsey, Commander Gratton, Diving Consultant and Doctor Nick Fleming (marine advisor). These are the names that obtained the first photographs of R.M.S. Titanic of 1912. The company was set up by Mr. Douglas J. Faulkner Woolley, Mr. Philip Slade, Mr. Clive Ramsey and Mr. Joe Wilkins. Mr. Derek Berwin was contracted as Public Relations and underwater photographic specialist. He originally came from Loughton, Essex. It has since been found there was probably an oral contract made with Kelvin Hughes (Smiths Electronics), for Kelvin Hughes to provide underwater survey equipment at £55.00 per day plus as much media and television coverage as can be achieved.
What we do know, the survey did go ahead and the matter is outlined in a report by Dr. Paul Lee of Woking in Surrey (Professor at York University). Douglas J. Faulkner Woolley obtained the information of the survey prior to Dr. Paul Lee when Mr. Robert MacLeod went onto his computer and found a record of £6,500,000 that was not accounted for. As a result, Douglas J. Faulkner Woolley and others started to examine all the company records, all the press files and all the books that were published by various people, including a book by Mr. Jack Grimm entitled ‘Beyond Reach’. The co-author was William Hoffman and this is a quote from the book (page 154):
“Perhaps Woolley has beaten us to the site in secret and found the Titanic. He goes out to say I doubt it, from the little I know of his plan from newspaper accounts”.
A book by Robert Serling called ‘There’s Something Alive On The Titanic’. Although the book is fictitious, various clues in it indicate it is not as fictional as it seems. For example- Mr. Clive Ramsey can be identified as a character called Mr. Derek Montague (Mr. Ramsey lived in Montague Suare, London). The remark in the book is as follows:
“ I regret to inform you that (Dr. Robert) Ballard’s 1985 French-American expedition was not the first to discover the wreck of the Titanic, nor was Ballard’s 1986 expedition expedition the first to explore the ship in detail”.
The book also refers to Mr. Montague’s visit to Southampton Maritime Museum. This was in connection with a friend who was doing research for a book. The author of that book had asked Montague (Ramsey) to examine any available papers relating to the ship’s cargo. Mr. Clive Ramsey took some confidential papers to the Canadian High Commission in London and then the papers were transferred to the Americans (Ballard & Grimm), hence the similarity. The original documents are held by the British Government because of the activities of the Russian, British an American Secret Services.
It would have been mathematically impossible for the photographs from Dr. Ballard’s survey of the Titanic to have appeared in the newspapers the same day the story was broken, so the photographs must have come from the Seawise & Fathom Line H.M.S 1978 survey.
We have studied the Dr. Paul Lee Sollis Report and Mr. Robert MacDougall’s report on the subject. What we need is to put the records straight with no more cover-ups. We have had a very good meeting in Southamton at the British Titanic Society Gala Exhibition, with some very important guests from America who all confirmed what we believed about the Sollis Project (H.M.S. Hecate 1978 survey)
Going over what we have written, they say they did not know who lit the six fires on board the Queen Elizabeth, but though it is common knowledge we are unable to name the culprit or culprits because of high politics and is why the courts gave that particular verdict in 1972. We feel there should be a new enquiry.
We are putting this report together in aid to raise funds and raise the tempo, so we can get the project underway to raise both the Queen Elizabeth and R.M.S. Titanic.
Douglas J. Faulkner Woolley