The snow lodge was built on the lines of a classic lodge, with a two-story lobby, using timbers salvaged from buildings that were being demolished.

After the event, one of Margate's oldest pubs, the "Watermans Arms" was renamed the "Northern Belle", and timber salvaged from the shipwreck was used to renovate the pub.

But by the 1980's severe decay required its dismantling, with some original timbers salvaged for a full reconstruction, completed in 1990.

The decay of the Niagara was so bad that it was dismantled and ultimately destroyed, with various timbers salvaged and used in non-structural areas of the ship.

It was constructed mostly by volunteers from timbers salvaged from the Meadows and Brumbaugh bridges which were dismantled in 1979.

The bill would increase immediately by about three billion board feet a year the amount of timber salvaged from areas deemed unhealthy by the Forest Service, a part of the Department of Agriculture.

The stone used in its construction was quarried from the island's phosphate rock, the timber salvaged from shipwrecks, and shells burnt to make lime for mortar.

Native building materials were used including cedar shingles, native rock and weathered timbers salvaged from a fire in 1885.

Some in Congress are demanding that the Forest Service double the amount of timber salvaged from dead and dying forests to more than six billion board feet in each of the next two years.

It is known as Kea's Ark, and its hand-hewn keel and ribs are made of timbers salvaged from buildings in the Central Ward.