UK salvage company Britannia's Gold (BGL) has said it is "immensely frustrated" by delays to its war-wreck cargo retrieval plans caused by Covid-19.

The firm has previously used chartered-in offshore support vessels (OSVs) to try to recover bullion and other valuable cargo trapped within sunken vessels off the UK and Ireland.

But in February, it signalled a switch to South-East Asia during the northern hemisphere winter - just before the coronavirus shut down its unnamed target country.