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Treasure hunters recover $50m in WWII silver from 3 miles below ocean surface
Posted on 4/15/15 at 11:51 pm
Posted on 4/15/15 at 11:51 pm
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The SS City of Cairo was torpedoed 772km (480 miles) south of St Helena by a German U-boat and sank to 5,150m.
The 100 tonnes of coins, recovered in the deepest salvage operation in history, belonged to HM Treasury.
The silver rupees had been called in by London to help fund the war effort.
But they never made it. The steamship's tall plume of smoke was spotted by a U-boat on 6 November 1942 and it was torpedoed.
Ten minutes later, amid efforts to abandon ship, the City of Cairo was hit with a second torpedo which sealed its fate.
The ship and its cargo was presumed lost until 2011, when a team led by British salvage expert John Kingsford located an unnatural object among the ridges and canyons of their South Atlantic search area.
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Posted on 4/15/15 at 11:54 pm to Jim Rockford
You don't actually get to keep it all.
Posted on 4/15/15 at 11:55 pm to Jim Rockford
There was a pawn stars episode awhile ago in which someone brought in a very, very similar bunch of treasure coins. I think they were from medieval india. It was all verified and legit and worth like 900k. Rick didn't buy them,.
What makes the coins conjoin to each other?
What makes the coins conjoin to each other?
Posted on 4/16/15 at 4:14 am to Jim Rockford
Crazy
Posted on 4/16/15 at 4:19 am to Jim Rockford
St. Helena
That's a place you can really get away from it all.
That's a place you can really get away from it all.
Posted on 4/16/15 at 6:27 am to Jim Rockford
The Royal Museum of London thanks them for their hard work and donation.
Posted on 4/16/15 at 7:09 am to Jim Rockford
and they won't be able to keep one penny of it. Stupid.... 
Posted on 4/16/15 at 2:33 pm to Jim Rockford
Posted on 4/16/15 at 2:47 pm to Jim Rockford
Under a contract with the UK government, underwater salvagers Deep Ocean Search (DOS) worked for several weeks searching a "jumbled up sea floor" twice the size of London, Mr Kingsford told the BBC.
If any of you had actually took 1 minute and read the article you would have seen where it said that the British government hired this team to look for the ship. There were paid a percentage of their find.
If any of you had actually took 1 minute and read the article you would have seen where it said that the British government hired this team to look for the ship. There were paid a percentage of their find.
This post was edited on 4/16/15 at 2:48 pm
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