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By Jasper Copping
The Telegraph, London
Sunday, July 17, 2011
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/8642353/Gold-rush-shipwreck-offer...
For more than 150 years it has lain tantalisingly close to the shore. Now the ship that sank
in a storm in 1859, claiming 450 lives, is giving up its most precious secret:
gold.
But this treasure trove is not in a distant tropical
lagoon -- it is near the Welsh ferry port of Holyhead,
in the remains of an ironclad steam clipper called the Royal Charter.
A team of explorers diving to the ship, which sank
off Anglesey while returning laden with riches from the Australian gold rush
of the 1850s, has brought gold coins and nuggets to the surface and expects
to retrieve more.
The ship foundered on rocks just yards from the
shore after a hurricane hit on the final leg of its journey from Melbourne to
Liverpool, on Oct 26, 1859. On board were gold prospectors returning with
their fortunes.
The story continues here : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/8642353/Gold-rush-shipwreck-offer...
CHRIS POWELL,
Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.
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