Gold rush shipwreck offers up treasures off Welsh coast after 150 years

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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