The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-06
Copyrighted, 1895.

Il
/ every banking firm in Lombard street
! dispatched a member in charge of its
j., own cash contribution.
| moreover, as many legal questions
/ might arise, an experienced notary-his
name is preserved. Mr.. Schabra ch-was
secured 10 accompany the party and adj
was insured principally at LlOyds.
| A., arlous ideas, and nothing quite au-
InoEltatiVe, prevail as to the exact amount
OF board the Lutine- Some say the specie
winch was in coins of all sorts, gold anc
SILVER, gumeas, golden piastres, double
IIais q or, Sieilian gold pieces, double
plastres and dollars, also in gold and si;-
| yer DarS, reached total value of upward
| OF mlihon, The only contemporary re-
h tba Is mat IN the Annual Register and In
s sne 1entlemans Magazine for 1893, which
nxes the amount lost at merely f14O.OOO;
D Dut Liloyd.s underwriters are said to have
another sum of 100000 was insured in
inamourg, and there was f127 900 in pub
nc MON Money Tor pay to the troops"
Ell, Wnat happened to the Lutine?.
gu shall hear. In the early part OF
OctoDer, 1873, she was ordered round TO
n narino9tn to take treasure on board ana
proceed 10 Elbe. Her captain was one
L4ancelot SKINNER, r. ~, an officer OF
9lstlnctlon, and-no doubt his nilsson was
iiiiiI SeIIl 10 ms taste The short voyage was
Fne 70 Drlng him considerable profit
dor II was the rule to pay naval captains
i. UiiiinIsSlon OF one per cent on the total
ON the evening of the 5th October the
Lutlne lay in Yarmouth roads with a
merry party on board. The caDtain no
e eUeDd IN IN excellent spirits, had given
grand pan to the leading people in and
ABOUT Yarmouth. The last of the guests
nad hardly gone ashore when peremptory
Yntina lame b, from the admiralty that she
LuiI Ie snould forthwith go to sea. She
ssalIeu IN the early morning of the 9Th, and
from mat time very little was heard of
her again.
1t IS however known that she steered
straight course for Cuxhaven. al the
mouth of the Elbe, wind strong from
~ n; a.. W., and greatly in favor. After
iandlng passengers and treasure the Iu-
tine was to onvoy a fleet of merchant
men to the Baltic. She must have made
most rapid and prosperous run; the
Wlhu nad increased to three parts of a
gale, but she held on her course without
lear or thought of coming danger. Some
n nidst en-, sighted her just before mid
nlght, and reported that contrary 10 the
usual custom of kings ships at that late
nIour, she was brilliantly lighted up, and
there We're sounds of merriment on board
ct soon after midnight, going free
ana under full press of sail She Struck
on the outer bank of the island of Vile
iand (FIyland, the next to the Texel.
IN the mouth of the Zuyder zee. She
must nave been slightly out of the
course, and It is said that there was a
| tastrophe.'
Did she go DOWN.
During the night. certainly-probably
at once-with ships company, passengers,
Another kings ship, the Arrow. can't.
Portlock,, was in company but she could
give no help, nor the Schools or fish
ing boats of the coast, and when day
broke there was no Lutine. only two sur
Vivors We're picked up by a Dutch lugger
az daylight clinging to the wreckage, one
OF whom died almost Immediately and
the other, Mr.. Schabrach the notary
very soon afterwards died, but not until
he had told the little he knew
And is the money still there? Has
nOInln2 been done to
"Oh, a great deal.s There have been
repeated attempts, extending over many
years, and the most serious and sustain
ed are in progress at this present time.
How much has been got up?'
Wen, in the year Immediately follow
ing, when the whole thing was fresh and
before the sand had silted or drifted over
the wreck, the Dutchmen fished up some
10000. Then more systematic and some
really costly efforts were made, and by
1879 another $4,000 was recovered. There
was good deal of trouble with the
Dutch government, but it eventually sur
rendered to Lloyd's it's claim to royalty;
litigation and all sorts of trouble; but
now, at last, fresh start has been
made" ~
"By whom%
1.-THE present operations were begun In
1892, by an English engineer, Mr.. Fletch-
er, who had been engaged on the DHtch
coast in raising a sunken dredger. He
became interested in the Lutine, and as
sociating himself with another eminent
engineer, Mr.. Rinipple, they have APP
preached the business in novel way.
Their idea Is to clear the ship of sand but
TO enclose her in a central area or dock
faced by sandbags, which will prevent
further sitting, while they ransack the
interior of the wreck by divers. This area
is 200 feet In diameter, from which the
sand will be removed by powerful suction
dredgers.
1T Is calculated that a lesser area of
some fifty feet encloses the ship and the
bullion chamber, possibly a much less
area; but it is supposed that the chamber
has been broken. up and its contents dis
persed some distance around. No doubt
the heavy bars of bullion will have worked
deep down into the sandals the guns must
have done, for only two have been recov-
cred; but they will be found as the sand.
is removed Loose coins-many of them
will be probably sucked up through the
perforated tables on top the sand will
pass freely away, but the coins will be
retained. But the bars of gold are what
will be looked for most eagerly"
why sop
Because we believe that the question of
total value depends upon the number of
bars that are to be found: A certain num-
Der have been found; this supports the
theory that there are many more, and 1
will tell you why. All bullion bars bear
certain marks, and with each mark goes
q series of numbers, say from l to 100, or
something of that sort. Now, bars with
eighteen different marks have been found
marks such as NIB, MILL, HIS, p.
and c., and the rest, and on each bar
besides the mark there is a numeral.
THUS the LII series has twenty
three numbers, some high, some low; on
the NIB. there are eighteen numbers, on
the B. B ten, and so on. The inference is
and the Bank of England is inclined to
this view-that all the intervening num-
bers between the lowest and highest found
with any alphabetical mark were put on
board the Lutine in 1893.
unfortunately no direct evidence can
be obtained either at the admiralty or
banks, not yet by advertisement, as to
the actual number and value of the gold
and silver bars shipped; we are only left
to conjecture from reasonable premises
that lot of them remain in the wreck
Upon the hypothesis that all the inter-
mediate numbers were sent, there are 245
bars of gold unaccounted for; upon this
theory $50 must have been shipped. and we
know that eighty-fve have been found
On the same grounds it is assumed that
there are seventy-nine bars of silver in
the wreck 176 having been originally
shipped and ninety-seven recovered
DO you expect this latest attempt at
recovery to succeed"
ut ought to do so. see no reason why
1t should not. 1t combats the chief OBJ
stacle, the sand-the restlessly drifting,
slow, but always pertinacious sand
which has swallowed up the ship, its
armament, great guns and ammunition,
and its precious burden of treasure.
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