The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-03-27
TREASURES LOST AT SEA.
sunken Riches Located in Dinereaf
Parts OF the WOrld-WOrk
r. of Recovery. - =

T ~ &~E - T. We, T. -SEES. :
It is not generally knon that at her
death Queen Victoria gave Princess
Beatrice the crown rights to the gold of
the Spanish armada. This gold lies in
comparatively shallow depths in the.
English channel. Its location is known
to the admiralty, and the value Of the
gold is said to be enormous. The right
is invested in the royal family, and
many offers have been made looking
towards its recovery. But the bottom
of the Atlantic is a vast treasure bed.
If a skillful mariner had a submarine
boat, and if the boat had a cyclopean,
eye in the hull Of it, it's owner might
easily rival a)Rothschild. n large
amount of this treasure is located as
accurately as the principal banks in our
great metropolis. Many a diver can
take you to a chart, lay his finger on
a number of spots and say: Go to
longitude SO and SO, in a latitude defn-
able within so feet. Dive deep enough
and bring; up a fortune" says London
Golden Penny.
Every wrecking company has it's own
private list of these ocean boards.
Some are being worked, while many
will doubtless become accessible in the
future. Last year the Boston wreck
ing company recovered $4,000 in gold
bars which had lain for 80 years or a
bank near Turks island. Twelve months
previously to this find a New York
company fshed up a couple of bags of
gold from an old-time wreck off Staten
island. In the United States there are
companies prepared to undertake the
hazardous business of recovering val
uables from wrecks. They employ the
best divers obtainable, and for days
these men work away and endeavor to
bring to the surface the lost treasures.
When the Spanish steamer Biscaya'
sank off Barnegat on November !, 1890,
a Well-known American wrecking COM
pany received the following telegram
from Havana: "Spare no expense to
recover the body of Don Pedro" Don
Redro, a wealthy Cuban merchant, was
aPassenger by the Inflated vessel. The
telegram came from the widow and
certainly seemed to indicate her devo-
ton for her husband. The wrecking
company fitted a tug, hired the best
divers and began the search. They
worked for many days, bringing up
ships officers and seamen-everybody
except the Cuban merchant. The
search was at last abandoned. Then
the company heard for the first time
that Don Pedro had a belt about his
body and in a wallet gems to the value
of $4,000.
In He'll Gate, at a spot marked witha
star in the charts OF wrecking offices,
lies the British man-of-war Hussar.
When she sank she carried $500, 900 in
cash to pay the British army just be-
fore the revolution. She sank in oalv
ten fathoms of water. AS late as 1894
a wrecking company had divers at work
upon the wreck. They brought up,a
few scattered gold coins, brass buttoas;
and some scrap iron. Another BlStkh!
ship, loaded with gold, captured FRI m
the Spaniards, lies at the bottom of
Chesapeake bay in only 40 feet of Wa
ter. She went down in 1870. Before
leaving the port at Lewes her captain
was heard to say: "We have gold
enough aboard to buy a kingdom"
just as she stood out from the land a
cyclone struck her. She keeled over
and went down. The body of the cap
tain was brought to shore and buried
at Lewes. Within recent years a con-
siderable amount of gold has been
brought up from her by divers.
At the base of Dunderberg, in the
Hudson river, lies a pirate vessel, with
81 bars of gold, a quantity of. plate. a
box of gold watches and a diamond
necklace on board. In September. 1887.
the Central American went down out
side Havana. She carried $500, 900 of
the precious metal. The wreck is set
down accurately in maritime records.
but unless some way is found by which
divers can work at a depth beyond 100
feet, this treasure will never be recov-
cred. Thirty years ago 300, 900 English
pounds Of gold were recovered from a
Spanish g%alleon by a diver named
Phipps in the West Indies. The gold
had been under waterloo years. Re-
Gently the Boston wrecking company
a:good deal of silver from the
wreck of the frigate Severn, a British
boat, which went down near Turks
island, in the West Indies, in 1893, with
$500, 600 worth of silver on board. She
hes in a basin, exposed to the rough
swell of the Atlantic. She is only 80
feet under water. The location of Tho
wreck is given as latitude p, longitude
SO degrees so minutes.
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