Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1903-05-21
RICHESUNDER WATER
Vast Amount of Treasures Located
at Ocean Bottom.
Methods Employed in bringing sunk
en- Fortunes 40 the Surface
where some Lost
HOards Lie.

1t 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 eyclopean
| eye in the hull of il, its owner might
easily rival Rothschild. \ large
amount Of this treasure is located as
accurately as the principal banks in our
great metropolis. Many diver can
take you to chart, lay his finger on
a number Of spots and say: Go to
longitude so and so, in a latitude detin-
able within 50 feet. Dive deep enough
and bring up a fortune, says London
Golden Penny.
Every wrecking company has its 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 90 years on a
bank near Turks island. Twelve months
previously to this find New York
company tished up a couple Of bags of
gold from an old-time wreck of Staten
island. In the United States there are
companies prepared to undertake the
hazardous business of recovering yal-
uables from wrecks. They employ the
best divers obtainable, and for days
these men work away and endearor TO
bring to the surface the lost treasures.
When the Spanish steamer Biscaya
sank off Barnegat on November 1, 1890,
a well-known American wrecl1ing COM
pany received the following telegram
from Havana: spare no expense to
recover the body of Don Pedro" Don
Pedro, a wealthy Cuban merchant, was
passenger 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-everybo
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 wallet gems to the value
of $4,000.
In HelFGate, at spot marked with
star in the charts of wrecldng offices,
lies the British man-of-war Hussar.
When she sank she carried 100000 in
cash TO pay the British army just be-
fore the revolution. She sank in only
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 buttons
and some scrap iron. Another British
ship, loaded with gold, captured from
the Spaniards, lies at the bottom Of
Chesapeake bay in only As feet of wa
ter. She went down in $780, 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 con-
siderable amount of gold has been
brought up from her by divers.
At the base of Dunderberg, in the
Hudson river, lies pirate vessel, with
81 bars Of gold, quantity of plate,
box of gold watches and a diamond
necklace on board. In September. 1857.
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 depth beyond 100
feet, this treasure win never be recoy-
cred. Thirty years ago 300, 600 English
pounds Of gold were recovered from a
Spanish galleon by a diver named
Phipps in the West Indies. The gold
had been under water 200 years. Re-
Gently the Boston wrecking company
secured a good deal of silver from the
wreck Of the frigate Severn, Z British
boat, which went down near Turks
island, in the West Indies, in 1898. with
100000 worth of silver on board. She
lies in a basin, exposed to the rough
swell Of the Atlantic. She is only 80
feet under water. The location Of the
wreck is given as latitude p, longitude
60 degrees so minutes.