frank Posted February 2, 2009 Report Share Posted February 2, 2009 Check out the news! NYTimes article 2-2-09 Check out especially the accompanying picture: it shows one of the enormous bronze cannons that helped searchers identify the wreck as the Victory. What they don't comment on in the caption is the pile of coins in the sand next to it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hussulo Posted February 2, 2009 Report Share Posted February 2, 2009 Check out the news!NYTimes article 2-2-09 Check out especially the accompanying picture: it shows one of the enormous bronze cannons that helped searchers identify the wreck as the Victory. What they don't comment on in the caption is the pile of coins in the sand next to it... Very cool. Who gets to keep the loot? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Posted February 2, 2009 Report Share Posted February 2, 2009 This is really exciting stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kristofer Posted February 4, 2009 Report Share Posted February 4, 2009 I heard rumors, but that's cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frank Posted February 4, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 4, 2009 I should have noted that of course it wasn't Nelson's HMS Victory (from the Napoleonic wars) that was found; that ship --much renovated-- survives to the present day and is in dry dock as a museum in England. It was an earlier ship, equally first-rate, that sunk in 1744. Some people objected giving the name of the earlier shipwrecked Victory to the newer ship, saying it was bad luck. Well, I guess it was bad luck personally for Nelson, who was killed on the Víctory's quarterdeck by a sharpshooter at Trafalgar, but he does live on in fame I guess... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgk920 Posted February 4, 2009 Report Share Posted February 4, 2009 Very cool. Who gets to keep the loot? It'll likely be split up in some percentage between the Crown and the salvage company. Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hussulo Posted February 4, 2009 Report Share Posted February 4, 2009 For anyone that's interested they are showing a program about this find on the Discovery Channel (UK) Sunday at 9pm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke_idk Posted February 26, 2009 Report Share Posted February 26, 2009 It'll likely be split up in some percentage between the Crown and the salvage company. Mike International right clearly statues that ownership of a military ship, recovered from the abyss, belongs to its ancient "propertor", in this case UK's government. There have been other quarrels, before, between that salvage company and Spanish government, for a similar case, since the company looked like it was going to refuse to recognize spanish property. Other disputes coming? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowdesk Posted February 26, 2009 Report Share Posted February 26, 2009 An interesting article and discovery! As a side note, I wonder if the lighthouse keeper of Alderney, who was charged with failing to keep its lights on at the time of the ship’s disappearance, will get his name posthumously cleared after all these centuries since the ship didn't go down where they thought it did at the time. Imagine how a false claim like that would have ruined the guy's life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hiho Posted March 10, 2009 Report Share Posted March 10, 2009 You had me at "four tons of gold coins"... From the article..... "At the news conference, Jason Williams, a television producer for the Discovery Channel, said four tons of gold coins would fetch about $125 million if melted down or $1 billion if sold for their historical value." No one in their right mind would melt uncirculated British gold coins minted in the mid 1740's, would they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ætheling Posted April 8, 2009 Report Share Posted April 8, 2009 The link from the article went to a report on the shipwreck finds and it appears that the majority of the coins are probably Portuguese, not British. Pity because a few thousand extra guineas on the market would do wonders to drop the prices! (Well at least a little). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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