[HN Gopher] Doomed ship of gold's ghostly picture gallery is plu...
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       Doomed ship of gold's ghostly picture gallery is plucked from the
       seabed
        
       Author : benbreen
       Score  : 26 points
       Date   : 2022-02-28 00:32 UTC (2 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.theguardian.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.theguardian.com)
        
       | kingcharles wrote:
       | Amazing that all that time under the ocean and the surface of
       | these plates has survived almost undamaged. These are very early
       | photographs too, pre-U.S. Civil War.
        
         | etrevino wrote:
         | If they were daguerreotypes they were printed on silver plates.
         | I think they're supposed to be fairly resistant to water.
        
       | 1-more wrote:
       | This ship is the subject of the book "Ship of Gold in the Deep
       | Blue Sea" by Gary Kinder. The recovery crew was subjected to a
       | legal battle where the original insurers claimed ownership of the
       | gold since they paid out for its loss. The head of the recovery
       | team reportedly welched on his investors and went into hiding.
       | It's got twists and turns! Summary here:
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Central_America
        
         | edm0nd wrote:
         | Investors paid that guy 12M to recover 2-4M worth of gold.
         | Seems like a bad investment and then he "forgot" where he put
         | it and has been in jail ever since. Sucks for all investors
         | involved for sure.
        
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