[HN Gopher] Doomed ship of gold's ghostly picture gallery is plu... ___________________________________________________________________ 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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-03-02 23:00 UTC)