COCOS ISLAND TREASURE
BRITISH PARTY PLANS SEARCH (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, April 8. Mr Daniel Evans, a motor mechanic, and Mr Kenneth Charles, a commercial traveller, both of Hayes, Middlesex. plan to sail in an 80ft yawl for Cocos Island in search of buried treasure. Cocos Island, in the Pacific, has often lured parties in search of the legendary buried treasure of Sir Henry Morgan. Mr Evans has done a lot of research and he believes that the treasure has been buried in Cocos and not found. The couple have advertised for a crew to sail the yawl and, with others, have floated a company with a capital of £BOOO to promote their search. So far they have had 1400 applications from would-be members of the crew. Mr Evans said: “We hope to set out from London or Southampton in August. We shall take frogmen’s suits and dive after wrecks. No-one can say that the treasure will be discovered, so we are arranging to supplement the income of the ship’s crew by trading between ports en route. We also intend to make a film of the entire voyage.”.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27011, 10 April 1953, Page 14
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