NORTH SEA “TREASURE”
Salvage Scheme Abandoned
(Rec. 11 p.m.) GORKUM (Holland), Nov. 17. The dream of Piet Visser, a 55-year-old Dutch fruitgrower, was ended today with a declaration that his imagined treasure at the bottom of the North Sea was apparently only coal and coke. The dream was over, too, for 3000 other Dutchmen who invested their money in Mr Visser’s salvage scheme. Mr Visser claimed he could produce documents to prove that the wreck of the Renate Leonhardt, a German freighter torpedoed off the Dutch coast by a British submarine in 1917, contained 454 boxes of gold, silver and jewels. But a special committee appointed by the investors reported last night that there was “not a single indication that the Renate Leonhardt ever carried a cargo of gold.” The owners of the ship and other firms said she was only carrying coal and coke. *
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29055, 18 November 1959, Page 15
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