BID TO SALVAGE 200-YEAR-OLD SUNKEN TREASURE HOARD
(N.Z.P.A. —Reuter—Copyright.)
(II a.m.)
LONDON, Dec. 12.
A private company will try soon to recover £10,000,000 worth of treasure from a sailing ship which sank ill 1782, says Reuter’s Pondoland correspondent.
The treasure includes jewels, gold and silver. The ship Grosvenor sank off the wild Pondoland coast. Cape of Goad Hope, while sailing from India to Britain.
She now lies 40 yards from the lowwater mark under Oft. of sand and 18ft. of water.
Shortly before the Grosvenor sailed the famous golden peacock thrones of Delhi disappeared and they were rumoured to be aboard. The Grosvenor carried 150 passengers and a crew, including women. The reports said that when the Grosvenor foundered 140 reached the shore but only 16 escaped alive from the hostile natives.
Many pale-skinned natives on the coast lend colour to the theory that the women on board were taken alive by the savages. Previous treasure seekers have failed in attempts to reach the Grosvenor's rich hoard.
The company making the latest attempt plans to build a jetty to the sunken wreck and is waiting for a giant crab crane from America.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22818, 13 December 1948, Page 5
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