GREAT TREASURE TROVE.
WRECKED BELGIAN STEAMER. GEMS VALUED AT £1,250,000. London, August 2. The Paris correspondent of the Times says Italian divers recovered a steel chest containing 13,000 carats of diamonds and quantities of other precious stones, valued at £l, 250,000, from the wreck of the Belgian steamer, Elizabethville, which was sunk by a German submarine in 1917. The sunken ship lias been lying 40 fathoms deep off Belle Isle, off Hie south coast of Brittany, ever since.
It was known that precious stones were in the captain’s cabin. The owners of French trawlers undertook to search the wreck last May, but were unsuccessful. Thereupon an Italian salvage ship, the Arliglio, which is specially fitted out for deep-sea work, was ordered from her base at Genoa to make a fresh search.
The divers located the wreck on June 20 and found the captain’s cabin a week later. It was necessary to pierce the deck and force a way through the iron debris caused by the submarine’s torpedoes, one of which had dislodged the chest, which it had been feared was irretrievably lost.
•However, the divers continued directing the Artiglio’s electromagnet lifts of 30 tons, and discovered the chest.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3828, 7 August 1928, Page 1
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