LOOT OF PIRATES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18163, 10 August 1933, Page 7

LOOT OF PIRATES

BRITISH • EXPEDITION

EXPECTS TO FIND TREASURE

LONDON, June 30,

Treasure buried long ago by pirates who had stolen it in raids on merchantmen is believed to be within the grasp of an expedition led by Mr. Stratford D. Jolly, an English adventurer, who with his party set out from Brixham more than a year ago' in a converted steam trawler. At least Mr. Jolly believes the treasure is within reach. He has returned to England for a short time hut will continue the search in another vessel, the trawler having been sold 1 . Ono of their party, Mr. Frank Cooper, who gave up a post in the glove-manufacturing industry at Yoovil to join the expedition as gold diviner, was able to locate at Trinidad a number of sunken Spanish galleons, which were scuttled in 1797 to avoid capture by the British fleet, according to Mr. Jolly’s story.. Finding the galleons, he said, was as easy as could be for Cooper, who used) for the purpose only a gramophone spring. “That Cooper’s work was successful,wo know,” said M.r. Jolly, “because we took soundings, and were able to trace the actual shape of the sunken ships. They arc down in only seven fathoms of water —a depth easy for divers to work in —and, abovo all, they are in a very sheltered part.”