DIVERS TO ATTEMPT RECOVER TREASURE
EGYPT’S GOLD, 360 FEET DEEP, MAY BE RAISED. By Telegraph. —Press Assn. —Copyright Aus. and N.Z. Cable Association. PARIS, April 25. French and German divers leave Brest on May 11 to salvage £1,000,000 in gold and silver aboard the P. and O. liner Egypt, which lies 350 ft deep, where she sank on May 30, 1922. The operations are expected to last four months. The P. and O. liner Egypt came into collision with a French v£s&el of! LVnant and went down, fifteen of the passengers and eighty of the crew losing their lives.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17831, 27 April 1926, Page 15
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