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Team may have found ship wrecked in 1694

New York Times

Published Feb 24, 2002
In 1694, as England and its allies battled French expansionism for a fifth year, the HMS Sussex led a large fleet into the Mediterranean to prosecute the war. It also had a secret mission, documents show. The flagship, a new British warship of 80 guns and 500 men, appears to have carried a small fortune in treasure to buy the loyalty of the Duke of Savoy, a shaky ally.

But a violent storm hit the flotilla near the Strait of Gibraltar and the Sussex went down. All but two men died. The treasure -- apparently gold and silver coins in theory worth up to $4 billion today -- was never recovered.

Now, three centuries later, a team of entrepreneurs and archaeologists working with the British government says it has probably discovered the Sussex in the depths of the Mediterranean. A half mile down, the team`s robot has examined a large mound rich in cannons, anchors and solidified masses of artifacts, and its mechanical arm has gingerly lifted a few to the surface.

The identification of the tantalizing heap is not final, but the circumstantial evidence is strong. When asked about the wreck, the British Defense Ministry said that the recovered artifacts "lead us to believe that those items came from a British Sovereign vessel, most probably the wreck of HMS Sussex."

The discovery could rank as one of the most important from the sea. If plans proceed for an excavation of the site, archival and field research suggests, the remains of the Sussex could yield the richest wreck of modern times and illuminate a lost chapter in world history.

The loss of the Sussex`s payment, historians say, appears to have sent the Duke of Savoy into the French camp, altering the war`s outcome as well as European and American history.

"We`re resurrecting history," said Greg Stemm, operations director of Odyssey Marine Exploration Inc., a Tampa, Fla., company that leads the project.

Although divers have gone deeper to retrieve lost artifacts, miles in the case of the Titanic, those explorations were relatively superficial compared with the difficulty of teasing out material and historical information from disheveled piles of decaying ship remains. At a half mile down, the excavation would be the deepest attempted in the annals of archaeology.

"We must not lose this knowledge," said Anna Marguerite McCann, a marine archaeologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has studied Roman wrecks in the deep Mediterranean.

Odyssey is working with the Royal Naval Museum at Portsmouth, England, which advises the British Defense Ministry.

An expedition is planned for this spring. Stemm said any coins were most likely carried near the bottom of the ship and were probably now as much as 15 feet beneath the top of the debris pile.

"It is highly likely that this shipwreck will provide the greatest collection of artifacts ever assembled from the reign of England`s William and Mary," says a draft Odyssey plan. The company foresees books, a permanent museum and traveling exhibits.

http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/1645826.html

[GOLDONLY03]

Und es kommt noch viel schlimmer ...

- Wenn man das Gold aus sämtlichen Weltmeeren der Welt ...
- Oder das Gold unter der Antarktis (Leider sehr tief)
- Oder das Gold von anderen Planeten
- Oder das Gold in sämtlichen Tresoren der Banken.
- Oder am Besten das Gold des gesamten Universums

... Dann würde der Goldpreis sinken. Wohl war !!



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[GOLDONLY03]

Und es kommt noch viel schlimmer ...

- Wenn man das Gold aus sämtlichen Weltmeeren der Welt ...
- Oder das Gold unter der Antarktis (Leider sehr tief)
- Oder das Gold von anderen Planeten
- Oder das Gold in sämtlichen Tresoren der Banken.
- Oder am Besten das Gold des gesamten Universums

... Dann würde der Goldpreis sinken. Wohl war !!



GO

[GOLDONLY03]

Und es kommt noch viel schlimmer ...

- Wenn man das Gold aus sämtlichen Weltmeeren der Welt ...
- Oder das Gold unter der Antarktis (Leider sehr tief)
- Oder das Gold von anderen Planeten
- Oder das Gold in sämtlichen Tresoren der Banken.
- Oder am Besten das Gold des gesamten Universums

... Dann würde der Goldpreis sinken. Wohl war !!



GO

[GOLDONLY03]

Und es kommt noch viel schlimmer ...

- Wenn man das Gold aus sämtlichen Weltmeeren der Welt ...
- Oder das Gold unter der Antarktis (Leider sehr tief)
- Oder das Gold von anderen Planeten
- Oder das Gold in sämtlichen Tresoren der Banken.
- Oder am Besten das Gold des gesamten Universums

... Dann würde der Goldpreis sinken. Wohl war !!



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