Port Nickolson freighter found off of Cape Cod

[Jimbuna]

In the article link below it shows that not all salvage is kept by the finders...the British government is still undecided on whether to make a claim:

In another case, a Tampa exploration company has been ordered by the courts to return $500 million worth of treasure from a Spanish warship to Spain. The ship was sunk by the British navy during a battle off Portugal in 1804.

http://www.tntmagazine.com/news/worl...port-nicholson

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It didn't take too many finds like that for governments to try and horn in on the action when these treasure hunters strike it big.

It didn't take too many finds like that for governments to try and horn in on the action when these treasure hunters strike it big.

Errrr...the legal owners have legal rights, every salvage company knows that before they start so no government is horning in on anything

In the article link below it shows that not all salvage is kept by the finders

Is that the one where they just lost in court because they stole the spanish gold and smuggled it out via Gibraltar thus causing a big diplomatic problem in addition to the attempt at theft?

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Tribesman

Is that the one where they just lost in court because they stole the spanish gold and smuggled it out via Gibraltar thus causing a big diplomatic problem in addition to the attempt at theft?

I couldn't honestly say because I know nothing of the case other than the details in the article link I posted earlier.

details in the article

Spanish off portugal 1804.... in the papers last week........It was the Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes, the salvage company is Odyssey, the main court hearings were in Florida and Georgia plus there was an earlier counterclaim on the gold made by Peru.
First they had claimed that the ship was unidentifiable(despite being already covered by very strict salvage regulations in those waters) then after positive identification from the cannon and artifacts they had recovered they tried to start a wild goose chase defence of claiming that instead of handing the money to the government they would attempt to track the decendants of the lost crew and maybe give them shares.
Odyssey, isn't that the crowd that have got permits from your govt. to search the channel for lost British treasure. Best hope they don't try and land it in Sealand and then smuggle it back home.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Tribesman

Spanish off portugal 1804.... in the papers last week........It was the Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes, the salvage company is Odyssey, the main court hearings were in Florida and Georgia plus there was an earlier counterclaim on the gold made by Peru.
First they had claimed that the ship was unidentifiable(despite being already covered by very strict salvage regulations in those waters) then after positive identification from the cannon and artifacts they had recovered they tried to start a wild goose chase defence of claiming that instead of handing the money to the government they would attempt to track the decendants of the lost crew and maybe give them shares.
Odyssey, isn't that the crowd that have got permits from your govt. to search the channel for lost British treasure. Best hope they don't try and land it in Sealand and then smuggle it back home.

Ah, right....I now have a better understanding

Google is my friend

[jumpy]

We'll have that back from our war debt/anglo american loan, thanks USA.