Shipwreck silver! We've always been enthralled by stories of sunken treasures. And some of us just hope to come across them on the web or maybe buy a copy of one. Silver recovered from shipwrecks are great treasures!

SS GAIRSOPPA BRITANNIA The 2014 UK Quarter-Ounce Silver Coin

Britannia struck in silver from the SS Gairsoppa recovered from deep below the surface of the sea.

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Denomination: 50 pence Metal: .999 silver Weight: 7.83 gms Dimensions: 22mm Quality: BU Mintage: 20,000

A FORTUNE IN SILVER BULLION LOST IN THE WAR, THEN FOUND AND RECOVERED 70 YEARS LATER¹

The British merchant freighter, S.S. Gairsoppa, was a 412-foot steel-hulled cargo steamship that was bound from Bombay, via western Africa and on to Britain, with a cargo of tea, pig iron . . . and up to 7 million ounces of silver bullion.

In a fierce North Atlantic storm and running low on coal, the Gairsoppa was forced to abandon the safety of her protective convoy and make way for the shelter of Galway, Ireland, some 300 miles to the north. Alone and running slow, the ship was an easy target . . . and she was soon cornered and sunk by a single torpedo fired by the U-101, one of the more deadly German submarines prowling the area. Just after midnight on February 17, 1941, the Gairsoppa sank to the seafloor, nearly three miles below the surface. The freighter’s second officer was the sole survivor . . . all other hands perished.

Seventy years later, Odyssey Marine Exploration located the Gairsoppashipwreck and began the process of documenting the discovery and recovering the silver bullion from the sunken ship. In 2012, a total of approximately 1.4 million ounces of silver bullion bars were brought to the surface . . . and in 2013, an additional 1.8 million ounces of silver bars were recovered. To date, Odyssey has recovered more than 110 tons of silver bars from the S.S. Gairsoppa shipwreck, the largest and heaviest recovery of precious metal from a shipwreck in history.

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https://finestknown.com/ss-gairsoppa-shipwreck-silver/

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