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Speaking of the alcohol..... The Queen of nations was interesting ship wreck I have dived on the remains of her many years ago. Hoping to score an intact bottle of booze. Thousands of bottles of spirits and wine made up part of Queen of Nations' cargo in early 1881. These proved too much of...

Gidday Kanacki Maybe old Crows memory is slipping but I recall there was a newspaper just after the wreck that gave a different account 3 boats was launched one each with captain in one mate in another 2nd mate in another. Each boat had 15000 sovereigns on board as ballast. Only one boat was...

Gidday Amigo Thanks for the information about the salvage. But it appears she was salvaged. As the Cardiff times reported 31st October 1903. Below. It appears the cost salvage nearly exceeded value of the cargo. This is an excellent example on why further research is always needed in...

Another vessel that vanished without trace. THE MISSING SHIP ARIEL 1872 A MYSTERY (says the Melbourne Argus) still overhangs the fate of the missing ship Ariel, which sailed from London for Sydney in January last, and has not since been heard of. It is thought, however, that some clue to the...

Gidday amigos There is another ship that was wrecked in the same area in 1853. Monumental city was wrecked with the loss of 37 lives. out of 91 passengers and crew. The ship was from Boston. She had only been in Australian waters 1 month. A navigation error and unknown submerged rock. The...

Gidday Kanacki The cold reality its just another abandoned mine many people find. Just because you find it does not mean you have mineral rights to it. There is one simple equation if the extraction cost is more than the value per ton rock removed then it best to leave it in the ground. Profit...

Gidday Amigos I had many private conversations with Don Jose. Ideally with historic "Colanado Mine" and camp in the steep canyon of the same name which flows into the river Mayo. To the nortwest wwas Tayopa that flows into Yaqui. which our esteemed Don Jose RE discovered those workings. We...

Gidday amigo One thing I can guarantee you is nothing guaranteed in searching for treasure. Some will spend a life time and never find a thing. Others will finds things. The key is perseverance and researching into areas that have a higher probability in finding such things. Finding some thing...

Utterly amazing perhaps the marine growth prevented the sword from rusting away? Crow

Gidday amigo Amazing find. Technically he will be rewarded the market value as per treasure trove law as the finder. If the property is not his? Generally finders fee is split 50/50 between landowner and finder. Crow

Gidday Amigos She should sleep well what are the odds of it happening again to her? Crow

Gidday Amigos That is a universal feeling all over the world. Amigos As the world population grows. Does not matter where you go you will meet people telling you the same thing. Crow

Gidday Amigos The fact remains many mining areas was abandoned all over northern Mexico and into Arizona and New Mexico due to uprisings. settlements came and went churches came and went with the population. The Jesuits abandoned churches during the 1767 Expulsion. There is another under lying...

Strange indeed. some times we just do not have all the answers. Crow

Gidday Black Bart Sailing in the Tasman sea on Kanacki's Brig just on day break as the sun started to peak over the horizon . I was on the helm looking up in the sky was two black triangles that their back featureless underneath was lit up by the rising Sun. They much higher than conventional...