Any guys live in NC who might be interested in getting together to discuss shipwrecks off the coast here? I live in the Raleigh area, and I've got quite a bit of research I'm willing to share. Been on Tnet for over 20 years, and I'm getting old. I also have some great MD'ing spots to go to. PM me, if interested.
I am hearing you on the old bit.
Not quite in your back yard amigo. But still interested in shipwrecks and treasure al over the globe.
The El Salvador, was a Spanish Galleon that ran aground near Beaufort Inlet during a hurricane in August of 1750. The Spanish archives indicate that
El Salvador was carrying 240,000 pesos in registered Spanish Treasury funds, made up of four chests of gold coins and sixteen chests of silver coins of varying denominations, plus 50,000 pesos in commercial funds After taking on supplies in Havana, Cuba, the El Salvador headed for Cadiz, Spain.
El Salvador from the Spanish plate 1750 fleet has been search for many years none have fully found it . There is a letter in existence to governor Gabriel Johnston detailing the shipwreck In 1750 ran aground near look out point and eventually went to paces and the remain buried in 7 or 8 feet of shifting sands. At the same time the Nuestra Señora De Soledad which went ashore near present-day core banks in 1750.
Archival documents confirm that most of the treasure aboard the other Spanish ships was salvaged but that
El Salvador’s cargo of gold and silver was never recovered. During the storm she is believed to have rolled over the bar, broken apart and was soon buried in the sand.
All the above vessels are under permit and some are actually involved litigation in the courts
El Salvador’s decision pending November 2024. Possible damages in the case could run from $15.6 million to $259.3 million.
The Steamship
Pulaski disaster was the term given to the June 14, 1838, is another vessel worth searching for. But Alas there is an active permit on her. if it has not already been claimed in which i think it is being salvaged?
There is a WW2 passenger ship of interest. The Ulysses pictured below.
She was allegedly carrying passengers and Pig iron. the ship had fled Hong Kong before the invasion. by one day then fled to Singapore fleeing again en route to England arriving in Australia then sailing to Panama carnal.
As the Ulysses steamed up the coast of Florida she was involved in a collision. On 8th April 1942 she collided with the Panamanian tanker
Gold Heels causing a hole in her hull below the waterline and major damage to her bows. The ship had to slow down, which made her a target for German U-boats. On April 11th, her luck ran out and she was torpedoed by U-160 off the coast of Carolina. Three torpedoes hit the ship but she settled slowly providing enough time for the life boats to be lowered. Her 195 crew members, which included five gunners, and her 95 passengers, were picked up by an American destroyer, the USS
Manley.
It is not known for sure but banks in Hong Kong fearing invasion would of dispatched gold and valuables back to UK. passenger ships of day had bullion rooms. Not only from banks in Hong Kong but in Singapore as Well. Gold was being transshipped from South Africa via Australia to the United states to pay for the war effort.
The shipwreck may turn out to be a multi million dollar shipwreck with a little more research.
Cheers Crow
