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I wasted so much time looking for the story & avoiding invasive ads I have no idea what it's about.
Treasure hunter plans to land £1BILLION gold bullion haul by bringing 250-year-old British ship to the surface
Ruben Collado hopes to resurrect Lord Clive, which sunk in 1763 near Uruguay
He believes there is £1billion of gold bullion on board the sunken British ship
He discovered the wreck in 2004 and is leading an operation to raise it
Ship was built in Hull and was sent to South America to bring funds to military
By Anthony Joseph for MailOnline, PUBLISHED: 14:21 GMT, 29 January 2017 | UPDATED: 14:23 GMT, 29 January 2017
Ruben Collado, from Argentina, hopes to resurrect the Lord Clive, which sunk in 1763 off the coast of Uruguay.
He believes there is £1billion of gold bullion on board the sunken ship, which was named after Clive of India, and will begin his treasure hunt next month.
He discovered the wreck in 2004 and is leading an operation to raise it.
He told The Times: 'The imperial vessel could contain €1,200m in gold coins.
'And that is without considering goods such as rum, opium and silk stored in lead pipes.
'The important thing is to get these ships because they will give us the true magnitude of the story,' said Collado. 'This is the history of Latin America and the Spanish.'
The 64-gun vessel, which was built in Hull, sailed to South America for the East India Company to bring funds and personnel for British military campaigns.
But it was sunk by cannon fire during the Seven Years' War in an attempt to retake Colonia del Sacramento, a former colony of Britain's ally Portugal, which had been seized by the Spanish.
When the ship's captain Robert McNamara launched an attack, they were hit by a constant assault from the shore.
The wreck is just 16ft down and 380 yards off the coast, but the Spanish covered it in rocks to prevent it floating to the top.
A team of 80 divers and support men will be sent to recover the ship at the cost of £4million.
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(NEWSER) – When the British warship Lord Clive was blasted by Spanish cannon fire just off the coast of Uruguay in 1763, about 270 crew members went down with the ship. Now a treasure hunter from Argentina hopes it's also still home to more than $1 billion in gold coins, reports the London Times—half of which he could be entitled to. Ruben Collado also thinks the ship is stocked with the likes of rum, opium, and silk, and he plans to prove it by raising the vessel next month. Collado himself found the ship by accident in 2004, just 380 yards off the coast and 16 feet underwater. (Spaniards had pinned it under rocks to keep it submerged). The shallow depth is what gave up its location: Collado's vessel struck its mast in the River Plate estuary, reported AFP. He then waited more than a decade for Uruguay's permission to salvage it.
The Lord Clive went down during a military mission amid the Seven Years' War, in which British and Portugal were trying to take the city of Colonia del Sacramento. Collado thinks the 64-gun ship, which belonged to the British East India Company, made the fatal error of anchoring too close to shore, within range of Spanish cannons. The Feb. 10 operation is expected to cost about $5 million for the team of 80 divers, technicians, and other support staff to raise the ship. The hope is that it can shed more light on British naval expeditions in South America. "The rescue of the ship would have an impact on the city no less important than when UNESCO declared it, justly, a World Heritage Site," says Colonia's director of tourism. (One famous wreck has been particularly dangerous for divers.)
