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The Admiral Gardner was an East Indiaman for the British East India Company. On her sixth voyage on January 24, 1809, she was lost on the Goodwin Sands sandbank near Kent, England. The wreck was discovered in 1984 and coins were salvaged in 1985. [1]
Akerendam was a ship of the Dutch East India Company. On March 8, 1725, it drifted in a snowstorm and sank on the west coast of Norway. Some cargo was recovered soon after, but much not until the wreck was rediscovered in 1972. [1] [2] [3]
The Atocha was a Spanish treasure galleon that sank off of the Florida Keys due to a hurricane on September 6, 1622. The wreck was discovered in the 1970s and salavaged by 1985. [1]
The Bredenhof, a Dutch East Indiaman on its way to Ceylon, sank on June 6, 1753 off Mozambique, near the Cape of Good Hope, after foundering on a reef. The wreck was discovered in 1986 and recovery operations started in 2003. [1]
On September 9, 1857 the S.S. Central America was caught up in a Category 2 hurricane while off the coast of the Carolinas and sank 200 miles off the coast on September 12. It was carrying 30,000 pounds of gold from the California gold rush leaving the port of Colón in Panama for New York City. The wreck was discovered in 1988. While coins and such were in the main cargo, the double pinches of California Gold Rush gold come directly from the purser's safe and were recovered in 2014. [1] [2]
Part of the Spanish South Seas Fleet of 1681, the Consolación, after leaving Lima, Peru, while off the coast of Equador was pursued by the English pirate Bartholomew Sharpe. This forced the Spanish galleon to sink on a reef off Santa Clara Island. Salvage on the wreck began in 1997. [1] [2] [3]
The El Cazador was a Spanish brigantine that was headed to New Orleans carrying silver coin when it encountered a storm and sank in the Gulf of Mexico 50 miles south of Lousiana in 1784. The wreck was discovered in 1993. [1] [2]
The British freighter S.S. Gairsoppa was carrying silver ingots from India to the United Kingdom but was sunk by U-boat U-101 on February 16, 1941. During 2012 and 2013 99% of the insured silver bars - 3.5 million ounces of silver - was recovered. Some of the silver was struck into coinage by the Royal Mint. [1]
The Hollandia was a Dutch East India Company ship that sank on her maiden voyage in 1743 off the coast of England. The wreck was located in 1971 and her cargo salvaged. [1]>
The S.S. John Barry was a 7,200-ton American Liberty ship that was carrying 3 million Saudi Riyals, minted in Philadelphia, for ARAMCO (the Saudi oil industry). On August 28, 1944, it was torpedoed by U-boat U-859 and sank in the Arabian Sea. It was salvaged starting in 1994 and in the first five days 1.3 million Riyals were recovered. [1] [2] [3]
During the War of Jenkin's Ear, the British captured a Spanish galleon containing £500,000 worth of treasure, mostly silver but some gold. The bullion was struck as coinage in 1745 and 1746 with LIMA below the portrait indicating its origin of Peru. [1] [2]
The East Indiaman Princess Louisa, carrying Spanish silver, struck a reef and sank off Isla de Maio (Cape Verde Islands, west of Africa) on April 18, 1743. The wreck was located and salvaged in 1998 and 1999. [1]
The S.S. Republic was a sidewheel steamship that was lost in a hurricane off the coast of Georgia in October 1865, on its way to New Orleans. The wreck was located in 2003 100 miles off the coast of Savannah, Georgia. [1]
During the War of the Spanish Succession, an Anglo-Dutch fleet captured three Spanish galleons at the Battle of Vigo Bay, off the coast of Spain, in October 1702. Captured bullion was struck as coinage with VIGO below the bust in 1702 and 1703. [1] [2]