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After 71 years, about 43 tonnes of silver bullion hauled up from the wreckage of British merchant vessel, S S Gairsoppa , on the bed of North Atlantic has created a flutter in India, thanks to its Kolkata connection. The ship set sail from Kolkata,
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Three miles below the surface of the North Atlantic, a sunken British cargo ship was just discovered off the coast of Ireland. The ship, named SS Gairsoppa, sunk back in 1941, and happened to be carrying some precious cargo that only treasure hunters
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The ship, recognisable by the red-and-black paintwork of the British-India Steam Navigation Company and the torpedo hole in its side, was sailing in a convoy from Calcutta in 1941. Buffeted by high winds and running low on coal, the captain decided
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Fla. (AP) — A U.S. deep-sea exploration company says it has recovered about 48 tons of silver from a British cargo ship that was sunk by a torpedo during World War II. Tampa, Fla.-based Odyssey Marine Exploration Inc. said
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Select a date range Create a custom date range From: To: The Associated Press 10:35 a.m...The Tampa -based company said Wednesday that the silver was recovered from the SS Gairsoppa, a British cargo ship torpedoed by a German U-boat in February 1941.
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Scotsman Neil Cunningham-Dobson, 55, was at the controls of the Remotely Operated Vehicle as the World War II cargo ship SS Gairsoppa and the World War I steamer SS Mantola were discovered in the North Atlantic last year...Emotional wreck: Neil
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During World War II, Britain, cut off from occupied Europe, was utterly dependent on supplies reaching her by sea. But Hitler was determined to force Britain to her knees by cutting off these supplies. He ordered his U-boat captains to hunt down and
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British cargo ship leaves Indian shores carrying silver worth $230 million during World War II and gets sunk by Germans! BBC reports that American treasure hunters have found a shipwreck containing an estimated $230 million in silver, the
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Vrakleterne found earlier this summer, the wreck of "SS Gairsoppa", about 300 kilometers southwest of the coast of Ireland (see map at the bottom of the case). The ship was sunk by a German submarine in 1941, and had about 219 tons of
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