7. The Central America Ship
Current Estimated Value: $100 million* Date of Disappearance: 1857
Discovered in 1988
The sailors of old had a very difficult time. It was not for the faint of heart, with little to no safety precautions and the open sea’s ravages in front of them. There was a chance that we would sink. When the SS Central America crew set out on their journey and passed through South Carolina, they would have been fully aware of this.
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Tonnes of gold from the Gold Rush were among the valuable cargo on board. Tommy Thompson eventually located the ship in 1988 and brought $50 million worth of treasure home with him. It wasn’t his to keep, though. Thompson went on the run for nearly thirty years in a conflict worthy of an NLX documentary before being apprehended.
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