12. Salvador
Estimated Current Value: $601,271*; Year of Disappearance: 1750; Year of Discovery: 2015
When the Spanish treasure ship El Salvador perished, it was carrying more than $600,000 in commercial and Spanish Treasury funds—amounts adjusted for inflation. Funds included a large sum of pesos, sixteen chests of silver, and four chests of gold. A hurricane was the cause of the shipwreck.
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Off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Florida, El Salvador and six of her sister ships were struck by the hurricane. At the North Carolina Outer Banks, she ran aground. The majority of the loot on board has never been found, and just four crew members made it out of the wreck. Despite the shipwreck’s 2015 rediscovery, the government of North Carolina and a private Florida business continue to disagree about who has the right to excavate it.
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