13. Lost silver in World War II
Current Estimated Value: $71.73 million*
The Year Was Lost: 1941
Discovered in 2010
Another shipwreck found in Odyssey is this one. The S.S. Gairsoppa was a British merchant ship that sailed out of Calcutta in 1941. 2,800 silver bars were loaded onto it with the intention of increasing England’s war fund. Following their battle through a tremendous storm, the Gairsoppa were forced to seek safety in Galway Harbor.
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It was sunk by a German U-boat 300 miles off the coast of Ireland; therefore, it never made it. A remotely operated submarine found the buried ship seventy years later. It was one of the biggest hauls of its sort in marine history, weighing 48 tons and valued at over $70 million. precious metal from World War II.
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