Tag: SS Central America

• Monday, May 12th 2014 - 06:45 UTC

  “Ship of Gold” 156 years later renders its first five bars valued at 1.2 million dollars

  

  At the waning years of the great California Gold Rush, a ship laden around 30,000 pounds of the precious metal on its way to New York was caught in the middle of a vicious hurricane and sunk off the coast of South Carolina with 425 souls aboard.