Sunken Gold
Sunken Gold is an article published in the Daily Express on 25 august 1921.
Sunken Gold
ROMANTIC QUEST INTERESTS SIR A. CONAN DOYLE.
Doubloons, pieces of eight, rubies, diamonds, and pearls worth a million lie in the rotting planks of the ship Grosvenor, lost in 1782 off Port St. John on the Kaffir coast. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is interesting himself in the scheme of a Johannesburg syndicate for salving the treasure.
"I have written to the syndicate asking certain questions with regard to the method by which they hope to salve the treasure," said Sir Arthur to a "Daily Express" representative yesterday. "If the answers are satisfactory — and I am an old sea-going man myself, having been a ship's surgeon, with knowledge of such matters — I may take up one thousand shares. I certainly believe the treasure is worth a million."
Whether treasure so long lost is recoverable is doubted by salvage experts.
"All search for sunken cargo is speculative, and all questing for sunken treasure a dream," said an authority.
