2024-03-20 06:04:23
London: Efforts have started to find the ship laden with gold and silver sunk in the sea. The search for the wreckage of ‘El Dorado of the Sea’, one of the world’s most precious ships sunk in the sea, has started. The search is on for the El Dorado of the Sea off the coast of Britain. This ship contained gold and silver worth about 4 billion pounds when it sank in the sea. The wreck of the 17th-century English ship Merchant Royal, loaded with treasure worth nearly £4 billion, has never been found despite centuries of searching.
The Merchant Royal, nicknamed the “El Dorado of the Seas” because of its vast wealth, sank off the coast of Cornwall some 383 years ago in 1641. According to The Metro, a UK company armed with new technology believes they can now locate the elusive shipwreck. MultiBeam Services, a company specializing in finding lost wrecks, will search a 200-square-mile area of the English Channel by 2024. They will use unmanned underwater vessels and advanced sonar technology in their search.
‘More historical importance than treasure’
Nigel Hodge of Multibeam Services Company says he is emphasizing the historical significance of the discovery, not the gold and silver. Any discovered treasures will be treated as heritage artefacts. Nigel said that even if this discovery is not for gold, the value of the debris could also be billions of dollars. Nigel says the search will be difficult because the expanse of water is extremely dangerous. There are thousands of shipwrecks out there and the Merchant Royal is one of them. In such a situation, a lot of debris has to be picked up and then identified. It is not very easy and straightforward. Nigel Hodge is confident his company is on its way to finding it.
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The sinking of the ship occurred on September 23, 1641, when the ship was en route to Dartmouth. Before sinking the ship had stopped in the Spanish port of Cadiz for repairs and to load additional cargo on her return voyage from Mexico and the Caribbean. The excess cargo and long route caused leakage and water gushed out of the ship’s hull. Due to stormy seas and faulty pumps, more and more water started accumulating in this big ship and it sank. At the time of its sinking, the ship was claimed to be carrying 100,000 pounds of gold, 400 bars of Mexican silver, and approximately 500,000 Spanish dollars. Many attempts have been made over the years to find this precious ship but without success.