Quest For Ship Carrying 4 Billion Pounds In Gold Close To UK Coast Begins
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The Merchant Royal, nicknamed "El Dorado of the Seas" for its rumoured vast riches, sank off the coast of Cornwall in 1641.
The wreck of the Merchant Royal, a 17th-century English ship laden with 4 billion pounds of treasure, has never been found, despite centuries of searching. Now, a UK company equipped with new technology believes they can finally locate the elusive shipwreck, according to The Metro.
The Merchant Royal, nicknamed "El Dorado of the Seas" for its rumoured vast riches, sank off the coast of Cornwall in 1641. It is estimated to be carrying billions of pounds worth of gold and silver, as per the news report.
Multibeam Services, a company specialising in finding lost wrecks, will spend all of 2024 searching a 200-square-mile area of the English Channel. They will be using unmanned underwater vessels and advanced sonar technology in their search.
