The Goderich Signal-Star, 1967-02-02, Page 6The Gcli t c!T S " a1.'Star,, !T ay F•Obroary 2, tom.
Last week we described how
SA60;QQ0t0Q0 Worth of treasure
arrived .at a location 4 just a
musket shotfrom a.Florldabeach.
in five fathoms 'of water. For
of them Spanish. silver coins,"
That was the incident which in-
fected _Wagner with the 'treasure
• disturbed; Forgotten.
Tlien, one fine spring ;Horning
'4n.• 1949, 'Kip' ;Wagner,_a shall
Florida building contractor • had
occasion to discipline one of his__
helpers. The disciplining took the
form Of dumping. the roan in the
sea in. order to sober Min up.
-. When the man emerged, he held
half a dozen black discs in- his
h he said were "some
Deciding the coins carne from
a cache, he and four others spent
$12,000 on sieving. . hundreds
of tons of sand' on . the. beech.
After some nine months they had
found a sin le coin andy.
- pate broke up,.
• But Wagner was badly °bitten,
He spent the next' few years
learning every dune; curent and
coral reef in the vicinity. He
improvised scuba gear with an
inner tube, made himself a face
Mask 'and bought a government
mine detector. Gradually his coll.
ection amounted IC 100 gold' and
silver coins,' of which he told
hands whip •
ilion Dollar: Bonanza
. f'
4of,
'worth was brought to the sur. isthmus being crossed by 'Mule.
no one save h1s wife. Then, one #o . the north, above Cape Ken.' •of 117. the site of ..�eacit kngwtr face, A set Of 54 pewter plates by
evening, with the charts Apread nedy. That`• summer 1 r. Kelso ," vessel was recorded as well1
out on the'iitchen table, they were made a trip; to Washington, to the as the ships' manifests. A de. ,What has . been recovered to Robert Morse of London, with
s�,frprised by the arrival of Dr, Library of Congress where, for tail of what had been recovered ate? Well, 60,o0Q pieces: silver which the 'Hampton Court' was
Kelso, 'the local physician, who days, he pestered the librarians. and what remained to be brought gold and jewellery. The priceless equipped after a refit, at Green.
had come to give Wagner an Then he • picked up "A Concise to the surface. They decided there (Estirpated at. $50,0.00 today) gold wich int. 1701. Six. pound ingots
insurance medical 'exam. They Natural Histor . of East andWest would be a total of , about dragon whistle belonging to Ur, of silver and gold; 2,500 pieces'
shoaled the good doctor the•coins Florida" ubli hed in 177 and. "'$8,000,000 - worth of treasure, .bi ia. The chain has -2,176 link's, of eight; 9,000 solid gold coins•
when, for the first `time they written by the English carto. It was only after obtaining Besides a whistle in the dragon's of • two, four and eight escudo.
noted that none was dated later • grapher, Bernard Romans, With exclusive salvage 'rights to eight mouth, the ,tail forms an ear• denomination, but including sev
harri'?14., -- --pr+ mvnitiolr-oi`di cavezy; tlfe"" "wre'cic"°�sttes tha , dlile,a-so .of-foldin ick - ' . -. ` � ' _ '
•t�-thb�sea��q:" I;�
.m Even (ow you can almost hear • doctor opened •the volume. The: secrecy was broken and•a-new serves to clean the teeth. A ing the inscription: PHILLIPUS *
h e ro s e . .: DEI:*.G�*,1714. Within the centre
was a map and syndicat. e „ i t from expert 28 •piece' Chinese WangI si(1622
,1
1
i}s the crest of Phitip,, also the
mark: VIII andMJ, the designers
initials.
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Once again my apologies for
misleading you. There" will
Always e he lots of !.anldan
n�iint- and tion iQ '
doubloons in t:,, . i
those who have eyes to see, ears
to hear, and a modicum of grey
matter under' theirk hate, enough
s rniiTat '.°„Biot lit, -planning--
and
plan thg. .
and hard work.
theirs ni 'ds working as they ream frontispiece d
soned ,,,that this date fitted into 'opposite his 'own home village - "'in- Wig, navigation -and sal;vagr, to '1722) po' Blain tea service in
the legend 'of the Great Plate of Sebastian wary the none: ing, mainly from personnel, at perfect Condition, the finding of
Fleet, lost in 1715. The hunt was "Opposte this_riverperished the - • Cape Kennedy. The syndicate is:, which confirms °the"existence of .
on! They, began to search the Admiral commanding" "the Plate). "The Rear- Eight." Now fully a `trade from ;China, via;
records, The Smithsonian said Fleet of 1715." Turning thepaaes equipped financially and With Manila•Aeapulco to Spain, the
the fleet sank 150° Miles to the in near frenzy, fie read on. page : 1 appropriate tools and equipment,
south on the•.Florida Keys.•Local • .,,;o7qo dirl3rertllv.nn' if thpm.nnth ., Iii,lleart breaking periost, opened
experts had the spot 50 miles' ' of the St. Sebastian river happen. , for ' them. Then, after days and
ed the shipwreck of the Spanish days of fruitless 'effort, on May
Admiral, who was the norther. , 20, 1964, a diver , brought 'up a
most wreck of the 14 galleons .,, golden doubloon.
and a hired Dutch ,ship, all laden. Sharks .ands barracuda were
With specie and plate,.,"
Back in Sebastian, Kelso and only the poor visibility of a yard,
Wagner went out on the inner tube. saved them. But a day arrived
Looking down they could see the whey" there was freak_ s visibility
scattered ballast stones . of as .... up to 50 feet. Wagner went down
ship, •with half a dozen -cannons himself, The sand sucker had
strewn around. Here then was =.°t'l tPd a 30 foot diameter circle
the- northerly point of 1a stretch i and "there in this pocket lay a
4
Pot Luck Dinner Served
At Knox Annual Meeting
AUBURN- Knox United Church
held its annual meeting Thursday
in the Sunday school room of the
church. A potluck dinner was
served by members of Unit Two
of the UC W . ' •
.Rev, M. R. Roberts presided •
for a devotional period and also
for the business meeting which
followed.
The new elders elected were
R.Koopmans and Maurice Bean,
•to replace Oliver' Anderson and
Charles Scott. New Stewards
elected .were William de Jong,
Sidney McClinchey, Ted Eastand
Stewar --Kifient —Ne- ;`Tffiatees
r elected were Robert Armstrong
and Henry Brindley; treasurer,
Mrs. Kenneth McDougall; secre-
tary; Mrs. Oliver Anderson; 1%.
and M. Fund, Mr. Everett Taylor;
Assistant M. and M. Fund, Mrs.
,Lawrence Plaetzer; Usher Cap-
tain, IVlr. Kenneth • McDougall;
• pConvener• of Churdi Flower Fund,
Viola' Thompson; new members of
the Manse Committee, Mr. and
' Mrs. Tom' Cunningham. -
A short memorial, service *as
°
held in memory -Of the departed
members. • "t
Sunday school attendance ser•
tificates were presented by Will-
iam Stiles last Sunday at Knox
United. - • • ,-
',---Those
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T Those receiving the ser
tificates were , Donald Lichty,
Gerry Bere,, David Bere, Marilyn
Archambault, Faye Seers, -Sylvia
Rutkowicz, . Marie Empey, Neida
Hallam, Greg Hallam and Kath-
ryn. Bere. Second year seals were
presented___ to. - Linda Sproul,
- Andrew I+toopmans and Douglas
.McClinchey...
Third year seals• were pre.
sented to Donna Baechler, Yvonne
Bean, Greg Arthur and Marilyn
Wightman. • .Fourth year seals
went to Gail Seers,- Keith Lapp,
Eldon Chamney, . Doreen . Mc-
Clinchey. Fifth • year seals,
Murray Wightman, Ronald Wight.
man, Douglas._ Duran, Karen_
East,.and Dana `Bean. Sixth year
seals, Lynn Turner, •Douglas
Charriney, Jayne Arthur, Larry
Pidetzer, Raymond Hildebrand,
and Randy Machan. Seventh year
seals. Larry Chamney, • Gail
Miller, Wanda Plaetzer, Lor-
raine Chamney, Trudy Machan,
Sherry Plaetzer ,end Arva Ba E
Eighth year seals,- Stephen
Haggiit, Nancy Lapp, PaulCham.
ney, Eldo Hildebrand. Ninth year
seals, Barbara Carter, Gary
• _)
Persona!
Dr. 'and Mrs. W. It Watters
Ire returned "home from a trip
to Mexico and New Orleans.
Mrs; Ivan Papernick• and Mrs.
Glenn Hays spent a few days in
Toronto last week, then travelled
to Orillia • to visit the former's
daughter, Frances.
Ament, John Koopmans. Tenth,
Mark Arthur, - Marie Plunkett.'
Eleventh, Rickey Archambault,
Brenda Ball, Deryk Ball, Daryll
Ball, Shelley Grange. Twelve
year seal, Betty Moss. 13th year
seal, Nancy Anderson, Jennifer
Grange. 14th, Brenda Arch.
ambault, K1aske Koopmans, 15th.
Douglas Archambault, Margje
Koopmans, Martie Koopmans,
18th- Bernice McDougall.
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of 14 miles of coast along which
lay the whole treasure fleet.
Another 'year and a half of re-
search produced from the
General Archive Office ofSeville
the full story, The names of the
ships, their commanders and de.
tails of the salvage operations
carpet of gola..•m ne coins were
lying two and three deep. Some
were stacked in piles, .. It was like
a painting by an old'°master".
After 250 years' immer$ion .in
'three. to five fathoms of water,
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