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''Sunken Gold'' is an article published in the [[Daily Express]] on 25 august 1921.


== Sunken Gold ==
[[File:daily-express-1921-08-25-p5-sunken-gold.jpg|thumb|250px|right|[[Daily Express]] (25 august 1921, p. 5)]]

'''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.

<q>"I have written to the syndicate asking certain questions with regard to the method by which they hope to salve the treasure,"</q> said [[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle|Sir Arthur]] to a "[[Daily Express]]" representative yesterday. <q>"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."</q>

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.







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