Cornish company Multibeam Services will spend months looking for the Merchant Royal off the coast of Cornwall and the Scilly Isles.
Whoever finds it could get their hands on more treasure than Long John Silver The ‘El Dorado of the Seas’ has been missing for 400 years and may finally reveal its secrets. The mysterious Merchant Royal’s shipwreck is somewhere off the coast of Cornwall, but has left people baffled because to this day it has still never been found. This is despite it carrying up to £4 billion of gold and other precious metals.
’ Based in Redruth and employing several other ex-fishermen, he believes his company is well placed to succeed where others failed due to their local knowledge of the waters as well as the advancements in tech. The wreck went down on its way to Dartmouth on September 23, 1641, after stopping off in the Spanish port of Cadiz where it was repaired and took on more cargo on its way back from Mexico and the Caribbean.
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