bigjarofwasps Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 I am currently reading a book called `The Salvage of the Century` by Ric Wharton, it covers mainly the gold bullion recovered from HMS Edinburgh, sunk during WW2. However, he also talks about HMS Hampshire, her final voyage to Russia and the theory that Kitchener was accompanying one million gold sovereigns, valued today at ?60,000,000. This is the first time I have heard this claim. He does go into various additional theorys, i.e, about the files being withheld after 50 years, no one being allowed to dive on her, as she`s a war grave, but that no one died on her when she sank save Kitchener. This I feel is untrue, but can anyone confirm or deny this & has anyone heard the sovereigns claim? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Monkey God Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 Call me a sceptic, but I feel that if there was 60 million in gold sovereigns within salvagable depth, then they`d have been recovered by now, or at least attempts made to recover them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigjarofwasps Posted May 3, 2009 Author Share Posted May 3, 2009 I Can only assume that because its a war grave, they can`t smash it up to find where the coins are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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