From the April 30th ABC News "Potential $4 Billion Loot from WWII Wreck Beckons Treasure Hunters" by Gilliam Mahoney.
The Maine-based Sub Sea research company has been searching for the wreck of the SS Port Nicholson for almost five years and now believe they have found the ship. In the process they have spent $6.5 million. If they have indeed found it, they stand to make around $4 billion from the gold and platinum the ship was carrying when it was sunk in 1942 by a German U-boat around 50 miles off the coast of Provincetown, Massachusetts.
This treasure was in the form of gold and platinum carried by the ship as payment from the Societ Union to the United States for war supplies.
Each crew member of the Sea Hunter stands to get as much as $8 million.
Good Work If You Can Get It. --GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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