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Avast! Not that kind of booty me shiverin' matey's, this kind....
Shipwreck.
Ka-Ching.
 
Bah...I thought you were going somewhere else with this /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif
 
Why is that ship's name familiar? The "Black Swan"

Ah, found it:

"HMS Black Swan (L57), named after the Black Swan, was the name ship of the Black Swan-class of sloops of the British Royal Navy. She was laid down by Yarrow Shipbuilders on 20 June 1938, launched on 7 July 1939, and commissioned on 27 January 1940.

On 2 April 1943 Black Swan and the corvette Stonecrop sank the top-scoring U-boat U-124 off the coast of Portugal.

In 1949 she took part in the Yangtze Incident, when she, with others went to aid of HMS Amethyst. Black Swan suffered 12 men wounded, and severe damage to her superstructure in a fierce engagement with Chinese batteries, and fell back. Overall the failed relief effort cost 46 killed and 64 injured.

The sloop was scrapped in 1956."
 
Wow T I am impressed. It is also the name of a new book featured in last weeks Time Magazine about philisopher Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

I also knew that I had seen it recently mentioned, just not where.

Pat

BTW T have a great trip in Europe.
 
Black Swan is also a decent Australian wine!
 
Just full of useless information!
 
Never tried the wine, but drank enough of the beer - although technically it's only called swan...
 
Even though the coins are old, wouldn't 500,000 of them make them not rare?
 
vping said:
Even though the coins are old, wouldn't 500,000 of them make them not rare?
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The United States Mint produces approximately 28 billion coins for general circulation each year.

They are rare, and will be in generally very good condition. They will sell for a lot of money. Besides, the silver content alone makes them valuble. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif
 
Arrr. There be an intresting profession. Me thinks it's a lot like pirating, but all ye victims be dead already, and sunk..... guess that'd make gettin the treasure a might harder. Arrrrr.
 
Actually, lost and abandoned property as taught as part of a 1st year law student's property class is pretty interesting...and usually useful for bar exam purposes only....but that was 9 years ago.
 
It ~appears~ that the wreck may be in a submarine exercise area, interesting then James, how they snuck that one in through the Fed court system.
Usually, fishing vessels or merchant vessels are not allowed to loiter such charted waters and are designated as soveriegn, and how the Fed could rule on it...just interesting is all.
 
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