"Strauss was the largest single merchant to ship gold out of California in the 1857-1858 period," Holabird said. The list of the $1.6 million cargo that left San Francisco on the S.S. Sonora in ...

Treasures recovered from a shipwreck that's been at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean since 1857 are now on tour before ... five people drowned when the ship sank 7,000 feet below sea level during ...

A gold bar recovered from a ship that sank during the Californian Gold Rush is up for auction - with an estimate set at 211 times it's original value. The ingot, which weighs 40oz and is expected ...

The ship sank 7,200 feet deep in the Atlantic Ocean during a hurricane on September 12, 1857. The ship was on a voyage from Panama to New York carrying tons of California Gold Rush coins ...

removing the rust and grime that accumulated after the S.S. Central America - appropriately known as the "The Ship of Gold"- sank in a hurricane in 1857 off the coast of South Carolina.

The ship's gold that is thought to remain on the ocean floor was valued at $760,000 in 1857 but worth millions today, according to Odyssey Marine Exploration Inc, a Tampa, Florida-based company ...