[BITList] Divers recover £34m of silver coins from ship sunk by U-boat | World news | The Guardian

[Michael Feltham]

> http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/15/divers-silver-coins-record-salvage-city-cairo <http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/15/divers-silver-coins-record-salvage-city-cairo>
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> Divers recover £34m of silver coins from ship sunk by U-boat
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> A British-led team has set the record for the deepest salvage operation in history after recovering coins worth £34m from the wreck of a British steamship that was sunk in 1942. The salvage team recovered the silver coins from the SS City of Cairo, which was sunk by a German submarine in November 1942, en route from Bombay to England. The ship was carrying 100 tonnes of silver coins, which belonged to the Treasury and had been called in by London to help fund the war effort.
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