Diving for Gold.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7932, 22 September 1905, Page 4

Diving for Gold.

« HOW THK SEARCH FOR ARMADA f TREASURE PROGRESSES. The quest for the .panish sold on ' board the Admiral of Florence, the treasure ship of the Spanish Anuat da, at Tobermory on the Argyllshire j coast, is proceeding with every prosC pcct of ultimate success. In the . boulder clav brought up by the dibI", rer an antique hand-made silver candlestick has fcecn found, and Hit re it have, also been recoveievl five pild r coins—"pieces of eifiht"—in excellent i preservation, two stone cannon T»ells, ' and one of iron. _ Captain Burns, the director oi the > West o( Scotland .Syndicate, which is ■ carrying on th present search, has

.... (trcidt-d to suspend 051 rations witn i the digger for (he ptesenf for fear "• of destroyiii.; any si.ver-jdate Uui i' nar •!» found. He has reverted to the use of the powerful suction punt|» i on hoard the diving ship Beamer. , The Duke of Aruyll has dolesatM -• to the syndicate his rights confined » ty royal charur in 1611. It is avu- ; red that the nin'ii t":-.*! oi in jir JGfit e!ii|i!o;vil a Swidish expert with adr.inj tell, an.l that a two moutl*' 1 search brought up two cannoa. It i.i ' «Is.< sialyl tli.! bw ; -ar- later Sir William Sachev-reil, *. overnor «.f the Isle ol ?.!sn, a:;uin tnade a ltjl.l ~ bid for the treasure, with te.-ulis iio!i | tcccrdcd, «tid that in 1687, on the ♦ indention of a n-f apparatus, •; Ihc next Karl <>f Argyll feivi.i i a £. company, the succ.ss of which is not known to history. In 17 50 .l(.!m, stCond Cut" of Argyll, is said toii.-vc made'another attempt with a diving ~ tell, up a bronze FOR.MKR SI'ARCIIi.S. The pres.i:t svi.lieaie is supplie.l s with all mUcru appliances—a puwub. ful steaui pump, which .sucks ill' anrt clay and ail small materJ.UI I rotn the, hands oi ' :liver. en I S« stroi.p that can in a fore- ... Boon pierce a hoi sft square into ? tire mould o. clay an.l sand to a , depth oi lRf:. Tin- Swede and other L experts of byline times could not [: descend eiijht fa'.honts without the dning-hvll capsizing, ami they could ,ob.> work with tongs from the iusv£)dr o{- the hell. Tin; svndicatc have 5 had full access » all 'historical drcu■Wtnts and reports, ami to the archplans, and charts used in the

former searches. lu IM'l, when (lit- expert from •Sweden iK'gan tne search for the Marquis of Argyll, it was found ilia; llio deck ami a portion of the vessel's sides Were I e.fi in in li e mi/./.i nmasl forward, arid that the hull was full of sand and mud. The poop, however. whiih was not damage.l by •he explosion, wa., standing up, and the hea\y oak hiatus awl plankimi of the suits lveiv intact, the how be- | i«S "i in elevi [i iauioms at low waii-r. Under U..: poop was the strongroom and the treasure. The salvots imnudiateiy bewail to u-at awav U»planks and beams, bill the Clan' Mac utiiier their chief, drove them away from their work after they had recovered five or six | lV avv cannon. Subsequent workers were also driven' away by the MacJ.eans. who built a fori overlooking To'acrmorv.— Dailv Mail.