Two recovery missions have come up empty handed, but Bayerle is confident that the coins, which are valued from hundreds of millions to even billions of dollars, are down there somewhere. In his book, The Tsar’s Treasure, Bayerle alleges that the RMS Republic went down with $3 million in gold coins that was headed to Russia on loan from the U.S. Florida in 1909 while en route to ports in the Mediterranean, several rumors have surfaced regarding the ship’s cargo.Ĭaptain Martin Bayerle, who re-discovered the sunken cruise ship in 1981 roughly 270 feet below the surface and approximately 50 miles south of Nantucket Island, says the ship was hauling more than just people. However, after being sunk in a collision with the S.S. The RMS Republic was a luxury ocean liner that first set sail in 1903 and was known as the "Millionaire's Ship” because of its immensely wealthy passengers. Lee Spence claims the folks at Odyssey found the wreckage using his information. The treasure’s possession has been highly contested, as famous German-born archeologist E. Republic and her cargo were all but lost until its rediscovery in 2003 by American archeology firm Odyssey Marine Exploration.Ī salvage effort recovered roughly a third of the ship’s alleged cargo, which was valued at $75 million, but that still leaves roughly $140 million of the treasure sitting 1,700 feet below the surface, off the coast of Savannah, Georgia. Republic survived service for both the Union and Confederacy during the Civil War but couldn’t outrun a hurricane in 1865 while in transit to New Orleans.ĭelivering passengers and $51,000 in gold coins to the Union stronghold, it encountered a hurricane somewhere off the coast of Georgia. The crew and passengers escaped, but The S.S. No one has opened them, for some reason.Įither way, the artifacts are priceless pieces of history, left behind by one of the world’s most feared pirates and privateers. The team unearthed six of the pirate’s famed canons, as well as several unopened cargo boxes and chests, which could be filled with anything-aged 17th-century rum, an unimaginably valuable quantity of pirate booty, or well, nothing at all. In 2012, a team of expeditionary archeologists from Texas uncovered what they believe are the remnants of Morgan’s flagship, Satisfaction, which he lost in 1670 during a historic battle at Fort San Lorenzo. But the loot is definitely worth at least the price of a multi-million dollar marketing campaign.Ĭaptain Morgan isn’t just the guy whose legendary pose you imitate when you’ve had a few too many piña coladas at the neighborhood patio bar, he was also a pretty righteous dude and one of the few real pirates of the Caribbean. Value: Depends on what's in those chests.
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