"Treasure ship or not?" Topic

A South Korean treasure hunting company walked back its claim Thursday of having found a sunken Russian warship filled with $133 USD billion worth of gold as financial regulators began investigating whether the outlandish tale involved stock market fraud…

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I would guess not. The Dmitrii Donskoi was an obselescent armored cruiser. If the 2nd Pacific Squadron was carrying gold, then I would think it would be aboard one of the battleships, probably the flagship, Knyaz Suvorov, not an old armored cruiser.

But as someone stated in one of the previous threads on this topic, why not use the much safer and quicker Trans-Siberian Railroad to haul the gold?

Jim

I want to believe there´s gold there, because how cool would that be?
Unfortunately, I must agree with ColCampbell. There´ s just no logical reason for her to be carrying gold.

why not use the much safer and quicker Trans-Siberian Railroad to haul the gold?

Because the Trans-Siberian was already all but overwhelmed supplying and reinforcing the army in Manchuria.

Cash was needed to pay for services at each port the fleet called at – coal, fresh food, harbour fees.

Looks like a hyped news story to inflate their share prices.

Even if it were true, most nations want to protect their warship wrecks as war graves, and will sue the @[&! out of salvage companies who attempt to disturb them. And Putin's Russia? I think we'd see a massive die off in South korean treasure hunters…