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The SS Central America, a 280ft side-wheel steamer, sunk off the coast of the Carolinas in 1857 during a hurricane while sailing from Panama to New York.
The SS Central America, loaded with 30,000 pounds of gold from San Francisco, was nearly done with its trip to New York when a Category 2 hurricane hit the Atlantic.
Shipwreck of S.S. Central America Yields More Gold Published Aug 30, 2014 at 2:20 PM EDT Updated Feb 27, 2016 at 11:15 AM EST More than 2,900 gold coins and 45 gold ingots have been recovered as well.
FILE - This 1989 file photo shows gold bars and coins from the S.S. Central America, a mail steamship, which sunk in a hurricane in 1857, about 160 miles off the North Carolina coast.
The Central America was laden with California gold rush booty when it sank in 1857 off the Carolina coast; 425 people drowned, and the wreckage remains 7,000 feet below sea level.
SANTA ANA, Calif. --It's been called the greatest lost treasure in U.S. history. More than $50 million worth of gold sank to the bottom of the ocean when the SS Central America sank in a storm in ...
An event of Saturday, September 12, 1857, took place about 160 miles off the coast of the Georgetown- Charleston area. The story of the sinking of the Steam Ship Central ...
The SS Central America was carrying the now-usual 467 passengers, 102 crew members and over 6,000 pounds of gold. Several days later it docked in Havana, Cuba, for a routine stop.
In January, one of the largest S.S. Central America ingots ever offered at auction, an 866.19-ounce find known as a Justh & Hunter ingot, sold for $2.16 million through Dallas-based Heritage Auctions.
In 1857, the SS Central America, also known as the "ship of gold", sank off the coast of the US state of South Carolina, along with some new-found riches from the California Gold Rush.