Niagara's Gold by Jeff Maynard


ISBN
9780864177667
Published
Binding
Paperback
Pages
144
Dimensions
150 x 224 x 13mm

How An Australian And NZ Team Salvaged Eight Tons Of Gold From A German Minefield

In June 1940, shortly before the Battle of Britain, the Bank of England attempted to ship eight tons of gold to America to buy arms for the war against Germany. On 18 June, the ship carrying the gold, the "RMS Niagara", hit a German mine and sank in deep water off the coast of New Zealand.

In the months that followed one man would invent a way of working up to 600 feet underwater, assemble a crew - Canadians, Australians, Englishmen, New Zealanders - aged between 16 and 75, refloat a rusting coastal steamer "Claymore", then sail the lot into the middle of a minefield to begin searching for the "Niagara".

More than fifty years later, the remarkable story that followed is finally told . . .
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