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The Golden Wreck
Stock No 2318
Artist / Author / Creator McKEE, Alexander
Category Books
Country Published U.K.
Date Published 1961
Description 1st ED. 221pp. 13 b/w plates. good cond. The story of the loss of the Royal Charter which sank in 1859 off the coast of Anglesey in a Force 12 gale. It was a veritable treasure ship as it was returning from Australia loaded with more than £375,000 in gold and miners with their families from the gold fields with money bags bulging. Much of the gold was recovered in the weeks after the disaster.
Price £6.00
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