The Sunken Gold
A Story of World War I Espionage and the Greatest Treasure Salvage in History
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Paul Boehmer
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On January 25, 1917, HMS Laurentic struck two German mines off the coast of Ireland and sank. The ship was carrying 44 tons of gold bullion to the still-neutral United States via Canada in order to finance the war effort for Britain and its allies. Britain desperately needed that sunken treasure, but any salvage had to be secret, since the British government dared not alert the Germans to the presence of the gold.
Lieutenant Commander Guybon Damant was the most qualified officer to head the risky mission. Wild gales battered the wreck into the shape of an accordion, turning the operation into a multiyear struggle of man versus nature. As the war raged on, Damant was called off the salvage to lead a team of covert divers to investigate and search through the contents of recently sunk U-boats for ciphers, minefield schematics, and other secrets. The information they obtained, once in the hands of British intelligence, proved critical toward Allied efforts to defeat the U-boats and win the war.
But Damant had become obsessed with completing his long-deferred mission. His team struggled for five more years as it became apparent that the work could be accomplished only by muscle, grit, and persistence.
Using newly discovered sources, author Joseph A. Williams provides the first full-length account of the quest for the Laurentic's gold. More than an incredible story about undersea diving adventure, The Sunken Gold is a story of human persistence, bravery, and patriotism.
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- stuart
- 29-04-23
fantastic book
loved all the detail on the start of salvage diving. great insight into diving of the wrecks
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-02-23
awesome life, great story, performance......hmmm.
Fascinating story pieced together from fragments before a partial autobiography was found. Fascinating insight into 1st world war naval salvage and the development of the staged decompression - which is still used in a refined form today ( i am a diver, I have suffered the bends and have done a lot of deep decompression diving).
The one minor gripe was pronunciation. The narrator had a cut glass English accent but then used American pronunciations. This was jarring in the extreme. I have heard this style before on Audible and it hurts the ear! Yes there are more Americans listening than Brits, but please English accent with English pronunciations, American accent with American pronunciations.
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- 11-08-23
Important story -but poor reader.
This is a fascinating account of little-known historic events spoiled by the reading. Like some other US readers on Audible, he over emphasises words and changes rhythms, sometimes even declaiming the words rather than reading them. I began to wonder whether this was a computer generated voice. After a time , it became very difficult to listen to and I had to take breaks in order to continue. This was a shame because I DID want to hear the story.
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