TREASURE–CHEST FROM THE “ALFONSO XII,” WITH GOLD COIN SET IN THE PANEL.
From a Photograph.
Some Danish speculators are reaping a harvest of golden grain from the depths of the sea which washes the coast of Jutland. Some years ago, the British steamship Helen, laden with copper, foundered. All her cargo has been recovered. The steamer Westdale, laden with 2,000 tons of iron, went down off the Danish coast in 1888. Nearly the whole cargo, her machinery, and a great part of her fittings, have been saved by Jutland divers.
Dredging operations carried on at Santander, Spain, resulted in the discovery of the well-preserved wreck of a warship of the fifteenth or sixteenth century. She must have been in her present position for four hundred years, and was partly covered by a deposit of sand and mud. Divers brought up guns which bore the united arms of Castile and Aragon, the scroll of Isabella, or the crown and initial of Ferdinand. The ship was probably employed as a transport, and inasmuch as some of the arms are of French and Italian make, it is supposed she formed part of the fortunate expedition against Naples under Gonzalo de Cordoba.
Transcriber’s Note
Page 15: Have removed the extraneous word ‘feet’, used twice.