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"MYSTERY" GOLD,
Unsolved Riddle of La
Lutine.
An estimate has been misdo that there is still over £1,000,000 in gold bullion lying in the sande
of the Vlieland Channel, off the
Contrance to the Zuider Zoo,
BOLTS, NUTS, RIVETS, DOG SPIKES, FORGINGS. Etc. where the old treasure frigate.
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La Lutine, was wrecked. It is the bolt of the old Jutine which hang in the underwriting room at Lloyde.
This computation is worked fout by Mr. C. Stansfeld Hicks, In the White Star Magazina. The frigate, it is recalled, suited from Yarmouth on October 17,. 1799. with a great treasure on board What actually happened after (sho sailed is still one of the most
profound mystories of the sа2.
Newspaper accounts stated that she was freighted with between 116 and 3 million pounds sterling in gold and coin for English troops in Holland, Ir was even said that the Dutch Crown jewels were on board; having been rezet in London.
OUT OF HER COURSE. "The archives of the Admiralty only serve to add to the myatory. In them La Lutino (a 3-gun frigate) is stated as boing andor directions to sail to the River Elbe for Hamburg, and that tho. treasure on board was not the property of the Government but holonged to Landon merchants.
What she should be doing, evon in had wonther, so far out of her purse, is an absolute mystory.
It was estimated that up to the and of 1801, Dutch fishermen had
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the treasure in 'gold bars and Spanish, French and English coins. Various unsuccessful at- tempts had beari made since then to salve the treasure.
"The Dutchmen concerned with Lloyds in the salvage operi ations," writes Mr. Hicks, "havn, furnished an estimato based on on all the information they havo hven able to collect.
"They say that La Lutine. when she put to sou, had pn board approximately £1,175,000 and thin the sum hitherto salved came to just short of £100,000, thus leaving treasure remaining worth over a million pounds.
"The amount originally on board can ho computed only by inference and deduction, but oven so, the evidence is in favour of the above culentations boing" approximately correct,"
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