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Looks like the gold rush isn’t over.
A famed treasure ship — carrying a near $5 million in current value — that was lost to the Pacific Ocean in the 1800s has been found by a pair of nautical sleuths, the Daily Mail reported.
The SS Pacific, an iconic vessel captained by Jefferson Davis Howell — brother-in-law to Confederate president Jefferson Davis — sunk off the coast of Cape Flattery in Washington State in 1875. On a voyage from British Columbia to San Francisco, she collided with another ship known as the Orpheus after a second mate onboard the latter mistook the Pacific’s lights for that of a nearby lighthouse.
Looks like the gold rush isn’t over.
A famed treasure ship — carrying a near $5 million in current value — that was lost to the Pacific Ocean in the 1800s has been found by a pair of nautical sleuths, the Daily Mail reported.
The SS Pacific, an iconic vessel captained by Jefferson Davis Howell — brother-in-law to Confederate president Jefferson Davis — sunk off the coast of Cape Flattery in Washington State in 1875. On a voyage from British Columbia to San Francisco, she collided with another ship known as the Orpheus after a second mate onboard the latter mistook the Pacific’s lights for that of a nearby lighthouse.
