New York and Cuba Mail S.S. Co. (the Ward Line) S. S. Merida may have carried as much as $158,537 in silver ingots from Mexi
New York and Cuba Mail S.S. Co. (the Ward Line)
S. S. Merida
may have carried as much as $158,537 in silver ingots from Mexico when she arrived in New York on January 23, 1909.
Another well-known name in the treasure-salvage business,
the 6,207 ton passenger-freighter <i>Merida</i> sank on May 12, 1911, enroute from Vera Cruz and Havana to New
York, in 210 feet of water approximately 80 miles east / northeast of Virginia Beach, Virginia.
S. S. Merida
may have carried as much as $158,537 in silver ingots from Mexico when she arrived in New York on January 23, 1909.
Another well-known name in the treasure-salvage business,
the 6,207 ton passenger-freighter <i>Merida</i> sank on May 12, 1911, enroute from Vera Cruz and Havana to New
York, in 210 feet of water approximately 80 miles east / northeast of Virginia Beach, Virginia.