The Laconia lost with one million ounces of silver.

Gidday all gather around pull up seat and grab your favorite brew. Old Crow has a treasure yarn for ya.

Towards the end of WW1 in 1917 The British liner “Laconia”, 18099 tons, captain Irvine, belonging to the Cunard Steamship Company of Liverpool, was returning from New York to the United Kingdom, when she was torpedoed by the German submarine U-50, on 25th February 1917, at 9 pm., some 160 miles NW. by W. of the Fastnet, south of Porcupine Bank.

The first torpedo struck the…

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