. 1203 silver ingots were extracted from the side of the sunken British military transport ship, the total weight of which was about 48 tons . The ship sank in 1941 at 300 nautical miles from the city of Galway in Ireland

The cause of the crash of the SS Gairsoppa in February 1941 was a torpedo launched by a German submarine. On board the ship were 85 crew members, but only the second captain's aide Richard Ayers remained alive. Until this year, the ship rested at 4, 7 thousand meters.

Thanks to the agreement, which the British Ministry of Transport concluded with the American company Odyssey Marine Exploration, which specializes in raising the ship's skeletons from the seabed, silver was raised to the surface. On Thursday, the company said that about 48 tons of silver was brought ashore and placed in a storage facility in London.

Marine Exploration claims that this is only 20% of the precious metal that lies in the SS Gairsoppa holds. According to the terms of the contract, 80% of the treasure is removed by the company.

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