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Archive Home > 2012 > February > 04 > Crew set to recover $3B in platinum from steamer torpedoed in WWII

Crew set to recover $3B in platinum from steamer torpedoed in WWII

By Brian R. Ballou / The Bulletin
February 4, 2012

The Sub Sea Research crew had spent months in 2008 futilely scouring a wide swath of ocean off Cape Cod in search of the SS Port Nicholson, a merchant ship that sank in 1942 while laden with platinum now believed to be worth $3 billion.

But on the morning of Aug. 27, 2008, as the rest of the....

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