Description | File concerning the proposed salvage operations of Silver coin possibly belonging to the Treasury, from 'Benmohr' and 'City of Cairo' both sunk in 1942. Also contains references to other vessels sunk whilst carrying gold and silver coin including 'Empress of Canada' (confirmation, Apr 1989, that no Exchange Equalisation Account (EEA) gold was on the 'Empress of Canada'), 'Fort Stikine', 'Niagara', 'Empire Manor', 'Egypt', 'Damao', 'Fabian', 'Flavia', 'Laurentic', 'Norwegian', 'Olfield Grange', 'Sycamore' and 'Medina'. |