21st May 2007, 07:48 PM
Curator Kid
Glad we are agreed on the role of the RAOs. In terms of the Government's record on this one I would repeat my understanding that it was actually the Admiralty, acting entirely independently, that dropped HMG into the brown stuff on this one.
Others may may know more, but understandably a lot of this is presumably still confidential.
Mr Hosty - I thinl that you are right to be cautious about identifying this find with HMS Sussex. There were rumours that it was actually the Merchant Royal, which went down off the Scillies in 1641 full of Mexican gold and silver. However, the plane that landed in the USA carrying the loot took off from Gibralter, which would point the finger more at HMS Sussex.
Beamo
Glad we are agreed on the role of the RAOs. In terms of the Government's record on this one I would repeat my understanding that it was actually the Admiralty, acting entirely independently, that dropped HMG into the brown stuff on this one.
Others may may know more, but understandably a lot of this is presumably still confidential.
Mr Hosty - I thinl that you are right to be cautious about identifying this find with HMS Sussex. There were rumours that it was actually the Merchant Royal, which went down off the Scillies in 1641 full of Mexican gold and silver. However, the plane that landed in the USA carrying the loot took off from Gibralter, which would point the finger more at HMS Sussex.
Beamo