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Treasure hunter seeks gold in sunken British ship off Uruguay

By Mauricio Rabuffetti In Colonia Del Sacramento, Uruguay Agence France Presse | China Daily | Updated: 2015-11-28 07:29

More than 250 years after Spanish forces sank the British warship Lord Clive off the coast of Uruguay, treasure hunter Ruben Collado is working to raise it from its watery grave.

Collado believes the ship may have been carrying 100,000 gold coins when Spanish cannon fire sank it in 1763, as Britain and Portugal tried to seize the city of Colonia del Sacramento during the Seven Years' War.

The Argentine adventurer spent 14 years searching for the wreckage before finding it by accident in 2004, when the propeller of his boat struck a sunken mast as he trolled around the River Plate estuary.

Treasure hunter seeks gold in sunken British ship off Uruguay

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