Word: florencia
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There has been much argument since then over the identity of the sunken ship, but around Tobermory it became accepted as fact that she was the 960-ton galleon Duque de Florencia, a ship laden with gold and silver plate and carrying the Armada paymaster's chest, a hoard of 30 million ducats in gold coin...
Some people say they know where to find 25,000 in silver buried on Long Island, say it would take only two weeks, cost only $500. In Tobermory Bay, off the :est coast of Scotland, dredging still goes on for the lost treasure of the Armada galleon Florencia. On Oak Island, Nova Scotia, a treasure was actually discovered in a 153-ft. shaft which, promptly flooded, defied all attempts to drain it. Last fortnight Inventor Simon Lake was in the newspapers with an elaborate plan and a ong steel tube to salvage the millions hat went down in the purser...