113 y.o Russian warship found

[jfe]

Came accross this article this morning, found it quite interresting that there will be that much doubt as to the claim, maybe most new discoveries are sceptical untill proven.
On the other hand, to my untrained eye and limited knowladge, the wreck doesn't look 113 years old, I would have thought there will be a lot more damage to a sunken ship of that age, but that is me.
Salvagers 'find sunken Russian warship'

 

[АлександрД]

news origin 113년 전 울릉 앞바다서 침몰한 러시아배 돈스코이호 발견(종합) (KOR)
more details and ship history Найден затонувший крейсер «Дмитрий Донской» — участник Цусимского сражения. С него хотят поднять тонны золота | Телеканал 360° and Найден "Дмитрий Донской" (RUS)
(use translator)

 

[Jared0425]

I have always wondered when a serious search effort was going to be made on the Russian Fleet that was sunk in the battle of tsushima. That battle was one of the main focus points of allied tactics in the 2 world wars.

However the gold story I wont believe until they pull it out of the wreck.

 

[PfcAJ]

1400ft. Just a bit out of my depth range.

 

[АлександрД]

https://tinyurl.com/y8n3eww3 (34:42) at least in 2016 it was already found(ed)

and about battleship: ДмитрийДонской.рф
Russian cruiser Dmitrii Donskoi - Wikipedia

In 2001, a South Korean salvage company announced that it had found the wreck of Dmitrii Donskoi

 

[Diver0001]

I read on a Dutch mainstream news site that they estimate the value of the cargo at about $100 billion

 

[driftwood]

I read another article and agree that the safest way for Russia to ship the gold was by train. I disagreed that there wasn't space on the ship for that amount of gold.

Sunken Russian Warship Rumored to Contain 200 Tons of Gold Discovered Near South Korea

If my math is right, remember that I am the reason they put eraser's on pencils, 200t of gold is just less than 12 and a quarter cubic yards.

 

[Akimbo]

A group of investors hired us in the early 1970s to research recovering the rumored gold and platinum on the Russian cruiser Admiral Nakhimov that was lost during the same battle. Going to the USSR was out of the question in those days. Reliable information on the gold was pretty limited so the project was abandoned.

To me, one of the most interesting parts of the project was the insight into the Japanese Naval history that was very apparent decades later in World War II history.

Related article: Japanese to salvage $3.8 billion treasure from Czarist wreck

 

[Jared0425]

I read the same stories. Also considering that the Russians paid off their sailors with paper currency (rubles), why would Russia risk a considerable amount of its gold reserves in battle? (The same gold reserves that the RMS Republic was supposed to replace?)

Besides a few Spanish Galleons and a few civilian ships from the 19th century, not many true treasure ships remain.

 

[Akimbo]

As I recall, a fair chuck of it was for their west coast base more than paying their sailors. That makes sense because the base would need a lot of foreign exchange funds for supplies like food, coal, and munitions.