RT: Treasure fever as hunters release photos of sunken Russian cruiser ‘with 200 tons of gold’
A South Korean firm made a splash on Tuesday after publishing, what it says, is a Russian Imperial Navy cruiser which was sunken during the Russo-Japanese War and may have had an entire flotilla’s treasury on board.
The Dmitrii Donskoi was an armored cruiser in the Russian Imperial Navy’s Baltic fleet which was deployed to the Pacific along with several other ships to fight in the 1904-05 Russo-Japanese War. It took part in the Battle of Tsushima, which was disastrous for Russia. It fled crippled and chased by Japanese warships and was eventually scuttled by its crew to avoid surrender off the coast of what is now South Korea’s Ulleung Island, or Ulleungdo.
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Update: Sunken Russian naval ship discovered after 113 years (Yonhap)
WNU Editor: I read about this ship in high school. Russia will be receiving half of the find, the rest will be going to the consortium that discovered the ship.
