First treasures hauled up from ‘Holy Grail’ shipwreck packed with gold and silver worth ‘£16bn’ that sunk 300-years-ago

First treasures hauled up from ‘Holy Grail’ shipwreck packed with gold and silver worth ‘£16bn’ that sunk 300-years-ago

THE first treasures from the legendary San José galleon have finally been brought to surface, ten years after the “Holy Grail of shipwrecks” was discovered. Scientists recovered a bronze cannon, three coins and a porcelain cup from nearly 2,000ft below the Caribbean Sea, where the Spanish warship went down in 1708 after engaging an English…

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