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- 1959 Shipwreck news -

A Japanese salvage crew has re-floated the Russian auxiliary warship Irtysh from the bottom of the Japan sea where she was lying since her sinking during the Russian-Japanese war of 1904-05.

And so a 50 year old rumor of a “treasure” in the hold of that Sunken Russian ship ended over the last week-end of August 1959 in disappointment. All what was found was dry brick-red powder which might have once been used for ammunition.

The Nichi Nippon Salvage Company admitted that talk of the treasure in the sunken hull of the Irtysh spread by sailors of the Russian fleet who survived the sinking of the ship, may have been a “plant”.

Treasure hunter have been trying to get into the Irtysh ever since the ship was sunk as survivors told she was carried gold bullion. The salvagers had one consolation : the scrap was expected to bring them a substantial profit.