Odyssey Marine’s “Irish project” – redux
Having told the Irish Times previously that they had “been working off the Irish coast, but outside territorial waters”, US company Odyssey Marine Exploration have announced a second silver cargo shipwreck discovery – the SS Mantola with an estimated 600,000 ounces of silver on board, worth approximately £12million at current market values. Attacked 143 miles west-south-west off Fastnet by German U-boat U-81 on 8 February 1917, the Clydebuilt database account has the Mantola sinking in rough seas on 9 February after an attempt by HMS Laburnum …