Word: artiglio
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...French are blocked from their salvage claims, the British underwriters and the owners of the Artiglio II (the Sorima Co. of Genoa) will divide whatever comes up from the Egypt. Speaking for Lloyd's, Sir Percy assured the Italians that the French libeling of the Artiglio IPs gold cargo was but a legal incident which would not interrupt further work or profit. To Commander Quaglia, the Italian Minister of Communications Costanzo Ciano dashed a wireless message: "Warmest congratulations from Premier Mussolini to yourself and all the crew...
Expectation was too acute for silence. Up leaped the men, scrambled to their posts. Down went the artiglio, its claws spread. Another 15 minutes, and again the dredge unclenched heavy gold...
...Artiglio II's mucky deck carried about $200,000 in gold coin and bullion. Next day they clawed another quarter of a million from the Egypt; the third day enough to make $875,000 old, and one blackened silver ingot. More gold remained; and under the gold, stacks of silver. Commander Quaglia refreshed his men with champagne, and scurried for England. For the French were after...
...Plymouth Harbor Sir Percy Graham Mackinnon of Lloyd's boarded the Artiglio II with the customs agents. Commander Quaglia was sitting in a deck chair under a huge sun umbrella. On their knees at his feet were two ship captains?one an Englishman, one an Italian?washing sovereigns in a basin, counting and bagging them. The ecstatic crew galloped at their jobs, contemptuously trampling and scattering bundles of rupee notes on the after deck. Commander Quaglia saluted his visitors. One of the customs men showed Commander Quaglia an official document: "Sorry, sir. A warrant for the arrest of the gold...
While the crew hissed and glared, the English agent fixed his Admiralty writ to the Artiglio II's mast. Later he transferred the writ to the ship's hold where the sacks of gold were stored...