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...gold British sovereigns, one dated 1901, the other 1912, plinked to the mucky deck of the Italian salvage ship Artiglio II (artiglio = talon) last week as she rode off Brest, France. The sovereigns were but a tender of what the next clutch of the Artiglio IPs five-clawed dredge was to raise from the "treasure" ship Egypt 400 ft. below. The dredge dipped, scrabbled, rose 15 tense minutes later with two gold bars and a scattering of sovereigns. The Italian crew went hysterical. "Gold! Gold!" they howled. They screamed, wept, embraced. Three years of painstaking, hazardous marine engineering...
Some $5,000,000 worth of sovereigns, gold bars and silver ingots were in the Egypt's strong room, placed there by one of the Egypt's officers named Cameron. The Artiglio's crew last week wished bad cess to Second Officer Cameron. For a decade he had kept to himself the fact that he had also stowed in the Egypt's strong room tons of silk, small arms & ammunition, and paper rupees worth, if they were valid last week, about $14,000,000. Italian divers had performed the prodigious feat of opening the strong room...
Commander Giovanni Quaglia of the Artiglio II eventually roared his hysterical crew to attention. "Pray for your dead comrades!" The men circled the little heap of retrieved gold, dropped to their knees, ostensibly prayed for several seconds...
...blown and bubbled their way slowly nearer to a bullion treasure of $5,000,000 sunk off the west coast of France in the strong room of the foundered British liner Egypt (TIME, Sept. 8, 1930 et seq.). Last week with the treasure almost grasped, the Italian diver ship Artiglio II ran out of wine & spaghetti, promptly put back to the harbor of Brest. There, while she took on cases of spaghetti and 600 litres of the scorching red wine that Italian seamen like, her divers talked, showed a splendid shilling...
...Artiglio II seaman, "in some mud the divers sent up from the Egypt's galley- cursed smelly mud!" Other "finds" washed by nose-holding sailors from the pantry mud: ¶ Brass disk stamped "P. & O." (the Egypt was a Peninsular & Orient liner). ¶ Rusty tube of a onetime shaving stick. ¶ Portion of an English Bible. "The rest of this Bible," conjectured the diver who sent the mud up, "had been gnawed away, probably by rats before the Egypt sank." Soon primed last week with wine, spaghetti and fresh bombs, Artiglio II resumed from Brest her quest...