Shipwreck Era Saturday!! Post yours as well...

This rather beat-up guy is from the Le Chameau Shipwreck. On August 26, 1725, she made landfall in the wrong place in a gale and was blown onto the rocks north of Louisburg. It carried goods, ammunition, and money to pay the French garrisons and the colony's expenses. More than 82,000 pounds in gold and silver coinage were mentioned. Over 200 people were aboard, but all perished. Alex Storm and a team of divers found the wreck and some of its treasure in 1966. I'm unsure what happened to the coin below, but it looks like it stuck to another coin. Any speculations?

 

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A Dutch East India company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie - VOC) Doit.

 

Board of Trade, Rocket Apparatus Medal
Obverse: Port broadside view of a full-rigged ship at anchor. Legend: 'BOARD OF TRADE ROCKET APPARATUS'. Reverse: A large royal crown centre. 'PROOF OF SERVICE AT A WRECK'. The Board of Trade owned the apparatus which was held at Coastguard Stations. Users could claim expenses from the board. The rocket apparatus was used to fire a line to a ship in distress. The line then used to haul over hawsers and the block to be affixed to the mast. Once fixed a breeches buoy could be used, hauled on a continuous whip line, to take off passengers and crew one by one. It was used by Coastguards but also by Volunteer Life Brigades and Life Saving Companies. The first of these founded in Tynemouth in 1864.Coastguards trained the volunteers in the use of the rocket apparatus. These Brigades became national institution until rocket apparatus made obsolete in the 1980s. (extra information Katy Gill)

 

This was the first shipwreck coin I bought early in 2024. I took the rational decision that at some time in the future, the paper auction envelope could be lost so decided to slab it and hand delivered it to NGC in July with the envelope to cite the provenance. I received the coin back in December. Guess what? It came back graded as AU with saltwater damage but no mention of the Hollandia.
I now need to decide if I want to wait another six months to have it replaced with a slab attributing the actual wreck.



I'm not going to bother slabbing this one.

 

I am punting on showing something on the shipwreck. You guys are doing great posting!

 

From the SS John Barry. Not sure why but I have a raw one in a marketing material folder and a graded one.