Posted on 07/18/2018 5:55:54 AM PDT by C19fan
It is thought that the battle ship, which was discovered off the island of Ulleungdo, was sunken during the Russo-Japanese War and could have had the gold of an entire flotilla on board.
The Dmitrii Donskoi was an armoured cruiser in the Russian Imperial Navy’s Baltic fleet which was deployed to the Pacific in the 1904-5 Russo-Japanese War.
The warship would have taken part in the Battle of Tsushima which saw Russia defeated by Japanese warships.
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Why would the Russian fleet have carried all that gold?
Maybe to purchase supplies along the way from St. Petersburg, around Africa, to Japan.
But otherwise, what was the sense of sending a fleet into battle ALSO carrying tons of gold?
Oh good. They finally found my property.
Just send it to lowbridge, care of freerepublic, USA. Thanks in advance.
No doubt going to Mar A Largo. IMPEACH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow. President Trump secured a refund from Putin from the profit he made selling the Uranium Hillary Clinton gave him.
If Russia suddenly showed up in force and simply quarantined the area what would the powers that be do? It was Russia’s gold and like the Spanish they can claim it was theirs! I would support the Russians in their claim.(just to spite China and others)
oops...didn’t realize the Russians were in on this...posted my last post too soon.
$100 billion seems excessive. I’m wondering if they didn’t mean $100 million. That would be a lot more plausible for payroll and port expenses.
National ships, i.e. warships, remain the property of their nation, so Russia owns the ship. Now if Russia doesn’t have the technical means to get at the treasure, they can make arrangements with others to try to salvage it.
Who did the Russians steal the Gold from ?
Reminds me of an incident in WWII in which a ship with gold was damaged by the Nazis, then torpedoed by our own warships to keep the gold out of the nazi hands.
When found about forty five years ago, Russia, Great Britain and the USA put in a claim for the gold. It was then found that the USA had insurance on the gold and the insurance had paid off, so the US withdrew all claim to the gold.
Seems like the insurance company would have the best claim to what it had insured at that point.
1904-1905 is before the commies killed the Czar.
Does this mean the gold belongs to the current Russian government or to the family of the Czar?
I’ve read that The Glomar Explorer is up for sale. It has proven successful in dredging up russian ships.
They weren’t expecting anything like a real fight with the Japanese. The Russian fleet was sailing in line through a strait and was annihilated by a modern and well led Japanese Imperial Navy fleet that “crossed the T”. They may have been just over confident enough, and too suspicious of their own captains, to disperse the gold among several ships. Anyway, it’s conceivable.
Well, we’re told it got part of A Russian ship. I don’t think anyone else could have done it at the time.
> Does this mean the gold belongs to the current Russian government or to the family of the Czar? <
Excellent question. I’m going to contact the people who printed out Obama’s birth certificate. Maybe they can produce a document that proves I’m the current head of the Romanov family.
Another question the $100,000,000,000 would weigh about 3,500 long tons. The ship it was found on was less than 6,000 long tons. No wonder it didn’t it sunk the battle.
So THATS where I parked it!
I knew it was somewhere near South Korea.
If true, Russia or China would have gone after it long ago.
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