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Tommy Gregory Thompson is an American treasure hunter known for his leading role in the discovery of the wreck of the SS Central America on September 11, 1988. He is also the author of a book about the discovery, America's Lost Treasure, published in 1998, and is a main character in the best-selling 1998 non-fiction book Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea by Gary Kinder.
SS Central America, known as the Ship of Gold, was a 280-foot (85 m) sidewheel steamer that operated between Central America and the East Coast of the United States during the 1850s. She was originally named the SS George Law, after George Law of New York. The ship sank in a hurricane in September 1857, along with 425 of her 578 passengers and ...
U.S. Mail Steamship Company was a company formed in 1848 by George Law, Marshall Owen Roberts and Bowes R. McIlvaine to assume the contract to carry the U. S. mails from New York City, with stops in New Orleans and Havana, to the Isthmus of Panama for delivery in California. The company had the SS Ohio and the SS Georgia built in 1848, and with ...
Tommy Gregory Thompson (b. 1952, American, currently held in jail). Known to lead the Columbus-America Discovery Group of Ohio at finding the wreck of the SS Central America and recovery of several tons of gold from it, jailed for default investors/creditors by US Marshalls. H. Charles Beil (b. 1959, American). Known for finding multiple ...
Merge it with SS Central America. -- Hurricane Eric - my dropsonde - archive 04:38, 20 December 2005 (UTC) Reply Strongly agreed. The info on the storm is so small. Merge with SS Central America sounds like the best bet. Hurricanehink 16:07, 20 December 2005 (UTC) Reply Sounds good. Jdorje 19:55, 20 December 2005 (UTC) Reply
SS Central America: Accident – shipwreck: Off the coast of Georgia: Fatalities estimated 400 1860 PS Lady Elgin: Accident – shipwreck: Chicago, Illinois: 400 1888 Great Blizzard of 1888: Blizzard: Northeastern United States: Fatalities estimated 400+ 1898 Portland Gale: Storm: New England: 385 1937 Ohio River flood of 1937: Flood: Ohio ...
The 18th Street Gang, also known as Eighteen St, Barrio 18, Mara 18, or simply 18 in North America, [1] [12] [13] [14] is a multi-ethnic (largely Central American and Mexican) transnational criminal organization that started as a street gang in Los Angeles. It is one of the largest transnational criminal gangs in Los Angeles, with 30,000-50,000 ...
Georgia Republicans on Saturday elected to the Republican National Committee a conservative activist who helped organize the Jan. 6, 2021, pro-Trump rally that led to a mob storming the U.S. Capitol.