Shipwreck of S.S. Central America Yields More Gold Published Aug 30, 2014 at 2:20 PM EDT Updated Feb 27, 2016 at 11:15 AM EST More than 2,900 gold coins and 45 gold ingots have been recovered as well.

The lure of sunken treasure under the waves has wreck-hunting salvage investigators scouring the sea beds to make their ...

The sidewheel paddler SS Central America sank off the coast of North Carolina on Sept. 12, 1857, now 164 years ago. The ship was ruined and 426 souls were lost. But that’s just the beginning ...

The greatest treasure of all in the SS Central America shipwreck off the South Carolina coast might not be gold bars and coins worth millions of dollars. Microscopic organisms in the sediment ...

The sidewheel paddler SS Central America sank off the coast of North Carolina on Sept. 12, 1857, now 164 years ago. The ship was ruined and 426 souls were lost. But that’s just the beginning.… ...

The ruins of the SS Nantes, a ship that sank over 100 years ago, were recently discovered off of the coast of England, solving one of the U.K.'s longest standing shipwreck mysteries.

Nine rare coins minted in San Francisco are the latest finds from the haul left behind by a shipwreck so massive, its sinking contributed to a U.S. financial panic in the 1800s. The SS Central ...

While laden with booty, the S.S. Central America shipwreck was also a deep sea gravesite. The ship sank 7,200 feet deep in the Atlantic Ocean during a hurricane on September 12, 1857 .

A 19th century ship that sank nearly 140 years ago has been found “frozen in time” off Britain’s coast. Twenty-three crew members died when the SS Nantes sank off the coast of Cornwall in November ...

SS Republic sank off the southeast coast of the US in 1865. The $10 and $20 gold coins found in the wreck and sold by Odyssey Marine fetched almost $7,000 a coin. Join the conversation ...

FILE - This 1989 file photo shows gold bars and coins from the S.S. Central America, a mail steamship, which sunk in a hurricane in 1857, about 160 miles off the North Carolina coast.

Rare treasures pulled from Gold Rush era shipwreck SS Central America, dubbed the Ship of Gold, have sold at auction, including a 32 ounce ingot that went for $138,000.