Follow treasure hunter Tommy Thompson on his quest to find the SS Central America, which sank in 1875 off the southeast U.S. coast. He uses his sharp mind, tenacity, and cunning to uncover the ship and its enormous haul of gold. He is still imprisoned for refusing to disclose the location of some of it.Publisher's Description:
Ship of Gold tells the story of the sinking of the SS Central America, a side-wheel steamer carrying nearly six hundred passengers returning from the California Gold Rush, two hundred miles off the Carolina coast in September 1857. Over four hundred lives and twenty-one tons of California gold were lost.