Odyssey Marine Exploration, a company that specialises in salvaging deep-sea wrecks, hauled the treasure - mainly gold and silver coins mined and minted in the former Spanish colonies - from the seabed off Portugal in 2007. We are seeking respect for the memory of our family members who died on board the Mercedes," said Daireaux, 49, one of six descendants claiming the treasure in the Gibraltar courts. Mathilde Daireaux Kinsky, an Argentinian who lives in Colombia, says part of the cargo of the Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes, sunk by the British in a sea battle in 1804, belonged to her ancestor Diego de Alvear y Ponce de Leon.Ī Spanish general in the colonies at the time, he was not on board himself but lost his wife and seven of his children along with his precious coins in the shipwreck, Daireaux told AFP. The British-administered territory has been drawn into a tangled squabble between Spain, US treasure hunters and the Latin American descendants, in a case harking back to the days of the Spanish empire.
The arrival of the cargo sealed the end of a five-year legal battle between Spain and the US treasure hunters who hauled up the trove Tons of gold and silver from the wreck of the 19th-century Spanish warship arrived in Spain on February 25, 2012, more than 200 years after a British fleet sank it. Silver coins from the cargo of the19th-century Spanish warship the Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes.
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