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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. [4] He is also the author of a book about the discovery, America's Lost Treasure, published in 1998, [5] and is a main character in the best-selling 1998 non-fiction book Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea by Gary Kinder.
America's Lost Treasure. Atlantic Monthly Press. ISBN 0-87113-732-1; Klare, Norman. (1991 and 2005). The Final Voyage of the Central America, 1857: The Saga of a Gold Rush Steamship. ISBN 0-87062-210-2 and ISBN 0-9764403-0-X; Stone, Lawrence D. Search for the SS Central America: Mathematical Treasure Hunting Archived March 4, 2016, at the ...
William Lewis Herndon was born on 25 October 1813 in Fredericksburg, Virginia, to Elizabeth (née Hull) and Dabney Herndon.His father was a cashier. [2] He married Frances Elizabeth Hansborough and they had a daughter, Ellen Lewis Herndon (future wife of Chester A. Arthur), born in Culpeper Court House, Virginia.
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Law had a steamship named after him. The SS George Law was later renamed SS Central America. She sank in a three-day and night hurricane carrying most of her passengers, gold bullion then valued at US$2,000,000 and Commander William Lewis Herndon down with her. The sinking of the ship with the loss of so much gold contributed to the Panic of 1857.
Cover of We Were There on the Chisholm Trail, the 14th book in the series. Children's literature portal; The We Were There books are a series of historical novels written for children. The series consists of 36 titles, first released between 1955 and 1963 by Grosset & Dunlap. Each book in the series is a fictional retelling of an historical ...
U.S. Mail Steamship's Ohio and Georgia View of the U.S. mail steamship company's premises, at Aspinwall, N.G.. 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.