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TREASURE SALVORS v. UNIDENTIFIED WRECKED, ETC.

No. 80-5067.

640 F.2d 560 (1981)

TREASURE SALVORS, INC., a corporation and Armada Research Corp., a corporation, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. The UNIDENTIFIED WRECKED AND ABANDONED SAILING VESSEL, etc., Defendant, Olin Frick, John Gasque, William Riley and The Masters of the Motor Vessels "Juniper" & "Seaker", Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

March 9, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Reginald M. Hayden, Jr., Miami, Fla., for defendants-appellants.

Horan & Sireci, David Paul Horan, J. M. Morse, III, Key West, Fla., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before GEE, FAY and RANDALL, Circuit Judges.

RANDALL, Circuit Judge:

This appeal marks the third time that Treasure Salvors and its efforts to retrieve treasure from the remains of the Spanish sailing vessel, Nuestra Senora de Atocha, have been before this court. The Nuestra Senora de Atocha sank off the coast of Florida in 1622 while carrying gold and silver bullion from Havana to Cadiz.1 In 1971 Treasure Salvors located an anchor from the Atocha; since then, Treasure Salvors has...

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