HISTORY OF CAPE HENLOPEN
AND BEYOND
DeBRAAK
Friday, January 21 1955
Delaware County Pennsylvania Daily Times :
A Wallingford treasurer
hunter and deep sea diver from Delaware County thinks he
“hooked on” to a
sunken ship of fortune off Cape Henlopen, near Lewes, last
summer.
It was disclosed today
that Robert Howarth, IV., of Brookshire Road, obtained
exclusive
rights from Delaware to
dive in it's waters for 'treasure' aboard the British DeBraak
Sloop
of War, sunk in 1787 off
Cape Henlopen.
Howarth, a engineer with
the Hollingshead Corporation at Camden and his cousin
Dr. William Boyce with
the Norristown State Hospital are partners in the scheme and will
pay $25 each month plus
10% of anything of value they bring to surface.
Last summer, using new
Swedish diving equipment, they were said to have made
contact with the sunken
DeBraak. Many attempts at salvage have ended in failure for
the
millions in gold and
silver cargo, captured by pirates, before she was capsized in a
gale
force wind squall and
sunk while seeking refuge in Lewes Creek off Cape Henlopen.
Abstract: Delaware
County Pennsylvania Daily Times, Friday, 21 January 1955
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