The gold of the cruiser Edinburgh.
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During World War II, Allied convoys delivered vital weapons, supplies and food to the Soviet Union by the shortest route across the polar seas. Strategic raw materials were shipped back. German ships, submarines and aircraft attempted to disrupt these shipments and inflicted heavy casualties on the convoys. In April 1942, the British cruiser Edinburgh escorted the return convoy QP-11 to Iceland, but was torpedoed by a submarine in the Barents Sea. German destroyers later attacked it and achieved another torpedo hit. The cruiser had to be sunk, but with it went to the bottom a cargo of 5.5 tons of gold, intended to pay for military supplies. Only in 1981, most of the gold was raised from a depth of 260 meters, which was a record for that time. In 1986, 29 more gold bars were recovered from the bottom, although 5 bars remained somewhere in the hold of the sunken ship. This book tells about the last battle of the cruiser "Edinburgh", about the difficult and dangerous lifting of the precious cargo from the cold depths.
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