New Jersey Wreck

Wreck

In 1833 the New Jersey, an American vessel, in the course of its voyage from Gibraltar to Canton with a valuable cargo of Spanish silver dollars quicksilver (mercury) and lead,  wrecked upon the Louisa Shoal in the South China Sea. The captain and crew afterwards safely made their way to Singapore in the ship's longboat. In the early 1834, three vessels with divers departed Singapore for Louisa Shoal in hopes of recovering some of the New Jersey's lost treasure. During the salvage attempt, one of the salvage vessels, Reliance, was lost upon the shoal during a storm. The other salvage ship, Madeleine, returned to Singapore having successfully recovered quicksilver and lead valued at between 24,000 to 25,000 Spanish dollars. And the third salvage vessel, Lucile, later returned to Singapore having recovered property from the wreck to the value of 7,200 Spanish dollars. One of the divers was drowned while attempting to salvage some quicksilver. Not all of the treasure and quicksilver was salvaged.

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