The sidewheel paddler SS Central America sank off the coast of North Carolina on Sept. 12, 1857, now 164 years ago. The ship was ruined and 426 souls were lost. But that’s just the beginning.

The sidewheel paddler SS Central America sank off the coast of North Carolina on Sept. 12, 1857, now 164 years ago. The ship was ruined and 426 souls were lost. But that’s just the beginning.… ...

Tommy Thompson, a deep-sea explorer who found the SS Central America shipwreck in 1988, could get out of the federal prison in Michigan if he would reveal the whereabouts of 500 gold coins.

As Tommy Thompson, who found the greatest sunken treasure in American history, is arrested, we look back at the story of how the SS Central America – and thousands of pounds of California gold ...

In 1857, the SS Central America, also known as the "ship of gold", sank off the coast of the US state of South Carolina, along with some new-found riches from the California Gold Rush.

The SS Central America, loaded with 30,000 pounds of gold from San Francisco, was nearly done with its trip to New York when a Category 2 hurricane hit the Atlantic. The ship was badly battered ...

Rare treasures pulled from Gold Rush era shipwreck SS Central America, dubbed the Ship of Gold, have sold at auction, including a 32 ounce ingot that went for $138,000.

Treasures recovered from a shipwreck that's been at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean since 1857 are on tour before going up for auction in the fall.

Pulled from a sunken trunk at an 1857 shipwreck off the coast of North Carolina, work pants that auction officials describe as the oldest known pair of jeans in the world have sold for $114,000 ...