Doomed ship of gold’s ghostly picture gallery is plucked from the seabed Eerie photographs recovered from the 1857 wreck of the SS Central America are now being published for the first time ...“Glass plate photos had preserved the faces of miners, merchants and their families, staring up at the living from the seabed.”
The portraits are eerie, but beautiful. These were the loved ones of those who had been on a ship that sank 150 miles from the Carolina coast with the loss of 425 lives. A judge and a comedian were among the passengers ...