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Open Legend · Taiwan Strait, off Fujian

The Awa Maru

The Awa Maru: still unexplained.

◆ Evidence tier: TraditionSunk 1945 – present◎ Recently discovered — still growing

The Story

What is claimed · what is sourced · what is still disputed

A green-lit relief ship sunk by mistake in a single salvo, two thousand lives in twelve minutes, and then the rumors: bullion in her holds, the missing Peking Man bones among the cargo. China spent years opening her. What the divers found has never silenced what the rumors promise.

What remains open

  • No period map of the site has surfaced.
  • No contemporary press coverage has been found.

The lure: Rumored $5B in gold & platinum, and the Peking Man fossils

Evidence & Corroboration

Distinct evidence classes that independently agree — never a single score

Historical tradition
Newspaper mention
Scholarly support
Archival evidence
Official map/chart
Corroborated
Verified fact

? Open

  • No period map of the site has surfaced.
  • No contemporary press coverage has been found.

Historic Maps

Period cartography · Library of Congress & DPLA via IIIF · deep-zoom

◇ No period cartography on file yet. The IIIF map adapters (Library of Congress, David Rumsey, DPLA) fill this automatically when they find charts of this place.

Period Newspaper Coverage

Dated OCR mentions · Chronicling America / loc.gov — a mention proves circulation, nothing more

◇ No dated newspaper coverage yet. Chronicling America runs against this legend automatically and lands dated clips here.

Archival Documents

Manuscripts, government records, company filings · NARA · IIIF · registries

◇ No archival documents on file yet. NARA and national-archive adapters attach primary records here as they surface.

Timeline

Every event source-backed · unsourced events are dropped, never invented

◇ No dated, source-backed events yet. Timeline entries are built only from evidence with a confirmed date -- nothing is estimated or invented.

Sources & Citations

Typed, first-class citations with retrieval provenance

◇ No typed citations compiled yet -- check Historic Maps, Newspapers, and Archives above as they fill in.

From the archive

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