Many early 20th-century wartime wrecks represent both unrecovered sovereign assets and unresolved technical and environmental considerations arising from their original construction, cargo and fuel systems.
The team’s experience lies in controlled recovery methodologies — isolating and extracting target assets while addressing the broader technical conditions present at historic wreck sites.
Unlike modern extractive mining, which involves uncertain yield and extensive surface disruption, historic asset recovery concerns a finite, documented resource with known provenance, subject to verification through survey and recovery.
The recovery programme involving HMS Edinburgh (sunk 1942) provides a clear legal and operational precedent for the recovery of British government-owned bullion from wartime losses.
The operation was undertaken without public funding. Under structured arrangements, the UK Government retained ownership while private salvors were granted a substantial share of recovered value to compensate for capital deployment, technical risk and execution.
This precedent underpins the general framework used when evaluating similar recoveries: sovereign ownership, private capability and capital, and a shared-outcome model.
Sovereign assets
Documented British government-owned wartime bullion and cargo losses.
Technical recovery
Survey-led evaluation, prioritisation and controlled extraction methodologies.
Private capital framework
Recovery undertaken without public funding, within established legal precedent.