MANHATTAN – A federal court in New York ruled that a shipwreck salvage company should be awarded silk cloth recovered from a British ship that was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat during World War I, but the company is not awarded 526 silver bars that were also part of the ship’s cargo.
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