Box with four tons of gold found in the British flooded the ship, bound from South America to Germany in 1939.
Ship SS Minden sank 120 miles South-East of Iceland, in its territorial waters.
Now representatives of the British company Advanced Marine Services asked for permission from the Icelandic authorities to make the ship a hole to pull the drawer out, reports The Sun. The British believe that the gold belongs to them as to those who found him. The price of gold may be about 100 million pounds. The reaction of Iceland is still unknown.
Ship SS Minden sailed from Brazil on 6 September 1939, a few days after the outbreak of the Second world war. It was gold from the Banco Germanico, a subsidiary of German Bank Dresdner.
But on September 24 the SS Minden was spotted by British cruisers, HMS Calypso and HMS Dunedin. The captain of the German ship on the orders of Adolf Hitler flooded the ship, that the goods have not got to the enemy.
