![]() ![]() ![]() Jonathan Groubert This is how a journalist, KLM, Royal Dutch Airlines’ very first Dutch passenger, described Tuesday the 18th of May 1920, as a rented single-engine biplane takes on its passengers on a wet, grassy field just outside Amsterdam. We would therefore have headwind all the way. The rain was falling in buckets from the blackened sky in which billowing clouds were being driven along by the punishing west wind. van den Biggelaar It was a dreary morning. The cause for the wreck? Not unlike the storms the Pogues dealt with in Outer Banks Season 1, the Merchant Royal was said to have encountered bad weather on its way back to Britain from Mexico.M.J. Although the ship wasn’t carrying as much gold as The Royal Merchant, according to USA Today, it’s said to have gone down with 100,000 pounds of gold and 400 bars of Mexican silver. Also dubbed the “El Dorado of the seas,” the Merchat Royal sunk 200 years earlier and in a different location than than its fictionalized counterpart - specifically on September 23, 1641, off the coast of England. While there isn’t an actual ship called the Royal Merchant, there was one called the Merchant Royal. However, it may have some basis in reality. ![]() That short version of all this? It’s a fictional story made to entice viewers into a fun and adventurous Netflix show. The show revolves around John B.’s effort to find the gold, and, in turn, uncover out what happened to his missing father. Along with the fact that there were no known survivors from the wreck (minus Denmark Tanney, who the Pogues discovered actually did make it out alive), legend has it that there was also $400 million in British gold that sunk with the passengers. In the series, the Royal Merchant is a well-known historical artifact that everyone on the island is aware of - a ship that sunk sometime in the 1800s near the Outer Banks. So, is the Royal Merchant treasure on Outer Banks real? Viewers may expect the highly sought-after treasure to be a fictionalized detail created for the show, but it’s not as simple as that. But the most compelling aspect of the show remains the same as Season 1: The Royal Merchant. Season 2 of Netflix’s Outer Banks basically has everything: Wild teens, complicated relationship dynamics, and a ton of unexpected plot twists. ![]()
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