OPINION & ORDER
PAUL A. ENGELMAYER, District Judge:
On February 19, 1917, in the midst of World War I, a British ship, the SS Mantola, was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat in the North Atlantic. The ship and its cargo — including what is believed to be 536 bars of silver, each weighing 1,000 ounces and together worth several...
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