The Spanish 1715 Treasure Fleet sunk off the Florida coast holding riches bound for Europe. Over 300 years later, treasure hunters are still rummaging the ships for fabulous finds. The latest discovery comes from a group of Florida divers who recovered over 200 silver cob coins.A...
Explore the Spanish treasure fleet. Discover the origins, routes and cargo of the Spanish fleet. Read about its decline, and review a timeline of...
Less known than the tragedy of the Titanic, the sinking of the 1715 Spanish Treasure Fleet is a story just as dramatic and terrible. More than 1,000 people drowned in the disaster, and a fortune in treasure went down off the Florida coast. The morning of Wednesday, July 24, 1715 dawned...
Eventually Veracruz, Mexico; Cartagena, Colombia and Isla Margarita, Venezuela (for pearls) would become stops on the route of the Spanish treasure fleet. Naturally the other major world powers of the day, France, Holland, Britain, looked enviously at Spain’s position in the New World, nicknam...
The San José is considered the world's most valuable shipwreck and is often described asthe Holy Grail of shipwrecks, representing one of the most significant findings in underwater archaeology, according to The Sun. The treasure found in the naval fleet, including the San José, is estimated...
The other players are pirate hunters who must use their knowledge of pirate lore to reveal the pirate’s location and drive them away from the treasure fleet – or better yet, to capture that blasted bilge rat of a thieving buccaneer!
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The Treasure Ports A map illustrating the routes of the Treasure Fleet (the New Spain and the Terra Firma Fleet) alongside the Spanish Main (the parts of the Spanish Empire on the mainland of the Americas with coastlines on the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico) and the islands in the...
The Mediterranean soon became a backwater; and Cadiz, the most remote Phoenician colony of Gades, became Spain's own Atlantic entrepôt -- unfortunately for Spain largely to receive the treasure fleets from the New World, not to be a source of commerce and manufacture like the ports of ...
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