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At two in the morning on Wednesday, July 31, 1715, seven days after departing from Havana, Cuba, [1] all eleven ships of the fleet were lost in a hurricane along the east coast of Florida. A 12th ship, the French frigate Le Grifon, had sailed with the fleet.
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By the summer of 1963, the members of Real Eight were convinced that they were on the trail of a great treasure. They were right! “The Treasure Coast” This 1963 map of the eastern Florida coast designates the locations of at least 6 galleons lost in the 1715 Fleet disaster.
1715 Fleet Background: On July 31, 1715 eleven of the twelve Spanish ships sailing from Havana to Spain were wrecked by a violent hurricane on the east coast of Florida from St. Lucie to Cape Canaveral. Seven of these Spanish Treasure laden ships were scattered over the reefs from South of Fort Pierce to the Sebastian Inlet.
The great treasure fleet of 1715 sailed from Havana harbor in the early morning of July 24th, a beautiful and calm day, with a gentle breeze to help the ships find the Florida current which ran north and up the Straits of Florida (the Gulf Stream).
Two maps showing the routes of the treasure fleets and the locations of the 1715 and 1733 shipwrecks; 2. Four readings on the Spanish treasure fleet system and the wreck of the 1715 and 1733 fleets; 3. Two conjectural paintings of the Urca de Lima and the San Pedro; 4. Two diagrams of the wreck sites; 5. Two photographs of the wreck sites today.
In 1715 and again in 1733, Spain's treasure fleets were devastated by hurricanes off the coast of Florida. Although the Spanish managed to recover some treasure, much more remained on the ocean floor.
July 30, 1715 Hurricane strikes fleet in the Florida Channel between the mainland and the Bahamas Islands. Only the French ship escapes and reaches Europe. The Spanish treasure fle encounters a violent hurricane just after departing Havana. - Spain, helps get materials on fleet from the General Archives of the Indies.
Learn more about the 1715 fleet of ships on the Florida East Coast found by Mel Fisher prior to locating the famous shipwreck Atocha and Santa Margarita.
To explain how Spain created an empire from trade routes to the Americas; 2. To describe the convoy system Spain used to collect treasure and native products from the Americas over three centuries; 3. To describe the wrecks of the 1715 and 1733 treasure fleets and consider how these disasters impacted Spain; 4.