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Dubbed the "holy grail" of shipwrecks, the San Jose was owned by the Spanish crown when it was sunk by the British navy near Cartagena in 1708. Only a handful of its 600-strong crew survived. Only ...
San José was a 64-gun, three-masted galleon of the Spanish Armada de la Guardia de la Carrera de las Indias.It was launched in 1698 [1] and sank in battle off Barú Island, just south of Cartagena, Colombia, in 1708, while laden with gold, silver and emeralds worth about US$17 billion as of 2023.
Spanish ship San José (1769), a 70-gun ship of the line built at Havana and wrecked (without casualties) at Brest in April 1780 Spanish ship San José (1796) , a polacca. Spanish ship San José (1783) , a 112-gun ship of the line built at Ferrol, Spain , captured by the United Kingdom at the Battle of Cape St Vincent on 14 February 1797 and ...
A grain cargo ship that sunk after a fire aboard. A popular dive site at Ilha Grande. Príncipe de Asturias Spain: 5 March 1916 An ocean liner that ran aground on a shoal near Ilhabela, São Paulo, resulting in at least 445 deaths. Sir Foxwell Buxton United Kingdom: 1853 An emigrant ship that ran aground off the coast of Rio Grande do Norte.
The San Jose was sunk by British navy in 1708 off the Colombian port of Cartagena ‘Holy Grail of Shipwrecks’ to be raised from the deep – along with $20bn of treasure Skip to main content
The estimated $1bn (£662m) treasure of the San José, which is still on the bottom of the ocean but located in 2015, is estimated to be worth about 4 billion US dollars based on the speculation that it likely had 7 million Spanish pesos in registered gold on board at the time of its sinking, similar to its surviving sister ship, the San Joaquín.
Being part of the 1733 fleet that consisted of four warships, and eighteen merchant ships. San Jose y Las Animas was a 327-ton merchant ship carrying twenty-six guns and captained by Cristobal Fernando Franco. Leaving the port of Cuba and heading back to Spain, the ship was hit by a hurricane On July 15, 1733, and sinking off the coast of Florida.
The 300-plus-year-old glass onion bottles were discovered from the 1715 Treasure Fleet shipwreck, located off the coast of Florida.