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  2. List of shipwrecks of North Carolina - Wikipedia

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    Spanish merchantman ran aground during a hurricane near Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina [47: San Delfino United Kingdom: 9 April 1942 British tanker; torpedoed by U-203. [48] Santiago United States: 12 March 1924

  3. Spanish treasure fleet - Wikipedia

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    The Spanish treasure fleet, or West Indies Fleet (Spanish: Flota de Indias, also called silver fleet or plate fleet; from the Spanish: plata meaning "silver"), was a convoy system of sea routes organized by the Spanish Empire from 1566 to 1790, which linked Spain with its territories in the Americas across the Atlantic.

  4. El Salvador (ship) - Wikipedia

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    El Salvador alias El Henrique was a Spanish treasure ship that ran aground near present-day Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina during a hurricane in August 1750. She was traveling with six other Spanish merchantmen including the Nuestra Señora De Soledad which went ashore near present-day Core Banks, NC and the Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe which went ashore near present-day Ocracoke, NC.

  5. New artifacts found in legendary treasure-laden shipwreck - AOL

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    New artifacts have been found on the legendary Spanish galleon San Jose, Colombia's government announced Thursday, after the first robotic exploration of the three-century-old shipwreck.. Dubbed ...

  6. ‘Holy Grail of Shipwrecks’ to be raised from the deep – along ...

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    The 62-gun and three-masted galleon ship sank after it was intercepted by a British squadron on 8 June 1708 off Cartagena, during the War of the Spanish Succession.

  7. Explorers Found Treasure on a Spanish Galleon Shipwreck ... - AOL

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    Using new scientific research methods, Allen Exploration located a large trove of items smuggled aboard a ship that sank in 1656.

  8. Nuestra Señora de Atocha - Wikipedia

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    It was a heavily armed Spanish galleon that served as the almirante (rear guard) for the Spanish fleet. It would trail behind the other ships in the flotilla to prevent an attack from the rear. Much of the wreck of Nuestra Señora de Atocha was famously recovered by an American commercial treasure hunting expedition in 1985.

  9. List of shipwrecks of North America - Wikipedia

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    A Spanish galleon that ran aground during a hurricane in Samaná Bay. Diomedes French Navy: A French ship lost in the fierce maritime Battle of Palenque, in the 17th century, in Palenque, Bani. Dolphin United States Coast Guard: A 64-foot-long (20 m) fishing boat, and sister ship of the Hickory. It lies in El Portillo, Las Terrenas, and has ...