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At the entrance to the St. Augustine Pirate & Treasure Museum, guests are greeted by a two-page broadsheet published in London in 1605, now locked behind a panel of protective glass. It is a royal ...
The treasure would be composed of "carved silver, gold jewellery, pearls and stones of value, Chinese porcelain, rich fabrics, paintings and perhaps 500,000 pesos". [10] The stories about this treasure are varied, some place it in the environment of the Roques de Anaga , while others place it in the zone of Punta del Hidalgo and the cave of San ...
The St. Augustine Pirate & Treasure Museum is a museum dedicated to pirate artifacts. Formerly known as the Pirate Soul Museum, the museum was located at 524 Front Street, Key West, Florida, United States. It was announced in February 2010 that the museum was being moved to St Augustine, Florida. It reopened there on December 8, 2010, as the St ...
The wreck was found on 20 July 1985 by treasure hunters, who soon began to raise $400 million in coins and silver. Nuestra Señora del Populo Spain: 1733 A ship in the 1733 Spanish Plate Fleet that was wrecked along the Florida Keys. USS Patrol No. 1 United States Navy: 10 September 1919
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José Gaspar as illustrated in the 1900 brochure. José Gaspar, also known by his nickname Gasparilla (supposedly lived c. 1756 – 1821), is a mythical Spanish pirate who supposedly terrorized the Gulf of Mexico from his base in southwest Florida during Florida's second Spanish period (1783 to 1821).
Candi Lynn Nichols, who goes by “Cutlass Candi” and identifies as a pirate, plants a rose in the sand on a Florida beach in honor of of the sailors who died when the 1715 Treasure Fleet sank ...
Since 2014, part of the treasure has been on display in several Spanish public museums as part of an extensive itinerant exhibit relating to the sinking of the ship, and the recovery of the treasure. On August 30, 2017, as a follow-up to the project, the Spanish Navy rescued two cannons, named "Santa Barbara" and "Santa Rufina", each weighing ...