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This is a list of a few of the carracks and galleons that served under the Spanish Crowns in the period 1410-1639; note that Castile and Aragon were separate nations, brought together in 1474 only through a unified Trastamaran and subsequently Habsburg monarchy, but each retaining its own governments and naval forces until the 18th century.
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.
Jesús María de la Limpia Concepción (Spanish: Jesus Maria of the Immaculate Conception), commonly known as "La Capitana," was a 17th-century Spanish treasure galleon of the Spanish South Sea Armada (Armada del Mar del Sur). The ship was lost on October 27, 1654, off the coast of Chanduy, Ecuador. In November 1996, La Capitana was discovered ...
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 ...
A Spanish galleon described as “the Holy Grail of shipwrecks” is set to be raised from the ocean floor - along with its treasures which are believed to be worth up to $20bn in today’s money ...
February — San Bartolomé ( Spain): The Spanish Fleet of Indies galleon was lost on the Isles of Scilly. She was carrying lead ingots and fragments of bronze bells. [158] 17 November — São Francisco ( Portugal): The carrack (nau) ran aground and was then burned by the English on the island of São Miguel, Azores. [159]
The Spanish Armada was the fleet that attempted to escort an army from Flanders as a part the Habsburg Spanish invasion of England in 1588, was divided into ten "squadrons" (escuadras) [1] The twenty galleons in the Squadrons of Portugal and of Castile, together with one more galleon in the Squadron of Andalucia and the four galleasses from Naples, constituted the only purpose-built warships ...
Using new scientific research methods, Allen Exploration located a large trove of items smuggled aboard a ship that sank in 1656.