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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.
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 US salvage consortium called Glocca Morra claimed to have located the San Jose in 1981, but the Colombian government has disputed this, claiming it independently found the galleon with a team of ...
The San Jose is thought to have been carrying 200 tonnes of silver, emeralds and eleven million gold coins at the time that it sank. The treasure’s value is thought to total up to $20bn in today ...
The identity of the shipwreck is in no doubt. From the dive photographs, Colombian marine archaeologists [12] have identified San José by her unique bronze cannons engraved with dolphins. Colombia has claimed the galleon as part of its submerged patrimony and has classified the information regarding the location of the galleon as a state ...
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.
San Carlos (ship) Spanish galleon San José; San Juan Bautista (ship) San Juanillo; San Miguel (1551 shipwreck) San Salvador (Guipúzcoan squadron) San Salvador (Cabrillo's ship) Santa Luzia (galleon) Santa Rosa (1726) Santa Teresa (1637) Spanish ship Santísima Trinidad (1751) São João Baptista (galleon) São Martinho (1580)
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