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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.
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.
8 reales Mexican silver cob, full date 1715, recovered from the 1715 fleet Rare 8 escudos lima dated 1710, recovered from the 1715 Fleet. The 1715 Treasure Fleet was actually a combination of two Spanish treasure fleets returning from the New World to Spain, the "Nueva España Fleet", under Captain-General Don Juan Esteban de Ubilla, and the "Tierra Firme Fleet", under Don Antonio de Echeverz ...
Urca de Lima is a Spanish shipwreck (which sank in 1715) near Fort Pierce, Florida, United States.She was part of the 1715 Treasure Fleet, one of the numerous Spanish treasure fleets sailing between Spain and its colonies in the Americas.
The Spanish treasure fleet departed from the port of El Callao, Peru, consisting of just two galleons: La Capitana Jesús María de la Limpia Concepción, commanded by Admiral Don Francisco de Sosa, and the Almiranta San Francisco Solano. According to the official cargo manifest, La Capitana was transporting 3.2 million pesos' worth of silver ...
To encourage their sailors, the Royal Navy distributed prize money to the value of the ships and material captured and the seizure of a Spanish treasure fleet could yield spectacular amounts of money: particularly large sums had been captured during previous wars in 1656, 1744 and 1762, [1] but during the first three years of conflict between ...
The Battle of Cabañas was an attempt in 1638 by Dutch privateer Cornelis Jol to capture the Spanish treasure fleet captained by Carlos de Ibarra. The naval battle, framed in the Eighty Years' War, ended with the Dutch fleet retreating after suffering heavy damage.
Nombre de Dios is the oldest continuously inhabited European settlement in the continental Americas.Originally a major port of call for the Spanish treasure fleet, [2] Nombre de Dios was the most significant port for shipping in the Americas between 1540 and 1580.