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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.
The Spanish term for ships of the line was navíos, but during the latter part of the Habsburg era (until 1700) ships continued to be designated as galeón. Those ships with secular names (e.g. royal, geographical or adjectival names) were additionally given an official religious name (or advocación ) which appears below in parentheses ...
San José y Las Animas, a New England-built 326-ton ship in the Spanish Treasure Fleet, sunk in a hurricane off the coast of Florida in 1733; Spanish ship San José (1769), a 70-gun ship of the line built at Havana and wrecked (without casualties) at Brest in April 1780; Spanish ship San José (1796), a polacca.
Dubbed the "holy grail" of shipwrecks, the San Jose was owned by the Spanish crown when it was sunk by the British navy near Cartagena in 1708. Only a handful of its 600-strong crew survived. Only ...
The San Jose was sunk by British navy in 1708 off the Colombian port of Cartagena ... Ceramic jars and other items from the 300-year-old shipwreck of the Spanish galleon San Jose on the floor of ...
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.
Spanish ironclad Sagunto; Spanish ship San Agustín (1768) Spanish ship San Antonio (1785) Spanish ship San Francisco de Asis (1767) Spanish galleon San José; Spanish ship San Leandro (1787) Spanish ship Santa Ana (1784) HMS Santa Margarita (1779) Spanish frigate Santa María; Sea Cloud II; MS Seatruck Pace; MS Seatruck Panorama; MS Seatruck Point
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos announced Friday the discovery of a Spanish boat that sank with a massive cargo hold of treasure 300 years ago.. The San Jose has been called the "holy grail ...