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The ships were loaded with precious metals and similar cargo. A storm off the coast of Cuba blew them across the Gulf of Mexico to the coast of Texas. [3] On April 29, three of the ships ran aground with approximately 300 people aboard. The fourth ship, the San Andrés, reached Havana but was too damaged to repair. Few of the survivors made it ...
The bay is the location of what is regarded as the "largest shipwreck fleet in the Western Hemisphere" [2] [3] and is described as a "ship graveyard." [4] Mallows Bay is in the northeast corner of the Mallows Bay–Potomac River National Marine Sanctuary, which the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration designated on September 3, 2019. [5]
For example, Nautical Archaeology is primarily focused on the "ship", including its technical and social aspects, whether the ship is on land, underwater or in a museum. Underwater Archeology focus on the archaeological sites located underwater, regardless of their connection to the sea; it includes shipwreck sites, aircraft wrecks, sunken ...
The 300-plus-year-old glass onion bottles were discovered from the 1715 Treasure Fleet shipwreck, located off the coast of Florida. ... a photo gallery and interactive map of the division's finds ...
More than half of the fleet's 2000 men including Ubilla and Echeverez died in the storm and some of the survivors later died of starvation, injuries and disease. [5] Urca de Lima fared better than the other Spanish ships, as she managed to steer into a river inlet near Fort Pierce, where she grounded on a sandbank but with the hull remaining ...
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The 1733 Fleet was an entire Spanish convoy (except for one ship) lost in a hurricane off Florida. The lesser severity of the 1733 hurricane (which struck the fleet on July 15) and the shallowness of the wrecksites in the Keys, however, made for many survivors and even left four ships in good enough condition to be re-floated and sent back to Havana.
PHOTO: Disney Cruise Line's new ship, the Disney Treasure, docked in its home port of Port Canaveral. Following its initial visit to Florida, the Disney Treasure will sail to New York for a ...