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  2. Portolá expedition - Wikipedia

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    Three galleons, hastily built in San Blas, set sail for San Diego in early 1769: the San Carlos, captained by Vicente Vila, a lieutenant of the royal navy (whose diary survives [3]); the San Antonio, captained by Juan Pérez, a native of Palma de Majorca; and the San José. All three ships, crossing the Gulf of California from San Blas, arrived ...

  3. Spanish galleon San José - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. New artifacts found in legendary treasure-laden shipwreck - AOL

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    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 ...

  5. Timeline of the Portolá expedition - Wikipedia

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    Statue of Gaspar de Portolá in Pacifica, California, near the expedition's November 1 camp. This timeline of the Portolá expedition tracks the progress during 1769 and 1770 of the first European exploration-by-land of north-western coastal areas in what became Las Californias, a province of Spanish colonial New Spain.

  6. ‘Holy Grail of Shipwrecks’ to be raised from the deep – along ...

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    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 ...

  7. San Carlos (ship) - Wikipedia

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    San Carlos was a Spanish packet boat built in 1767 at San Blas, Mexico. [1] In 1775, under the command of Spanish naval officer and explorer Lieutenant Juan Manuel de Ayala, the San Carlos became the first ship to enter the San Francisco Bay.

  8. Colombia says it's discovered one of the most valuable sunken ...

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    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 ...

  9. Maritime history of California - Wikipedia

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    An attempt was made by the Spanish in Spanish California to severely restrict trade from San Diego to San Francisco. The land above San Francisco had no Spanish presence. The Russian-American Company was created in 1799 as a joint venture between Russian fur traders and United States ship merchants who agreed to purchase fur seal and sea otter ...

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