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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.
The Manila galleon trade (See: Spanish treasure fleet) was one of the most persistent, perilous, and profitable commercial enterprises in European colonial history. This highly profitable trade (profits could reach 200-300%) with an almost annual trip by one to two ships to the Philippines and back down the California coast was continued for ...
Over the years, divers and treasure hunters on land and sea have come across treasures from the 1715 Spanish Fleet. 1715 treasures: 300-year-old onion glasses retrieved from shipwreck off Treasure ...
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 ...
A Spanish fleet sailed off from Cádiz to the Indies on April 29, 1638, commanded by Carlos de Ibarra. In their way, they reached Isla Tortuga, a usual center of foreign piracy, and upon finding the pirate settlements and plantations lightly defended due to the absence of the pirate crews, they destroyed them.
The 1715 Treasure Fleet was one in particular that did not make the return home. In July 1715, 11 Spanish fleet ships were destroyed in a hurricane off the Florida coast, according to the National ...
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[8] [9] The visit to Unalaska marks the westernmost point reached during the Spanish voyages of exploration in Alaska. The Spanish expedition left Unalaska on August 18, 1788, heading south for California and Mexico. Due to increasing conflict between Martínez and Haro, the ships broke off contact within three days sailed south separately.