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By the morning of 6 September, eight of the ships had sunk and their remains lay scattered from Marquesas Key to the Dry Tortugas. [2] The Nuestra Señora de Atocha had lost all of her 265 crew and passengers except for three sailors and two slaves, who survived by clinging to the mizzenmast .
The cannon shot (c. 1680), painted by Willem van de Velde the Younger Essential parts of a cannon: 1. the projectile or cannonball (shot) 2. gunpowder 3. touch hole (or vent) in which the fuse or other ignition device is inserted Firing of an 18-pounder aboard a French ship. Firing a naval cannon required a great amount of labour and manpower.
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 ...
17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; ... Pages in category "17th-century ships" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent ...
A large ship is wrecked in the Florida Keys due to a passing hurricane 1695 Martinique: October 600 N/A 1696 Western Cuba: N/A N/A Heavy flooding, 1 ship lost 1696 South Florida East Coast October 3–4 [O.S. September 23–24] N/A A hurricane of unknown strength impacted South Florida.
A Spanish-Cuban slave ship that wrecked on a reef in the Florida Keys after a running gun battle with a Royal Navy anti-slavery patrol ship. USS Helena I United States Navy: 11 September 1919 A yacht that was wrecked off Key West in the 1919 Florida Keys hurricane. Henrietta Marie England: 1700 A slave ship sunk off Florida Keys. Herrera Spain ...
Ship State Description Thornton: British East India Company: The East Indiaman was wrecked at Port Quin, Cornwall. [2] Henrietta Marie England: African slave trade: The ship was wrecked on the New Ground Reef, off the Marquesas Keys, Spanish Florida, with the loss of all hands.
Spanish ships had carried goods from the New World since Christopher Columbus's first expedition of 1492. The organized system of convoys dates from 1564, but Spain sought to protect shipping prior to that by organizing protection around the largest Caribbean island, Cuba , and the maritime region of southern Spain and the Canary Islands ...