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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: 1733 A ship in the 1733 Spanish Plate Fleet that was wrecked along the Florida Keys. Isaac Allerton United States: 28 August 1856 A merchant ship that sank in a hurricane off the Saddlebunch ...
Part of the 1733 Spanish Plate Fleet Shipwrecks MPS: 17: El Rubi Shipwreck Site: El Rubi Shipwreck Site: June 15, 2006 : 4 miles (6.4 km) offshore Plantation Key: Tavernier: Part of the 1733 Spanish Plate Fleet Shipwrecks MPS: 18: Florida Keys Memorial
Angustias Shipwreck Site: approximately a mile south of U.S. 1 in Long Key Channel: Layton vicinity: June 15, 2006 Chavez Shipwreck Site: seaward end of Snake Creek off Windley Key: Islamorada vicinity: June 15, 2006 El Gallo Indiano Shipwreck Site: seaward end of channel #5 bet. Craig Key and Long Key: Layton vicinity: June 15, 2006 El Infante ...
The Tyger came to rest in a watery grave in the reefs in the Dry Tortugas National Park near the Florida Keys, ... New evidence has determined that the shipwreck remains are that of the gunship ...
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.
“USS Amesbury is well known as part of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary’s Shipwreck Trail (but) is likely less visited than other of the shipwrecks on the trail as it is farther away ...
Shipwrecks of the Florida Keys includes ships wrecked or deliberately sunk (as artificial reefs) along the Florida Keys. Pages in category "Shipwrecks of the Florida Keys" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total.
These same reefs are hazards to navigation. Thousands of ships have wrecked over the centuries in the Keys and elsewhere in the waters of Florida. The most famous Spanish wreck found west of the Florida Keys was the above-mentioned Nuestra Señora de Atocha, found after a sixteen-year search by Mel Fisher in 1985. The value of the ship's ...