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What is the 1715 Treasure Fleet? Where did the fleet come from: The 1715 Treasure Fleet transported treasures between Spain and the Americas. In July 1715, 11 Spanish fleet ships were destroyed in ...
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 ...
The Brisbens purchased the exclusive salvage rights to the 1715 Treasure Fleet from the heirs of world-famous treasure hunter Mel Fisher. [4] Just 17 days after the purchase, a subcontractor to 1715 - QJ recovered the only bronze swivel gun ever found on the 1715 Fleet. [5] Hidden inside the bronze cannon were 51 gold escudos and 40 silver ...
More than 300 years ago, the 1715 Spanish treasure fleet was wrecked during a July hurricane off Florida’s shores. The storm took down 11 of the 12 ships that were sailing on a course from Cuba ...
A professional treasure hunter has been charged in the theft of the 37 gold coins stolen from the wreckage of the 1715 Treasure Fleet. ... to the illegal sale of multiple stolen gold coins between ...
Urca de Lima is a Spanish shipwreck (which sank in 1715) near Fort Pierce, Florida, United States.She was part of the 1715 Treasure Fleet, one of the numerous Spanish treasure fleets sailing between Spain and its colonies in the Americas.
A fleet of Spanish ships heading home from the New World didn’t get the moniker Treasure Fleet for nothing. Sunk in a hurricane in 1715, the group of ships now known as the 1715 Treasure Fleet ...
Although the Spanish carried out salvage operations on the wrecks of the 1715 Treasure Fleet for four years, they recovered less than half of the treasure recorded as sent on the fleet. On the other hand, the Spanish recovered more treasure from the 1733 treasure fleet than had been officially registered on it. [5]