On the 31st of July, 1715, the famous 1715 Spanish Plate Fleet which consisted of eleven or twelve treasure galleons was entirely destroyed by a hurricane off the coast of Spanish La Florida, around 2 a.m. near present day Vero Beach.
The vessels had been carrying over seven million pesos worth of gold and goods from Veracruz when the fleet went down, with two of the ships being lost to open ocean, while the others were crashed into the shallow shoreline up and down the Florida coastline.
The Nuestra Senora de la Carmen was laden with gold bars, doubloons, and silver. An equal amount of wealth was on board the Nuestra Senora del Rosario in 1,000 chests, and the Senora de la Concepcion (also known as Urca de Lima) carried hundreds of chests of coinage as well. The Nuestra Senora de la Regla carried 1,300 chests of nearly three million silver coins, gold coins, chests of uncut emeralds and pearls, and Chinese porcelain.
Over 1,000 sailors would perish from the hurricane, including General Don Juan Esteban de Ubilla, commander of the fleet.
About half of the fleet’s Spanish sailors would survive the incident, and would create a salvage camp upon what is now North Hutchinson Island, and began collecting what treasure they could while waiting for rescue. Aid in the form of food, clothes, and tools came from St. Augustine to the north, sending a relief expedition.
However, news of what transpired spread fast, and many pirates in the Caribbean and along the American coast flocked to the site for the treasure that was ripe for the taking. First on the scene was English privateer Captain Henry Jennings, along with crewmate Charles Vane, in the Bersheba, along with four other vessels.
Jennings had been granted a commission from the governor of Jamaica to “Execute all manner of acts of hostility against pyrates according to the Law of Arms” with instructions to harm no one other than pirates. However, after learning the location of the salvage camp, from a Spanish mail ship, they would ignore their commission's rules and instead lead a ground assault at the still struggling camp - the plunder of which would become Jenning’s call to piratical fame.
(Pictured are multiple 1715 ships caught in a terrible storm at sea [from Black Sails], a 1715 Spanish treasure galleon wrecked onto a Florida beach [from Black Sails], treasure from the plate fleet [these pieces in particular, amid other artifacts, were discovered by diver Christopher James], and the historical marker of the salvage camp in Florida)
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H.M.S. Centurion capturing the Spanish treasure galleon Nuestra Senora de Cavadonga off the Phillippines, by Montague Dawson (1895-1973)
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A Rare Spanish Colonial Silver-Gilt Two-Handled Cup from the Atocha Shipwreck
Bogotá, Colombia, circa 1620
Nuestra Señora de Atocha was a Spanish treasure galleon and the most widely known vessel of a fleet of ships that sank in a hurricane off the Florida Keys in 1622. At the time of her sinking, Nuestra Señora de Atocha was heavily laden with copper, silver, gold, tobacco, gems, and indigo from Spanish ports at Cartagena and Porto Bello in New Granada (present-day Colombia and Panama, respectively) and Havana, bound for Spain. The Nuestra Señora de Atocha was named for the Basilica of Nuestra Señora de Atocha in Madrid, Spain. It was a heavily armed Spanish galleon that served as the almirante (rear guard) for the Spanish fleet. It would trail behind the other ships in the flota to prevent an attack from the rear.
Much of the wreck of Nuestra Señora de Atocha was famously recovered by an American commercial treasure hunting expedition in 1985. Following a lengthy court battle against the State of Florida, the finders were ultimately awarded sole ownership of the rights to the treasure.
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Treasure trove of gold and jewels recovered from a 366-year-old shipwreck in the Bahamas
A treasure trove of gold coins, gemstones and jewels was recently uncovered at a 366-year-old Spanish shipwreck.
In an effort to conserve what's left of the ship and its prized cargo, an international team of preservationists and underwater archaeologists has been working to recover objects from the shipwreck, which sits in the Atlantic Ocean about 43 miles (70 kilometers) off the coast of the Bahamas.
Known as the Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas ("Our Lady of Wonders" in Spanish), the 891-ton (808 metric tons) galleon was traveling between Spain and Colombia in 1656 to pick up a cargo of silver when a navigational error caused it to collide with another vessel in the Spanish fleet. The accident forced the ship to run aground on a coral reef; an estimated 600 of the 650 people onboard died in the crash, the organization said in a statement. More than three centuries later, the wreckage is spread across 8 miles (13 km) of the ocean floor. Read more.
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Estoy escribiendo esto en español porque mi inglés no es bueno, y necesito compartir mi experiencia con tus escritos y lo agradecida que estoy por ellos..
Así que, estuve de viaje en otro país, nueva rutina, nuevo todo, y deje de leer sin querer... era como un bloqueo que tuve y simplemente una noche encontré un fanfic tuyo y me ayudó tanto, como, muchas gracias, sabes?
Simplemente, tuve que leerme tus 13 trabajos publicados en ese momento porque escribes de una forma tan maravillosa, logras transmitir todo el amor y la pasión y... simplemente WOW
En menos de tres días termine todos tus escritos, y puedo asegurarte que ya hice mi hogar en tu cuenta de AO3/Tumblr, sea lo que publiques para el fandom de tmnt u cualquier otro, simplemente seguiré leyendote
¡Así que, gracias!
También, por ti descubrí que también era una chica Leo escondida en el clóset, gracias por eso también 😂✨
i ran this through google translate, but i'm also delighted to announce that my knowledge of spanish is enough that i made it through the first paragraph All By Myself. poses.
so, so glad you're enjoying! :D thank you for such a sweet message! also, i think we're all leo girlies deep down if we're honest >:) lmaooo
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Yeah yeah suspension of disbelief in Treasure Planet with everyone speaking English
BUT— I’d like to headcannon that since the Etherium is so large and built up of millions of races, cultures, and species, there’s actually a universal language everyone speaks/understands for the most part; I’ll call it “Etherian” for now lol
So it’s like a Tarzan (1999) situation. Even though what they’re saying is presented/translated to us in English, in actuality they’re speaking Etherian.
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I bought it in Spanish now! bc I told my mother about the plot and she said she wanted to read it. Also 'cause the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde book English edition that I read was a gift for my girlfriend. I found this edition that also includes Treasure Island, I haven't read that one yet, so here we go.
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