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Nuestra Señora de la Santísima Trinidad, nicknamed La Real, was a Spanish first-rate ship of the line and was the largest warship in the world when launched. She originally had 112 guns; this was increased in 1795–96 to 130 guns by closing in the spar deck between the quarterdeck and forecastle.
Real was built in Barcelona at the Royal Shipyard in 1568 and was the largest galley of its time. [1] Real was usually the designation of the flagship in a particular Spanish fleet and was not necessarily the actual name of the ship.
Alvar Nunes, a Portuguese pilot, was the co-owner of the ship Santa María de Buena Esperança, which was very likely rebaptized as Santa María de La Victoria, Cabrilho's fleet's second largest ship. As a result, it is likely that the two largest ships in the fleet that discovered California were property of Portuguese seamen.
The Spanish term for ships of the line was navíos, but during the latter part of the Habsburg era (until 1700) ships continued to be designated as galeón. Those ships with secular names (e.g. royal, geographical or adjectival names) were additionally given an official religious name (or advocación ) which appears below in parentheses ...
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Ship Flag Sunk date Notes Coordinates Ada Hancock United States: 27 April 1863 A steam-powered tender suffered a boiler explosion in Los Angeles Harbor killing 26 of her 53 passengers. A common urban legend states that onboard was $125,000 in gold, transported by a Wells Fargo messenger, which was never recovered. [1]
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On August 2 they traveled west out of San Gabriel Valley, through the hills to a river Crespí named El Río de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula – site of the future pueblo of Los Angeles. They continued moving northwest along a route that would become El Camino Real (royal path or road) in New Spain.