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Nuestra Señora de Atocha had sunk in approximately 17 metres (56 ft) of water, making it difficult for divers to retrieve any of the cargo or guns from the ship. A second hurricane on 5 October of that year made attempts at salvage even more difficult by scattering the wreckage of the sunken ship still further.
The custom at the time of Villa de Madrid′s commissioning was that any Spanish Navy ship with a non-religious name had to carry an additional name that was religious in nature. Villa de Madrid thus also bore the devotional name Nuestra Señora de Atocha (English: Our Lady of Atocha ), referring to a lost icon from a chapel discovered in high ...
The Dreamweaver: The Story of Mel Fisher and His Quest for the Treasure of the Spanish Galleon Atocha. Fletcher and Fletcher. ISBN 0-9628359-7-8; Smith, Jedwin (2003). Fatal Treasure: Greed and Death, Emeralds and Gold, and the Obsessive Search for the Legendary Ghost Galleon Atocha. Wiley. ISBN 0-471-69680-3; Clyne, Pat (2010). The Atocha Odyssey.
The Mel Fisher Maritime Museum is located at 200 Greene Street, Key West, Florida.The museum contains an extensive collection of artifacts from 17th century shipwrecks, such as the Henrietta Marie, Nuestra Señora de Atocha and Santa Margarita. [1]
On February 27, 2012, the ship's treasure was flown back to Spain where the coins and other artifacts from the shipwreck are now in the National Museum of Subaquatic Archaeology in Cartagena . [5] In 2015 a U.S. district court ordered Odyssey to pay Spain $1 million for "bad faith and abusive litigation."
Original project by Fernando Arbós y Tremanti for the basilica, belltower, and pantheon. Our Lady of Atocha with rich dresses. The Royal Basilica of Our Lady of Atocha or Real Basílica de Nuestra Señora de Atocha is a large church in central Madrid on Avenida de la Ciudad de Barcelona, 1.
It set off from Genoa in northern Italy last July for its first world tour in 20 years, which will take it to over 30 ports in five continen. ... Tall ship Vespucci, named after the explorer who ...
Basilica of Nuestra Señora de Atocha, a church in Madrid, Spain; Madrid Atocha railway station, a central railway station of Madrid, Spain; Paseo Atocha, a historic commercial street turned promenade in Ponce, Puerto Rico; Puerta de Atocha (city gate), a former gate in the city walls of Madrid, Spain; Our Lady of Atoċja Chapel in Hamrun, Malta