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The Spanish treasure fleet, or West Indies Fleet (Spanish: Flota de Indias, also called silver fleet or plate fleet; from the Spanish: plata meaning "silver"), was a convoy system of sea routes organized by the Spanish Empire from 1566 to 1790, which linked Spain with its territories in the Americas across the Atlantic.
The 300-plus-year-old glass onion bottles were discovered from the 1715 Treasure Fleet shipwreck, located off the coast of Florida. ... and forth from Spain to the Americas, transporting treasures ...
Treasure Salvors fought the state, claiming the find should belong to those that discovered the treasure exclusively. After eight years of litigation, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favour of Treasure Salvors on 1 July 1992, and it was awarded rights to all found treasure from the vessel. [7] [8] Fisher died on 19 December 1998.
In 2008, Jose Jimenez, a senior official with the Spanish Ministry of Culture stated that Spain would be willing to share the treasure 'out of a sense of a common cultural heritage'. [11] However, Peru, as well as the descendants of the merchants who shipped the coins as cargo aboard the Mercedes , are contesting Spain's right to the treasure ...
Archaeologists found ancient tools in Spain, ... Archaeologists Found 7,000-Year-Old Treasures—an Incredible Hoard of Human History. Emma Frederickson. August 5, 2024 at 1:30 PM.
New artifacts have been found on the legendary Spanish ... The ship had been heading back from the New World to the court of King Philip V of Spain, laden with treasures such as chests of emeralds ...
San Esteban was a Spanish cargo ship that was wrecked in a storm in the Gulf of Mexico on what is now the Padre Island National Seashore in southern Texas on 29 April 1554. San Esteban was one of a flotilla of four ships carrying treasure from New Spain (Mexico) to Cuba. Three were wrecked in the storm, including San Esteban. Many of the three ...
The earliest tales of a lost Spanish galleon appeared shortly after the Colorado River flood of 1862. Colonel Albert S. Evans reported seeing such a ship in 1863. In the Los Angeles Daily News of August 1870, the ship was described as a half-buried hulk in a drying alkali marsh or saline lake, west of Dos Palmas, California, and 40 miles north of Yuma, Arizona.