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New artifacts have been found on the legendary Spanish galleon San Jose, Colombia's government announced Thursday, after the first robotic exploration of the three-century-old shipwreck.. Dubbed ...
In 1568, Miguel López de Legazpi's own ship, the San Pablo (300 tons), was the first Manila galleon to be wrecked en route to Mexico. Between the years 1576 when the Espiritu Santo was lost and 1798 when the San Cristobal (2) was lost, twenty Manila galleons [ 42 ] wrecked within the Philippine archipelago.
The 62-gun and three-masted galleon ship sank after it was intercepted by a British squadron on 8 June 1708 off Cartagena, during the War of the Spanish Succession. ... Old Navy's Break a Sweat ...
In 2006, the U.S. Navy tried to sell Sea Shadow to the highest bidder; [1] [2] after the initial offering met with a lack of interest, it was listed for dismantling sale on gsaauctions.gov. [3] The US government mandated that the buyer not sail the ship and be required to scrap it. The ship was finally sold in 2012.
A Spanish galleon (left) firing its cannons at a Dutch warship (right). Cornelis Verbeeck, c. 1618–1620 A Spanish galleon Carracks, galleon (center/right), square rigged caravel (below), galley and fusta (galliot) depicted by D. João de Castro on the "Suez Expedition" (part of the Portuguese Armada of 72 ships sent against the Ottoman fleet anchor in Suez, Egypt, in response to its entry in ...
There are some questions as to whether Spanish explorers did arrive in the Hawaiian Islands two centuries before Captain James Cook's first recorded visit in 1778. [6] For two and a half centuries Spanish galleons crossed the Pacific along a route that passed south of Hawaiʻi on their way to Manila.
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Two cruise ships are under investigation by Hawaii officials for breaking state laws. Kauai's iconic Na Pali Coast is also a protected area. Two cruise ships are under investigation by Hawaii ...