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When the shipwreck is recovered, it is expected that there will be a dispute over who should lay claim to the bounty. A US salvage consortium called Glocca Morra claimed to have located the San ...
Dubbed the "holy grail" of shipwrecks, the San Jose was owned by the Spanish crown when it was sunk by the British navy near Cartagena in 1708. Only a handful of its 600-strong crew survived. Only ...
San José was a 64-gun, three-masted galleon of the Spanish Armada de la Guardia de la Carrera de las Indias. It was launched in 1698 [ 1 ] and sank in battle off Barú Island , just south of Cartagena, Colombia , in 1708, while laden with gold, silver and emeralds worth about US$17 billion as of 2023.
Greg Brooks of Gorham, Maine -- a founder of shipwreck recovery firm Sub Sea Research -- says he has Wrecks to Riches: Hunting Sunken Treasures from Cape Cod to the Costa Concordia Skip to main ...
San José y Las Animas, a New England-built 326-ton ship in the Spanish Treasure Fleet, sunk in a hurricane off the coast of Florida in 1733; Spanish ship San José (1769), a 70-gun ship of the line built at Havana and wrecked (without casualties) at Brest in April 1780; Spanish ship San José (1796), a polacca.
The history of shipwreck discoveries has been wrought with legal battles between individuals, companies, and countries trying to lay claim to a shipwreck and its associated artifacts. One of the most contentious legal battles over a shipwreck's ownership rights is over the Spanish galleon San José which sunk off the coast of Cartagena ...
The Spanish ship San José, sailing to Valdivia, was pushed by storms on March 26 [3] onto coasts inhabited by the Cuncos, a southern Mapuche tribe. [4] The ship ran aground and, while most of the crew managed to survive the wreck, nearby Cuncos killed them and seized the valuable cargo. [4] [5] It included the payment to the garrison of ...
The wreck was found by treasure hunter Tom Gurr and backed by the Smithsonian under Mendel Peterson. [6] They used 8-inch airlifts to bring the wreckage up from the sea. Because San Jose y Las Animas was within three miles of the coast, Florida wanted to enforce a 25 percent finder's fee on the treasure that Tom Gurr and his crew had found. [7]