1715

[enrada]

Thank you guys, that is what I was looking for, video, pictures or info, NOT actual mercury.
Need the info for a documentary which I will attempt to embarrass Spain about polluting the ocean rather than trying to take all the treasure from those who have spent years locating it and recovering it.

 

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[seekerGH]

Actually, the mercury is not water soluble, so mercury sitting on the bottom is inert, (that is why it is still there) and is not doing anything to the environment.

If you want to show a case for leaving a shipwreck in situ, with no recovery to stir up and distribute, let alone bring it to the surface, with transport and personnel contact, that is what showing the mercury on a shipwreck on the bottom would prove. Do you want to have to prove there is no mercury on the wrecksite, likely with significant testing?

Showing mercury on a wreck, would certainly add yet another issue for future recovery permits, and the artifacts would need to go through hazmat permitting and testing for transport, cleaning, and conservation?

I would suggest some scientific peer review of the documentary prior to attempting to embarrass anyone.

 

[Au_Dreamers]

Found these in another file .....

Indiferente General 2658 - Cadiz, 17 July 1712

At this time Echeverz had four ships in his Squadron which were being prepared to sail:

Capitana El Carmen, San Miguel y San Antonio, which carried 72 cannon.

Almiranta Nuestra Senora del Rosario y San Francisco Xavier, carrying 52 cannons.

Third Ship Nuestra Senora de la Concepcion y San Joseph, carrying 42 cannon.

Fourth ship San Miguel, carrying 30 cannon

 

[seekerGH]

AuD, I think you posted this on the wrong thread.

 

[ivan salis]

mercury would have been a " Inbound" item going to the new world not a "carried back to spain" item... --since it was used in the new world mining operations to separate gold ore into pure gold ...thru refining .... so it would be strange to find it upon vessels going back to spain like he 1715 fleet was..just saying..

the bulk of the cannons of the 1715 fleet were made of Iron (but some bronze cannons did exist in the fleet) ...many were scrapped during the war scrap metal drives of WW2 era .... bronze cannons were much more stable than iron ones and less prone to "blowing apart" during firing ...thus they were highly desired , but rare due to their much higher cost ...if a enemy vessel was captured that had bronze cannons --it was one of the first things stripped off it by the winner ....
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