cuzcosquirrel
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As far as I can ascertain, all the Manila Galleons likely to off California would be carrying silks at that time.
There was a sub-route from one of the other islands or ports (Cebu) that only operated for a few years. Bruce Cruickshank only lists the San Pedro in 1598 as its last voyage.
It has previously been established on this site that the ship was lost, from the letters of the new govenor of the Phillipines, I think Govenor Tello in 1599, after the second Dasmarinas govenorship ended with him getting killed while trying to conqueror another island in the archepeligo by a native armed with a katana.
There were a number of friars on the galleon coming back to New Spain after working for about a decade in the Phillipines. The merchants put a lot into the ship, because the line had been stalled out and been intermittant for several years. There was probably silk on it, though it had been decreed previously that it should not carry this merchandise and only the manilla galleon should carry silk.
It was lost, at heavy burden, and the sub-line was ended.