ScubaFinder
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No, you don't have to be brilliant to answer. LOL I know we usually look for outbound vessels full of gold, but I have an inbound mystery that I'm hoping we can solve together. Several clues lead us to believe we may have found the wreck detailed below, but so far we have found little info about the name of the vessel or where she wrecked. Being as governers were on board, I know there must be more info out there. I'm hoping the collective brilliance of TNET can answer my questions. Does anyone have any information on which vessel they were travelling on, where they wrecked, where the survivors arrived or were picked up, or anything else that might help us determine if our wreck is the one detailed below?
The newly appointed Governer of Cuba ( Diego de Mazariegos ) and the new Lt. Governer of Cuba ( Juan Martinez ) and his family left Spain on a vessel in late summer, 1555 to take their posts in Cuba. They were shipwrecked, and the governer survived and later took his post in 1556, but the Lt. Gov and his family were all drowned in the shipwreck.
Here are some sources:
1) The Early History of Cuba 1492-1586 ( The early history of Cuba : 1492-1586, written from original sources ) has a passage on page 244 with more information.
and also
2) Exceprt from Project Gutenberg's The History of Cuba, vol. 1, by Willis Fletcher Johnson
Some time was required for preparations for the voyage and for residence in a new land, so that Mazariegos and Martinez did not sail from Spain until late in the summer. On the way they suffered shipwreck and Martinez and all his family were drowned. Mazariegos escaped, but lost everything he had with him save the clothes which he was wearing. This disaster made it necessary still further to postpone his assumption of the governorship, so that he did not reach Cuba until March 7, 1556.
The newly appointed Governer of Cuba ( Diego de Mazariegos ) and the new Lt. Governer of Cuba ( Juan Martinez ) and his family left Spain on a vessel in late summer, 1555 to take their posts in Cuba. They were shipwrecked, and the governer survived and later took his post in 1556, but the Lt. Gov and his family were all drowned in the shipwreck.
Here are some sources:
1) The Early History of Cuba 1492-1586 ( The early history of Cuba : 1492-1586, written from original sources ) has a passage on page 244 with more information.
and also
2) Exceprt from Project Gutenberg's The History of Cuba, vol. 1, by Willis Fletcher Johnson
Some time was required for preparations for the voyage and for residence in a new land, so that Mazariegos and Martinez did not sail from Spain until late in the summer. On the way they suffered shipwreck and Martinez and all his family were drowned. Mazariegos escaped, but lost everything he had with him save the clothes which he was wearing. This disaster made it necessary still further to postpone his assumption of the governorship, so that he did not reach Cuba until March 7, 1556.
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