Rhossili Dollar Ship

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Anyone have anything on this ship. The bay is on the Gower peninsular in Wales.

The beach is approx 3 miles long altogether, and at low tide a huge expanse of sand is revealed. Burry Holmes is at the northern end, and Worms Head at the southern. Due west, is where in the seventeenth century a dollar ship was wrecked. It was last seen 1833, and the treasure is still buried under the sand.

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Gower's most famous shipwreck lies. No one knows her name, or where she came from, and she is simply known as 'The Dollar Ship', from the gold moidores and doubloons found from time to time in the sand. The coins date from the 17th century, so she had nothing to do with the Armada. No coins have been reported for about a century.

 

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There should be a picture of Rhossili Bay

 

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There are also some cannons from this wreck in the garden of one of the houses nearby, and the following is from the local museum in Swansea.

"In the second half of the 17th Century a ship supposedly carrying the dowry of Catherine of Braganza was wrecked.? In 1807 and 1833 quantities of silver coin were uncovered by the tide. Identified as Peruvian dollars some still exist in local museums.

 

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As gold moidores were only minted from 1690 to 1722 it is unlikely the Catherine of Breganza link in genuine.

She married King Charles II in 1662.
King Charles dies in 1685 before any miodores existed
Catherine died in 1705

However a ship did wreck there with gold and silver coins. That is a fact.
So come on you UK Guys lets find out what happened here and maybe you will find the wreck. There is very high rise and fall in the tide in that area, and the beach has surely changed shape a bit it cannot be that difficult. The guys in Florida have worked similar beaches for years, and look what they have found.

Old Man, Cornelius and RGacy are putting together a search for a similar ship in Virginia, why not get your own hunt going in UK.

There is a book by H. Tucker called Gower Gleanings and another later book with more info and pictures by Mr. George Edmunds The Gower Coast, I think with pictures of the cannons found and the story as he reaserched about 30 years ago. The Swansea museum has some of the coins on display. Many Gower folk got rich when the wreck was exposed in 1807 and 1833

The shipwreck occured between 1690 and 1807 that narrows it down a bit.

This is good one to reaserch or even find the wreck.