Santa Ana Maria del Juncal

[sirwilliam]

Jeff,
while the La Linea court decides on the charges of smuggling and looting of cultural heritage by a known company, my book was listed as part of the historical heritage by the Ministry of Culture of Spain:

http://www.mcu.es/centrosDocumentacion/docs/MC/num20.pdf # 93

Knowing the truth is a thin thread which can break at any time!
Cheers

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Thank you Mr. Chagy Thats what I was looking for. I will continue my quest to see if there is more information. A ship carrying this much treasure and if some salvage was undertaken there should be alot more info on it somewhere I would think? What was the cause? A hurricane? It was part of a Flota, surley other ships in this fleet that survived would have accounts of this? This should be written somewhere I would think?. Excuse me for being stupid, but I do not have the experience that alot of members on this board have. But we all have to start somewhere. I know alot of members concentrate on the east coast where most wrecks have occured, but I'm stuck on the mud coast so I have to work with what I can find.
Thank You for the info.
Jeff

 

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[sirwilliam]

If that fleet of 1611 left Veracruz heading for Havana Cuba how on Earth could they end up on the West Coast of Florida near Apalachicola. I'll look on the map right now. That fleet was not caught in a hurricane but the following ship in that fleet was leaking a lot so the whole fleet stopped while the captain or admiral of the fleet went to look at the leaking boat and I have the rest of the story but my team and I are making some kind of plans with our new 54 ft beautiful salvage survey boat that's up near Minnesota piloting 1200 miles down the Mississippi to the Gulf and then heading slightly East

 

[sirwilliam]

Jeff,
while the La Linea court decides on the charges of smuggling and looting of cultural heritage by a known company, my book was listed as part of the historical heritage by the Ministry of Culture of Spain:

http://www.mcu.es/centrosDocumentacion/docs/MC/num20.pdf # 93

Knowing the truth is a thin thread which can break at any time!
Cheers

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I have to say that sure Robert marx told a lot of untruths and I have proven him wrong over the last 40 years and I know how he got his hands on original parchment documents. That ship did not break up it simply had been leaking badly and the pumps couldn't keep the ocean out and it sank quickly but didn't break up. The ship did not belong to Spain it carried contraband and we know what it carried and how it was hidden in the bottom of the boat

 

[sirwilliam]

Mark is even wrong about the captain general of the fleets name. The captain general name was Don Lopez diez de Almendariz