Treasure wrecks: Virgin Islands to Grenada arch

[Tanneyhill]

Been awfully quiet here the past few years with the old school legends of this game having slowly left us. Myself have been busy with other things but I have been caught in a 2 day snowstorm and so I had a chance to catch up with some long over due reading on TNet.

I had a question for the community - are there any known or perhaps legends of treasure wrecks or known routes of pirating along the arc between the Virgin Islands all the way down to Grenada?

This arch is not in the path of the outbound Spanish fleets and instead in the path for the inbound fleets so I would imagine not a lot of treasure being transported via this arch as far as the Spanish fleets are concerned but perhaps there are documented stories of pirating or naval battles or one offs or anything else worthy of further readings about lost treasures along this arch?

I know there are stories of modern day wrecks of contraband gold from Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana sunk along this arch but anything from colonial times anyone knows about? Any books or resources I can comb through?

 

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[Tanneyhill]

Found an old post which very briefly mentions the 1822 wreck of L'Africaine near Sable Island Nova Scotia, which was on its way to France from Martinique loaded with gold and silver.

Since France, English and the Dutch did not have any notable gold and silver mining operations in the Americas or the Caribbean that gold and silver was likely acquired through trade so it's quite possible for many of these ships to have been lost and wrecked from the West Indies on their outbound journey to the Bahamas and the Atlantic coast of Florida to catch the Gulf Stream home.

Anyone researching any wrecks of French, English or Dutch origin sunk in the West Indies? Any interesting books or resources I could read?

Next summer, Mr. MacKinnon's company, along with American parent Sovereign Marine Explorations, hopes to get the green light from the province to begin searching several other sites as well, including that of the 1822 wreck of L'Africaine near Sable Island.

That ship arrived in Martinique on Oct. 17, 1821, and departed for France loaded with riches, mostly gold and silver bullion, at the time she sank months later.

L'Africaine Wreck 1822

 

[Colombiapictures]

Pirate ships are not good for loads of treasure. For pirate ships it is the story that counts. Can a story be worth a lot of money? How much money do you think the story "Treasure Island" has made since it was first published? Movie rights etc. etc.