Sentences with phrase «spanish galleons»

In the 18th century, several Spanish galleons were shipwrecked in the Martin County area of Florida's Treasure Coast.

This was an ideal location to plunder the Spanish Galleons in the Bay of Honduras and the British Crown turned a blind eye to his operations.

Affecting British civility, Barbossa drives his crew to follow in the wake of Blackbeard's boat, along with a trio of Spanish galleons.

Asians, who traveled to Mexico on Spanish galleons, some by choice and some in bondage.

British ships often harassed Spanish galleons, which ferried long - forgotten peoples to Latin America, including enslaved Filipinos and former Jews.

The other group, plundering gold from Spanish galleons, were pirates.

Then in 1938 one of them — a New Yorker who, possibly because of revenue collectors, preferred to be known as plain «Jack» — was more convincing: McKee was guaranteed one thousand dollars to dive for silver bars hidden in pitch on a Spanish galleon.

In 1976, the Dominican Republic's Underwater Archaeological Recovery Commission began excavating the Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, a Spanish galleon designed to carry quicksilver (mercury) that was used in Spain's gold and silver mines in Mexico.

The story is described by DreamWorks» CEO Stacey Snider as «a daring plan to infiltrate Port Royal, one of the world's richest and most notorious cities, and raid a Spanish galleon filled with treasure.

But when a local murder is linked to the sunken treasure of a lost Spanish galleon, he's drawn into the investigation by an idealistic deputy and pitted against the powerful town patriarch, outside criminal agents and his own father.

If it weren't for the events I'm about to describe, I might have gone on not thinking about Daniel Varsky, or very rarely, though I was still in possession of his bookshelves, his desk, and the trunk of a Spanish galleon or the salvage of an accident on the high seas, quaintly used as a coffee table.

An English Chart dated 1792 states that some years earlier a Spanish galleon named «Santa Yaga was lost off the Three Brothers, which are several small keys off the northeastern tip of Ambergris Key»

1785 Spanish galleon lost on the northeastern tip of Turneffe carrying $ 800,000 in specie (unverified reports indicate the remains of an old ship in this area).

This is your opportunity to search for the remains of a Spanish galleon from the 1600s.

Beginning Saturday, July 9, 2011, the public can watch as the Maritime Museum of San Diego builds a replica of the 16th century Spanish galleon, the San Salvador.

This was a Spanish galleon apparently coming from the Old World to the New World as mentioned in the prior shipwreck section as «Nuestra Senora de los Milagros» and was carrying trade items to deliver to the New World.

Join the friendly crew of the Columbus, a replica Spanish galleon, for an entertaining dinner cruise to mysterious Nichupte Lagoon.

With seven marine parks containing a healthy reef system and numerous dive sites including a 960 - ton Spanish galleon, Scuba Diving in Anguilla provides enjoyment for all levels.

In these large - scale and visually surprising compositions, the artist fuses a wealth of anachronistic elements into a unified whole, as in the World War I biplane and Spanish galleon that co-exist in Medieval Divided Self, or he evokes pivotal battles from vastly different epochs of British and American history, such as Agincourt and the Battle of the Alamo.

Not exact matches

Wrecks from Spanish treasure galleons to smuggler's yachts ran afoul on these reefs, and have since been joined by purpose - sunk wrecks.

San Juan is a cosmopolitan and thoroughly modern commercial center, but also a city with a long and storied history dating back to the days of Spanish treasure galleons and the real pirates of the Caribbean.

Other noteworthy landmarks include Fort San Pedro — an old Spanish fort, now converted into a museum displaying the treasures retrieved from the sunken San Diego galleon.