Sentences with phrase «treasure galleons»

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.

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

For two hundred years, fleets of treasure galleons stuffed with silver and gold and emeralds had plied the Caribbean Sea, crisscrossed it every which way, from Key West down to Cartagena, from the Yucatán over to the Windward Islands, and every so often, one of those unpredictable West Indian cyclones would come spinning across the Caribbean and slam half the fleet onto shallow reefs, which ripped open the hulls and spewed that treasure all over the ocean floor.

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Synopsis: Feisty Morgan Adams (Geena Davis) inherits her late buccaneer father's galleon and one - third of a map to buried treasure located on Cutthroat Islan... [MORE]

Synopsis: Feisty Morgan Adams (Geena Davis) inherits her late buccaneer father's galleon and one - third of a map to buried treasure located on Cutthroat Island.

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.

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.

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