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Mazorca de plata mexicana de 8 reales , fecha completa 1715, recuperada de la flota de 1715.

La Flota del Tesoro de 1715 era una flota del tesoro española que regresaba del Nuevo Mundo a España . A las dos de la madrugada del miércoles 31 de julio de 1715 , siete días después de partir de La Habana , Cuba , al mando de Juan Esteban de Ubilla , [1] once de los doce barcos de esta flota se perdieron en un huracán cerca del presente- día Vero Beach, Florida . Debido a que la flota transportaba plata, también se la conoce como la Flota de la Placa de 1715 ( plata es la palabra en español para plata). [2]Algunos artefactos e incluso monedas siguen apareciendo en las playas de Florida de vez en cuando. [ no verificado en el cuerpo ] Según los registros cubanos murieron alrededor de 1.500 marineros mientras que un pequeño número sobrevivió en botes salvavidas. Muchos barcos, incluidos piratas, participaron en el salvamento inicial. Inicialmente, un corsario , Henry Jennings , fue acusado por primera vez de piratería por atacar esos barcos de salvamento y reclamar sus rescates. [ no verificado en el cuerpo ]

Rara lima de 8 escudos de 1710, recuperada de la Flota de 1715.

Exhibits and preserves[edit]

Treasure hunter Kip Wagner's team built an exhibit held at National Geographic "Explorers Hall" in Washington, D.C. that was featured in the January 1965 issue of National Geographic. This was the beginning of a fine collection of 1715 plate fleet treasure that brought hundreds of visitors from around the world.[citation needed] Wagner published his book Pieces of Eight (Recovering The Riches Of A Lost Spanish Fleet) in 1966. This is a detailed account of the finding and exploration of many of these shipwrecks along the Florida "Treasure Coast." An exhibit was set up with a grand opening on May 1, 1967, at the First National Bank of Satellite Beach, Florida.[citation needed]

In 1987, another ship in the fleet, the Urca de Lima, became the first shipwreck in the Florida Underwater Archaeological Preserves.[citation needed]

Mel Fisher's company, Mel Fisher's Treasures, sold the rights to the 1715 Fleet shipwreck to Queens Jewels, LLC.

In 2015, 1715 Fleet - Queens Jewels, LLC and their founder Brent Brisben discovered $4.5 million in gold coins off the coast of Florida; the coins come from the 1715 Fleet shipwreck.[3]

List of identified ships[edit]

In popular culture[edit]

In the 2008 movie Fool's Gold, the protagonists are searching for the location of one of the sunken ships of the treasure fleet (along with its treasure).[citation needed]

The treasure fleet was used as the backdrop for a scene in the video game Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag. The main character, Edward Kenway, is aboard one of the ships in the fleet as a prisoner, and manages to escape with the help of his future quartermaster, Adéwalé, recruiting other captive pirates as a crew. The pirates eventually manage to escape the fleet and the hurricane by stealing the twelfth ship, the brig El Dorado, which Edward keeps and renames the Jackdaw, becoming the player's ship for the rest of the game. Edward later makes reference to the event when Blackbeard inquires as to how he got the Jackdaw, and the latter then suggests visiting the site to salvage some of the lost treasure.[citation needed]

In the 1977 movie The Deep "David Sanders (Nick Nolte) and his British girlfriend Gail Berke (Jacqueline Bisset) recover a number of artifacts (from a diving expedition off the coast of Bermuda), including an ampule of amber-colored liquid and a medallion bearing the image of a woman and the letters 'S.C.O.P.N' (an abbreviation of the Latin 'Santa Clara Ora Pro Nobis' that translates to English as 'Santa Clara Pray For Us') and a date, 1714. St. David's Lighthouse keeper and treasure-hunter Romer Treece (Robert Shaw), believes the medallion had come from the wreckage of the surviving twelfth ship [of the 1715 Treasure Fleet], thought to be a French tobacco ship that was being protected by the 1715 fleet and named Grifon (spelt "El Grifón" in Peter Benchley's novel The Deep[4]). The ship was thought to be returning to Havana, Cuba for repairs but instead sank off the coast of Bermuda."[5][6][7]

The plot of the Starz show Black Sails revolves heavily around the 1715 Treasure Fleet in its first season. The largest of the ships, the Urca de Lima, is wrecked during the hurricane off the coast of Florida, carrying five million Spanish dollars' worth in gold, silver and other precious materials, pursued by Captain Flint and his crew. The treasure, colloquially referred to as "the Urca gold", is an important plot device throughout the series.

See also[edit]

  • McLarty Treasure Museum
  • Mel Fisher's Treasure Museum
  • Piracy in the Caribbean
  • St. Lucie County Historical Museum
  • Survivors' and Salvagers' Camp – 1715 Fleet
  • Treasure hunting

References[edit]

  1. ^ Newton, Lowell W. "Juan Esteban de Ubilla and the Flota of 1715". The Americas, volume 33, issue 2, October 1976, pp. 267–281 (JSTOR 980786)
  2. ^ "1715 Plate Fleet, Page 10" (PDF). Brevard County Historical Commission. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 March 2013. Retrieved 29 July 2013. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  3. ^ "$4.5M in gold found in shallow water - CNN Video".
  4. ^ Benchley, Peter (1976). The Deep (1 ed.). London: Andre Deutsch. p. 121. ISBN 0233967931.
  5. ^ "The Deep". 17 June 1977 – via IMDb.
  6. ^ Suissemade. "King Philip V & the Queens Jewels". www.1715treasurefleet.com. Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2015-09-22.
  7. ^ "The Deep". 17 June 1977 – via IMDb.

External links[edit]

  • 1715 Fleet Society – Dedicated to researching the history of the 1715 Fleet, its loss, rediscovery and recovery through images, video, and documents.
  • 1715 Treasure Fleet – website of the official salvors of the wrecks
  • History of the 1715 Treasure Fleet. The Practical Book of Cobs 4th Ed. Sedwick – The Treasure of Cape Canaveral published in Indian River Journal by Brevard Historical Commission.
  • Sunken Treasure: Six Who Found Fortunes, Robert F. Burgess, Dodd, Mead & Co. 1988