Concepcion Shipwreck
What was needed was famed historian and shipwreck researcher jack haskins.
Concepcion shipwreck. Nuestra señora de la concepción spanish. Shipwrecks will be developed more extensively later in this paper. This ship has earned a place in maritime history not only by virtue of being sir francis drake s most famous prize but also because of her colourful nickname cagafuego fireshitter. Armed with the sketchy histories found in his documents haskins and treasure hunter burt webber organized an expedition to silver shoals.
The first chest on the map above is located north from the diving bell on the top deck of the shipwreck. Coins on the beach previously coins discovered on the beach were vital to the later discovery of the 1715 fleet shipwreck sites to the south. The concepción was one of the most significant spanish wrecks of all time serving the spanish with a loss of over 100 tons of silver and gold treasure. Lunge up to avoid the sharks and look for it close to one of the ship s masts.
By then the inhabitants of saipan had found part of the gold pieces and other metals. With coins and other shoreline treasure finds kip wagner. The fleet encountered a violent hurricane in the florida straits which scattered and sank most of the ships. After being caught in a hurricane off florida the spanish treasure laden galleon nuestra señora de la concepcion drifted for weeks and went aground on october 31 1641 amidst the reefs north of hispañola the present day dominican republic.
Haskins in his quiet study in the florida keys set out to discover concepcion. Inside the chest you will find 275 reales. The shipwreck concepcion 1641. O n july 23 1641 the nuestra senora de la pura y limpia concepcion set sail from vera cruz mexico in a fleet of 30 ships.
Our lady of the immaculate conception was a 120 ton spanish galleon that sailed the peru panama trading route during the 16th century. In 1687 46 years after the concepcion went down an american named william phips had found the wreck and salvaged a fraction of the treasure but the log of phips s ship the henry had been lost. Concepción sunk in 1641 off the northeast coast of hispaniola. The concepcion wreck scatter does not lie in association with the other 1715 shipwreck sites on the treasure coast but lies some 16 miles to the north of sebastian inlet on the brevard county space coast.
For decades coins had been found on treasure coast beaches. Black flag la concepcion wreck chests locations.