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San José was a 64-gun, three-masted galleon of the Spanish Armada de la Guardia de la Carrera de las Indias. It was launched in 1698 [1] and sank in battle off Barú Island, just south of Cartagena, Colombia, in 1708, while laden with gold, silver and emeralds worth about US$17 billion as of 2023. [3]
San José was a 64-gun, three-masted galleon of the Spanish Armada de la Guardia de la Carrera de las Indias. It was launched in 1698 and sank in battle off Barú Island, just south of Cartagena, Colombia, in 1708, while laden with gold, silver and emeralds worth about US$17 billion as of 2023.
19 kwi 2024 · The San José was a 64-gun, three-masted, three-decked galleon, about 128 feet in length and 40 feet across the beam, built and launched in San Sebastián in the Basque Country in 1698.
21 maj 2018 · The legendary wreck was discovered off the coast of Cartagena, Colombia, on Nov. 27, 2015, by a team of international scientists and engineers during an expedition aboard the Colombian Navy research ship ARC Malpelo led by MAC’s Chief Project Archaeologist Roger Dooley.
9 wrz 2019 · The San José galleon left Panama’s port city of Portobelo in late May 1708. It was laden with gold, silver and precious stones extracted from what was then Spanish-controlled Peru, which have...
9 sie 2024 · New artefacts have been uncovered on the 18th Century Spanish galleon dubbed the “holy grail of shipwrecks” off the coast of Colombia. The San José ship belonged to the Spanish Navy and was...
27 lip 2023 · Known in Spain as the Flota de Indias, this convoy system was often called the “Spanish treasure fleet,” the “West Indies Fleet,” of simply the “silver fleet,” due to the large amount of gold, silver, and jewels that were ferried from South America to Spanish coffers.
