John O'Groat Journal and Caithness Courier27d
Tall tale from John O’Groats tells of rough seas for damaged Spanish Armada galleons
A Spanish fighting tactic was to board other ships from their taller Galleons, so the towering poop deck was ideal for this. Picture: Paul VanDerWerf Folkore tales tell of how some sailors remained ...
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Emerald and Gold Treasures of the Spanish Galleon Nuestra Señora de Atocha
During the 1970s and 1980s, treasure hunters discovered the centuries-old remains of the sunken Spanish galleons Nuestra Señora de Atocha and Santa Margarita. Not only did they find massive amounts of ...
History Today5y
The Manila Galleon, 1565-1815: the Lure of Silk and Silver
From 1565 until the year of Waterloo, great Spanish galleons continued to cross the Pacific ... The societies that waxed and waned in the whole of America, and in a great part of Africa and the ...
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PICTURED: 17th century Spanish galleon enters British waters as floating museum makes triumphant arrival in London
THE sight of a Spanish galleon cruising up the River Thames used to be enough to give any Englishman the shivers. But this Andalucian Galleon was not part of a new armada demanding Gibraltar back ...