Robert F. Burgess
FLORIDA'S GOLDEN GALLEONS: Searching for the Treasure of the 1715 Spanish Plate Fleet
ON July 24, 1715, a Spanish treasure fleet sailed from Havana, carrying a cargo of 14 million pesos in gold, silver and jewels. In the Florida Straits, near present-day Cape Canaveral, the fleet ran into a hurricane, with the disastrous loss of ten ships and 700 lives. Little was salvaged at the tim...
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