What at first had seemed like a disaster, turned into what would become the first Spanish foothold in America. The Indians wore small pieces of gold around their necks, which they quickly exchanged with the explorers for trinkets of little value. He called the fort Navidad because the ship had sunk on Christmas Day. Furious, Columbus ordered the crew to strip the ship and use the timber to build a fort, enlisting the help of the local Taino Indians.
With the boy at the wheel, currents carried the ship onto a sand bank off the coast of Haiti where it sank the next day. Not having slept for two days, Christopher Columbus had shut himself in his cabin and gone to sleep, handing over the command to the steersman, who also decided he was tired and in turn handed the ship over to the cabin boy. The first ship to sink off the coast of the Americas was the Santa María, which went under on Christmas Day, 1492. Rather than rescuing these ships from the depths, the aim is to protect them from treasure hunters or from damage, in cooperation with authorities from the corresponding countries. But behind both was a silent but effective army of civil servants whose job recording the details of each expedition now allows for the location of ships that went under in waters off Panama, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba, the Bahamas, Bermuda and along the US Atlantic coast. The Spanish empire was founded on two pillars: the army and the navy.
SHIPWRECK ARCHEAGE MAP ARCHIVE
Hundreds of pages from the General Archive of the Indies in Seville and Madrid’s Naval Museum have been scrutinized, along with 420 old maps in order to create the most extensive guide to Spanish shipwrecks and treasure to date, and which is part of the National Plan for the Protection of the Cultural Underwater Heritage of Spain, developed according to the UNESCO Convention of 2001. An expert explores documents from the General Archive of the Indies Carlos León The vast project was coordinated by marine archeologist Carlos León, along with his colleague Beatriz Domingo and the naval historian Genoveva Enríquez. But at the end of it, he would have known a great deal about the history of Spain between 14. It would have taken Robert Louis Stevenson’s bounty hunter several lifetimes to raid the 681 ships documented by the Sub-Directorate General of Historical Heritage of the Culture Ministry over a period of five years.
SHIPWRECK ARCHEAGE MAP PLUS
He would also have managed to locate the ships lost by Hernán Cortés when he led expeditions in modern-day Mexico or those commanded by Francisco Pizarro or Vasco Núñez de Balboa all this plus the coordinates showing where the sea swallowed up vast troves of gold, silver, emeralds and exquisite pearls. He would then have made his way to the spot where Christopher Columbus’s ship, the Santa María, went under. If Long John Silver had got his hands on the first inventory of Spanish shipwrecks in America, he would promptly have deserted Treasure Island and headed for the Caribbean, map in hand.
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