I noticed the figurehead on the ship had an appearance of a dragon or animal.
According to Wiki:
History
Figurehead Hall at Marinmuseum, Karlskrona Sweden
Although earlier ships had often had some form of bow ornamentation (e.g. the Viking ships of ca. A.D. 800–1100), the general practice was introduced with the galleons of the 16th century, as the figurehead as such could not come to be until ships had an actual stemhead structure on which to place it.[1] The menacing appearance of toothy and bug-eyed figureheads on Viking ships also had the protective function of warding off evil spirits.[2] The Egyptians placed figures of holy birds on the prow while the Phoenicians used horses representing speed. The Ancient Greeks used boars’ heads to symbolise acute vision and ferocity while Roman boats often mounted a carving of a centurion representing valour in battle. In northern Europe, serpents, bulls, dolphins and dragons were customary and by the 13th Century, the swan was used representing grace and mobility.[3]
This would seem to indicate that the ship was from either a Phoenician civilization or a northern European one. The Phoenicians had settlements in Spain. The Vikings just visited...................8^)
Some say that the people who ‘ended up’ as Phoenicians were the same people who founded Dynastic Egypt and left the pictures in the eastern desert on their way from Mesopotamia in to the Nile.
http://www.amazon.com/Baltic-Origins-Homers-Epic-Tales/dp/1594770522
I don’t know enough about ancient and pre-history to agree or disagree with the theory put forward in the book at the link above, but it does seem to answer a whole lot of the questions about the earliest Med civilizations.
And, it’s a fun read even if just for the cognitive dissonance it causes.