Posted on 06/17/2022 8:43:13 AM PDT by C19fan
The race is on for One-Eyed Willy's treasure, as part of the shipwreck of the boat that inspired 'The Goonies' has been found. Marine archaeologists have recovered timbers from the hull of the 17th-century Spanish galleon Santo Cristo de Burgos in sea caves in Oregon, USA.
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Exactly. People sailing to Hawaii follow that exact route today.
The only thing I remember was the cheerleader.
Groan.
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“I would say the Manila Galleon was probably on the correct course for home when it sank.”
The normal trade route coming back from Manila was supposed to hit the north American coast south of the point they found the timbers probably closer to what is now San Francisco Bay. So they came out north of the normal trek and we still don’t know where the ship is actually located as they discovered just timbers and not the real ship.
And with the Alaskan Current flowing south by the Oregon coast, it is unlikely the actual ship wreck was west or south of the Oregon caves they found the timbers in. Good chance it is further north like off the Washington coast. So they missed the regular trade route by a good distance, about 650 miles north at a minimum.
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You ever read MANILA GALLEON by F. van Wick Mason? I read it 60 years ago.
Don’t take One Eye’d Willie’s special treasure. Bad things will happen.
So I think they made it to China, probably bought porcelain, silk and a cheap Chinese compass that broke resulting in the ship wreck.
The French captured a Spanish galleon loaded with gold, silver, & jewels. They brought it up the St. Lawence River toward Quebec but it sank in a stom before it got there. It is still there somewere.
That was a big veer.
Most of the silver would have come from Potosi in modern day Bolivia. The silver would have been transported to Lima then shipped to Acapulco.
Acapulco to Manilla via Anchorage is a heck of a detour.
wrecked off the Oregon coast
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BLM to get big donation soon.
Spain had a complex web of regulations and tax laws applied to different parts of its vast empire in the New World and the Old. Trade with the New World vice royalties was very tightly controlled and heavily taxed.
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So China owns the South China Sea and Spain owns Spanish Fly?
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