The 891-ton Spanish galleon was one of the richest treasure ships ever lost at sea when it sunk in the 17th century.
Fresh investigations into a 'legendary' shipwreck have uncovered a link to the rise of the legendary pirates of the Caribbean who were once based in the port town of Nassau in what is now The Bahamas.This summer, Allen Exploration has been chasing a scattered trail of wreckage veering south from where the 17th-century Spanish galleon—known as the Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas —sank in what are now northern Bahamian waters.
The team was 'surprised' to find that the first settlers in Nassau on the island of New Providence—now the most populous in the Bahamas—put down roots not to plant sugar and coffee but to salvage shipwrecks.'Not only did the colonial authorities label the die-hards who dived the Maravillas 'pirates', real lawless pirates soon arrived in town too. They were attracted by loot, whether it was sunken or seized from ships sailing above water.
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