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Two years later, the lost Spanish treasure reappeared off the coast of St. George Island. An iron anchor consistent with the type carried by European ships in the early 16th century has been discovered off the coast of Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz, a site some 50 miles north of modern Veracruz, where Corts founded a settlement in 1519. 1849 C Street, NW Mexican Native Princess, la Malinche, Inspired a Popular Mexican Slur, Headless Life-size Maya Statue Uncovered in Oxkintok. Subsequently, the Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History was named repository of the San Esteban collection. Clues to understanding the rich maritime heritage of the Gulf lie entombed in thousands of shipwrecks resting on the ocean floor throughout the Gulf. + Adelaide Arnold: "Butcherknife Ike and the Lost Ship" He said he was inspired by the Nicolas Cage movie National Treasure to try to fund his artistic . chapter: "A Handful of Mysteries", D. Galbraith: "Lost Ships of the Desert" (??) (see: 1953 Nov. "The Calico Print"), "Return of the Ship Prospectors" The Mel Fisher Maritime Museum has some of the artifacts on display and is open to the public. One means of protecting the future is by understanding the past. In 1981 a treasure outfit known as Sea Search Armada claimed to have located the San Jose. ", Francisco Gonzalez: "Case 2 The Lost Galleon of the Salton Sea", "The Legend of the Mojave Desert's Lost Ship", John Stoddard: "Story for a Desert Campfire", "Exploritoria of a Viking Ship in the Desert", (online edition of View Neighborhood Newspapers a Las Vegas, Nevada regional newspaper) But behind them hid asilent and effectivearmada, officials, whose work (they took note of the smallest details of each expedition) has now allowed the location of the ships in waters of Panama, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba, Bahamas, Bermuda and the Atlantic coast of the United States. ; ; Copyright 1996-2015 National Geographic SocietyCopyright 2015-2023 National Geographic Partners, LLC. Finding them would be an incredible discovery., This mid-17th-century painting, which depicts Corts' meeting with Aztec royal ambassadors, features a landscape very similar to that of Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz. The Galleon, according to legend, is now under the waters of the modern Salton Sea. The discoverer then dismounted the ship and with its frames built the first European settlement in America, the Christmas fort (Haiti), where he left some of his men. View inside the conning tower of the German U-boat U-166. The Emanuel Point Wreck, 1559 The Trinit Wreck, 1565 The Atocha & Santa Margarita Wrecks, 1622 The Henrietta Marie Wreck, 1700 The Urca de Lima Wreck, 1715 The San Pedro Wreck, 1733 The Mentor Wreck, 1781 The Maple Leaf Wreck, 1864 The Commodore Wreck, 1897 The Copenhagen Wreck, 1900 The USS Massachusetts, 1921 The City of Hawkinsville, 1922 It is thought that an abandoned ferry or steamboat that had broken away during a Colorado River flood and had been left dry in the vast sands of the river delta is the origin of the rumors. By Florine Lawlor, The article is about a hiking trip to view petroglyphs which are located in Pinto Canyon, west of the Yuma Desert. Mystery 200-Year-Old Shipwreck Discovered in Gulf of Mexico