The True Story of the 1715 Treasure Fleet | The Pirates Port
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Several videos back I mentioned the ill-fated 1715 Spanish Treasure Fleet, but I want to explore this story in a little more depth. If you’ve ever seen the series Black Sails you’ll probably remember the Urca de Lima, the treasure ship Flint and his crew were chasing in the first season. The Urca de Lima was a real ship and it did indeed wreck off the coast of Florida after sailing into a powerful hurricane. But the Urca wasn’t alone, it was part of a fleet comprised of 12 ships sailing from Havana to Spain.
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I have a question. We hear a lot about Privateers, hunting spanish ships. But what about Privateers sailing under spanish flag?
Great question! I'll answer that in the stream
Great content as usual. I'm interested to know more about what a day in the life of a pirate captain and quatermaster would look like, compared to their crew. Would it differ much beyond the decision-making? Would they mostly go into battle themselves alongside crew or lead from the rear?
I’m autistic, and my special interest is tallships. Your content is amazing. Every time I watch, I’m able to learn something new, and it plays into my special interest! Thank you for the time and effort you put into these videos, keep it up!
I'm really glad to hear that you like the content so much!
Get over yourself
A friend's father was one of the NASA guys who succeeded in bringing up the majority of this treasure just north of Vero Beach FL. I used to go surfing right where one of the ships wrecked, and several of the guys found pieces of eight on the beach after thunderstorms. It's a fascinating story!
There is a great museum down at Sebastian Inlet that has a lot of the items recovered from the 1715 Fleet wreck. I enjoyed touring the museum and thinking what a huge financial disaster this wreck was for Spain at the time! There is still one ship missing that is part of the 1715 wrecks that hasn't been found yet. It believed that ship is in deeper water than the ones that have been found. I live in St Augustine so a couple of the museums here have the 1715 wreck storytelling on the tour. Enjoyed the video mate!
Grew up on the Treasure Coast of Florida, just south of Vero. My father use to tell us about these shipwrecks when we would visit the beach. My brothers and I would "look for" the treasure, of course never finding anything. Fun memories.
One of the best pirates channel on RUclips.
Looking forward to this one!
Hope you enjoy it!
@@ThePiratesPort it was great! Worth the wait
ah nothing better than a cold beer after a hard day of work and a new episode of The Pirates Port! Love your channel mate!
Thanks!
Ow wow, this actually happens early on in Assassins Creed black Flag, in 1715.
"Yo ho ho, and a bottle 🍾 of rum!" 🥃
the jolly roger crew. 🏴☠️
Man this is an awesome channel! I love to learn more about pirates and the different events that happened with them. I hope that you will have enough content to keep going for a long while!
I really appreciate your historical information, and the story telling... First rate!
Great videos. short and concise.
Pirate papa hath blessed us again this morning with another great video
Love your videos! A story on some of the separate ships, and what happened to the captains of the 1715 fleet would be great
Great story about the Spanish treasure fleet! I'm a big fan of the pirate series "Black Sails. " Despite its many ahistorical elements, it has a wonderful cast, spectacular sailing and battle scenes, a great plot including "backstories" for fictional Treasure Island characters like Captain Flint, Long John Silver, Israel Hands, and Billy Bones, and superb locations/production values. Plus a long list of historical pirate figures such as Edward Teach, Charles Vane, Anne Bonny, Jack Rackham, Benjamin Hornigold, and Governor of the Bahamas, Woodes Rogers.
Awesome, I am glad you liked it. It's worth pointing out that Israel Hands was a historical figure too. He was Blackbeard's real life second in command.
I had no idea how much of the plot mirrored real events!
@@lightlysearedontherealityg1218 Yes. Was very interesting how democracy worked aboard ship, the captain was elected, and could just as easily be replaced by a majority vote of the crew. Also how it was in the pirate's interests NOT to battle crews of merchant ships, and vice versa, even extending to some collusion between merchants and the pirates.
‘Fools Gold’ with Matthew McConaughey is loosely based on the 1715 fleet story. Great movie.
Tysm for your videos! I first started watching cause i wanted to write about pirates, but then i keep watching the videos without writing the information XD
It was just so interesting and ill watch it late at night and im not really planning to stop that soon lol
Again tysm
Thanks! Im glad you like the content!
Just found your channel, love the content man keep it up!
Thanks Nate
Great work sir. I'd love to see something about Sinan Reis, Jack Ward, and other Barbary Corsairs
New subscriber. Really enjoy the content, a fascinating subject
Thanks Jim!
Awesome content!!!
Thank you!
(Bragging rights invoked.) On July 30, 2015, exactly 300 years to the day of the sinking of the 1715 fleet, a salvage crew found 352 gold coins from one of these ships. Including nine ’royals’ that ended up selling for between $300,000 and $500,000 apiece. The total value of the treasure was over $4 million. I was the diver who found the coins.😉
Anything off the northern Florida East coast please. Love your content
Really curious as to how boats in a fleet sailing together communicate to one another id assume they wouldn’t pull the boats closer for boarding do to possibility of crashing into one another but maybe you’ll cover that in your next video lol love the content keep it up
Thanks for making this, what are your sources? I live in Vero, family been here for generations, and I've always had great interest in this subject. Great presentation.
Great content just found your channel
Thanks Dan!
Insane story!!!
"English 🏴 privateers!"
Out of 12 ships, one made it back home!?! Can’t wait for the truth 🙌🏼
What popular culture tends to forget is attacking the Treasure Fleet as a whole was essentially suicide unless you were part of a fleet. The vast majority went after stragglers or damaged ships from the fleet
"A big storm!" ⛈️
Interesting!
Thanks Robert!
I love your channel. It is very informative and you speak in a clear voice that is easy to listen to. I have learned a lot today and for that I thank you. At the end of your video you mention any suggestions. Maybe this is interesting. Years ago I read that an old Dutch Law, and still active today, stated that you could attack any ship carrying a pirate flag Without Warning! Just now I've spent 30 minutes looking for that again, but I can not find a reference to this anymore. But this let me to my suggestion. Are there many laws specifically tailored for/against Pirates?And are some of them, in any country of course, still valid today?
Thanks! Ill check that out and see what I can find out.
and yes, i went to stockholm this summer and was lucky enought to go toThe vasa museum in Stockholm. u have probably heard of it. a real ship from the 1600s and best preserved after so many years.
Longer videos please.
You should do a video on François l'Olonnais
"Shocking!" 🤯
Remember this in assassins creed black flag
do u think the pirates of the carribean films describe this period good? im kinda intrested in pirates because of those films, soo well made and everything. u could one day make a video about how realistic or accurate the films are compared to IRL
"Jamaica?" 🇯🇲
0:15 - "if you've ever seen the series Black Sails...." 😂🤣😂 More like, of you HAVEN'T seen Black Sails, well, that's something you best keep to yourself in these parts! 😂
I first heard about the Spanish Treasure Fleet in the Netflix documentary series The Lost Pirate Kingdom. In this video you mention Woodes Rogers' pardon, which was portrayed in said documentary as causing a lot of in-fighting and disruption among the Flying Gang of Nassau. -Any chance you could dive deeper into the internal politics of pirates facing pardon vs punishment?
I'd love to give you the answer to that question but to be honest that documentary is VERY loose with historical accuracy. For example, how would they have had information about the internal politics of the pirates? They weren't keeping journals or anything like that, so where did they get the documentation you know?
@@ThePiratesPort Granted, while that doc was entertaining, I knew almost immediately it would be speculative, and I took it with many grains of salt. True, we can't open Hornigold's (nonexistent) diary and know the intimate gossip of his day; but the choice to accept a pardon or not, and the motivation behind doing so seems pivotal to the end of what we know as the Golden Age. Is there record of how many pirates were pardoned vs executed at that time? -Your care, accuracy, and exhaustive attention to these topics amaze me, and I congratulate you on a well-deserved 10k!!
Thanks very much! I'd have to look that information up. Let me get back to you down the road about that.
"Privateers?"
love it, dude didn't give a F and was going to get paid..I would have been a great pirate
I dug and always found a stone with name curved ...a certain boy named ARIES PAZ 1722 and ROY PAZ 1709..I ALSO FOUND A NAME BELOW ON HIS NAME.." MARGARITA 1722" will you help me to find who are they?
Nothing worse than a lee shore to a sailor in bad weather.
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I have not searched your videos deeply yet, but have you done anything concerning those along the west coast of Florida? Typically Gasparilla.
If he existed (there is no evidence that he did) he would have operated long after the golden age of piracy (focus of this channel) came to an end. During the golden age there wasn't much merchant shipping along the gulf coast so it wouldn't have made much sense for pirates to operate there.
@@ThePiratesPort Perhaps it was after the golden era. But it does make an interesting read. Gasparilla was a bit notorious up and down the Florida Gulf Coast between Ft. Myers and Tampa. Again, thanks for the info.
Metric please
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