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Legendary shipwreck’s treasure of “incalculable value” will be recovered by underwater robot, Colombia says.
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Legendary shipwreck’s treasure of “incalculable value” will be recovered by underwater robot, Colombia says.
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We all know that Mel Fisher was no stranger to the court system. He was singularly responsible for creating a lot of new precedents in the area of Maritime Law. He was also on the receiving end of lawsuits and claims filed against him by the state of Florida. In an interesting turn of events,
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Our archives contain hundreds of vintage magazines and publications. Many of these periodicals are currently under review as we categorize and document them. One such digest that I recently came across was “The Gold Bug Annual”, which was published by the Gold Bug Publishing Company out of Alamo, California. There is not too much to
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Here is an article from the Independent on the current status of the San Jose: Inside the ‘holy grail’ shipwreck being pulled up from the ocean.
Josh “Captain Redbeard” Scott (Follow @redbeardsrelics — instagram.com/redbeardsrelics)Link to Captain Redbeard’s original post on Instagram: instagram.com/p/C1SciBASc2r/?img_index=1 This is a Lima 8 escudos dated 1713/12 from the 1715 Fleet! There are under 10 of these known to be graded by any grading service. With the over date of 13/12, it makes it exceptionally rare. If you look
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Our Treasure of the Month for March is an artifact recovered from what is known as the “Chest of Worked Silver” found by Mike Perna, Captain of the recovery vessel Mighty Mo and his crewmate Milan “Choppy” Kalelkar in June 2021. Searching in the area known as the Anchor Wreck site, Mike and his crewmate salvaged one
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Kip Wagner, the founder of the Real Eight Company, dies at the age of 66.
This Day in Fleet History – February 26, 1972 Read More »
Fleet Society Librarian Dave Crooks (member # 7) sent me this postcard which originated from the Real Eight Gallery of Sunken Treasure. The post card depicts a woman with a gold chain and an encrusted anchor which was located in the museum. This is just one of several postcards that were produced by the Real
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Here is an interesting article published in the St. Lucie (Florida) Tribune from the turn of the century (not this century but the last century). It appears that an “old wreck” was found in 1905 by a fishing party not far from the Fort Pierce Inlet. The wreck was surmised to be “an old vessel
From The Fleet Society Archives — June 22, 1906 Read More »
The final major sale of Fleet gold from the Real Eight Company was held at the Bowers and Ruddy Galleries in Los Angeles. The sale featured over 300 gold coins and several gold artifacts including a 9 ½ ounce “Cast Gold Splash”. (NOTE: Lot # 5001 was previously featured as our Treasure of the Month
This Day in Fleet History – February 17-19, 1977 Read More »
The Plus Ultra Newsletter was launched.
This Day in Fleet History – February 15, 1983 Read More »
Maria Luisa of Savoy, Philip V’s first wife, dies of tuberculosis at the age of 26. Philip remarried in September 1714. Photo credit: Miguel Jacinto Meléndez, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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Josh “Captain Redbeard” Scott (Follow @redbeardsrelics — instagram.com/redbeardsrelics) Part 1 Link to Captain Redbeard’s original post #1 on Instagram: instagram.com/p/C1KckuARkT6/ I have seen and acquired so many amazing relics this past year including these few items! Every piece I come across has a story to tell and a history enveloping it. Which relics you have seen
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In May of 2021 we featured some gold coins recovered by Captain Mike Perna of the Mighty Mo during the 2019 and 2020 dive seasons. Recently Mike was a guest speaker at our conference in Vero Beach last month. After the conference he was kind enough to send me some additional pictures of some of his finds
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State archaeologist Carl J. Clauson reported that the wooden remains of a well dug in the sand by survivors of the 1715 Fleet disaster had been uncovered. Sections of wood, almost certainly from the wooden beams of wrecked ships used as casing for a surface well, were excavated. The well was dug a short distance
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Last August we reported that the first half of the Richards Library was delivered to the temporary Society Headquarters in Washington, Pennsylvania by Fleet Society Librarian Dave Crooks (see our post on August 1, 2023, HERE). The library was acquired by the Fleet Society through the generous contribution of Society member Rick Beleson (member #51).
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A major Real Eight auction of artifacts, silver and gold coins takes place at the Parke-Bernet Galleries in New York City.
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I came across a very interesting article from an unknown newspaper in February 1940. The article bears evidence to the fact that as early as 1940 residents along the “Treasure Coast” of Florida were aware that Spanish shipwrecks lie off the east coast of Florida. It was obvious that these folks were unaware of the
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Our Treasure of the Month for February is this intact gold and red-coral rosary (beach find) from the 1715 Fleet. Intact rosaries are quite rare, as the delicate chain parts often separated. Measuring 34” long and weighing 56.08 grams this item is a most impressive religious artifact. Most notably, all the coral and gold beads
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Regional Director for the Treasure Coast, Jim Wilson, packed the house last Tuesday at the Vero Beach Emerson Center when he gave a presentation entitled: “Quest for Spanish Treasure: The Legacy of the 1715 Fleet”. Jim has been a tireless worker for the Fleet Society. Even before his appointment as the Regional Director for the
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