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Over the years it has become apparent that Fleet Society members have a wide variety of interests especially when it comes to shipwrecks. To satisfy these interests we will occasionally post stories about other shipwrecks...
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Allen Exploration retrieved priceless artifacts from Maravillas treasure ship — museum will showcase the discoveries By Angelica Stabile | Fox NewsLink to original article/video HERE. Talk about a find. A treasure trove of jewels, medallions...
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(Rosemont, Illinois) — After a century and a half on the ocean floor and then decades in secure storage, dozens of historic California Gold Rush-era sunken treasure artifacts from the 1857 sinking of the fabled...
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If you grew up in the 1950s with a 15” black and white TV with rabbit ears you probably remember the words “… and now a word from our sponsor” which was ubiquitous at the...
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Tickets for the 2022 Conference in Vero Beach (October 30th — November 1st) will go on sale to the general public on Monday, August 8 at 8:00 am EST. The link to purchase tickets will...
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The “queen” of 1715 Spanish Plate Fleet coins —in my estimation— is the fully-dated 8-escudo Mexican piece of 1714. The “king”, of course, would be a fully-dated 8E issued from that mint in 1715. The...
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Last night, via Zoom, twenty members of the 1715 Fleet Society had the unique opportunity to witness the historic reunification of two pieces of a rare and valuable artifact that had been separated as a...
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August’s Treasure of the Month is a Mexico eight reales coin along with a small Treasure Salvors certificate which was brought to our attention by Fleet Society Advisory Board member Charlie Winn. Charlie’s role on...
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The 1715 Fleet is lost in a violent hurricane off the east coast of Florida.
PLUS ULTRA Newsletter Index and Table of Contents are now available. The Fleet Society is pleased to announce another first. We are the first to make available an Index and Table of Contents for the...
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The 1715 Fleet Society is honored to announce a historic event that will take place on July 31, 2022. To get a complete understanding of what will happen, we must go back almost twelve years...
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A team of Real Eight Company divers finds a nearly intact treasure chest at the Cabin Wreck site near Sebastian. The chest was the first of its kind found on any 1715 Fleet wreck site....
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The 1715 Plate Fleet departs from the port of Havana. In one week this majestic fleet with be nothing but scattered debris along the east coast of Florida.
The 1715 Fleet Society is pleased to announce that it will be hosting a conference in Vero Beach, Florida from October 30 – November 1, 2022. The conference will be held at the Holiday Inn...
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In addition to researching the history of the 1715 Fleet, its loss, rediscovery, and recovery, our mission also includes educating the public about the 1715 Fleet and all things Fleet related (coins, artifacts, etc.). Recently...
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The crew of the salvage vessel Defiance finds a large “rosary” composed of a six-inch by a nine-inch medallion-and-chain cross with sixty inches of heavy gold chain. Douglass Beach wreck site, near Fort Pierce, Florida....
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The Pandion salvage crew finds what they believed to be the fabled “Queen’s Jewels”. Cabin Wreck site near Sebastian, Florida.
On Wednesday, January 6, 1965 this story appeared in The Miami Herald: The Florida United Numismatists convention in Miami Beach is featuring an exhibit of rare coins recently recovered from a 1715 Fleet wreck site...
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Our Treasure of the Month for July is this bell recovered in 1990 by the four-man crew of the Rogue Wave, a sub-contractor working for the Mel Fisher Center at the time. Specifically, it was Gary...
Read moreHere is an interesting article submitted by Advisory Board member Jorge Proctor. Although not about a 1715 Fleet wreck it is nevertheless a very fascinating story about the HMS Gloucester, a wreck of great historical...
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