Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of the Treasure Beaches Report.
A Plague of Ships:
Spanish Ships and Shipbuilding in the Atlantic Colonies,
Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries by Chuk Meide is a good 42-page free online article with a nice bibliography.
Here is one paragraph to give you the flavor.
... That some of these early trading vessels were built in the colonies themselves is clear
from the extant customs records (Relaciones de navíos) of the ports of Santo Domingo
and Salvaleón de Higüy (on Española) and Puerto Rico and San Germán (on San Juan
Bautista) now housed in the Archivo General de Indias in Seville. One such ship, a
carabela latina named San Germán, made at least seven trading voyages between June
1513 and March 1517 (Turner 1998: 354-366). This vessel was constructed during 1512
and the first half of the following year, either in the protected bay of Puerto Rico or at its
namesake, the port San Germán (Turner 1998: 356). San Germán is thus one of the
earliest documented vessels built on the island of San Juan, and indeed anywhere in the
New World. She was owned by Miguel Díaz de Aux, a wealthy businessman who had
recently been appointed the King’s factor in 1512..
And here is the link.
We had some big surf for a few days but there only scattered cuts to be found. Some of the areas that had been decreased over the previous months were vulnerable, but the east winds had only modest effects on most beaches.
Don't forget to check out the lengthy biblilography at the end of the paper.
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| Turtle Trail Sunday |
We had some big surf for a few days but there only scattered cuts to be found. Some of the areas that had been decreased over the previous months were vulnerable, but the east winds had only modest effects on most beaches.
Dj sent these photos from Turtle Trail as it looked Sunday. One dog dug some holes.
There is still a lot of renourishment sand hanging around. You can see a lot of it on the wide spread out beach fronts.
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| Turtle Trail Sunday. |
There is still a lot of renourishment sand hanging around. You can see a lot of it on the wide spread out beach fronts.
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| Turtle Trail Sunday. |
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Early this morning I got out early to do a little metal detecting hunt and spent most of my time walking, but guessed right and managed to find a couple older things. Here are the quick straight-off-the-beach just to get them posted this morning. The first looks like another Carlos and Johanna late series two-reale.
The second looks like it might be an encrusted broken piece of spike.
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The wind has decreased, and as you can see the surf will be decreasing. The tides are still high.
Good hunting,
Treasureguide@comcast.net