8/10/25 - More on Wrecks Discovered After Erosion. Dating Bottles. One of First Asians in America. Good Salvage Season Continues.

 

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of the Treasure Beaches Report.

Four shipwrecks — including the remains believed to be a 1748 Spanish privateer ship — were recently found at a historical site in North Carolina...

... the university said the team collected wood samples that suggest the shipbuilders incorporated raw materials from Spanish Caribbean colonies in the 18th century. The team said that while more work is needed to confirm any identification of the remains, they believe they may be those of La Fortuna, a Spanish privateer from Cuba that exploded near the colonial wharves during an attack on the port at the end of King George's War in September 1748.

This is another article on the story I posted Friday.  Here is the link for the rest of this article.

Wreck of historic Spanish ship that was attacked in 1748 possibly found in North Carolina - CBS News

Thanks to John E. for that link.

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Here is a good timeline for "Non-returnable" bottles.

Source: NRBeers.pdf

You might not recognize all the bottle types, but you might want to remember that 1939 was the beginning of the "No Return -No Deposit" type of message being embossed on the shoulder. That is an easy and clear marker.  That is shown in the middle of the chart above.

Here is the link for much more information on non-returnable beer bottles.

NRBeers.pdf

Here is another good clue.

Before the 1930's beer came in green bottles then after the Prohibition brown glass was used because it was thought to preserve freshness by filtering out sunlight.

I suspect by green they include aqua.

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Catarina de San Juan’s life reads like an epic – and her extraordinary story is little known.

Born in South Asia during the early 17th century, she was captured by the Portuguese at age 8 and sold to Spaniards in the Philippines. Spanish merchants then traded her across the Pacific to Mexico,  where she became a free woman and a spiritual icon, famous in the city of Puebla for her devotion to Catholicism.  ...she deserves to become a household name for anyone with even a passing interest in Asian American history or the history of slavery.

Catarina was one of the first Asians in the Americas...  and arrived through a little-known slave trade that crossed the Pacific Ocean. In colonial Mexico, she lived in the "nideaquinidealla,"  the “neither-from-here-nor-from-there”: a valley between acceptance and foreignness, an in-between state familiar to many migrants today...

Here is the link for more about Catatinade San Juan.

From South Asia to Mexico, from slave to spiritual icon, this woman’s life is a snapshot of Spain’s colonization – and the Pacific slave trade history that books often leave out

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This salvage season has been a good one on the Treasure Coast.  The weather has provided a lot of opportunities, and the season began with a bang.  In May, on their shakedown outing, the crew of the Mighty Mo started out with a find of gold coins and followed that up later with more gold coins.  The season continued with many good finds. 

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Source: nhc.noaa.gov.

Everything seems to be going north.  I am expecting a change in wind direction in a few days, but from what SurfGuru is saying, the surf won't increase much in the next week.

Source: SurfGuru.com.

“The more I study science, the more I believe in God.” – Albert Einstein

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