Azores's Shipwrecks
Archival Research by Paulo Monteiro
XVIth century
|
Identification |
Year |
Date of Loss |
Island |
Place of loss |
Name |
Type |
Observations |
|
800 |
1526 |
? |
? |
? |
Santa Maria de la Luz |
Spanish Nao |
|
|
801 |
1529 |
? |
Flores |
? |
La Trinidad |
Spanish Nao |
Captain Diego Sanchez Colchero |
|
802 |
1539 |
? |
Faial |
? |
? |
Spanish Nao |
Owner Alonso Delgado, from Hispaniola. Salvaged |
|
200 |
1542 |
? |
Terceira |
? |
Grifo |
Portuguese Nao |
Captain Baltazar Jorge |
|
803 |
1542 |
? |
S. Miguel |
? |
San Juan |
Spanish Nao |
From Tierra Firme, Captain Juan Hurtado |
|
804 |
1549 |
? |
? |
? |
Santa Barbara |
Spanish Nao |
|
|
805 |
1550 |
? |
Terceira |
? |
Santa Maria de la Piedad |
Spanish Nao |
Fom Hispaniola |
|
806 |
1550 |
? |
Terceira |
Praia? |
Santa Maria de la Flor de la Mar |
Spanish Nao |
Captain Sebastian Quesada |
|
807 |
1551 |
? |
? |
? |
San Anton |
Spanish Nao |
From Puerto Plata. Captain Juan Basquero |
|
808 |
1552 |
? |
? |
? |
La Magdalena |
Spanish Nao |
|
|
809 |
1552 |
? |
Terceira |
Baía de Angra |
Santiago |
Spanish Nao |
From Mexico, Captain Miguel de Oquendo, unloaded |
|
810 |
1552 |
? |
? |
? |
? |
Spanish Nao |
Pilot Santiago de Vaim |
|
466 |
1554 |
? |
Terceira |
? |
? |
Spanish |
Almiranta de Bartolome Carreno |
|
467 |
1554 |
? |
Terceira |
? |
? |
Spanish Nao |
Juan Tello de Guzman fleet |
|
122 |
1554 |
? |
Pico |
South coast |
La Maria |
Spanish Nao |
With 2.000.000 pesos |
|
811 |
1554 |
? |
S. Jorge |
? |
Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe |
Spanish Nao |
|
|
201 |
1555 |
? |
Terceira |
Run aground |
Assumpção |
Portuguese Nao |
Captain Jácome de Mello |
|
202 |
1555 |
? |
Terceira |
? |
Algarvia Velha |
Portuguese Nao |
Lost inbound voyage |
|
812 |
1555 |
? |
? |
? |
San Medel y Celedon |
Spanish Nao |
From Mexico |
|
203 |
1556 |
06-Ago |
Terceira |
? |
Nossa Senhora da Vitória |
Portuguese Nao |
1556 armada |
|
204 |
1556 |
06-Ago |
Terceira |
? |
N. S. da Assunção |
Portuguese Nao |
1556 armada |
|
813 |
1559 |
? |
Faial |
? |
? |
Spanish Nao |
Captain Gregorio de Espinosa |
|
814 |
1559 |
? |
Faial |
? |
? |
Spanish Patacho |
Captain Francisco Nunez |
|
815 |
1559 |
? |
Faial |
? |
? |
Spanish Nao |
From Puerto Plata |
|
39 |
1560 |
? |
Faial |
? |
Santa Maria de Begona |
Spanish Nao |
|
|
205 |
1560 |
? |
Terceira |
? |
Nuestra Señora de la Concepción |
Spanish Nao |
Pedro de Roelas fleet |
|
206 |
1560 |
? |
Terceira |
? |
? |
Spanish Ship |
|
|
816 |
1560 |
? |
? |
? |
? |
Spanish Nao |
From Santo Domingo |
|
817 |
1560 |
? |
? |
? |
? |
Spanish Nao |
From Santo Domingo |
|
818 |
1560 |
? |
? |
? |
? |
Spanish Nao |
From Santo Domingo |
|
819 |
1563 |
? |
Terceira |
Near Monte Brasil |
Nuestra Senora de la Luz |
Spanish Nao |
Captain Juan Garcia, in a storm, from Santo Domingo |
|
820 |
1563 |
29-Nov |
Terceira |
Angra bay |
? |
Spanish Carvel |
From Jamaica |
|
821 |
1563 |
? |
S. Jorge |
? |
El Espiritu Sanctu |
Spanish Nao |
|
|
468 |
1566 |
? |
? |
High seas |
? |
Portuguese Nao |
With 60.000 cruzados |
|
822 |
1567 |
? |
S. Miguel |
? |
La Concepción |
Spanish Nao |
From Havana, Captain Luis de Alcala, partly salvaged |
|
324 |
1568 |
17-Fev |
S. Miguel |
Relva, Ponta Delgada |
? |
Portuguese Carvel |
With wheat, run agound after being capsized for 8 day |
|
325 |
1568 |
02-Ago |
S. Miguel |
3 NM from Vila Franc run aground |
? |
Spanish Nao |
Almiranta |
|
822 |
1568 |
? |
Terceira |
? |
? |
Spanish Carvel |
From Mexico |
|
823 |
1576 |
? |
Santa Maria |
? |
La Concepción |
Spanish Nao |
From Santo Domingo, Captain Bartolome de Espinar |
|
824 |
1580 |
24-Jan |
S. Miguel |
? |
Santa Catalina |
Spanish Nao |
Captain Luis de Villalobos |
|
326 |
1582 |
04-Ago |
S. Miguel |
Run aground |
? |
Spanish Nao A |
Marquis of Santa Cruz armada |
|
327 |
1582 |
04-Ago |
S. Miguel |
Run aground |
? |
Spanish Nao B |
Marquis of Santa Cruz armada |
|
469 |
1583 |
Set |
? |
High seas |
Squirrel |
Frigate |
Captain Humphrey Gilbert, brother of Sir Walter Raleigh |
|
207 |
1583 |
21-Out |
Terceira |
Angra bay |
? |
Patacho A |
Run aground |
|
208 |
1583 |
21-Out |
Terceira |
Angra bay |
? |
Patacho B |
Run aground |
|
209 |
1583 |
21-Out |
Terceira |
Angra bay |
? |
Patacho C |
Run aground |
|
328 |
1583 |
Out |
S. Miguel |
Vila Franca |
Catalina |
Spanish Nao |
Run aground |
|
29 |
1585 |
? |
Corvo |
? |
? |
Dispatch Nao |
|
|
329 |
1585 |
? |
S. Miguel |
? |
? |
5 Spanish Ships |
Sunk by the English |
|
210 |
1586 |
17-Set |
Terceira |
Angra bay |
Santa Maria de Tomala |
Spanish Nao |
Run aground on reef. From Santo Domingo |
|
211 |
1586 |
18-Set |
Terceira |
Angra bay |
Nuestra Senora de los Remedios |
Spanish nao |
Capitana, 30 bronze cannons |
|
212 |
1586 |
? |
Terceira |
? |
Santa Maria del Juncal |
Spanish Ship |
Some cargo salvaged |
|
213 |
1586 |
? |
Terceira |
? |
N.S. de la Concepción |
Spanish Ship |
From the Juan de Guzman fleet |
|
330 |
1587 |
08-Jun |
S. Miguel |
? |
São Filipe |
Portuguese Nao |
From the 1586 armada, inbound to India |
|
214 |
1587 |
? |
Terceira |
Angra bay |
Santiago |
Portuguese galleon |
Lost while anchoring. Cap. Francisco Brito Lobato, from Malaca |
|
215 |
1587 |
? |
Terceira |
? |
? |
Spanish Nao |
56.000 ducados were salvaged |
|
216 |
1588 |
Ago |
Terceira |
? |
Santiago Maior |
Spanish Galleon |
From the 1586 armada |
|
825 |
1588 |
? |
Terceira |
? |
Nuestra Senora del Rosario |
Spanish Nao |
|
|
826 |
1588 |
? |
Faial |
? |
? |
Spanish Nao |
Captain Pedro Yllanes |
|
217 |
1589 |
04-Ago |
Terceira |
Angra bay |
? |
Portuguese Nao |
From Malaca. gold, silver porcelain, silk |
|
218 |
1589 |
20-Out |
Terceira |
Near the south coast |
Nuestra Sra. de Guia |
Spanish Nao |
200.000 ducats in gold,silver and pearls lost. |
|
219 |
1589 |
? |
Terceira |
Angra bay |
Nuestra Senora del Rosario |
Spanish Nao |
|
|
827 |
1589 |
? |
Terceira |
? |
Nuestra Senora del Rosario |
Spanish Nao |
Second of the same name |
|
828 |
1589 |
? |
Faial |
? |
Nuestra Senora de Loreto |
Spanish Nao |
|
|
829 |
1589 |
? |
Faial |
? |
San Juan |
Spanish Nao |
|
|
830 |
1589 |
? |
Faial |
? |
El Espiritu Santo |
Spanish Nao |
|
|
831 |
1589 |
? |
? |
? |
Nuestra Senora de Begona |
Spanish Nao |
|
|
220 |
1590 |
? |
Terceira |
? |
? |
Spanish Ship |
|
|
832 |
1590 |
? |
S. Miguel |
? |
Begona Pequena |
Spanish Nao |
|
|
221 |
1590 |
Jan |
Terceira |
Baía de Angra |
? |
Spanish Ship |
From Biscay, run aground |
|
185 |
1591 |
30-Set |
Graciosa |
Run aground |
|
Patacho |
From Urquiola's squadron, crew and artillery rescued |
|
123 |
1591 |
30-Set |
Pico |
? |
? |
Spanish Nao |
From New World |
|
144 |
1591 |
30-Set |
S. Jorge |
Near Topo |
? |
Spanish Nao |
From New World |
|
145 |
1591 |
30-Set |
S. Jorge |
Near Topo |
? |
Spanish Nao |
From New World |
|
470 |
1591 |
30-Set |
High seas |
? |
Vegoña |
Spanish Nao |
From Sevilla, Sancho Pardo's squadron, 70 dead |
|
457 |
1591 |
30-Set |
Near Formigas islets |
|
San Medel y Celedón |
Spanish Nao |
From the New World |
|
471 |
1591 |
17-Set |
High Seas |
Between Flores and Terceira |
Espiritu Sanctu |
Spanish Nao |
From Santo Domingo, one survivor |
|
222 |
1591 |
30-Set |
Terceira |
North coast |
? |
Spanish Nao |
Capitana from Mexico, with bullion |
|
223 |
1591 |
30-Set |
Terceira |
Run aground on sunken reef, near the coast of Serreta |
Revenge |
English Galleon |
42 bronze cannons recovered, 70 dead |
|
224 |
1591 |
30-Set |
Terceira |
On a small bay of the coast |
Whiite Duyve |
Dutch Fluyt |
Only 15 crewmen survived |
|
225 |
1591 |
Set |
Terceira |
Run aground |
Magdalena |
Spanish Nao |
From Urquiola's squadron |
|
331 |
1591 |
? |
S. Miguel |
Wrecked on a storm |
Vengeance |
English Ship |
|
|
226 |
1591 |
Set |
Terceira |
2 NM from the island's south coast |
Santa Maria del Puerto |
Spanish Nao |
Crew left the ship |
|
227 |
1591 |
? |
Terceira |
Run aground |
? |
Spanish Nao |
|
|
1 |
1592 |
09-Jul |
Flores |
On a bay |
Santa Cruz |
Portuguese Nao |
From India, burnt by the English |
|
40 |
1592 |
? |
High seas, near Faial island |
|
Chagas |
Portuguese Nao |
Burnt by the English |
|
332 |
1593 |
? |
S. Miguel |
? |
? |
Spanish Ship |
Capt.. Francisco de Leyva |
|
833 |
1593 |
? |
S. Miguel |
? |
La Encarnación |
Spanish Nao |
|
|
834 |
1593 |
? |
S. Miguel |
? |
Nuestra Senora de los Remedios |
Spanish Nao |
|
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|
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La Magdalena |
Spanish Nao |
|
|
2 |
1594 |
24-Jul |
Flores |
Run aground |
Madre de Deus |
Portuguese Nao |
From India |
|
333 |
1596 |
? |
S. Miguel |
Run aground to escape the English |
? |
Portuguese Nao |
From India, capt. Vasco Borges |
|
335 |
1597 |
Nov |
S. Miguel |
Run aground |
São Francisco |
Portuguese Nao |
Burnt by the English |
|
228 |
1598 |
? |
Terceira |
Angra bay |
São Tiago |
Portuguese Nao |
From Malaca, lost while anchoring |
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