A full-sized replica of a 17th-century Spanish merchant ship is due to arrive in London. Tower Bridge will be opened to let the 500-ton Galeon Andalucia pass through, before it arrives at St ...

A full-sized replica of a 17th century Spanish armed merchant ship has arrived in London. Tower Bridge opened to let the 500-tonne El Galeon Andalucía pass through ahead of its arrival at St ...

In the 17th and 18th centuries, "treasure" just meant "valuable." They wanted goods they could sell. So about 50 percent was stuff they kept to replenish their own ship and their stores.

Ships of the line were built specifically for war and boasted heavy armor as well as overwhelming firepower, while galleons ...

The cargo ship went down in 1681 with crates of swords, nails, and bolts of cloth. A diver inspects wooden crates on a 17th-century Spanish shipwreck discovered off Panama. Photograph by Jonathan ...

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(CNN) — In 1660, a ship carrying a treasure trove of luxury goods sank off the coast of Texel, the largest island in the North /stunning-silver-wedding-dress-recovered-from-17th-century ...

They identified it as the remains of an 18th-century ship. "We knew that an Irish merchant ship sank in 1721 in the area," said Johannessen. "The initial research was done to pick up a few objects ...

Finally, the study found that stone shots found at the wreck site indicate that the ship was likely armed when it sank. "To what extent merchant ships were armed during the 15th century is not ...

The Merchant Royal which sank in 1641 had 500 bars of gold bullion, ... Divers search the waters near the Isles of Scilly for 17th-century English treasure ship previously) ...

A full-sized replica of a 17th-century Spanish merchant ship is due to arrive in London. Tower Bridge will be opened to let the 500-ton Galeon Andalucia pass through, before it arrives at St ...

A full-sized replica of a 17th century Spanish armed merchant ship has arrived in London. Tower Bridge opened to let the 500-tonne El Galeon Andalucía pass through ahead of its arrival at St ...