The NOAA also estimates the gulf is the tomb of some 4,000 shipwrecks ... Baptista Boazio called it the “Baye of Mexico” in a map from the same year. Sheinbaum Pardo cited a map from 1607 ...

Baptiste Boazio, the illustrator and map maker of Francis Drake's Caribbean cruise of attacks in the 1580s, used "Gulf of Mexico" on his map "View of Entire Route of Sir Francis Drake's West ...