There was once a full-sized Spanish galleon docked among the shopping centers of San Pedro Avenue, roughly 150 miles from the Gulf of Mexico. It was a replica of the aft section of a massive ...

The Minister of Culture of Colombia, Juan David Correa, announced that operations to recover the San José galleon will begin in April, as reported by El Economista. Correa stated that the April ...

New artifacts have been found on the legendary Spanish galleon San Jose, Colombia's government announced Thursday, after the first robotic exploration of the three-century-old shipwreck.

The San José was sunk in 1708 by British warships off the coast of Colombia. Centuries after the Spanish galleon ship San José sunk in Colombian waters and nearly a decade after it was initially ...

The San Jose was a marvel of 17th century technology. The Spanish galleon weighed more than a thousand tons, was made of wood reinforced with iron, and featured three masts and 64 cannons.

All agree that San José—a 62-gun galleon of the Spanish navy—was laden with up to 200 tons of gold, silver, and uncut gemstones when it sank in 1708, about 10 miles off the Colombian coast ...

The San José was a Spanish galleon (a ship with multiple decks used for war or trade from the 16th to 18th centuries) suited with 64 guns and three masts. It first launched in 1698 following a year of ...

Spain asserts its claim, arguing that the San José and its cargo remain the property of the Spanish state. "The galleon San José is a state ship," said José Manuel García-Margallo, former ...