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.

It has been hailed as the most valuable shipwreck in the world. A Spanish galleon, the San José, was sunk by the British off the coast of Colombia more than 300 years ago. It had a cargo of gold ...

Colombian President Gustavo Petro ordered his administration to exhume the “Holy Grail of shipwrecks” — the Spanish galleon San José — from the floor of the Caribbean Sea as soon as possi ...

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.

The San Jose galleon could possibly have the world's ... According to the Associated Press, the ship was owned by the Spanish Crown when it was sunk by the British Navy near Cartagena in 1708.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...