Shipwreck Treasure & Salvage

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Main Book List: Shipwrecks, Treasure & Maritime History, Spanish Conquest and more.

ENRADA PUBLICATIONS: Must have reference books on Treasure Coins, Atocha, 1715 Fleet and more. Click the links below for details on each. Or visit Enrada Publications .

FIVE INFORMATIONAL BOOKLETS: EN RADA Publications Series of Booklets for the Divers, Researchers, and Writers needing some "groundwork" information before seeking their "Own Shipwreck." This Series divulges much about the Identification of Artifacts discovered on Spanish (and other) Shipwrecks found in New World waters.

1. “SHIPWRECKS & THEIR COINS: Vol. 1-- The 1622 Spanish Treasure Fleet.” Enrada Publications
2. “SHIPWRECKS & THEIR COINS: Vol. 2-- The 1654 ‘Capitana’ and 1655 ‘Almiranta’.” Enrada Publications
3. “SHIPWRECKS & THEIR COINS: Vol. 3-- The 1715 Spanish Treasure Fleet.” Enrada Publications
4. “SHIPWRECKS & THEIR COINS: Vol. 4-- The1740 Dutch East Indiaman ROOSWIJK. Enrada Publications
5. “SHIPWRECKS & THEIR COINS: Vol. 5-- The 1641 New Spain (Mexican)Fleet ‘Almiranta’.” Enrada Publications
6. “SHIPWRECKS & THEIR COINS: Vol. 6-- The 1733 Spanish Treasure Fleet" (Florida Keys). Enrada Publications

ATOCHA SUNK!: "A TRVE RELATION OF THAT VVHICH LATELY HAPNED TO the Great Spanish Fleet, and Galeons of Terra Firma in America." Enrada P.

"TREASURE TREACHERY ON THE 1715 FLEET" Enrada Publications

1715 Fleet Convention Coverage Now On DVDs Enrada Publications

ALL BACK ISSUES OF PLVS VLTRA NEWSLETTER ARE STILL AVAILABLE! - Thirty-Four Years; 135 Fact-Filled Historic Issues Are Now Available to Collectors! Articles About Shipwrecks (Florida and Elsewhere) At Your Fingertips. Questions Answered: Where are the ships located? What has been recovered from them? What’s left? What is a “COB”? Enrada P. SPECIAL OFFER ALL 135 ISSUES FOR $175 POST PAID

Argosies: 1908 an illustrated poem (click image to enlarge)
Argosy is a merchant ship or fleet of ships.

This page is a work in progress, information will be added regularly and the catetories expanding in detail over time. Feel free to contribute and visit ofen to see any updates.

Article from SE Post Magazine Dec. 12, 1964: Mel Fisher & Kip Wagner find 1715 Gold

Treasure Beach Detecting

Free Ebooks:

• Metal Detecting Beaches: A how to pdf guide book with photos and methods explained.
• Metal Detecting Florida's 1715 East Coast Treasure Wrecks: Updated August 07, 2020 Assembled by: Lee Wiese 95 page pdf book with locations, directions and photos

Treasure Hunting Expeditions: Treasure Hunting, Shipwreck Recovery and Archaeology. We will help you find Lost and Sunken Treasures and you can also join us in our exciting adventures.

3-CHARTS-IN-ONE SNORKELERS' AND DIVERS' GUIDE TO OLD SHIPWRECKS OF FLORIDA'S SOUTHEAST COAST: Large map/chart of the wreck sites for purchase.

Beach Hunting: Articles, tips and much more more...

A Guide to Metal-Detecting Beaches in Florida: By Lauren Tjaden, Where it is permitted with links and contact info

Metal Detecting the 1715 Treasure Fleet: Excellent primer on the subject..

Museums

Mel Fisher's Treasure

Hurricanes

Tropical cyclones are a common occurrence throughout the world and may leave a varied toll upon the populations they impact. Their importance for us however, is the toll they lay upon the maritime trade. Much of our ocean treasure is made available because of hurricane and weather related shipwrecks. These devastating storms also expose treasure coins and artifacts along the beaches they cross. So they are both a blessing and a curse which make for the most fascinating study and review in past, present or in future forecasting. Each storm tells a story as well as the stories told by the souls they've touched. Records and reports are kept, tales shared and books are written about these windy events and about the people and places they visit. Here we hope to explore these powerful phenomena of nature, the hurricane. Papertique

Maritime History

Early Explorers: the Vikings, Other Europeans, Columbus & Conquistadors

Whaling & Fishing

• Sperm whales in 19th century shared ship attack information: Whalers’ logbooks show rapid drop in strike rate in north Pacific due to changes in cetacean behaviour
• Brief History of Pickles: Before traveling to the New World himself, Vespucci worked as a ship chandler—someone who sold supplies to seafaring merchants and explorers. These supplies included foods like meat, fish, and vegetables that had been pickled, which meant they would stay preserved beneath a ship’s deck for months.
• The New Bedford Whaling Museum offers, "A Spectacle in Motion" featuring the conservation and interpretation of an historic 1,275 foot long panorama depicting a whaling voyage ‘round the world. A video presentation.
• Wreck of a 190-year-old Massachusetts whaling ship discovered in Gulf of Mexico
• The Diverse Whaling Crews of Melville’s Era
• Whaling Ship Crew List Shows Melville Embarking on a Journey That Inspired Moby-Dick
• The Life of Herman Melville

Pirates

• The Pirates of Panama by Alexandre Exquemelin (c. 1645-1707) Esquemeling served the Buccaneers in the capacity of barber-surgeon, and was present at all their exploits. Little did he suspect that his first ha`nd observations would some day be cherished as the only authentic and true history of the Buccaneers and Marooners of the Spanish Main.
• Grace O'Malley, the Fearless 16th-Century Irish Pirate Queen Who Stood Up to the English
• 9 Female Pirates You Should Know About

• A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels 1808-14 by John Pinkerton - This work is one of the most comprehensive historical records on travel & maritime history, having about 15k pages! "This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it." The various volumes are available for download on the Internet Archive here.

A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in All Parts of the World is a 17-volume compilation of travel narratives assembled by the Scottish historian and poet John Pinkerton (1758‒1826), first published in Great Britain in 1808‒14. A contemporary and acquaintance of the historian Edward Gibbon and the novelist Sir Walter Scott, Pinkerton wrote books on Scottish history and poetry, numismatics, and other topics, as well as his own plays and poems. Many of the narratives were newly translated into English from French, German, Dutch, Latin, Italian, Spanish, and other European languages. Each volume is illustrated with plates. A six-volume American edition of Pinkerton’s collection of voyages was published in Philadelphia in 1810‒12.

Sailing Ships

News

1715 ANNIVERSARY TREASURE RECOVERY

July 2018 Expedition Hopes to Solve Mystery of 'Last American Slave Ship' The owner of the Clotilda smuggled African captives into Alabama in July 1860, then set the vessel ablaze to destroy the evidence.

May 2019 Last American slave ship is discovered in Alabama. The schooner Clotilda smuggled African captives into the U.S. in 1860, more than 50 years after importing slaves was outlawed.

An Extraordinary 500-Year-Old Shipwreck Is Rewriting the History of the Age of Discovery: In the frigid Baltic Sea, archaeologists probing the surprisingly well-preserved remains of a revolutionary warship are seeing the era in a new way