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The Texas Historical Commission (THC) has been involved in investigations of the 1554 Spanish Plate Fleet since 1969—more than 50 years—and celebrated the semicentennial of the agency’s underwater excavations in 2022.
Oct 29, 2021 · The Padre Island artifacts recovered from the salvaging company were taken first to the General Land Office, then to the Texas Memorial Museum, and in October 1969 to the University of Texas Balcones Research Center (now the J. J. Pickle Research Campus) in Austin.
Jan 4, 2023 · The three wrecked ships – the Esteban, the Espíritu Santo and the Santa Maria de Yciar – all sat undiscovered for four centuries. The Esteban and Espiritu Santo were both found years later a few miles north of the Mansfield cut.
May 13, 2015 · Photos by E. Dan Klepper. May 13, 2015. Padre Island, the longest barrier island in the world, embodies some of the state’s most pleasurable assets, entertaining Texans with miles of warm Gulf waves and sun-drenched, cinnamon shores.
Oct 20, 2023 · The ships were almost across the Gulf of Mexico when they were caught by a spring gale, which drove them west to the Texas Coast. Three of the four ships were driven on the shoals near South Padre Island and tragically wrecked.
Jun 10, 2019 · How many wrecks remain to be found is anybody’s guess. But the most famous of the Texas shipwrecks occurred over 470 years ago. Four treasure galleons, loaded with the stolen wealth of the Aztec Nation, sailed from Vera Cruz Harbor in the predawn morning of April 29, 1554.
The fleet that departed from San Juan de Ulúa in April 1554 included four ships—the San Andrés, San Esteban, Espíritu Santo, and Santa María de Yciar —and carried more than 400 people. Among them were prisoners, old conquistadors, merchants, and wealthy citizens returning home to Spain.
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