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Mansfield Cut Wrecks. The Mansfield Cut Underwater Archeological District contains three Spanish shipwrecks caused by a 1554 storm off the southern Texas Gulf Coast near the Mansfield Cut. While the exact location of the site is unpublished, the three shipwrecks were found near the Padre Island National Seashore.
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.
May 13, 2015 · Public beach access points are located every couple of blocks off Gulf Boulevard, South Padre’s easternmost thoroughfare, or from one of the county beach parks along Padre Boulevard, the island’s main roadway.
Jun 10, 2019 · The fleet set a course north along the coast until they reached a point near modern day Kingsville Texas. Here the ships caught an easterly current that would carry them across the Gulf of Mexico to the harbor at Havana Cuba.
Nov 17, 2017 · The above statement by Cabeza de Vaca that the castaways found themselves on an island would seem to leave it self-explanatory that they were shipwrecked on Galveston Island. After a moderate amount of textual examination, however, a different picture appears.
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Jan 4, 2023 · October 20, 1957, at 4 a.m. was the incredible moment that the giant dredger dug out the last sand dune and cut the island in two. This formally created North Padre and South Padre Islands. Bill Rapp, a Port Mansfield resident, was there for that moment and was elated that he was.
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