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Nearly 250 individuals were lost during the wrecking event and overland march to Mexico; approximately 30 survived the tragedy. The same year, Spain dispatched two salvage expeditions from Veracruz that worked from July to September to recover the valuable cargo.
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.
Such was the fate of the convoy, as San Esteban, Espíritu Santo, and Santa María de Yciar ran aground on the sandbars off Padre Island, about 50 miles south of Corpus Christi Bay. More than 300 people died during the tragic event, which has become known as "The Wreck of the Three Hundred."
Oct 20, 2023 · Three of the four ships were driven on the shoals near South Padre Island and tragically wrecked. Of those aboard the three wrecked ships, less than half, 150 men, women, and children survived to reach shore.
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.
Jan 8, 2024 · Connor’s discovery of the 1554 shipwrecks occurred in 1964 while on an aerial survey to look for coral reefs. The marine visibility was excellent, much better than normal, and Connor observed 16 shapes in the water, all of which she believed represented unique individual shipwrecks.
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Nov 16, 2009 · With his exploration party reduced to only 80 or 90 men, Cabeza de Vaca’s motley flotilla finally wrecked on what was probably Galveston Island just off the coast of Texas.
