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Dec 31, 2019 · When shipwrecked survivors of the ill-fated 1528 expedition of Pánfil de Narváez reached Malhado (or Isle of Misfortune), west of Galveston Island, they encountered friendly natives. One of the Spaniards, Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, reported that these coastal people provided food and shelter and otherwise treated them well.
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Nov 17, 2017 · The above two descriptions of the bay and mainland adjacent to the Isla Malhado corroborate each other, and they provide many clues about Malhado's location. Compare the satellite photo of Follet's Island (left), Galveston Island (center), and the Bolivar Peninsula (right) in Figure 6, above.
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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 While the exact location of the site is unpublished, the three shipwrecks were found near the Padre Island National Seashore.
May 28, 2020 · Isla de Malhado ("Isle of Misfortune") was the name applied by Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca to an island off the Texas coast where and he and approximately eighty Spaniards and an African were shipwrecked in November 1528.
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.
May 13, 2015 · Sunshine and Shipwrecks. Padre Island's Wreck of the 16th-Century Spanish Treasure Fleet. By E. Dan Klepper. 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.
Aug 8, 2024 · De Narváez’s barge was swept away, while the one that Cabeza de Vaca and some 80 companions huddled on finally washed up on an island, where they disembarked.
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