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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.
Nov 16, 2009 · The Spanish conquistador Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca runs aground on a low sandy island off the coast of Texas. Starving, dehydrated, and desperate, he is the first European to set foot on the...
Oct 5, 2021 · Most history sources claim that the Karankawa people disappeared from the Texas coast around 1860, although such estimates vary widely.
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.
Jan 4, 2023 · Estimates are that the ships carried the equivalent of about $80 million in today’s purchasing power. A late spring tropical storm blew them off course, and the relentless winds pushed three of the ships across the entire Gulf, where they were crushed on the sandbars of Padre Island.
Dec 31, 2019 · A nomadic people who traveled by foot and dugout canoe, the Karankawas moved between the mainland and the barrier islands, and ate a wide assortment of food, including fish, shellfish, turtle, alligator, bear, deer, turkey, duck and rabbit.
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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.
