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San Esteban was a Spanish cargo ship that was wrecked in a storm in the Gulf of Mexico on what is now the Padre Island National Seashore in southern Texas on 29 April 1554. San Esteban was one of a flotilla of four ships carrying treasure from New Spain (Mexico) to Cuba.
- History of The Shipwreck
- Description of The Site
- Hull
- Size and Scantlings
- References
A fleet of forty-eight vessels sailed on November 4th of 1552 from Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Spain under the command of Captain-General Bartolomé Carreño. In addition to the forty-eight vessels, the fleet was escorted by six armed vessels carrying 360 soldiers. Eighteen merchant vessels and the six ships of the armada had Terra Firme as destination. T...
The site was a large area with scattered artifacts and ballast stones embedded in dense Pleistocene clay, under a layer of fine sand 1.5 m thick. Its depth varies between 5 and 7 m and it is about 500m offshore. The wooden remains are composed of 5 m of keel, and sternpost, stern knee and several hull planks.
Keel and posts The preserved section was 5.1 m long, 31 cm sided and 27 cm molded (estimated value). Towards its aft end its molded dimension increases to a maximum of 73 cm, where it is notched to receive the sternpost. The rabbets, 5 cm deep, slant progressively outward. The sternpost rakes 65 º abaft and is 31 cm sided and 27 cm molded (estimate...
Probable length overall (LOA): 20 m aprox. according to Baker/30 according to Doran and Doran Probable cargo capacity: 164 tons. According to Baker/286 tons according to Doran and Doran
Arnold III, J. Barto & Weddle, Robert The Nautical Archaeology of Padre Island: the Spanish Shipwrecks of 1554. Academic Press. London, 1978, p. 380. Doran and Doran, in Arnold III, J. Barto & Weddle, Robert The Nautical Archaeology of Padre Island: the Spanish Shipwrecks of 1554. Academic Press. London, 1978, p. 375-384. Baker, in Arnold III, J. B...
Oct 29, 2021 · The collection from the San Esteban is housed in the Corpus Christi Museum. The third wreck, the Santa María de Yciar, was destroyed in the 1950s when the Port Mansfield Channel was dredged.
Espíritu Santo, San Esteban, and Santa María de Yciar were part of a fleet of four vessels that departed San Juan de Ulúa (off Veracruz, Mexico) on April 9, 1554, towards Spain, with cargos that included raw silver and minted reales from Spanish colonies in the Americas.
On April 9, 1554, the San Esteban, Es-píritu Santo, Santa Maria de Yciar, and the San Andrés sailed out of a port near Veracruz together as a flotilla, begin-ning a routine voyage that usually took around five months to make.
Jan 8, 2024 · Only San Andres would safely arrive at Havana, Cuba, though heavily damaged—the remainder of the fleet ran aground and sank off present-day Padre Island, Texas. Most of the passengers and crew of San Esteban, Espíritu Santo, and Santa María de Yciar, nearly 300 individuals, perished in the tragedy.
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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.
