It must have been a life or death decision to attempt such a move, and perhaps it is even more remarkable that three of three of the Dutchmen actually made it! The Campen missed the gap, drove beam on towards the western Needles Rocks, and became a total loss. In early October, 1627, four Dutch ships, the Campen, Vliegende Draeck, Prince William and Terschellingh, found themselves off the Isle of Wight in a severe storm, which drove them ever closer to the island, until they were just ´extraordinary action of actually attempting to sail through the gap in the Needles. This greatly angered the pirates since they were unable to recover any of their treasure, and the story goes that they beheaded the crew as punishment. The Consolación was reportedly torched by the crew after they ran aground near Santa Clara Island. She was carrying 146,000 pesos in minted silver coins along with 800 silver bars, and gold ingots valued at 34,000 pesos. The Consolacion purportedly sank near Santa Clara Island while evading pirates in 1681. Marx discovered documents and a ship’s manifest in the archives of Spain which identified the wreck. Shortly after the wreck was discovered, marine archeologist Robert F. The company has had the official Ecuadorian salvage lease for the wreck site continuously, since that time. The shipwreck of the Santa Mara de la Consolación was discovered by ROBCAR in 1997. Some say it is because from a distance the island looks like a dead man on his back others say it is because the pirates beheaded the crew of the Consolacion on the island.
Santa Clara Island is also known as “el Muerto” by the locals. These coins were recovered from the wreck site of the Santa Maria de la Consolación located near Santa Clara Island in the Gulf of Guayaquil, Ecuador. Even more significant were the many gold ingots, jewelry items, emeralds and other artifacts. The Atocha was also the source for most (if not all) of the first silver cobs struck in Colombia, as well as a few early coins from Mexico, Lima and Spain, and even Panama. A handful of gold cobs (1 and 2 escudos only) were also recovered, mostly from mainland Spanish mints but also a few from Colombia-officially the first gold coins ever struck in the New World. Well over 100,000 shield-type cobs were found in all denominations above the half real, the great majority of them from Potosi, as were also the approximately 1,000 silver ingots (most the size of breads loaves). The cargo of the Atocha did not see light again until 1971 when the first coins were found by the now famous salvager Mel Fisher and his divers, who recovered the bulk of the shipwreck treasure in 1985 and thereby unleashed the largest supply of silver cobs and ingots the market has ever seen. Atocha, sunk in 1622 west of Key West, Florida
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