Section 502 32 Shipwrecks

Most of them are stationed in the mainland to protect the security of the homeland, and are sent out to carry out some special tasks, such as escorting the treasure fleet and fighting pirates, only a few of them!! With two Spanish galleons to escort it, this is certainly a large treasure fleet in history, and I am looking forward to it, which is a very large treasure. ”

"Sink more than two Spanish galleons at once, this is a union of Caribbean pirates, or British ships."

"There was a sea battle here that was lost in history."

"I'm looking forward to it, I'm curious to know how much this treasure is, this is a shipwreck graveyard."

"It must be innumerable, you must know that this is the Spanish treasure fleet, the famous gold fleet in history, there are 4000~5000 carriages of gold jewelry, and the treasure of the treasure fleet escorted by more than 2 Spanish galleons is certainly not a small number, even if it is only a part, it is a huge treasure."

"I'm curious about how the people of the sea will look when they see this picture, and will they regret it? The people of the sea have already regretted it once, selling the island of Tortuga for more than two billion dollars, and as a result, the Burlis oil field was discovered in the waters of Tortuga Island, and more than 10 billion was sold to the Northwest Province, and as a result, a huge shipwreck treasure was found in the waters of the Northwest Province,"

"I thought I would find a shipwreck treasure, but I didn't expect to find a bunch of shipwreck treasures."

"Fortunately, it was found in the waters of the Northwest Province, otherwise there would be an international lawsuit around these shipwreck treasures, you know, there are warships, and it is a state act to transport treasures, and now it is okay, the treasures are all owned by Chen Rui." Spain can only watch and salivate. ”

Chen Rui found two more shipwrecks nearby, a Spanish galleon and a Clark cargo ship.

Spanish galleons aside, one of the most legendary ships in history, the large Spanish galleon, has seven levels of single stern deck and a displacement of 2,000 tons. With a draft of 8 meters, it was the largest sea vessel in the world for a long time.

The Clark ship is also one of the famous ship types of the Great Voyage Period, developed on the basis of the Kirk ship, with an unprecedented huge load, playing the role of a transport ship, a cargo ship and a supply ship in the fleet, greatly increasing the speed, making it possible to sail around the world for the first time; At the same time, it also makes the heavy artillery large.

Chen Rui swam into the interior of the Spanish galleon. More than 30 guns were also found on board, an armed ship with little treasure, only a small amount of gold, silver, ingots, coins, and some utensils.

On the Clark cargo ship. There is a big catch.

As soon as the cargo hold was opened, countless gold ingots were cast into large pieces. Silver ingots, minted silver coins come into view.

It made countless viewers who watched the live broadcast through TVs, mobile phones, and computers gasp.

A very shocking scene.

It was the first time that many people had seen such a huge treasure.

This is a sailing ship whose main task is the transportation of funds.

Chen Rui took a visual look.

In this cargo hold, there are more than a dozen tons of silver ingots, and there are tens of thousands of silver coins minted with the head of King Philip II of Spain. There are 3 to 4 tons of gold ingots and more than 1 ton of other precious metals, which are worth the equivalent of 2 to 300 million US dollars.

One ship was loaded with so much gold, silver, and precious metals.

And to know that Spain from 1520 later. In response to the increasing number of privateers and pirate attacks, the scattered transport ships were organized into two large fleets that sailed regularly and were heavily armed, known as the Jumbo fleet, which lasted for more than two centuries until the end of the 18th century.

As you can imagine, South America is rich.

It is precisely because of the wealth of South America that Spain has become the richest country in Europe, and it has also achieved Spain's position as the supremacy of the sea.

Chen Rui left here and continued to search the neighborhood.

Chen Rui found a sunken Clark sailboat again.

A cargo hold of porcelain was found in the cargo hold, which was porcelain from China.

Seeing porcelain from China in a cargo hold, Chen Rui was not surprised at all.

In fact, there are two fleets, one is the Caribbean Treasure fleet, which aside, and the Manila fleet, which travels between the Philippines in Asia and Acapulco on the west coast of Mexico, and is responsible for transporting goods from Asia to Mexico, after which they are transported to Veracruz, Mexico, and eventually to Spain by the Caribbean Treasure fleet.

Caribbean treasure fleets carrying South American gold and silver treasures and goods from Asia were transported back to mainland Spain by two routes: north from Havana through the Strait between the Bahamas and present-day Miami, across the Atlantic, and back to Spain.

The other route was along the coast of Cuba, through Santo Domingo, (where Santo Domingo is now the sea) across the Atlantic Ocean to the Spanish mainland.

It is possible that the Clark sailboat did not go through much shock before sinking, and when it sank to the bottom of the sea, it was buffered by water, and the Spaniards wrapped the porcelain with something soft, and the porcelain did not break much.

Chen Rui picked up a piece of porcelain and looked at it.

This porcelain is the Ming Dynasty, the late Ming Dynasty, Jing, Dezhen blue and white porcelain, with emerald blue, gray blue, light blue several shades, the use of water division technique of painting, in the plate, bowl along the mouth of the painting grid and round open landscape, figures, flowers, fruits, etc., in the decoration has an obvious Western cultural color, typical export porcelain.

If you have to subdivide a classification, these porcelains are Hailao porcelain.

Although a piece of Hailao porcelain is not as expensive as the porcelain of the Ming and Qing dynasties, it is often hundreds of thousands, millions, or even tens of millions, but it is not cheap, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands.

There are 30,000 or 40,000 pieces of porcelain in the cabin, which are estimated to be worth more than $300 million

Shipwrecks continue to be discovered.

A wide variety of vessels.

Spanish galleons, Clark galleons, Caravel galleons, armed merchant ships, Mediterranean galleons and other small sailing vessels.

There were ships from the Spanish treasure fleet, but also ships from English or Dutch privateers and pirates.

At the bottom of the sea with a radius of more than 10 square kilometers, more than 32 shipwrecks, large and small, have sunk, and you can imagine the intensity of this naval battle.

Among them, there are 11 ships with treasures.

In addition to the two Clark galleons previously found to transport funds and Chinese porcelain, there are 9 more shipwrecks with treasures. (To be continued......)