SHIPWRECK TREASURE Santo Andre Sank 1856AD Silver 20 Reales Spain Isabel II 1855AD
£150.00
SHIPWRECK TREASURE Santo Andre Sank 1856AD Silver 20 Reales Spain Isabel II 1855AD
36x37mm, 24.14g
Santo Andre, sunk in 1856
Code name: BOA-006
Date: 19th Century
Ship: Spanish “Galera”
Location: Cape Verde
Route: Unknown
Weight: Unknown
Casualties: None
Yield: Silver coins, artifacts
· Historical Information
The Santo Andre was a Spanish “Galera” with a cargo of bottles and coins. It sank on the 25th of July, 1856, off the Island of Boavista. There is a report on the wreckage in a work published in 1909 on the shipwrecks in Cape Verde from 1842 to 1908 by Sevéro António Fortes in Liga Naval Portuguesa, Boletim Maritimo publicado pelo Conselho Geral, Série VIII, nº 3.
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