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Shipwreck · Off the Treasure Coast, FL (separated before the storm)

The San Miguel, the Register Ship

The San Miguel, the Register Ship: still unexplained.

◆ Evidence tier: TraditionLost 1715 · never found – present◎ Recently discovered — still growing

The Story

What is claimed · what is sourced · what is still disputed

When the hurricane of July 1715 destroyed the Spanish treasure fleet off Florida, ten wrecks were eventually located and worked. The eleventh, the San Miguel, the fleet's register ship, the one licensed to carry the richest cargo and the Queen's Dowry of gold and gems, had peeled off the day before the storm and was never found. Three centuries of salvors have hunted her. She is the great missing prize of the Treasure Coast.

What remains open

  • No period map of the site has surfaced.
  • No contemporary press coverage has been found.

The lure: The 1715 fleet's register ship, likely the Queen's Dowry

Evidence & Corroboration

Distinct evidence classes that independently agree — never a single score

Historical tradition
Newspaper mention
Scholarly support
Archival evidence
Official map/chart
Corroborated
Verified fact

? Open

  • No period map of the site has surfaced.
  • No contemporary press coverage has been found.

Historic Maps

Period cartography · Library of Congress & DPLA via IIIF · deep-zoom

◇ No period cartography on file yet. The IIIF map adapters (Library of Congress, David Rumsey, DPLA) fill this automatically when they find charts of this place.

Period Newspaper Coverage

Dated OCR mentions · Chronicling America / loc.gov — a mention proves circulation, nothing more

◇ No dated newspaper coverage yet. Chronicling America runs against this legend automatically and lands dated clips here.

Archival Documents

Manuscripts, government records, company filings · NARA · IIIF · registries

◇ No archival documents on file yet. NARA and national-archive adapters attach primary records here as they surface.

Timeline

Every event source-backed · unsourced events are dropped, never invented

◇ No dated, source-backed events yet. Timeline entries are built only from evidence with a confirmed date -- nothing is estimated or invented.

Sources & Citations

Typed, first-class citations with retrieval provenance

◇ No typed citations compiled yet -- check Historic Maps, Newspapers, and Archives above as they fill in.

From the archive

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Possible connections

Unverified leads, not established facts — legends below share a rough area and a rough era with this one. Worth investigating, not worth citing.