The cargo of the galleon sank with the ship. Some of the crew, including Captain Limbrey, were rescued by the Dover Merchant, which was sailing with the Royal Merchant, but eighteen men perished. In bad weather conditions, the ship took on more and more water, so much so that she ended up sinking off the Scilly Isles. The disappearance of the Royal MerchantĪfter its technical stop, the Merchant Royal sailed back to England the last week of August 1641, accompanied by the Dover Merchant.Īlas, a month later, when approaching the English coast, the waterway, badly repaired in Cadiz, reappeared. It was the pay of some 30,000 Spanish soldiers based there, a fortune. Captain Limbrey offered to transport the cargo of the damaged ship, in addition to his own, to Flanders. Unable to reach England directly, she stopped in Cadiz, in the south of Spain near Gibraltar, to repair a waterway.ĭuring this stopover, a ship in Cadiz caught fire. The Merchant Royal, after crossing the Atlantic, needed repairs. The Royal Naval Dockyard A technical stopover in Cadiz After several years of fruitful trade, the ship set sail again for the old continent, loaded with precious metals. With its captain, John Limbrey, the Merchant Royal took advantage of a few years of peace between England and Spain in the seventeenth century to trade with the Spanish colonies in South America and the Caribbean. This important shipyard, founded by Henry VIII in 1513, was located on the Thames, near London. The Merchant Royal, merchant shipīefore ending up on the bottom of the sea, the Merchant Royal was a 700-ton galleon built at the Royal Naval Dockyard in Deptford in 1627. The current value of the cargo is estimated at more than one billion. On board were some 100,000 pounds of gold, 400 bars of silver and hundreds of thousands of coins. Nicknamed the "Eldorado of the Seas", this ship sank on Septemnear the British coast, off the Scilly Islands. In the kingdom of treasure hunters, the Merchant Royal is king.
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