Mel Fisher spent 17 years searching for the wreck of the 1622 Spanish galleon Nuestra Señora de Atocha. In 1985, he found it.

The confirmation that a legendary Spanish galleon holds an estimated 17 billion dollars in treasure has turned a long‑whispered maritime myth into a measurable economic and political reality. The San ...

Colombian scientists have pulled a cannon, three coins, and a porcelain cup from the wreckage of the San Jose, a Spanish galleon that sank more than 300 years ago off the coast of Cartagena. The ship ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Centuries after the Spanish galleon ship San José sunk in Colombian waters and nearly a decade after it was initially discovered, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Experts brought to the surface the first treasures from the 1700s Spanish galleon the San José. Considered the Holy Grail of ...

Colombia has announced the discovery of what could be the world’s largest sunken treasure somewhere off its Caribbean coast, but it faces competition for keeping the caskets of gold believed to be ...

The tall ship Galeón Andalucía is described as a floating museum by crew members.

“Let’s reconcile with God as there is no remedy.” These were some of the final words heard as, on 1 November 1631, a Spanish galleon travelling from Veracruz in New Spain to Seville, carrying silver ...