For our Treasure of the Month for October, we revisit last year’s discovery of several hundred gold coins on July 30 and 31, 2015, which corresponded to the 300th Anniversary of the loss of the 1715 Fleet. It was indeed a historic irony that these coins were found 300 years ago to the day when […]
Treasure of the Month October 2016 Read More »
Greetings everyone. I am writing this from the sunny climes of eastern Florida. Outside of my hotel room in Vero Beach, a couple of hundred yards offshore, lie the remains of the 1715 Spanish Treasure Fleet. The loss of that great Fleet and Spanish Colonial Florida will be the topics of our Second International Conference
DATELINE: Vero Beach, Florida 2017 International Conference on the 1715 Fleet Update Read More »
In our newsletter post of July 14th, I reported that the Fleet Society came into possession of some historical documents relating to the work of Colonel Dan Thompson and the Real Eight Company. As everyone knows, Colonel Thompson was one of the original Real Eight members. The materials provided to the Fleet Society were the property
DATELINE: Melbourne, Florida – First Installment of the Thompson Files Now Available Read More »
