SPANISH SHIPWRECK UNEARTHED BY NAVY
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[ March 27th 2006 ]

A Spanish ship-wreck dated around mid-1500 has been discovered hidden under sand by Navy construction crews during a routine exercise on Pensacola's Naval Air Station, Associated Press reports. The vessel could be part of a flotilla transporting the first Spanish settlements to what is now the United States.

"There are Spanish shipwrecks in Pensacola Bay," said Elizabeth Benchley, director of the Archaeology Institute at the University of West Florida. "We have worked on two - one from 1559 and another from 1705. But no one has found one buried on land. This was quite a surprise to everybody."

According to AP, archaeologists found ceramic tiles, ropes and pieces of olive jars near the wreck. The settlement was founded in 1559; its exact location is a mystery. The Spanish did not return until more than a century later in 1698 at Presidio Santa Maria de Galve, now the naval station.

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