250 Year-Old Shipwreck Could Hold Thousands of Litres of Rum

The Spirits Business ^ | 18th May, 2015 | Annie Hayes

[smokingfrog]

Liquor doesn't always get better with age

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Fiddlstix, Hegemony Cricket, and afraidfortherepublic.

[yarddog]

I just looked it up and “Tight Little Island” is the correct one, thanks.

It was a good movie tho not great. Still watchable.

[wildbill]

Spanish mariners left the area, but not before ... dumping the rocks on the vessel so it could not re-float.”

Ah, rum on the rocks with some age to it.

[SunkenCiv]

Sounds like they were soreheads, or bad winners. Of course, this may be the only instance of this, since they didn’t win much of the time. “Let’s sink this ship for no good reason!” “Aye Aye, captain!”

[colorado tanker]

At the time the Company governed India and had its own army and navy. After the 1857 Mutiny, the Company was stripped of those powers and direct British colonial rule was instituted. But, as you say, technically, this was not a ship of the Royal Navy.

I found the article confusing and did some checking. During the Seven Years War Spain seized Colonia del Sacramento, which is on the River Plate. Apparently, this ship was attacking Colonia but got too close to the land guns. After the end of the War, it went back to Portugal, hence the Spanish mayhem when they left. Obviously, eventually the region became independent and Spanish speaking.

[centurion316]

The Company’s forces fought for both fortune and Empire, but the British Regular forces looked down their noses socially and militarily.

[Gene Eric]

>> OK, so I always went for the low-hanging fruit.........

LOL, “I could read that a couple of different ways...”

[Viking2002]

No, not THAT low-hanging fruit.......lol

[Buggman]

The rum is always gone.