YARRRRRRRR! Ping.
If the boy were alive today, he'd be hailed as an urban hero. Like Tookie Williams.
lost world? tell that to the somalis and vietnamese.
A pretty interesting article for the Boston Globe. Thanks for posting it. It's too bad so many people aren't interested in history anymore. I guess it's one of those "Me, me, me" things.
"``Even though we find treasures, the best treasures aren't always gold or silver. It's the knowledge we get from the past."
To heck with the "history", i'll take the gold or silver!
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Intresting story. He joined when he was 11. What happened to his mother, was she released or what?
If they took over the boat and plundered it for a couple of weeks, they were probably having their way with the female passengers, and killed any men who resisted. The boy saw all this, and chose to join them. Fascinating story. Thanks for posting.
Cool stuff. BUMP!
By Associated Press
June 2, 2006
PENSACOLA, Fla. - Navy construction crews have unearthed a rare Spanish ship that was buried for centuries under sand on Pensacola's Naval Air Station, archaeologists confirmed.
The vessel could date to the mid-16th century, when the first Spanish settlement in what is now the United States was founded here, the archaeologists said.
But the exposed portion looks more like ships from a later period because of its iron bolts, said Elizabeth Benchley, director of the Archaeology Institute at the University of West Florida.
"There are Spanish shipwrecks in Pensacola Bay," Benchley said. "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."
Construction crews came upon the ship last month while rebuilding the base's swim rescue school, destroyed during Hurricane Ivan in 2004.
The exposed keel of the ship juts upward from the sandy bottom of the pit and gives some guess of the vessel's form. Archaeologists estimated the rest of the ship is buried by about 75 feet of sand.
During initial work to determine the ship's origin, archaeologists found ceramic tiles, ropes and pieces of olive jars. 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 site of the naval station.
The French captured and burned the settlement in 1719 but handed Pensacola back to Spain three years later. Hurricanes forced the Spanish to repeatedly rebuild.
The Navy plans to enclose the uncovered portion of the ship, mark the site and move construction over to accommodate archaeological work, officials said.
"We don't have plans to excavate the entire ship," Benchley said. "It's going to be very expensive because it's so deeply buried, and we would have to have grant money," she said.
Historians got really confused when he was listed on the passenger manifest in alphabetical order by last name!
It does sound like the boy had a taste for grog...
I thought the title meant that the DVD guys got even with this kid.
SunkenCiv is too lazy to post stuff on his own! :-)