Unfortunately, my sources don't tell me the size of the galeota in question. It was a Spanish Guarda Costa vessel, a pirate hunter, fresh off a nearly 800 mile voyage from Havana. I am just guessing, but I assume she would have been carrying a considerable amount of ballast. Two of her guns were removed from the wreck by the Spaniards (there may have been three or more originally).
There is surprisingly little information available about this type of vessel...I know they could be quite large, but were shoal draft and so obviously would not leave near the footprint of a galleon or nao. Has anyone heard of the wreck of one being discovered? Any idea on the size of a hypothetical ballast pile...or even whether vessels like this carried much ballast at all, even during a long ocean passage?
I am almost certain I know where one lies within about a 1.25 mile radius...but a normal mag survey is out of the question because the vessel was thrown deep into a salt marsh during a hurricane...
There is surprisingly little information available about this type of vessel...I know they could be quite large, but were shoal draft and so obviously would not leave near the footprint of a galleon or nao. Has anyone heard of the wreck of one being discovered? Any idea on the size of a hypothetical ballast pile...or even whether vessels like this carried much ballast at all, even during a long ocean passage?
I am almost certain I know where one lies within about a 1.25 mile radius...but a normal mag survey is out of the question because the vessel was thrown deep into a salt marsh during a hurricane...
