place names?

[Jolly Mon]

This wreck is in the Turks and Caicos and so is firmly off limits except possibly for sightseeing, but the old chart from British Surveys in 1830 and 1845 might be of interest to some. The video is kind of cool as well.

I had never heard of this wreck, but in looking at the old chart, it just struck me that "Endymion" was an odd name for a rock...

It turns out the rock was named after a British 44 gun Fifth Rate that sank in 1790, H.M.S. Endymion.


From British surveys in 1830 and 1845

 

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[BVI Hunter]

This wreck is in the Turks and Caicos and so is firmly off limits except possibly for sightseeing, but the old chart from British Surveys in 1830 and 1845 might be of interest to some. The video is kind of cool as well.

I had never heard of this wreck, but in looking at the old chart, it just struck me that "Endymion" was an odd name for a rock...

It turns out the rock was named after a British 44 gun Fifth Rate that sank in 1790, H.M.S.

 

[bay pirate]

Pirates Cove is right here in good ole Orange Beach Alabama

 

[bay pirate]

Jolly - there is another wreck (HMS Ros...) on your map (not shown on your thumbnail) that according to friends who dive that area, has never been located!!

How bout a quit update here on this thread BVI. Hope it's still making you get up in the morning with a smile on your face

 

[BVI Hunter]

How bout a quit update here on this thread BVI. Hope it's still making you get up in the morning with a smile on your face

I kinda don't really need to get up in the mornings no more - but I sure am smiling!

 

[bay pirate]

That's great! Smiling ear to ear for ya. Tight sails and calm seas to ya and may your coconutz never hang lower than your grass skirt

 

[Jolly Mon]

I kinda don't really need to get up in the mornings no more - but I sure am smiling!

Oh, stop it BVI.

One of this forum's foremost experts has already told us there is no treasure to be found in the British Virgin Islands.

You are wasting your time.

 

[BVI Hunter]

Oh, stop it BVI.

One of this forum's foremost experts has already told us there is no treasure to be found in the British Virgin Islands.

You are wasting your time.

Guess I'd better stay in bed tomorrow then..!

 

[huntsman53]

You folks along the coasts have it great! All we have up here in Tennessee are roads like Raccoon Valley Rd., Turkey Roost Lane, Buzzards Roost Rd., Skunk Hollow Rd., Possum Hollow Rd., etc, etc.. The are a few creeks/streams named Gold Creek and Gold Branch but that is about it. Our Pirates were and still are dry land outlaws and since the Cherokee, Creek, Yuchi, Chickasaw, Koasati, Quapaw and Shawnee Indians never displayed much of their's Gold and Silver, the Spaniards did not think it was worth killing and plunder over, so they did not spend much time here.


Frank

 

[huntsman53]

I kinda don't really need to get up in the mornings no more - but I sure am smiling!

Good for you Captain! When will ye be sailing this way in your' new Super Yacht?


Frank

 

[Boatlode]

Lots of places in the Florida Keys are named after wrecks. Alligator Reef & Looe Key come to mind. The Marquesas Keys were named from the Spanish "Cayos de Marques", which was where the Marquis de Cadereita, commander of the 1622 treasure fleet made his salvage camp.

 

[aarthrj3811]

In my 74 years I have saw many places names changed...Many were named for who lived there...When someone else moved in they changed it..,Never think that any creek has had it’s name forever....There is a bend up on highway 50 in California that will away’s be called Fred’s Place by me even thorough it s called something else by the county...Art

 

[Jolly Mon]

 

[MPH200]

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I would expect the shape to be a little more elongated.

 

[frankie]

Theirs a road called Deep hole road. That's where ships came in because their was a deep hole at the end of the. But ya they help with remembering History. Like Indian names for roads also. Kinds of describes the landscape or a hidden meaning.

 

[ARC]

I spent a lot of my youth on "Treasure Island" ... here off St.Pete...
And yes was so named for the treasure found on it.