![]() They sailed a good six weeks behind schedule. ![]() With Guard Fleet galleons and escorts, Tierra Firme vessels and small craft, twenty-eight ships filed out into the open sea. Slowly and majestically, flying all their flags, the ships of the combined fleets passed one at a time by El Morro at the Havana harbor entrance. Eugene Lyon described it thusly in The Search for the Atocha: ![]() The drama that unfolded during the trial of this case commenced on a clear and beautiful day 360 years ago. The SANTA MARGARITA also carried a treasure of gold and silver ingots, bars, disks, coins, chains and precious jewelry of such magnitude as to be almost beyond the imagination of modern man. The ultimate fate of the SANTA MARGARITA, a royal galleon of the Spanish Tierra Firme Flota of 1622, is the subject of this opinion.Īs this magnificent six hundred thirty ton galleon cleared Havana Harbor on Sunday, September 4, 1622, she carried one hundred eighty-eight persons on board, one hundred forty-three of whom sailed to a rendezvous with death in the tragedy to follow. MEMORANDUM OPINION CONTAINING FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW Brooks, Brooks, Callahan & Phillips, Tallahassee, Fla., Gerhardt Schreiber, Linwood Anderson, Smathers & Thompson, Miami, Fla., for defendant. ![]() *1320 *1321 David Paul Horan, Key West, Fla., for plaintiff. ![]() The UNIDENTIFIED, WRECKED AND ABANDONED SAILING VESSEL, et al., Defendant. TREASURE SALVORS, INC., a Florida corporation, Plaintiff, ![]()
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