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A 1765 Spanish merchant shipwreck located off the coast of Tierra del Fuego
A team of archaeologists in Argentina has pinpointed the location of the 1765 shipwreck of a Spanish merchant ship off the southern coast, officials said over the weekend. It is the oldest wrecked ship of twelve that were identified along 200 kilometers of the windswept Tierra del Fuego coast. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesWhere was the ship going please?
Mar 10th, 2014 - 12:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Peninsula Mitre is only about 2200 km from Buenos Aires; 3500km south would have the wreck in Margurite Bay in Antarctica.
The image of the ship is wrong as that is a large warship from Nelsonian times
Just to really confuse things. http://3decks.pbworks.com/w/page/915060/HCMS%20Purisima%20Concepcion%20%281779%29
Mar 10th, 2014 - 01:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Apparently this could be another claim by CFK ,
Mar 10th, 2014 - 02:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0After all its riches and other cargo are almost certainly Argentinian,
Just by its very nature of being Spanish,
Seeing as Argentina is the son of Spain ,lol.
Still,
The UN claims department opens at 09 00 am..
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Don't know what this is all about but La Prisima Concepcion was a Spanish warship of that period and was still in existence in 1810.
Mar 10th, 2014 - 02:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The picture at the top of the article looks like it could be it.
Unless this is a ship of the same name (likely/unlikely - who knows) then they have got the wrong ship.
Sorry Knarfw didn't read your link until I'd written this but you are correct that is the ship I was talking about.
Yes as you can see from the link.. commissioned 1790 so possibly the warship took the same name.
Mar 10th, 2014 - 04:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0from the long list of shipwrecks in peninsula mitre, the majority are of british flag.
Mar 10th, 2014 - 04:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0now, what the f*ck were those british vessels doing in our waters / lands?
it seems it is true what they say, britain always wanted to colonise argentina.
they were left with the desire.
http://www.histarmar.com.ar/Naufragios/BD-PMitre.htm
@6 paulcedron
Mar 10th, 2014 - 04:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I usually don't bother replying to pointless little pricks like you but I'm bored today so here goes.
Just a couple of points.
26 ships may constitute a list but it's certainly NOT a long one.
Only 7 of those 26 are British. So they're not the majority either.
@6 Have to go along with Lou. No argie boats. Still, the area was only stolen by argieland in 1881. Nothing floated even then?
Mar 10th, 2014 - 05:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#6
Mar 10th, 2014 - 05:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Do you know anything about shipping ? No , I thought not.
Do you actually know ANYTHING to post such an ignorant remark?
Looking at the dates YOU supplied, these are likely to be sailing ships. Sailing ships use the winds to travel. The route to the Pacific would take them round the horn...a notoriously dangerous route.
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The waters around the Cape are particularly hazardous, owing to strong winds, large waves, strong currents and icebergs; these dangers have made it notorious as a sailors' graveyard.
Anyway, do not these waters belong to Chile ? What's it got to do with you ?
@ 6 paulcedron
Mar 10th, 2014 - 06:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Still showing an increase in stupity then? Dafter as you get older.
Dear me I don't know what your IQ must be: 70 is it?
@6
Mar 10th, 2014 - 07:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0it seems it is true what they say, Britain always wanted to colonise Argentina.
they were left with the desire.???
A bit like Argentina over the Falkland's then.lol
“Anyway, do not these waters belong to Chile ? What's it got to do with you ?”
Mar 10th, 2014 - 10:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0no.
go back to school
península mitre, estrecho de le maire and the rest of the eastern waters are, of course, argentinian.
cabo de hornos belongs to chile
mar de hoces belongs both to argentina and chile.
and, in spite of not having anything to do with those waters and lands, britain is also claiming part of its sovereignity.
and then they do not want to be called pirates...
12 paulcedron (#) Corsairs are one thing, pirates another. Please get your terminology correct.
Mar 11th, 2014 - 01:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0#6
Mar 11th, 2014 - 11:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0Look at my post again....I talked about CAPE HORN which is in Chile.
In the 1880's a country's territorial limit was 3 MILES from it's coast.
Outwith this limit they were open sea....NOT Argentinean as you claim !
Any vessel could navigate between the S.point of the Argentine mainland and Islas de los Estados and still be in International waters. Not in Argentinian waters as you claim...however as you claim everything else down there , I am not surprised.
What part of these waters is Britain trying to claim. Specifics please...not your usual generalities and innuendos.
Also, quote me proven cases of piracy carried out in these waters , by the UK, since 1880..a reasonable time span to cover.
I await your reply.
They don't even know what a pirate even looks like.
Mar 11th, 2014 - 07:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 015
Mar 11th, 2014 - 09:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0like you?
@ 15 Briton
Mar 11th, 2014 - 09:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No, they do not understand the significance of using the term “Pirate”.
As you see @16 uses the mirror effect,
Mar 12th, 2014 - 07:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0he thinks they all shout walk the plank,
still,
if they could read, they could see what a real pirate looked liked,
namely an Argentinian who steals from the poor and gives it to CFK....lol
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