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El Gran Grifón

Fair Isle, Shetland

An Armada ship wrecked on Britain's remotest inhabited island.

El Gran Grifón was the flagship of the Armada's supply ships. Battered by storms as she fled around Scotland, she ran aground on Fair Isle in September 1588.

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When
September 1588
Where
59.5200, -1.6300
Group
Shipwrecks

Visiting

Fair Isle is reached by small plane or ferry from Shetland.

Cover of Blood and Gold by Cale Mills
Read the full story in the book

Blood and Gold

Sixteen true stories of mutiny, mercy, treasure and the gallows from the Golden Age of Piracy: Henry Every, Bartholomew “Black Bart” Roberts, Edward England, Howell Davis, Christopher Moody, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, Charles Vane, Benjamin Hornigold, Blackbeard, Stede Bonnet, Israel Hands, Calico Jack, Edward Low, Captain William Kidd and Samuel “Black Sam” Bellamy. Where the record is uncertain, the book says so.

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