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The Girona

Lacada Point, County Antrim

The Spanish Armada's worst disaster, wrecked near the Giant's Causeway.

After the defeat of the Spanish Armada, the galleass Girona was packed with men from other wrecked ships. On 26 October 1588 she struck rocks at Lacada Point in a storm.

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When
October 1588
Where
55.2400, -6.5300
Group
Shipwrecks

Visiting

Finds are displayed at the Ulster Museum in Belfast. Lacada Point is near the Giant's Causeway.

Cover of Blood and Gold by Cale Mills
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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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