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La Trinidad Valencera

Kinnagoe Bay, County Donegal

An Armada ship whose siege guns were found by a diving club.

La Trinidad Valencera, one of the largest ships of the Spanish Armada, was wrecked in Kinnagoe Bay. Most of her men got ashore but were later killed or captured.

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When
September 1588
Where
55.2700, -7.0200
Group
Shipwrecks

Visiting

A lovely sandy cove on the Inishowen peninsula. Finds are at the Tower Museum, Derry.

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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