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The Santa María de la Rosa

Blasket Sound, County Kerry

An Armada ship that sank with just one survivor.

Fleeing round Ireland after the defeat of the Spanish Armada, the Santa María de la Rosa entered the Blasket Sound in a storm, already damaged. She struck a rock and sank almost at once.

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When
September 1588
Where
52.0900, -10.5400
Group
Shipwrecks

Visiting

The Blasket Centre at Dunquin overlooks the Sound.

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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