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Streedagh Strand

Streedagh, County Sligo

Three Armada ships wrecked on one beach, with over 1,000 dead.

In September 1588 three Spanish Armada ships were wrecked on Streedagh Strand in a storm. More than a thousand men drowned or were killed on the beach.

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When
September 1588
Where
54.4000, -8.5700
Group
Shipwrecks

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A long beach with a memorial to the Armada sailors.

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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