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The agreement is about to be signed and quantifies as more than thirty sunken vessels in Irish waters, most of them are located in shallow waters
Nov 6, 2017 - 12:03 PM
Spain is about to agree with Ireland the excavation of the Spanish Armada galleons
The agreement is about to be signed and quantifies as more than thirty sunken vessels in Irish waters, most of them are located in shallow waters
Nov 6, 2017 - 12:03 PM
More than thirty Spanish galleons from the famous Armada which sank in the XVI century, remain in Irish waters. The Culture Ministries of Britain and Spain are close to agree to jointly recover from the wreckages the remains of the galleons, expected before the end of this year.
The conditions of the same are similar to a pact agreed between Spain and Mexico in 2014 – the second convenient of this characteristic signed by the Spanish State.
The two implicated countries will then share all the current data and information they hold about the whereabouts of the wrecks and to agree on the cost. Otherwise, with Spain ignored as she has no information on the state of the wrecks. In this case, Ireland would contact the National Subaquatic Archaeological Museum (ARQUA in Spanish) located in Cartagena, which has counted more than thirty sunken ships, some only 5m underwater.
Iván Negueruela, director of Arqua, visited Ireland at the end of September to discuss the matter with local technicians from the Irish Underwater Archelogy Unit - ‘Our idea is to start excavating as soon as the agreement is signed, and we hope to carry out two excavations in 2018, of a fortnight each one’ he sustained. This expert also wants to sign similar agreements with Latin America and the Pacific as ‘many galleons remain hidden under those oceans’.
Actions such as this serves to protect the national patronage of the galleons and which have been exploited and robbed by pirates. Obviously while these excavations continue, Spain will offer technical experience and would like to supervise the submarine workings. Valuables recovered such as cannons, bronze cauldrons and other ‘treasures’ recovered from the vessels will be displayed to the public in both countries.
In Ireland, there is grand support for the Armada of Felipe II, and for the Spanish marines who combatted against England, and became an enemy of the Irish. In fact, each summer in the Irish village of Sligo, they commemorate the deaths of more than a thousand Spanish soldiers off the Irish coast. Two galleons from the Spanish Armada ran aground on a beach in Stredagh. The crews swam to the sand to save the vessels sinking. They were completely exhausted on arrival and only to be beheaded by soldiers from Queen Elizabeth. In memory of the wrecks the locals planted more than 100 wooden crosses on the same sand.
The Cartagena Museum Arqua hosted the first international congress on the Spanish Armada in 1588, the attacking Royal Navy sent by the British in 1589. The new congress will be held between the 21 and 25 of October 2018. ‘This story has been misrepresented’ he resumed.
In consequence, next year the museum will unite researchers from many countries to agree hopefully on a ‘unified history’.
‘Over the past 30 years, many books have been published which conflict the stories we previously believed on the Spanish Armada. Schoolchildren are being misled’
Negueruela noted that ‘only one Spanish ship was defeated by the Royal Navy, and the wreck was moved by the tides and located in 1588’. ‘Elizabeth 1 sent her attacking Navy to combat in Lisbon, Azores and La Coruña in revenge to the attacks from the Spanish Armada. Spain fought against these vessels and succeeded in a massive defeat of the British naval vessels, such as the Queen dismissed her Admiral Francis Drake’.
A Spanish Cannon being recovered
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The conditions of the same are similar to a pact agreed between Spain and Mexico in 2014 – the second convenient of this characteristic signed by the Spanish State.
The two implicated countries will then share all the current data and information they hold about the whereabouts of the wrecks and to agree on the cost. Otherwise, with Spain ignored as she has no information on the state of the wrecks. In this case, Ireland would contact the National Subaquatic Archaeological Museum (ARQUA in Spanish) located in Cartagena, which has counted more than thirty sunken ships, some only 5m underwater.
Iván Negueruela, director of Arqua, visited Ireland at the end of September to discuss the matter with local technicians from the Irish Underwater Archelogy Unit - ‘Our idea is to start excavating as soon as the agreement is signed, and we hope to carry out two excavations in 2018, of a fortnight each one’ he sustained. This expert also wants to sign similar agreements with Latin America and the Pacific as ‘many galleons remain hidden under those oceans’.
Actions such as this serves to protect the national patronage of the galleons and which have been exploited and robbed by pirates. Obviously while these excavations continue, Spain will offer technical experience and would like to supervise the submarine workings. Valuables recovered such as cannons, bronze cauldrons and other ‘treasures’ recovered from the vessels will be displayed to the public in both countries.
In Ireland, there is grand support for the Armada of Felipe II, and for the Spanish marines who combatted against England, and became an enemy of the Irish. In fact, each summer in the Irish village of Sligo, they commemorate the deaths of more than a thousand Spanish soldiers off the Irish coast. Two galleons from the Spanish Armada ran aground on a beach in Stredagh. The crews swam to the sand to save the vessels sinking. They were completely exhausted on arrival and only to be beheaded by soldiers from Queen Elizabeth. In memory of the wrecks the locals planted more than 100 wooden crosses on the same sand.
The Cartagena Museum Arqua hosted the first international congress on the Spanish Armada in 1588, the attacking Royal Navy sent by the British in 1589. The new congress will be held between the 21 and 25 of October 2018. ‘This story has been misrepresented’ he resumed.
In consequence, next year the museum will unite researchers from many countries to agree hopefully on a ‘unified history’.
‘Over the past 30 years, many books have been published which conflict the stories we previously believed on the Spanish Armada. Schoolchildren are being misled’
Negueruela noted that ‘only one Spanish ship was defeated by the Royal Navy, and the wreck was moved by the tides and located in 1588’. ‘Elizabeth 1 sent her attacking Navy to combat in Lisbon, Azores and La Coruña in revenge to the attacks from the Spanish Armada. Spain fought against these vessels and succeeded in a massive defeat of the British naval vessels, such as the Queen dismissed her Admiral Francis Drake’.
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