Sunken Spanish Armada Treasure Galleon Found

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27383, 8 May 1950, Page 5

Sunken Spanish Armada Treasure Galleon Found

NZPA— Copyright Rec. 11 p.m. LONDON. May 7. Lieutenant-commander Reay Parkinson, who is in charge of the Royal Navy’s treasure hunters at Tobermory Mull, of! Scotland’s west coast, announced last night: “ We have found the Spanish galleon Florencia.” The final proof—two silver medallions and a large piece of charred wood—had come shooting up the 84ft suction pipe lowered into the seabed of Tobermory Navy divers have been working seven weeks to salvage the treasurelegend says it is worth £30,000.000 which is reputed to have been lying on the seabed since the Spanish

Armada galleon Florencia sank 362 years ago. The navy contracted the attempt to salvage at "the request of the Duke of Argyll, whose family has long held the salvage rights in Tobermory Bay. World publicity for the romantic treasure hunt has brought wealth to the tiny island of Mull. Many overseas tourists have booked out the hotel and boarding house accommodation in the hope of seeing some of the gold plate, dubloons, pieces ,of eight and gems which the Florencia is thought to hold, but they may be disappointed. According to Madrid’s Naval Museum expert. Don Julio Guillan, the Tobermory Bay’s sunken galleon is not the treasure ship Florencia, but another vessel, the San Juan.