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    MERCHANT ROYAL Corrregido

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    The Merchant Royal was a 700-ton galleon that sank off the coast of Cornwall, England in 1641 carrying over 100,000 pounds of gold, 400 bars of silver, and hundreds of thousands of coins estimated to be worth over $1 billion today. After several profitable years of trade between England and Spain, the Merchant Royal set sail from Spain to England loaded with precious metals, but sank when a faulty waterway that had been repaired in Spain burst during a storm. While some of the crew was rescued, the galleon and its valuable cargo sank to the bottom of the sea, representing one of the greatest maritime treasures ever lost. Many treasure hunters continue searching for the wreck of the Merchant Royal and its

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    The Merchant Royal was a 700-ton galleon that sank off the coast of Cornwall, England in 1641 carrying over 100,000 pounds of gold, 400 bars of silver, and hundreds of thousands of coins estimated to be worth over $1 billion today. After several profitable years of trade between England and Spain, the Merchant Royal set sail from Spain to England loaded with precious metals, but sank when a faulty waterway that had been repaired in Spain burst during a storm. While some of the crew was rescued, the galleon and its valuable cargo sank to the bottom of the sea, representing one of the greatest maritime treasures ever lost. Many treasure hunters continue searching for the wreck of the Merchant Royal and its

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    The Merchant Royal was a 700-ton galleon that sank off the coast of Cornwall, England in 1641 carrying over 100,000 pounds of gold, 400 bars of silver, and hundreds of thousands of coins estimated to be worth over $1 billion today. After several profitable years of trade between England and Spain, the Merchant Royal set sail from Spain to England loaded with precious metals, but sank when a faulty waterway that had been repaired in Spain burst during a storm. While some of the crew was rescued, the galleon and its valuable cargo sank to the bottom of the sea, representing one of the greatest maritime treasures ever lost. Many treasure hunters continue searching for the wreck of the Merchant Royal and its

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    The Merchant Royal was a 700-ton galleon that sank off the coast of Cornwall, England in 1641 carrying over 100,000 pounds of gold, 400 bars of silver, and hundreds of thousands of coins estimated to be worth over $1 billion today. After several profitable years of trade between England and Spain, the Merchant Royal set sail from Spain to England loaded with precious metals, but sank when a faulty waterway that had been repaired in Spain burst during a storm. While some of the crew was rescued, the galleon and its valuable cargo sank to the bottom of the sea, representing one of the greatest maritime treasures ever lost. Many treasure hunters continue searching for the wreck of the Merchant Royal and its

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    MERCHANT ROYAL

    The treasure of the Royal Merchant, was also known as the


    Eldorado of the Seas. This ship sank on September 23,
    1641 near the British coast of the Isles of Scilly. On
    board ,there were 100,000 pounds of gold, 400 bars of
    silver and hundreds of thousands of coins. The current
    value of the cargo is estimated at more than one billion.
    The Merchant Royal was a 700-ton galleon built at the
    Royal Naval Dockyard in Deptford in 1627 before sinking.
    This important dockyard, founded by Henry VIII in 1513,
    was located on the River Thames near London.
    Under its captain, John Limbrey, the Merchant Royal took
    advantage of a few years of peace between England and
    Spain in the 17th century to trade with the Spanish colonies
    in South America and the Caribbean. After several years of
    fruitful trade, the ship set sail again for the old continent,
    loaded with precious metals.
    The Merchant Royal, after crossing the Atlantic, needed
    some repairs. Unable to reach England directly, it reached
    at Cadiz, in southern Spain, near Gibraltar, to repair a
    waterway.
    During this stopover, a ship caught fire at Cadiz. Captain
    Limbrey offered to transport the cargo of the stricken ship,
    in addition to his own, to Flanders. It was the pay of the
    30,000 Spanish soldiers stationed there, a fortune.
    After her technical stop, the Merchant Royal sailed back to
    England in the last week of August 1641, accompanied by
    the Dover Merchant.
    Unfortunately, a month later, when approaching the English
    coast, the waterway, badly repaired in Cadiz, reappeared.
    The defective pumps could not cope. In adverse weather
    conditions, the ship was taking in more and more water, to
    the point of sinking off the Isles of Scilly.
    Part of the crew, including Captain Limbrey, was rescued by
    the Dover Merchant, was sailing with the Merchant Royal,
    but eighteen men perished. The galleon's cargo sank with
    the ship.
    New World gold, Mexican silver, coins, Spanish pay,
    precious objects, all sank with the Merchant Royal at the
    bottom of the sea. This booty represents one of the world's
    greatest maritime treasures.
    Many treasure hunters have been on the trail of the
    Merchant Royal. In 2007, the American company Odyssey
    Marine Exploration thought they had found the ship after
    discovering a wreck off the coast of Cornwall containing
    some 17 tons of gold and silver coins. In reality, it was a
    19th-century Spanish frigate, the Nuestra Señora de las
    Mercedes.
    In 2019, a Cornish fisherman brought back a huge century-
    old anchor. It may have come from the Merchant Royal.
    The search for the treasure is still underway....

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