Two treasure hunters discovered $6,000 worth of silver coins on a southern Florida beach that came from the wreckage of a fleet of Spanish ships that sunk there in 1715. Jonah Martinez, a 43-year ...

The coins are part of the lost treasure from the 1715 Fleet shipwrecks. Twelve galleons laden with treasures from the New World were bound for Spain but 11 were lost during a hurricane off the ...

Where did the fleet come from: The 1715 Treasure Fleet transported treasures between Spain and the Americas. In July 1715, 11 Spanish fleet ships were destroyed in a hurricane off the Florida ...

A fleet of Spanish ships heading home from the New World didn’t get the moniker Treasure Fleet for nothing. Sunk in a hurricane in 1715, the group of ships now known as the 1715 Treasure Fleet ...

1715 Fleet – Queens Jewels, LLC/Facebook. 3. The fleet set sail for Spain from Cuba in July 1715 loaded with cargo and treasure from the New World, but much of the fleet sank during a hurricane ...

Fast forward almost 300 years to day after the fleet sank, treasure hunters started pulling up hundreds of coins. There have been two independent finds from the shipwreck by a company called, 1715 ...

Seven days after departing from Havana, Cuba, the 11 ships of the fleet were lost in a hurricane on July 31, 1715, along with at least $400 million worth of gold and jewelry.

Famed treasure salvor Mel Fisher`s crews have struck pay dirt again, this time thousands of dollars worth of doubloons and other coins, and priceless jewels. Crew members showed off the booty Frida… ...

FORT PIERCE – The man accused of selling Spanish gold coins stolen during a 2015 salvage operation of the famous 1715 Fleet shipwrecks will serve a year and a day in state prison, a judge ruled ...

According to FWC, in 2015, members of the Schmitt family, working as contracted salvage operators for 1715 Fleet - Queens Jewels, LLC, uncovered a treasure trove of 101 gold coins from the 1715 ...

Florida treasure hunters recover hundreds of 18th century coins from Spanish shipwrecks. The ships, known as the 1715 Treasure Fleet, went down off the coast of Indian River County during a hurricane.