A dozen timbers that could be from the Santo Cristo de Burgos, which disappeared in 1693, were discovered last month.
Last month, the Maritime Archaeological Society, a volunteer group that documents shipwrecks and studies maritime history in the Pacific Northwest, found 12 timbers that seem like they could be from the long-lost ship,. Items believed to have been on the ship have been washing up on the Oregon coast for centuries, and this would just be the latest discovery in the area.
“We’re about 90 percent sure they are [from the Santo Cristo de Burgos], but there is nothing definitive that we’ve seen that says they are from the ship that went missing in 1693,” Scott Williams, the president of the Maritime Archaeological Society, told the. “There’s a chance it’s an unknown shipwreck, but the odds are small for that. The simplest explanation is that these timbers are part of the galleon.”, when it disappeared in the late 17century.
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