Shipwrecks of the Spanish Main. Yarrrr! (Or not, as it turns out)

[Captain Blood]

Interesting article in today’s Guardian on the Spanish Ministry of Culture’s cataloguing of Spanish shipwrecks in the Americas from 1492 - 1898
Less than 1% down to pirates and privateers apparently...

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/mar/01/spain-logs-shipwrecks-maritime-past-weather-pirates

I suppose that makes sense, as pirates were trying to capture ships and their cargoes rather than sink them, but it still gives a bit of a lie to the old movie cliche of Spanish galleons laden with gold being sent to the bottom in furious exchanges of broadsides... 

[OSHIROmodels]

Doesn’t stop us from having fun though 

[Malamute]

Doesn’t stop us from having fun though 

Or other pirate captains we know who leave their ships unattended when they go plundering ashore and wonder why said ships are not there when they return...