5/7/2023 0 Comments Yankee ships in pirate waters![]() ![]() I mean, what you're looking at is a gun that was on the ship of a famed notorious privateer to the (Welsh) pirate to the Spanish and so being able to interact with these artifacts connects us to that time period in 1671".ĭelgado says the 17th century pirates used their weapons much the same as their modern counterparts wield machine guns: Hanselmann believes these old and rusty guns are linked to the real pirates of the Caribbean: Two ship mounted cannons and four swivel guns that closely match 17th century cannons. ![]() He is a diver and archaeologist on the team that recovered the guns. "The moment when we were on location when I spotted the takes your breath away," says Fritz Hanselmann. But 250 years later Delgado is leading a underwater research team that includes Panamanians and they just recovered something they believe was aboard The Satisfaction: Six very rusty and corroded iron cannons lying in shallow water. The actual shipwrecks have never been found. Morgan seeing this, seeing his men on the ramparts is sailing in without realizing that he's headed straight for Lajas Reef, and one after the other his ships ground, tearing into the rock, masts falling, the ships being caught by the waves, swept over, and then crushed and sinking".įour maybe five ships are lost. Many of the privateers, the buccaneers, the men of Morgan's force are there, some bandaged. "The castillo has fallen, its defenders have either surrendered or lie dead. Underwater archaeologist James Delgado picks up the story. Captain Morgan then arrives on the scene aboard his flagship The Satisfaction. They captured the Castillo de San Lorenzo. So Morgan sent an advance team, three shiploads of pirates, to storm a Spanish fort at the entrance to the Chagres River. But on this occasion he was on his way to burn and plunder the Spanish controled Panama City. Morgan was commissioned by England to secure trade routes to the New World. Captain Henry Morgan, a swashbuckling privateer, a.k.a pirate, was in the 'hood. Today the Chagres is linked to the Panama Canal. "Panama's only 48 miles wide, making it the narrowest spot in the Americas and with that river taking you nearly two thirds of the way across, the Chagres really was the original Panama Canal connecting people by boats to the Camino Royale which would then take them down to the Pacific and to Panama City". The location of the Chagres River and its role in history have long fascinated underwater archaelogist James Delgado. The answer is the Chagres River in central Panama where underwater archaeologists have recovered six cannons believed to belong to the notorious pirate known as Captain Henry Morgan. So can you name this river that traverses part of the isthmus of Panama? Pirates and traders famously plied these waters including the famed Captain Henry Morgan. Columbus was the first European to spot it during his 4th voyage in 1502. A river runs through today's Geo Quiz: The Central American river on our radar today has been a busy waterway for the past five centuries. ![]()
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