Spanish Treasure Fleet
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The Treasure Fleet of 1715 was a convoy of Spanish warships that had departed from Havana, Cuba – in the Caribbean – and was destined for their home country of Spain, specifically the port city of Seville.
Seven days after their departure, the Fleet hit a tropical storm which destroyed eleven of its twelve vessels. The surviving ship was a brig known as El Dorado, which had been stolen by the pirates Edward Kenway and Adéwalé during their escape from imprisonment aboard one of the fleet's ships. After the escape, Kenway took the ship as his own, and rechristened it the Jackdaw.
Kenway later told his fellow pirate Edward Thatch that he estimated the total amount of gold sunk that day was likely near a million pound's worth of reales. Thatch expressed his intent to dive the wrecks one day, but it is unknown if he ever did. Kenway, on the other hand, dove to the wreck of the San Ignacio, one of the ships in the fleet, to recover medicines for the citizens of Nassau, although the cures he recovered were "quite spoilt".