The Book of Buried Treasure

Captain Kidd, the plate fleet of Vigo, the pirates’ hoard of Trinidad, the galleon of Tobermory Bay — the famous treasure stories, followed to the documents that either support them or quietly demolish them.

The Lost Plate Fleet of Vigo

2 pages in this part of The Book of Buried Treasure.

The Lost Plate Fleet of Vigo

No treasure yarn is the real thing unless it glitters with ducats, ingots, and pieces of eight, which means that in the brave days when…

The Lost Plate Fleet of Vigo: English

THE LOST PLATE FLEET OF VIGO 229 While the English and their allies, the Dutch, were making ready to take this treasure fleet bottled up in…

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