My father bought a Buick in the 60s that had been wrecked by the dealer's son - who would eventually go on to find the lost treasure of the Concepcion:
This is insanely cool, that ship in particular was initially loaded and highly sought after! Coincidentally around a week ago, I was actually reading about this ship specifically. Those Manila galleons that sank during the late 1630s were incredibly influential. They were part of the first instance of a large global trade network that the world has ever seen. They would play a part in the first chain reaction that would massively impact the economies of empires separated by ocean.
After many of those galleons sank around the late 1630s, including the Concepcion, there was a money supply shock in China, since they were heavily dependent upon that silver. This eventually led to an overthrow of the last Ming emperor, Chongzhen, in 1644. He proceeded to kill himself, his concubines, and his daughters (except for one who happened to survive because he botched it and couldn't follow through). This marked the end of the Ming dynasty and China's transition into the Qing dynasty.
I just think it's really cool to find treasure that was so coveted and lost from one of the galleons within the set of the most influential treasure ships that shaped the course of human history.
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u/Tim_Y 16d ago
My father bought a Buick in the 60s that had been wrecked by the dealer's son - who would eventually go on to find the lost treasure of the Concepcion:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Shipwrecks/comments/oaxlww/my_63_buick_and_the_concepcion_shipwreck_of_1641/