Four shipwrecks, including the remains of a 1748 Spanish privateer ship, were found at a historical site in North Carolina.
Archaeologists from East Carolina University were searching the Brunswick Town/Fort Anderson State Historic Site in Brunswick County, North Carolina, when they found the wrecks.
The team stated that the remains may be of La Fortuna, a Spanish privateer from Cuba that exploded near the colonial wharves when the port was attacked at the end of King George’s War in September 1748.
The wreck was found close to where an 18th-century cannon, thought to be from La Fortuna, was recovered in 1985.
Over 40 pieces of timber from what was thought to be La Fortuna were collected as part of emergency recovery to save the ship’s remains from erosion and other threats, per university officials.
Specialised Tests showed that the wood was either Monterey Cypress or Mexican Cypress. This wood species is limited to southern California and Central America.
This shows that shipbuilders incorporated raw
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