Historical list of spanish-portuguese
shipwrecks in Asia
(1508-1821)
Cesareo Fernandez Duro: Armada Española (from now
AE)
Charles Ralph Boxer:
O grande navio de Amacau (from now ONA)
General Archive of
Indies, Seville (from now AGI)
Luiz Figueiredo Falcao: Livro em que se contem toda
a fazenda e real patrimonio (from now LFP)
Quirino da Fonseca: Os Portugueses no Mar (from now
OPM)
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Year: 1508
Name of the ship & country: Santa Cruz,
portuguese
Wreck country: Maldives
Sunk on the Padua shoal.
OPM, page 193
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Year: 1510
Name of the ship & country: Sao Joao,
portuguese
Wreck country: India
Sunk on Goa bar.
OPM, page. 215
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Year: 1511
Name of the ship & country: Flor de la Mar,
portuguese
Wreck country: Indonesia
From Malaca with Afonso de Albuquerque. Very
rich cargo.
OPM, page 227
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Year: 1521
Name of the ship & country: Santa Maria da
Serra, portuguese
Wreck country: India
Set on fire in Diu by some prisoners.
OPM, page 256
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Year: 1522
Name of the ship & country: Nazaré,
portuguese
Wreck country: India
Sunk on Goa bar.
OPM, page 322
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Year: 1531
Name of the ship & country: Santa Maria da
Esperança, portuguese
Wreck country: India
Beached and it was set on fire near cape
Camorin.
OPM, page 303
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Year: 1547
Name of the ship & country: Santa Cruz,
portuguese
Wreck country: Yemen P.D.R.
Navigating for the India, it shipwrecked in the
island of Socotra
OPM, page 298
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Year: 1549
Name of the ship & country: Flor de la Mar,
portuguese
Wreck country: India
Navigating for the India shipwrecked to 38
leagues of Goa.
OPM, page 318
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Year: 1551
Name of the ship & country: Algarvia,
portuguese
Wreck country: Chagos archipelago
Sunk on Pero dos Banhos shoal
OPM, page 277
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Year: 1552
Name of the ship & country: Zambuco,
portuguese
Wreck country: India
From Portugal to India.
OPM, page 341
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Year: 1554
Name of the ship & country: Boa Ventura,
portuguese
Wreck country: India
Sunk on Goa.
LFP, page 165
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Year: 1558
Name of the ship & country: Ship of Macao,
portuguese
Wreck country: China
It disappeared navigating from Japan to Macao.
ONA, page 23
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Year: 1560
Name of the ship & country: Sao Paulo,
portuguese
Wreck country: Indonesia
It disappeared navigating from Lisbon to India.
OPM, page 366
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Year: 1573
Name of the ship & country: Ship of Macao,
portuguese
Wreck country: Japan
Sunk on Akusa island with a very rich cargo.
ONA, page 33
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Year: 1577
Name of the ship & country: Sao Joao, portuguese
Wreck country: Chagos archipelago
From Lisbon to Goa, sunk on Pero dos Banhos
shoal.
OPM, page 362
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Year: 1578
Name of the ship & country: Sao Pedro,
portuguese
Wreck country: Chagos archipelago
Sunk on Pero dos Banhos shoal.
OPM, page 366
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Year: 1583
Name of the ship & country: A ship
portuguese
Wreck country: Taiwan
Returning of a political mission in Macao, the
father Alonso Sanchez shipwrecked with this ship navigating from Macao to
Philippines.
ONA, page 39
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Year: 1587
Name of the ship & country: San Martin,
spanish
Wreck country: China
AGI, Filipinas 18-A
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Year: 1587
Name of the ship & country: Nossa Senhora
das Reliquias, portuguese
Wreck country: India
It shipwrecked in Goa to come not well loaded..
OPM, page 447
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Year: 1589
Name of the ship & country: Two ships
spanish
Wreck country: Philippines
Prepared to leave for Acapulco, they
shipwrecked in the port of Cavite.
AE, vol. II, page 498
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Year: 1590
Name of the ship & country: San Felipe,
spanish
Wreck country: Philippines
From Acapulco it shipwrecked in the island of
Catanduane.
AE, vol. II, page 65
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Year: 1594
Name of the ship & country: A portuguese
ship, portuguese
Wreck country: Indonesia
ONA, page 52
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Year: 1596
Name of the ship & country: San Felipe,
spanish
Wreck country: Japan
From Philippines shipwrecked on Shikoku island.
AGI, Contratacion 5112
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Year: 1598
Name of the ship & country: Nossa Senhora
de Guadalupe, portuguese
Wreck country: India
Set fire in Cochin.
OPM, page 418
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Year: 1601
Name of the ship & country: Santo Antonio,
portuguese
Wreck country: Yemen P.D.R.
Sunk on Socotra island.
LFP, page 184
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Year: 1604
Name of the ship & country: San Anton,
spanish
Wreck country: Japan
Manila almiranta.
AGI, Mexico 26
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Year: 1605
Name of the ship & country: spanish
frigate, spanish
Wreck country: Japan
From Philippines sunk on Kyushu island.
ONM, page 61
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Year: 1609
Name of the ship & country: San Francisco,
spanish
Wreck country: Japan
From Manila to Acapulco, sunk on Kwanto.
AGI, Filipinas 4
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Year: 1610
Name of the ship & country: A portuguese
galleon, portuguese
Wreck country: Philippines
From Macao with a very rich cargo, shipwrecked
in the north coast of Philippines surviving some people.
AE, vol. III, page 387
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Year: 1610
Name of the ship & country: Nossa Senhora
da Graça, portuguese
Wreck country: Japan
Lost in a combat on the island Kyushu with a
rich shipment.
ONA, page 67
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Year: 1616
Name of the ship & country: A ship spanish
Wreck country: Indonesia
Went for Macao with equipment.
AGI, Filipinas 37
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Year: 1617
Name of the ship & country: Six galleons
spanish
Wreck country: Philippines
They shipwrecked in the coast of Mindoro for a
violent hurricane.
AGI, Filipinas 37
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Year: 1622
Name of the ship & country: Philippines
capitana, spanish
Wreck country: Philippines
Lost on Isla Verde.
AGI, Contratación 5116
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Year: 1623
Name of the ship & country: A ship spanish
Wreck country: Thailand
AE, vol. IV, page 417
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Year: 1631
Name of the ship & country: La Magdalena,
spanish
Wreck country: Philippines
Sunk on Cavite.
AE, vol. IV, page 450
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Year: 1638
Name of the ship & country: Ship of Japan,
portuguese
Wreck country: Macao
Caught fire inside the port of Macao without it
could survive the load.
ONA, page 135
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Year: 1639
Name of the ship & country: A ship spanish
Wreck country: Unknow
It took payroll from Manila to Taiwan.
AE, vol. IV, page 451
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Year: 1639
Name of the ship & country: A ship for
Japan, portuguese
Wreck country: Unknow
It keeled in a typhoon few days after having
gone out of Macao for Japan with a rich shipment.
ONA, page 140
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Year: 1641
Name of the ship & country: Manila
almiranta, spanish
Wreck country: Unknow
It was warned that this ship had not arrived to
port and that it was view for it finishes time like to 300 leagues of Manila in
route for Acapulco.
AGI, Contratación 5118
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Year: 1649
Name of the ship & country: Nuestra Señora
de Guia, spanish
Wreck country: Philippines
Lost to 70 leagues of Manila. Survived 110.000
pesos .In route for Acapulco.
AGI, Filipinas 31
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Year: 1649
Name of the ship & country: La Encarnación,
spanish
Wreck country: Philippines
From Acapulco sunk on Bulan.
AGI, Filipinas 22
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Year: 1654
Name of the ship & country: Santa Helena,
portuguese
Wreck country: India
Sunk on the bar of Goa.
OPM, page 486
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Year: 1654
Name of the ship & country: San Diego,
spanish
Wreck country: Philippines
Lost in the bay of Manila.
AE, vol.V, page 437
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Year: 1655
Name of the ship & country: San Francisco
Javier, spanish
Wreck country: Philippines
Contrarily to what Fernandez Duro affirms in
Armada Española , vol.V, page 437, this galleon has gotten lost in 1655 in
Boronga, 80 leagues of Cavite.
AGI, Escribania 404-A
Filipinas 22
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Year: 1660
Name of the ship & country: Victoria,
spanish
Wreck country: Philippines
In route from Manila for Zamboanga keeled.
AE, vol. V, page 437
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Year: 1694
Name of the ship & country: San José,
spanish
Wreck country: Philippines
Sunk on Manila bay.
AGI, Escribania 442-C
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Year: 1719
Name of the ship & country: Nuestra Señora
de Loreto, spanish
Wreck country: Vietnam
Lost in Tonkin. Warn of the shipwreck
AGI, Filipinas 132
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Year: 1726
Name of the ship & country: Santo Cristo de
Burgos, spanish
Wreck country: Philippines
From Manila for Acapulco sunk on Ticao.
AGI, Escribania 444-A
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Year: 1729
Name of the ship & country: Nuestra Señora
de los Dolores, spanish
Wreck country: Philippines
Sunk on Cagayan with payroll for the Marianas
islands.
AGI, Filipinas 238
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Year: 1735
Name of the ship & country: San Cristobal,
spanish
Wreck country: Philippines
From Acapulco, sunk on Calantas shoal.
AGI, Escribania 407-C
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Year: 1753
Name of the ship & country: Pilar, spanish
Wreck country: Unknow
From Manila to Acapulco.
AE, vol. VI, page 422
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Year: 1776
Name of the ship & country: San Carlos,
spanish
Wreck country: Philippines
From Manila to Acapulco.
AGI, Filipinas 937
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Year: 1797
Name of the ship & country: Maria, spanish
Wreck country: Philippines
Sunk on cape Bojeador.
AE, vol. VIII, page 246
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Year: 1798
Name of the ship & country: San Andres,
spanish
Wreck country: Philippines
Sunk on the Naranjos reef.
AGI, Filipinas 665
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Year: 1802
Name of the ship & country: Ferroleña,
spanish
Wreck country: Taiwan
AE, vol. VIII, page 246
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Year: 1809
Name of the ship & country: Santa
Gertrudis, spanish
Wreck country: Philippines
Sunk on the Siargao island.
Diaz-Trechuelo, Maria lourdes: La real compañía de Filipinas, page 241
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Year: 1821
Name of the ship & country: Fidelidad,
spanish
Wreck country: Philippines
Sunk on Lubang island.
AE, vol. IX, page 409
Autor: Claudio Bonifacio
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