![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It happened that the galleon which escaped in a more or less crippled condition was commanded by Don Diego de Espinosa y Valdez, who was brother to the Spanish Admiral Don Miguel de Espinosa, and who was also a very hasty, proud, and hot-tempered gentleman. Spanish archives are clear that no trace of the vessel was ever found despite years of searching by the Spanish in the Philippines and along the Mexican coast, despite claims by Schurz (1939) and later researchers that the vessel burned in the Marianas Islands as reported by survivors.The stately ship that had been allowed to sail so leisurely into Carlisle Bay under her false colours was a Spanish privateer, coming to pay off some of the heavy debt piled up by the predaceous Brethren of the Coast, and the recent defeat by the Pride of Devon of two treasure galleons bound for Cadiz. Thought by several researchers to be the wreck of the galleon San Francisco Xavier of 1705, geoarchaeological research and the historically documented occurrence of wreck debris suggest the wreck is most likely the remains of the galleon Santo Cristo de Burgos which sailed from the Philippines on Jand disappeared. Artifact analysis and archival research indicate the Beeswax Wreck was an Acapulco-bound galleon that wrecked near Nehalem Bay prior to AD 1700. This paper summarizes the historical and archaeological data supporting the identification of the Beeswax Wreck as an eastbound Manila galleon lost between 16, and specifically as the Santo Cristo de Burgos lost in 1693. The “Beeswax Wreck” is the name historically given to a 17th century source of marked beeswax blocks and candles found along beaches of the north Oregon coast, and particularly the sand spit at Nehalem. ![]()
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