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Tuesday, February 27, 2007
The true story of the Santa Margarita
The story of the Santa Margarita, a Manila galleon wrecked on Rota in 1601, is a tale of one of the world?s great sailing ships on a perilous journey, commanded by a tyrant, General Jan Martinez de Guillestigui.
He was cruel, incompetent, and arrogant, piling cargo and treasure into the Santa Margarita until it was fatally overloaded. During seven miserable months at sea, during which most of the ship?s food supplies were lost, the ship was blown a thousand miles off course, and most of the crew and passengers died of scurvy or starvation. Of the more than 300 crew and passengers who left Manila in July 1600, only two dozen were still alive after the great ship broke apart on a Rota reef seven months later. . . . .
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