The New Spain Fleet and the search for the galleon Nuestra Señora del Juncal (eBook)

This publication accompanies the exhibition "The Fleet of New Spain and the search for the galleon Nuestra Señora del Juncal", held at the General Archive of the Indies between November 29, 2021, and April 17, 2022. Its pages allow us to make a journey from construction to sinking, and the subsequent search for what was the flagship of one of the most important fleets of the seventeenth century, the New Spain Fleet. The galleon Nuestra Señora del Juncal had a particular life. Without this being the objective of its creation, it came to direct the fleet, and thus it exercised this role until its shipwreck and sinking in November 1631, somewhere in the Sonda de Campeche, in the Gulf of Mexico, when the fleet departed back to Castilla.