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Santa María de Visón & Lavia with Capt Cuéllar on board. He described how ‘a huge gale hit us broadside on with waves reaching the sky...within the hour, our three ships broke up completely.’ Of 918 souls listed aboard them at La Coruña Cuéllar guessed that only 300 survived.
Jan 1589: A 20-day trek from #Leitrim led Capt Cuéllar to Lacada Point, wreck-site of La Girona –‘I reached the area where Alonso de Leyva_ and others were shipwrecked_I went to the huts of some savages_they told me harrowing things about our people who'd drowned’ #Spanisharmada