A fleet of nine ships left
San Juan de Ulúa, Mexico, on March 15, 1551. By April 29, the
San Miguel had wrecked off the north coast of Santo Domingo, with no lives lost. Some of the registered treasure appears to have been salvaged in the following months and was sent to Spain. The ship was 200
toneladas, and was considered to be an excellent vessel, the best of the fleet. It would have been about 23 meters long, with a
keel of nearly 15 meters. Many people have searched for the remains of the
San Miguel. The search was mentioned in the final chapters of
Robert Kurson's "
Pirate Hunters" (2015), a
New York Times Bestseller, when
John Chatterton and
John Mattera, the divers who found the pirate ship
Golden Fleece, were close on the trail of the
San Miguel, after a decade of searching. John Mattera is an archival historian who searched the
Archive of the Indies in
Seville, Spain, as well as the historical records of Jack Haskins to locate the area the San Miguel sank. Chatterton and Mattera then spent the next years narrowing down the lost ship's location. ==See also==