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any of date a Carolina average :ly low le con-be very number is from nd with ould be Inacreage 15 per tr from trc thut s prob-lan last er cent by its sr cent essively ivalion, and the ing LasEpain'i Wreckage Record.I” w fcThe recent loss of the Reina f' Regente recalls the fact that Spain, 'remice tl o greatest naval power of the *llt;i' ofworld, lias lost not less than 000 uien ofwar in ship-wreck since the ; se beginning of the sixUenlh century, j11' There is ample documentary evi-deuce to that effect, and the greatestJ disasters to the Spanish fleets are1!14 here recounted in their chronologic hi order: !wOf tbe fleet sent against Algiers- ||( in 1518, under Admiral Don Hugo de Moucada, thirty vessels foundered in a storm, with 4000 meu on board.Another expedition against Algiers, sent by Emperor Charles V. in 1541, lost 140 vessels on thethtl.fctnthserocks cf Morocco, 8800 men losing j1*i” crop,jedding :p is a cotton tecrease r cent,en perstations.fe ii.bur-md win lauds of been Insert v bvPJtosehithinb:UtetiaircNyp«fttheir lives.Of the fleet which sailed in 1582, under Gen. Mendoza, to deliver Oran from the Mussulmans, twenty ships, including the flagship, with the above-mentioned General on board, never returned.A year later, in the fall of 1563, a cyclone in the Bay of Cadiz sent fifteen of the government's best caravels to the bottom.[n 1388 the famous Armada, believed to be invincible, met her in the English Channel,! eiglny-one out of the 130 vessels,I sinking with most .of their crews. The loss of men is estimated at 14,000.Fourteen of Admiral Don An-1 onio Navarro's vessels Foundered! in a storm off the Mexican coast, near San Juan de Uiloa, in 1500.Six years later a fearful storm in the Bitcavan Bay caused the loss lt;l“ I » 9*cift'ious. forty-one vessels belonging to the i th nil fleet of Admiral!Marlin de Padilla. I uved | joni, aftcr lj(-g ^]ar. j jvmg up | ^t|jH £e «$ullla (;,UK |08i ten ves.-els, jj c-!n* for Wllh 2300 men 0,1 l^c Corsican'• nau.- cowt-d good I Aster a long pause Ocn. Jose ng auu ; Pizzaro lost live men-of-war in an (»ud sup-; engagement with the English in hat may : 17-45.uchc n-j Within the last 125 years the » way of record* are much easier of life aii-s AiK) the figures can be iluea* oiCcihe i’aaccess,v—. wt given abao-lutely correct. In this time the Spaniards iost twelve large battle-,hide- (ships under steam Mid twenty-oneTrquiring h'si class sailors, with 1570 gunt;'*'f abode, j 23 friq tee, with 800 ho very more In Ihn 1guns, and4ti.iau100 gunboats, torpedo »Ji
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The Banner Democrat
Lake Providence, Louisiana, US
Sat, Sep 07, 1895
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