TREASURE SALVORS v. UNIDENTIF. ETC. SAILING VESSEL

Nos. 79-1381-Civ-JLK, 80-1205-Civ-JLK.

556 F.Supp. 1319 (1983)

TREASURE SALVORS, INC., a Florida corporation, Plaintiff, v. The UNIDENTIFIED, WRECKED AND ABANDONED SAILING VESSEL, et al., Defendant. Robert JORDAN, Plaintiff, v. The UNIDENTIFIED, WRECKED AND ABANDONED SAILING VESSEL, et al., Defendant.

United States District Court, S.D. Florida.

January 18, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Paul Horan, Key West, Fla., for plaintiff.

Michael T. Callahan and Ronald W. Brooks, Brooks, Callahan & Phillips, Tallahassee, Fla., Gerhardt Schreiber, Linwood Anderson, Smathers & Thompson, Miami, Fla., for defendant.


MEMORANDUM OPINION CONTAINING FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

JAMES LAWRENCE KING, District Judge.

The ultimate fate of the SANTA MARGARITA, a royal galleon of the Spanish Tierra Firme Flota of 1622, is the subject of this opinion.

As this magnificent six hundred thirty ton galleon cleared Havana Harbor on Sunday, September 4, 1622, she carried one hundred eighty-eight persons on board, one hundred forty-three of whom sailed to a rendezvous...

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