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Ships of Bermuda - 1500's


La Garza
"La Garza", a vessel of Juan Bermudez touched the islands in 1515. Bermudez is said to have discovered the islands in 1503.

unknown vessel
1543 is the date of an inscription of an unknown mariner on Spanish Rock.

unknown vessel
1560 to 1570. Frenchman Captain Russel or Roussel, shipwrecked. His ship struck a reef and was so badly holed that lives were lost. Russel and the remainder of his crew made a smaller boat out of materials from the perished ship and sailed to Newfoundland where they got passage back to France.

unknown vessel
Henry May shipwrecked in 1593 but no permanent record was left on the islands.