[DOC] [TLE] Spanish Treasure Fleets--Reading 1 - National Park Service [PAR] Reading 1: The Spanish Treasure Fleet System. Much of ... This was important 
because Spain had virtually no industry of its own and had to buy ... This convoy 
of merchant ships and warships is considered the first true treasure fleet. ... Some 
years the two fleets left Spain as one large convoy and others they left separately. [DOC] [TLE] Spanish treasure fleet - Wikipedia [PAR] The Spanish treasure fleet, or West Indies Fleet from Spanish Flota de Indias, 
also called silver ... Spanish ships had brought goods from the New World since 
Christopher ... The Spanish government started a system of convoys in the 1560s 
in ... The main one was the Caribbean Spanish West Indies fleet or Flota de 
Indias,... [DOC] [TLE] Convoy - Wikipedia [PAR] A convoy is a group of vehicles, typically motor vehicles or ships, traveling 
together for mutual ... The most enduring system of convoys were the Spanish 
treasure fleets, that ... Navy had in place a sophisticated convoy system to protect 
merchant ships. ... Convoy duty also exposes the escorting warships to the 
sometimes... [DOC] [TLE] History of the Royal Navy - Wikipedia [PAR] The official history of the Royal Navy began with the formal establishment of the 
Royal Navy as ... The Royal Navy has remained one of the world's most capable 
navies, .... on the Spanish merchant ships carrying gold and silver from the New 
World. ... Spain and France still had stronger fleets, but England was catching up. [DOC] [TLE] Ship of the line - Wikipedia [PAR] A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed from the 17th through 
to the mid-19th .... The main ships of the English and Spanish fleets in the Battle 
of Gravelines of 1588 were galleons; all of the ... One of the first that had the idea 
of Line of Battle tactics was King Erik XIV of Sweden who initiated the build of 
Mars... [DOC] [TLE] Commerce raiding - Wikipedia [PAR] Commerce raiding is a form of naval warfare used to destroy or disrupt logistics of 
the enemy ... England lost roughly 4,000 merchant ships during the war. In the ... 
Cruisers and Convoys Act in 1708, allocating regular warships to the defence of 
trade. ... During the American Civil War, the Confederate Navy operated a fleet of
... [DOC] [TLE] Pirates & Privateers: The History of Maritime Piracy - The Spanish ... [PAR] The Revenge: a Ballad of the Fleet by Alfred Lord Tennyson ... A typical Spanish 
galleon had a number of decks: forecastle, upper or weatherdeck, ... An armed 
convoy of ships was introduced, and once the galleons became part of the flota, 
... In 1537 six warships and twenty merchant ships comprised one-third of the 
flota. [DOC] [TLE] The Destruction of the Spanish Silver Fleet at Vigo in 1702 [PAR] The Spanish fleet, escorted by French ships, took shelter in ... title of the Capitana 
de Barlovento, one of the three ships forming the ... In all there were fifty-six sail in 
the convoy; ... the end of the voyage, since many of them were not warships but 
merchant- ... meantime the fleet had obtained information of the outbreak of war. [DOC] [TLE] Spanish Cob Coins The 1715 Plate Fleet Florida Treasure Of The ... [PAR] The Spanish Treasure of 1715 crashed onto the east cost of Florida with the ... 
These convoys, known as treasure fleets, had to be escorted by Spanish 
warships or were ... Often there was little distinction between a pirate ship and 
one operating ... the year of the defeat of Spain's famous Invincible Armada off 
the coast of the... [DOC] [TLE] Historic Pirate Ports of Call  Pirate Gathering [PAR] From her base of operations at Rockfleet Castle, O'Malleyalso known as ... of 
men and some 20 ships in raids on rival clans and merchant ships. ... Sir Francis 
Drake had many famous exploits against the Spanish and it's hard to name just 
one ... of the Navy, already hard pressed to distinguish between convoy and 
pirate,... [DOC] [TLE] 10 things you (probably) didn't know about the Spanish Armada ... [PAR] Apr 16, 2015

Question: A convoy is a fleet of merchant ships & this is a fleet of warships; Spain had a famous one
Answer: Armada