Talk:Spanish treasure fleet

message: HMS Indefatigable (1784):
"In October 1804, Indefatigable, with three other frigates (Medusa, Lively and Amphion with Moore as the senior officer, intercepted a Spanish treasure fleet of four frigates carrying bullion from the Caribbean back to Spain."
Spanish treasure fleet:
"In the 1780s Spain opened its colonies to free trade. The last treasure fleet sailed in 1790."
Clearly both can't be true.  MichaelSH 22:41, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: See also Graham Moore, which shows a painting of it.  There is an account of it, quoting Moore's logs, at .  Regarding the fictionalization in the Hornblower series, in The Hornblower Companion, 1964, Forester says:  that the incident really happened, though "on the previous occasion, some years earlier, when the flota was intercepted, the captors shared millions."  This suggests that it had happened once before during the Napoleonic Wars, i.e., since 1790.  Laura1822 03:49, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Contradiction with another Wikipedia Page

message: Does a full list of these convoys exist? Drutt (talk) 17:29, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: We're talking about two hundred years of the system being in place, from my point of view it would make no sense to have such list in Wikipedia both for practical reasons and as per WP:INDISCRIMINATE.--Darius (talk) 22:47, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: For comparison, Arctic convoys of World War II has a list of nearly a hundred separate convoys over a period of just 5 years. Drutt (talk) 04:58, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Detail

message: The image currently used at the top of the page is not a depiction of a Spanish treasure fleet. It's a crop from a 1593 engraving showing shipping in Lisbon. It was reinserted with the argument that Portugal and Spain were both part of the Habsburg empire at the relevant time so it made no difference . While it's true that the two countries were in a personal union around 1600, my understanding is that their systems of colonial exploitation and their trade routes were still separate, and I have found no indication that Portuguese ships were taking part in the same system of large-scale convoys characteristic of the Spaniards. The "treasure fleets" are a very specific thing; not every form of shipping between the Habsburg possessions and the New World is part of it.
In addition, this image doesn't show a "fleet being loaded with riches" in any case. It's in a European port, so treasures wouldn't be loaded but, if anything, unloaded. But there's actually no loading or unloading being shown in the picture at all (except for what appear to be some barrels of provisions). It's not even a fleet. It's just a harbour busy with individual ship movements; according to the narrative in the book which this was meant to illustrate, one individual ship is about to depart for Brazil. 
In short: no Spanish, no fleet, no loading, no riches. Fut.Perf. ☼ 07:37, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: It would be hard to argue with that.--Wetman (talk) 09:31, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree. Even if Lisbon was under Hasburg rule, the main ports where unloadig operations took place were Cadiz and Seville.--Darius (talk) 15:35, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm glad to tell all involved that this picture has found a new home at Portuguese_Empire#Southeast_Asia_and_the_spice_trade. Cheers walk victor falk talk 11:22, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for uploading the pic to the right article. Regards.--Darius (talk) 16:10, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
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message: The section "The flow of Spanish treasure" seems inconsistent in its units of measure. The text seems to use one set of units, and the table following the text seems to use another. That makes it hard to figure out. The table should include a heading or note identifying the units. It is also unclear if the table refers only to specific years, or to centuries or intervals, or what. MaxwellPerkins (talk) 21:29, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Units Inconsistent 

message: The title Spanish treasure fleet is not the accurate name for what the article discusses. Flota de Indias should be the title of the page. The Flota de Indias was the official title of this fleet according to the Spanish records whereas Spanish treasure fleet is a vague reference to any Spanish fleet theoretically sailing anywhere on the ocean at that time (from Manilla, South America, etc). The Flota de Indias (referred to in this page) consisted of two sub fleets, the Flota de Indias: Flota de Tierra Firme (En. Indies Fleet: Tierra Firme) which was charged with trade between Spain and her colonies in Northern South America and the Flota de Indias: Flota de Nueva Espana which was charged with trade between Spain and her colonies in present day Mexico and the Spanish main. Other Spanish treasure fleets existed at this time that sailed out of Manilla and ports in South America, Africa and Asia. - Clark Sui (talk) 03:42, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page title requested move to '''Flota de Indias''' 

message: *Oppose RMTR speedy move this is clearly not uncontroversial. -- 70.51.46.11 (talk) 04:11, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: This is a contested technical request (permalink). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:04, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
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message: While reading up on the Spanish galleon San José I found it was sunk while being part of one of these treasure-fleets, in 1708 in a battle known as Wager's Action. This loss however, is not mentioned in this lemma in the section "losses" at all.
Now, I'm not very much of a history buff, and not sure myself how to insert this in this section correctly. But perhaps someone more knowledgeable could add it in. 213.127.116.131 (talk) 11:45, 8 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shouldn't San José be mentioned in section Losses?