NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM, GREENWICH, LONDON
An English merchant ship, similar to the Golden Fleece, underway in 1682.
NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM, GREENWICH, LONDON
An English merchant ship, similar to the Golden Fleece, underway in 1682.
HOWARD EHRENBERG
John Chatterton
HOWARD EHRENBERG
John Mattera
JOHN MATTERA
Heiko Kretschmer
JOHN MATTERA
Howard Ehrenberg
JOHN MATTERA
Carolina Garcia (Mattera’s fiancée) and Victor Francisco Garcia-Alecont (her father, and former vice admiral and chief of staff of the Dominican Navy).
A Royal Navy yacht, similar to the Drake.
A Royal Navy ship of the line, similar to the Falcon.
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC MINISTRY OF TOURISM
Cayo Levantado (western beach in the foreground). It was here that generations of treasure hunters had searched for the wreck of the Golden Fleece.
TODD EHRHARDT
Cayo Vigia, as seen from the villa where Chatterton, Mattera, and crew stayed during much of their hunt for the Golden Fleece.
ROBERT KURSON
Site of the wreck of the Golden Fleece (marked by the stick in the water).
HOWARD EHRENBERG
Chatterton (left) and Mattera, with a musket barrel they found on the Golden Fleece.
HOWARD EHRENBERG
Musket barrel lying atop the ballast pile of the Golden Fleece. At first, it looked like a pipe to the men.
JOHN MATTERA
Expensive glass fit for drinking wine, and worthy of a merchant ship captain, recovered intact from the Golden Fleece.
ROBERT KURSON
Pirates carved dice from bone. Note the spiked corners, likely to prevent sliding on wavy seas (on display at the lab of the Oficina Nacional de Patrimonio Cultural Subacuático, Santo Domingo).
JOHN MATTERA
Silver treasure coin recovered from the Golden Fleece.
JOHN MATTERA
Pirate beads, and a bowl, both recovered from the Golden Fleece.
JOHN MATTERA
Cereal bowl, with uneaten porridge still inside, from the Golden Fleece.
ROBERT KURSON
Table setting fit for a pirate, along with a treasure dessert (on display at the laboratory of the Oficina Nacional de Patrimonio Cultural Subacuático, Santo Domingo).
ROBERT KURSON
Bannister could have taken off a man’s arm with one swipe of this sword (on display at the laboratory of the Oficina Nacional de Patrimonio Cultural Subacuático, Santo Domingo).
JOHN MATTERA
Cannonball recovered from the Golden Fleece wreck site. Note the mark of the broad arrow, a symbol used by the Royal Navy.
JOHN MATTERA
Pirate knife from the Golden Fleece.
KEVIN MORRIS
John Chatterton
JILL HEINERTH
John Mattera
HOWARD EHRENBERG
Hull of the Golden Fleece.