History's Most Incredible Lost Treasure Ships

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[@cleverusername9369]

I like reading the comments under Simon's videos on his various channels because the lore we've created surrounding Simon is hilarious. According to the comments, he 1. Keeps at least 2 people hostage in his basement aka Blazement, Danny and Sam, possibly 3 if we include Peter as a person but apparently Peter is just a houseplant that Simon likes to yell at for confirmation of his opinions, like a crazy person. 2. He possibly has clones of himself to help produce such an insane volume of content. 3. Has phobias of Greyhound Bus, the past (it was the worst) and any system that isn't capitalism. 4. Is deeply skeptical of the paranormal, yet has clearly done a deal with Satan to be able to produce quality content with the rapidity of a man possessed. 5. Lives in Prague, in theory with his wife and kids, but in practice in a tastefully decorated office where he can talk aloud to nobody for hours in peace, and he subsists on a diet of Magic Spoon, coffee, and cocaine (allegedly).

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You know to much .... you've put it all together..... ATA the killer heater is coming for you ..... Allegedly

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When's the goddamn neon getting fixed!!!!

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The Office is in fact..The Blazement...

[@christopherengel7436]

Nice list. To add to number 1. He definitely allegedly has all the Casual Criminalist writers in his basement. I think Jen feeds/beats them. You might be onto something with number 4 Number 5. I don't believe he has a wife & kids allegedly.

[@mfdrew5768]

Simon is essentially an SCP

[@itsapittie]

The General Grant probably deserves a place on this list just because of the bizarre circumstances of its loss. In 1866, laden with gold, it was caught in a storm and swept into a cave in Auckland Island near New Zealand. It slammed up and down inside the cave until the mast drove a hole into the hull and it sank inside the cave. Only 15 of the 65 aboard survived and made their way to a nearby island where they were rescued after 9 months.

[@markjarrett9400]

I agree with you. The last attempt at finding the gold last February failed to find the wreck or the gold.

[@PeterCombs]

How about a Video on the Ming Dynasty TREASURE FLEET... an amazing story, truly.

[@wills2140]

5:02 I would bet the fishermen that pulled up the anchor from Merchant Royal are not telling anybody *where* they found it, lol.

[@ignitionfrn2223]

2:20 - Chapter 1 - The merchant royal 5:25 - Chapter 2 - The flor de la mar 7:50 - Chapter 3 - Las cinque chagas 10:15 - Chapter 4 - The SS Islander - Chapter 5 - - Chapter 6 -

[@stevenjohann5435]

so, if a lifeboat was sposed to carry 40 people, and had only eight who refused to save other humans.........sounds to me like 32 peoples' weight in gold might have been on that lifeboat along with eight now really wealthy survivors..........just sayin.........

[@IainCiplinski]

This may be the best description of Brexit I've ever heard

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[@pamelamays4186]

Magic Spoon: "He likes it! Hey Simon!"

[@busydadscooking001]

I finally checked out magic spoon. I guess they carry it at target, but it costs $9.99 for seven ounces..

[@D3monicus]

As a Portuguese man I just want to make a small correction: we don't use "La" as a way to say "of", hence the correct name is "Flor do mar" and not "flor de la mar". That is a Spanish pronunciation of the name. As for the other ship, it's also incorrect. It's writen "As cinco chagas" or "the five soars" not wounds. It's pronounced (as closely as possible) ash cincu shágash. Love your content. More please!

[@AshurbanipalSonofAshurhaddon]

The name of of the ship in XVI century Portuguese was "Frol de la Mar" (Flor do Mar in modern Portuguese). Languages evolve, don't stay the same forever, in XVI century the Portuguese Language was still graphed in very similar way to other Iberian Languages, and all those languages were still very close to Common Latin.

[@christopherengel7436]

I usually don't comment on Simon's advert's, allegedly. However Simon clearly keeps his Magic Spoon at the office to keep it away from his wife & kids. Nice move Fact-Boy.

[@gyrozeppeli4862]

Honestly yeah, that sounds right and I don't blame our Fact-Boy

[@cleverusername9369]

He also has to feed Danny and Sam downstairs in the Blazement.

[@ericthompson3982]

Excellent allegedly move, there. Well done.

[@Maver1ck911]

Allegedly

[@dexter111344]

Simon stays eating that _🎩_ 🥄.

[@karawooton1024]

The first two at least, since the wreckages haven’t been found, makes me really believe that the crews of these ships-either crew all or in part-decided to take the treasures, demolish, hide, or change the appearance of the ships and then sold them or gave them away and then disappeared themselves. Rich as fuck. Obviously I’m just thinking this. I have beyond zero evidence to back up anything I’m saying. Negative evidence towards that opinion tbh. But whatever lol.

[@jasonhare8540]

I sometimes wonder about that myself . All that temptation down in the hold and just a few officers standing in the way .

[@YeeSoest]

it's the MUCH more intriguing scenario, have you seen the pirate haven in Uncharted ? I want that to be as close to reality as possible

[@trevinwolverine1904]

Maybe they were carried away and/or buried by an underwater landslide

[@Yvolve]

Your theory reminds me of the shipwreck of the Batavia in 1628, off the Australian coast. It wasn't about treasure as much as it was about power. A munity gone wrong led to the ship running aground and absolute horror ensued amongst the survivors. They didn't get away rich as fuck, but still a crazy story. If you want to hear the full story, check out Defragged History, the have a four part series on it.

[@YeeSoest]

@@Yvolve i kinda expected a more...KZbin sized 4 part series than a multi-hour full nighter but...alright, here we go, I have rum in the house...!

[@jeffersonott4357]

This video makes me want to me a nautical treasure hunter. How big the oceans are is so obvious why none of these have ever been found. What’s that famous quote? “We know more about the surface of the moon than we know about the depths of the ocean” paraphrasing, but, damn.

[@aftersexhighfives]

Plus storms move the entire sea bed silt back and forth.

[@goodgame3374]

It's so frustrating how many shipwrecks involve lifeboats leaving the ship while less than half full, "yoiks, see ya"

[@dudeguy4047]

Disappointed Simon didn't cover the sinking of El Cazador in 1784. If El Cazador hadn't sunk, Spain wouldn't have ceded the Louisiana Territory back to France, who wouldn't have flipped it in a sale to Thomas Jefferson, which could have seriously hindered the realization of manifest destiny. If El Cazador had completed its voyage, the United States today might not be a country that stretches from sea to shining sea

[@mynamejeff4142]

Sure we would. We just would have taken it by force.

[@willmfrank]

Don't be disappointed, Dude Guy...Given all the suggestions in these comments, I'm quite sure there will be a video titled "MORE of History's Most Incredible Lost Treasure Ships" somewhere down the line... ;-)

[@Joker-no1uh]

It may not have happened as soon as it did, but how could Spain possibly win a war against the US in their backyard? Especially since Spain couldn't even defeat the US in the Spanish-American war in neutral land and water?

[@jasonhare8540]

I bet that Portuguese captain was just madder than a cat dropped in a bathtub when he realized that he was going to have to sail home overloaded . I have to assume he knew that ship probably wasn't going to make it . I mean assuming he had any experience at all he must have known that was a long shot at best . Like me hooking up my pickup to an train car and trying to pull it . Even if I can get it going how the hell am I supposed to stop it 🤣 *Wait , wait , wait .... Was that cowardly ass crew that abandoned them ever punished in any way

[@yvindwestersund9720]

Simon there are many more shipwrecks in the Caribbean and if you are talking about BIG TREASURES WELL a long the coast of South and sentral America and especially CUBA there are so many that has never been found And in some cases we are dealing with billions of dollars in TREASURES in each shipwrecks and their are maybe more than a hundred of them out there to be discovered just saying 🇧🇻

[@dcj3859]

can you elaborate? what are some of the most valuable shipwrecks around cuba?

[@MichaelWilliamz]

More topics like this please

[@GoodVideos4]

There are of course many other lost treasure ships. I'm in South Africa, and a well known one here is of the Grosvenor. It was a British galleon returning to Britain from India, in the 1700's, and ran aground at the southeast coast.

[@salvadorpalma8173]

Portuguese here. The NAU wasn't called "las Cinque chagas" 2 of those words don't even exist in Portuguese. It was called "Cinco Chagas". We also lost Bom Jesus, with a couple million in gold, but that was found recently. Good Times, when we had gold to sink. Now we sink while trying to stay afloat with empty pockets. THE PAST WAS THE BEST in this case.

[@willmfrank]

On the subject of shipwrecks, I would love to see one of the SimonTube channels (possibly "into the Shadows" 'cause the story's just SO damned dark) cover "The Horrible History Behind This Classic Work of Art" about the incident that inspired Theodore Gericault's painting "The Raft of the Medusa."

[@CYCLONE4499]

I can't wait to see whats in the sunken Spanish galleon San José off the coast of Columbia. The ship, a 64-gun galleon is believed to have been carrying at least 200 tons of treasure, including gold coins, silver coins, and emeralds, worth an estimated up to $17 billion at today's prices.

[@Lumberzach83]

Columbia, Spain, and Bolivia cant settle the feud on who owns it, so supposedly no one has started salvaging it yet.. It makes me laugh; It's been 10 years since they've found it, and its Columbia we're talking about. As corrupt as they are, of course they've been looting it all this time.

[@Twangsk8r]

Simon, how are you doing? I'm still coming off of your latest upload on Casual Criminalist about Sylvia Likens and feeling the after effects of it. Just making sure all is good on your end

[@jeffersonott4357]

Dude, for real. That woman was indeed a vile witch, and that’s such an amazing understatement. So many people are just waiting for a chance to transfer their pain to someone else. That hive mind behavior in that neighbourhood… fudge me.

[@theawesomeman9821]

I wanna be a treasure hunter like Nathan Drake!

[@mm-yt8sf]

i hope the crew that abandoned the passengers got in trouble when the guy who lost his wife reported what happened.

[@TheEvilCommenter]

Good video 👍

[@TheMrVerbal]

If the super healthy cereal wasn't ridiculously expensive, perhaps people would buy more of it.

[@davidthompson6834]

Have you seen how much magic spoon costs

[@eagle1de227]

It actually not food its materialized advertisement...

[@jonnywatts2970]

How much per box of this cereal you push? If it's even close to $10 you're absolutely trippin!

[@edwhatshisname3562]

Yay! Magic Spoon. Because I like the idea of paying $40.00 for 4 boxes of cereal.. It does sound interesting in concept though.

[@celter.45acp98]

I've always wondered if any of the captains & crews of these treasure ships ever said fuck it & just took everything & disappeared to somewhere warm w hoola girls & coconut drinks because if you put me on a ship full kf gold in a big wide world w no cameras & social media 1st thing I'm going to think is how many of these guys would I need to bribe or kill to pull this off

[@katiekane5247]

So I'm not the only one?

[@celter.45acp98]

@@katiekane5247 hell no man it's a pirates life for me

[@jmr0411]

How many videos does this dude make a day?

[@1RavenQueen]

I can’t believe the crew members just left the passengers to die. I hope something happened to them. 🤬

[@TurquoiseInk]

They should have hanged for murder

[@twocvbloke]

It's basically natures way of saying "Nope, it's mine, you cannot have it and I'm taking it back!!!"... :P

[@thokim84]

Transporting gold dust is stupid. Fucking forge it into something at the port. Nuggets I get but gold dust can literally blow away.

[@duncancurtis5971]

The Urca de Lima went down in a storm off Florida late 1600s laden with a ton of loot, that caught the interest of Blackbeard me hearties. Avast ye swabs!

[@mcguirefamily7929]

Please slow down and don't run your words so close together !!!! And this program would be spot on. Thanks for putting this on you tube.!!!

[@davidallen111]

Cereal that does not contain any cereal. Why is it called cereal? How is that legal? Shouldn't they have to call it imitation cereal?

[@67comet]

Win for fast forward... Master irritation hearing people eat cereal, apprentice irritation, watching someone eat cereal..

[@jamesfarquhar8507]

I may actually try these magical spoon cereals, they've no palm oil either! 10 dollars a box isn't even that far off from what regular high quality cereals cost anyways.

[@andrewmalik3737]

Let's get Nathan Drake on it 😄😎🤓

[@Milledright]

havent had a bowl of cereal in about 10 years

[@thejudgmentalcat]

I wonder if "History Channel" execs see this and think, "I smell a series"

[@QBCPerdition]

Of course not, this is factual and well-researched. There isn't an ancient alien, ghost or paranormal aspect at all

[@thejudgmentalcat]

@@QBCPerdition Ah, you've never seen "Curse of Oak Island"? Consider yourself lucky, I watched the first season before I realized I'd been duped

[@QBCPerdition]

@@thejudgmentalcat I actually like Curse of Oak Island. I don't think they'll ever actually find anything. If anything was ever buries there, it was found long ago. But the idea of the treasure on Oak Island has fascinated me since I first heard about it decades ago, so I keep watching in case they actually do find somerhing...though my wife and I did skip a few episodes this last season and didn't feel like we'd missed anything.

[@stargazer5073]

Someone needs to find the treasure of Knights Templar before I die!

[@lino222]

5:28 not "one of the largest", Flor de la Mar was the biggest ship at the time.

[@BillyGunn71]

Simon as you grew up near stablehurst in Kent what about a video about the US Richard Montgomery which was a ww2 munitions ship which met ifs fate of the coast of the isle of sheppy! Would be a great video !! P.s love the work you do but I need to be unemployed to keep up with all the channels lol

[@bhgtree]

Poor Simon, with all those channels and great videos every day......he hasen't even time to have breakfast!

[@Leatherargento]

Yay! Treasure!

[@NolanAlighieri]

Dude, why does this guy have like 100,000 different youtube channels?

[@ceallaig1]

Don't remember carbs but he did a rant on zero sugar recently.

[@TurquoiseInk]

How incredibly selfish of the Douglass crew who stranded and condemned to die people who could have fit on that boat. Neither lawsuits or jail time would be enough to make reparations for their dereliction of duty and their inhumanity.

[@davidhughes4089]

Wasn't it one of Simon's videos talking about the anti-carb myth or am I imagining it? Hope not with him saying zero carbs as a good thing on the cereal sponsorship.

[@PoleToPoleTravel]

Fay-YALL Island is the pronunciation :)

[@Larrysoileau82]

You can hear in Simon's voice that he just doesn't give a shit any more.

[@jeffersonalves3382]

Part 2

[@Hysteresis11]

Magic spoon goes stale before you finish pouring the first bowl...

[@eekee6034]

Whenever I try to up my protein intake, I end up having too much! XD Then again, I'm not the world's most balanced individual.

[@pamelamays4186]

A bottle of Rotting Turtle 🐢 should be included as a prize in specially marked boxes of Magic Spoon. 🪄🥄

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Et tu Simon?

[@batticusmanacleas510]

Portuguese Crusados sound like a Taco Bell special.

[@FaceEatingOwl]

Alpen is the sugariest shizz about. Like 20g per 100g 😅 unless you get the sugar free one 🤢 bleugh. Perhaps you're thinking of Bran flakes, which is basically horse feed.

[@khg8519]

That gold could fight a long war or buy half the world 😉 I don't think the conversion in value has been well thought out

[@ravenhill_of_midsummer_1968]

a pity, it seems magic spoon is based in the u.s and i am in the uk, plus $39 for one box?!! are they having a laugh? it's a rip off.

[@927candace]

It’s $39 for 4 boxes and they do ship to uk and Canada

[@JonnyMack33]

@@927candace roughly £8 a box?!.. if it hasn't got a diamond ring in it, I don't want it.

[@davidthompson6834]

Simon does promote shall we say shitty products

[@927candace]

@jack buff yes that’s about right. I’ve never bought it but I’ve checked it out before. I wouldn’t spend that much on cereal unless like someone just said it has a diamond in it!

[@ravenhill_of_midsummer_1968]

@@927candace that's still a rip off for 4 boxes, its a scam.

[@billmcle]

Looked interesting but, this is only a ad for some food. Don't waste your time with this

[@davidioanhedges]

So the most wealthy of these treasure ships is only worth half a billion, but was considered more than a king's ransom, or the wealth of nations ... this puts into context the 2,668 billionaires today....

[@stargazer5073]

deep searches, use a robot sub

[@TheAllMightyGodofCod]

Are you sure it was named cinque Chagas and not Cinco Chagas? I think there is some sort of confusion on that one.... Also, Bragança de Ç sounds like an S not a Z. Not hard to research that...

[@soggybiscotti8425]

Who the hell watches pirates of the carribbian for the story of lost treasure lol....

[@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan]

That Nazi gold ship that fled Koningsberg loaded with stolen gold and got shot by the allies and sank.

[@tomhenry897]

It was the Soviets

[@EgyptOverseerbb]

Why were the names of the Portuguese ships their Spanish translation instead of their Portuguese names? Yes, it appears they liked to spread riches on the sea floor, but they were Portuguese, not Spanish...

[@johngore7744]

‘Cinq’ ( five in French) is pronounced ‘sank’ not ‘sink’. Thanks from Montreal

[@johngore7744]

My bad it’s not a French ship. Lol

[@mbathroom1]

FIRST! to like, comment and watch!

[@rossheath2128]

2nd lol

[@brynvjones6679]

I shall not return

[@ybing]

plz dont use this background, it makes me think my screen was broken with 3 lines lol

[@nickp1370]

HO-LEE SH!T!! Half a BILLION?!? If that was my gold I would literally lose my mind, like a higher power hated me personally... lmao Of course, if slaves were also on board then they totally deserved it... 👏😄

[@tomhenry897]

An Englishmen hauling gold for the Spanish sinks off England Want to buy a bridge?

[@njd4291]

I hate to see some of my favorite youtubers peddle such shitty sponsors. I know they are just trying to make cash, but it is like a big "FU" to the people that make them their money.

[@travistanner1834]

4th!

[@Pepsi_Addicted]

first

[@jonnywatts2970]

Stop pretending to eat cereal! No milk? Clearly faking! BOOOO

[@scottnunnemaker5209]

🤮 magic spoon is like eating spoonfuls of protein powder.

[@glennhughes1150]

I normally like your show, but nothing gets me to turn you off faster then when I have to listen to you eat making smacking noises. As soon as I hear Magic spoon I know I’m going to hear eating noises and immediately turn you off.

[@BillyGunn71]

Simon as you grew up near stablehurst in Kent what about a video about the US Richard Montgomery which was a ww2 munitions ship which met ifs fate of the coast of the isle of sheppy! Would be a great video !! P.s love the work you do but I need to be unemployed to keep up with all the channels lol