Everything about San Telmo Ship totally explained
San Telmo ("Saint
Peter Gonzalez" or "Saint
Erasmus of Formiae") was a Spanish 74-gun
ship of the line, launched in
1788.
In
1819 the
San Telmo commanded by Captain Rosendo Porlier was the flagship of a Spanish naval squadron bound for
Callao (Peru) to reinforce colonial forces there fighting the independence movements in
Spanish America. Damaged by severe weather in the
Drake Passage, south of
Cape Horn, it sunk off in September 1819.
The 644 officers, soldiers and seamen lost onboard the
San Telmo were the first people to die in
Antarctica, as parts of her wreckage were found months later by the first sealers who reached
Livingston Island. Indeed, if somebody of the
San Telmo survived to set foot there they'd be the
first men in History to reach Antarctica.
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