When you talk about treasure galleons most people think of Cuba or the Gold Coast of Florida.

In 1715, pirates launched a major raid on Spanish divers trying to recover gold from a sunken treasure galleon near Florida.

Underwater successes include the fabulous treasures from the Atocha, a Spanish treasure galleon wrecked off the Florida Keys.

In August 1750 a Spanish treasure galleon named Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe sought shelter from a storm on the North Carolina coast.

And then saluted them all and reeled off happily, well-ballasted by gold like a treasure galleon, to bed and Hrenlet.

Pirates raiding the Spanish treasure galleons out of Cuba maintained a settlement on South Andros.

The Atocha was the largest Spanish treasure galleon in a fleet of 28 bound for Spain which sank along with seven others in a hurricane in September of 1622.

The treasure galleons that assembled in Havana's harbor for the return trip to Spain invited many attacks by English, French, and Dutch pirates.

In 1702, during the War of the Spanish Succession, Van Almonde was behind a plan to seize richly-laden Spanish treasure galleons arriving from the West Indies.

All are named after the euphemistic translation of Cacafuego, a Spanish treasure galleon captured by Sir Francis Drake.