As Welsh privateer Henry Morgan approached the San Lorenzo Fort at the mouth of Panama’s Chagres River in 1671, several of his ships wrecked against the Lajas Reef, including Morgan’s flagship Satisfaction. Morgan’s ships ran afoul of a shallow reef and rough waves, on the way to raid Panama City in response to a Spanish attack on English Jamaica. Recently six cannons from one of those shipwrecks were raised.
Well, we are pretty sure that’s what was raised. The wreck was a violent one, strewing iron cannon debris across the reef. That matches with the rough seas we know Morgan’s ships were dealing with. And the varied weaponry found also points to pirates. Pirates used whatever weapons they could purchase or capture, and therefore would have had mismatches, unlike the standardized armory in any royal navy ship.
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