Santa Maria de Visón (de Biscione)

History
Spain
Name:	Santa Maria de Vison
Builder:	Ragusa
Acquired:	Requisitioned for Armada 6 May 1587 at Naples
Fate:	Wrecked 22 September 1588
Status:	wreck
General characteristics
Class and type:	Carrack
Tons burthen:	666 tons
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full-rigged ship
Complement:	70 sailors
Armament:	18 guns of various weights of shot

The Santa Maria de Vison was a Mediterranean merchantman built in Ragusa and requisitioned in 1587 for service in the Armada of 1588. She was a large carrack and displaced 666 tons and carried 18 guns.

Armada service

She was part of the Levant squadron, a unit made up of mainly heavy transports carrying equipment and soldiers for the land invasion of England. Only one of the Levant squadron made it back to Spain. During the voyage half the fleets medical supplies were transferred to this ship after the La Paz became unseaworthy.

Wreck

She was wrecked during a storm on 22 September 1588 of the coast of Cairbre Drom Cliabh (now county Sligo) on a sandbank off Streedagh strand. Her wreck was discovered in 1985 by an English salvage team.[1] The wreck is protected under the National Monuments (Amendment) Acts 1987 and 1994.

References

Birch, Steven; McElvogue, D. M. (1999). "La Lavia, La Juliana and the Santa María de Vison: three Spanish Armada transports lost off Streedagh Strand, Co Sligo: an interim report". The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology. 28 (3): 265–276. doi:10.1016/S1057-2414(99)80050-8.

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[1] Birch, Steven; McElvogue, D. M. (1999). "La Lavia, La Juliana and the Santa María de Vison: three Spanish Armada transports lost off Streedagh Strand, Co Sligo: an interim report". The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology. 28 (3): 265–276. doi:10.1016/S1057-2414(99)80050-8.