What Happens to the Urca de Lima in ‘Black Sails’?

Black Sails' version of the Urca de Lima isvery different from the real-lifeship.

She was the flagship of the fleet and carried the most gold out of the entire armada.

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After that, Flint has a plan to recover the treasure in exchange for a pardon for his crimes.

What Was the Real Treasure of the Urca de Lima?

The Urca de Lima also did not carry gold and silver like herBlack Sailscounterpart.

Tom Hopper, Luke Arnold, Toby Stephens & Zach McGowan in Black Sails

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Unfortunately, the fleet ran into a hurricane after departing from Havana.

And you thought walking the plank was inhumane.

For the next fifty years, the wreckage of the ship was heavily salvaged.

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In the 1980s, the state of Florida ceased issuing salvage permits and opened her to the public.

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Follows Captain Flint and his pirates twenty years prior to Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novel “Treasure Island."

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