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What ship was it?
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Find the answers in our books and articles, photographs and drawings, public and scientifc lectures, museum exhibits, television and radio programs, and now the Web. Share with us some intriguing discoveries from an early 16th-century shipwreck, known as the Molasses Reef wreck, permanently on display in the Turks and Caicos National Museum in the Turks and Caicos Islands.
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The Molasses Reef ship was heavily armed with everything from heavy artillery to crossbows, swords and grenades. Superior armament was a key element in the success of the explorers. Firepower enabled them to impose their will on the peoples they met during their explorations and to defend themselves from similarly-armed privateers and freebooters they often encountered in European waters during the return voyage. |
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