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Podcast: The Mariner's Mirror Podcast
Episode: Iconic Ships 14: The San Juan, 1563
Description: The San Juan was a basque whaling ship that sank in Labrador in 1565, and was rediscovered in 1978.In the autumn of 1565 several Basque whaling ships were anchored in a remote bay of Labrador, opposite the island of Newfoundland. It was the end of the whaling season, and hundreds of sailors were hurrying up to complete their ships’ cargo of oil barrels. Some were flensing the blubber off the dead whales, some working in the rendering ovens while others were taking the oil barrels on board. All that frantic industrial activity was happening in the wilderness, decades bef...