New Maritima Press
New Maritima Press was founded to give the public the opportunity to learn about the 1750 Spanish Fleet and its contribution to history. After 45 years of extensive research in libraries and archives here and abroad, John Amrhein, a maritime historian, has finally assembled this amazing history into three books. What is remarkable is that this fleet was responsible for two classics in children’s literature, which have both been made into movies: Misty of Chincoteague and Treasure Island.
The story of the 1750 fleet is ongoing. The author is leading efforts to have La Galga, which is the legendary galleon that brought the wild horses to Assateague Island, excavated and displayed in a museum. Today, the wreck is buried in the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge and sits just as she was left in 1750, buried in a forgotten inlet.
The Hidden Galleon: The True story of a Lost Spanish Ship and the Wild horses of Assateague Island
The author takes the reader through a well-documented history of the Spanish galleon La Galga and her captain, Don Daniel Huony. La Galga wrecked upon Assateague Island on September 5, 1750, and the preponderance of the evidence says the wild horses that roam Assateague today came from this shipwreck.
The author takes the reader through his fruitless hunt for the shipwreck, only to find it is buried in the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge. This shipwreck was the center of an admiralty suit that awarded an American ship called Sunbeam to the Kingdom of Spain.
Treasure Island: The Untold Story
The Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe that traveled with La Galga, became disabled and was towed into Ocracoke Inlet, North Carolina. Her treasure was offloaded onto two English sloops, only to have it stolen by Owen Lloyd and his one-legged brother, John. The treasure was buried on Norman Island, in the British Virgin Islands, but was soon recovered by looters and scattered around the Caribbean. This true-life drama inspired Robert Louis Stevenson to write Treasure Island.
Hard cover is out of print but paperback is planned.
The Con Man and the Deep State Galleon
The author records the history of La Galga and the documentary evidence of why La Galga is buried in the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge. The government refuses to allow archaeological verification of the site the author has pinpointed for them. Proof that La Galga lies in the mound of sand indicated by the author will undermine the legal precedent found in the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals Sea Hunt decision of 2000. To take the spotlight off La Galga, the federal government has refused to recognize any association of the wild horses with this legendary shipwreck.
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