Color Dr. Dirt's visit to the excavation of the Spanish Shipwrecks of 1554! Click the image below to open the coloring sheet in a new tab, from which you can download it and print it out.

Then, visit the "The Wreck of the 300" to learn about the San Andrés, San Esteban, Espíritu Santo, and Santa María de Yciar, four Spanish ships carrying old conquistadors, prisoners, merchants, and wealthy citizens on their return home to Spain from Veracruz, Mexico. On their way, the four ships were to stop off in La Havana, Cuba. Only the San Andrés was to reach Havana. The remainder met a disastrous fate off the Texas coast. The story of the shipwrecks and the harrowing trials of the survivors provides one of the earliest and most interesting accounts in Texas history. The discovery and excavation of the ships is also an important story in the history of Texas archeology.