This week we discuss the sinking of the Spanish vessel San Pedro de Alcantara, which ran aground on the Portuguese coast in 1786.

Sources:

Åkesson, Per. "San Pedro de Alcantara." 1999. https://www.abc.se/~m10354/mar/spa.htm

Baetjer, Katharine. "Jean Pillement: Shipwrecks and the Sublime." Metropolitan Museum Journal, vol. 51, 201, pp. 97 - 107

Blot, Jean-Yves. "Incas em Peniche." História de San Pedro de Alcantara. https://www.abc.se/~pa/mar/spa-histo.htm
^This source, from one of the lead investigators on the wreck site, has a lot of information that we were not able to fit into the episode. Worth the time to explore!

Grant, Jason R. "De Macrocarpaeae Grisebach (Ex Gentianaceis) Speciebus Novis II: Typification of the Ruiz and Pavon Names." Harvard Papers in Botany, vol. 7, no. 2, March 2003, pp. 423 - 436.

Russo, Jorge. "O San Pedro de Alcantara, 1786." 2003.  https://nautarch.tamu.edu/shiplab/baleal-ship-sanpedro.htm

Support the show