The guns of Sacramento

The Portuguese galleon Sacramento was one of the great men o'war of the seventeenth century. Like so many others though, her potential was never released. Weighted down with her cargo, a freak storm during her maiden voyage in 1617 drove her onto the rocks of Port Elizabeth where she broke up, a loss that dealt a heavy blow to Portugal's global strategy. This book traces that event, then moves on to the discovery and salvage of the Sacramento by David Allen and colleague Gerry van Nickerk in 1976