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From August 1895 to January 1897, Antonio Lopez took part in 8 expeditions taking supplies to the Spanish troops fighting against the Cuban “Insurrectos”. With the outbreak of the Spanish American War, Antonio Lopez was used as a blockade runner, to get supplies into Puerto Rico and past the American Navy, which was operating almost in the immediate area.

Coral reefs are aragonite structures produced by living organisms, found in shallow, tropical marine waters with little to no nutrients in the water.

The striking of something that causes the ship to sink, the stranding of the ship on rocks, land or shoal, or the destruction of the ship at sea by violent weather. There are more than 3 million shipwrecks littering the ocean floor, the United Nations estimates.

After she and the Lopez separated the Alicante travelled to southwestern Puerto Rico, only to founder on a reef a few miles away from the town of Parguera, Puerto Rico.

The true and horrifying story of the small Mediterranean island of Malta.