A supertyphoon also hit Marinduque in 1617, and seven victorious galleon that fought in the famous Battle of Playa Honda were on their way to the Marinduque shipyards for repairs. All of them were sank, hit hard by the superbagyo.
“…In October of 1618 the Dutch were back at the entrance of Manila Bay with five warships. Once again the colony was placed under the hard necessity of building ships to send against them, for the seven victorious galleons of Playa Honda, every one of them, had been lost in a storm while on their way for repairs to the Marinduque shipyards… - The Jesuits in the Philippines, Horacio de la Costa, (page 339).
There were definitely several shipyards in Marinduque in those days. We're still into finding their specific locations through physical and documentary evidence.
Previously, I have written: Tungkol sa malaking trahedya noong 1617, 404 years ago!
Naisulat na ang naganap sa Karagatan ng Marinduque noong 1617 sa panahon ni Geronimo de Silva ang "pinakamatinding trahedya na nangyari noong kapanahunan niya" nang lumubog ang anim (sic) na galleons sa lugar na ito. Kung ganoon, hindi mawawalan ng mga pinaglumaang dokumento tungkol dito maliban sa nahalukay kong sulat ni Alonso Fajardo de Tenza (sa Blair and Robertson), kay Felipe II, Agosto 10, 1619, kung saan kinumpirma niya ang pangyayari.
May kakulangan nga lamang sa
mga detalye ang kanyang naisulat na mahalaga naman para sa mga mag-aaral ng
kasaysayan, lalo na sa mga interesado sa shipwrecks.
May isa pang liham na pinadala pa rin ni Fajardo kay Felipe II eksaktong isang taon o Agosto 10, 1618, bago niya ipinadala ang sulat na nabanggit sa itaas. Sa salin sa Ingles ng bahagi ng sulat ay ganito ang nakalagay:
Letter to Felipe
III from Alonso Fajardo de Tenza, Agosto 10, 1618
"After our
aforesaid misfortunes the six galleons that were to be fitted up at the
shipyards were, while going there, overtaken by a hurricane, and were all
wrecked, together with seven hundred persons whom, it is said, they were
carrying—namely, natives, Sangleys, and Spanish sailors and shipbuilders, and
some infantrymen—besides those who escaped, who were very few. Consequently,
these islands were left without any naval forces and with few enough on land,
by the above-mentioned disaster and the many private persons who died on the
expedition to Sincupura or Malaca. The result was very great sorrow to the
citizens, because of these troubles.."
Sa sinulat naman ni Bennett, na nakuha naman
niya sa iba pang source na nabasa ko na, napakaikli ng nasabi tungkol sa mga lumubog na galleong ito
sa Tablazo ng Marinduque. Tungkol sa anim na barko, narito ang karagdagan
niyang palagay:
