Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story:Research at Brunswick Town/Fort Anderson State Historic Site (BTFA) in Brunswick County, North Carolina revealed a Spanish colonial shipwreck. The only recorded Spanish shipwreck in the area is La Fortuna, and previous research in the area discovered a cannon from the ship nearby. Excitingly, La Fortuna wasn’t the only wreck the ECU team discovered at the site—divers actually came across three more. One of the finds—a collection of fragments of 18th-century Spanish-American ceramics—further supports the hypothesis that the initial wreck was once La Fortuna. For La Fortuna specifically, erosion drastically impacted the wreck site, scattering the ship’s remains across the surrounding area.