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'''''Cinco Chagas''''' (English: ''[[Five Holy Wounds|Five Wounds]]'') was a [[Portuguese Empire|Portuguese]] ''nau'' ([[carrack]]) that was sunk during the [[action of Faial]] on 22–23 June 1594 during the [[Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604)|Anglo-Spanish War]]. When it was sunk, the carrack was reportedly having a [[Burthen ton|burden]] tonnage of 2,000 tons.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=peUTDQAAQBAJ&q=Cinco+Chagas+carrack&pg=PT143|title=Tropics Bound: Elizabeth's Seadogs on the Spanish Main|last=Dean|first=James Seay|date=2010-09-01|publisher=The History Press|isbn=9780752496689|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xAQHAAAAQAAJ&q=%22Cinco+Chagas+%22&pg=PA294|title=The sea: its stirring story of adventure, peril & heroism. [4 vols., publ. in 40 pt.].|last=Whymper|first=Frederick|date=1883|language=en}}</ref>

== Description and service ==
''Cinco Chagas'' was built in Goa like her famous namesake thirty-two years previously. On her maiden voyage{{Sfn|Boxer|1959|p=109}} in 1593 Francisco de Mello was the captain. Reports suggest that she was overloaded with goods when departing from Goa in 1593. ''Cinco Chagas'' wintered in [[Mozambique]], where it was determined that the ship was in very poor condition. The crew of around 1400 people (including 270 slaves).{{Sfn|Southey|Bell|1833|p=28}} She was sunk during the [[action of Faial]] on 22–23 June 1594 in the [[Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604)|Anglo-Spanish War.]]<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> Before it sank the ship had been set on fire, and over five hundred people were killed.{{Sfn|Southey|Bell|1833|p=32}} The English spared thirteen of the crew.{{Sfn|Boxer|1959|p=109}}

The cargo of ''Cinco Chagas'' (along with the salvaged cargo from the two other ships) was worth well in excess of 2,000,000 ducats, and in addition there were twenty-two treasure chests of diamonds, rubies, and pearls estimated to be worth US$15–20 billion by 2017 values.<ref>{{harvnb|Horner|1971}} on pg 229 quotes $1 billion, but he wrote in 1971 when monetary values were approximately one twentieth of 2017 values.</ref> The prisoners that were saved told their captors that yielding had been impossible as the riches were for the [[Philip II of Spain|king of Spain and Portugal]] and that the captain, being highly in the king's favor, would upon his return have been made viceroy in the Indies.<ref name="autogenerated3">{{harvnb|Amaral|2010}} pp. 45–57</ref>{{rp|56}} Estimates of the ''Cinco Chagas'''s location suggest that it lies in seas over one mile deep in the Atlantic Ocean eighteen miles south of the channel between [[Pico Island]] and Faial along with its precious cargo of diamonds and gems.<ref name="autogenerated4">{{harvnb|Horner|1971}} pg. 229</ref> The wreck has been searched for by treasure hunters but no signs have been found partly due to the depth.<ref>{{cite web|title=Still Sunk: The Last Great Mystery Wrecks of the Ocean Floor|url=https://gizmodo.com/5901902/still-sunk-the-last-great-mystery-wrecks-of-the-ocean-floor|access-date=7 November 2013|work=Gizmodo}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[List of longest wooden ships]]
*[[Madre de Deus]]
*[[Santa Catarina (ship)]]
*[[Henry Grace à Dieu]]
*[[São João Baptista (galleon)]]
*[[Baochuan]]
*[[Ganj-i-Sawai]]
*[[Javanese jong]]

== References ==

=== Citations ===
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=== Bibliography ===
* {{cite book|last=Amaral|first=Melchior Estacio Do|title=Tratado das batalhas e sucessos do Galeão Sanctiago com os Olandeses na Ilha de Sancta Elena: e da náo Chagas com os Vngleses antre as Ilhas dos Açores|year=2010|publisher=Nabu Press|isbn=978-1149563519}} (Portuguese)
* {{cite book|title=Elizabethan Privateering 1583-1603|last=Andrews|first=Kenneth R.|date=3 Jan 1964|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9780521040327|location=Cambridge|pages=180–81}}
* {{Cite book|last=Boxer|first=C. R. (Charles Ralph)|url=http://archive.org/details/unset0112unse_112|title=The tragic history of the sea, 1589-1622 : narratives of the shipwrecks of the Portuguese East Indiamen Saõ Thome ́(1589), Santo Alberto (1593), Saaõ Joaõ Baptista (1622), and the journeys of the survivors in South East Africa|date=1959|publisher=Published by the Hakluyt Society at the University P|others=Internet Archive}}
* {{Cite book|last=Boxer|first=C. R. (Charles Ralph)|url=http://archive.org/details/fromlisbontogoa10000boxe|title=From Lisbon to Goa, 1500-1750 : studies in Portuguese maritime enterprise|date=1984|publisher=London : Variorum Reprints|others=Internet Archive|isbn=978-0-86078-142-4}}
* {{cite book|title=The Treasure Galleons: Clues to Millions in Sunken Gold and Silver|last=Horner|first=Dave|publisher=Dodd, Mead - University of Texas|year=1971|isbn=9780396063780|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/treasuregalleons00horn}}
* {{Cite book|last1=Southey|first1=Robert|url=http://archive.org/details/britishadmiralsw03sout|title=The British admirals. With an introductory view of the naval history of England|last2=Bell|first2=Robert|date=1833|publisher=London, Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans and John Taylor|others=Brandeis University Libraries}}

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