Nuestra Senora de la Concepcion

Nuestra Senora de la Concepcion appears in 693. Elizabeth I vs The Catholics: England’s Greatest Hero (Part 3) as the Spanish treasure ship captured by Francis Drake in the Pacific. The source describes it as the great prize of the Golden Hind’s lone Pacific campaign.

The captured cargo includes silver reals, gold, and silver bars. The episode uses the prize to show why Drake’s voyage mattered strategically: he was no longer only raiding Atlantic ports, but entering the Pacific side of Spain’s imperial system and proving Spanish Imperial Monopoly Vulnerability.

The hosts also say Drake treated the captured Spanish captain chivalrously and offered enslaved people aboard freedom and sailors’ wages, adding another contradiction to the source’s portrait of a former slaving participant.

Connections

• Francis Drake, Golden Hind, and Spain - captor, English ship, and target.
• Philip II, Interstate Economic Warfare / 跨国经济战, and Spanish Imperial Monopoly Vulnerability - strategic and financial meaning.
• Atlantic Slave Trade-Privateering Link - moral contradiction around enslaved people on the captured ship.