In August 1559, eleven ships under the command of Don Tristan de Luna y Arellano sailed into Pensacola Bay, then called Ochuse, to establish a new colony for Spain and stake a claim on the northern Gulf coast. Planned as a city on the edge of the empire, the settlement brought a thousand colonists with livestock, personal possessions, tools, and building materials. A month after their arrival, a powerful hurricane struck the fledgling colony and sank most of the ships, which were being used as floating warehouses for supplies and food. The survivors were eventually evacuated, and the Spanish did not return to Pensacola Bay until 1698. In 1992, archaeologists with the State of Florida discovered one of Luna's ships off Emanuel Point near the entrance to Bayou Texar, and University of West Florida archaeologists found a second nearby in 2006. Investigations uncovered remnants of the doomed colony, including ceramic and metal storage containers, cooking pots, bones from cows and pigs, stone cannonballs, the wheel of a gun carriage, pieces of a suit of armor, wooden tool handles, eating utensils, and the remains of a ship's cat, while the rest of Luna's fleet remains undiscovered.