Antonio López

Antonio López was a Spanish merchant steamship built in Scotland for the Compañía Transatlántica Española, registered at Barcelona, and named for the company’s founder. In June 1898, while carrying military supplies from Cádiz toward San Juan, it tried to break the American blockade of Puerto Rico during the Spanish–American War. On June 28, after being pursued and shelled by the auxiliary cruiser USS Yosemite during fighting with a small Spanish squadron, the ship ran aground at Ensenada Honda. Although the vessel was lost, nearly all of its cargo was salvaged. The wreck off Dorado is now an archaeological site and the only known Spanish shipwreck in US waters from that war.

Puerto Rico · United States