Lost 1605 - Spanish merchant nao
Little has been published about this site, so some details are uncertain. If you can add to its story, please email info@shipwrecks.bm.
Berg's 1991 guide lists a Spanish merchant nao, the Santa Ana, homeward bound from Honduras to Cadiz with a mixed cargo that included exotic woods, as lost at Bermuda in 1605. A wreck in shallow water off the West End has long gone by her name, but Berg is careful to say that it has never been positively identified - the name is an assumption, not a proven match.
If the date is right, she would have been one of the many Spanish ships that came to grief on Bermuda's reefs while the island was still uninhabited. Homeward-bound Spanish shipping followed the Gulf Stream north past Bermuda before turning east for Spain, and the reefs claimed a steady toll in the century before English settlement in 1612 - among them the San Pedro (1595-96) and, later, the San Antonio (1621), both of which have their own pages on this site.
Beyond Berg's short entry, no published account of the Santa Ana's loss, her crew or her cargo has been found, and she does not appear in Hume's Shipwreck! (1995) or in the Government's list of open and restricted wrecks.
Berg (1991) describes the wreck known as the Santa Ana as lying in about 12 ft off the West End.