Santo André

The ship Nossa Senhora do Rosário e Santo André was launched in 1733 and was armed with 50 pieces of artillery. In April 1735, she sailed from Portugal bound for India under the command of captain Antônio Jozeph de Miranda Henriques, in the company of the ship Nossa Senhora da Madre de Deus. She was returning to Portugal with a valuable cargo of pepper, cinnamon, wine, silk, many crates of blue and white tableware and barrels of incense. The ship also carried many kilos of zimbro, cowrie shells used as currency in Africa to buy enslaved people; these shells were removed and sold in Salvador. On 9 May 1737 she arrived at the port of Salvador, where she was to unload part of the cargo, take on items such as animal hides and resupply for the return to Europe. With her mooring lines burned, she ran aground on Jequitaia beach; there was an attempt to tow her to Boa Viagem, but she ran aground on the reefs in front of the Mont Serrat fort and sank on 10 May 1737, burned down to the waterline, at about four years of age.

In 1975, divers from Salvador located and explored the remains and removed a large amount of porcelain. With authorization from the Navy, Walter Andrade reportedly removed more than two truckloads of porcelain from the wreck, as well as cannons. Very little remained at the site.

The remains lie about 200 m from the Blackadder wreck, at a gap in the coastal reef line. Iron cannons still lie in a sand pocket, and on the surrounding sand there is a line of ballast stones, timbers from the frame and many shards of blue and white porcelain, as well as cowrie shells.