On 9th September 2006, the following press release was issued by the British Department for Culture, Media and Sport:

"Culture Minister David Lammy has today announced the re-designation of the wreck site of the St Anthony, located off Gunwalloe Fishing Cove, Cornwall. This will ensure that the whole of the St Anthony wreck site will now be protected under the Protection of Wrecks Act 1973.

"The St Anthony was a Portuguese merchant vessel and sailed as the flagship of a fleet bound from Flanders. She sank in 1527 in a storm described, in contemporary evidence, as a great and urgent tempest of winds and weather.

"She went down with a mixed cargo including copper and silver ingots and, it is believed, the dowry of Princess Katherine, bride of King John of Portugal and sister of Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor. The cargo manifest still survives.

"Violent disagreements between survivors and local people over salvage from the wreck are extremely well documented, which adds to the historical context of the site. The St Anthony wreck site was discovered in 1981"

Yet apart from the odd artifact, the fate of the vast treasure carried on the Santo Antonio has remained a source of mystery for five hundred years...