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BBC News By David Wilson media captionIt s 50 years since the City of Derry Sub Aqua Club found the wreck The sand was slowly falling from the gun and all of a sudden I had this feeling of being in a time warp. It was early 1971 and underwater archaeologist Dr Colin Martin was just feet from one of the La Trinidad Valencera s cannon. The Spanish Armada galleon sank in 1588, taken by rough seas off Kinnagoe Bay, in County Donegal. As Dr Martin watched, he quickly realised this was a site of huge importance . Four bronze guns were visible, the wheels from the gun carriages and a couple of anchors. The guns with the (coat of) arms of Philip II, were not only wonderful artefacts in their own right, but reeked of the story of the Armada itself, he told BBC News NI.

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