Initially the Santísima Trinidad was, at a load capacity of 2,000 tons, a legendary toilet bowl filled to the brim with the most ponderous riches ever trafficked on the high seas, roughing the monsoons with her fifty feet and six-inch monster of a bulk on the widest side and stretching out prow to stern as a hundred and sixty-seven-foot corpse of teak and molave. She was definitely an engineering nightmare, yet the unusual durability of Philippine hardwood made her a formidable moving fortress, a leviathan incapable of breach by the impact of an average cannonball. Listen to the audio to find out more about this giant wonder that is part of Alvin dela Serna Lopez's upcoming novel '1762'.

Alvin dela Serna Lopez

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