The ship Madre de Dios (Mother of God) was a Portuguese carrack that in August of 1592 was captured by an English fleet in a minor episode of the Anglo-Spanish war of 1585-1604; the union of Spain and Portugal under the unique reign of Felipe II motivated that the Portuguese ships were also objective of the English corsairs. The 1600-ton ship returned from the East Indies loaded with jewels and spices valued at one million pounds sterling when it was intercepted at the height of the island of Flores in the archipelago of the Azores by six ships of the English army that attacked and captured easily; in the first moments after their approach the rattle was sacked by the English sailors, which later would motivate conflicts between them by the distribution of the booty. After its capture the ship was taken to England. Bibliography
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