Cemiterio dos Ingleses near Punta do Boi

In Camariñas, a dead silence echoes across a windswept headland, where the ocean's cold currents once swallowed the HMS Serpent. Here stands the Cemiterio dos Ingleses - a haunting monument to a harrowing navigational error of the HMS Serpent, which ran aground near the shore of Punta do Boi on November 10, 1890. Three sailors were swept east to the beach of Trece, and they were the only survivors of the disaster.

The priest of Xaviña mobilized the inhabitants to recover and bury the remains of the more than 100 bodies that washed ashore. The cemetery was divided into two parts, one for Catholics and another for Protestants. For half a century after the catastrophe, British warships sailing near the site fired salvas in honor of their comrades.

Today, a stone inscription remains as a testament to the shipwrecks on the Costa da Morte, where eight shipwrecks including the Serpent resulted in 245 deaths. The Cemiterio dos Ingleses is now part of the Ruta Europea de Cemiterios Singulares, standing as a lasting monument to the sailors who never made it home.

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