Missing 16th-century Spanish armada cannon recovered by police

Bronze cannon disappeared from seabed, where it had lain for 425 years, the day after it was discovered

Spanish police have recovered a 16th-century bronze cannon that may have been carried on one of the warships in the ill-fated second Spanish armada, a fortnight after it went missing from the seabed where it had lain for more than 400 years.

A group of shellfish catchers came across three cannon in the sea off the Galician town of Ribeira in north-west Spain while out looking for goose barnacles in mid-April. But when the regional authorities and the navy arrived to salvage the cannon the following day, they found only two.