Urca de Lima is a Spanish shipwreck (which sank in 1715) near Fort Pierce, Florida, United States.

In January 1715 Lima y Melo was promoted to captain of Santísima Trinidad by Ubilla and the ship got new masts and a hull cleaning.

The Spanish ships carried various goods from the Americas and from East Asia (via Mexico), a large amount of gold bullion and about 14 million pesos of silver.

[4] Urca de Lima, however, did not carry any gold or silver for the Spanish crown but mostly goods such as cowhides, chocolate, sassafras, incense and vanilla.

[5] Urca de Lima fared better than the other Spanish ships, as she managed to steer into a river inlet near Fort Pierce, where she grounded on a sandbank but with the hull remaining intact.

[2][6] The survivors on the beach were organized by Admiral Francisco Salmón, who later oversaw the salvage operations continuing until April of the following year as well.

After Urca de Lima's cargo was salvaged, she was burned down to the waterline to hide her position from pirates and privateers of other nations, who had become aware of the sunken treasure fleet as well.

The river inlet in which Urca de Lima originally grounded, however, did not exist anymore due to changes in the coastline.

[2] Urca de Lima is mentioned in the television series Black Sails (2014) as the main treasure the pirates are seeking.