 Reports of the content of the cargo vary - wilder accounts talk of chests of silver, more sober academic accounts suggest it was silks and spices.Norman Island has also been the subject of many local rumours, which may well be connected with the story of "Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe".One of the more famous ones relates to a member of the Chalwell family had been fishing near Norman Island in 1915 and took shelter in one of the caves on the Western coast of Norman Island during a storm.