National Park Service archaeologists uncover vital 18th-century British shipwreck, HMS Tyger, in Dry Tortugas National Park.
The 50-gun frigate ran aground during the Jenkins Ear War between Britain and Spain and it was lost in 1742.The wreckage of the British vessel HMS Tyger from the eighteenth century was located by a team of National Park Service archaeologists inside Dry Tortugas National Park in the United States of America.
“Archeological finds are exciting, but connecting those finds to the historical record helps us tell the stories of the people that came before us and the events they experiences. This particular story is one of perseverance and survival,” said James Crutchfield, park manager, in a During the Anglo-Spanish War, sometimes referred to as the War of Jenkins’ Ear, British ships made landfall in the Florida Keys. HMS Tyger was constructed in 1647 and underwent multiple configuration changes.
HMS Tyger was the first of three British man-of-war vessels to go down near the Florida Keys. Archaeologists had located HMS Fowey and HMS Looe. Tyger was still missing.Archaeologists from Dry Tortugas National Park, the Submerged Resources Center, and the Southeast Archeological Center explored the site in 2021 using leads from historical research. They discovered five cannons about 500 yards from the main wreck site.
The weapons were identified as British six- and nine-pound cannons thrown overboard during HMS Tyger’s initial grounding based on their location, size, and attributes. Archaeologists were able to persuasively argue that the wreck, initially discovered in 1993, was, in fact, the remnants of HMS Tyger after this discovery and reevaluation of the site.
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