After the ship sank in 1742, the 300 crew members were stranded on a desert island.
An 18th-century warship has been discovered in the waters surrounding Dry Tortugas National Park in the Florida Keys.The remains of the British ship, the HMS Tyger, were analyzed within the boundaries of the national park. From their observations, archeologists confirmed that the wreck was the warship long suspected to have sunk here.Their findings were published in The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology.
It also appears that the cannons were British and had been thrown overboard when the ship first ran aground on the reefs.All of these finds provide evidence of the HMS Tyger.'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 experienced,' Dry Tortugas Park Manager James Crutchfield said in a statement. 'This particular story is one of perseverance and survival.
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