Hunting HMS Tyger, 1742: Identifying a Ship-of-the-Line in Dry Tortugas National Park
In 1742, HMS Tyger, a 95-year-old, 50-gun ship-of-the-line, was the first of three British men-of-war to sink in the Florida Keys during the War of Jenkin’s Ear. Lost while menacing Spanish shipping transiting the Straits of Florida, Tyger and its 300 crew ran aground and were marooned for 66 days i...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2024
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| In: |
The international journal of nautical archaeology
Year: 2024, Volume: 53, Issue: 1, Pages: 103–122 |
| Further subjects: | B
Prospección y excavación
B Survey and excavation B hou zhong shi ji B Caribe B Caribbean B Post Medieval B jia lei bi de qu B mnṭqa ālbḥr ālkārībī B mā bʿd ālʿṣūr ālūsṭā B diao cha yu fa jue B msḥ ālāʾrāḍī ūālḥfāīʾr |
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| Summary: | In 1742, HMS Tyger, a 95-year-old, 50-gun ship-of-the-line, was the first of three British men-of-war to sink in the Florida Keys during the War of Jenkin’s Ear. Lost while menacing Spanish shipping transiting the Straits of Florida, Tyger and its 300 crew ran aground and were marooned for 66 days in what is now Dry Tortugas National Park in the United States. One site identified and partially documented by members of the U.S. National Park Services Submerged Cultural Resource Unit (NPS SCRU) in the mid-1990s was only tentatively identified as Tyger based on preliminary evidence. This paper presents new findings based on recent historical and archaeological research to prove that a foreign warship perished within what would become one of the most isolated National Parks in the United States. |
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| ISSN: | 1095-9270 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The international journal of nautical archaeology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/10572414.2023.2263793 |
