The Investigation of the Anniversary Wreck, a Colonial Period Shipwreck Lost off St. Augustine, Florida: Results of the 2017 Excavation Season (original) (raw)
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2013
In 2009 Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program (LAMP) archaeologists discovered the buried remains of a colonial-era shipwreck (8SJ5459) while testing a magnetic target near St. Augustine’s relict 18th century inlet. Systematic excavations were conducted in the summers of 2010 and 2011, in conjunction with LAMP’s annual field school and carried out from RV Roper on loan from the Institute of Maritime History. Despite particularly challenging diving conditions of poor visibility and strong surge, sixteen square meters of the site have been fully or partially excavated to date, revealing a wide array of ship fittings and equipment, armament, cargo items, and personal possessions. Most artifacts encountered, including the ship’s bell and two out of six cannons, have been recovered for analysis and conservation in LAMP’s laboratory facilities. This paper will overview the methodology used for excavation and data recovery and the preliminary findings of ongoing analyses of recovered material culture.
2010
As part of the First Coast Maritime Archaeology Project, in 2007 and 2009 LAMP (Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program, the research arm of the St. Augustine Lighthouse & Museum) undertook an archaeological investigation of a double shipwreck site (8SJ3310) off St. Augustine, Florida. The two wrecks, one steam and one sail, are believed to date to the nineteenth century and are located adjacent to the historic inlet on what was known as the “North Breakers.” While researchers in the 1990s were primarily interested in recording extant steam machinery, recent research has focused on the ballast pile situated just meters away. In June and July 2009, a meter-wide trench was excavated across the ballast pile, exposing well-preserved and substantial hull remains but relatively few artifacts. Over three tons of ballast stone were recovered, sampled, and returned to their original provenience on the seafloor. This paper discusses the results of the 2009 investigation.
Underwater Archaeology Proceedings 2016, Advisory Council on Underwater Archaeology (ACUA)., 2016
The Storm Wreck was discovered in 2009 by the Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program (LAMP) near St. Augustine's historical inlet. Excavations were conducted 2010-2015 in conjunction with LAMP's field summer school. A wide range field summer school. A wide range fi of artifacts, including personal items, household items, tools, ship fittings and rigging, cookware, tableware, artillery, fittings and rigging, cookware, tableware, artillery, fi and firearms, were recovered for conservation at the St. Augustine Lighthouse & Maritime Museum. The wreck has been identifi identifi identi ed as one of 16 British ships lost on 31 December 1782, part of the last fied as one of 16 British ships lost on 31 December 1782, part of the last fi fleet evacuating British troops and Loyalist fleet evacuating British troops and Loyalist fl refugees from Charleston, SC, at the end of the Revolutionary War.
Broward County Shipwreck and Marine Archaeological Inventory: Phase 1
2007
Study of the marine archaeological resources of metropolitan Fort Lauderdale along its Atlantic coastal barrier islands, Port Everglades, New River, New River Sound, Stranahan River, Intracoastal Waterway and related area waters. Grant assistance provided by the Florida Division of Historic Preservation, Historic Preservation Small Matching Grant No. S0746.
2014
for spending a long Saturday stuffing thousands of envelopes. I want to thank my parents, Robert and Mary Lou Mires, whose support and encouragement has always allowed me to pursue my goals. Finally, I want to thank my wife, Carolyn, and my daughter, Sarah Baker Mires, who have been beyond patient, understanding, encouraging and supportive during this journey. Thank you. TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF TABLES ……………………………………………………………………….. viii LIST OF FIGURES ……………………………………………………………………….. xii LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS……………………………………………………………….. xvi CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION…………………………………………………………... Introduction…………………………………………………………………………..
2001
Maritime activity in the Gulf of Mexico underwent a series of rapid and substantial changes throughout the 19th century. As territorial Florida opened to an influx of settlers, shipping increased dramatically, dominated by a new type of cargo, that of bulk commodities. A series of ports—among them St. Marks and Newport—were established along the St. Marks River to accommodate the expanding cotton, naval stores, and lumber trade. These towns became a communication and commercial nexus between territorial Florida and the industrial and economic centers of the rest of America and Europe. But with a suddenness matching its rise, this trade system would collapse in the St. Marks region, even while it continued to thrive elsewhere. Sometime around the height of this maritime commerce, probably in the 1840s, a sailing merchant ship burned to the waterline near old Fort St. Marks. After the fire was extinguished, whatever cargo that survived was salvaged, and the hull itself was attacked in order to remove as many fasteners and fittings as possible. After this, she lay forgotten for over a century. In March 1992, the site, designated the San Marcos Shipwreck (8WA501), was visited and mapped by students in the Florida State University (FSU) Department of Anthropology class ANT 4131: Techniques of Underwater Site Research. In the summer of 1998, FSU researchers returned to the site as part of the Clovis Underwater ’98 underwater archaeology field school. The extant hull remains were completely excavated and documented, and some 223 artifacts were recovered for analysis and conservation. The purpose of this thesis is to present the results of the archaeological excavation and analysis of the San Marcos Shipwreck, and to place that data into a socio-historical context in order to gain insight into the emerging system of 19th century maritime commerce. The remains of this ship are a reflection of the cultural system that produced it, and of the activities and ideologies of a highly specialized traditional subculture, that of the sailing merchant seaman. As such, its study has provided information about general processes of human behavior in a setting of dynamic technological, social, and economic change.
Awash in Tales of Treasure: Modern Perceptions of Florida's Colonial Spanish Shipwrecks
Focusing specifically on shipwrecks along the coast of Florida, modern conceptions of colonial Spanish history as dominated by wealth and treasure have created a 21st century tourism economy reliant on historical inaccuracy, where richer histories on day-to-day life in colonial Spanish Florida commonly come second to stories of sunken treasure. To explore these perspectives on colonial Spanish shipwrecks in the state, this paper reviews a variety of examples from popular culture in the last ten years (2004-2014), including those from mass media, cultural ephemera, online discussion forums, and public websites. Analysis of each example will include a consideration of cultural context, the quality of information on colonial Spanish history, and historical “myths,” if any, put forward.