The HMS Tyger ran aground in 1742 and its crew narrowly escaped.
National Park Service officials have spent years trying to identify the wreckage A British warship that sunk three centuries ago has been identified off the Florida coast. HMS Tyger, sometimes spelt Tiger, was first launched in 1647 before sinking near the Dry Tortugas as it sailed towards Cuba less than a century later. The 130-foot wreckage was discovered near Garden Key, the second largest of the islands, in 1993.
In 2021, five cannons were found about 500 yards away from the wreckage – archaeologists recently matched these to logbook entries for the ship which describe how the crew ‘lightened her forward’ after running aground. This ‘almost definitely’ proves they’re the very cannons thrown overboard. ‘This discovery and reevaluation of the site led archaeologists to make a sound argument that the wreck first located in 1993 was the remains of HMS Tyger,’ the National Park Service said.
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