3/19/24 Report - Sunken Old Warship Off Florida Identified. Late Night Beach Hunt Find. Morning Erosion Started.

 

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of the Treasure Beaches Report.

The shipwreck was initially located in 1993 off of Key West, but new research by archeologists has confirmed definitive evidence that the wreck is indeed the 50-gun frigate HMS Tyger, the National Park Service said on Thursday.

The ship sank on Jan. 13, 1742, after it ran aground on the reefs of the Dry Tortugas during the Anglo-Spanish War, a nine-year conflict between Britain and Spain, officials said. Old logbooks described how the crew "lightened her forward" — presumably by offloading heavy equipment — after initially running aground, briefly refloating the vessel and then sinking...

Archeologists in 2021 surveyed the site and found five cannons, weighing between 6 and 9 pounds, about a quarter mile from the main wreck site. Experts were finally able to determine they were indeed cannons thrown overboard when the warship first ran aground. Based on this, archaeologists have concluded the wreck first located in 1993 was in fact HMS Tyger...

About 300 crewmembers were on board HMS Tyger when it wrecked, and the survivors spent 66 days marooned on an island of what is now Garden Key, park officials said...

Below is the link for more about that, but when you use the link the first thing you will see is an unrelated video, which shows 1715 Fleet coins being found on a beach.  The warship story is below that.

Warship identified off Florida coast 3 centuries after it sank (msn.com)

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Emily Bzdyk and a friend were combing a deserted Maryland beach late on a Saturday night earlier this month when the beam of her headlamp cut across what looked like a bone near the rippling tide line.

Fossil hunters like the pair have been pulling prehistoric shark and skate teeth as well as bone shards of other long extinct sea animals from the Calvert Cliffs along the Chesapeake Bay for years. But what Bzdyk had stumbled upon was rare — and possibly unprecedented.


The sand had pulled back from the clay underlying the beach, Bzdyk said, revealing the fragment. When she took a closer look, she noticed another bit of exposed bone. A pattern emerged: It looked like a large skull, measuring roughly 2½ feet long and weighing about 50 pounds...

Here is the link.

Late at night on a deserted beach, she found a 15 million-year-old fossil (msn.com)

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Surf Chart from Surfguru.com.

If you look out your window this morning, you'll see a blowy day.  

The wind is from the north as a front comes through, and the surf is from the north too.

There was a one-to-two-foot cut, as I expected along the front beach of both John Brooks and Frederick Douglass beaches.  Other beaches will show some erosion as well.  A fair number of modern items were found.

I'll try to upload the photos by tomorrow.

Here is a quick one just to give you the idea.

John Brooks Two-Foot-Cut on Front Beach Tuesday Morning Before Low Tide

The low tide is late morning.

Good hunting,

Treasureguide@comcast.net

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Maybe you've heard the saying, "The more you know, the more you know you don't know."  The saying is attributed to Aristotle, but he probably got it from some fellow in a bar in Macedonia.  Eistein said it a little differently, "The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know."  

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