AJV Archaeology

The Deadman’s Island and Town Point Shipwrecks are unidentified wrecks that were archaeologically investigated and interpreted as small stripped and abandoned vessels from the British Occupational Period of Pensacola (1763-1781). The wrecks were in an 18th-century British Royal Navy careenage called Old Navy Cove at the landform known as Deadman’s Island near Gulf Breeze, Florida. Documents rediscovered may prove the Deadman’s Island Wreck to be HMS Florida, the last survey schooner of Royal Surveyor and Cartographer George Gauld, and the Town Point Wreck her attendant shallop.
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El Tigre was a French brigantine loaded with merchandise that wrecked during a storm on 16 February 1766, east of Dog Island. The ship was headed to New Orleans from St. Domingue (modern Haiti) when they encountered a storm in the Gulf of Mexico and ran aground on an offshore reef (possibly the modern Dog Island Barrier Reef). The wrecking of Tigre and the survival of an experienced seaman and French merchant Pierre Viaud was published in a 1768, Naufrage et Aventures de M. Pierre Viaud, Natif de Bordeaux, Capitaine de Navire, Histoire véritable, vérifiée sur l’Attestaion de Mr. Sevettenham, Commandant du Fort St. Marc des Appalaches (1768). Pierre Viaud’s narrative describing the loss of Le Tigre was translated to English in 1771 and can be found:
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015078546549&view=1up&seq=6