ABSTRACT

The Deadman’s Island (8SR782) and Town Point (8SR983) shipwrecks are unidentified vessel remains that were archaeologically investigated and interpreted as small stripped and abandoned vessels from the British Occupational Period of Pensacola (1763–1781). The wrecks are located in an 18th-century British Royal Navy careenage called Old Navy Cove at the landform known as Deadman’s Island near Gulf Breeze, Florida. Contemporary documents, both reanalysed and 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 Florida’s attendant shallop.

摘要

Deadman's Island (8SR782) 和 Town Point (8SR983) 沉船是身份不明的船只残骸，经考古调查并解释为彭萨科拉英国占领时期（1763-1781 年）的小型被剥离和废弃的船只。沉船位于佛罗里达州海湾微风附近被称为死人岛的地形上，位于 18 世纪的英国皇家海军军舰旧海军湾。重新分析和重新发现的当代文件可能证明亡人岛沉船是 HMS Florida，皇家测量师和制图师 George Gauld 的最后一艘勘测纵帆船，以及 Town Point Wreck Florida的随行小鱼。