HMS Tyger was the first of three British warships to sink off the Florida Keys, the park service said. Archeologists previously identified the locations for HMS Fowey and HMS Looe.

HMS Tyger is protected by the Sunken Military Craft Act of 2004. The HMS Tyger being identified as a British naval vessel adds additional protection under the Sunken Military Craft Act of 2004, ...

The HMS Tyger was the first of three British war vessels to become engulfed in the Florida Keys. The other two, HMS Fowey and HMS Looe were both identified by archaeologists, ...

Although the discovery of the naval vessel HMS Tyger dates back to 1993 in Dry Tortugas National Park, it has now been positively identified, which provides additional protection under the Sunken ...

The 130-foot HMS Tyger, which had been around since about 1647, patrolled waters off Florida and chased Spanish ships into the Gulf of Mexico during an Anglo-Spanish conflict known as the War of ...

The HMS Tyger was a Fourth-Rate, 50-gun frigate built in 1647. It sank in 1742 after running aground on the reefs of the Dry Tortugas while on patrol in the War of Jenkins Ear between Britain and ...

An 18th-century British warship was miraculously discovered by divers from the National Park Service in the Florida Keys after it sunk during the Anglo-Spanish War in 1742.

The remains of a 300-year-old British warship found 30 years ago in the waters off Florida have finally been identified as belonging to HMS Tyger by US archaeologists.. The Tyger came to rest in a ...

Despite reaching the safety of dry land, matters only became more difficult for HMS Tyger’s crew of roughly 300 men. Marooned for more than two months on Garden Key, they battled heat ...

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 ...

A sunken 18th-century British warship involved in a "historic shipwreck" has been identified, National Park Service archeologists in Florida said. The "HMS Tyger" is the name of the warship ...