DID YOU KNOW? The St. Augustine Lighthouse & Maritime Museum has the second oldest carronade in the world! This smaller cannon, weighing in around 440 pounds, is on view in WRECKED! The Story of a Revolutionary War Shipwreck. The ship is believed to be one of the 16 ships that wrecked in this area on Dec. 31, 1782, coming with loyalists that were evacuating Charleston during the Revolutionary War. The Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program discovered this shipwreck and retrieved more than 600 artifacts, many on view here at the St. Augustine Lighthouse & Maritime Museum in the Keepers’ House and the Conservation Lab! From the Conservatory team when they were preserving the Carronade from 2011-2013: Two years of electrolysis also revealed a number etched into the post-side (left-hand) trunnion. You’ll never guess what the number was…it’s 478! The LAMP team isn’t sure if this was actually the weight (because of lost parts and extra corrosion, the carronade is not necessarily at ...