# @stauglighthouse on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DV9lV56FQgA
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/60109159-stauglighthouse-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-03-16T22:33:57.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** St. Augustine Lighthouse & MM (@stauglighthouse) — https://gondola.cc/stauglighthouse

## Caption

⚓️🚢 Have you discovered the sixteen ships in the Keepers’ House basement cistern? On December 31, 1782, sixteen British Loyalist transport ships, part of a fleet fleeing Charleston, South Carolina, wrecked while trying to enter the St. Augustine inlet in East Florida to escape American forces. These ships, carrying refugees and military, were lost in a severe storm, with many artifacts from the “Storm Wreck” on exhibit at the St. Augustine Lighthouse & Maritime Museum. Lighthouse archaeologists discovered the shipwreck in 2009! 

MORE INFO: staugustinelighthouse.org

#shipwreck #archaeology #americanrevolution #staugustinelighthouse #exhibit

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archaeology, exhibit, staugustinelighthouse, shipwreck, americanrevolution

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