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Collaboration and Research in Antigua


In October 2022, our ECU Field School partnered with the National Parks Authority of Antigua & Barbuda and the University of the Antilles in Martinique to explore a possible American Revolution-Era shipwreck in Nelson's Dockyard National Park.


This news article discusses the collaborative project in Antigua that our Field School in 2022 participated in alongside partners at the University of the Antilles in Martinique (UA) and the National Parks Authority of Antigua & Barbuda (NPA). This project, led by Dr. Chris Waters (NPA), Dr. Jean-Sébastien Guibert (UA) focused on the suspected wreck of Lyon (formerly named Beaumont), a French East India Company ship that was used as a blockade runner in the American Revolutionary War. The ship was captured by the British vessel HMS Maidstone and taken to the Royal Naval Dockyard in Antigua as a prize.


"We are hoping that with any material culture we find, and mainly the construction of the ship itself, because that’s what remains – the floor timbers, the keelson, the keel, the planking – that we can match it with the French East India Company, which built the Beaumont."



Additional Field School Research

In addition to work on the Tank Bay Wreck (Lyon), our ECU team also examined the surrounding dockyard and fortification structures to gain a better understanding of the vast depth of history in Nelson's Dockyard National Park. What fascinated me the most was the maritime infrastructure of the dockyard that aided in the careening and maintenance of ships in the Royal Navy's Leeward Islands Squadron along with other visiting British vessels. It was a fantastic project with a really great team and the beginning of a productive partnership!

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