01/30/2023
The St. Augustine Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program - LAMP - is the research extension of the St. Augustine Lighthouse & Maritime Museum. LAMP was founded in 1999 and is recognized across the world as a leading authority on the archaeology of shipwrecks and other maritime sites.
LAMP is one of the few research organizations employing a team of maritime archaeologists that is not a part of a university or government entity. The work this team performs is made possible because of you. As a nonprofit museum, we rely upon your support.
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📸: LAMP Director Chuck Meide helps the LAMP team hoist a cannon recovered from the Storm Wreck in 2011 onto the research vessel, the Roper, during excavations on the wreck.
The Storm Wreck discoveries are considered by many authorities to be the largest, best-preserved and most important collection of American Revolution artifacts ever recovered from a shipwreck site.
The research conducted by the LAMP scientists on the Storm Wreck took place under the ocean, in European archives and in the laboratory. This has led to over a dozen scholarly publications, a National Geographic documentary and a greater understanding of the everyday lives and refugee experience from the dawn of our country's history!
See the WRECKED! exhibit, which includes artifacts from the 1782 British Loyalist shipwreck, in the basement of the Keepers’ House at the St. Augustine Lighthouse & Maritime Museum.
