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Above: After Hurricane Michael, the remains of two vessels resurfaced on Dog Island. Photo taken by Captain Terry Martin with Gritwater Outfitters USA
Left: The Norwegian bark "Vale"; the Norwegian bark "Jafnhar"[or Jafnar]; and the American schooner "James A. Garfield" (in background at the far right). From the State Library & Archives of Florida
the sand, making it impossible for him to take measurements sufficient for comparison. Without such information, he cannot attempt an identification and explains, “It did appear to be fairly large, perhaps a 800- to 2,000-ton ship. There are many ships that would fit that profile, but without more information, we simply cannot say more.”
Perhaps the two most historically significant wrecks are Le Tigre, a French merchant brigantine lost in 1766 enroute
to New Orleans from Haiti, and the HMS Fox, lost in 1799. There were few survivors following Le Tigre’s foundering just offshore Dog Island, and those who did survive experienced a harrowing ordeal after finding their way across St. George Sound to the mainland, and then getting lost in the Apalachicola forest for 81 days. Pierre Viaud, an experienced French sea captain sailing onboard Le Tigre, survived and
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