Events

What: 18th century British Royal Navy reenactment Who: The crew of HMS Falcon When: Saturday, November 27th, 9:00 am to 6:00 pm Where: St. Augustine Lighthouse & Museum Come visit the Lighthouse on Saturday and enjoy the colorful characters of the crew of HMS Falcon, a local group of reenactors. They are a group of interpretive history volunteers reenacting mainly at the Castillo de San Marcos and Fort Matanzas National Monuments in St. Augustine, Florida. [...]

Presentation Title: Harvesting the Wind at Sea: Evolution of Sailing Vessels from Ancient Seafaring to the Twentieth Century Speaker: Dr. David Switzer, LAMP Research Associate and Professor Emeritus of History at Plymouth State University When: Wednesday, November 3rd, 7:00 to 8:00 pm Where: Anastasia Galley (upstairs in Keepers’ House), St. Augustine Lighthouse & Museum Free and open to the public! […]

Father Tom Willis, pastor of the Cathedral-Basilica of St. Augustine, offers blessing to the research vessel Desmond Valdes during the annual Palm Sunday ceremony. For the first time, LAMP participated in St. Augustine’s traditional Blessing of the Fleet ceremony yesterday. This tradition, which once saw hundreds of trawlers decorated with flags gathering in Matanzas Bay in hopes of a bountiful shrimp harvest, has been carried out in St. Augustine since at least 1946, and draws [...]

The 2010 Northeast Florida Symposium on Maritime Archaeology will be held from March 17 through March 20th. As usual, the Symposium will feature speakers from around the country who will give presentations related to underwater archaeology and maritime history research projects in St. Augustine and around the world. This year we are partnering with the St. Augustine Historical Society to bring you “St. Augustine and the Sea II,” the sequel to St. Augustine and the [...]

Join us this Friday and Saturday, February 26-27, as we celebrate the rich maritime history of our nation’s oldest port. The St. Augustine and the Sea symposium is sponsored by the St. Augustine Historical Society, the Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program (LAMP), the St. Augustine Lighthouse and Museum, and the City of St. Augustine. All events are free and open to the public! For a full schedule of speakers, please continue reading below . . . [...]

Presentation Title: Blood in the Inlet: St. Augustine and its History With Pirates Speaker: Brendan Burke, LAMP When: THIS WEDNESDAY, December 9th, 7:00 to 9:00 pm Where: Flagler Auditorium (west of the Lightner Museum), St. Augustine […]

The LAMP corral is much improved thanks to…the US Coast Guard?! No, we weren’t issued a citation for being hazardous to navigation but it certainly looks like there are preparations for an inspection. Over a couple weekends, we have been working with a solid bunch of guys who are in the process of becoming the Coast Guard’s newest addition to the Goat Locker. […]

Presentation Title: Florida's Fleet: An Ebb Tide of Shrimping Speaker: Brendan Burke Time: Tuesday, September 1st, 2009, 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm Place: Flagler Room, Flagler College, downtown St. Augustine Join Brendan Burke, Maritime Archaeologist at LAMP (Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program) in St. Augustine, as he presents the findings of a recent oral history and archival research project concerning the area's long and active shrimping and shrimp boat building industries.

For the first time ever, LAMP and the St. Augustine Lighthouse & Museum hosted a float in the annual St. Augustine Easter Parade! Our theme was Shrimping in Our Nation’s Oldest Port, and to this end we towed a wooden boat with classic lines rigged in a manner reminiscent of traditional shrimp trawlers of the 1920s and 30s, the dawn of the shrimping era in St. Augustine. Not only did we have a great time, [...]