[3] In October 1780, Junon sailed from Martinique to St. Vincent towing a schooner to deliver hospital supplies to the island, which had recently come under French control.

Junon anchored beneath the cliffs in Kingstown Harbour and, due to a broken barometer, had no warning when the island was struck by a hurricane.

From December 1997 to January 1998 the Junon shipwreck was investigated by an archaeological team sponsored by the Institute of Maritime History and Florida State University and directed by David Johnson and Chuck Meide.

Confirmation that the wreck was that of the Junon came over twenty years later after the discovery of archival documents in France by archaeologist Jean-Sébastien Guibert of the University of the French Antilles.

[4][5][6] Guibert, Jean-Sébastien, Hélène Botcazou, Chuck Meide and Christopher K. Waters 2022 Preliminary Report: Naval Shipwrecks in the West Indies During the American Revolution (1774-1783).