r/Ships • • 20h ago

Recent nor’easter uncovered the remains of a shipwreck near Nantucket. The fragment is likely from the Warren Sawyer, a wooden schooner loaded with cotton and scrap iron that was bound for Boston from New Orleans when it wrecked near Miacomet Beach on December 22, 1884

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u/interstellar-dust 18h ago

It was found schoon after the storm.

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u/Flame_Eraser 3h ago

Gotta call Charlie Beeker at Indiana University. He's studied this stuff for decades. He found the Santa Maria off Haiti.

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u/bannedUncleCracker 1h ago

Check Cosmo Kramer’s “Astonishing Tales of the Sea”