A powerful storm that hit much of the East Coast with high winds and flooding over the weekend uncovered what experts believe are the partial remnants of a ship that wrecked on its way from New Orleans to Boston in the 1800s.
The Nantucket Current reported that the nor’easter eroded portions of the Massachusetts island’s south shore and revealed what appears to be a fragment of the Warren Sawyer, a wooden schooner that wrecked near Miacomet Beach nearly 150 years ago. The remnants were spotted Saturday near where sections of the 19th-century ship were uncovered in December 2022 and early 2023, according to the Current.
The Warren Sawyer wrecked on Nantucket late at night on Dec. 22, 1884, while carrying bales of cotton and several tons of scrap metal from New Orleans to Boston, according to the Nantucket Historical Association. It was blown off course by gale-force winds…