1715 Fleet Grappling Hook/Anchor

[elle]

Au_Dreamers, I'm happy you replied to help me out since you are from the area. I was wondering if the water storage tank behind the fire house is the original one? Tommy Gore knows the water well at Beachcomber (HRD's site) from earlier days and this is why I question the water tower.

 

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[elle]

No worries, I found my answer on the Official Indian River Shores website. Besides the million gallon storage tank originally constructed behind the Fire Station, which still exists today, there was another water tower built near the Fire House/Town Hall for fire protection.

 

[inletsurf]

Very cool reef anchor

 

[mad4wrecks]

Here are some pics of the grappling hook found on the HRD site. Me and Mike Perna are hoisting it up and then a pic of it uncleaned. Other pics of the Virg and my small vessel, the Sarah Anne and a pic of the anchor that AU_Dreamers was talking about.

Tom

 

[Au_Dreamers]

and the plaque -ignore the date I took it last week.

 

[mad4wrecks]

I wonder how Charles A Sullivan obtained the anchor to donate it in the first place, and what site it actually came from? Mr. Sullivan and his son, Charles Jr., are both attorneys in Vero Beach.

I bet Elle can get to the bottom of this.

 

[elle]

My guess is off John’s Island.
http://www.irshores.com/Anchor-story.html