Storm washes 19th-century ship ashore

[bradyboy]

Storm washes 19th-century ship ashore - Cape Cod
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/15185504/detail.html

 

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[wreckdiver1715]

Some good photos of that wreck.

 

[ivan salis]

sweet

 

[piratediver]

FYI: this wreck lies about a mile from the pirate ship WHYDAH which sank in a storm in 1717. When we were looking for her we found all kinds of other stuff too as there are hundreds of wrecks along the outer side of Cape Cod.


Pirate Diver

 

[ivan salis]

personally I more of the storm removed the covering sand school of thought. than the it washed the wreckage ashore school of thought. ---- Ivan

 

[mad4wrecks]

I concur.

 

[trikikiwi]

Fascinating stuff. Great pics too.

Looks like all wooden fasteners.

Mike

 

[imafishingnutt]

maby its like this
http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,139088.0.html

living on the cast i can tell you sand levels drop and rise with storms.

 

[rgecy]

I would not rule out "the washing ashore" theory! I think it is very probable if the structure was in the surf and got fully uncovered. There have been times where timbers will get uncovered and start to become somewhat "neutrally boyant" and start to move.

I mean, the timbers don't become rocks when they are down there, they still have some bouyancy!

This is not too huge of a section to be moved by the waves!

 

[ivan salis]

true -- I have seen timbers move about once they become uncovered from the sand but due to "wave action" its normally highly destructive to the timbers when they move about like that.----- these seem to be fairly intact . --- thats why I thinking more of they were uncovered line of thought -- but they could have been just off shore and washed up with out too much damage so its possible I guess.-- however I think the way to bet would be towards the idea it was "buried" in the sand and that a storm caused heavy waves that "uncovered" the vessel when it stripped off the sand . seems the more likely case to me. but thats just my hunch for what its worth. --- Ivan