{"id":862917,"date":"2026-09-27T23:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T23:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/862917\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T23:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T23:04:12","slug":"noreaster-unearths-fragments-of-19th-century-shipwreck-on-nantucket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/862917\/","title":{"rendered":"Nor\u2019easter unearths fragments of 19th century shipwreck on Nantucket"},"content":{"rendered":"

The powerful nor\u2019easter pummeling the East Coast <\/a>has uncovered what may be the remains of a 19th century shipwreck on Nantucket\u2019s shore.<\/p>\n

Jason Graziadei, editor-in-chief of the Nantucket Current, spotted the wooden remnants on the Massachusetts island\u2019s south shore Saturday and posted a video of them<\/a>. He believes they likely came from the Warren Sawyer, a wooden schooner that wrecked near Miacomet Beach 142 years ago.<\/p>\n

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Nor’easter uncovers century-old shipwreck in Massachusetts<\/p>\n

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Fragments believed to be from the same ship first appeared in December 2022, when a Nantucket resident spotted them while biking <\/a>along the island\u2019s southern shore.<\/p>\n

Researchers examined archival, photographic, historical and archaeological evidence and concluded that the wreckage was \u201cmost likely\u201d from the Warren Sawyer, according to a 2023 report<\/a> from the Massachusetts Board of Underwater Archaeological Resources. The three-masted schooner wrecked there on Dec. 22, 1884, while traveling from New Orleans to Boston with 1,115 bales of cotton and 28 tons of scrap metal, the report said.<\/p>\n

More wreckage believed to be from the schooner appeared in February 2023, about a half-mile west of the first find, according to the report.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cAs far as I know, it\u2019s the first time a piece of the wreck has resurfaced since 2022, early 2023,\u201d Graziadei told NBC News on Sunday. \u201cIt\u2019s certainly possible it could be from another wreck, but given the location and appearance, we said it is most likely the Warren Sawyer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jascin N. Leonardo Finger, deputy director of the Maria Mitchell Association, which runs a natural history museum on Nantucket, said in an email Sunday the newly exposed remnants may be from the Warren Sawyer, but \u201cmore investigation is necessary\u201d to confirm their origin.<\/p>\n

The Massachusetts Board of Underwater Archaeological Resources did not respond to requests for comment Sunday.<\/p>\n

\"WoodenA team of experts and researchers identified parts of the wreck discovered in 2022 \u201cas most likely being that of the three-masted schooner, Warren Sawyer,” lost at the same location in 1884.Jason Graziadei \/ Nantucket Current<\/p>\n

The Egan Maritime Institute, which works to preserve Nantucket\u2019s maritime history and assisted the board in previous efforts to identify Warren Sawyer wreckage, also did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

Shipwrecks near the island were not uncommon in the Warren Sawyer\u2019s time, Leonardo Finger told The New York Times on Saturday. <\/a>Nantucket residents commonly scavenge items that wash ashore from wrecks, she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The powerful nor\u2019easter pummeling the East Coast has uncovered what may be the remains of a 19th century…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":862918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-862917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/862918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}