The remains of a 100-year-old ship showed up on a beach in Surf City, North Carolina
The remains of a 100-year-old ship showed up on a Surf City beach in North Carolina on Monday afternoon.
The town of Surf City announced in a Facebook post that the wreckage of the William H. Sumner appeared about 150 yards north of the old Barnacle Bill's Pier. The ship went down off the North Carolina coast in 1919 while carrying mahogany and phosphate rock from the West Indies to New York, according to CNN affiliateThe ship was built in 1891 as a schooner, a sailing ship that has fore-and-aft sails on its two or more masts, according to
. After recovering some of the ship's parts, the Coast Guard blew it up because it was a safety hazard for boaters.What happened to the schooner a century ago remains fuzzy. Capt. R.E. Cochran killed himself after the ship ran aground, according to a 1919 article in The New York Times. It had been his maiden voyage as skipper.
The schooner's remains are protected under the state's laws, which prohibit shipwrecks from being removed or damaged.
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