Locals in southwestern Newfoundland, Canada, recently discovered an obscure and dated shipwreck, possibly from the 1800s.
Newfoundland’s community noticed a bulky wooden object protruding through the shallow water from the shore, along with old wooden boards that washed up on the nearby beach. Researchers from Canada are currently working to find the identity of the unidentified ship.
Neil Burgess, the president of the Shipwreck Preservation Society of Newfoundland, believes the ship is much bigger than we think and says it looks like the shipwreck that surfaced is only half of the vessel, and the other half is latent.
“If it’s oak or beech or a hardwood species like that, it will tell us it wasn’t made here in Newfoundland and was probably made over in Europe somewhere,” Burgess said, according to upi.com.
It is believed that the shipwreck remained buried for more than a century before being exposed to natural calamities, including Hurricane Fiona which struck last year. The harsh winter storms likely gave the shipwreck a final shove to the shore.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/29/shipwreck-canada-newfoundland-cape-ray
