sovay: (Lord Peter Wimsey)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2008-02-02 02:08 am

We wanted to see the sun come up and are met, instead, by this iceribbed ship

Courtesy of [livejournal.com profile] fleurdelis28: a ghost ship on Newcomb Hollow Beach.

The 50 feet of hand-cut oak ribs had probably been swallowed by the sea more than a century ago, the remnants of a schooner lost with some 1,500 other ships that have sunk in the unpredictable waters off Cape Cod.

But a violent storm this week churned history up off the sandy, ocean floor, spitting the remains of the 19th-century shipwreck onto Newcomb Hollow Beach.

The timbers and planks, held together by wooden pegs, offer a glimpse of the golden age of the schooner, when hundreds of sails dotted the horizon here as ships transported lumber, granite, and coal. Poking up like the bones of a mighty whale, the wreckage has become a magnet pulling the curious onto the frigid beach, where frozen sand crunched underfoot.


This deserves its own story.

[identity profile] greygirlbeast.livejournal.com 2008-02-02 07:13 am (UTC)(link)

This deserves its own story.

And you should write it.

[identity profile] nineweaving.livejournal.com 2008-02-02 07:27 am (UTC)(link)
The sea insists.

Nine

[identity profile] ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com 2008-02-02 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Fascinating. This makes me wish I lived closer to the sea, or at least closer to Newcomb Hollow Beach.

Thanks for the link.