A drowned man's garment from the sea

[sovay]

There is a phantom shipwreck in Provincetown:

The wreck of the British warship HMS Somerset III, which was guarding Boston Harbor the night Paul Revere slipped by on his legendary journey to Lexington in 1775, has resurfaced in the shifting sands off Cape Cod.

"We know the wreck is going to disappear again under the sand, and it may not resurface again in our lifetimes,'' said William P. Burke, the historian at the Cape Cod National Seashore, noting that the last time any part of the Somerset had been sighted was 37 years ago.

That deserves a pilgrimage.

Comments

[timesygn.livejournal.com]

Superb! Somerset was a big ship - 70 guns, which meant a lot of iron in her belly when she went down. There's probably a lot more of her under there. I envy your ability to go visit, and salute your willingness to do so. Please pay respects on my behalf should you go, and be sure to poke around ... There may well be loose goodies (ballshot, coin, bits of ceramic and glass) floating around. Avast!

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Fascinating. I hope you get to go, and get some good pictures out of it.

An I were closer living, I'd go myself.

[tithenai.livejournal.com]

That is amazing. And belongs in a story. *nudgenudge*

[shirei-shibolim.livejournal.com]

You beat me to it.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

A ghost ship on the sands instead of the seas--how marvelous.

Are you going out there?

[deliasherman.livejournal.com]

Almost makes me wish I still lived there, so I could witness the whole drama happening right outside my back door.

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

Wow. Yeah.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Oh, I hope you go see her!

Nine

[teenybuffalo.livejournal.com]

I saw her on the news, and thought (and so did my mother) that the wreck looked like an animal skeleton, or human. Those ribs coming through the sand. If you do go, please blog about it.