Nantucket shipwreck uncovered by Nor'easter
After publishing: 1 headline quietly rewritten1 change
- BBC News Worldseen 28 Sept, 13:20headline rewritten
Watch: Shipwreck uncovered on Nantucket island during nor'easter stormShipwreck uncovered on Nantucket island during nor'easter storm
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Mon, 28 September 2026
2 reports- NPR News00:30first to report
The local newspaper in Nantucket got a tip: 'I found what I believe to be a shipwreck uncovered by the storm.'
- BBC News World00:52edited after publishing
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Watch: Shipwreck uncovered on Nantucket island during nor'easter stormThe so-called nor'easter storm has washed up what may be a shipwreck from the 19th century in Massachusetts, local media says.
Tue, 29 September 2026
4 reports- Google News - Top Stories02:30
Nor’easter uncovers shipwreck remnant on Nantucket The Washington Post See it: Powerful nor’easter unearths 19th-century shipwreck on New England shore FOX Weather Possible 1884 shipwreck exposed by nor'easter on Nantucket: "It's still there" cbsnews.com Believed 1884 shipwreck washes onto shore during nor'easter rain, flooding wgal.com Nantucket shipwreck uncovered by Nor'easter NPR
- Euronews07:55
A powerful nor’easter has exposed splintered wooden beams on a Nantucket beach, possibly from a 19th-century shipwreck. Experts will inspect the wreckage, which may be linked to the Warren Sawyer, a schooner lost off Nantucket in 1884.
- The Guardian World14:07
Storm seems to have exposed segments of the Warren Sawyer, a wooden vessel that ran aground in 1884 The nor’easter storm that pummeled New England over the weekend looks to have exposed large segments of a 19th-century schooner shipwrecked in the so-called graveyard of the Atlantic. The Warren Sawyer was sailing from New Orleans to Boston carrying cotton and scrap iron when the three-masted wooden vessel ran aground in Nantucket on 22 December 1884. Its captain and crew of seven were rescued...
- The Hill18:07
The identity of the ship is still being investigated, but it appears to be a vessel that ran aground in the 1880s.