# Storm unearths ship lost in 1884

> A Nor'easter exposed wooden timbers on a Nantucket beach that may belong to the Warren Sawyer, a cargo ship that wrecked 142 years ago.
- Title: Storm unearths ship lost in 1884 · NPR | Shortify
- Summary: A Nor'easter exposed wooden timbers on a Nantucket beach that may belong to the Warren Sawyer, a cargo ship that wrecked 142 years ago. Heavy winds during a…
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- Source: NPR — https://npr.org/2026/09/27/nx-s1-5982785/nantucket-shipwreck-uncovered-by-noreaster
- Published: 2026-09-27T00:00:00+00:00
- Read time: 1 min
- Topics: nantucket, shipwreck, warren sawyer, nor'easter, maritime history, massachusetts, news
## Storm reveals ship timbers
Heavy winds and seas battered Nantucket over the weekend, exposing wooden ship remains on a south shore beach called Point of Breakers.
## A resident spots the wreck
David DeHart found the ship's remains and tipped off Jason Graziadei, editor-in-chief of the Nantucket Current, who drove out with his son Owen to confirm the discovery.

> I drove out there with my son Owen and sure enough, it was right there where David said it was.
## Timbers match a 2022 find
The newly visible wooden timbers jutting from the sand in the shape of a hull were in the same spot as ship fragments found back in two thousand twenty-two.
## Likely the Warren Sawyer
David Robinson, director and chief archeologist for the Massachusetts Board of Underwater Archeological Resources, determined in two thousand twenty-three that the remnants likely belonged to the Warren Sawyer, a cargo ship.
## The ship's final voyage
The Warren Sawyer was traveling from New Orleans to Boston with bales of cotton and scrap iron when it crashed on the night of December twenty-second, eighteen eighty-four. The captain and crew were rescued within hours.
## A piece of maritime history
Graziadei said it is fascinating to see and touch a piece of Nantucket's maritime history from eighteen eighty-four, especially in a spot where cars were driving over the beach this summer.

> I just think it's fascinating to be able to see and touch a piece of Nantucket's maritime history from 1884, and also incredible to think that it is located in a spot on the shore that cars were literally driving over on the beach this summer.
## Key takeaway

Heavy winds during a Nor'easter on September twenty-sixth, twenty twenty-six exposed ship remains on Nantucket that likely belong to the Warren Sawyer, which crashed in eighteen eighty-four.