Part of a shipwreck, likely from the 19th century, has emerged on a beach in Newfoundland. May have come to light due to erosion from Hurricane Fiona. Naval historians are excited.
Most of that article is paywalled. Any idea how old that wreck is?
That’s odd. I was able to read it without a subscription. Came up on Google News.
It says that initial speculation is early 19th century, based on the wooden dowels used to construct it, but no real experts have had a chance to look at it yet.
It’s come up at Cape Rey, which is 900 km west of St John’s, near Port-aux-Basques.
Try this:
CBC story by Sarah Smellie who, in apparent multiple interviews, was not tipped that the term for those “dowels” are properly named “treenails”, pronounced “trunnels”.
Dan
Eh? It’s right there in her article:
The wooden dowels noted by Wanda Blackwood are called trunnels and they were used as nails in wooden ships from that era.
Not at all surprising. Hundreds of people died in ship sinkings while attempting to cross the Atlantic from Europe. Most of them are nameless, as they were immigrants trying to reach America, were poor, and left nobody behind to wonder what happened to them. A lot of the ships either struck icebergs or became locked in unexpected ice where everyone on board either froze to death or drowned. The advent of steam engines helped ships to navigate away from danger more easily, but not always (as in Titanic).
Oop! Didn’t read the article, did I? Thank you.
Dan
I thought you were pointing out the correct spelling.I thought you were pointing out the correct spelling.
[joking] And how does this fit in with Oak Island? [/joking]
[serious] Could this be an explanation for some of what was found at Oak Island? Random parts from shipwrecks get washed ashore during an extreme hurricane; gets washed into a sinkhole with beach sand; 200 years later, gets caught in a drill bit. [/serious]
Not the Athens Queen perchance?
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=the+athens+queen
No mention in any of the news reports of a leather couch of green.
As a complete aside, journalistic writing these days irritates me. “The massive, overturned hull of a seemingly ancient ship has appeared without warning along the southwestern tip of Newfoundland”.
What kind of warning did the writer think we should have expected? 
Probably a ghost sailor in a dory, shining grey in the moonlight.
They also don’t seem to know what “ancient” means. An ancient ship from the 19th century?