Mysterious Vessel New Jersey Finding May Be Century Old
Remnants of a mysterious vessel in New Jersey has baffled finders. According to ABC, the pieces were found 20 feet under a beach and may be 100 years old.
The discovery could be nothing more than an old barge, but some officials believe it is a much more historical sailing ship from as far back as the 1850s, and at least one has a hunch that it is the skeleton of the Ayrshire, a Scottish brig that crashed on to a New Jersey sandbar in 1850.
John Ducey, the mayor of Brick, suspected construction workers would find something while digging through the beach. Lumber, certainly, possibly even an old car, he said.
“I was shocked,” he told ABC News. “I thought it was kind of cool that a ship from the 1850s was 20 feet under the sand.”
Photo of one of the mysterious remnants:
Vessel buried 20 feet under a New Jersey beach could be from the 1850s: http://t.co/2Xw6ADUbGD pic.twitter.com/62I0kdPW01
— Yahoo (@Yahoo) November 4, 2014
A report from NBC Philadelphia said that officials may use ground-penetrating radar technology to uncover what’s beneath the beach surface.