In Nantucket, nor’easter washes ashore likely piece of 1884 shipwreck

In Nantucket, nor’easter washes ashore likely piece of 1884 shipwreck

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September 27, 2026

The Warren Sawyer, a three-masted ship that was headed for Boston from New Orleans with cotton and scrap iron, wrecked on Nantucket the night of Dec. 22, 1884.

Wooden pieces of a ship washed up on an empty beach, under gray clouds.

Jessica Jenkins

This weekend’s nor’easter likely washed ashore a piece of history. →

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