Hurricane Ike Mystery Ship
Hurricane Ike devastated areas of Texas in September 2008 but the high winds and storm-powered waves also revealed a wooden shipwreck reburied just two years before. The wooden wreckage is wedged in the sand on the beach at Fort Morgan, Alabama.1
Fast Facts
- Wreckage was burned1
- Believed to be a 19th century vessel1
- Two miles east of Civil War shipwreck Ivanhoe1
- Steam-powered2
- 150 feet long2
- 30 foot wide2
- Made of wood2
- Pipe runs the length of the ship2
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