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

1. Wreckage was burned¹
2. Believed to be a 19th century vessel¹
3. Two miles east of Civil War shipwreck Ivanhoe¹
4. Steam-powered²
5. 150 feet long²
6. 30 foot wide²
7. Made of wood²
8. Pipe runs the length of the ship²

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