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Jan 31, 2008 3:48 pm US/Eastern

Storm Uncovers Shipwreck On Cape Cod Beach

WELLFLEET (AP) ― The remains of what experts think was a 19th-century schooner have been discovered on a Cape Cod beach.

The 50-foot keel and wooden ribs appeared on Wellfleet's Newcomb Hollow Beach on Tuesday, apparently pushed to shore by waves from a storm Sunday.
 
William Burke of the National Park Service estimates that the wreck dates from at least the late 1800s and is possibly older.

Bill Quinn, who has written a number of books on Cape Cod maritime history, thinks the wreck could be the remains of the Logan, a 19th-century schooner refitted as a coal barge.

He says the Logan went aground around 1920 and was abandoned after it couldn't be towed off the sandbar.

There were more than 3,500 shipwrecks in the waters off Cape Cod between 1850 and 1980.

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