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The Warren Sawyer ran aground on Dec. 22, 1884, while carrying 1,115 bales of cotton and 28 tons of scrap iron from New Orleans to Boston.
Weathered wooden beams, possibly from a 19th century shipwreck, have emerged along Nantucket’s southern shore after a powerful nor’easter battered the island.
The identity of the ship is still being investigated, but it appears to be a vessel that ran aground in the 1880s.