Shipwreck on Cape Cod
Cape Cod Shipwreck-January 2008
Sebastian Junger, author of “The Perfect Storm” and a Truro homeowner, told a radio interviewer that he came across a piece of a ship’s hull near Ballston Beach in Truro last Friday. But when a park ranger went out to examine the wreck, there was nothing to be found.
The author described the wreck as having a “bulbous kind of look … like Columbus’ ships had. It’s just like really old looking” and said that pieces of it had been washing ashore for months.
In January of 2008 a 19th century schooner turned coal barge washed up on Newcomb Hollow Beach in Wellfleet, but it is unclear whether Junger’s find is part of the same shipwreck
According to Junger, the most recent piece of ship was discovered just south of the Ballston Beach entrance. He described it as “several planks fastened to a hull with wooden pegs and brass nails several inches long.”
Although Junger claimed to have anchored the hull to the shore, it could have broken away in the recent stormy weather, because as of this morning there was still no wreck to be found near Ballston Beach in Truro. So the mystery dubbed the “celebrity shipwreck mystery” remains, well, a mystery.
[source: Cape Cod Times, Wednesday, June 24, 2009]
July 10th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
Well, my wife and I ran into a separate piece of what is obviously the same shipwreck on Tuesday during the end of the nor-easter about halfway between Newcomb Hollow and Ballston Beach. I sent photos to the editor of the Cape Cod Times, but they never followed up.