BAR HARBOR, Maine — While Wednesday's storm brought strong winds, heavy flooding, and significant damage to Maine's coast, it also unearthed a piece of Maine history.
The wreckage of a sailing schooner named the "Tay" was exposed at Sand Beach in Acadia National Park after being buried for years.
Park employee John Kelly said although past storms have exposed the shipwreck to some degree, it hasn't been this exposed "in more than 20 years."
NEWS CENTER Maine viewer Patty Keller shared the photos below.
On the National Park Service website is the following blurb about the shipwreck and its aftermath:
"Close to midnight on Friday July 28th, 1911, in the thick rain and large waves of a southwestern gale, a sailing schooner named the “Tay” was working its way along this rocky and treacherous coastline. The “Tay”, already taking on water, struck the ledge you can see just off of Sand Beach called “Old Soaker”. The “Tay” quickly broke to pieces. Clinging on for dear life to the broken mast, the “Tay’s” crew waited till the tide went out so they could scramble to the safety of the sandy beach. The crew found refuge in the Satterlee Family’s summer home. A large portion of the “Tay’s” cargo, close to ninety thousand feet of spruce planks, was washed ashore by the waves. The lumber was salvaged by many local islanders as well as the Satterlee family, who built a boathouse with salvaged lumber to honor the shipwreck."