1/3🧵: 🚢 A Fragment of a Shipwreck. #NorthAtlantic #Atlanticcanada #GraveyardoftheAtlantic #buriedinsand #artefacts
This photo was taken 50 years ago. It is a piece of shipwreck encountered by Dalhousie University researchers engaged in early studies of Sable Island’s seal population. …

1/4🧵: Wooden Deadeyes. 🚢 🇨🇦 #NorthAtlantic #Atlanticcanada #GraveyardoftheAtlantic #shipwreck
Many of the #deadeyes found on Sable Island would have been part of the rigging of wrecked sailing vessels, although some might have been gear used & stored at the Sable Island Humane Establishment…

4/4:… on Sable Island, under the sand.
Photos Zoe Lucas.
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#GraveyardoftheAtlantic #Shipwreck
#Maritimehistory #buriedinsand
#sableislandnpr
#sableislandnationalparkreserve
For an earlier post about Parks Canada’s dig here:
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Shipwreck Fragment (a thread..🧵)
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In 2014, a timber with 2 bronze gudgeons attached emerged from the side of a north beach dune as the slope was eroded by wind & waves….

1/3🧵: More Shipwreck. #NorthAtlantic #Atlanticcanada #GraveyardoftheAtlantic ##buriedinsand #ParksCanada
On Sable Island, large and small fragments of shipwreck appear, unpredictably, as dunes migrate or erode, exposing what’s hidden beneath, and as beach profiles shift and retreat revealing …

A Ship’s Knee (1/3🧵) 🚢 #SableIsland #shipsknee #NorthAtlantic #GraveyardoftheAtlantic #Maritimehistory
A detail of the section of shipwreck shown earlier (see bsky.app/profile/sabl...)
This wreckage is on Sable Island’s south beach at the base of a high dune.….

1/3🧵: A Door & Two Windows, 1971. #SableIsland #NorthAtlantic #Atlanticcanada #lifesavingstation #shipwrecked #graveyardoftheatlantic
In the 1970s, as the abandoned buildings at the Old Main site were overcome by advancing dunes, vegetation (fertilized by the droppings of birds nesting and …

1/3🧵: Shipwreck and Ipswich. 🚢 #NorthAtlantic #GraveyardoftheAtlantic #Maritimehistory
During mid-May a team of #ParksCanada archaeologists visited Sable Island to investigate fragments of several shipwrecks. This section is on south beach at the base of a high dune. The Parks team spent a few …

Sable Island Shipwreck (1/2🧵) 🚢 #NorthAtlantic #GraveyardoftheAtlantic #Shipwreck #archeology #parkscanada
Since the early 1990s, parts of wreckage were occasionally visible at the base of a high dune along the south beach. As the dune retreated, more of the timber & iron was exposed, & eventually …

1/4🧵: Sable Island Shipwreck. 🚢 🇨🇦 #NorthAtlantic #Atlanticcanada #GraveyardoftheAtlantic
During mid-May 2025, #ParksCanada archaeologists excavated a section of a #shipwreck #buriedinsand at the base of a high dune. As they worked, sand sliding down the dune face fell into the site & sandbags were…

1/3🧵: Merrimac at Sunset. 🚢 🇨🇦 #NorthAtlantic #GraveyardoftheAtlantic #sailboat #parkscanada
In late July 1999, the Merrimac, a 12-metre fibreglass yacht, sailed out of Newport R.I., bound for the Azores. On July 27, a few hours past midnight, the yacht ran aground on the south side of Sable Island….

2/2: ... As the drying sand fell away, the boat slid in parts to the base of the dune and onto the beach where, during storms, the fragments were scattered by waves washing over the area. Photo Zoe Lucas #graveyardoftheatlantic #buriedinsand #parkscanada #sableislandnpr
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1/5🧵: Visiting a Shipwreck 🌎 🚢 🇨🇦 #NorthAtlantic #GraveyardoftheAtlantic #sailboat #buriedinsand #lifesavingstation #MeteorologicalService
On July 27, 1999, a few hours past midnight, a 12-metre fibreglass #yacht, Merrimac, ran aground on the south side of #SableIsland ….