Wooden timbers shaped like a ship’s hull emerged from the sand at Point of Breakers on Nantucket’s south shore during a nor’easter that battered the island Sept. 26, renewing attention to a wreck believed to be more than 140 years old. Resident David DeHart alerted Nantucket Current editor Jason Graziadei to the remains. Graziadei went to the beach with his son and found the timbers at the same location where ship fragments had been discovered in 2022. After that earlier discovery, David Robinson, director and chief archaeologist for the Massachusetts Board of Underwater Archaeological Resources, researched the site with the Egan Maritime Institute and the Nantucket Historical Association. He concluded the remains likely came from the Warren Sawyer, a schooner that ran aground during a storm on Dec. 22, 1884. The cargo vessel was traveling from New Orleans to Boston with bales of cotton and scrap iron. Local historical accounts say the captain and crew were rescued within hours, while islanders later salvaged much of the cargo. Graziadei said the newly visible timbers were likely from the same vessel. He described seeing them as a chance to encounter a piece of Nantucket’s maritime history, noting that cars had driven over that stretch of beach during the summer.