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| Ghost Ship Lands |
 Following a storm off of Cape Cod on January 27, a 19th century schooner appeared washed up on shore. Just south of Newcomb Hollow Beach, it is the largest shipwreck to wash onshore since a similar sized vessel washed up on Nauset Beach in Orleans a decade ago.
It is estimated that the vessel, 50 feet of keel and oaken ribs, dates to the 1800s or older, though some historians believe it could be the Logan, a ship that went down in 1920. Wood from vessels older than 100 years tends to soften and the ship that washed up still has hard planks.
Historians believe the ship might be related to pieces of planking that washed up on Newcomb Hollow Beach the last two winters.
More than 3,500 vessels went down in the waters off of Cape Cod between 1850 and 1980, mostly owing to the treacherous journey across the shifting sandbars of the Outer Cape and Chatham that were finally bypassed by the Cape Cod Canal in 1914.
The National Park Service will document the wreck with photos and take measurements. Visitors are allowed to look at and touch the ship but not to take a piece of the wreck.
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