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Nantucket shipwreck is not the schooner experts thought
Experts say the wreckage exposed on Nantucket's shore after a nor'easter is not the Warren Sawyer schooner they first thought; the real identity remains open.
On air: Chip Darnell and Hank Ledger on The Five O'ClockPublished
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- First reported by Fox News: “Archaeologists uncover unexpected twist in shipwreck mystery after clues don't add up”.
- Covered on BBN on Friday, October 16, 2026, at 5:27 PM ET on The Five O'Clock, by Chip Darnell and Hank Ledger.
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Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorOn October sixteenth, twenty twenty-six, Fox News reported that a nor'easter exposed a historic shipwreck on the shore of Nantucket.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorArchaeologists first thought it was the schooner Warren Sawyer, but they now say the clues don't add up and it isn't.
Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorA mystery ship nobody can name, washed up by a storm, with everyone arguing on a beach? That is spiritually Florida, Hank.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIt's Massachusetts, Chip. Nantucket is about twelve hundred miles from Florida, and I checked that before you started talking.
Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorAnd the experts named it wrong first, which is basically how every Florida news story starts!
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThey are archaeologists, Chip. Being wrong in public is how they get to the right answer.
Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorFlorida Man Rating: Hank?
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorOne alligator. It's a boat nobody can name, and nobody was even arrested.
Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorOne? It has a mystery, a storm and a beach!
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