Our family has rented a beach house in Fort Mogan for a month. We were down there last week and found this walking the beach!!!!!
my kids check it out....
chain onboard the ship
I was thrilled to see an article about it on Yahoo today. It is a shipwreck from 1862 - the Monticello. Well, obviously I took lots of pictures. The interesting thing is that it was so unattended; I mean to say, it is off season and there is barely anyone at the beach. We just walked up to it, but had the respect to leave it well enough alone.
Things like this are great, especially when there is some question about identification. It is schooner shaped though, but the prescence of Iron Hawsers is confusing the identification of the wreck as the Montecillo - records seem to indicate that the schooner had hemp hawsers - as in keeping with shipping of that time - perhaps if they found the ships bell
