120 yr old ship wreck Dog Island

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• seabiscuit Posts: 1,033 Officer

  October 2018 #2

  That is interesting.  A bunch of ship wrecks around the island.  Any other details?

  
  

  https://www.revolvy.com/page/Dog-Island-(Florida)

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• Saltygatorvet TallahasseePosts: 3,429 Captain

  October 2018 #3

  billybob said:

  saw a shipwreck uncovered by hurricane Michael 

  Cool, where about?

  You should have been here yesterday

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• billybob Posts: 876 Officer

  October 2018 #4

  Had pics on channel 2 news.   Wooden bones of ships left   uncovered by hurricane Michael.    

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• cc13 Posts: 540 Officer

  October 2018 #5

  I read that when they sank, they were on the bay side. Now, apparently they are on the gulf side?  The island has moved?

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• Saltygatorvet TallahasseePosts: 3,429 Captain

  October 2018 #6

  Anyone have a link?

  You should have been here yesterday

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• seabiscuit Posts: 1,033 Officer

  October 2018 #7

  https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2018/10/20/ships-wreck-dog-island-1899-unearthed-hurricane-michael/1697720002/
  
  

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• Anchorbait CrawfordvillePosts: 109 Deckhand

  October 2018 #8

  Would be nice to see them preserved somehow. 

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• Madbeach On the riverPosts: 966 Officer

  October 2018 #9

  I went over there on Saturday and checked it out.  There's a couple of boats and an old dock uncovered.  Folks have already started picking pieces off of it.  What are the salvage rights on that?
  

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• Reel Teal Posts: 3,715 Captain

  October 2018 #10

  The island changes drastically with each storm. Its essentially a sand bar. A good friend has a house there and they estimate maybe 30 or 40 more feet(yards?) of beach has been lost since this last storm.

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• woodsrunner Posts: 2,186 Captain

  October 2018 #11

  Maybe 6-7 years ago just after a tropical storm or Cat 1 hurricane went ashore around St. George/Dog Island, I found (and reported) a storm exposed shipwreck on the very eastern tip of St.G that turned out to be a windjammer, HMS Fox, wrecked during a storm in 1799. The keel/ribs were made out of our Native Longleaf Pine, and were as sound and rot free as the day installed! 
  

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• GrumpyDavid JacksonvillePosts: 48 Greenhorn

  October 2018 #12

  It happened here on St Aug/Vilano Beach a while back and some historical society and the state of florida laid claim to the remnants.
  

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