In a 'major find' erarlier this month, five ships were discovered in the Neches River.
“It blew my mind," Ice House Museum curator Susan Kilcrease told NBC affiliate in Southeast Texas KBMT.
“We could tell almost immediately that it was wood ... which put it at a certain time period of the early 20th century at a minimum.” As historians and museum curators rush to learn more about these sunken ships, the plan for now is to leave them alone in the water with hopes that river visitors don't disturb the wrecks or scavenge for souvenirs.
The museum pointed out that taking anything from a shipwreck is illegal under Texas law and urged curiosity seekers to look at and photograph the sunken vessels, but do nothing more.“I wanted to document it, to make sure I could share it with somebody that has more expertise than me, because I wasn’t sure what I was seeing, but I could tell it was a very large vessel,” Milner said.
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