‘I didn’t look forward to finding a boat -version!’ The boy says whose treasure is digging
In 2023, Goderich, during a family trip to the point form provincial park north of Onts, Lucas Etiison was using a metal detector, which he found as a gift for his birthday, when he found something big and old.
Lucas said, “We were on the beach, we excluded our metal detector, and as we set it, Ding! It was a spike from Shipwrack,” said Lucas, which is now 10 years old.
He remembers his father alerting, who earlier thought that spikes could be used to tie a boat. But Lucas was not convinced, and the pair started deep digging. What he got was more spike related to wood.
“Then Dad said to me,” Lucas is a ship, “the boy explained. “When I woke up that morning I didn’t expect to find a ship -verses!”
Father Jason Etiison said that he reported to find the employees of the provincial parks, and then the Ontario Marine Heritage Committee (OMHC), arrived in a non-profit volunteer group, which is dedicated to recording and conservation of marine history.
This week, Lucas kept a close watch on work, digging on Shipwrack with an OMHC team, which was received by Lucas.
Excavation work begins
According to the Marine Archaeologist Scarlet Janusus and Marine Historian Patrick’s folk, the process of approval to excavate, with the need to meet regulatory requirements, takes time.
They first met Atchisons on the beach in the fall of 2023 to show them where they should see. Then, on Wednesday, a group of OmhC volunteers arrived with a heavy machinery supplied by the provincial park, and then to switch to hand shovels, trwels and brushes to see what the sand had buried.
Till now, Janus said that he found a small portion of the ship, as he was expecting, but determined that the section was a frame from the shore.
“We had a double frame, suggesting that it was a strong-made ship and we believe it was a scholar,” said Janusus. “A scholar is usually a two-masting sailing vessel, which is usually wood.”
Probably St. Anthony?
It was not enough for the ship to determine his identity, but the folk says that a candidate is the Suter Anthony.
“(It) was ruined on a trip in October 1856 … with the load of grain, from Chicago to Buffalo, New York,” he said. “It was described as described as going to a distance of four miles a distance of four miles of Godarich, which fits about this debris, and it would only represent a very small piece.”
Swayamsevaks will meet the scale of the debris scale, including a plan scene (from above) and debris profile (side view).
Focus says the 19th century insurance requirements will be specified how many fasteners, or spikes should be placed in the frame and at what distance. Those details, he said, will help determine the age of the ship.
What comes next can be amazing. Volunteers will then revolt the ship to preserve it.
The public said, “We fill the hole back, bury it and create an utter environment, that is, without oxygen, so you do not have any parasites or any other organism that will eat or destroy the debris.”
“This is not a perfect solution, but it maintains the structure of that ship for at least one and 50 years.”
