Riding a jet ski, Bill Milner discovered five shipwrecks from World War I in the Neches River after water levels fell during a drought.
The drought was the reason Milner was searching through the water. The Neches River had once been a popular route for frontier steamboats and other vessels. The suddenly shallow waters might have brought pieces of history closer to the surface.
The shipwrecks were the remains of large, 200-feet-long wooden ships built by the Emergency Fleet Corporation, a wartime organization that led a push to build merchant ships to bolster the American war effort in 1917, then abandoned after the war’s end, according to the commission. Milner had discovered a century-old ship graveyard.In Facebook posts from the Ice House Museum’s page, Kilcrease told people who lived along the river to keep their eyes open.
Milner said he spent six weeks roaming parts of the river near his home, a quieter stretch of the Neches near Silsbee. He wasn’t in unfamiliar territory, but the drought changed the terrain. It forced him to swap his boat for a jet ski as parts of the river became too shallow. And it brought the bow of one of the ships to the water’s surface, close enough to be rediscovered.
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