In 1884, a ship disappeared near Nantucket after a powerful winter storm. More than a century later, another major storm has brought part of the shipwreck back to the surface

A powerful September nor’easter did more than batter Nantucket’s coastline with wind and waves. As the storm stripped away layers of sand from the island’s southern shore, it briefly exposed a piece of maritime history that had been hidden for generations.

Wooden timbers from the wreck of the Warren Sawyer, a 19th-century schooner that ran aground off Nantucket in 1884, appeared near Miacomet Beach after the storm.