The shipwrecks were the remains of large, 200\u002Dfoot\u002Dlong wooden ships built by the Emergency Fleet Corporation.
Milner reported the find to the Ice House Museum, a nearby history museum in Silsbee, Tex., whose curator, Susan Kilcrease, informed the Texas Historical Commission. The commission announced last week that Milner had discovered the remnants of an urgent arms race from the First World War.
It was an easy ask for Milner, who grew up on the Neches River. Milner swam and fished in the Neches and took his children tubing, pulling them behind his boat. But he’d never been on a treasure hunt, and he’d never heard of a ship graveyard hidden in the meandering river he called home. He saw Kilcrease’s posts and, intrigued, took up the challenge.
“He comes in here and he was just, almost giddy,” Kilcrease said. “The people that we work with a lot of times in the community are just in love with history . . . he was so excited.”Article content One hundred of the ships were built in Beaumont, Tex., a port city on the Neches south of Silsbee, Kilcrease sad. When the war ended the next year, ships were abandoned across the country in the rivers and shipyards where they’d stood.Article content
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