Overview
- Officials are monitoring the site and warn that touching or removing any pieces is prohibited and may result in summonses from New Jersey State Park Police.
- Weeks of winter erosion driven by persistent high winds and rough surf revealed large wooden sections on the shoreline.
- The fragments are identified as part of the roughly 98-foot Lawrence N. McKenzie, reported lost on March 21, 1890.
- The schooner was carrying oranges from Puerto Rico to New York City when it encountered thick fog near Barnegat.
- Contemporary reports say a Cedar Creek life-saving crew rescued Captain Lawrence McKenzie and eight men after the captain noted six feet of water in the hold.