A sunken World War 1-era wooden ship potentially the size of a football field was discovered in a Texas river by a man on a jet ski after severe drought revealed the wreckage

Tue, 08/29/2023 - 22:27

The wreckage found by Bill Milner in the Neches River; an example of a wooden boat produced under the Emergency Fleet Corporation in World War 1. — The wreckage found by Bill Milner in the Neches River; a wooden boat produced under the Emergency Fleet Corporation in World War 1.
Bill Milner/Ice House Museum

Bill Milner was jet skiing on the Neches River in Texas when he came across a ship wreck.
The wreckage turned out to belong to a large, wooden ship built during World War 1.
The Texas Historical Commission said more than two dozen of these sunken ships are in Texas rivers.

A man jet skiing on the Neches River in eastern Texas earlier this month stumbled across debris just below the surface that turned out to be the remnants of a historic wooden ship — potentially five of them — from World War 1.