In October 1922, the sand schooner Edward S. Eveleth rolled over when a wave rushed over her deck and pushed her onto the edge of Steep Hill Beach. Filled with sand, each tide buried her deeper. Her remains were visible for several years. The skeleton of the hull is just off-shore a short distance from the wreck of the Ada K. Damon.
Category: Shipwrecks
Wreck of the Falconer, December 17, 1847
Awful Calamities: the Shipwrecks of December, 1839
The Great Colonial Hurricane and the wreck of the Angel Gabriel
The Spectre Ship of Salem
Wreck of the Watch and Wait, August 24, 1635
Wrecks of the coal schooners
The Ipswich lighthouse
In 1881, a 45-foot cast iron lighthouse was erected at Crane Beach, replacing an earlier structure. By 1913, the sand had shifted so much that the lighthouse was 1,090 feet from the high water mark. Use of the light was discontinued in 1932 and in 1939 the Coast Guard floated the entire lighthouse to Edgartown on Martha's Vineyard.