Article: Searchers sift Siletz sands for signs of mystery ship.(General News)

Byline: Winston Ross The Register-Guard

LINCOLN CITY - A cadre of explorers set out for Siletz Bay on Sunday, in search of a lost ship thought to have wrecked here more than a century ago.

But there were no snorkels, scuba tanks or submarines. These were geophysicists, not mariners.

That's because this ship is underground.

Buried by decades of shifting sands in the now-shallow bay, the mystery vessel is the stuff of old photographs and local folklore. But the Lincoln City Visitor and Convention Bureau hoped to unearth it and discover a long-forgotten piece of the area's history.

"Some people think there's not a lot of history ...

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