This is the final part in a series.
The normal story for wrecks along the Jersey Shore involves a storm causing a ship to be beached, followed by its destruction at the hands of pounding waves. The story of the 1890 collision of two ships on a clear night within sight of Barnegat Lighthouse is different.
The two ships settled to the bottom, their masts protruding with sails set, causing a menace to the hundreds of ships using the busy shipping lane. The end of their story begins with a Jan. 27 article in a Brooklyn newspaper.
“The Yantic is waiting at the Navy Yard to get her full complement of men and officers.
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