Yantic, an 1864 wooden hull gunboat, was based at Hancock, Michigan, from 1907 to 1917, on loan from the U.S. Navy for use as a training ship for the second battalion of the Michigan Naval Militia. In ...

They also lashed the hull planks together with rope made ... As can just be made out here, in the ship's prow stood a second, wood-framed canopy. Again, its intended use is unknown.

Photos posted online show segments of its weathered wooden hull protruding from the sand ... though. “The ship first appeared last October but sand covered it over again,” Ron Creber ...