Cape Cod Shipwreck, Nauset Beach
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| Many hundreds of ships have been wrecked on the treacherous shoals and sand bars of Cape Cod. The ill-fated, 471 foot freighter Eldia was added to the list on March 29, 1984 when she was driven on to Nauset Beach by a howling Nor'easter. After seven weeks of herculean effort the Maltese ship was pulled off the soft sands of Cape Cod National Seashore by a salvage fleet of tugs and dredges |
