LOST SHIPS OFF COIN BEACH

HISTORY OF SHIP WRECKS

COIN BEACH SOUTH OF REHOBOTH

Friday, 26 August, 1955 Philadelphia Inquirer :

After heavy storms churn up the ocean floor large copper coins, gold and silver

pieces wash ashore at a section of beach south of Rehoboth called ' coin beach'. Treasurer

hunters have found Irish, English, French and Spanish 18^th century coins.

Historians for many years have tried to learn which ship wreck off Cape Henlopen

gave up which coin when the sea is angry.

The Faithful Steward , an Irish vessel was lost at Indian River beach , 2 September,

1785. The DeBraak in 1789. A ship called 'Three Brothers” came with a cargo of gold

and copper coins for the colonies wrecked and the cargo supposed to have been salvaged.

The wreck of the brig ' Count Durant ' lost in he summer of 1783 may be the miser

at the bottom of the sea. No one really knows.. Care to join the group ?

Abstract : Friday, 26 August, 1955, Philadelphia Inquirer.