Divers Confirm Identity of Long-Lost Trawler on Georges Bank
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The private diving and artifact-recovery company Atlantic Wreck Salvage has discovered the wreck of the long-lost trawler Seiner<\/em>, a large fishing vessel that went down off Nantucket in 1929.\u00a0<\/p>\n Seiner <\/em>was a steam trawler delivered in 1921 and homeported out of New London, Connecticut. The 140-foot vessel departed on her final voyage on January 9, 1929, but disappeared after her normal noon report on January 18. The ship was never found, and a large-scale search and rescue effort turned up no sign of her crew of 21 men. It was believed that she went down in a storm on Georges Bank, which was (at the time) a bountiful fishing ground known for its cod and haddock stocks.\u00a0<\/p>\n In 2022, Atlantic Wreck Salvage’s vessel Tenacious visited Georges Bank to conduct a sidescan sonar search for historic wreck sites. They found Seiner<\/em>, though they did not yet know it for certain, and they had to return to shore before they had time to dive on the site.\u00a0<\/p>\n Tenacious and her crew returned to Georges Bank in July 2025 to resume their work. They carried out a dive inspection of the Seiner <\/em>wreck on July 27-28, and from visible characteristics, it was possible to verify the wreck’s identity.<\/p>\n