The wreckage turned out to belong to a large, wooden ship built during World War 1. The Texas Historical Commission said more than two dozen of these sunken ships are in Texas rivers. Milner sent photos of his find to the local Ice House Museum, which then contacted the Texas Historical Commission. AdvertisementAdvertisementTexas Historical Commission sonar data from 2019 showing the submerged hulls of two of the abandoned World War I vessels in the Neches River. The Texas Historical Commission said in a statement on Facebook that "the summer heatwave and low rainfall" revealed the hidden shipwreck.

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