The storm ravaged the East Coast of the United States over the weekend, enough sand had been washed away to glimpse the historic structure.
The 51-foot structure appeared on Short Sands beach in York, as a skeletal structure of the Revolutionary War-era boat. Police Chief Douglas Bracy, the town’s emergency management director, said coastal communities had expected less wave activity after Thursday’s storm.
Mr Bracy said: “Every tide after Friday, it just continued. Friday night, Saturday and Sunday were terrible.”
The tides “pushed in a much larger surge than we were expecting.”
It is believed that Short Sands Beach and Long Sands Beach lost as much as eight feet of sand.
Many roads remained closed on Monday in the area.
York Police department posted photos on its Facebook page of the shipwreck.
They captioned the shots: “Good Monday morning The pictures below are of the old ship that is buried at Short Sands Beach. Every once in a while after a storm the ocean moves enough sand for it to be seen. Thought you might like it.”
The shipwreck appears after big storms, when enough sand is dragged away.
The exact identity of the ship is not clear even though Marine archaeologist Warren Riess looked at the vessel in 1980.
On Patriot’s Day 2007 and after a winter storm, ‘Nerno’ in 2014, the structure appeared also.
The artefact was visible in the 1950s too, according to Seacoast Online.
Much of the ship, however, has been lost to erosion. This includes the masts and deck planks.
Maine Historic Preservation Commission looked at the wreck previously and identified it as archaeological site ME 497-004.
It is thought to be a sloop – a single-mast sailing vessel.
But the powerful weekend storm carried with it flooding and substantial wind damage from Virginia to Maine.
Large chunks of coastline in Massachusetts were washed away at the end of the big weekend storm.
Coastal towns were affected by debris and some residents said the area was left looking at the end of the weekend “like a war zone.”