Expedition Team: Dave Miller, Rosie Miller, Nick, Jacque, Elizabeth & John Kelly
Date: November 21, 2025
On the beach in front of our condo every year there was a sign about the 1896 wreck of the Nathan F. Cobb which ran aground there (Photo#1). This American schooner built in 1890 (Photo #2), was 167 feet long and was sailing for New York with a cargo of lumber when a storm stripped away her three masts disabling the boat. I had heard rumors that locals took the lumber and the wooden planks of the boat and made a house. It is true.
A man named Billy Fagen salvaged wood from the boat and built a cottage in 1897 (Photo#3) on Orchard Lane in Ormond Beach which is still used today (Photo#4).
