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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. <\/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. <\/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. <\/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<\/p>\n “The team was able to identify Seiner <\/em>from features such as the double drum trawl winch, remains of the raised forecastle deck, shape of the stern, and the presence of a steam engine and boiler,” said AWS' Captain Eric Takakjian in a release. <\/p>\n Sadly, the company's founder and the skipper of Tenacious<\/em>, Capt. Joe Mazraani, died on July 29 while identifying another wreck on Georges Bank. Mazraani's partner, criminal defense attorney and diver Jennifer Sellitti, continues to operate Tenacious <\/em>as AWS' managing member. <\/p>\n maritime-executive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The private diving and artifact-recovery company Atlantic Wreck Salvage has discovered the wreck of the long-lost trawler Seiner, a large fishing vessel that went down off Nantucket in 1929. Seiner 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 …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[24748,3294,20935,2884,28757,27941,25401,2696],"class_list":["post-67694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-aws","tag-bank","tag-confirm","tag-divers","tag-georges","tag-identity","tag-longlost","tag-trawler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/67695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}