Shipwreck of Ernest Shackleton's Endurance found off Antarctica 01:36. A chunk of weather-beaten flotsam that washed up on a New York shoreline after Tropical Storm Ian last fall has piqued the ...

NEW IBERIA, LA (WVUE) - It’s early September 1896 and the steamship SS New York has just left Galveston for a trip to New Orleans when it runs straight into a fierce hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico.

The SS Savannah was the first vessel to cross the Atlantic Ocean partly under steam power in 1819. It ran aground and broke apart two years later.