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Here lies the The Frances or what is left of it, not so much to see. What is interesting is that it went down in a gale one December off the Head of the Meadow Beach (Truro MA, USA) in 1872, and reemerges from time to time at low tide. The captain and crew were saved by men in a whaleboat, though the captain died of exposure a few days later, the sole causality. It was a German boat made primarily of metal, and bearing tea to bring to Boston. That tea must have lost its flavor long ago. Henry Thoreau wrote in his book on Cape Cod that scavenging cargo washed ashore from shipwrecks one of the major occupations of inhabitants of the Cape as there were so many. "Finders keepers" was written into the law.