TheT exas Historical Commissionhas confirmed a shipwreck found in the Neches River dates to World War I. The wooden-hulled vessel was one of nearly 40 built in Beaumont by the U.S. Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation and abandoned when the war ended.
Many of the 40 vessels were unfinished and often converted to barges or sold for scrap. Designed as steamships, they were nearly ...