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The Sleepy Cove Wreck, (1890), was located in 2009 and a reconnaissance survey was undertaken to place the wreck into the appropriate historical context during the following field season. Excavation was not considered for this site based on the results of the reconnaissance survey which concluded the Sleepy Cove wreck was very likely a late nineteenth century schooner.

 

The identity of the Sleepy Cove Wreck has not yet been determined. It is suspected the wreck was never documented in the ship registry as being wrecked. Study of the Sleepy Cove wreck provided contrast to the eighteenth-century building techniques associated with the earlier wrecks studied in the area.

 

The Sleepy Cove Wreck was constructed using the steam bent framing techniques employing hard wood frames that were butted together atop the keel and fastened with iron fasteners. The outer hull planking is consistent with caravel construction. It was concluded that the Sleepy Cove Wreck was a 41 foot schooner of approximately 12.4 tons, being constructed ca. 1880 and wrecking sometime during the turn of the twentieth century due to a weather event.