With the start of a new year while looking for new topics to write about, I came upon a 100-year-old article dated Feb. 9 reporting that a four-masted schooner, the Estelle Krieger, was in trouble off Ship Bottom. With that in mind, my search began.

The Internet provided a 2014 article, “The Sunken Ships of Bayonne,” which read “At the southeastern corner of Bayonne rests the wreck of the Estelle Krieger, a 1172-ton passenger schooner built in 1899 but left to rot along the Piers of the Port…