Stories of Long Beach Island shipwrecks usually focus on the event and the rescue, but sometimes if you dig deeper, you uncover an interesting prelude and epilogue. So it is with the little-discussed 1916 stranding of the U.S. Army transport Sumner at Barnegat Light.
The story ends in New Jersey but started in Hamburg, Germany, in 1882, where the passenger ship S.S. Rhaetia was launched. She was 366 feet in length with a steel hull.
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