Florida beach participants received unlikely visitors last weekend after an unmanned ship washed.
According to the Flagler Beach Fire Department, a 50-foot shrimp boat named “Miss Monty” ran aground at Beverly Beach, about three miles north of Flagler Beach on Florida’s east coast.
Authorities responding to the beach boat site were initially unable to contact the crew; The department said In a social media post.
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Miss Montee, a 50-foot shrimp boat washed on a Florida beach on Sunday, April 13th, 2025. (Flaggler Beach Fire Station).
The Flagler Beach Fire Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Fox News Digital.
When contacted the U.S. Coast Guard, officials learned that the crew had in fact been removed from the ship and taken from the ship prior to Sunday. He told the Daytona Beach News Journal.
“We make sure everything looks like it’s stuffed with buttons. The container is still upright. It’s not a cap size or anything,” Blackwell said. “It’s a steel hull so it shouldn’t fall apart overnight or something like that crazy should collapse.”
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The ship lost Miss Monty captain Corey Thomas on Friday night. He told the News Journal. Thomas reportedly called the Coast Guard after he realized that his spare anchor would not hold the weight of the ship.
“I didn’t want the boat to drift away,” Thomas said. ” [Coast Guard] They told me they couldn’t tow me. And I couldn’t understand why they couldn’t tow me. They said it was too dangerous. ”
Thomas was not immediately available to request comment on Fox News Digital.
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Corey Thomas, the captain of the 50-foot-long Miss Monty Shrimp Boat, stranded at Beverly Beach, just north of Flagler Beach, on Friday night, drifted southward and southward. (Frank Fernandez/USA TODAY)
The Coast Guard reportedly took Thomas and his crew to the shore, where Thomas found the boat owner who was willing to tow a shrimp boat. But Miss Monty drifts eight miles in three hours, and the waves are too rough for a ship to tow, the News Journal reported.
Thomas attempted to use the second anchor to hold the boat, but the line broke. The next day, Miss Monty arrived at the coast of Beverly Beach.
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“And here she’s sitting,” Thomas said.
The boat was searched and then handed over to local law enforcement. Thomas reportedly hired a larger shrimp boat to get off the beach and told Fox News Digital that he was being towed by St. Augustine.
The Coast Guard and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Committee did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
