Crash Site Camp

Archivist's Excerpt from: Alone in the Cold: The Story of Orphan Towne, its Strange History, & its Stranger Occupants, CVI 42.4

Following the ... sailing of the Catch & Orphaned Hope (yes, let's call it that) in the maelstrom of the , the derelict remains of the already-rotting sailing ships came to a crashing end on the north side of the old and nearly dry—and really quite deep—lakebed along the Yedak River.

In order to survive the night, tend their wounds and weary bodies during this time, a makeshift camp was constructed (let the reader note that this term is used generously) out of the inverted bow section of what was once the merchant ship Catch. There it remained, until it didn't, when the continued march of the did it in just a short time after its construction.

Purpose / Function

Survival, and also windbreak

Alterations

Planks were picked up from spots and carried to other spots and leaned against things

Architecture

The inverted hull of a once-great early 17th century English merchant ship


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