By Amy A. Borgens and Hope Bridgeman, State Marine Archeologist and Marine Archeology Program Intern
The scow schooner Lake Austin seemingly had nine lives: After surviving the most powerful recorded hurricane in U.S. history at Indianola in 1886, it would serve as a rescue vessel during the later Galveston hurricane of 1900, only to succumb to a lesser storm in 1903. Lake Austin was...