Maine asks federal judge to award it ownership of 1893 shipwreck off the coast of MDI

Maine asks federal judge to award it ownership of 1893 shipwreck off the coast of MDI

The state of Maine on Tuesday asked a judge to give it possession of a shipwreck off the coast of Bar Harbor. The Delhi, loaded with 32,000 granite pavers, sank in 1893 off Mount Desert Island. In March 2024, JJM LLC filed a salvage rights claim to the ship in U.S. District Court of Maine in Bangor. The company is seeking ownership rights to the wreckage, but the state challenged that claim, saying that federal law has established that unclaimed…