News that the missing ship was finally found brought the great-great-great grandson of James Carruthers a flood of emotions.

The relative offered a coda to the shipwreck discovery story with a personal, and emotional, one of his own.

No one aboard the Carruthers survived, and the 550-foot Canadian vessel was lost for more than 100 years.

Andrew Pepler — the great-great-great grandson of James Carruthers, the shipping executive after whom a sunken freighter was named — said the news that the missing ship was finally found overwhelmed him with a flood of emotions.

"I cannot tell you the emotional joy, the happiness and the excitement I felt when my dad sent the link to your article in my family group chat," he wrote in an email to Free Press photojournalist Eric Seals, adding that the re

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