Sabin Shipwreck — Off Galveston Island

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Sabin Shipwreck — Off Galveston Island

Lost Treasure TX • Galveston County County
Description
19th-century shipwreck legend of the Sabin — a vessel belonging to Robert Kleberg and Van Roeder — said to have gone down with valuables off the Gulf side of Galveston Island.
Historical Notes
Robert Justus Kleberg (1823–1883) was a prominent South Texas lawyer and rancher; his son married into the King Ranch dynasty. Van Roeder (also spelled Van Roder) appears in coastal Texas mercantile records of the mid-1800s. The Rocker Box cites guidebook lore that the Sabin sank with valuables off Galveston Island. Gulf storms, shifting sandbars, and the 1900 hurricane have buried countless wooden wrecks along the island's seaward beaches. No modern archaeological identification of the Sabin wreck is widely published. Coordinates approximate the Gulf beach offshore zone south of central Galveston Island.
Status / Verification legend — Legendary or approximate

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