Waves from Hurricane Erin pounded Long Beach Island earlier this week, taking away a historic island landmark.

A steel mast poking above the sand on the beach at Barnegat Light was all that remained to let people know the final resting place of the vessel Sea King.

On Thursday night, the storm pulled the mast back to sea.

“It’s another landmark gone,” Gretchen Coyle at the New Jersey Maritime Museum in Beach Haven said on Saturday.

On Feb. 12, 1963, the 95-foot trawler Sea King was towing a decommissioned minesweeper named Prescott to Atlantic City for refitting, according to information on the museum’s website.

Both ships were stranded on the Barnegat Shoals during a thick fog. The Prescott was later re-floated and saved.

The Sea King, however, could not be salvaged and became bu

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