I keep hoping the wheel reappears when someone is there to see it, and hopefully recover it.

No apologies necessary.  The sea giveth and the sea taketh away.  Always worth checking.

The object you point out is not a new arrival. It has been in that position since at least 2012.  I think it's the thing in the foreground of the photo below taken in 2001.

We've walked past it many times.

First I want to apologize for being the latest crazy person to think he has seen something in google maps but I was looking at Nikumaroro in google maps and saw something odd near the Norwich City wreck, likely it is just a random piece of junk but I would be interested in what others see.  I have attached a larger view which includes the Norwich City and then a zoomed view of the object.

I think what they meant to say is that, because of its closeness to the International Date Line, when the day ends at Howland and Baker, it's pretty much end-of-day everywhere.

From Wikipedia about Anywhere on Earth (AoE): "For any given date, the latest place on Earth where it would be valid is on Howland and Baker Islands, in the IDLW time zone (the Western Hemisphere side of the International Date Line). Therefore, the day ends AoE when it ends on Howland Island."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anywhere_on_Earth

Also:  https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/aoe#:~:text=Anywhere%20on%20Earth%20%E2%80%93%20AoE%20Time%20Zone%20(Standard%20Time)&text=Currently%20has%20same%20time%20zone,during%20standard%20time%20in%3A%20Pacific.

"This would be easy enough to understand were it not for the fact that the day finishes at different points depending on where you are in the world. To clarify, businesses set the deadline as 'End of Day, Anywhere on Earth', meaning when the clock turns to 00:00 on Howland and Baker."

Maybe I'm dense, but I don't see how "End of Day, Anywhere on Earth" means when the clock turns to 00:00 on Howland and Baker.  Howland and Baker are in a time zone just like everywhere else.

Howland and  Baker Islands are in their own time zone, apparently

https://www.mirror.co.uk/travel/usa-canada/desolate-island-sits-outside-time-31790358

Well, there went several hours of my time. I think I read most of her articles.

Interesting to see her report of TIGHAR's expeditions to Newfoundland.

Also interesting to see what else was happening in aviation in Newfoundland in 1927, including involving other contenders for the Orteig prize.

Don W.

Thanks Matt!  Good find.

A website that covers early aviation losses and events in Newfoundland,

https://planecrashgirl.ca/category/early-newfoundland-aviation/

Early on in discussions of this artifact, I suggested it was part of the engine oiling system, which was largely external. That still doesn't seem to explain explosive damage. If I had my druthers, I'd take it to Paris and hold it up next to the engine on display looking for a match to some part there.

Were the cylinders cast with water jackets, or were the water jackets made separately and added around the cylinders? It appears the engine had individual cylinders rather than a cylinder block. The cylinders might not even be castings.

Don W.