Posted on 07/14/2010 8:19:59 PM PDT by Lorianne
Workers excavating at the World Trade Center site have unearthed the 32-foot-long hull of a ship likely buried in the 18th century.
Archeologists say the vessel probably was used along with other debris to fill in land to extend lower Manhattan into the Hudson River.
Archeologists Molly McDonald and A. Michael Pappalardo were at the site of the Sept. 11 attacks on Tuesday morning when workers uncovered the artifacts. They call the find significant but say more study is needed to determine the age of the ship.
The two archeologists work for AKRF, a firm hired to document artifacts discovered at the site. They found a 100-pound boat anchor in the same area on Wednesday, but they're not sure if it belongs to the ship.
Pong
Historical site, no mosque.
Cool... 18th century? Would love to find out more about it.
Ping!
I remember hearing that when they excavated the site to build the first WTC at the site, they found the hull of another old ship then too (late 60’s or 1970).
When the new mosques are finished and blasting infidels from loudspeakers, there will still be the 9-11 hole for them to be thanful for.
argh
Thirty-two feet is not a ship... And in the 17th century “ship” was a type of rigging (three masted, square sails).
Maybe they will find some Freemason tools and a shield or two of the Knights from the Crusades, on the site chosen for the Mosque.
Historical site, no mosque.
If they ever build a mosque there, I will take a trip there to use the restroom like I’ve never used the restroom in my life.
Also, the place should be annointed with pork grease.
The name of that ship was the Tyger.
It was originally discovered when a subway was being excavated in the same area in the early twentieth century.
The rudder had been on display in a case inside the World Trade Center, but was probably destroyed with the WTC on 911.
Did NYC not keep any kind of record on using ships to fill that area?
Maybe this is why the towers fell.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but the Financial District of SF where the skyscrapers are are also built on landfill.
Oh Please
“So you’re saying that the men who built the WTC knew that the ground on which they were about to erect two 114 story buildings was landfill?!! WTF?”
Ah, but all landfill is not the same. First of all, NYC isn’t known for earthquakes. I think it’s extremely fitting that the twin World Trade Center towers were built upon centuries old artifacts that exemplified our country’s first forays into commerce.
Second, the Marina District was built upon haphazard rubble tossed from the 1906 earthquake without any forethought to its suitability as substructure.
Dollars and donuts.
True, but being hit by a 767 must be equal to at least a medium size earthquake.
Second, the Marina District was built upon haphazard rubble tossed from the 1906 earthquake without any forethought to its suitability as substructure.
Dollars and donuts.
More like bagels and donuts. You can't compare any kind of landfill to solid bedrock, which is what New York skyscrapers were traditionally built on, as I understand it.
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