Boat From 1700s Found At World Trade Centre

'Archaeologists working at the World Trade Centre site in New York have found the remains of a wooden ship apparently buried there more than 200 years ago.

The remains of the 30ft length of a wood-hulled vessel were found when workers excavating the site, where a new World Trade Centre is being built, hit a row of wood timbers, The New York Times reported.'

In the full article, it says that in the late 18th and early 19th centuries there was cribbing built to extend Manhattan and that the ship may have been deliberately used as fill.

That’s what I was thinking too.

Now if it were 300+ years old, perhaps it carried pirate booty as well. New York at that time was THE port for pirates, even more so than the Carolinas.

23 posted on 07/15/2010 1:52:56 PM PDT by 21twelve ( UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES MY ARSE: "..now begin the work of remaking America."-Obama, 1/20/09)

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24 posted on 08/15/2010 2:36:14 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)

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