The discovery of a 300-year-old ship at a construction site has archaeologists ecstatic

WashingtonPost ^ | January 6, 2016 | Patricia Sullivan

[DoughtyOne]

Wondered where my boat went...

[Fred Nerks]

...The Shoobama was a slave ship that was taken over by slaves who had rebelled against their slave masters!...

And after hundreds of years evading capture, their descendants formed the NAACP, or was it the Black Panthers.../S

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Tennessee Nana, bfl.

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=revolutionary+war+ship+virginia

[fieldmarshaldj]

Most of those ships are now buried under the Financial District in SF (where the skyscrapers are).

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Tennessee Nana.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

That’ll buff right out!

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“Daily pumping to keep then afloat there was. “

Yoda? Is that you?

[mass55th]

Hope it’s not a slave ship. We’ll never hear the end of it.

[COBOL2Java]

Hope it’s not a slave ship. We’ll never hear the end of it.

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Well, less than a mile from there is the Contrabands and Freedmen Cemetery Memorial

[Mr Rogers]

I’m guessing the owner had stored his guns on the ship. If ships are anything like canoes, having a gun on board means an almost automatic sinking. At least half of the guns in America have disappeared that way.