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Origins of Mysterious World Trade Center Ship Revealed
Yahoo UK News ^ | 29th July 2014 | Megan Gannon

Posted on 07/29/2014 5:49:18 AM PDT by the scotsman

'In July 2010, amid the gargantuan rebuilding effort at the site of the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan, construction workers halted the backhoes when they uncovered something unexpected just south of where the Twin Towers once stood.

At 22 feet (6.7 meters) below today's street level, in a pit that would become an underground security and parking complex, excavators found the mangled skeleton of a long-forgotten wooden ship.

Now, a new report finds that tree rings in those waterlogged ribs show the vessel was likely built in 1773, or soon after, in a small shipyard near Philadelphia. What's more, the ship was perhaps made from the same kind of white oak trees used to build parts of Independence Hall, where the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution were signed, according to the study published this month in the journal Tree-Ring Research.'

(Excerpt) Read more at uk.news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: New York; US: Pennsylvania; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 1773; 1773ship; dendrochronology; godsgravesglyphs; independencehall; manhattan; newyork; newyorkcity; pennsylvania; philadelphia; radiocarbondating; relic; ship; syria; therevolution; worldtradecenter; wtc
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1 posted on 07/29/2014 5:49:18 AM PDT by the scotsman
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To: SunkenCiv

ping


2 posted on 07/29/2014 6:00:42 AM PDT by stockpirate (This will stop when conservatives take to the streets, not before.)
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If it was built around 1773, and went down around 20-30 years later, then it could have been in NYC at the time the federal govt was based there, with Washington as prez, in 1789. It was a tiny city back then, perhaps some artifacts can be linked to the first POTUS...


3 posted on 07/29/2014 6:04:19 AM PDT by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: stockpirate

Now that’s cool.


4 posted on 07/29/2014 6:05:55 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (GM is dead and Al Queada is alive.)
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4 Weeks
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Support It Or Lose It

5 posted on 07/29/2014 6:23:39 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: the scotsman

Love the tree ring forensics ...


6 posted on 07/29/2014 6:23:41 AM PDT by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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To: spodefly
Like this guy?


7 posted on 07/29/2014 6:29:58 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: the scotsman
"I don't know much about the life expectancy for boats, but that doesn't seem like too long for something that would take so long to build," Martin-Benito said.

He needs to learn more about shipbuilding and maritime commerce in the age of sail. A very few ships lasted as long as twenty years. Those that were built quickly, with green wood, had the shortest life spans. Merchant ships were much shorter lived than naval vessels because they used cheaper materials, spent less building a tight ship, and did less maintenance than did the navy. A merchant ship was expected to recoup the investment of purchase within three to five years. Many did not last that long.

8 posted on 07/29/2014 6:32:21 AM PDT by centurion316
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To: C210N

Amazing.


9 posted on 07/29/2014 6:33:49 AM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: the scotsman

Are liberals going to build a gift shop for that as well?


10 posted on 07/29/2014 6:35:46 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hitlery: Incarnation of evil.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
Are liberals going to build a gift shop for that as well?
Not before they use the tree rings to prove man made global warming ERRRR I mean "climate change".
11 posted on 07/29/2014 6:56:52 AM PDT by lewislynn (What does the global warming movement and the Fairtax movement have in common? Disinformation)
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To: the scotsman

Very cool!


12 posted on 07/29/2014 7:37:32 AM PDT by gimme1ibertee (When injustice becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.)
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To: stockpirate; Pharmboy; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; ...
Thanks stockpirate for the ping.
Now, a new report finds that tree rings in those waterlogged ribs show the vessel was likely built in 1773, or soon after, in a small shipyard near Philadelphia. What's more, the ship was perhaps made from the same kind of white oak trees used to build parts of Independence Hall, where the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution were signed...

13 posted on 07/30/2014 2:52:17 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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Proud to be in before the idiots arrive and add "junkscience" to the keywords because this dating and sourcing was made possible by radiocarbon dating and dendrochronology.

14 posted on 07/30/2014 2:55:53 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv

Thanks for the ping! That was pretty interesting!


15 posted on 07/30/2014 3:05:31 PM PDT by Monkey Face (One day on Mercury lasts 1408 hours: The same length as one Monday on Earth.)
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To: the scotsman; SunkenCiv
Part of the WTC site was originally part of the Hudson River.

Interestingly, a Dutch ship sinking just about there is what lead to the founding of New Amsterdam when the crew was forced to winter over.

16 posted on 07/30/2014 3:10:25 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: SunkenCiv

17 posted on 07/30/2014 3:15:37 PM PDT by NYer ("You are a puff of smoke that appears briefly and then disappears." James 4:14)
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To: Paladin2

lol love the visualization of the graph!


18 posted on 07/30/2014 3:52:43 PM PDT by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
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To: the scotsman; SunkenCiv

Fascinating. Thanks for posting.


19 posted on 07/30/2014 5:29:08 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: SunkenCiv; the scotsman; indcons; Chani; thefactor; blam; aculeus; ELS; Doctor Raoul; ...
Thanks for the post, Scotty and the ping, SunkenCiv! Great stuff.

A shiver me timbers ping to the list

The RevWar/Colonial History/General Washington ping list

20 posted on 07/30/2014 5:54:26 PM PDT by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must.)
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