[stockpirate]

ping

[C210N]

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...

[EQAndyBuzz]

Now that’s cool.

[SunkenCiv]

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...