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Mystery wreck discovered in the Baltic Sea!
UPI ^
| Published 10/8/2002 3:06 PM
| (Reported by Charles Choi, UPI Science News, in New York)
Posted on 10/12/2002 8:19:23 AM PDT by vannrox
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To: tjg
The logs are in excelent shape, and worth quite a bit of money.
And they make great sounding musical instruments out of it.
To: vannrox
"with skulls littering its centuries-old wooden decks."
See stanza three of:
A Ballad of John Silver by Poet Laureate - John Masefield
We were schooner-rigged and rakish,
with a long and lissome hull,
And we flew the pretty colours of the crossbones and the skull;
We'd a big black Jolly Roger flapping grimly at the fore,
And we sailed the Spanish Water in the happy days of yore.
We'd a long brass gun amidships, like a well-conducted ship,
We had each a brace of pistols and a cutlass at the hip;
It's a point which tells against us, and a fact to be deplored,
But we chased the goodly merchant-men and laid their ships aboard.
Then the dead men fouled the scuppers and the wounded filled the chains,
And the paint-work all was spatter dashed with other peoples brains,
She was boarded, she was looted, she was scuttled till she sank.
And the pale survivors left us by the medium of the plank.
O! then it was (while standing by the taffrail on the poop)
We could hear the drowning folk lament the absent chicken coop;
Then, having washed the blood away, we'd little else to do
Than to dance a quiet hornpipe as the old salts taught us to.
O! the fiddle on the fo'c'sle, and the slapping naked soles,
And the genial "Down the middle, Jake, and curtsey when she rolls!"
With the silver seas around us and the pale moon overhead,
And the look-out not a-looking and his pipe-bowl glowing red.
Ah! the pig-tailed, quidding pirates and the pretty pranks we played,
All have since been put a stop to by the naughty Board of Trade;
The schooners and the merry crews are laid away to rest,
A little south the sunset in the islands of the Blest.
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posted on
10/12/2002 12:16:27 PM PDT
by
APBaer
To: blam
Don't know if you saw this one... pretty interesting.
To: vannrox
Yes, but skulls?? How did they survive this long time period, with all the bacteria and scum eating fishes and such, there are never human remains fond in ships older than a year I thought! Just clothes and such, not body parts!
To: vannrox
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To: RaceBannon
there are human remains on the empress of ireland in Canadian waters, and it sunk like 90 years ago
To: vannrox
The identity of the ship is a mystery, researchers said. The ship appears to be a naval or postal ship and is not any known Swedish vessel. This goes a long ways to help explain the eternal mystery of why Express Mail isn't. There must be more, loaded with important shipments (like Christmas cookies) that never made it.
To: Hank Rearden
There must be more, loaded with important shipments (like Christmas cookies) that never made it. And fruit cake, which was really the reason why it sank.
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posted on
10/12/2002 1:56:18 PM PDT
by
jackbill
To: jackbill
ROTFLMAO!
To: Jimer
"Could be a Viking submarine that somehow got runed. "
Har-har-har matey!....Good one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
To: aculeus; blam; thefactor
Thought you would be interested...
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posted on
10/12/2002 2:14:13 PM PDT
by
Pharmboy
To: philman_36
Really? Is it just because it's good wood or is there something about sitting around in the water that improves it?
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posted on
10/12/2002 2:21:22 PM PDT
by
tjg
To: Pharmboy
Thought you would be interested... Yes! Many thanks.
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posted on
10/12/2002 2:35:05 PM PDT
by
aculeus
To: Latina_Abogada
You've been waiting YEARS to use that one, haven't you?
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posted on
10/12/2002 2:49:57 PM PDT
by
TomB
To: Jimer
Nice one. You've got a sense of swedish/norwegian/danish humor!
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posted on
10/12/2002 3:14:06 PM PDT
by
Endeavor
To: tjg
Is it just because it's good wood or is there something about sitting around in the water that improves it?Timeless Timber: ResonanceDebra Powers violin is made of spruce and maplenot especially rare trees, but this wood is special. It came from logs that were retrieved from the bottom of Lake Superior, where they had sunk during logging operations in the 1800s.
Theres something about wood thats been submerged in water that enlarges the cells of the wood and it helps it capture the sound. Its exactly how Antonio Stradivarius made his violins and his violins are the best in the world. He never made a violin out of wood that had not been submerged for over 50 years.Snip...
What happens when you soak the wood for a period of years is the starchy, gummy matters that is in the cell walls of the wood is leached out over a period of time and its replaced by water. When dried, you have a zillion hollowed-out cell walls that act like speaker cabinets that resonate the wood.
To: philman_36
Wow. Thanks for the link.
Who would have thought it was the secret (or one) of Stradivarius?
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posted on
10/13/2002 9:44:27 AM PDT
by
tjg
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