Old ship found

Steffani Jacobs has an article at Warrior.Scout.com about an unlikely ship in an unlikely place:

Four years ago, an unexpected discovery was made while excavating the remains of the World Trade Center. It was the skeleton of a wooden ship, and now researchers believe they finally discovered its origins.
In the summer of 2010, construction workers excavating the site of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Centers were shocked when they uncovered the skeleton of a wooden ship.
At the time of the discovery, it was unknown where the ship came from, how long it had been there, and the age of the ship. But now, researchers believe they have finally solved the mystery of the out-of-place shipwreck, detailed in a new report released by the Tree Ring Laboratory at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO).
Over the last four years, archaeologists have been excavating the unlikely site and found animal bones, ceramic dishes, bottles, and shoes. But what excited them most was the discovery of the hull of the ship. They sent a few timbers from the ship to the LDEO to be studied in order to find the age. The lab finally concluded that the wood was over a hundred years old when it was cut down for use in 1773, the probable age of the ship. Further study of the ship has revealed that it was made of the same wood used by a shipping company in Philadelphia, and may even be the same wood used to build parts of Philadelphia's Independence Hall.
According to the Tree Ring Laboratory, the key to the analysis was studying wood samples obtained from Philadelphia's Independence Hall. These wood samples were taken two decades earlier from tree-ring scientist Ed Cook.
“It turns out that growth rings still visible in the building’s timbers matched those from the World Trade Center ship, suggesting that the wood used in both structures came from the same region,” the Lamont tree-ring lab announced in a statement. “It was likely built in Philadelphia, a center for ship-building in Colonial times.”
Although the origins of the ship have been discovered, historians are still uncertain as to how the ship came to be resting below the World Trade Center. One speculation is that the ship, believed to be a Dutch Hudson River sloop designed for shallow and rocky waters, was most likely buried, after retiring from thirty to forty years of service and coming to rest in Manhattan, by trash in a landfill on the Lower Manhattan coastline.

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