18th Century Ship Found Under WTC Site

[mookiemookie]

On Tuesday morning, workers excavating the site of the underground vehicle security center for the future World Trade Center hit a row of sturdy, upright wood timbers, regularly spaced, sticking out of a briny gray muck flecked with oyster shells.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/14/18th-century-ship-found-at-trade-center-site/

Amazing. Whenever I walk around old cities like NYC or Boston, I wonder how the street I'm walking on looked 100 or 200 years ago. Who walked it? What stores were here? What happened to them? It's amazing what can be found buried under a city street.

[Schroeder]

Cool.:cool:

[Oberon]

Very cool find indeed. Thanks for posting. Makes you wonder what else is below our feet.

I do recall stories of a workers locomotive that fell down a coal mine shaft whilst working on the building of the East Coast Main line. It's most likely still down there somewhere. :hmmm:

[UnderseaLcpl]

Nice find, Mark:up:

Judging by what we can see, the method of disposal, and the description in the article, it looks to be one of the old paddle-wheel steamboats of the era, probably intended for coastal or river service, used as part of the landfill when screw-driven steamers came into widespread use. I don't know much about Manhattan island, but if I had to guess I'd say the thing was buried sometime in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. Of course, this is all pure speculation. Too bad they don't have more time to research the ship.

[tater]

Someone should go tot he mosque site and throw a handful of pot sherds and arrowheads in the hole along with some human bones. It'll be a sacred indian site, and they'll be SOL ;)

[AVGWarhawk]

True dat tater. Some say they want a mosque built there so we can fly our airplanes into it. Wild stuff.


nnapolis MD experience the same thing when construction begins. It is usually stopped, site excavated then work resume. Very interesting!

[tater]

I had a work-study job in college working for the office of contract archeology doing cartography. Was pretty cool, and it really gave me an education on how much archeological stuff is under our noses all the time. Can't blade a new road here in NM without having cultural site mitigation.

[mookiemookie]

This can only mean one thing:

17th century sailors did 9/11.

[tater]

Hmm, then I expect they'll find she's a xebec :D

[Blood_splat]

This can only mean one thing:

17th century sailors did 9/11.
:haha:

[AVGWarhawk]

This can only mean one thing:

17th century sailors did 9/11.

That was one conspiracy theory examined but the aircraft parts were the give away that 17th century sailors did not have anything to do with 9/11. The FBI moved on to the local Girl Scouts Troop 901 and began their investigation anew there. Cookies for all. :up:

[krashkart]

Wait... :hmmm: I thought 9/11 was carried out by

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUjIA3Rt7gk

[tater]

A xebec filled with nanothermite!

(the former is just as plausible as the latter ;) )

[Ducimus]

That is amazing.

[Jimbuna]

Very cool find indeed. Thanks for posting. Makes you wonder what else is below our feet.

I do recall stories of a workers locomotive that fell down a coal mine shaft whilst working on the building of the East Coast Main line. It's most likely still down there somewhere. :hmmm:

Well it certainly makes a change from unexploded bombs :DL

[Biggles]

This can only mean one thing:

17th century sailors did 9/11.

Which itself is quite suspicious since the ship was from the 18th century:hmmm:

[mookiemookie]

Which itself is quite suspicious since the ship was from the 18th century:hmmm:

:rotfl2: Good catch. Gotta learn to read my own thread title before making corny jokes!

That always got me. I understand WHY the "18th century" covers the span of 1700-1799, but it's kind of wacky to make that mental leap when people are talking about "the 18th century." I always have to mentally do the math in my head "ok 18th century, that means it's actually a hundred years before what you think...or is it a hundred years after? No, it's the 1700s."

[TLAM Strike]

Which itself is quite suspicious since the ship was from the 18th century:hmmm:
:DL They didn't like the idea of the century changing and that's why they did it... :O: