Topic ID #8114 - posted 7/15/2010 2:15 AM
Jennifer Palmer
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18th-Century Ship Found at Trade Center Site
Jennifer Palmer
Webmaster
July 14, 2010, 6:16 pm
By DAVID W. DUNLAP
On Wednesday, archaeologists examined the remains of a wooden ship found at the World Trade Center site.
In the middle of tomorrow, a great ribbed ghost has emerged from a distant yesterday.
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.
Obviously, these were more than just remnants of the wooden cribbing used in the late 18th and early 19th centuries to extend the shoreline of Manhattan Island ever farther into the Hudson River. (Lower Manhattan real estate was a precious commodity even then.)
“They were so perfectly contoured that they were clearly part of a ship,” said A. Michael Pappalardo, an archaeologist with the firm AKRF, which is working for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to document historical material uncovered during construction.
Read the rest of the article here.
By DAVID W. DUNLAP
On Wednesday, archaeologists examined the remains of a wooden ship found at the World Trade Center site.
In the middle of tomorrow, a great ribbed ghost has emerged from a distant yesterday.
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.
Obviously, these were more than just remnants of the wooden cribbing used in the late 18th and early 19th centuries to extend the shoreline of Manhattan Island ever farther into the Hudson River. (Lower Manhattan real estate was a precious commodity even then.)
“They were so perfectly contoured that they were clearly part of a ship,” said A. Michael Pappalardo, an archaeologist with the firm AKRF, which is working for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to document historical material uncovered during construction.
Read the rest of the article here.
Post ID#17878 - replied 7/16/2010 9:23 AM
Dmack89
Jennifer,
Thanks for posting on this first story out about the find. By now there are hundreds of stories outlets around the world and on the web - but most are based on a few actual "from the field report" - this is evident when you see mistakes propogated (such as an indication that endrocinology would be done on the wood rather than DENDROCHRONOLOGY). It is a major find and I look forward to a lot of great info coming out
I wanted to share a few photos I took on 7/14 with the AFW community -
View of full remnant from Street level
View west of wreck and "bathtub" slurry wall.
plank floor - lowest "living" level of the ship - mud everywhere
Swabbing the deck - utilizing water to help with a "final" cleaning
Post ID#17879 - replied 7/17/2010 7:14 AM
Jennifer Palmer
Webmaster
Doug, thanks for sharing those photos. What an interesting project!
I was surprised at how much national/international media coverage this story has gotten in the past several days. It's been popping up everywhere. I also stumbled upon one of the articles with the reference to endocrinology. How many archys have been interviewed by the media and been misquoted... it's almost an expectation.
Jennifer
I was surprised at how much national/international media coverage this story has gotten in the past several days. It's been popping up everywhere. I also stumbled upon one of the articles with the reference to endocrinology. How many archys have been interviewed by the media and been misquoted... it's almost an expectation.
Jennifer
Post ID#17905 - replied 7/21/2010 6:15 AM
Dmack89
In addition to all the news accounts, there is now a short interview about the site that was aired on the John Grambling Show, WOR radio in NYC which is available as a podcast at http://www.wor710.com/topic/play_window.php?audioType=Episode&audioId=4810375
Post ID#17906 - replied 7/21/2010 6:51 AM
Jennifer Palmer
Webmaster
Thanks! Oddly enough I just got back from running and was loading some new podcasts on my Ipod as I read your message. If anyone wants the podcast to load onto their mp3 player, you can also find the download for free through the Itunes store. Looking forward to it...
Post ID#17912 - replied 7/22/2010 3:52 AM
Jennifer Palmer
Webmaster
Thanks again for sharing that. The interviewer seemed to be reasonably well-informed and had a good idea of what you were doing at the site (unfortunately with media interviews, that's not always the case!). I'll bet a lot of folks outside of archaeology would be surprised to learn just how much real estate is landfill in many waterfront communities.
Post ID#17949 - replied 7/28/2010 5:10 AM
Jennifer Palmer
Webmaster
World Trade Center Boat Sails into Posterity, Piece by Piece
http://www.dnainfo.com/20100726/financial-district-battery-park-city/world-trade-center-boat-sails-into-posterity-piece-by-piece#ixzz0uyhtWgbK
http://www.dnainfo.com/20100726/financial-district-battery-park-city/world-trade-center-boat-sails-into-posterity-piece-by-piece#ixzz0uyhtWgbK
Post ID#17959 - replied 8/3/2010 3:41 AM
Jennifer Palmer
Webmaster
Workmen May Have Accidentally Cut World Trade Center Boat in Half
July 29, 2010 6:27am Updated July 29, 2010
Archaeologists say the missing 30-foot section of the boat might have contained the most scientifically valuable data.
By Julie Shapiro
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
LOWER MANHATTAN — Construction workers at the World Trade Center may have unwittingly destroyed the 30-foot back section of an 18th century boat that was discovered near the site nearly two weeks ago, archaeologists say.
A report by a team of archaeologists theorizes that the damage to the boat's aft was done late last year, when Port Authority workers were seeking to mitigate delays caused by the still-standing Deutsche Bank building.
Port Authority officials had ordered workmen to build a concrete slurry wall just west of the Deutsche Bank site so that they could begin excavating on one side of the wall without undermining the foundation of the soon to be demolished building.
But archaeologists think that the Port Authority’s concrete wall cut right through the mud where the World Trade Center boat had been encased for about 200 years.
“The rear of the boat may have been destroyed by the construction of [that] slurry wall,” archaeologists at the firm AKRF wrote in a report released this week.
Read the rest of the article here.
July 29, 2010 6:27am Updated July 29, 2010
Archaeologists say the missing 30-foot section of the boat might have contained the most scientifically valuable data.
By Julie Shapiro
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
LOWER MANHATTAN — Construction workers at the World Trade Center may have unwittingly destroyed the 30-foot back section of an 18th century boat that was discovered near the site nearly two weeks ago, archaeologists say.
A report by a team of archaeologists theorizes that the damage to the boat's aft was done late last year, when Port Authority workers were seeking to mitigate delays caused by the still-standing Deutsche Bank building.
Port Authority officials had ordered workmen to build a concrete slurry wall just west of the Deutsche Bank site so that they could begin excavating on one side of the wall without undermining the foundation of the soon to be demolished building.
But archaeologists think that the Port Authority’s concrete wall cut right through the mud where the World Trade Center boat had been encased for about 200 years.
“The rear of the boat may have been destroyed by the construction of [that] slurry wall,” archaeologists at the firm AKRF wrote in a report released this week.
Read the rest of the article here.
Post ID#17965 - replied 8/5/2010 3:51 AM
Jennifer Palmer
Webmaster
Ship's bones may reveal its identity
Md. archaeologists hope to solve mystery of N.Y. vessel
By Michael E. Ruane, The Washington Post
6:36 a.m. EDT, August 4, 2010
Once, this was a stout ship, with oak futtocks and floor timbers, fastened with iron nails, built with saw and adz and the calloused hands of shipwrights now long dead.
Two centuries ago it was a simple coaster, hauling goods around the eastern capes, armed against pirates, and ending its days at a wharf in New York City. As the years went by, it sank into the harbor mud, entombed beneath what would one day become the World Trade Center site.
Shortly after noon Monday, two trucks bearing the ship's unearthed skeleton pulled into a Maryland science complex on the shore of the Patuxent River in St. Leonard's, where scores of eager archaeologists and curators waited as if for the bones of a dinosaur.
Read the rest here.
Md. archaeologists hope to solve mystery of N.Y. vessel
By Michael E. Ruane, The Washington Post
6:36 a.m. EDT, August 4, 2010
Once, this was a stout ship, with oak futtocks and floor timbers, fastened with iron nails, built with saw and adz and the calloused hands of shipwrights now long dead.
Two centuries ago it was a simple coaster, hauling goods around the eastern capes, armed against pirates, and ending its days at a wharf in New York City. As the years went by, it sank into the harbor mud, entombed beneath what would one day become the World Trade Center site.
Shortly after noon Monday, two trucks bearing the ship's unearthed skeleton pulled into a Maryland science complex on the shore of the Patuxent River in St. Leonard's, where scores of eager archaeologists and curators waited as if for the bones of a dinosaur.
Read the rest here.
Post ID#18021 - replied 8/19/2010 3:18 AM
Jennifer Palmer
Webmaster
Unearthed Ship In NYC Offers Clues Of Colonial Life
by Jamie Tarabay
August 18, 2010
They call it the mystery ship: a wooden vessel that may have sailed the Hudson River and the East Coast, transporting goods between the flourishing Colonies. Its remains were found last month in the ruins of the World Trade Center in New York City. They've since been moved to a science lab in Maryland, where each day brings new discoveries.
The first thing that hits you when you lean toward the enormous tanks filled with water, where scientists use small brushes to clean the timbers, is the smell — a bit like rotten eggs. Or, as Nichole Doub, head conservator at the Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory, says, "that deep-woods smell after a really heavy rain." But after weeks of being "up to our knees and elbows" in it, she says, perhaps she's become desensitized to it.
The complex on the shore of the Patuxent River is full of dark, wet timbers from the mystery ship. The largest piece of the ship, called the apron, weighs in at 540 pounds. Doub puts the vessel's size at about 60 feet. She guesses it was a work boat, very solidly built, and used to transport cargo during the 1700s.
Read the rest of the article here.
by Jamie Tarabay
August 18, 2010
They call it the mystery ship: a wooden vessel that may have sailed the Hudson River and the East Coast, transporting goods between the flourishing Colonies. Its remains were found last month in the ruins of the World Trade Center in New York City. They've since been moved to a science lab in Maryland, where each day brings new discoveries.
The first thing that hits you when you lean toward the enormous tanks filled with water, where scientists use small brushes to clean the timbers, is the smell — a bit like rotten eggs. Or, as Nichole Doub, head conservator at the Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory, says, "that deep-woods smell after a really heavy rain." But after weeks of being "up to our knees and elbows" in it, she says, perhaps she's become desensitized to it.
The complex on the shore of the Patuxent River is full of dark, wet timbers from the mystery ship. The largest piece of the ship, called the apron, weighs in at 540 pounds. Doub puts the vessel's size at about 60 feet. She guesses it was a work boat, very solidly built, and used to transport cargo during the 1700s.
Read the rest of the article here.
Post ID#18227 - replied 10/4/2010 9:02 AM
Jennifer Palmer
Webmaster
Details of 18th-Century 'Ground Zero Ship' Revealed
http://www.ouramazingplanet.com/details-of-18th-century-ship-buried-beneath-world-trade-center-revealed-0592/
Post ID#18742 - replied 5/20/2011 3:26 AM
Jennifer Palmer
Webmaster
More on this project:
Rise of Freedom: Ground Zero From The Ground Up
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/05/19/rise-freedom-ground-zero-ground/#ixzz1Mt3i32xu
Rise of Freedom: Ground Zero From The Ground Up
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/05/19/rise-freedom-ground-zero-ground/#ixzz1Mt3i32xu
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