This discovery has a boatload of backstory. A mysterious, centuries-old warship found beneath the floorboards of the World Trade Center is being painstakingly rebuilt for a museum exhibition after ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Workers digging at Manhattan's World Trade Center site 15 years ago made an improbable discovery: sodden timbers from a boat built during the Revolutionary War that had been ...

The wood was muddy, but well preserved after centuries in the oxygen-poor earth. A previously constructed slurry wall went right through the boat, though timbers comprising about 30 feet (9 meters ...

Workers digging at Manhattan's World Trade Center site 15 years ago made an improbable discovery: sodden timbers from a boat built during the Revolutionary War that had been buried more than two ...

From landfill to museum piece The rebuilding caps years of rescue and preservation work that began in July 2010 when a section of the boat was found 22 feet (7 meters) below street level.

Nation A Revolutionary War-era boat is being painstakingly rebuilt after centuries buried beneath Manhattan June 24, 2025 at 9:10 pm By MICHAEL HILL ...