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  2. List of oldest surviving ships - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the oldest ships in the world which have survived to this day with exceptions to certain categories. The ships on the main list, which include warships, yachts, tall ships, and vessels recovered during archaeological excavations, all date to between 500 AD and 1918; earlier ships are covered in the list of surviving ancient ships.

  3. Maritime history of California - Wikipedia

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    The ship owners found little cargo of value to ship back to the East Coast out of California and the ships often went back in ballast with a cargo of useless rocks. Since many of the ships were older and required expensive maintenance and crews were very hard to find and/or very expensive many hundreds of vessels were simply abandoned or sold ...

  4. Maritime Museum of San Diego - Wikipedia

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    Californian, 1984 replica of 1847 cutter C.W. Lawrence and official tall ship of the state of California; America, 1995 replica of the 1851 yacht America that won the trophy now called the America's Cup [3] Medea, 1904 steam yacht that served in both World Wars; Pilot, 1914 harbor pilot boat; HMS Surprise, a 1970 replica of a Royal Navy frigate.

  5. List of shipwrecks of California - Wikipedia

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    "On the night of June 6, 1853, the clipper ship Carrier Pigeon ran aground 500 feet off shore of the central California coast. The area is now called Pigeon Point in her honor. The Carrier Pigeon was a state-of-the art, 19th Century clipper ship. She was 175 feet long with a narrow, 34 foot beam and rated at about 845 tons burden.

  6. Pesse canoe - Wikipedia

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    The boat was discovered in 1955 during the construction of the Dutch A28 motorway. The route passes south of the village of Pesse in Hoogeveen through what was a peat bog . To construct the roadbed, the peat needed to be removed, and during excavation, a crane operator came across what he believed to be a tree trunk two metres (6 ft 7 in) below ...

  7. Ancient canoe — oldest ever found in Great Lakes — recovered ...

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    Archaeologists found the second canoe within 100 yards of where they found the first canoe. ... This canoe is the oldest canoe ever found in the Great Lakes region – about 1,000 years older than ...

  8. Brother Jonathan (steamer) - Wikipedia

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    Brother Jonathan was a paddle steamer that struck an uncharted rock near Point St. George, off the coast of Crescent City, California, on July 30, 1865. The ship was carrying 244 passengers and crew, with a large shipment of gold. Only 19 people survived, making it the deadliest shipwreck up to that time on the Pacific Coast of the United ...

  9. How archaeologists dug up the oldest gun ever found in the US ...

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    The oldest gun found in the continental U.S. makes for a great headline, and Seymour has been besieged by media since the paper was published. The superlative attached to the cannon is of course ...