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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. La Brea Woman - Wikipedia

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    La Brea Woman was a human whose remains were found in the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, California. The remains, first discovered in the pits in 1914, are the partial skeleton of a woman. [ 2 ] At around 18–25 years of age at death, she has been dated at 10,220–10,250 years BP (Before Present). [ 3 ]

  4. 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 ...

  5. Lost Ship of the Desert - Wikipedia

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    The earliest tales of a lost Spanish galleon appeared shortly after the Colorado River flood of 1862. Colonel Albert S. Evans reported seeing such a ship in 1863. In the Los Angeles Daily News of August 1870, the ship was described as a half-buried hulk in a drying alkali marsh or saline lake, west of Dos Palmas, California, and 40 miles north of Yuma, Arizona.

  6. Eureka (ferryboat) - Wikipedia

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    Ukiah, a wooden-hulled, double-ended ferryboat, was built in 1890 by the San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad Company at their Tiburon shipyard.She had a length at the waterline of 277 feet (84 m) (291 feet (89 m) overall), beam of 47 feet 7 inches (14.50 m)—78 feet (24 m) over guards—and hold depth of 15 feet (4.6 m). [4]

  7. Owners of California dive boat faulted for fire that killed 34

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    One of the deadliest accidents in recent U.S. maritime history was the fault of owners of a Southern California dive boat whose lack of oversight resulted in a fire that swept through the vessel ...

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

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    The canoe was so old that, at first, no one believed its true age, researchers told local media. Ancient canoe — oldest ever found in Great Lakes — recovered in Wisconsin. ‘Invaluable’

  9. Brother Jonathan (steamer) - Wikipedia

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    The ship was built by Perrine, Patterson, and Stack in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and launched on November 2, 1850. [4] [5] It was commissioned by Edward Mills, a New Yorker who tried to operate a shipping business during the California Gold Rush, [4] and was named after Brother Jonathan, a character personifying the region of New England.