Back in 2010, during the World Trade Center's rebuilding effort, construction workers found an unidentified ship just south of where the towers once stood. Its fragments were excavated and sent to the Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory.
Now, tree rings have provided details about the wooden ship. Researchers at Columbia University's Tree Ring Laboratory, where some of the ship's fragments were sent, recently found that the ship was likely built around 1773.
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