The ship was found approximately 6.7 meters, or nearly 22 feet below ground, just south of where the World Trade Center towers stood before they were toppled in the September 11, 2001, terror attacks. It was not detected during earlier construction.
In 2010, workers excavating the World Trade Center site discovered a 30-foot long section of the wooden vessel 20-30 feet below street level. A year later, they uncovered a three-foot section of the ship's bow.
The World Trade Center (WTC) attack, which took place on September 11th, 2001, left the world in shock; however, in the midst of this tragedy and chaos, cleanup crews discovered something amazing. In 2010, buried underneath the ruins of the Twin Towers, we found the remains of a large ship's hull.
The Ironton sank in September 1894 after colliding with a steamer ship named the Ohio. The sunken ship had been missing for around 120 years with only rumors of its location. Recently, researchers from the state of Michigan, the Ocean Exploration Trust and NOAA discovered the ship in what is known as Shipwreck Alley.
At 22 feet (6.7 meters) below today's street level, in a pit that would become an underground security and parking complex, excavators found the mangled skeleton of a long-forgotten wooden ship. Archaeologists had been on-site throughout the excavation of the World Trade Center's Vehicular Security Center.
Over 1,100 World Trade Center victims remain unidentified.
The Extremely Ancient Dokos Shipwreck
Among them, the Dokos wreck is thought to be the oldest shipwreck found to date. It dates before c. 2200 BCE, judging by the pottery cargo it carried. It was discovered by Peter in 1975 at a depth of fifteen to thirty meters near the Greek island of Dokos.
The ship's wreckage was located in June 2018, and visited by a civilian dive team later the same month. It lies five miles (8.0 km) off the coast of Maine at a depth of 300 feet (91 m). A video taken by the divers shows that USS Eagle 56's boilers are intact.
Explorers have found the deepest shipwreck ever identified, a US navy destroyer escort sunk during WWII. The USS Samuel B Roberts went down during the Battle Off Samar in the Philippine Sea in October 1944. It lies in 6,895m (22,621ft) of water.
The World's Most Valuable Shipwreck: The Nuestra Senora de Atocha. On this same day, 35 years ago, the legendary deep-sea explorer Mel Fisher discovered the shipwreck of the Nuestra Senora de Atocha. The galleon was sailing from the new world to Spain. It was hit by a hurricane and sank in 1622.
Discovered by former U.S. Marines Jason Thomas and Dave Karnes, McLoughlin and Jimeno were pulled out alive after spending nearly 24 hours beneath 30 feet (9 m) of rubble. Their rescue was later portrayed in the Oliver Stone film, World Trade Center. In total, twenty survivors were pulled out of the rubble.
But the anticipated amount of human remains was not to become a reality for years, as less than 300 dead bodies were recovered “intact” from Ground Zero. Since 9/11, there have been 1,647 persons identified of the 2,753 people who died.
Some workers found bodies strapped to airplane seats and discovered the remains of a flight attendant with her hands bound, suggesting the hijackers might have used plastic handcuffs. Within a year, medical examiners had identified the remains of 33 victims who had been on board Flight 11.
Between 2013 and 2022, some 807 vessels were lost at sea. The majority of ships lost during this period—around 311—were cargo ships. In 2022, the most perilous regions included the waters off the Southeast Asian coast, as well as the Baltic Sea.
Regardless, the ship's journey didn't end in Manhattan. After being excavated, it was taken to the Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory, where Cook and his colleagues obtained the tree ring samples. And plans are said to be in the works to put the historic sailboat on display in a New York museum.
In the 16 minutes between WTC 1 being attacked and WTC 2 being attacked, 40% of the building occupants evacuated WTC 2. This was attributable to the decision by WTC 2 occupants to immediately initiate their own evacuation and widespread use of the still-functioning elevator system in WTC 2.
One such person was Violet Jessop, a stewardess on the Titanic. She survived not one, but three shipwrecks. Let us take you through her life story.
During this, it's understood that USS Samuel B. Roberts was critically hit by a battleship, killing 89 people as it sank. Now, its remains lie at depths nearly four times as great as the Grand Canyon - far deeper than the Titanic.
The most famous is the Titanic, but it is far from being the only well-known one. Among the most prominent we find the deepest wreck ever identified: a destroyer escort of the United States Navy which sank during World War II, called the USS Samuel B. Roberts. It was lost to the sea in the year 1944.
In September 1679, the French ship Le Griffon vanished without a trace in the Great Lakes region of the USA. The ship, owned by fur trader René Robert Cavelier, was last seen en route to Niagara Falls carrying a valuable cargo of furs and trade goods. Its disappearance has been a mystery ever since.
Its sinking was initially blamed on a boiler explosion, despite accounts from surviving crew members, who said they had spotted a German submarine before their ship sank. In a rare move, the Navy overturned its initial ruling after declassified German documents confirmed that the Eagle had been hit by a torpedo.
Twelve aircraft carriers were sunk by the enemy during World War II -- five fleet carriers, a seaplane tender and six escort carriers. The loss of the Bismarck Sea was the last time that a U.S. carrier went down due to enemy action.
RMS Titanic
The supposedly "unsinkable" ocean liner set sail on its maiden voyage on 10 April 1912 only to hit an iceberg just before midnight on 14 April and sank in less than three hours. Claiming 1,514 lives, it is often remembered as one of the most famous and tragic shipwrecks in history.
Flor de la Mar, or Flor do Mar, is one of the most renowned undiscovered shipwrecks anywhere on Earth, thought to be filled with vast diamonds, gold and untold riches.
MV Wilhelm Gustloff
Of the estimated 10,000 people on board the Gustloff, only around 1,000 survived, making it the deadliest sinking in wartime maritime history.