reader comments 75 There’s rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we’re once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one science story that fell through the cracks in 2020, each day from December 25 through January 5. Today: Pirates! Specifically, ..
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reader comments 36 with Share this story [embedded content] Ironton, a late 19th century shipwreck, has been located in NOAA’s Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary. In 1894, a schooner barge called Ironton collided with a Great Lakes freighter called Ohio in Lake Huron’s infamous “Shipwreck Alley.” Ohio‘s wreck was found in 2017 by an expedition ..
Enlarge / Would you pay $95,000 for these jeans? They were salvaged from the wreck of the SS Central America, which sank in 1857. Holabird Western Americana Collections reader comments 24 with 0 posters participating Share this story A pair of men’s jeans recovered from the wreckage of a 19th-century steamer ship fetched an eye-popping ..