21. A 300-Year-Old Ship at a Construction Site
During excavation for a new hotel site project in Old Town Alexandria, they unearthed a partial hull of a ship. The boat is large and imposing, believed to be from the late 1770s. Oddly enough, they made another historic discovery just two months prior on the same one-block site! Workers had discovered a building foundation from 1755 from a warehouse that was believed to have been the city’s first public building.
Naval archaeologists carefully dismantled the ship in search of any identifying characteristics that would tell us where it sailed or what it carried. There is no documentation of the ship’s existence, which makes it all the more exciting for those working on it!