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[Simon1]

 

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[Simon1]

That is JUST great great. After 163 years it still has edible food, YET after 15 minutes my wife's cooking is inedible

 

[ARC]

That just does not make any sense.

That picture has perplexed me with questions.

 

[ARC]

lol... your wife needs cooking school :P

 

[Simon1]

She is Italian and thinks cooking lessons are for amateurs.

 

[Simon1]

What kind of questions did that sunken boat raise for you ? Just curious.

 

[ARC]

Maybe you should take a plate of her food out back and bury it 45 feet down then dig it up in 163 years. :P

 

[Simon1]

It would either cause a sinkhole or become petrified after one week.

 

[ARC]

Ok...

#1. 45 feet ? how the hell ?
#2. Farmer field ? is this coastline field or water way adjacent field ?
#3. What the hell were they digging to or for that they discovered it to begin with.

#4. ETC.

 

[ARC]

IN OTHER WORDS...

How the hell did this thing end up in a field... OBVIOSULY no where near water.

 

[ARC]

Must have been long ago dried up river... but again... what the hell were they digging THAT DEEP for to begin with.

 

[bill from lachine]

Little Children time to rise and shine.....

 

[Simon1]

Ok...

#1. 45 feet ? how the hell ?
#2. Farmer field ? is this coastline field or water way adjacent field ?
#3. What the hell were they digging to or for that they discovered it to begin with.

#4. ETC.

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This ship sunk on the Missouri River.
The nickname of the Missouri is "Big Muddy", because it has a lot of silt.
The river has changed course numerous times due to flooding and ect..

In 1856, the Steamboat Arabia was frontier bound, loaded with supplies for 16 towns. With two hundred tons of precious cargo aboard, it left Kansas up the Missouri river on a routine trip, but waiting silently at the water’s surface, lost in the glare of the setting sun, was the thick trunk of a huge, fallen walnut tree lying directly in the path of the approaching steamboat. The lethal impact came without warning, piercing the thick hull of the steamer. Water poured through the gaping hole and the Arabia sank to the bottom of the Missouri River within minutes. Everyone on board miraculously swam to safety, except for one forgotten mule, tied to the deck. The boat quickly sank into the river bottom, with the mud and silt, and within a few days, it had disappeared entirely, swept away by the force of the river. Over time, the river shifted half a mile to the east and for 132 years, the boat lay hidden from the world, until it was finally discovered in the late 1980s, buried 45 feet deep in dirt beneath a Kansas farm. Legends passed through generations about the lost location of the Arabia and inspired a local, Bob Hawley, to find the boat with his sons in 1987. They used old maps and a proton magnetometer to figure out the probable location until finally discovering it half a mile from the river. The farmers who owned the land where the boat lay under 45 feet of mud, gave permission to the Hawleys to excavate, on the condition that the work be completed before the spring planting. Bulldozers, backhoes, drills and a 100-ton crane bit into the ground, 65-foot-deep wells removed 20,000 gallons of water, and each day the hole grew larger, as did the anticipation of what lay below. Two weeks later, the first part of the Arabia appeared; the weathered timbers of her left paddlewheel, and then a small, black, rubber shoe lying on the muddy deck. On November 26, 1988, the Arabia was finally exposed, along with its 200 tons of buried treasure. Within a few days, a wooden crate filled with elegant china was unearthed; the yellow packing straw still visible thanks to the mud being such an effective preserver. With the lack of air to spoil them, thousands of artifacts were recovered intact, including jars of preserved food that are still edible, tested by one of the excavators themselves, who ate a pickle from the Arabia finding it to be still perfectly fresh. These artifacts are now housed in a cool little museum in Kansas City called the Arabia Steamboat Museum, where you can also find a display honoring the found skeleton remains of that poor wee mule. Over 4,000 shoes and boots were also discovered still crated in shipping boxes ready for delivery. This display of leather footwear made for men, women and children is an impressive exhibit to behold.

 

[Simon1]

This was from the following website:

https://www.messynessychic.com/2015...dible-inside-a-150-year-old-sunken-steamboat/

 

[Tom_Restorer]

good morning folks!

 

[Tom_Restorer]

Bill, did you got my PM?

Letter has arrived!!

 

[Simon1]

Good afternoon Tom

 

[bill from lachine]

Simon,

That's quite the haul they found from the sunken ship...amazing condition also.

 

[Tom_Restorer]

Tom, you had a hand in this piece ? I remember reading about this on some archaeological site sometime ago. Nice interesting piece.

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I just make the displays for an large auction house. It is in a private collection and not from archeologists!!

 

[Simon1]

It is amazing how much the rivers like the Missouri and Mississippi changes course. Who would expect to find a ship 80 miles from the nearest river ? Reminds me of that movie Sahara where they find that iron clad over in Africa ? But that was fiction, but still ships far from water ? Also like that lost ship of pearls, [FONT=Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] ([/FONT]Lost Ship of the Mojave ).