Cargo Delivered In 200 Years
In 1750 a ship left England with a cargo which has just been delivered in Philadephia. Apparently the ship was sunk in the Delaware River, New Jersey, and was forgotten. Recent dredging operations revealed its presence, and a suction pipe recovered much of the sunken merchandise. Owing to their immersion of nearly 200 years many of the silver shoe buckles and pewter plates which formed part of the cargo had, in the words of Shakespeare, “suffered a seachange into something rich and strange.”
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 70, 28 March 1949, Page 3
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88Cargo Delivered In 200 Years Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 70, 28 March 1949, Page 3
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