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Piece of New York flotsam may be part of 200-year-old shipwreck SS Savannah

Piece of New York flotsam may be part of 200-year-old shipwreck SS Savannah


Piece of New York flotsam may be part of 200-year-old shipwreck SS Savannah
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A chunk of flotsam that washed up on a New York shoreline after Tropical Storm Ian last year has piqued the interest of experts who say it is likely part of the SS Savannah, which ran aground and broke apart in 1821, two years after becoming the first vessel to cross the Atlantic partly under steam power.

The Savannah, a sailing ship outfitted with a 90-horsepower steam engine, traveled mainly under sail across the Atlantic, using steam power for 80 hours of the nearly month-long passage to Liverpool, England.

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