Divers find 300 year old pirate ship in the Mississippi near St Louis

[Mary_Read]

This is funny. You might think it be real but you must look at the logo up top. Arkansas 2nd most unreliable news source

http://www.rockcitytimes.com/divers-...iver-st-louis/

[Diamondback]

LOL... they can't really be any more unrelaiable than ABC, CBS, NBC et al, though, can they?

I say that AS a Recovering Journalist, who knows every story-manipulation trick in the book because I have used them myself. (Granted, they were used in the context of a Journalism 101 assignment about deliberately writing a biased article, then having a classmate write up a review assessing the skewing tricks... then again, in my brief career I found Journalistic Ethics an oxymoron.)

[David Manley]

Parked on the grass like that for 300 years and they only just noticed it?

[Diamondback]

Hey, look how long everybody forgot HMS Unicorn was there laid up in ordinary... LOL

[csadn]

Well, someone once unearthed (unwatered?) a 100-year-old ironclad from the Yazoo:

http://www.nps.gov/vick/u-s-s-cairo-gunboat.htm .... :)

[Naharaht]

Haven't they released this story a week early? Shouldn't it have been printed on 1st April? :)

[David Manley]

Well, someone once unearthed (unwatered?) a 100-year-old ironclad from the Yazoo:

http://www.nps.gov/vick/u-s-s-cairo-gunboat.htm .... :)

And the Neuse at Kinston (well worth a visit, as is the Cairo) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS_Neuse

Oh, and the Jackson and Chatahoochee at Port Columbus (also well worth seeing)

[csadn]

And the Neuse at Kinston (well worth a visit, as is the Cairo) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS_Neuse

Oh, and the Jackson and Chatahoochee at Port Columbus (also well worth seeing)

Haven't seen _Neuse_, but I have seen the downsized _Albemarle_ first-hand.

[bakblast]

diamondback you left out FOX?

[Diamondback]

Let's put it this way... The Whole Damn Presstitute Profession, whether print or broadcast. And I didn''t leave them out, they were included in "et al"... just not called out by name.

[bakblast]

Good'nuff for me.

[Diamondback]

Maybe someday I'll tell some stories... but that's for another time and another thread. :) (I have a very nasty one about the late Peter Jennings that when I heard it put ABC News immediately on my personal blacklist, and there are reasons why I tore up my Society of Professional Journalists membership card and mailed it back with a blistering nastygram...)

[Mahan]

An early Aprils fools - no doubt about it.

My attached picture shows the Swedish SoL Vasa, the only existing intact 17th Century ship in the World, when it was salvaged back in 1961 after being on the bottom of the Baltic Ocean for 333 years. The picture shows the unique condition of the ship and it would be impossible for even a younger ship outside the Baltic to be in better shape. The reason is the extremely low level of salinity in the Baltic, and the shipworms, Teridinida , that literally eat up wooden ships, is a non existing creature there. In almost any other ocean a wooden ship will be vanished very quickly, i.e. less than 50 years. However, bits and pieces can of course be found, but a whole wooden ship? Doubt it!

Any one interested in the history of Vasa, please read:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasa_(ship)

[csadn]

Maybe someday I'll tell some stories... but that's for another time and another thread. :) (I have a very nasty one about the late Peter Jennings that when I heard it put ABC News immediately on my personal blacklist, and there are reasons why I tore up my Society of Professional Journalists membership card and mailed it back with a blistering nastygram...)

Old saying from the UNO History Department:

"Those who Can, Do; those who Can No Longer, Teach; those who Cannot At All, get Journalism degrees."

Anyone who's ever read a journo's account of an event, and compared it to Actual Story later, learns to hate and mistrust journalists with a passion; Historians do it *every* *bleedin'* *day*.... :P

[7eat51]

And the Neuse at Kinston (well worth a visit, as is the Cairo) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS_Neuse

Oh, and the Jackson and Chatahoochee at Port Columbus (also well worth seeing)

Thanks, David.

I need to start compiling a list of such sites for upcoming travels, especially ACW since the sites are here in the States.

[Diamondback]

Having had a foot in both worlds, Chris, I can believe it... LOL

[Capt P]

I was watching a show yesterday that talked about a pirate ship that was found off Mass. There is a museum with all the things found. I think it was on Mysteries at the Museum.

[Diamondback]

Yeah, Black Sam Bellamy's Whydah. Saw it too. :)

[Mary_Read]

Yeah, Black Sam Bellamy's Whydah. Saw it too. :)

I saw it to when it was in my area 2 years ago. Wish it would come back as it was very interesting

[Diamondback]

Sorry, meant "caught the episode". Pretty much anything east of Philly is Where Angels Fear To Tread in my book, so sadly that's a museum I haven't visited.