Restored whaler, Charles W. Morgan, is berthed next to USS Constitution for a week in Boston Harbor
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Boston Globe] By Joel Brown - July 16, 2014 -
The restored 1841 whale ship Charles W. Morgan sailed from Provincetown to Boston on Tuesday for a weeklong stay at the Charlestown Navy Yard, side by side with the USS Constitution.
Among the 59 passengers and crew was Richard Walsh, the president of a Boston construction firm.
His company was excavating in Charlestown, MA in June 2010 for the new Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital when, 80 feet below sea level, it struck what amounted to gold: prime shipbuilding timbers, numbered and arranged by shape, buried in the mud to store and preserve them more than a century ago but never used. The timber was trucked to Mystic, CT for rebuilding the Morgan below decks. “We struck history or history struck us,” Walsh said.
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