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lisper01/16/20261 replyview on HN

Apparently no one has mentioned the Vasa here yet, so I'll do it:

https://www.vasamuseet.se/en

Not quite as old but preserved almost intact and now restored on dry land. Well worth a visit.


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Gibbon101/16/2026

There is the C.A. Thayer which is a restored lumber ship.

https://www.nps.gov/safr/learn/historyculture/c-a-thayer.htm

The ship they found "measures about 92 feet long, 30 feet wide and 20 feet tall. Experts estimate its cargo capacity was 300 tons"

The C.A. Thayer is 219 feet long, 36 feet wide and carried 453 tons.

Random off hand thought is the big difference between these two is the Thayer was longer. A problem I've read with long wooden ships is the flexing can open the seams between the planks to open up requiring the crew to bail water.

  Off Orford Ness she sprang a leak
  Hear her poor old timbers creak
  Pump you blighters, pump or drown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFgAeXA0dJM