In 1863, two men discovered what they believed was a 1626 shipwreck off Cape Cod. New research indicates they were right. New analysis links timbers to the legendary Pilgrim-era boat Sparrow-Hawk the oldest known shipwreck of Colonial America.
A team of scientists in Massachusetts has examined the timbers of a famous shipwreck in an attempt to prove that the wood belonged to a 17th-century vessel that brought Irish indentured servants to America.