Experts believe that a piece of weather-beaten flotsam that washed up on a Long Island shoreline after Tropical Storm Ian last fall may be part of the SS Savannah, the first vessel to cross the Atlantic Ocean partly under steam power.
A chunk of weather-beaten flotsam that washed up on a New York shoreline after Tropical Storm Ian last fall 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 it became the first vessel to cross the Atlantic Ocean partly under steam power.
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