Old ship uncovered at WTC site sent to Maryland

ST. LEONARD, Md. - An 18th century ship found buried near the World Trade Center site in New York is on its way to Maryland to be treated and reassembled.

Officials say the carefully packed timbers were scheduled to arrive at the Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory in St. Leonard on Monday afternoon.

The conservation lab in southern Maryland near the Chesapeake Bay specializes in the treatment of shipwrecks. It helped restore pieces of Blackbeard's ship, the Queen Anne's Revenge, found off North Carolina, and carbon-dated a dugout canoe found in New Jersey to 200 A.D.

Historians believe the New York ship had been junked when it was used around 1810 as landfill to extend the shores of lower Manhattan. - AP