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    AROUND THE WORLD

    Jun 11, 2022 3 minutes
    BY JASON URBANUS

    ASSACHUSETTS: Timbers from a ship known as may belong to the oldest known shipwreck in English colonial America. In 1626, the Plimoth Colony governor William Bradford recorded that an unnamed ship carrying 2 English tobacco merchants and their Irish servants ran aground off Cape Cod. The wreck’s survivors were rescued by Native Americans and brought to the fledgling colony. Recent dating revealed that sections of ’s hull were made from trees felled in England between 1556 and 1646, further evidence that

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