Workers digging at Manhattan’s World Trade Center site 15 years ago made an improbable discovery: sodden timbers from a boat built during the Revolutionary War that had ...

Researchers in NYC work to restore a boat that was used to protect Philly in the Revolutionary War after being uncovered at the World Trade Center.

Visitors to the New York State Museum view a Revolutionary War-era gunboat that is being partially reconstructed, Friday, May 30, 2025, in Albany, New York.

And there is some evidence that the boat now being restored was used by the British, including a pewter button with “52” inscribed on it.

A Revolutionary War-era boat is being reconstructed more than two centuries after being buried deep beneath Manhattan’s expanding shoreline. The New York State Museum in Albany will become a ...