This is like something out of an Indiana Jones film and something that as a child we would all dream of finding. How often do you get to find a buried steamboat?
Loaded with supplies for 16 towns. In 1987, a group of treasure hunters discovered a steamboat buried deep in a Kansas cornfield. This was the Arabia, a side-wheeler whose hull was pierced by a submerged tree on Sept. 5, 1856, near Parkville, Mo., 6 miles north of Kansas City.
The ship, just three years old, had embarked from St. Louis, steaming westward on the Missouri to deliver merchandise to 16 frontier towns. The cargo included 20,000 feet of lumber, 4,000 shoes and boots, two prefab homes destined for Logan, Neb., a sawmill and fixtures, and a case of Otard Dupuy & Co. cognac.
The steamboat Arabia was a side wheeler steamboat which hit a snag in the Missouri River and sank near what today isKansas City, Kansas, on September 5, 1856. It was rediscovered in 1988 by a team of researchers. Today, the artifacts recovered from the site are housed in the Arabia Steamboat Museum.
The Arabia was built in 1853 around the Monongahela River in Brownsville, Pennsylvania. Its paddlewheels were 28 feet (8.5 m) across, and its steam boilers consumed approximately thirty cords of wood per day. The boat averaged five miles (8 km) an hour going upstream.
The boat traveled the Ohio and Mississippi rivers before it was bought by Captain John Shaw, who operated the boat on the Missouri River. Her first trip was to carry 109 soldiers from Fort Leavenworth to Fort Pierre, which was located up river in South Dakota.
The boat then traveled up theYellowstone River, adding 700 miles (1,100 km) to the trip. In all, the trip took nearly three months to complete.
In spring of 1856, the boat was sold to Captain William Terrill and William Boyd, and it made fourteen trips up and down the Missouri during their ownership.
In March, the boat collided with an obstacle (either a rock or a sand bar), nearly sinking with a damaged rudder. Repairs were made in nearby Portland. A few weeks later the boat blew a cylinder head and had to be repaired again.
Also in March 1856, the Arabia was stopped and searched by pro-slavery Border Ruffians near Lexington, Missouri. According to newspaper accounts at the time, a Pennsylvania abolitionist aboard the Arabia dropped a letter, which was discovered and handed over to Captain Shaw.
The letter described guns and cannons en route to the slavery-free Kansas Territory from the abolitionist Massachusetts Aid Society. The weapons were discovered in boxes labeled “Carpenters Tools” and confiscated.
Sinking
On September 5, 1856, the Arabia set out for a routine trip. At Quindaro Bend, near the town of Parkville, Missouri, the boat hit a submerged walnut tree snag. The snag ripped open the hull, which rapidly filled with water. The upper decks of the boat stayed above water, and the only casualty was a mule that was tied to sawmill equipment and forgotten.
The boat sank so rapidly into the mud that by the next morning, only the smokestacks and pilot house remained visible. Within a few days, these traces of the boat were also swept away. Numerous salvage attempts failed, and eventually the boat was completely covered by water. Over time, the river shifted a half a mile to the east. The site of the sinking is in present-day Kansas City, Kansas.
In the 1860s, Elisha Sortor purchased the property where the boat lay. Over the years, legends were passed through the family that the boat was located somewhere under the land. In the surrounding town, stories were also told of the steamboat, but the exact location of the boat was lost over time.
In 1987, Bob Hawley and his sons, Greg and David, set out to find the boat. The Hawleys used old maps and a proton magnetometer to figure out the probable location, and finally discovered the Arabia half a mile from the river and under 45 feet (14 m) of silt and topsoil.
The owners of the farm gave permission for excavation, with the condition that the work be completed before the spring planting. The Hawleys, along with family friends Jerry Mackey and David Luttrell, set out to excavate the boat during the winter months while the water table was at its lowest point.
They performed a series of drilling tests to determine the exact location of the hull, then marked the perimeter with powdered chalk. Heavy equipment, including a 100-ton crane, was brought in by both river and road transport during the summer and fall. 20 irrigation pumps were installed around the site to lower the water level and to keep the site from flooding.
The 65-foot-deep (20 m) wells removed 20,000 US gallons (76,000 l) per minute from the ground. On November 26, 1988, the boat was exposed. Four days later, artifacts from the boat began to appear, beginning with a Goodyear rubber overshoe. On December 5, a wooden crate filled with elegant china was unearthed. The mud was such an effective preserver that the yellow packing straw was still visible. Thousands of artifacts were recovered intact, including jars of preserved food that are still edible. The artifacts that were recovered are housed in the Arabia Steamboat Museum.
On February 11, 1989, work ceased at the site, and the pumps were turned off. The hole filled with water overnight.
The site where the boat sank is an unassuming field about half a mile from the river. After the pumps were turned off, the site was filled back in so that it would not be a hazard.
The Arabia Steamboat Museum houses artifacts salvaged from the Arabia, a steamboat that sank on the Missouri River in 1856. The 30,000-square-foot museum opened on November 13, 1991 in the Kansas City River Market in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Lead image: DAVID HAWLEY Source
The partners of River Salvage Inc., who excavated the Steamboat Arabia and opened the museum, claim to have the largest single collection of pre-Civil War artifacts in the world.
After the excavation of the Arabia, the next challenge for the partners of River Salvage Inc. was learning to clean and preserve the artifacts.
During the digging process, organic artifacts had been stabilized in blocks of ice: both in Jerry Mackey’s restaurant freezers and freezers installed in storage units in underground caves near the Missouri River. In the three months following the dig, larger wooden artifacts, including the stern section and paddle wheel of the steamboat and two prefabricated houses found on-board, were submerged in an 80-by-20-foot pool specially dug by the team.
Greg Hawley partnered with conservators working on the Mary Rose Trust in Portsmouth, England, and the Canadian Conservation Institute in Ottawa, along with the Historical Resource Conservation Branch of the Canadian Parks Service, to learn freshwater preservation techniques.
The preservation process is still in progress today at the Arabia Steamboat Museum. Organic materials like wood and leather are submerged in a food preservative called polyethylene glycol (PEG) and then freeze-dried.
Preservationists gently remove oxidized material from metal artifacts using metal tools and special erasers. Bottled and jarred foods and beverages are injected with nitrogen, an inert gas. Shoes, boots, and garments must be re-stitched since their cotton thread dissolved under water. It has been estimated that the preservation of the collection will be complete by 2022.
Loaded with supplies for 16 towns. In 1987, a group of treasure hunters discovered a steamboat buried deep in a Kansas cornfield. This was the Arabia, a side-wheeler whose hull was pierced by a submerged tree on Sept. 5, 1856, near Parkville, Mo., 6 miles north of Kansas City.
The ship, just three years old, had embarked from St. Louis, steaming westward on the Missouri to deliver merchandise to 16 frontier towns. The cargo included 20,000 feet of lumber, 4,000 shoes and boots, two prefab homes destined for Logan, Neb., a sawmill and fixtures, and a case of Otard Dupuy & Co. cognac.
The steamboat Arabia was a side wheeler steamboat which hit a snag in the Missouri River and sank near what today isKansas City, Kansas, on September 5, 1856. It was rediscovered in 1988 by a team of researchers. Today, the artifacts recovered from the site are housed in the Arabia Steamboat Museum.
The Arabia was built in 1853 around the Monongahela River in Brownsville, Pennsylvania. Its paddlewheels were 28 feet (8.5 m) across, and its steam boilers consumed approximately thirty cords of wood per day. The boat averaged five miles (8 km) an hour going upstream.
The boat traveled the Ohio and Mississippi rivers before it was bought by Captain John Shaw, who operated the boat on the Missouri River. Her first trip was to carry 109 soldiers from Fort Leavenworth to Fort Pierre, which was located up river in South Dakota.
The boat then traveled up theYellowstone River, adding 700 miles (1,100 km) to the trip. In all, the trip took nearly three months to complete.
In spring of 1856, the boat was sold to Captain William Terrill and William Boyd, and it made fourteen trips up and down the Missouri during their ownership.
In March, the boat collided with an obstacle (either a rock or a sand bar), nearly sinking with a damaged rudder. Repairs were made in nearby Portland. A few weeks later the boat blew a cylinder head and had to be repaired again.
Also in March 1856, the Arabia was stopped and searched by pro-slavery Border Ruffians near Lexington, Missouri. According to newspaper accounts at the time, a Pennsylvania abolitionist aboard the Arabia dropped a letter, which was discovered and handed over to Captain Shaw.
The letter described guns and cannons en route to the slavery-free Kansas Territory from the abolitionist Massachusetts Aid Society. The weapons were discovered in boxes labeled “Carpenters Tools” and confiscated.
Sinking
On September 5, 1856, the Arabia set out for a routine trip. At Quindaro Bend, near the town of Parkville, Missouri, the boat hit a submerged walnut tree snag. The snag ripped open the hull, which rapidly filled with water. The upper decks of the boat stayed above water, and the only casualty was a mule that was tied to sawmill equipment and forgotten.
The boat sank so rapidly into the mud that by the next morning, only the smokestacks and pilot house remained visible. Within a few days, these traces of the boat were also swept away. Numerous salvage attempts failed, and eventually the boat was completely covered by water. Over time, the river shifted a half a mile to the east. The site of the sinking is in present-day Kansas City, Kansas.
In the 1860s, Elisha Sortor purchased the property where the boat lay. Over the years, legends were passed through the family that the boat was located somewhere under the land. In the surrounding town, stories were also told of the steamboat, but the exact location of the boat was lost over time.
In 1987, Bob Hawley and his sons, Greg and David, set out to find the boat. The Hawleys used old maps and a proton magnetometer to figure out the probable location, and finally discovered the Arabia half a mile from the river and under 45 feet (14 m) of silt and topsoil.
The owners of the farm gave permission for excavation, with the condition that the work be completed before the spring planting. The Hawleys, along with family friends Jerry Mackey and David Luttrell, set out to excavate the boat during the winter months while the water table was at its lowest point.
They performed a series of drilling tests to determine the exact location of the hull, then marked the perimeter with powdered chalk. Heavy equipment, including a 100-ton crane, was brought in by both river and road transport during the summer and fall. 20 irrigation pumps were installed around the site to lower the water level and to keep the site from flooding.
The 65-foot-deep (20 m) wells removed 20,000 US gallons (76,000 l) per minute from the ground. On November 26, 1988, the boat was exposed. Four days later, artifacts from the boat began to appear, beginning with a Goodyear rubber overshoe. On December 5, a wooden crate filled with elegant china was unearthed. The mud was such an effective preserver that the yellow packing straw was still visible. Thousands of artifacts were recovered intact, including jars of preserved food that are still edible. The artifacts that were recovered are housed in the Arabia Steamboat Museum.
On February 11, 1989, work ceased at the site, and the pumps were turned off. The hole filled with water overnight.
The site where the boat sank is an unassuming field about half a mile from the river. After the pumps were turned off, the site was filled back in so that it would not be a hazard.
The Arabia Steamboat Museum houses artifacts salvaged from the Arabia, a steamboat that sank on the Missouri River in 1856. The 30,000-square-foot museum opened on November 13, 1991 in the Kansas City River Market in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Lead image: DAVID HAWLEY Source
The partners of River Salvage Inc., who excavated the Steamboat Arabia and opened the museum, claim to have the largest single collection of pre-Civil War artifacts in the world.
After the excavation of the Arabia, the next challenge for the partners of River Salvage Inc. was learning to clean and preserve the artifacts.
During the digging process, organic artifacts had been stabilized in blocks of ice: both in Jerry Mackey’s restaurant freezers and freezers installed in storage units in underground caves near the Missouri River. In the three months following the dig, larger wooden artifacts, including the stern section and paddle wheel of the steamboat and two prefabricated houses found on-board, were submerged in an 80-by-20-foot pool specially dug by the team.
Greg Hawley partnered with conservators working on the Mary Rose Trust in Portsmouth, England, and the Canadian Conservation Institute in Ottawa, along with the Historical Resource Conservation Branch of the Canadian Parks Service, to learn freshwater preservation techniques.
The preservation process is still in progress today at the Arabia Steamboat Museum. Organic materials like wood and leather are submerged in a food preservative called polyethylene glycol (PEG) and then freeze-dried.
Preservationists gently remove oxidized material from metal artifacts using metal tools and special erasers. Bottled and jarred foods and beverages are injected with nitrogen, an inert gas. Shoes, boots, and garments must be re-stitched since their cotton thread dissolved under water. It has been estimated that the preservation of the collection will be complete by 2022.
Cultura e conhecimento são ingredientes essenciais para a sociedade.
Cultura e conhecimento são ingredientes essenciais para a sociedade.
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A cultura e o amor devem estar juntos.
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Steamboat Saudita, desaparecido há 132 anos, descobriu 45 pés debaixo de um campo
Isto é como algo saído de um filme de Indiana Jones e algo que como uma criança nós todos sonho de encontrar. Quantas vezes você começa a encontrar um barco a vapor enterrado?
Carregado com suprimentos para 16 cidades. Em 1987, um grupo de caçadores de tesouro descoberto um barco a vapor enterrado em um milharal Kansas. Este foi o Saudita, um lado rodas cujo casco foi perfurado por uma árvore submersa em 5 de setembro de 1856, perto de Parkville, Missouri, 6 milhas ao norte de Kansas City.
O navio, de apenas três anos de idade, tinha iniciado a partir de St. Louis, cozinhando para oeste sobre o Missouri para entregar mercadorias para 16 cidades da fronteira. A carga incluía 20.000 pés de madeira serrada, 4.000 sapatos e botas, duas casas pré-fabricadas destinados a Logan, Neb., Uma serraria e luminárias, e um caso de Otard Dupuy & Co. conhaque.
O barco a vapor Arábia era um barco a vapor com rodas lateral que atingiu um problema no rio Missouri e afundou perto do que hoje isKansas City, Kansas, em 5 de Setembro de 1856. Foi redescoberto em 1988 por uma equipe de pesquisadores. Hoje, os artefatos recuperados do local estão alojados na Arabia Steamboat Museum.
O Saudita foi construída em 1853 em torno do rio Monongahela em Brownsville, Pensilvânia. Suas rodas de pás foram 28 pés (8,5 m) de largura, e suas caldeiras a vapor consumidos aproximadamente trinta cabos de madeira por dia. O barco em média, cinco milhas (8 km) por hora de ir upstream.
O barco percorreu os rios Ohio e Mississipi antes de ter sido comprado pelo capitão John Shaw, que operou o barco no rio Missouri. Sua primeira viagem foi para transportar 109 soldados de Fort Leavenworth para Fort Pierre, que foi localizado acima do rio em South Dakota.
O barco, em seguida, viajou até theYellowstone River, adicionando 700 milhas (1.100 km) para a viagem. Ao todo, a viagem levou quase três meses para ser concluído.
Na primavera de 1856, o barco foi vendido ao capitão William Terrill e William Boyd, e isso fez quatorze viagens subindo e descendo o Missouri durante a sua propriedade.
Em março, o barco colidiu com um obstáculo (ou uma pedra ou uma barra de areia), quase afundando com um leme danificado. Reparos foram feitos em Portland nas proximidades. Poucas semanas depois, o barco tocou a cabeça do cilindro e teve de ser reparado novamente.
Também em março de 1856, a Arábia foi parado e revistado pela pró-escravidão Ruffians fronteira perto de Lexington, Missouri. De acordo com relatos de jornais da época, um abolicionista Pensilvânia a bordo do Saudita deixou cair uma carta, que foi descoberto e entregue ao capitão Shaw.
A carta armas e canhões descrito a caminho do Kansas Território livre de escravidão da sociedade abolicionista Aid Massachusetts. As armas foram descobertos em caixas etiquetadas "Carpinteiros Ferramentas" e confiscados.
afundamento
Em 5 de setembro de 1856, a Arábia partiu para uma viagem de rotina. No Quindaro Bend, perto da cidade de Parkville, Missouri, o barco atingiu um problema nogueira submerso. A dificuldade rasgou o casco, que rapidamente se encheu de água. Os decks superiores do barco ficou acima da água, e a única vítima era uma mula que foi amarrado a serraria equipamentos e esquecido.
O barco afundou tão rapidamente na lama que, na manhã seguinte, apenas o chaminés e piloto da casa permaneceu visível. Dentro de alguns dias, esses traços do barco também foram arrastados. Inúmeras tentativas de salvamento falhou, e, eventualmente, o barco foi completamente coberta pela água. Ao longo do tempo, o rio mudou de meia milha a leste. O local do naufrágio é na atual Kansas City, Kansas.
Na década de 1860, Elisha Sortor comprou a propriedade onde o barco estava. Ao longo dos anos, lendas foram passados através da família que o barco foi localizado em algum lugar sob a terra. Na cidade envolvente, histórias também foram informados do barco a vapor, mas a localização exata do barco foi perdido ao longo do tempo.
Em 1987, Bob Hawley e seus filhos, Greg e David, partiu para encontrar o barco. Os Hawleys usado mapas antigos e um magnetômetro de prótons para descobrir a localização provável, e, finalmente, descobriu a Arábia meia milha do rio e menos de 45 pés (14 m) de lodo e solo.
Os proprietários da fazenda deu permissão para escavação, com a condição de que o trabalho seja concluído antes do plantio de primavera. Os Hawleys, junto com amigos da família Jerry Mackey e David Luttrell, previstas para escavar o barco durante os meses de inverno, enquanto o lençol freático estava no seu ponto mais baixo.
Eles realizaram uma série de testes de perfuração para determinar a localização exata do casco, em seguida, marcou o perímetro com giz em pó. equipamento pesado, incluindo uma grua de 100 toneladas, foi trazida pelo rio e no transporte rodoviário durante o verão e outono. 20 bombas de irrigação foram instalados ao redor do local para diminuir o nível de água e para manter o local de inundações.
Os 65 pés de profundidade (20 m) poços removido 20.000 galões (76.000 l) por minuto a partir do solo. Em 26 de novembro de 1988, o barco foi exposto. Quatro dias depois, artefatos de o barco começou a aparecer, começando com uma galocha de borracha Goodyear. Em 5 de Dezembro, uma caixa de madeira encheu-se com china elegante foi descoberto. A lama foi tal preserver eficaz que a palha de embalagem amarela ainda era visível. Milhares de artefatos foram recuperados intactos, incluindo frascos de conservas que ainda são comestíveis. Os artefatos que foram recuperados estão alojados na Arabia Steamboat Museum.
Em 11 de fevereiro de 1989, o trabalho cessou no local, e as bombas foram desligadas. O buraco cheio de água durante a noite.
O local onde o barco afundou é um campo despretensioso cerca de meia milha a partir do rio. Após as bombas foram desligadas, o local foi preenchido em volta de modo que não seria um risco.
Os Arabia Steamboat museu abriga artefatos recuperados a partir da Arábia, um barco a vapor que afundou no rio Missouri, em 1856. O museu 30.000 pés quadrados aberto em 13 de Novembro de 1991 em Kansas City River Market, em Kansas City, Missouri, Estados Unidos. imagem Lead: DAVID HAWLEY Fonte
Os parceiros do Rio Salvage Inc., que escavou o Steamboat Saudita e abriu o museu, afirmam ter a maior coleção de artefatos pré-guerra civil no mundo.
Após a escavação da Arábia, o próximo desafio para os parceiros do Rio Salvamento Inc. foi aprender a limpar e conservar os artefatos.
Durante o processo de escavação, artefatos orgânicos tinha sido estabilizado em blocos de gelo: tanto em freezers e congeladores restaurante de Jerry Mackey instalados em unidades de armazenamento em cavernas subterrâneas perto do rio Missouri. Nos três meses seguintes à escavação, maiores artefatos de madeira, incluindo a seção severo e roda de pás do barco a vapor e duas casas pré-fabricadas encontrados on-board, foram submersos em uma piscina de 80-por-20-pé especialmente cavado pela equipe.
Greg Hawley parceria com conservadores trabalhando no Mary Rose Trust, em Portsmouth, Inglaterra, e do Instituto de Conservação da canadense em Ottawa, juntamente com o recurso histórico Conservation Branch of the Canadian Parks Service, para aprender técnicas de preservação de água doce.
O processo de preservação ainda está em andamento hoje no Arabia Steamboat Museum. Os materiais orgânicos como madeira e couro são submersas em um conservante alimentar chamado polietileno glicol (PEG) e depois liofilizou-se.
Preservacionistas remover suavemente material oxidado de artefatos de metal que usam ferramentas de metal e borrachas especiais. alimentos e bebidas engarrafadas ou em frasco são injectados com azoto, com um gás inerte. Sapatos, botas e roupas devem ser re-costurada desde o seu fio de algodão dissolvido em água. Estima-se que a preservação da coleção estará completa até 2022.
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